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🎃 Allison 🎃

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I'm ready to dance (& deadlift) at the revolution. COVID cautious out of love & humanity (& because I have Long Covid). A better world is possible. If you report accounts from Gaza residents desperate for help unfollow me. She/her. 📍 Queens, NYC

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🎃 Allison 🎃 @alizinha.bsky.social · 7d

THIS IS SO IMPORTANT!! 💜

🌈miski🌦️ @miski.bsky.social · Mar 1

sharing a value tumblr post reminding you to be reasonable and kind to yourself when the world feels very deeply unreasonable and cruel

your life is not an optimization problem

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as in you'll never achieve the perfect daily routine, sleep schedule, coping mechanisms, mannerisms, fashion sense etc. even after years and years of healing and improvement and self-discovery. you will never be so good at life that you manage to utilize every waking moment. its great to be productive and all but sometimes you'll suck ass. sometimes you'll take eight hours to be done with a twenty minute job. you'll prioritize the wrong thing. you'll sleep for 12 hrs just to avoid being awake. you'll relapse. and you'll relapse again. you'll forget to turn in the assignment. you'll order too little food. life is far too large and complex for you to even experience it completely, much less try to make sense of and control it. you can't. please give up on that and be at peace with the hours you lose. they are not separate from your life.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

Religious leaders here are not mincing words. They have repeatedly used the word "evil."

"Detention and deportation are acts that wound the body of Christ, and deny the dignity of God's people."

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Andrew Perfors @perfors.net · 1d

Heartbreaking reading, but this Reddit thread gives a sense of the relentlessness of the horror inflicted by ICE, and the damage being done to so many innocent people that doesn't make the news.

From the AskReddit community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the AskReddit community

www.reddit.com

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 1d

Read it all. From one small section:

Shortly after a man fired >500 rounds at CDC and killed a cop, the staff that safeguard employee, facility, and data security are gone. And the Office of Strategic Business Initiatives, that trains and supports risk management across the entire agency, is gone.

Beyond that, the CDC will not be able to function administratively, as the Office of Safety, Security, and Asset Management (OSSAM) office, which safeguards employee, facility, and data security at CDC lost its entire Occupational Health and Safety Office. Barely two months after a gunman shot more than 500 rounds at CDC and killed a police officer, the office devoted to employee safety has been The Workplace Health Office was also RIFed, as was the Office of Strategic Business Initiatives, which is charged with training and supporting risk management across the entire agency. Not only have the CDC employees been terminated, but the ones who remain will be forced to function within an organization that has eliminated mechanisms for looking after their well-being, safety, and ability to effectively do their jobs to carry out the CDC mission.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 1d

Turns out protest alone was never what changed things, it was protest *plus media coverage of protests*, which prompted officials to respond to protests, which increased public awareness of protests, etc.

If the protest happens & corporate media simply ignores it ... it's inert.

ineptitudinous.bsky.social @ineptitudinous.bsky.social · 1d

Six out of eight of the largest mass-movement protests in US history have happened since 2017. You wouldn't know this from most media reporting, and you sure af wouldn't know this from the way either major party has reacted.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 1d

The editors of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) were apparently fired today.

The precursor to MMWR began in 1878 to address emerging public health threats rapidly.

We are not “great” without it. We are vulnerable to threats from sporadic foodborne illness to bioterrorism.

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🎃 Allison 🎃 @alizinha.bsky.social · 17h

This clip is such a fun watch.

May Diane rest in peace. What a delight she was. 🥰❤️

Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 19h

I can't stop thinking about how original Diane Keaton was.
We've lost an icon.

Kevin Bacon Always Wanted To Kiss Diane Keaton - The Graham Norton Show

YouTube video by BBC America

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katie d @sweatnap.bsky.social · 17h

serious question is there a non gov org that is going to pick up the work the cdc, fda, nih, etc was doing? is there a fund we can donate to? we are on a direct course of destruction of these establishments and i would like to course correct!

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Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 18h

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Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 1d

In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child.

She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck.

This is not about immigration enforcement.

It's about terrorizing Americans.

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🎃 Allison 🎃 @alizinha.bsky.social · 17h

And I'll just keep on masking 😷

Betty C. Jung @bettycjung.bsky.social · 18h

As the Flu Surges in Asia, Could Getting Sick Year-Round Be the New Normal? time.com/7324877/flu-...

As the Flu Surges in Asia, Could Getting Sick Year-Round Be the New Normal?

Here’s what medical experts say could be behind the recent rise of influenza cases in Japan, India, Singapore, Thailand, and more.

time.com

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🎃 Allison 🎃 @alizinha.bsky.social · 18h

Thank you for your service, in both capacities. 🫡

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 21h

ICE IS DISAPPEARING PEOPLE TO WORK CAMPS

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 21h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Ruth Ann Crystal @drruth.bsky.social · 21h

SOUND ON to hear this adorable lion cub making cute squeaks and nom nom sounds

#caturday

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LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 1d

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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Denise Dewald, MD @denisedewald.bsky.social · 1d

Horrific. A 50-year old black man had a stroke & was confused from it. Cops didn’t want to “waste time” doing a thorough evaluation for a medical emergency, assumed it was drugs, & simply threw him in jail. He died

A tragic example of the cruelty of structural racism

www.kare11.com/article/news...

KARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairment

Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours.

www.kare11.com

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🎃 Allison 🎃 @alizinha.bsky.social · 1d

I mean, Steven Miller has said he wants to cut the US population down to one third of its current size.

You know what's easier/cheaper than deporting people? Killing them via a pandemic.

And bonus points that a pandemic disproportionately kills the old and the weak and the marginalized.

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Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 1d

If you want to know how they are preparing for the next pandemic -

It will be exactly like they are treating the one that hasn’t stopped and is still disabling people every day every where

They will say it isn’t happening and encourage people to ignore it outright and use it to “cull the herd”

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 1d

For some context the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly report in addition to being just a good read, to quote wikipedia, "is the main vehicle for publishing public health information and recommendations that have been received by the CDC from state health departments. "

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Mike Davis • Feed After Midnight @mjdavis1988.bsky.social · 1d

Some of these stories are difficult to read, but it’s important that as many people as possible know what is happening. We are 100% living in a police state. SHARE widely.
mdavis19881.substack.com/p/reddit-thr...

Reddit Thread Details Horrific ICE Encounters

These stories are happening all over the country. We CAN'T look away and we must share them.

mdavis19881.substack.com

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 1d

all at once? won’t that make him autistic

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 1d

The Trump administration has been spreading anti-vaccine propaganda for months. Tonight, Trump's physician announced he just received a flu shot and a COVID booster.

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Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Marcello Graziano 🇺🇦 @marcellograz.bsky.social · 1d

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 1d

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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