Kris Truelsen

Walmart keeps wages so low full time workers can’t afford the company insurance plan so they are on Medicaid via the ACA. So we the people subsidize this multibillion dollar company by providing food and healthcare through tax payer funded programs.

Bingo card filled with Covid prevention action items ranging from stocking up on respirator supplies and changing filters on the air cleaner to recording CO2 readings for indoor CO2 tracking maps and contacting local representatives about issues regarding clean air devices, mask bans, and vaccine eligibility. Also includes action items involving contacting local businesses regarding curbside pickup, CO2 monitoring, clean air devices, and Covid-safer event policies.

Cootie Assessor game based on the paper cootie catcher or fortune teller games to print out and fold. This game features a variety of masks and respirators as well as Covid/virus mitigation tools such as air cleaners, testing, far-UVC, vaccines, mouthwash and nasal spray, hypochlorous acid, and hand hygiene. The inner flaps have messages that reveal the situation the player is in using the mitigation items they chose. The innermost section contains a series of CO2 monitors based on the Airvalent with ppm readings correlating with the color and emoji faces on the monitor displays.

Coming soon for download to the Covid-Safe Scouts website — Covid Prevention Action Bingo and Covid-Safe Cootie Assessor

Fun* games to play to boost awareness of virus mitigation techniques

From a song I never finished:

It won't take a lot to put a smile on my face
I'm not asking for the stars up above
But I'd like money enough to buy a few simple things
Like happiness, friendship, power, and love.

He is that, at least, which is, in comparison, a blessing. But to me he is also a disappointment concerning priorities, such as military over climate.

Once again, the main day of Tea Party protests had about 300,000 nationwide, but saw endless coverage.

The No Kings protests had about 7,000,000 nationwide, and many media outlets reacted with a yawn.

No Kings was nearly 25x as big as the Tea Party but the Tea Party got 25x the attention.

Cruise ships are seeing a record year for outbreaks The number of outbreaks has exceeded that of 2024, which was a record year.

Floating virus traps.
Cruise ships are seeing a record year for outbreaks www.sfgate.com/travel/artic...

A cartoon by SLANE shows a raging river with some kind of vehicle sinking in the waves, while a stone bridge arches above. The bridge stones are labeled FREEDOM, HEALTH, SAFETY, FOOD, AFFORDABILITY, HOMES and JOBS, and the bright yellow keystone reads CLIMATE. People are gathered on the bridge's left side, and two of them say, "We should do something!" and "More paper straws?" On the right side, a piece of heavy machinery with a big claw is belching smoke and removing a chunk from the CLIMATE keystone, as the operator says "The climate has always changed."

Beyond all reason Long COVID patients are constantly harangued about our requests for COVID safety. Yet what we're asking for is far less than what we're called on to do to survive.

My perspective: you don't need to have or know someone with long Covid to behave responsibly based on science and humanity.
www.thegauntlet.news/p/beyond-all...

This is the Constitutional crisis everyone has been predicting. It’s not “imminent,“ it’s not “on the brink,” it’s not “coming,” it’s here. It’s bad.

There's literally no reason for Congress to exist if any random freak in the presidential orbit can nullify laws and seize federal funds. All of this is plainly illegal, but Mike Johnson leads the most corrupt Congress in US history (and by a wide margin.)

F Is for Fascism CBC called the other day for an interview about the apparent rise in swearing in politics.

F is for fascism. We need to start talking about the disintegration of the rule of law south of the border as the imposition of a modern gangster style fascism.

charlieangus.substack.com/p/f-is-for-f...

This idiot keeps bragging about the 20 hostages being released in another country while he's kidnapping thousands of people a day here in America.

Fuck him and the fascism he rode in on.

Cartoon: Closing time This is, in fact, the final cartoon that will appear in OUR LONG NATIONAL NIGHTMARE , and I decided to have a little fun with that. The campaign runs another two weeks, but we are getting things ...

I hate that zuckerberg has stolen the word "meta" from us but in the old sense of it I went a little meta this week

with bonus Felix cameo

www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

Caption for every posted photo I see (rhetorical question laden with rebuke):

But why aren't they wearing masks?

“I don’t think our guard should be used against our own people. I don’t think the military should be used against our own people. In fact, it’s unconstitutional.

“Unless, of course, there’s an insurrection, much like we saw January 6 a few years ago.”

—Phil Scott, Governor of Vermont (Republican)

Comic strip panel: Robin the Boy Wonder says "COVID IS BACK." Batman, slapping him, says "IT NEVER LEFT."

personally I would have preferred to live in a society *not* collapsing into authoritarian chaos.

9/30/2025- Choices www.timesfreepress.com/news/2025/se...

I know for a fact that Antifa is not an organization because I don't get emails from them asking for money.

The battle of our day is no longer about Democrats versus Republicans or left versus right.

The choice right now is democracy or dictatorship. And we're sliding faster than I ever thought possible into the latter.

Everyone must choose which side they’re on.

Just to recap, the actual president found an AI-generated video of a fake news report depicting a fake announcement about an imaginary healthcare system based on a technology that doesn’t exist and posted it on his official social media account

where is the solidarity? where is the urgency? why is the vast majority of advocacy happening on the backs of sick people who are already suffering?

the lack of recognition and support i've received – from the medical system, from my friends & family, from government, from orgs that purport to support the vulnerable & suffering – is so immense as to be unbelievable.

today is the three-year anniversary of the covid infection that turned into long covid. it has completely rewritten the course of my life. it has brought me untold levels of physical suffering. it has devastated my mental health.

Mark Carney could be a champion of the future if only he broke away from our most regressive, destructive industry David Suzuki and Sabaa Khan: Canada continues to subsidize the most profitable industry in history with billions of dollars a year in tax breaks, then pleads funds are insufficient to

Oh, come on, Canada. Don't backslide into enabling climate disaster.

www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Everything we can measure is math.
Everything that exists is chemistry.
Everything alive is biology.
It’s not evil.
It’s not spooky.
And yet, we live in a (wealthy) country that believes in horoscopes, and is suspicious of vaccines.
Oy vey.