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Covid isn’t “back”, it never left

Those of us who are covid competent have been screaming about clean air & respirators for years because we’re in the midst of a mass disabling event

Media & government have been complicit in minimizing it

If they’re mentioning masks, it’s bad

You don’t have stories like this in countries with national healthcare systems

one particularly damning graph of tech company energy use from the excellent @ketanjoshi.co blog post below

Also note that e.g. Amazon has stopped publishing estimates of their energy use as of the last two years. I wonder why? 🙄

I remember this incident vividly. So many white people posted that this was somehow going to "change things" re US policing. Other people knew it would not. I'm so sorry Martin was so badly hurt.

Why so many people are having strokes in their 20s, 30s and 40s: ‘We’ve never had patients so young’ Dr. Mohammad Anadani has shared some intriguing theories on what’s behind the alarming trend of healthy, 20-somethings having strokes.

We have allowed a multi system vascular virus to spread unchecked for nearly 6 years.

Public health has failed to advise folks of the risk to long term health, or of the fact that there’s no such thing as “mild” COVID.

Yet doctors blame sudden rise in young stroke patients on everything BUT Covid

A funeral Headline: Deaths Caused By New Covid Variant No More Severe Than Deaths Caused By Earlier Variants Say Scientators Story by Garth Polyp and Linus Wallpoke Photo from Adobe

Deaths Caused By New Covid Variant No More Severe Than Deaths Caused By Earlier Variants Say Scientators

The story of Alma Bowman, a disabled woman and US citizen detained by ICE, keeps getting worse

She’s been in the country for 50 years. They took her wheelchair, denied her medications & threw her in a detention facility in Georgia

Did you know she was a whistle blower against forced sterilization?

How justice 'works'.

peter theils palantir becoming the worlds most powerful military system and data harvester is going to usher in a new, worse age of humanity. i hate to say it but this is complete libertarian cultural victory

When someone says to me they don’t know anyone with long covid, what I hear is “I ditched the people I knew with long covid”

If you use AI you’re accelerating climate crisis, polluting deprived communities, burning through water, giving bosses excuses to reduce workers rights and wages. It’s a moral and ethical degradation.

The Palestinian ambassador to the UN broke down as he talked about the number of Palestinian children murdered since March.

And while he was talking about dead Palestinian children the camera panned to the Israeli ambassador, who was yawning.

I Don't Know Anyone With Long Covid Yes. You do. It might even be you. Let's take a look at why people don't realize, or can't admit, that they're dealing with Long Covid.

Covid vaccines will be restricted to those over 65 or with preconditions

Pregnant women, one of the highest risk groups for Covid complications, are restricted.

Wear a well fitted respirator. Long Covid is debilitating. There’s no cure. And there’s way more people suffering that you might realize

Republicans' New Vaccine Restrictions Codify a False Healthy/Unhealthy Dichotomy Denying vaccine access to the "healthy" makes no sense, not least because anybody can become disabled by a single COVID infection

'Denying vaccine access to the 'healthy' makes no sense, not least because anybody can become disabled by a single COVID infection.'
💯 @juliadoubleday.bsky.social
'COVID is NOT the problem of a few vulnerable individuals, it's a collective public health crisis.'
open.substack.com/pub/thegaunt...

We're all pretty used to the idea that our phones are listening to us, that algos know our preferences, and that ad companies have a very good idea of who we are and what we like

Right now, they mostly use this to sell us stuff. We are on the cusp of them using it to do something very different

This is a bop and a half

The Covid-19 lesson from Sweden: Don't lock down

Deaths in Sweden far higher in 2020 than other nordic countries

That's the lesson huh

Well yeah, because the Democrats dismantled the Black Lives Matter movement when Biden came into office and then Biden gave hundreds of millions of dollars in what was supposed to be covid money to police no strings attached and did nothing to stop the systemic racism or violence.

Giving police more money -> more killings by police

Gutting public education for decades led us here. Anyone who thinks trump gives a fuck about anyone other than himself is simply ignorant beyond words. The same could be said for about 99% of politicians in office right now. Sociopathy is rewarded with wealth in our capitalist society.

Property rights would kill the industry. Does that tell you what the industry is, finally??

Sars2 hijacks the immune system.

Thanks @hiegleah.bsky.social for the link.

Police secretly monitored New Orleans with facial recognition cameras Following records requests from The Post, officials paused the first known, widespread live facial recognition program used by police in the United States.

Gift link: Cops in New Orleans have been using a private face surveillance network to track people across the city, which is prohibited by local law. Now the cops are trying to change the law. wapo.st/4ds19e7

We can all agree that the cancer has a right to defend itself

ai tech is awful, evil and should be heavily regulated on all fronts and avoided as much as possible. the horrible part about it is that companies that make ai have power over everything and force us all to engage with it in ways people don’t even realize or have control over

The House GOP last night approved Medicaid cuts that will kick millions off insurance & shrink after-tax income for many families in the bottom income quintile

Hard to fathom how unpopular this is. Just 14% of voters wants to cut Medicaid to pay for tax cuts

www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-a...

I don't know if there's ever been a culture more in love with charlatans than ours. "Success" defined entirely by how good you are at tricking people into giving you money. An entire country of aspiring slop merchants

You can’t fight fascism without disability justice. Fascism creates more disability, which then sees us as replaceable and our deaths as excusable. You can’t fight for humanity without fighting for disabled people.