I was interviewed about how disabled people are impacted by ICE and other immigration policies by a Canadian news podcast. You can listen here. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
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I was interviewed about how disabled people are impacted by ICE and other immigration policies by a Canadian news podcast. You can listen here. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
05.03.2026 19:33 — 👍 35 🔁 12 💬 1 📌 0
Instagram post from Holland Global Law Is Real ID proof of citizenship? * Not necessarily. Only IDs from MI, MN, NY, VT, WA indicate US citizenship * original card required, copies not accepted
#SaveActTaxesVoters
🧵Real ID is NOT proof of citizenship for SAVE Act registration outside of 5 states, and in those states, Real ID costs money which is a de facto poll tax, unconstitutional per the 24th Amendment!
"Of the [House] members..32 are Republicans & 21 are Democrats"
"Members of Congress writ large r leaving their seats at a historically high rate, with 10 senators [also] announcing they won't seek re-election..the most retirements from both chambers this century"
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
At this rate the entire Congress will have left. 53 lawmakers are heading for the door and not seeking reelection.
#USDemocracy
House lawmakers are heading for the exit at fastest rate in decades share.google/F6Qm7cLWVP43...
The girls’ school in Iran, where 165 people were killed by an apparent US-Israeli attack, was hit with two strikes, with the second missile killing sheltering survivors, two first responders and the parent of a slain child have told Middle East Eye.
04.03.2026 22:40 — 👍 2135 🔁 1190 💬 98 📌 247Students are missing school with these guys in charge.
05.03.2026 13:19 — 👍 24 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the world safe for children to grow up in.
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New episode on the chaos and dysfunction in the HHS and elsewhere with @wendyorent.bsky.social and guest @panaccindex.bsky.social
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Platypus
Why understanding the tree of life matters
There's no hierarchy in evolution. All species alive today, from chimpanzees to bacteria, are cousins that each have equally long lineages
No animal alive today is ‘primitive’
– why are so many still labeled that way? 🧪
theconversation.com/no-animal-al...
Screenshot of a book cover showing an illustration of a crow perched on an "ICE" jacket lying in the middle of a snow-lined road under the light of a full moon. The cover reads "ICE Out " by Charles de Lint. Text to the right of the cover reads "ICE came to Newford. Big mistake." and "Download for free!"
Urban fantasy author Charles de Lint just published a new "novelet" and released it for free, his stories of myth and magic and community and found family are full of so much love and hope and we could all use some of that right now
www.charlesdelint.com/IceOut.html
The meeting of the United States Preventative Services Task Force has been canceled again—another attack on public health by RFK Jr.
This is an independent group that reviews scientific research for things like cancer screenings. Their recommendations must be covered by insurance.
MAHA!
This is my library, who is no longer allowed to process passports. Both wife and daughter got their passports here 2 years ago, and it was super convenient.
Big loss to our communities.
spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/buffalo/...
Folks have ran around for months saying that Crockett was not “electable“ to the majority of ⚪️ & moderate voters in TX and now they’re surprised to find out that “electability“ can work both ways?
Baaaaaaby…TX is the blackest state in the country but they just now realized this could be a problem?
The secretary of Miami-Dade County’s GOP started a group chat for conservative students — and within 3 weeks, it was filled with over 400 instances of the N-word, Nazi rhetoric and writings of "dozens of ways of violently killing Black people"
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“No front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No stand alone segments on Evening News shows. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page.” www.columnblog.com/p/corporate-...
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And more than 20,000 published papers on #LongCOVID, which is still without a cure -
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/research/cor...
If you need a reason to do whatever you can to avoid COVID, here’s about a half million of them…take your pick.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/research/cor...
Screenshot of an article dated March 3, 2026 titled “‘Mini hearts’ show COVID-19 virus directly infects heart tissue” by the Centenary Institute. Below the headline are four labeled microscope images (A–D) showing laboratory-grown heart tissue (“mini hearts”). The images use fluorescent colors—green, yellow, red, and white—to highlight cells and viral infection patterns, illustrating how SARS-CoV-2 can infect and spread through heart muscle cells in the tissue samples.
COVID-19 can directly infect heart tissue.
Researchers at the Centenary Institute and UTS created a human heart cell model showing SARS-CoV-2 can directly infect heart tissue, helping explain why some people develop serious heart complications during and after COVID-19 infection.
A war that isn't a war, documented with videos that may or may not be real, funded by elected leaders who are neither for nor against it, is the most dystopian thing that's happened in my lifetime
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How Every Senator Voted on the Iran War Powers Resolution www.nytimes.com/interactive/... Gift Article
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Strait of Hormuz shipping grinds to halt, rocking global energy market
CBS News 3/4/26
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FA9S...
Iran's threat to set ships ablaze along the Strait of Hormuz, 1of world's busiest trade routes, is raising concerns about the implications for global economy.
#TrumpsWarOnOurEconomy
Bottleneck at Strait of Hormuz threatens global economy as U.S.-Iran war widens
MS NOW 3/4/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KSz...
The conflict between the U.S. and Iran is widening as the U.S. says there is no letup on its strikes on the country.
#TrumpsWarOnOurEconomy
Q: “Are you worried this Iran War may hurt Republicans politically?”
Spineless Speaker Johnson:
“We don’t make political decisions” 🙃
“We’re not at War” 🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃
“When the first bomb... one of the teachers and the principal moved a group of students to the prayer hall to protect them... The principal called the parents and told them to come and pick up their children. But the second bomb hit that area as well."
www.middleeasteye.net/news/exclusi...
3/ terms of hospitalizations, what matters in comparing relative risks is not so much a comparison of total frequencies but the ratios of cases-to-hospitalizations. (See those ratios below.) In terms of eventual health burden & resulting societal costs, the piece itself notes, quoting Ziyad Al-Ali,
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🚨 Long but important 🧵: This article makes some important points & avoids several others (or frames them unhelpfully). A deconstruction:
🔹️1st, I'm not crazy about the headline, which reflects the danger of framing unique risks as relative. And "worse"
1/20
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...
Thank you for all you have said in these posts to offer people an informed perspective on what is happening.
04.03.2026 18:58 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 020/ disease patterns, we need to take changing behavior patterns (which can be hard to predict in our current political & public health landscape) into account. The view from here is not great.
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19/ do (or don't do) matters.
During the 2020-2021 flu season, there were only 2,136 CDC-recorded samples positive for influenza, and 748 flu-coded deaths in the US; the influenza B/Yamagata lineage was apparently eliminated altogether. That was down to behavior, baby. When we estimate future...
14/ feeling lousy and homebound." Minor inconvenience? With my last flu in 2018, I developed pneumonia and was bed-bound for three months. I wasn't hospitalized, so there was nothing to tabulate, statistically, beyond the infection - but it was far from a minor unconvenience. Stop, dude.
🔹️Nirappil
