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This is one of those important, overlooked stories that's hard to report & even harder to place. I'm grateful @prismreports.org understood what's at stake for students fighting these fragmented free speech battles, while they also endure the chaos in higher ed & the nation in general 📻⬇️

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College radio stations are disappearing

Cleveland State University’s recent transfer of its radio station’s broadcast license to a conglomerate is the latest blow to independent student media

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The Sick Times @thesicktimes.org · 58m

While there are no data sources on Long COVID in prison, experts suspect rates of the disease may be higher there than in the general population. They face high reinfection risks and poor access to medical care. Read more from @octoberk.bsky.social: thesicktimes.org/2026/09/29/i...

A graphic shows two images side by side. One are mobility devices, including many walkers, outside of prison cells. Another shows a red SARS-CoV-2 virus contrasted with a black background. The text reads, “The Sick Times. I interviewed five people with Long COVID in prison. They are invisible in the system. By October Krausch.

Meanwhile, her cellmate, Wayland Scott, says he has frequently had problems breathing after COVID-19, and gets winded going up the stairs he must take to get to his cell. Even so, he has not been able to receive an inhaler, despite having one before Long COVID when he first came to prison. “There was a year that they had a big shortage of the albuterol. And when that happened, I got taken off of my inhaler and I’ve never been able to get it back,” he said.

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College radio stations are disappearing

Cleveland State University’s recent transfer of its radio station’s broadcast license to a conglomerate is the latest blow to independent student media

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Kate Jewell @katejewell.bsky.social · 20h

Great article about how college radio still serves as a crossroads for the various pressures on higher education -- and I get to say mean stuff about Vanderbilt selling WRVU: prismreports.org/2026/09/29/c...

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College radio stations are disappearing

Cleveland State University’s recent transfer of its radio station’s broadcast license to a conglomerate is the latest blow to independent student media

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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Come work with me! @taskandpurpose.com is hiring a senior reporter to help us cover conflicts, veterans' issues, quality of life and the Pentagon. Great, small team that punches above our weight and does good journalism. app.trinethire.com/companies/85...

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Recurrent Ventures Inc. | Senior Reporter - Task & Purpose (Remote)

Task & Purpose is a daily news publication focused on covering the military and veteran community from a rank-and-file perspective. Senior reporters are responsible for delivering impactful, timely, ...

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Prism @prismreports.org · 21h

“When campus radio stations’ FM broadcast licenses are sold or transferred, communities lose media made by & for young people.” @brittashoot.com reports on the free speech fight playing out on college campuses where student radio stations are disappearing.

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College radio stations are disappearing

Cleveland State University’s recent transfer of its radio station’s broadcast license to a conglomerate is the latest blow to independent student media

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Tom Larkin @tomlarkin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

We’ve spent many, many hours over the past few months searching the rock pools of Cornwall for a rainbow sea slug. Today, we finally found one! Absolutely worth all the time we’ve spent - it was truly breathtaking.

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Britta Shoot @brittashoot.com · 28/09/2026

endless rancid discourse counteracted last night in a film screening when a well-adjusted adult stranger sat next to spouse and me, glanced at our masks, pulled out his own and put it on without a word 😷🫡

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VC @vgc1720.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A very small and logical act of kindness most people can engage in is wearing a mask at their doctor’s office, even when it is not required. It’s a very anti-fascism and kindness driven action.

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 25/09/2026

Wild how many people are willing to post their default is disability discrimination. Sjögren's disease destroys salivary glands, so too can lupus, and rheumatoid arthritis, and having had radiation for head or neck cancer. Antidepressants/-psychotics,-histamines, opioids all can cause xerostomia

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Britta Shoot @brittashoot.com · 25/09/2026

did you know early HIV activists also overlapped with CPUSA? I'd annotate about yet another early pandemic alliance parallel if my blog wasn't a disused substack I have other things to do today than migrate to ghost but the runaway toxic discourse lacking historical framing makes my fingers itch!

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Britta Shoot @brittashoot.com · 24/09/2026

As a writer often covering queer and/or mask-required spaces, I'll say that it's not obligatory that I'm part of or accomplice to these communities, but other reporters' profound lack of empathy has always been much scarier & more dangerous to me than any subculture or marginalized group

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dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

the whole world does not need to weigh in on what one lesbian bar does in one community. but it will. the bar will become a stand in, a site where impulses to assert ableism, misogyny, homophobia and transphobia will run freely. this is a betrayal of the point of journalism itself

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The truth is, you can belittle maskers, shrug off disabled people, and call us all crazy a million times, but you’re going to have to live in the world you’re building with these choices, and outcomes don’t care that your views are popular right now. www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/mor...

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More than 1 in 10 US healthcare workers report ongoing long-COVID symptoms, study finds

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

it's important to arrive at sturdy ethical principles that you can't be annoyed out of. people are annoying as shit

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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I’ve seen a lot of older people wearing masks in my neighbourhood. I don’t know how the rest of society walks past that clear signal for help. If you see someone in a mask or respirator, you should wear one… at the very least…

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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I am not saying everybody has the ability to follow this path, but: I was uncertain of my MMR status. I went into the CVS app, scheduled a booster, walked in, got one, walked out, paid nothing.

