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Another way out: Building resistance when passivity is the norm The COVID-19 pandemic should have shown us that we’re supposed to be meeting needs, not falling in line behind fascist incursions

COVID-19 has revealed that much of the US public is willing to accept mass death and abandonment. We were pushed by propaganda to see many around us as disposable. That helped set the tone for current fascist violations. I wrote about it for @prismreports.org.

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Even if you aren’t masking anywhere else it still makes sense to wear a mask in medical settings & pharmacies because there’s a greater chance of being close to someone contagious & there are more people who are at higher risk in these places. Masking in these settings both protects you & others.

1/? everyone has their own beef with charlie kirk—mine has to do with his misplaced hype for my lupus pills, but he wouldn’t have been up to that, nor much if his schtick, had it not been for the christian nationalist coordinating body he was part of: the council for national policy.
#ShadowNetwork

Screenshot of Google maps, with 7 pins going through the upcoming tour routing. The top shows the cities Indianapolis, St. Louis, and Nashville as the last on the list.

Screenshot of Google maps. Shows the map starting in Nashville and going down to Atlanta and then through Florida. The time at the bottom says it’ll take 20 hours and 17 minutes.

Graphic that reads new store new designs up top. In the middle is the JER tag heart logo. Below that are 3 shirts and a pair of JER shorts. One is a busy shirt design featuring cartoons of people protesting American violence and capitalists. Next to that are JER shorts with the JER heart logo. To the bottom left is the way you tune it out shirt, which is white red and yellow imagery of dated technology. To the right is the couldn’t be me descendents rip. Text below reads “limited ONE WEEK pre-order grab your new favorite shirt @ www.JER.band

Graphic of 2 skatune network shirts. At the top is the skatune network logo. Under that days merch preorder. To the left is the classic checkerboard skatune network logo. Above it says classic logo tee. To the right is the same logo, but made of slime and in green and orange. Next to that it says slimetune network tee The bottom reads “one week pre-order only! S - 4XL Www.skatunenetwork.com

This is all the driving we got in store for our upcoming tour! We have 1,200 miles of driving before the tour even starts! 🥲🥲🥲 HELP US GET SOME GAS MONEY BY GRABBING SOME MERCH! PRE-ORDER ON NEW JER + SKATUNE MERCH DESIGNS! all ending this weekend!
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WHO ELSE OUT HERE LOSING THEIR ENTIRE MIND CAUSE NOBODY SEEMS TO CARE ABOUT FASCISM AND THE PLANET DYING AND STATE SANCTIONED VIOLENCE AND HOW ITS ALL BEING NORMALIZED

Idk what’s funnier, the fact that Biden may have outlived trump, or the fact that both parties really fronted a candidate who definitely wouldn’t have lived to see their full term until 2028

Try This When Your Doctor Says ‘Yes’ to a Preventive Test but Insurance Says ‘No’ - KFF Health News A joint project of NPR and KFF Health News, Health Care Helpline helps you navigate the health system hurdles between you and good care. Send us your tricky questions, and we may tap a policy sleuth t...

Turns out your employer’s human resources department can do more than hand you a W-2 and branded water bottle. They could also help you take on your health insurance company.
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can’t emphasize enough that this dire situation requires we, the public, to step up for our own *public* health.

ventilate, purifiy, and *wear masks*—like these ones [see video] i like—filter allergens, smoke, pollution, pathogens regardless of variant vax status, you just have to wear it.

this could be your event!! masks required shows keep selling out, people are hungry for real accessibility! MASK REQUIREMENTS DON'T SCARE AWAY ATTENDEES AT ALL AND EVEN DRAW IN NEW PEOPLE!!parallel play can give you the resources for free if you just DO THE MASK REQUIREMENT!

Have you heard it yet? Every track on Death of the Heart by @skatunenetwork.bsky.social is an absolute banger (and poignant af) !! Contender for Album of the Year (any genre) in my book, top to bottom !!

(had to dig for YT Music so i share this one) music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

last night, someone on tiktok asked
me how wearing a mask is antifascist, so i answered: unfortunately, even passive, austere eugenics works faster if YOU participate.

so step up: stand out, mask up, and take care take care take care for yourself & others—before those who seek to harm stop you.

Death of the heart album artwork. The background is black and white, with a black and white image of JER looking up toward the camera, and stylized text in the back reads death of the heart. The JER logo sits in the bottom right corner

DEATH OF THE HEART IS OUT!!!! 🥳🎉🎊✨
I am so hyped to share this with the world!!! Hands down the best musical project I’ve done so far! A special record, and I appreciate everyone who helped make it possible, everyone who bought - copy, and everyone giving it a listen!!!!

"you don't do politics, it's true, politics always do you" is great from @skatunenetwork.bsky.social on the new album

Forbidden grapes? A grape and banana had a baby? Golden berries?

I’m shocked by how much stretching actually makes me feel better. Shocked and kinda pissed.

copy of Pete Walker’s Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving

the most important factor for my healing from 20 years of sexual, physical + psychological abuse by my dad was learning about ‘emotional flashbacks’. coined by Pete Walker in ‘Complex PTSD’, it’s a revolutionary concept for child abuse recovery, yet i barely hear it discussed. here is an explainer 🧵

Happy Caturday… 🐱
#caturday #bluesky

My older sister has a tiny back yard she babies with lots of fun plants.

This juvie coopers hawk appreciated the sprinkler

AI isn't curing isolation, it's driving us crazy Clankers, connection, and looking for love in all the wrong places

People are losing their minds to AI—cases of psychosis after countless hours spent with chatbots are increasing. We need connection, but we’re fed robot companions instead of relationships with people. We can’t go down this path, we need to make radical changes, now.

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because they don't tell you in the head or sub-head: the brand is DermaRite. there are specific products & batch numbers in the article

“Dating” an AI chatbot is a romance scam. These people are catfishing themselves.

I just saw the indigo girls and Melissa Etheridge. Why did nobody tell me she could get down like that?

Don’t look away from the implicit eugenics of “living with COVID" By lifting public health restrictions we are essentially subjecting immuno-compromised people to market eugenics.

If you're refusing to acknowledge the ongoing Covid pandemic and you're pushing Covid denialism by referring to the pandemic in the past tense, you have zero ground to stand on when it comes to spouting off about what is and is not eugenics.

The summer I turned pretty is such a weird concept like going back-and-forth between two brothers….. girl lol

I think chronically ill people should get an honorary degree after so many years served.

Kpop demon hunters was good and had a good message and I’m glad all these kiddos like it. Def kpop propaganda BUT has a great message about shame

Im back

A graphic split into two sides, vertically. On the left, a section of the AIDS quilt, including a tribute to the activist Ryan White. On the right, white text on a black background reads, “THE SICK TIMES: Immune system damage from COVID-19 is different from HIV/AIDS — but the advocacy has parallels. By Emily Benedict.”

The history of HIV/AIDS offers lessons for current organizing to curb the spread of COVID-19 and Long COVID. During the emergence of AIDS in the 1980’s, public health authorities minimized the disease. News outlets reassured the public that having a “strong immune system” would prevent and stop HIV infection. We now know that is not the case.

Understanding the similarities and differences between HIV/AIDS and SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19, and Long COVID is vital for informed advocacy. bit.ly/429D9J8

Los Angeles landlords are raising rents by as much as 124% after the wildfires.