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@mostlybree.kitrocha.com

And if you'd like some, a lovely designer we know created them so we could drop ship 1000 to Minneapolis and the other designs are free for you to download, print at home, or have bulk printed!

drive.proton.me/urls/TKVTS18...

Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 46m

Everyone should be putting up NO ICE NO CPB NO FEDERAL AGENTS GET A JUDICIAL WARRANT OR STAY OUT signs everywhere.

Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 3h

My wife told me she heard at a training she attended that ICE has argued "ALL ARE WELCOME HERE" signs are invitations to enter private spaces and if that don't beat all I don't know what does.

January 28, 2026 at 7:19 PM

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Join the Mass Infection Resistance

@spiritsofland.bsky.social

How sensitive are rapid tests for covid?

For the omicron variant: 37.1%

That's a significant drop from 81% sensitivity during delta.

covid19-sciencetable.ca/sciencebrief...

#CovidIsntOver #MedSky #IDSky

Use of Rapid Antigen Tests during the Omicron Wave - Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table

The emergence of the now provincially and globally dominant SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant demands a reassessment of the diagnostic performance of rapid antigen tests. Rapid antigen tests are less sensiti...

covid19-sciencetable.ca

January 28, 2026 at 2:13 AM

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social

bars

screenshot of text from Adam Serwer in The Atlantic: "The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they're the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive - because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about "Western civilization," while armed brutes try to tear it down by force."

January 27, 2026 at 6:11 PM

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Kelly

@broadwaybabyto.bsky.social

Another person I know caught Covid in the hospital.

They said they would have masked had they known it was a risk

They didn’t know because everyone is pretending things are “back to normal”

Meanwhile hospital acquired Covid disables & kills

Respirators & clean air save lives

January 28, 2026 at 8:18 AM

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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him)

@nathankalmoe.bsky.social

Yes. The murders of Goodman & Schwerner shouldn't have mattered more to white Americans than Chaney's or countless other Black ppl lynched in MS, but they did, & their sacrifices helped boost racial justice, even as the mechanism reflected pervasive white supremacy.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murders...

Murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

January 26, 2026 at 5:39 PM

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Lydia Polgreen

@polgreen.bsky.social

The execution of Alex Pretti is playing so badly because you can look at his actions and life story - his last act was helping, boy scout, athlete, health care worker to veterans - and compare those to the men who killed him and know which you would want to be your son, brother, father, uncle.

January 26, 2026 at 4:18 PM

jaydo

@jaydocovid.bsky.social

🪩 New masked rave 😷 in the DMV area just dropped:

Thu 2/26 9pm-2am at Transmission DC

ELEMENTAL: DJ sets, drag performances, vendors, and more

Tickets:
shotgun.live/en/events/dm...

Event Flyer:
DMV MASKED RAVES PRESENTS
ELEMENTAL
FEBRUARY 26TH
MASK REQUIRED
FEATURING DJ SETS, DRAG
PERFORMANCES, VENDORS, AND MORE!
TRANSMISSION DC
9-2AM

January 28, 2026 at 6:46 AM

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MaskTogetherAmerica

@togetherwemask.bsky.social

Taekwondoin Tina Sugandh and her black belt kids, who always compete in their masks, warn about #LongCOVID— why they support #MaskTogetherAmerica and @publichealthaction.bsky.social. “This is for all that say you can't compete to your fullest potential at athletic events with a mask on.”

January 26, 2026 at 1:07 AM

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Hazel Newlevant

@newlevant.bsky.social

In 2026, let’s convince Mamdani to do like Sadiq Khan and invest in clean air for NYC schools!

NY is currently in an ALL-TIME HIGH flu season.

70% of households getting COVID start with kids, usually in school.

Air purifiers can drastically cut transmission!

www.london.gov.uk/mayor-invest...

