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Cranky Queer Guide to Chronic Illness @crankyqueer.bsky.social · Jul 27

The 3rd installment in my series of interviews with #HIV community leaders features #transgender/#nonbinary leader Michael Elizabeth of the HIV Caucus, who said:

To Fight Trump on HIV, Local and State Organizing Matters Most, This Activist Explains

Activist Michael Elizabeth shares why local HIV activism matters now more than ever.

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Cranky Queer Guide to Chronic Illness @crankyqueer.bsky.social · 2h

Times are rough — so watch the Portland Frog and read this delightful story about noncompliance from queer comedic genius and good egg @kellidunham.bsky.social

The Kids Who Sank Columbus

History’s scoreboard got an update thanks to a group of kids with a papier-mâché goat and impeccable comedic timing

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Lexington&Concord1775 @lexandcon.bsky.social · 1d

FYI StopIce.net is legit. ✅️ StopIce.org is a trap. ❌️

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Paladin Brie @gunpaladin.vtubers.social · 2d

This is a screenshot of the website with alt text. The floating text at the bottom is evil. This whole webpage is evil. Please make sure you’re going to correct sources. Don’t give up your information.

A screenshot of the fake website stopice.org meant to get people to give up their information.

Text on screen reads:

HAVE YOU ENTERED UNDER BIDEN?
ARE YOU AN UNDOCUMENTED MIGRANT?
SCARED OF DEPORTATION?
GET RID OF ICE IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOODS
WITH THIS ONE SIMPLE TRICK!

ARE YOU AN ILLEGAL MIGRANT?
¿Es usted un migrante ilegal?
Did you know you have the CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT to ask ICE to not detain, raid or investigate your migrant status?

By submitting your information, you can help to stop ICE raids in your local community. This simple trick immediately ends all ICE raids at your residence.

Be sure to submit your full legal name, your legal status, your home address, and your place of work. After short administrative action, your home (and work!) will no longer be eligible for ICE Raids!

It’s like pest control — but patriotic.

100% Non-Satirical. Your information is collected. We are mocking you. And the government. Truthful statements are marked in red.

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Dr. Joseph Schmuckatelli IV, Ed.D. @joeschmucc.bsky.social · 2d

Hey if you have a moment go to stopice.org and type in a bunch of fake info, preferably stuff that’s insulting to ICE and the regime. It’s a fake site ICE set up because they’re stupid assholes.

StopICE.org | Home

stopice.org

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Erica (they/them) @sickfemme.bsky.social · 1d

www.dearenglishmajor.com/blog/buildin...

Building a Better Bookshelf: Anti-Racist Reading Lists & Black-Owned Bookstores — Dear English Major

There are many resources that will help educate and empower you to become an anti-racist ally. As you research, if you are planning to buy books on anti-racism (etc.), consider purchasing these books ...

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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 1d

The cruelty of saying “hospitals are ready” by increasing ICU beds and body bags… instead of fixing the ventilation.

Just mull over that for a bit #MedSky.

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#9 Dream @gayfabfourfan.bsky.social · 1d

Did you know it was several decades before handwashing in hospitals was implemented after it was found to be necessary in 1846? We’re in the same boat today, except w/ airborne transmission—yes, in 2025. Unfuckingbelievable. So unnecessary, maddening, irresponsible, & dangerous. #MasksInHealthcare

Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 1d

This isn’t fearmongering — it’s reality. Hospital-acquired COVID can delay care or cost you your health — even your life.

Infection control measures — masks, ventilation, testing, and staff/patient protections — should be standard care in every healthcare setting.

Source: x.com/PrognosticCh...

Prognostic Chats @PrognosticChats

Some day you’ll be in hospital for surgery or chemotherapy or with another illness & a nurse, or doctor or visitor at the next bed, or the patient opposite you will give you a Covid infection & your treatment will get delayed & your life will be put at unnecessary risk.

4:28 AM · Oct 12, 2025 · 5,515 Views

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Cranky Queer Guide to Chronic Illness @crankyqueer.bsky.social · 1d

Cuomo killed off nursing home residents and staff with his terrible COVID policies, then used public funds to write a book posing as a hero. He’s rotten through and through.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 2d

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

CDC staff in Africa right now, including those helping to manage the current Ebola outbreak, are laid off/fired.

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 1d

Lots of Epidemic Intelligence Service officers ("disease detectives") gone.
In-country staff in Africa (including those helping to manage the current Ebola outbreak) are fired.

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Gregg Levine @greggjlevine.bsky.social · 1d

The disease detectives are being purged from the CDC. So are those watching global health. You won’t know the what, when, where or how of the next pandemic at a time when we the US is mostly ignoring the current, ongoing one.

Want to protest? Want to fight back? Wear a high-quality mask in public.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 2d

FULL STORY HERE: Emails began flooding CDC inboxes late Friday night announcing dozens of layoffs. HR people brought back from furlough to oversee the RIFs. Disease detectives, entire Washington office, global health, injury prevention, MMWR staff among those hit.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials

www.nytimes.com

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#9 Dream @gayfabfourfan.bsky.social · 2d

Untreated HIV can take on average around 10 years to progress to AIDS. This means HIV was unknowingly circulating throughout the ‘70s (and likely before). Going by this rough timeline, we won’t know what damage a single COVID infection, let alone several, does long term until around 2030.

