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Athena is a Marylander disabled by Long Covid. She's faced medical &racial discrimination- & been a fierce advocate. None of us should have to take our insurance problems to the MD Court of Appeals to get coverage while dealing w/serious cardiovascular damage, excruciating pain &crushing fatigue.

My landlord has contacted me and yold me that I need to have paid in full including late fees before she gets in on Monday

Please help me raise the $400 I need to remain housed!

$maelee21
V: @ Maelee-Johnson
PayPal.me/maeleeJ
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For #LongCovid Awareness Day, we’re releasing the 2026 Long Covid Fact Sheet! This is a list of key statistics about LC, using recent data to reflect contemporary risks.

We hope this will be useful for journalists, policymakers, patients, & others! /1

good morning nerds. I am raising funds for one more big grocery run & bill pay for my immigrant neighbors. They're doing better than they were, but they've still missed like 8-10 weeks of work! All funds to them. Please and thank you.

V: @Caz-A
paypal.me/ccabb

UK team still in the red around £1,000 and Canada team in the red by a bunch as well, which means we can't send new eSIMs - individual links in the Chuffed description!

Green Rock Posy Lichen (Rhizoplaca melanopthalm). NWT, Canada. Lichen is about 2cm, left to right. #lichen #fungi #fungifriends.

Major 'DIY' hormone hub shuts down as the anti-trans brigade targets more sites One of the biggest DIY HRT hubs in the UK appears to have permanently shut down just days after being targeted by right-wing outlets.

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Mar 14 PinkNews
HRT Cafe, one of UK's best online sites for tutorials, resources & info on 'DIY' HRT maintained by a small, anonymous group has shut down days after being targeted by right-wing media outlets. DIY is the only option for many UK adults.

3/13 UPDATE: I'm told that the last day for AJC reporters who were laid off has passed. Among them was Ariel Hart, who reports on healthcare policy, continuing a trend of women/ POCs laid off.

Yes, the paper of record in the city where the CDC has its headquarters no longer has a health reporter.

now more than ever 🌷

This week marked the anniversary of the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. We’ve summarized our thoughts a bit below, but tl;dr: Unfortunately, COVID-19 is still with us, & although we may be tired of hearing about it, it’s extremely important to continue to take steps to protect ourselves & others.

ASL interpreters are unionizing—and they say they're getting fired for it Members of Congress have stepped in to back workers at the two firms that monopolize remote interpretation services for Deaf people.

“Teleperformance has launched a union-busting campaign against ASL interpreters at ZP Better Together.

In the last three months, we have had four people terminated that we believe was for union activity."

We must protect voting rights for people with disabilities & all citizens! The Save AMERICA Act will be brought before the Senate NEXT WEEK.

Sample script & email to contact your senator provided by Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN): https://autisticadvocacy.org/2026/02/save-act/

#Disability

Steep hill to climb today: just under $22,000 left to raise on the last day of our campaign to radically increase newsroom staff at @51stNews:

51st.news/big-plans

And it’s Friday the 13th. But I believe our community will come through. Here’s where my faith comes from:

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Jan 20th marked one year since the launch of the MSMA hotline. Recently, our hotline team gathered to celebrate that anniversary!

In our first year, MSMA operators fielded over 8,000 incoming calls, did hundreds of intakes, and received hundreds of accompaniment requests for DAN.

Also: I just uncovered a small network of recently-created accounts that are LLMs replying to people talking about health topics and added them to my Reply/Contact Spammers list as well as reported them, but posting so folks know to be aware since they were mostly recently created

I got laid off from my day job this week so if you know anyone who is looking for a cool and awesome senior full-stack software engineer/team lead with tons of experience who also writes comics and has no trace of poster’s madness, let me know! Please!

Got job search advice? Hit me!

Lawyer: You don't regret that people might have lost income?

Cavanaugh (DOGE): No, I think it was more important to reduce the federal deficit from two trillion dollars to close to zero.

Lawyer: Did you reduce the federal deficit?

Cavanaugh: No, we didn't.

We've seen another morning of increased ICE activity with DHS helicopter out and about in Chicagoland.

Feds have taken people from Humboldt Park and Ravenswood. Vehicles also seen in Rogers Park. ICE watchers are asking north side neighbors to get outside and keep an eye on landscapers & laborers.

The 51st is expanding D.C. needs more local journalists. You can help us hire them.

one last pitch I'll make; I would strongly make a case for indie outlets, especially ones run by their workers rather than rich owners: @defector.com @hellgatenyc.com @404media.co are all worker-owned outlets putting out first rate reporting (that you should support!)

51st.news/the-51st-is-...

Vermilion Flycatcher looking like vermilion dollars 🪶

'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.

I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out:

www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

Calmanesia erinaceus Calmanesia erinaceus from Voimma, Moramanga, Madagaskar on February 11, 2024 at 05:53 PM by Christian Langner

oh WOW! SPINY TERRESTRIAL #isopodstoday! Calmanesia from Madagascar! www.inaturalist.org/observations...

It’s always “she believed really transgressive stuff” and then they explain what the stuff is and it’s the same racism and misogyny that already run the world but like it’s new now for some reason

It would mean a lot to me if you would contact your members of congress to ask them to support Dysautonomia research because I am one of millions who live with this disease and it affects my life in so many ways I can’t fit into the limited characters on here.

A new lawsuit claims D.C. is withholding money meant to help laid-off Circulator bus drivers The city's transit workers' union alleges D.C. officials have pocketed $1.6 million generated from the sale of Circulator buses following the service's cancellation, rather than following a law direct...

New: DC is illegally sitting on $1.6 million meant to help laid off Circulator bus drivers, according to a new lawsuit.

@atulocal689.bsky.social is trying to force the city to comply with a law ordering DC to use the proceeds of Circulator bus sales to help ex-employees:
wamu.org/story/26/03/...

I’ve gone an entire month without paying bills and things are getting worse for me.

$1300 STILL NEEDED. NOW OVERDUE FROM FEB. $430 TO PAY OFF PHONE AND INTERNET

Donate: linktr.ee/jskylerinc

#TransCrowdFund #DisabilityCrowdFund #BeAPatron #BIPOCMA #HelpSky #BlackSky #LGBT 💸💕🏳️‍⚧️

Judge Orders Colorado to Stop Throwing Prisoners in Solitary for Refusing to Work - Bolts Years after voters amended the state's constitution to ban forced labor in prison, a court ruling could finally make Colorado change how prison guards "compel and coerce" work.

NEW at Bolts: For years, Colorado has been ignoring a ballot initiative that was meant to eliminate forced labor in prisons.

A judge finally said enough, and ordered the state to stop punishing people for refusing to work (for a mere pennies).

On the big CO ruling:
boltsmag.org/colorado-rul...

JUDGE GRANTS TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER, HALTING PROGRESS ON WILLIAMSPORT, MD. DETENTION WAREHOUSE.

Les Milles Camp | Holocaust Encyclopedia Under the Vichy regime, the Les Milles camp held foreign Jews before emigration or, in most cases, deportation to German concentration camps and killing centers.

ICE converting warehouses to deportation camps reminds me of Les Milles, a tile factory that was converted to an infamous deportation camp and prison by the French Vichy regime. Thousands of "enemy aliens" were imprisoned here, many of them were sent from there to Auschwitz and Dachau.