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Bomb threats against the Maryland General Assembly.

Bomb threats against the Michigan lieutenant governor and his family.

Bomb threats against 5 HBCUs.

Two arrests for violent assaults in Idaho.

In 24 hours.

All Democratic or left-leaning victims.

All suspected MAGA perpetrators.

People who don’t include disability liberation in their understanding of social justice will never make sense to me.

Like what do you MEAN you oppose sexism, racism, and classism, but the minute the lived reality of that oppression starts showing up physically, all your energy just evaporates?

“During the Depression, my dad made radios to sell to make extra money. Nobody had any money to buy the radios, so he would trade them for dogs. He built kennels in the backyard, and he cared for the dogs.”
—Betty White If You Ask Me: (And of Course You Won’t)

Thanks with much love

Incredible PSA from OITNB’s Matt McGorry and @nychealthy.bsky.social — this is the info everyone deserves!

Setting the record straight on four myths about COVID!

“Myth #1: COVID is mild now.

Fact #1: With every COVID-19 infection, there is a risk of Long COVID.”

(1/5)

🛟 That last-ditch chemo trial your family member was hoping to be in
🥙 The investigation of a food-borne illness outbreak in the next town over
🧠The study looking for preventable causes of Alzheimer’s
🧪The assurance that TAXPAYER-PAID-FOR studies & data collection see the light of day

Don’t lose hope. Remember, Watergate took over two years to fully unravel from the initial break-in to Nixon’s resignation. Just like then and now, Americans are losing faith in their government. We are documenting every illegal action and will hold this administration and Elon Musk accountable.

Tweeted September 23rd, 2020: I don't know how to say this gently: you should know, if you don't already, that infectious disease follows state failure every time. All those public health programs, whirring away over decades, mostly unseen, in the background of our lives --you will feel their absence.

Tapping the sign wearily

Polite request to the people telling others not to use grocery delivery apps or Amazon : please start wearing masks when you go out. Some of us could get really sick and die.

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

BREAKING: Trump is losing support: Less than one month into the chaotic return of Trump, and these Trump-voting farmers have already had enough. If the election were held today, they would not vote for him.

Make sure everyone sees this!

A society which values profits over people — which sees mass disablement and death as acceptable as long as brunch and concerts remain — will significantly impact how we approach boundaries and consent.

Japanese researchers develop peptide preventing COVID-19 infections. Jan 23, 2025

Japan: "Researchers from the Institute of Science Tokyo and Osaka Medical and Pharmaceutical University said that they have developed a peptide that can bind to the spike proteins of SARS-CoV-2 to prevent COVID-19 infections."

Source: archive.md/X3yVw

This is me... I've gotten every vaccine / booster, I mask when away from home, even outdoors. I'm immunocompromised due to the meds I take for MS.

I haven't gotten COVID yet, due to my precautions & luck (I had to fly to TX last year when my dad was in the hospital & no one masked on the plane).

Yea, let's not provide no-cost preventative care so the system can be crushed under the weight of late-stage, expensive interventions.

Why do a lumpectomy when you can do a double mastectomy with reconstruction surgery, if she's alive? #medsky

“While Trump is trolling Canada they are literally picking up water from the ocean to help put out the fires in the Palisades.

Thank you Canada. 💙🇨🇦”—
r/t Call to activism. #BlueSky #MedSky

YouTube video by Aaron Hanai A Fourth Grader Explains How to Build a DIY Corsi/Rosenthal Box Air Cleaner

An ounce of prevention...

A Fourth Grader Explains How to Build a DIY Corsi/Rosenthal Box Air Cleaner

#MedSky

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Russia has a new type of psychological terrorism of Ukrainians - a threat of medium-range ballistic missile strikes. These alerts cover the entire territory of Ukraine and force people to stop doing what they do in the middle of the day
#UkrainianView

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When they talk about privatizing Veterans’ care and Medicare, they mean allowing companies to provide healthcare for a profit.

But how do companies make those profits? By *denying* care to many who need it.

Don’t get fooled by the “privatization” label. It means “for profit” and YOU are the cost.

painting of cityscape at twilight. there is a full moon surrounded by clouds in a gray night sky tinted with green. the moon and the orange light from gas lamps illuminate a cobblestone street, burnishing it with a green-and-gold glow. in the distance, you can see dark silhouettes of carriages and people. we see the left side of the street head on, so details of buildings are scant except for a wood awning. to the right, though, the exteriors of Victorian buildings are detailed - the one closest to us looks like it's made of brick. at the very end of the street is a ghostly building - probably a church tower with a spire.

John Atkinson Grimshaw's Park Row, Leeds, oil on canvas, 1882

A photo I posted of graffiti in Syria in 2014.
"One day the war will be over and I will return to my poem"
I hope they will return to their poem

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Just for fun…

“A dog…sharpens your joy of all the seasons, and for a while, sometimes a long while, such a dog seems capable, by himself alone, of holding time in place--of pinning it, and holding it taught. And then when he is gone, it is as if the world is taken away.” Rick Bass

LitCovid LitCovid is a curated literature hub for tracking up-to-date scientific information about the 2019 novel Coronavirus.

A searchable COVID archive with >400k scientific articles

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/research/cor...