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Matt Lazell-Fairman

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ME. Spouse w LC, ME. Writer, bread baker, daydreamer. Still waiting on fair funding and apology from HHS. Masking like someone’s life depends on it.

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Each one of those three missiles costs 33% more than the annual budget of the national park where I work.

28.02.2026 21:19 — 👍 4375    🔁 1415    💬 45    📌 24

WOW. 19 people, all who were imprisoned and mistreated in a foreign prison at the direct command of the United States, are brave enough to say “We are innocent, and we will endure more time imprisoned to prove that.”

I can only admire the enormous courage such a move takes.

28.02.2026 16:57 — 👍 4394    🔁 1319    💬 31    📌 13
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I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

28.02.2026 16:09 — 👍 5247    🔁 2221    💬 35    📌 62

This is a history lesson in why the incompetent drunkard and the brain dead pedophile shouldn’t be allowed to replace human judgment with AI.

28.02.2026 21:22 — 👍 240    🔁 82    💬 2    📌 1

U.S. military spending is set to hit a record $1.5 trillion.

Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that routinely price-gouge the government.

Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed EIGHT straight audits.

The military industrial complex is cheering today.

28.02.2026 19:01 — 👍 10646    🔁 4098    💬 441    📌 199
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On Saturday, February 28th, Donald Trump initiated war on Iran. He admitted the likelihood of Americans being killed for his unconstitutional actions.

28.02.2026 20:54 — 👍 38    🔁 27    💬 7    📌 2
We are At War now, according to President Bush, and I take him at his word. He also says this War might last for "a very long time."
Generals and military scholars will tell you that eight or 10 years is actually not such a long time in the span of human history - which is no doubt true - but history also tells us that 10 years of martial law and a wartime economy are going to feel like a Lifetime to people who are in their twenties today. The poor bastards of what will forever be known as Generation Z are doomed to be the first generation of Americans who will grow up with a lower standard of living than their parents enjoyed.
That is extremely heavy news, and it will take a while for it to sink in. The 22 babies born in New York City while the World Trade Center burned will never know what they missed. The last half of the 20th century will seem like a wild party for rich kids, compared to what's coming now. The party's over, folks.

We are At War now, according to President Bush, and I take him at his word. He also says this War might last for "a very long time." Generals and military scholars will tell you that eight or 10 years is actually not such a long time in the span of human history - which is no doubt true - but history also tells us that 10 years of martial law and a wartime economy are going to feel like a Lifetime to people who are in their twenties today. The poor bastards of what will forever be known as Generation Z are doomed to be the first generation of Americans who will grow up with a lower standard of living than their parents enjoyed. That is extremely heavy news, and it will take a while for it to sink in. The 22 babies born in New York City while the World Trade Center burned will never know what they missed. The last half of the 20th century will seem like a wild party for rich kids, compared to what's coming now. The party's over, folks.

From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11.

28.02.2026 16:26 — 👍 4629    🔁 1611    💬 0    📌 112

There should be an Earth for people who don't hate all living things

28.02.2026 15:12 — 👍 6442    🔁 1239    💬 67    📌 23

The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive

28.02.2026 12:42 — 👍 14155    🔁 4404    💬 114    📌 91

DO NOT LET ANY MEMBER OF CONGRESS WALK AROUND THINKING THEIR CONSTITUENTS DON’T CARE

28.02.2026 13:16 — 👍 1186    🔁 536    💬 2    📌 10

Via the NYT: Israel's state comptroller reported last year that, as of early 2025, "only 37 of the 11,775 public shelters are in Arab municipalities, and eight of those are not fit for use." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/w...

28.02.2026 18:53 — 👍 170    🔁 89    💬 1    📌 2

(if the United States could see what the United States is doing, the United States would invade the United States.)

05.01.2026 03:03 — 👍 18    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0

Allegedly.

28.02.2026 16:07 — 👍 1930    🔁 208    💬 41    📌 6
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Thousands to lose access to HIV drugs with new cuts An estimated 10,000 people are about to lose access to their HIV medication as the Florida Department of Health makes cuts to the AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP).

Catastrophe: Florida's Department of Health is stopping coverage for antivirals to 10,000 low-income people with HIV infection, blaming impending federal cuts to the AIDS Drug Assistance Program. 12.5% of Americans with HIV live in Florida.

19.01.2026 15:38 — 👍 1635    🔁 1118    💬 94    📌 232

With alt text. I’ve…never seen a court talk like this before?

28.02.2026 14:06 — 👍 2023    🔁 590    💬 28    📌 21

I guess when you spend the last 2 years bombing schools in Gaza it only makes sense that you would start with those targets in Iran too. Criminals

28.02.2026 13:43 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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TW: Assisted Suicide

Clip from German TV. Kim has #MECFS and describes how her illness has progressed, leaving her bedbound and sensitive to light and sound.