Mayor invests £2.7m in air quality filters for schools to clean up air in classrooms

The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has today launched a new £2.7 million programme to deliver indoor air quality filters to hundreds of schools across the capital, bringing cleaner air to tens of thousa...

www.london.gov.uk

January 5, 2026 at 2:30 PM

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Chantzy

@chantzy.bsky.social

Because caregiving & sick leave disproportionately fall on mothers, especially single mothers, making schools & daycares safer through clean air & normalized masking is an essential part of any serious gender equity agenda

January 11, 2026 at 7:52 AM

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani

@mayor.nyc.gov

On day 8 of our Administration, @governor.ny.gov and I announced the beginning of universal childcare in NYC. No longer will New Yorkers be forced to choose between starting a family and continuing to live in the city they love. This only happened because of you.

January 10, 2026 at 12:59 AM

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Prisonculture

@prisonculture.bsky.social

Prison guards are flocking to ICE jobs and frankly this makes sense. Those of us who have been anti-prison organizers for decades have been saying that fascism already existed within prisons/jails. Our best teachers for how to survive fascism are incarcerated people.

January 10, 2026 at 2:33 AM

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Mike Hoerger, PhD, MSCR, MBA

@michael-hoerger.bsky.social

The size of the winter COVlD wave has been revised upward as post-holiday data come in.

We estimate 1 in 55 people in the U.S. are actively infectious.

🔥WV: 1 in 14
🔥IN: 1 in 15
🔥MI & OH: 1 in 21
🔥MO: 1 in 22
🔥CT: 1 in 24
🔥KS: 1 in 25
🔥MA & IL: 1 in 27

Quick 🧵 1/4

Heat map and PMC estimates, 1 in 55 infectious and 892,000 new daily infections for Jan 12.

We expedited the report to release it two days early.

January 10, 2026 at 9:46 PM

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Fun

@funkelly.bsky.social

This is a great ad displaying the importance of the right kind of mask. Cloth face coverings don’t protect you from shit.

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 19d

The leading cause of death by far among ICE officers is COVID-19.

How dangerous is it really to work for ICE?

According to ICE’s own data, none of its officers have been killed by an immigrant in the agency’s history.

www.motherjones.com

January 11, 2026 at 12:33 AM

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Elad Nehorai

@eladn.bsky.social

Your reminder that what happened to Renee Nicole Good is something that happens regularly in America. This is not new, but it is an expanded version of militarized people targeting Black people in particular.

From ICE detention to murder with impunity, we've been doing it. Now it's broadened.

January 8, 2026 at 12:15 AM

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Ryan Marino, MD

@ryanmarino.bsky.social

In a study following 23 million people age 18-59 (pretty young) for 4 years…despite the fact that the ones who got the COVID vaccine were overall older and sicker at baseline, they not only had 74% lower risk of dying from COVID than the unvaccinated but 25% lower risk of dying from any other cause!

January 4, 2026 at 8:59 PM

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Andrew Dobbie

@a-dobbie11.bsky.social

Some HEPA units that filter classroom air are loud, but SO necessary to clean the air to help prevent airborne pathogen spread.
We turned this issue into a class project building PC fan #CRboxes to help filter the air in our classrooms.
Students need to learn how to measure air quality & clean it🙌

Desktop PC fan #CRbox with Uppatvïnd Ikea filter

Foamboard measurements for cutting framing of desktop PC fan #CRbox
20x25.5cm fan face
2, 13x25.5cm side walls
2, 13x21cm side walls
21x26.5cm filter face (this face is cut out to perfectly fit the filter dimension)

Students working (some wearing N95s from donatemask.ca) with a desktop PC fan #CRbox in between them to help prevent close-contact airborne pathogen spread.

My classroom with a variety of desktop PC fan #CRboxes spread throughout the room to help reduce close-contact airborne pathogen spread.

