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Writer/editor. Covid-cautious homeschool parent. Michigander & MSU alum. Christian; definitely not nationalist. Anti MAGA, fascism, genocide. Pro Ukraine, BLM, democracy, rule of law, civil/human rights, refugees, vaccines, science. Words mine only. She.

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La vache est fachée @vacheestfachee.bsky.social · Sep 1

If you want a Covid vaccine (good idea!), you definitely have a qualifying condition.

Physical inactivity is ~impossible to disprove (& not even defined as far as I can see; maybe don't wear an "I won the marathon" shirt to the pharmacy, though).

Good luck with vaccination acquisition! 💉

#MedSky

La vache est fachée @vacheestfachee.bsky.social · Aug 20

For those for whom it's helpful, here's the high-risk list as of present.

CDC 2025 List of Underlying Medical Conditions That Increase a Person's Risk of Severe Covid-19:
- Asthma.
- Cancer.
-- Hematologic malignancies.
- Cerebrovascular disease.
- Chronic kidney disease*.
-- People receiving dialysis.
- Chronic lung diseases limited to the following:
-- Bronchiectasis.
-- COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease).
-- Interstitial lung disease.
-- Pulmonary embolism.
-- Pulmonary hypertension.
- Chronic liver diseases limited to the following:
-- Cirrhosis.
-- Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.
-- Alcoholic liver disease.
-- Autoimmune hepatitis.
- Cystic fibrosis.
- Diabetes mellitus, type 1.
- Diabetes mellitus, type 2*.
- Gestational diabetes.
- Disabilities^, including Down's syndrome.
- Heart conditions (such as heart failure, coronary artery disease, or cardiomyopathies).
- HIV (human immunodeficiency virus).
- Mental health conditions limited to the following:
-- Mood disorders, including depression.
-- Schizophrenia spectrum disorders.
- Neurologic conditions limited to dementia^ and Parkinson's disease.
- Obesity (BMI ≥30 or ≥95th percentile in children).
- Physical inactivity.
- Pregnancy and recent pregnancy.
- Primary immunodeficiencies.
- Smoking, current and former.
- Solid-organ or blood stem-cell transplantation.
- Tuberculosis.
- Use of corticosteroids or other immunosuppressive medications.

* Indicates presence of evidence for pregnant and nonpregnant women.
^ Underlying conditions for which there is evidence in pediatric patients.

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La vache est fachée @vacheestfachee.bsky.social · 1h

The SBC keep showing who they are (and @christabrown.bsky.social keeps calling them on it).

SBC Preaches 'Agape Love' as Cure for Its Abuse Crisis

Then it shows the love by showcasing a reported abuse enabler

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 3h

“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument

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alexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 18h

hell yeah

Cover of the classic children's book Frog And Toad Are Friends.

Drawing of Toad, a brown toad, sitting on a bench, dressed in a green jacket and slacks. He is reading a book to his friend Frog, a green frog dressed in a brown jacket and slacks. They are surrounded by green plants and mushrooms. There is a silver Caldecott Medal in the corner.

Text has been altered from original. It reads
Fiftieth Anniversary
Frog and Toad Are Antifa
by Arnold Lobel

Commemorative Edition

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

the republican majority leader with a clear vision for the democratic party

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 6h

The nation’s largest private prison company is asking the Supreme Court to give federal contractors blanket immunity from lawsuits — including human trafficking claims.

If they win, private contractors could operate with even less accountability than they do now.

The Human Trafficking Case That Could Hand Government Contractors Blanket Immunity

In a little-noticed Supreme Court case, the country’s largest private prison operator argues companies should be shielded from lawsuits when doing the government’s dirty work.

www.levernews.com

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 6h

It's wild that we've reached a point where the President openly admits to firing people for political reasons, and his OMB director tweets about it like it's a victory. This is page one of the authoritarian playbook, happening in plain sight.

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La vache est fachée @vacheestfachee.bsky.social · 5h

Thank you for your service.

