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Rebecca

@softgothkitten.bsky.social

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She/her, chronically ill, writer. BA degree in Disability Studies Anti-eugenics, pro-masking & clean air. RFK Jr & MAHA hater Free Palestine 🇵🇸 https://linktr.ee/uptonrebecca

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Rebecca @softgothkitten.bsky.social · Apr 24

I've been reading about Nazi Germany's preoccupation with "health" and "organic food," so I figured now is a good time to write about the similarities between Nazi Germany's attitudes about health and MAHA's.

MAHA and Nazi Germany

When people talk about the Make America Health Again movement (MAHA), I see two mistakes they make. The first is assuming that if someone claims to have a mission to improve our country’s health, t…

healthismandwellness.wordpress.com

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 6h

🇵🇸 Breaking: 22-year-old Palestinian, held without charge or trial since May 2024, dies in Israeli custody — the 78th Palestinian “prisoner” to die since Oct 7.

The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society said Ahmad Khdeirat, from Adh-Dhahiriya near Hebron, entered prison with diabetes, contracted scabies...

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Transgender World @transgenderreport.com · 4h

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, hasn’t signed other trans protections

www.lgbtqnation.com/...

#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, hasn’t signed other trans protections

The California governor left at least 10 pro-LGBTQ+ measures on the table.

www.lgbtqnation.com

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 18d

CW: protester being struck in the head by a pepper ball

Footage I took earlier of the moment Reverend David Black, a regular protester outside of the Broadview Detention Center, was shot in the head with a pepper ball by ICE agents on the roof of the facility.

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Books That Burn @booksthatburn.com · 22h

I'm also supporting Northsky, they just didn't have a handy post button.
northskysocial.com/profile/prod...

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Dom Evans @domevans.electricmarshmallow.com · 1d

When you say he's senile you detract from the fact he's evil.

When you say he's not smart and being manipulated you detract from the fact he's evil.

When you say he has no idea what he's doing you distract from the fact he's evil.

TRUMP IS EVIL.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 1d

Bad news: Anti-vaxxers have been given leadership positions at US health agencies and are doing everything they can to take away vaccines.

Good news: Despite all their spin, in reality they have been too incompetent to do anything effective to restrict vaccine access in any meaningful way so far.

Rebecca @softgothkitten.bsky.social · 1d

(Also just want to make it very clear that this destruction of Gaza's healthcare system and the disabling of Palestinians did NOT start with October 7th)

Rebecca @softgothkitten.bsky.social · 1d

Palestine is a disability justice issue and a healthcare justice issue. Free Palestine, end the occupation, end the genocide, ceasefire now.

Rebecca @softgothkitten.bsky.social · 1d

This destruction clearly demonstrates the goal of the genocide: to make Gaza unlivable. Those of us in the US live in a country that won't offer us free healthcare or protection from a deadly virus, but enthusiastically funds a genocide and criminalizes those who protest it.

Rebecca @softgothkitten.bsky.social · 1d

Researchers Nicola Perugini and Neve Gordon define medicide as “the destruction of a healthcare system in whole or in part with the aim of obliterating or damaging the conditions needed for saving and sustaining the lives of the sick and the wounded.”

Rebecca @softgothkitten.bsky.social · 1d

Of everything about the genocide, the destruction of hospitals and the targeting of healthcare workers and patients have haunted me the most. There is a term for this: medicide.

Rebecca @softgothkitten.bsky.social · 2d

This blatant eco-fascism is a great reminder of why the environmental movement *needs* to do a better job at confronting its own ableism & including disabled people, who like all marginalized groups are the most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change

CNN @cnn.com · 2d

The people who are most vulnerable to the hard-to-breathe air that comes with climate change may inadvertently be adding to the problem, new research finds. https://cnn.it/4pWQMoh

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 2d

The acting CDC director has finally signed off on the vaccine advisory panel's recommendations for the COVID vaccines.

While the CDC is trying to sell this as a win for antivaxxers, in reality this means that COVID vaccines will be more accessible than they have been in recent weeks.

CDC Immunization Schedule Adopts Individual-Based Decision-Making for COVID-19 and Standalone Vaccination for Chickenpox in Toddlers

ATLANTA—October 6, 2025— The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today updated its adult and child immunization schedules to apply individual-based decision-making to COVID-19 vaccination and recommend that toddlers receive protection from varicella (chickenpox) as a standalone immunization rather than in combination with measles, mumps, and rubella vaccination.The immunization schedules adopt recent recommendations by the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), which were approved last week by Acting Director of the CDC and Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services Jim O’Neill. The schedules will be updated on CDC.gov by October 7, 2025.

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BNO News (Health) @health.bnonews.com · 3d

The weekly U.S. COVID update will not be published today due to data disruptions caused by the government shutdown. Updates will resume as soon as possible.

