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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 · 6d

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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Denise Dewald, MD @denisedewald.bsky.social · 19h

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 · 14h

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 · 14h

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 · 14h

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 · 15h

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 · 16h

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 · 15h

all at once? won’t that make him autistic

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 15h

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 · 21h

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 · 18h

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 21h

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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Mark G. Sheppard @markgsheppard.com · 19h

Even without jobs data, Google Search Results for "Unemployment Benefits" being at a post-Covid high is probably —and I hate to use such labor econ/technical jargon here, but it's probably— "not good."

#EconSky

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🎃 Allison 🎃 @alizinha.bsky.social · 14h

Yes. And even if YOU don't think you could POSSIBLY be severely harmed by the flu or Covid, I bet you spend times with loved ones who could.

Please get these vaccines ASAP as we go into fall/winter season.

Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 14h

Because Donald Trump knows that the vaccines are safe and effective and that they save lives.

And he doesn’t want to die from COVID or the flu.

Meg Tirrell @megtirrell.bsky.social · 15h

President Trump got an updated Covid vaccine & flu shot at Walter Reed today www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/p...

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

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 21h

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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Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 22h

The frogs have landed in Chicago!

Protestor in a frog suit and an anti-Ice sign with what I believe to be a Pokémon character on a street corner in Rogers Park.

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פינחס יוסף מונד @pymundgenealogy.com · 1d

You know what happens if you come at a giant frog

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 1d

Since Link is banned, his mutual aid Fridays have gone with him. This was one of the most altruistic things I’ve seen anyone on this site do.

In light of this, I’m gonna try to fill the gap.

Drop your mutual aid requests under this thread and I will repost them for as long as I can.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 19h

hey, white friends, in case you thought being white and normie lookin' was gonna keep you safe from our fascist secret police, it will not.

it matters that they are coming for ANYBODY

we must fight their stealing ANYONE

AND: all our liberations are, as always, intertwined.

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 23h

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 22h

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 22h

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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🎃 Allison 🎃 @alizinha.bsky.social · 20h

Here's hoping this turns into an actual test I can take soon.

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 1d

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 1d

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

heatmap.news

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People's CDC @peoplescdc.org · 22h

Due to the federal government shutdown, there is no updated CDC data to inform a Weather Report. COVID is still being transmitted around the country and everyone should continue to use their layers of protection: high-quality masks, get your updated boosters, testing before gathering,

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 23h

otterball rules

Oregon Zoo @oregonzoo.bsky.social · 23h

Juno is a clam dunk champion 🏀

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🎃 Allison 🎃 @alizinha.bsky.social · 21h

That's utter BS.

Thank the goddess they are only telehealth visits so you didn't needlessly travel.

And TY for that GIF. OMG I LOVE IT 😍

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 21h

Knowing who to be mad at truly is praxis.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 21h

This is truly BONKERS.

Nick Pinto @nickpinto.bsky.social · 21h

The NYC Department of Correction is extremely serious about projecting an image of reform, lawfulness, and considered, sober judgment these days, so it has decided to rename its Lower Manhattan jail complex after... multiply disgraced criminal Bernie Kerik.

hellgatenyc.com/city-jail-na...

Adams Administration Quietly Renames the Tombs for Disgraced Criminal Bernard Kerik

The Lower Manhattan jail facility briefly bore Kerik's name once before, until he was convicted of corruption.

hellgatenyc.com

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 1d

Do you really have any rights if they are openly saying they will just make up reasons to detain you?

thematthill.bsky.social @thematthill.bsky.social · 3d

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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