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Amanda Finley Digs All the Spooky Things

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COVID long-hauler, former archaeologist, opera singer, now fed employee. Kids, homeless, dogs. Isotopes+🍩 #WearAMask 🌎 Disorient Express FB: is.gd/bp2vTA Media: [email protected] YouTube.com/@covidlonghaulers Signal rubyslippahs.74 She/her

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Amanda Finley Digs All the Spooky Things @rubyslippahs.bsky.social · Oct 18

I'm housed now, but not because of any assistance program. Just lucky, and friends.

But for many others with long COVID, their housing instability journey is just beginning.

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From a tent in the woods, this Kansas City woman advocates for her fellow COVID long-haulers

After losing her apartment, Amanda Finley sought refuge at a Missouri campsite she calls her "happy place." Even as much of the country returns to normal, she's working to remind people that COVID lon...

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Amanda Finley Digs All the Spooky Things @rubyslippahs.bsky.social · 1h

That would be awesome.

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elliott junkyard 🍉 @transarchivist.bsky.social · 1h

I made some art tonight to celebrate this occasion. 🐸✊

a digital art piece with teal circular wingdings in the background, a drawing of the inflatable frog costume and over it in all caps in neon green "become ungovernable"

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Amanda Finley Digs All the Spooky Things @rubyslippahs.bsky.social · 1h

Hell, yes! I love it.

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bioRxivpreprint @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · 1h

Cholesterol-mediated activation of VapC12 toxin modulates growth and drug susceptibility in Mycobacterium tuberculosis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.10.681325v1

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Marlow Stern @marlownyc.bsky.social · 2h

Trump claims the “Biden FBI” placed 274 agents at the Capitol on Jan. 6.

Trump was president on Jan. 6.

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Amanda Finley Digs All the Spooky Things @rubyslippahs.bsky.social · 1h

Drop your favorite Portland meme, photo, or moment below using alt text.

Picture from Facebook of a person in an inflatable frog suit walking away from the camera in a crowd of people. Caption says Portland protests turning into one big costume party

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17h

Imagine that

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Humor For Resistance @funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social · 13h

Love that Trump got the COVID vaccine while working to make sure we can’t.

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Amanda Finley Digs All the Spooky Things @rubyslippahs.bsky.social · 2h

@grantstern.bsky.social did you see this? What are we even doing?!?

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He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 7h

Quick update on what we just saw here—*before curfew*, ISP troopers, Broadview PD and CCSO deputies began menacing demonstrators outside the ICE facility. Several arrests.

Pepper ball guns at the ready, a bit of a standoff going with remaining protesters. All people are doing is playing music.

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Amanda Finley Digs All the Spooky Things @rubyslippahs.bsky.social · 3h

I think most people don't even know what that is anymore.

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Medieval Barber Theodoric of York - SNL

YouTube video by Saturday Night Live

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Amanda Finley Digs All the Spooky Things @rubyslippahs.bsky.social · 4h

Hashtag priorities, Noor.

Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 7h

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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Dr. Jonathan N. Stea @jonathanstea.bsky.social · 6h

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Amanda Finley Digs All the Spooky Things @rubyslippahs.bsky.social · 6h

People literally DIE because of this garbage system, and we're all just okay with that? Hell, no!

Hartzell @hartzell.bsky.social · 7h

A society where health is tied to corporate profit is a society in crisis.

We refuse to let insurance companies and big pharma determine who gets care.

Universal health care isn't some radical idea — it's justice.

Stop the theft. We must tax the billionaires who profit from human suffering.

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Amanda Finley Digs All the Spooky Things @rubyslippahs.bsky.social · 8h

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National Guard troops in Illinois can remain federalized but can’t be deployed, appeals court rules | CNN

A federal US appeals court ruled Saturday the National Guard troops in Illinois can remain under federal control but can’t be deployed as the appeals process continues in the ongoing fight between the...

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Amanda Finley Digs All the Spooky Things @rubyslippahs.bsky.social · 8h

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Federal judge rules against ICE over warrantless arrests of Kansas City-area restaurant workers

The arrests of the workers at El Potro Mexican Café in February were among the first in the Kansas City area to draw widespread media attention. Immigration attorneys sued the Trump administration for...

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♿🏳️‍⚧️ Wylder needs HELP @wylder.bsky.social · 10h

PLEASE help? Any amount is more than we have now. $4 away from being overdrawn again. 💕💸 #MutualAid

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Amanda Finley Digs All the Spooky Things @rubyslippahs.bsky.social · 10h

Well, this is terrible. Measles and H5N1 just scored big wins.

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‘It’s a massacre’: CDC battered by government shutdown firings

The White House’s mass firing of CDC staff on Friday has decimated offices related to injury prevention, respiratory disease surveillance, and chronic disease, according to four people familiar with t...

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 15h

1. This is illegal as it makes enforcement of the Fair Housing Act of 1968 effectively impossible.

2. Congress appropriates more than $300M each year for enforcement because housing discrimination has one of the ugliest legacies in American history after slavery and Native American genocide.

◥◤Kriston Capps @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 16h

HUD laid off so many fair housing investigators on Friday that it shuttered the regional offices that oversee discrimination cases in 9 states: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

HUD Issues Layoff Notices, Targeting Fair Housing Staff With Deep Cuts

Fair housing staffers who investigate claims of housing discrimination at field offices nationwide were among the hundreds of HUD staffers who received layoff notices.

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Amanda Finley Digs All the Spooky Things @rubyslippahs.bsky.social · 23d

Meme in two parts. First: picture of Geordi LaForge from Star Trek looking straight ahead, left arm extended and palm down. Text reads do not comply in advance. Bossy, already a cliché, implies permission to comply later. Second picture is Geordi LaForge looking to his left, eyes are glowing red. Text reads fuck you, make me. Leads by example, directs yelling at opposition instead of allies, easy to chant at a protest or put on a banner

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 1d

I had a high opinion of MIT before today but it just went up some more.

Dr. Dawn Wright @deepseadawn.bsky.social · 1d

MIT, as one of nine schools that were asked to agree to adopt conservative priorities and policies in exchange for funding perks, REJECTS the Trump administration deal.

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MIT rejects Trump administration deal for priority federal funding

MIT is one of nine schools that were asked to agree to adopt conservative priorities and policies in exchange for funding perks.

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Amanda Finley Digs All the Spooky Things @rubyslippahs.bsky.social · 15h

A long time friend is trying to help someone get a bus ticket to go say goodbye to her brother, who is on a vent. The ticket is $170, and she's got $40 right now.

Let's help her get there!

Her Cash app is $bayleesmama19

My Venmo if you don't have Cash app is AmandaKFinley.

Thank you!

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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

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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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Amanda Finley Digs All the Spooky Things @rubyslippahs.bsky.social · 17h

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sponica.bsky.social @sponica.bsky.social · 1d

I'm still eye rolling over the maga outrage at Superman being undocumented.

Next at 11, Captain America punches Nazis

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