Oni Blackstock, MD MHS @oniblackstock.bsky.social · 2d

The first reports of what would eventually be called AIDS and its causative agent identified as HIV were published in the MMWR in 1981 alerting health care and public health systems across the country. A tremendous loss for public health.

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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 2d

How the media are gaslighting trans people

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bats 🦇✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 2d

if you are rightfully concerned if not frightened about the continued dissolution of U.S. healthcare infrastructure, would you take an action every day to resist it?

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Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social · 2d

I cannot stop the mass firings overnight. But I can wear a mask to protect myself and those around me

Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

in 2011, the president of antifa hired me to give fashion consultancy to the organization. i recommended everyone wear navy suits with tan shoes, dress sneakers, and golf polos with slim chinos. if you arrested everyone today wearing these things, you'd destroy antifa

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 2d

CDC RIFs that we're hearing about:
OPHDST -Office of Public Health Data & Tech

Goals
✅improve access to & use of public health data (Wish Fake-CIP used them-they’d finally understand vaccine data)
✅Improve EFFICIENCY of data & tech systems ➡️
help states, etc. make informed public health decisions

About OPHDST

OPHDST works to improve the availability and use of public health data.

www.cdc.gov

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 2d

I miss when we could just post the silly jokey jokes and it didn’t feel like we were doing load-bearing democracy.

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 2d

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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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 2d

Judge Sara Ellis' opinion in IL v. Trump is an absolute banger:

www.courtlistener.com/docket/71559...

The Court therefore must make a credibility assessment as to which version of the facts
should be believed. While the Court does not doubt that there have been acts of vandalism, civil
disobedience, and even assaults on federal agents, the Court cannot conclude that Defendants’
declarations are reliable. Two of Defendants’ declarations refer to arrests made on September 27,
2025 of individuals who were carrying weapons and assaulting federal agents. See Doc. 62-2 at
19; Doc. 62-4 at 5. But neither declaration discloses that federal grand juries have refused to
return an indictment against at least three of those individuals, which equates to a finding of a
lack of probable cause that any crime occurred. See United States v. Ray Collins and Jocelyne
Robledo, 25-cr-608, Doc. 26 (N.D. Ill. Oct. 7, 2025); United States v. Paul Ivery, 25-cr-609
(N.D. Ill.). In addition to demonstrating a potential lack of candor by these affiants, it also calls
into question their ability to accurately assess the facts. Similar declarations were provided by
these same individuals in Chicago Headline Club et. al. v. Noem, 25-cv-12173, Doc. 35-1, Doc.
35-9 (N.D. Ill.), a case which challenged the Constitutionality of ICE’s response to protestors at
the Broadview ICE Processing Center. In issuing its TRO against DHS Secretary Kristi Noem,
the court in that case found that the plaintiffs would likely be able to show that ICE’s actions
have violated protestors’ First Amendment right to be free from retaliation while engaged in
newsgathering, religious exercise, and protest, and Fourth Amendment rights to be free from
excessive force. Id. at Doc. 43. Although this Court was not asked to make any such finding, it
does note a troubling trend of Defendants’ declarants equating protests with riots and a lack of
appreciation for the wide spectrum that exists between citizens who are observing, questioning,

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Rhuta Bhayga @rhutabhayga.bsky.social · 5d

In case you didn't already know this
#Portland

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Juli Indica @juliindica.bsky.social · 3d

OMG Check out Portland protest! If we were ranking cities on the best protesters, Portland would win every single time. They never let us down. Also, can we make this viral because they are definitely suppressing this information on other social media platforms?

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Dr David Joffe MB BS(Hons), PhD, FRACP @davidjoffe64.bsky.social · 2d

Influenza versus Cövid.

826 COVID vs 89 flu deaths, and within 90 days, 1,391 COVID vs 149 flu deaths, showing worse outcomes for COVID-19

Rough maths? About 10 times more fatal

journals.plos.org/plosmedicine...

Comparative risk of post-acute sequelae among adults following SARS-CoV-2 or influenza virus infection: A retrospective cohort study among United States adults

Author summary Why was this study done? It is known that people may suffer medical complications long after COVID-19, which are called post-acute sequelae (PAS). Similar sequelae are also known to h...

journals.plos.org

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Jay Perk @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 2d

FYI, all law enforcement already treats Black Americans this way. Welcome!

thematthill.bsky.social @thematthill.bsky.social · 5d

Wow. Greg Bovino admits on camera that his agents can detain people if you look scared, change your demeanor, or grip a steering wheel too tight.

As his unmasked agents walk around with large guns to scare you, they may arrest you just for that — even if you're a U.S. citizen.

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It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 4d

OK so I read through this study, and here are my conclusions:
- What a cool tech to examine epigenetic factors so closely!
- This is a small study
- This only differentiates severe-presenting patients from healthy controls; hasn't been used to diagnose ME/CFS *versus* other inflammatory illness. 🧪

Billy Hanlon @bhanlon15.bsky.social · 4d

Open Access Government: 'UEA develops blood test for ME/CFS with 96% accuracy'

'A groundbreaking blood test from UEA can diagnose ME/CFS with 96% accuracy, offering hope for patients and new insights into chronic fatigue syndrome'

www.openaccessgovernment.org/uea-develops...

UEA develops blood test for ME/CFS with 96% accuracy

A blood test from UEA can diagnose ME/CFS with 96% accuracy, offering hope for patients and new insights into chronic fatigue syndrome

www.openaccessgovernment.org

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