December 23, 2025 at 6:38 PM

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Anna Bower

@annabower.bsky.social

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

News Team,
Thank you for the notes and texts. I apologize for not reaching out earlier.
I learned on Saturday that Bari Weiss spiked our story, INSIDE CECOT, which was supposed to air tonight. We (Ori and I) asked for a call to discuss her decision. She did not afford us that courtesy/opportunity.
Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices. It is factually correct. In my view, pulling it now-after every rigorous internal check has been met is not an editorial decision, it is a political one.
We requested responses to questions and/or interviews with DHS, the White House, and the State Department. Government silence is a statement, not a VETO. Their refusal to be interviewed is a tactical maneuver designed
to kill the story.
If the administration's refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we

have effectively handed them a "kill switch" for any reporting they find inconvenient.
If the standard for airing a story becomes
"the government must agree to be
interviewed," then the government effectively gains control over the 60 Minutes broadcast.
We go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state.
These men risked their lives to speak with us.
We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their
stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.
CBS spiked the Jeffrey Wigand interview due to legal concerns, nearly destroying the credibility of this broadcast. It took years to recover from that "low point." By pulling this story to shield an administration, we are repeating that history, but for political optics rather than legal ones.

We have been promoting this story on social media for days. Our viewers are expecting it.
When it fails to air without a credible
explanation, the public will correctly identify this as corporate censorship. We are trading 50 years of "Gold Standard" reputation for a single week of political quiet.
I care too much about this broadcast to watch
it be dismantled without a fight.
Sharyn

December 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM

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Phil Vasquez

@themontrealer.bsky.social

It's not gonna hurt you.

#covidconscious
#maskup
@jaydocovid.bsky.social @winslowsp.bsky.social @hoolier.bsky.social

December 17, 2025 at 9:02 PM

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Denis - The COVID Info Guy

@thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social

"COVID alters brain structure long after infection, new Qld study finds"

"Queensland researchers have discovered coronavirus significantly alters the brain long after recovery, with MRI scans revealing lasting changes even in people without ongoing symptoms."

Source: archive.md/JURHA

Screenshot of a Courier Mail health article titled “Covid alters brain structure long after infection, new Qld study finds.” The subheading says Queensland researchers found COVID-19 can significantly alter the brain long after recovery, with MRI scans showing lasting changes even in people without ongoing symptoms. Below the headline is a photo of a desktop computer displaying multiple colorful brain MRI images arranged in rows, with another monitor showing a brain scan beside it. The article is dated December 16, 2025.

December 16, 2025 at 12:16 AM

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root@eruditorum.œrg

@root2702.bsky.social

Indianapolis Star, November 22, 1918

The man who is unwilling to wear a flu mask usually is of the kind who expects everybody to listen to him when he speaks

December 12, 2025 at 1:51 AM

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Patrickthebiosteamist

@patbiosteamist.bsky.social

This is a post from 5 months ago, when I saw BA.3.2.1 in Raj’s tracker for California.

I show this simply to point out that from all of the great experts tracking Covid variants out there - it is quite easy to monitor and predict emerging lineages.

VRBPAC simply refuses to listen to the experts

Patrickthebiosteamist @patbiosteamist.bsky.social · Jul 12

Wow would you look at that.

2 sequences of BA.3.2.1 detected in California, according to Raj’s tracker.

2 nickels is not a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice (ifykyk).

If that starts to take off it will be a huge mutational jump.

Raj’s Covid variant tracker. There is a pink circle in the middle that represents 2 sequences of BA.3.2.1 detected in California.

December 12, 2025 at 2:58 AM

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ProPublica

@propublica.org

Egg producers suspect bird flu is traveling through the air.

The USDA didn’t test the theory after a disastrous Midwestern outbreak.

Here’s how we did.

By @natlash.bsky.social

How ProPublica Investigated a Bird Flu Outbreak in America’s Heartland

Early this year, bird flu ripped through 80 farms in Ohio and Indiana. Using genetic markers, wind simulations, satellite imagery, property records and more, we found that the virus could’ve been airb...

www.propublica.org

December 8, 2025 at 11:00 PM

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Waldo Jaquith

@waldo.net

We're half a decade into studies finding that improving airflow in classrooms will reduce disease transmission enormously, and that bleaching surfaces etc. does very little. And yet nothing changes. Waves of flu and colds wash over schools, and the schools pretend it's an act of God.

The relative contribution of close-proximity contacts, shared classroom exposure and indoor air quality to respiratory virus transmission in schools - Nature Communications

The relative importance of close-proximity interactions, shared space and air quality to the transmission of respiratory viruses is not well understood. Here, the authors investigate this question by ...

www.nature.com

December 8, 2025 at 4:23 AM