Susan O'Shea

Susan O'Shea

@susanoshea.bsky.social

184 Followers 64 Following 158 Posts Joined Aug 2023
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Trump Makes 'Most Blasé Admission of a War Crime by a US President in History' | Common Dreams "The ship was unarmed," wrote one war journalist. "That’s why Trump and Hegseth chose to murder them."

It was 'more fun'?!?
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Rank-and-File Dems to Leaders: It’s Time to Take the Gloves Off In TNR’s exclusive new poll, loyal Democratic voters make it plain: They want a party that goes after the people making their lives harder.

Stop trying to be the GOP! You're bad at it, and that role is taken.
newrepublic.com/article/2060... via @newrepublic.com

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BREAKING

Former ICE agent:

On my first day training new cadets, I received secretive orders to teach them to violate the Constitution by entering homes without a judicial warrant.

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The reckless repeal of the Endangerment Finding The repeal of the Endangerment Finding is scientifically unfounded, almost certainly illegal, and unbelievably unwise.

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I still have friends! And I saw somw of them in person just ... last year.

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And that's for one case of Covid. I don't know if the odds are better, worse, or the same for the next case, and the next.

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1 year ago

Woah. That's a far higher figure than I expected, even as someone with ME/CFS. One in twenty two are grim odds.

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1 in 22 COVID survivors develop debilitating chronic syndrome A study suggests that catching COVID-19 significantly raises the risk of developing ME/CFS (formerly called "chronic fatigue syndrome"), a typically lifelong condition that can be debilitating.

A good write-up of that study on Covid and ME/CFS.

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1 year ago
A stacked bar chart (oriented horizontally) labeled: Living with ME (myalgic encephalomyelitis / chronic fatigue syndrome)

Each horizontal bar is a disease status: Pre-ME, Mild ME, Moderate ME, Severe ME, Very Severe ME.

The width of each bar represents how much energy is available in each status (100, 50, 25, 12.5, and 6.25 respectively).

Each bar is divided into sections for how one might allocate their energy: hygiene & nutrition (gray); caregiving, cleaning errands (red); work (orange); exercise (yellow); friends (green); hobbies (blue); fun (purple).

With worsening ME, the hygiene & nutrition takes up a larger proportion of total available energy and the amount of energy available for all other parts of life shrinks.

Mild ME has most things cut in half, with exercise cut smaller.

Moderate ME removes exercise altogether, and everything else shrinks.

Severe ME has only tiny slivers of red, orange, green, blue and purple.

Very Severe ME has only a tiny sliver of green.

NIH recently found 1 in 22 ppl who’d had Covid developed ME/CFS. The “mild” form of that disease, as @julialmv.bsky.social’s graph shows, means losing capacity to do 50% of your daily activities.

What would you give up?

Friends? Time w/your kids? Could you cut work hours in half w/o losing yr job?

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Live Updates: U.K. Police Arrest Former Prince Andrew Over Epstein Ties, BBC Reports

Free gift article: www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02...

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Environmental self-reliance in North Korea: a potential path to engagement The United States and its allies could help Kim Jong-un solve his country’s severe environmental problems in exchange for military concessions while emphasizing North Korean self-reliance. It’s a long...

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Want to put food up your ass? RFK Jr.'s chatbot can help! If you were weirded out by the extreme close-up convicted rapist Mike Tyson Real Food Super Bowl ad, prepare yourself for new heights—or perhaps depths?—of unpleasant feelings about the whole ...

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Ukrainian drones reportedly strike Russia's Volgograd oil refinery Ukrainian drones targeted Russia's Volgograd oil refinery overnight Feb. 11, setting the site ablaze, local media reported.

⚡️Ukrainian drones reportedly strike Russia's Volgograd oil refinery.

Ukrainian drones targeted Russia's Volgograd oil refinery overnight Feb. 11, setting the site ablaze, local media reported.

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"Stay on the air. Stay big. No state TV." A conversation with Rachel Maddow A recording from Grounded Podcast's live video

A great conversation with Senator Jon Tester and the great Maritsa Georgiou on Montana, the Trump prison camps, cowards in politics, and heroes in real life --

groundedpodcast.substack.com/p/stay-on-th...

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“Confidential” Agreements Show Trump Administration’s Plans for States’ Voter Data At least 10 states have handed over their full voter files to the Justice Department.

www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...

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How ICE defies judges’ orders to release detainees, step by step A POLITICO review of hundreds of cases brought by ICE detainees shows a pattern of noncompliance that has frustrated judges across the country.

This is that "red line" we heard so much about at the outset of Trump's second term.

www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

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House GOP launches Bad Bunny probe: 'Worse than the Janet Jackson wardrobe malfunction' Rep. Mark Alford (R-MO) revealed that House Republicans are "investigating" Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show because they suspect it was "much worse than the Janet Jackson wardrobe malfunction."Du...

Ya can't make this stuff up! // House GOP launches Bad Bunny probe: 'Worse than the Janet Jackson wardrobe malfunction' www.rawstory.com/stringr/hous...

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Dr. Oz backtracks on anti-vax bullsh-t as measles cases multiply With measles cases spiking all across the country, Dr. Mehmet Oz went on CNN to say he really wants you to get the measles vaccine. Really! Normally, having the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Servi...

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Nightmare. The next night they unleashed enormous amounts of chemical agents on a neighborhood of hospitals Ronald McDonald House the transplant organ unit housing and elderly. The amount of chemicals required for the vast distance covered requires an investigation and accountability

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Kicking puppies.

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ICE is a paramilitary clusterfuck.

I'm here in Minneapolis. Retired U.S Army LT-Colonel. Grew up hunting in Montana mountains.

They are HUNTING BROWN PEOPLE.

Spotter and 3 car abduction teams.

They have moved to taking the victims cars to hide the evidence.

Probably also hiding the bodies.

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Portland stands against federal injustice

Portland mayor:

"To those who continue to work for ICE: Resign. To those who control this facility: Leave.

"To those who continue to make these sickening decisions, go home, look in a mirror, and ask yourselves why you have gassed children..."

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“I know they would do anything, that they would hurt people, that they’ve murdered people... I know that intellectually. But I still did not expect them to gas a chill, friendly protest full of nurses and teachers and children and the elderly.”

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First, They Came for Your Elections. Then, Your Guns. The president’s fascist regime is running roughshod over states’ rights, obliterating one of the Republican Party’s supposedly most sacred principles.

First, They Came for Your Elections. Then, Your Guns. newrepublic.com/article/2061... via @newrepublic.com

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Disaster Survivors Want Kristi Noem Out of FEMA  - Inside Climate News Heather Talley’s life savings are tied up in a Swannanoa, North Carolina, home she can’t live in after Hurricane Helene. Bill Gould wants to rebuild his home after it was burned down in the wildfires ...

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Say no to Palantir in the NHS NHS England is rolling out software to run our health records from Palantir - fight back

Signed: Don't give techbro bad guys control of our data! notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/email-to-tar...

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In addition to being a hodge-podge of ideas which either a) already exist; b) don’t exist yet but which wouldn’t accomplish much; or c) don’t exist yet but which would actively make healthcare worse and less affordable than it is today, Trump’s “plan” also has the added feature of not actually being a plan.

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1 month ago

In this case, the darkest days of history are being reenacted by fascists who have studied their predecessors/idols closely.

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Rachel Maddow Presents: Burn Order History Podcast · Series ·

If folks haven't listened to the podcast yet, this is as good a nudge as anything.

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