knitkat1 🍁

We don’t just fight viruses biologically
We fight them with a social immune system that reduced smallpox to a vial in a freezer
Science. Public health. Communication
When SARS-CoV-2 entered a dysfunctional information ecosystem, it infected that system — with lasting consequences
#episky🧪#idsky

This country is of the people, by the people, and for the people. It’s not for Convicted Felon Donald Trump & his cronies to grift their way to even more wealth.

Join me & @joyannreid.bsky.social as we lead the charge to boycott the SOTU & instead highlight real people impacted by this Regime.

A Norwegian immigrant was arrested at her green card interview.

She’s also insulin-dependent and was denied insulin for 9 days while in detention.

The cherry on top?

“While I was in detention, an agent or guard stole my credit card and started using it WHILE I WAS STILL IN THERE.”

#ProudBlue

Counterpoint:

Don’t upload your medical records to any LLM.

That’s fucking insane.

Great message, let's not lose focus.

Doug Ford was upset yesterday because malls weren't open on Family Day.

Obviously the cruelty to the children is the point.

But they’re also damaging the staff. They will never be the same after this—may they be haunted by the memories of what they did. Because they can’t ALL be psychopaths.

4-5 years ago there were MDs like Lucy McBride crowing about the urgency of normal, getting kids back to school. There were PR hacks like David Zweig supporting them. Now kids are being sent to immigration detention, getting measles & these folks are nowhere to be found. It was never about the kids.

Yellow star? Are you absolutely kidding me? The fact that this can even come out of his mouth like it’s normal is stunning.

Wow.

If I had to speculate, Russia is holding the "peace negotiations" to give them time to destroy Ukraine's energy infrastructure, to kill more Ukrainians, and to pulverize more communities. The USA - specifically MAGA - is complicit. Zelenskyy is not naive to what is going on.

So much shame for USA😢

It seems like every US ambassador under Trump is an asshole. The one to Canada certainly is.

DHS is holding a sick 2-month old baby in Dilley Detention Center along with hundreds of other children.

☎️Call Dilley Detention Center
☎️Call your politicians

We must get this baby out before he deteriorates. Numbers and scripts below.

Very interesting study!! Ev n with ventilation providing CO2 levels considered reflective of “good ventilation”, in this Australian hospital SARS-CoV-2 RNA was found in significant concentrations in the air especially in the ED and acute in patient unit.

Study: SARS-CoV-2 RNA found in 39% of hospital air samples during outbreaks, despite good ventilation

www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/stu...

i'm pretty sure that dougie is the one that started this holiday?

CBS pulling @jamestalarico.bsky.social’s interview from The Late Show with Stephen Colbert is alarming and nothing short of censorship. Full breakdown on my Substack page (link below).

adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/emergency-...

Don’t be fooled by Doug Ford’s “Captain Canada” shtick or his cooperation with Prime Minister Mark Carney. He wants to gut Ontario’s public healthcare and privatize it.

does he mean the acts of violence committed against transgenders?

Look at the minister's key msg in response to the Q from Global:

“We’re not going to cut health-care spending,” the finance minister said, before adding that his goal is to deliver health spending in an “efficient, effective & innovative way.”

They're, in effect, cutting. + privatization language.

Colbert says CBS scrapped his James Talarico interview after Trump FCC’s threats Stephen Colbert taped a “Late Show” interview with James Talarico, a candidate in the Democratic Senate primary in Texas, on Monday. But CBS lawyers intervened before the interview could air on TV.

Colbert says CBS scrapped his James Talarico interview after Trump FCC’s threats

https://fascinating.news/r/pEXqXrPb

This Is What American Fascism Looks Like | The Walrus From assassinating its own citizens to egging on Alberta separatists, the US has changed in ways Ottawa still refuses to confront

This is an era calling for blunt talk. In @thewalrus.ca, I argue Canada has to squarely confront the fact that the US administration is imperialist and fascist. It is opposed to democracy and the rule of law, at home and abroad. And it is fixed on Canada as prey. thewalrus.ca/canada-is-be...

Serial killer

How is it possible that Kristi Noem still has this job. Imagine if you’re a family member or a shipmate of this guardsman.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...

Kilmar Abrego Garcia can’t be re-detained by immigration authorities, federal judge rules Immigration and Customs Enforcement cannot re-detain Kilmar Abrego Garcia because a 90-day detention period has expired and the government has no viable plan for deporting him, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia can’t be re-detained by immigration authorities, federal judge rules

https://fascinating.news/r/2gN7RmYw

Now that pushing protein is trendy again, I’m starting to see proponents of the “Brewer diet” (& its variants) crop up in online birth communities again.

As a preeclampsia expert I need to reiterate that eating more protein will NOT prevent or treat preeclampsia.

No money for healthcare or students/education but plenty of tax dollars for unwanted spas, highways to his cottage and self promotion on TV. Maybe we should sell off more parkland to his developer buddies.

I have heard the “unsustainable” line for over 45 years that I have been in the healthcare system. It is as sustainable as we want it to be!

This propaganda from the Tory government of Ontario is being used to sell off our public healthcare system to private interests. Yet this privatized for-profit care actually costs MORE with LOWER quality. The published evidence demonstrates this quite clearly.
Who pays the tab? WE all do!

What would normally be presidency-ending scandals not even a blip on the radar

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