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Nihilistic Wrong Hordak 🏳️‍⚧️ @shadow27.bsky.social · 6h

About 3% of the US GDP is spent on the military.
That troops are lining up at food banks while CEOs of the military-industrial complex are chilling in mansions tells you all you really need to know about how well that money is being spent.

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 18h

Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank

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NexJql - Plague Dog @nexjql.bsky.social · 6h

Imagine the GOP pandering to Qatar to let them build an airbase in the United States of America and also being like, "hey U.S. troops - go line up at the village food bank if you want food."

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 18h

Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 23h

Many were asking that since Judge Perry granted the TRO "in part," which part was she not granting. The answer: "The Court declines at this time to enter a Preliminary Injunction, and also to extend the scope of the TRO to include the military..."

This is the TRO blocking deployment of the NG to IL

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

Reading this now. It’s the opinion explaining the reason for granting a TRO (the order came out yesterday) against the National Guard deployment in Illinois. It begins with a quote from Alexander Hamilton in the Federalist Papers against the idea.

Big Cases Bot @bigcases.bots.law · 1d

New filing: "Illinois v. Trump (national guard deployment)"
Doc #70: memorandum opinion and order

Download PDF | View Full Case

#CL71559895

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 22h

Peaceful assembly isn’t an insurrection.

Storming the Capitol to hang your own vice-president and end democracy is.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21h

UPDATE: Judge Perry issued an opinion explaining why she blocked the Texas National Guard deployment in Chicago.

She begins with Alexander Hamilton’s rejection of a “preposterous” idea that the Constitution lets a President deploy a State’s militia to a different State for political retribution. 🧵

OPINION AND ORDER
Since this country was founded, Americans have disagreed about the appropriate division
of power between the federal government and the fifty states that make up our Union. This
tension is a natural result of the system of federalism adopted by our Founders. And yet, not even
the Founding Father most ardently in favor of a strong federal government believed that one
state's militia could be sent to another state for the purposes of political retribution, calling such
a suggestion "inflammatory," and stating "it is impossible to believe that [a President] would employ such preposterous means to accomplish their designs." But Plaintiffs contend that such
an event has come to pass, and argue that National Guard troops from both Illinois and Texas
have been deployed to Illinois because the President of the United States wants to punish state elected officials whose policies are different from his own.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 21h

NEWS: "Donald Trump is a pedophile who routinely raped young girls."

MAGA: "So boring."

NEWS: "Donald Trump is allowing Qatar to build an air force base in Idaho.”

MAGA: “This is IMMORAL! What an outrage!!! I will not stand for this wicked behavior!!!”

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21h

Can you think of a single movie in which there is a video from the government denouncing its political opponents playing on a loop in public spaces in which that government was the good guy?

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21h

A new Noem video is being played at airports trashing Democrats.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 20h

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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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 21h

CHICAGO: REBUILD is providing therapy to folks detained by ICE. Please feel free to let people know.

findmeatherapist.org

Find Me A Therapist

findmeatherapist.org

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 19h

I don't know if there's such a thing as a "world cyberwar" but I think we are in one? and the US is determined to lose it. 🧵

Today the admin is mass-firing the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the nation's cybersecurity protection across all levels of government.

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 19h

You would not fire these people—including the staff of the hugely, HUGELY important 'Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report'—if you cared at all about public health, if you wanted people to live.

And you would not let your thuggish henchmen fire people like this if you were a responsible president.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 20h

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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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 18h

[disclaimer: i'm just talkin, these are normative statements, idk and am not commenting on what infrastructure exists irl]

there has to be a way to absorb some of these people into state health departments..or set up an interstate body to keep tryna do this work..we just cant lose all this capacity

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 20h

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 18h

The shameless GOP lying about the No Kings gatherings scheduled for next Saturday reveals how deeply hostile much of the Republican Party is to “the right of the people peaceably to assemble.” I look forward to our local No Kings event, and urge my fellow Americans to attend in their communities.