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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 2d

**CDC Blackout**

US Weekly COVID update: Oct 6, 2025

🔸1 in 81 Actively Infectious
🔸602,000 New Daily Infections
🔸4,540,000 Infections In The Past Week
🔸189,000,000 Infections in 2025
🔸227,000 to 910,000 Weekly Long COVID Cases
🔸1,300 to 2,100 Weekly Deaths

Source: pmc19.com/data/

The image is a COVID-19 heat map of the U.S. dated October 6, 2025, titled “1 in 81 Estimated Actively Infectious.” It’s based on CDC and Biobot wastewater data, showing most states in grey labeled “CDC Blackout,” indicating missing data during a federal “shutdown.”

At the bottom, it notes:
“PMC estimates 602,000 new daily infections amid ‘shutdown’ & state-level data blackout.”

Color legend (bottom left): Very High (dark red) → High → Moderate → Low → Very Low → No Data.
Most of the country is shown as having no current data available.

The image shows a Pandemic Mitigation Collaborative (PMC) report titled “National COVID-19 Estimates (U.S.)” dated October 6, 2025.

🦠 Infections

Proportion Actively Infectious: 1 in 81 (1.2%)

New Daily Infections: 602,000

Infections in the Past Week: 4,540,000

Infections in 2025 (to date): 189,000,000

Cumulative Infections per Person: 4.69

🧠 Long COVID

From new daily infections: 30,000–120,000 new Long COVID cases

From new weekly infections: 227,000–910,000

⚰️ Excess Deaths

From new daily infections: 170–280 deaths

From new weekly infections: 1,300–2,100 deaths

The note at the bottom states that daily infections (602,000) are about half of the September 6 peak (1.24 million), yet post-acute effects and excess deaths remain high despite the decline.

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Jordan Uhl @jordanuhl.com · 4d

Absolutely heinous.

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Jasmin Taylor @meshedlight.bsky.social · 3d

just realised the image needed alt text in full:

(photo of a sign that's been stuck to a glass door)

"SEE A TENT?
JUST FUCKING LEAVE IT, CHEERS.

Living without washing or toilet facilities is no joke.

Maybe you can do something about the economic conditions that cause homelessness?
Or let the homeless use the bogs in your pricey hipster cafe?
Or just show some consideration!

Otherwise we suggest:
You mind your own fucking business.

1. Not everyone can live in a house and be smug about it. People are just trying to survive

2. Ask yourself what the fuck is wrong with you.

Why are you such a wanker? Live and let fucking live."

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 4d

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

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C.H. Romatowski @chromatowski.bsky.social · 15d

#NEISvoid find of the day!

A collective of people with Long Covid have made a spoken word album of poetry and music, and the proceeds go to @patientled.bsky.social Patient-Led Research Collaborative!

So cool! Check it out: www.playitforward.com/projects/voi...

Fundraiser: Voices from the Land of Long Covid

Drawing of a heart with a tree in the center and words like help, access, bed life and disability justice around it.

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Billy Hanlon @bhanlon15.bsky.social · 6d

BBC: ''Since having Covid my life has completely changed'

'Others, like 16-year-old Molly from Weymouth, said they were still experiencing symptoms of Long Covid...'

"Too often children like me have felt abandoned and failed..."

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Covid Inquiry: 'Since having Covid my life's completely changed'

A teenager has told the Covid-19 inquiry she often feels "left out" after missing so much school.

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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 7d

On Friday 18 blue state attorneys general BLASTED the Federal Trade Commission, telling it to back off trans youth healthcare and warning of an insidious attempt to reshape the regulation of medicine in the US.

And nobody covered it.

www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

State AGs Defend Trans Americans in Stunning Rebuke to Trump’s FTC — Assigned

Eighteen state Attorneys General unite to stand up in defense of trans Americans, in opposition to a Federal Trade Commission investigation into trans healthcare.

www.assignedmedia.org

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 6d

Let's be clear: Trump's attacks on "antifa" are an attack on America. www.theverge.com/policy/79051...

Everything is terrorism in Trump’s America

But don’t call that fascism. That would be bad.

www.theverge.com

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Ian Weissman, DO @drianweissman.bsky.social · 6d

Multiple COVID-19 infections pose a risk for developing Long COVID. People who got infected twice with COVID-19 were twice as likely as those who got COVID-19 once to develop Long COVID symptoms that affect the major organs in the body.
time.com/7322188/covi...

Repeat COVID-19 Infections Could Double Your Risk of Long COVID

The latest study shows that getting repeat COVID-19 infections can come at a high health cost.

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 7d

Pay attention to the language that will be used by much of the media.

The Global Sumud Flotilla never entered Israeli waters.

They are in international waters attempting to reach Palestinian waters.

Israel is once again breaking international law

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 7d

Sophia reporting from the Conscience

Both Italy and Spain have withdrawn their ships, abandoning the Global Sumud Flotilla to be intercepted by the Israelis