At 25, she talks about her decision to apply for assisted suicide, saying she can no longer live like this.

28.02.2026 14:08 — 👍 16    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 3
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I Have Tourette Syndrome and I Have the N-Word Thrown at Me. I Have Thoughts on BAFTA. As New York City Public Advocate, I’m in a very visible space with a very visible disability. Here's what I've learned.

This is a good read. I'm also thinking about how almost all disability organizations, including ones for Tourette's, have very white leadership, which means many fail to approach situations like this with intersectional nuance. www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politic...

27.02.2026 23:16 — 👍 246    🔁 96    💬 3    📌 4
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El Paso reports 17 measles cases, most of them at ICE detention facility Four measles cases were reported in the city of El Paso, while the other 13 cases were reported at ICE's Camp East Montana detention facility.

El Paso has measles.

There is a total of 17 cases, 13 of which are in a migrant detention camp that consists of tents on the grounds of Fort Bliss.

27.02.2026 23:34 — 👍 259    🔁 164    💬 15    📌 10
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Donate to #SevereMErgency:Save Savannah from dying inside NHS hospital, organized by Sam Pearce Very Severe ME patient 23 year-old Savannah Victora-May is at … Sam Pearce needs your support for #SevereMErgency:Save Savannah from dying inside NHS hospital

There's an update on Savannah's gfm. TW so much medical abuse.

Please keep sharing and donating!

By trying to find somewhere less unsafe, she has now lost her NHS provided carers. She's too unwell to do without, so needs to self fund them.

Thank you 🙏🏻

#SaveSavannah #SevereMErgency #ME/CFS

27.02.2026 17:24 — 👍 6    🔁 8    💬 2    📌 1

Update:

Feeling unsafe Savannah self-discharged & left QEH in a private ambulance. Even with the CEO of a national charity advocating in person, Guy’s refused to admit her. After waiting over two hours in the ambulance, she was forced to return to QEH.

www.gofundme.com/f/severemerg...

27.02.2026 18:49 — 👍 17    🔁 10    💬 2    📌 2
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White House circulating blatantly illegal draft emergency order to take control of elections Voting rights experts and at least one state election chief said Trump doesn’t have the authority to claim such powers — and any attempt would be blatantly illegal.

A draft emergency executive order to declare a national emergency to allow President Donald Trump to take unprecedented control over voting is being circulating by anti-voting activists who said they are in coordination with the White House. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

26.02.2026 20:47 — 👍 2321    🔁 1297    💬 211    📌 101
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1) 🇩🇪 The steering committee for the National Decade against Post-Infectious Diseases agreed on three measures to be implemented at the start of the decade, includes a genome sequencing project.

(An automatic translation of the German statement is pasted in the image below)

27.02.2026 18:04 — 👍 12    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 0

Paramount should enjoy its growing news monopoly while they have it because when Democrats win back power we are going to break up these anti-democratic information conglomerates. All of them.

27.02.2026 18:01 — 👍 10237    🔁 1985    💬 764    📌 392
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911 calls capture kids burning with fever, struggling to breathe at ICE detention center EMS crews were called to the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Texas at least 11 times since September for children in medical distress, records show.

NEW: We obtained 911 audio from the Texas detention center housing hundreds of immigrant kids and their parents.

Since mid-September, EMS crews have been dispatched to Dilley at least 11 times to treat children in medical distress.

Burning fevers. Low oxygen. Seizures. A broken leg.

My report:

27.02.2026 13:01 — 👍 2093    🔁 1260    💬 53    📌 107
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Cover of The Lancet:

@thelancet.com
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

27.02.2026 11:15 — 👍 8099    🔁 3437    💬 159    📌 220
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The entire Democratic strategy debate — "moderate" or move left? fight or compromise? — is based on a misreading of data. Voters don't think Dems are too progressive; they think Dems are weak. The actual math on what to do about this isn't even close!
New: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-d...

27.02.2026 13:02 — 👍 7769    🔁 2432    💬 341    📌 374
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27.02.2026 13:33 — 👍 8    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 1
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Minneapolis woman whom Ilhan Omar took to State of the Union needed medical care after arrest Omar said Capitol Police "aggressively handled" her guest, Aliyah Rahman of Minneapolis, forcing her to seek medical care at a hospital.

NBC News: 'Minneapolis woman whom Ilhan Omar took to State of the Union needed medical care after arrest'

'Omar said Capitol Police "aggressively handled" her guest, Aliyah Rahman of Minneapolis, forcing her to seek medical care at a hospital.'

www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

27.02.2026 14:28 — 👍 9    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

This is the walk Nurul Amin Shah Alam would have had to make to get home safely. www.google.com/maps/dir/220...

27.02.2026 01:29 — 👍 78    🔁 29    💬 1    📌 1