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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.

www.kcur.org/health/2021-...

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...

www.kcur.org

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

Hell.

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

Love you both!

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

Uh... Here we go. Check on your marginalized friends.

www.them.us/story/texas-...

Texas Launches Undercover Operations Into "Transgenderism" and Antifa "Terror Cells"

“Corrupted ideologies like transgenderism and Antifa are a cancer on our culture."

www.them.us

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

Absolutely yes I do!

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

Yay! It's finally here! So excited, Morgan!!! XOXOX 💙💙💙

Morgan Fairchild @morgfair.bsky.social · 7h

Saddle up, the mic’s hot. 🎙️
Meet Two Bitches from Texas -our new podcast where stories get real, laughter gets loud, and our guests bring the sparkle.
🎧 Trailer out now
🌟 Episode 1 featuring Donna Mills drops October 15

Available wherever you get your podcasts. See below:
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 7h

Good rundown of the current situation on Bsky (written before Rudy's update that Blacksky is going to make Link available to its users)

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Banning controversy reveals Bluesky’s federation isn’t there yet

Bluesky’s protocol is so complicated that not even the biggest alternative network has figured out how to become independent

plus.flux.community

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

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USDOT will not enforce Biden wheelchair passenger protection rule

The U.S. Transportation Department said on Monday that it will not enforce key provisions of a Biden administration rule issued in December requiring new consumer protections for disabled passengers using wheelchairs.

www.reuters.com

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PenGwen With LC @pengwen.bsky.social · 10h

Thank you! Making Christmas about giving instead of consumerism seems like a better way

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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 10h

Two details to focus on at Comey’s arraignment:1) who is at the table for the government, since the entire EDVA loathes the case; 2) does judge Nachmanoff set immed schedule for motions (or even ask the parties what motions they are planning) or instead set another hearing date at which to do that?

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

This is such a brilliant idea!

PenGwen With LC @pengwen.bsky.social · 10h

Tired of wasteful holiday consumerism?
The #AltUBI button in a stocking is a perfect alternative
Give the gift of Community Care participation
The impact? A person's housing security and community strength
That's magic

A alt Ubi button with a green background and a black panther reclining on a bed of tropical flowers with a QR code by its chin text: Mutual Aid saves lives join to support Community Care #alt Ubi

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23h

Your periodic reminder that you have the right to find out why your health insurer denied your claim.

We built a tool to help you do it: projects.propublica.org/claimfile/

Find Out Why Health Insurance Denied Your Claim

You likely have the right to access records that explain why your insurer denied your claim or prior authorization request. Use ProPublica’s free tool to generate a letter requesting your claim file f...

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Amanda Finley Digs All the Spooky Things @rubyslippahs.bsky.social · 14h

Surely they just didn't know about them.

Amanda Finley Digs All the Spooky Things @rubyslippahs.bsky.social · 14h

Let's vote then off the island.

a sign that says goodbye get booted next to two cartoon characters

ALT: a sign that says goodbye get booted next to two cartoon characters

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Amanda Finley Digs All the Spooky Things @rubyslippahs.bsky.social · 14h

a woman in a hat is sitting in a chair and saying quelle surprise

ALT: a woman in a hat is sitting in a chair and saying quelle surprise

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Amanda Finley Digs All the Spooky Things @rubyslippahs.bsky.social · 14h

Has anyone tried sending a strongly worded letter?

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Amanda Finley Digs All the Spooky Things @rubyslippahs.bsky.social · 14h

It's horrifying to watch.

Good morning to everyone except Peter Thiel and Palmer Luckey.

Screenshot of Facebook account big momma thoughts. Text reads: we should split up to cover more ground. I'll go left, and you do fuck right off.

Amanda Finley Digs All the Spooky Things @rubyslippahs.bsky.social · 14h

THIS.

They know. They know exactly what they're doing.

www.project2025.observer/en

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Adam Rothman enjoys a good sandwich @adamrothman.bsky.social · 2d

One guest, a retired major general, was asked about Hegseth's dismissal of the rules of engagement. He answered: "The words the president and secretary of defense are those of potential war criminals."

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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 18h

UK: Two hospitals — Royal Shrewsbury and Princess Royal in Telford — are reintroducing compulsory face masks in some areas from Wednesday, as Covid-19 cases rise. The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust said the rule applies to specific parts of both facilities.

Source: archive.md/u5TQw

Hospitals to reintroduce face masks in Covid spike

38 minutes ago

Andy Giddings West Midlands

The face masks must be worn in parts of the hospitals, including cancer wards, children's wards and the emergency department

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

Should you see a dancing capybara, the largest species of rodent, mind your own. It's just @soapybara.bsky.social living her best life.

@thesoapybara.bsky.social

A capybara being propped up by a person standing behind them. The capybara is wearing a red bow in its hair, and a long green grass skirt. Capybara is ready to party when you are! Note: Karen makes very cool soap. 10/10 would recommend. Go check it out!

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Johannes Johansson @etherealphd.bsky.social · 5d

Way too many Czechs are letting themselves get scammed by another Putinist billionaire 😠

Does not bode well for continued consumption of Czech products.

Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 5d

1/5 For Czech readers: voting for ANO is helping Putin’s Russia.

Babiš is not just a politician. He is Putin’s favored candidate in Czechia.

Do not be like Hungary and Slovakia.

If you do not want to support Russia, do not vote ANO

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Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 3d

1/7 Trump’s ICE isn’t just an immigration agency.

It increasingly resembles the Gestapo and NKVD, Hitler’s and Stalin’s secret police, which were used to control, intimidate, and purge.

This thread outlines the disturbing parallels. The danger is real and growing👇

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

Vought heads the Office of Management and Budget, which is essentially human resources for the US government. Solid choice if you don't want any employees.

www.propublica.org/article/prop...

The October Story That Outlined Exactly What the Trump Administration Would Do to the Federal Bureaucracy

Historians have hindsight when they look into the past; journalists have the facts on the ground and context to help them look ahead. That means we can sometimes be surprised by how prescient a story ...

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

3. Naïve to think that surely the law will prevent this when this administration doesn't care and will burn down the homes of judges who rule against them.

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

1. Are they rehiring? Some people. Are they going to force them out later? Yep.
2. Do people even want to go back? Mostly no. Russell Vought made it very clear even before the elections that his plan is to "traumatize" federal employees.

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Screenshot from Substack of Letters from an American, by Heather Cox Richardson. Text reads: Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo points out that OMB director Russell Vought had threatened mass firings if Democrats refused to go along with the Republicans' continuing resolution to fund the government, but the machinery for such firings does not appear to be in place. Marshall notes that the government is, in fact, having to rehire many of the employees it fired early in the year. Now Vought is threatening not to pay furloughed workers, but the 2019 law-a law Trump signed-is clear.

Polls show that most Americans blame Republicans for the shutdown and that 78% of Americans want to see the premium tax credits-the issue of healthcare costs on which the Democrats are making a stand-extended. That the administration is concerned about the healthcare issue showed in Trump's statement to reporters yesterday that "we have a

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