Merry is still masking 😷 (she/her)

Zohran Mamdani says that New York City stands with Starbucks employees!

He points out their CEO made 96 billion last year.

That’s 6,666 times the median Starbucks worker salary.

Boycott Starbucks. Support the workers. Demand they receive a living wage.

"Democrats will never fully support disabled people because disability is the antithesis of capitalism. It requires we take a step back from always making a profit when it comes to the lives of people who can produce no profit outside of extraction from our for-profit healthcare system."

100% this.

As the American West faces increasing air pollution, protecting the right to mask is vital - The Sick Times Utah’s proposed ban became an important case study demonstrating the overlapping concerns between airborne pathogens and environmental air pollution. It highlighted the necessity of building coalition...

For my first piece in @thesicktimes.org, I wrote about why mask bans matter for climate politics.

thesicktimes.org/2025/11/07/a...

The identity of Sarah Kendzior, researcher on authoritarian states, and Sarah Kendzior's content discussing authoritarian states are...not really easy to separate.

So I'm struggling to see this as a response.

Hickenlooper really needs to be gone.

Tonight, Senate Republicans—aided by eight Democrats—passed a funding bill that will raise health care premiums for millions of Americans and leave some families without health care at all. “There is no excuse for giving in to a bad deal—especially after voters turned out in record numbers last week to elect Democrats on the promise that they would stand up and fight for working families. We oppose this deal and call on the House of Representatives to vote against it. “Next year’s midterms will be crucial. Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans have spent the past ten months making life less affordable and more uncertain for working families. They’ve shown us that they would rather flood our streets with masked agents than make sure that families can buy groceries. That’s why we’ll be working to unseat both Republicans as well as corporate Democrats who have kowtowed to the Trump agenda and replace them with Working Families Party champions who will fight to lower the cost of living and guarantee health care for every family.” The full statement from Working Families Party

The official statement from @mauricewfp.bsky.social for us at @workingfamilies.org. Bottom line: THERE IS NO EXCUSE for tonight's vote! Join WFP at the link ⬇️ ⬇️

Kaine, who has experienced Long Covid, is abandoning those with Long Covid who have to work as contractors who are too sick to work full-time.

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.

The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.

People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.

And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.

The "Southwest is bringing assigned seating!" with the people celebrating ad is really funny to me because I know absolutely NO ONE who feels positive about the change. As a solo traveler, open seating stresses me out less tbh. I can suss out who I sit by! First the free bags, now this :(

Yep www.project2025.observer/en

My whole family has it (two others + me) for the first time (that we know of). I'm the only one on bsky. None of us are on twitter. Viral load so high the rapid tests were postive within 30 seconds. It is not fun.

folks, I want to remind you that a ton of federal workers are about to get their last pay check at the end of this month and this stuff is going to get much worse

Map:

Tragic and alarming: From the states collecting data, 68% of U.S. counties and jurisdictions have immunization rates below 95% for the MMR vaccine — the level of herd immunity that is required to stop the spread of measles.

The whole fam has COVID and we're feeling preeeetty bad. But I think even if I wasn't half awake on antihistamines and melatonin grogginess watching Matthew McConaughey and Cardi B play games with Jenna on the 3rd hour of Today, this segment would still feel like a weird fever dream.

I don't really think Americans, even the ones who read non-Fox news, have fully internalized how much the current administration has just pissed off potential customers of US goods around the world.

The US now has no vaccine advisory committee, no CDC director, and an anti-vaxxer as Health Secretary.

The thing is, when there is no penalty for lying to Congress, serial liars are going to lie to Congress.

Tornado warnings delayed because of DOGE cuts At least 27 are dead in Missouri in Kentucky after severe weather alerts were delayed overnight because of DOGE cuts.

At least 27 are dead in Missouri in Kentucky after severe weather alerts were delayed overnight because of DOGE cuts.

www.mesoscalenews.com/p/tornado-wa...

Gov. Jared Polis (D-CO) didn't care for my characterization in January that he was handing his veto pen to the business community on labor's top issue, but that's what he did. Today, he vetoed CO Dems' bill to make unionization easier, keeping his pledge to biz. #copolitics

This week of Wheel of Fortune where, each day, they have 3 friends competing against each other has been the best. The way they cheer each other on, the way they joke with each other, overall just the vibes are great, it's just so much more enjoyable to watch.

I remember when people cared about conflicts of interest.

Girl Talk Murders Seattle : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Girl Talk Murders Seattle

There's also this live album from in between Night Ripper and Feed the Animals, I didn't see it on his official site but it did numbers on my iPod back in the day so 🤷‍♀️ (I had found it on YouTube but deleted that to reply again, this is a better quality and you can also DL it)

The cost of Grok: "I can't breathe at home, it smells like gas outside. How come I can't breathe at home and y'all get to breathe at home?"

They Knew FINALIST FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE “Every sentence delivered. The pathos of truth-seeking left me thinking of Herman Melville."—Timothy Snyder...

The $2.99 ebook HUGE SALE for my book THEY KNEW continues! I'm going to make a thread of excerpts here so you get a sense of the book. This is one of my most likely to be banned books so you should get it while it lasts!

Here's a link to ebook vendors: us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

Philip Cheung for The New York Times A THERANOS-LIKE PITCH Elizabeth Holmes's partner - Billy Evans — has a new start-up. It's a blood testing company.

The absolute fucking cackle I let out at this headline

2nd. Wear a mask. Protect disabled folx, immuno-compromised folx, and yourself.

I for one do not want life-long crippling disabilities that effect my breathing, sleeping, and energy.

Wear a mask at protests, at the store, on public transit, in crowds. Be a cool kid and mask up.

This is LITERALLY Nazi propaganda. As in, the actual real life Nazis in 1930's Germany brought out posters saying how paying for chronically ill people is a waste of all the "healthy people's" money.

I even made a post about it here:
bsky.app/profile/qich...

Two years ago, as the end of the COVID emergency forced Biden to stop using Title 42 to force migrants back to Mexico, we began to see large numbers of migrants detained in the open air without food, water, or shelter. This continued for the rest of the year and into 2024. 1/

Dr Oz & RFK Jr say that there’s too much chronic illness & it’s their job to make people healthy

Are they providing universal healthcare? Addressing the rampant spread of Covid that’s disabled millions of Americans? Funding robust public health initiatives?

Of course not. They’re blaming the sick