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Britta Shoot @brittashoot.com · 18/09/2026

it's now the phase of every COVID surge when city employees supporting marginalized folks and managing shelters text me personally, asking for masks from mutual aid groups not mad at the individuals!! absolutely fucking furious at the system though. glad to be of service but I'm just some woman!

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 18/09/2026

honestly some of the most apocalyptic impacts of "AI" will be shit like this, and most of the doomsday dipshits predicting SkyNet can't be bothered to notice or care

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UnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit alleges

For the largest health insurer in the US, AI's error rate is like a feature, not a bug.

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professor tools for commensality (red scare edition) @inquiline.myatproto.social · 18/09/2026

this article does not mention "[long] covid" or the pandemic once

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

My mom had polio when she was five. She was living on a US military base in Japan (1947). Four kids on the base died. She was the only survivor.

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Miles W. Griffis @mileswgriffis.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I'm suspicious of The Floridian as an unreliable right-wing news site, so I reached out to AOC's press team to confirm the details in this short article. If the report is true, I also asked about isolation plans, what care the congressperson is receiving for COVID-19, and more.

A screenshot of a headline from The Floridian shows a picture of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez with a headline, "Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tests positive for COVID-19 before Congress leaves Capitol Hill".

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Every time a young person emails me about what they should do at this moment, I say "organize a fundraiser for someone or a group doing the kind of work you value." I don't usually hear back after that, lol.

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Britta Shoot @brittashoot.com · 16/09/2026

reporting in from a California diesel pump, the lowest price I’ve seen in the Bay Area this month (in Walnut Creek!)

A beige diesel fuel pump showing a price of $7.849 a gallon in mid-September 2026 in Walnut Creek, California. The total amount paid go 12.499 gallons is $98.10

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This is genuinely disinformation. Vaccines are great are reducing severity, they do not greatly reduce your risk of getting sick, and even that effect wanes within a few months. Masking with n95s or kn95s and cleaning the air are the best protections against getting sick.

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Britta Shoot @brittashoot.com · 16/09/2026

left spouse alone watching early Wong Kar-Wai and he texted me these 💘

“Why do you wear that mask?” asks Andy Lau’s character in As Tears Go By, sitting on a blue sofa, wearing a red tank top and a chain

“So I don’t infect other people,” says Maggie Cheung’s character in As Tears Go By, sitting on a blue sofa, wearing a surgical mask

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betsy ladyzhets 😷 @betsyladyzhets.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

NEW: Novel drug bezisterim might help with fatigue, PEM, and neurological symptoms in Long COVID, according to preliminary results BioVie shared today. These are early findings that will need more review, but it's exciting to see a positive trial result for once! More @thesicktimes.org:

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Bezisterim may help with some Long COVID symptoms, drug’s developer reports in early trial results - The Sick Times

While the phase 2 clinical trial results, shared by BioVie in a webinar on Tuesday, have yet to be peer-reviewed, investigators say they can inform a confirmatory phase 3 trial.

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Britta Shoot @brittashoot.com · 14/09/2026

One of the most soulful volunteer opportunities in the Bay Area right now is cleaning debris & lint off AIDS Quilt panels. This prepares every quilt square for high-resolution photography, improving visibility of the low-res online database. If you can hold a longarm tape roller, you can do this!

Colorful rainbow panels from several AIDS Quilt squares. One has a giant rainbow with the all caps text:
AURELIO "RALPH" ROBERTO, JR.
1948 - 1991
AIDS FIGHTER-LOCAL NAMES PROJECT DIRECTOR
HOUSING ADVOCATE-BEREAVEMENT GROUP FOUND
MID -HUDSON VALLEY. N.Y.

A person in shorts and a tee stands next to a vertical display of the AIDS Quilt set up for photography. Two black umbrellas shield camera lights. Huge blue bins full of quilt panels are visible in the background

A white woman with messy hair uses a tape roller on a long stick to clean debris from fabric panels of the AIDS Quilt. One panel visible bears the name John Anderson and the years he lived, 1929 to 1990. Piles of quilt panels sit on a palette in the background. The sparse concrete room is unadorned. The woman’s black tee reads “ALL CARE FOR ALL PEOPLE,” a reference to the Death Panel podcast.

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Britta Shoot @brittashoot.com · 13/09/2026

community garden has end-of-season sunflowers and newly blooming morning glories #flowerreport #bloomscrolling

Huge yellow common sunflowers at the end of their bloom with a cloudless blue sky in the background

Three large blue garden morning glories all blooming

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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

always mystified by the suggestion that Gen Z and younger were the ones who disrespectfully turned 9/11 into a meme. i was at a school in NJ where classmates lost parents, didn't know if my own dad was okay, you could see Ground Zero from a nearby hill, and the lads were cracking jokes by lunchtime

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Patrick De Haan @gasbuddyguy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

MAXXED OUT at $9.999!! GasBuddy data showing 5 stations in California that have hit the limit and are selling diesel at the dispensers highest possible price: $9.999/gal

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Britta Shoot @brittashoot.com · 10/09/2026

read an interview with an environmental & media studies professor who said he won't consume popular media about COVID; no novels, films, etc and I can't stop thinking about how the info avoidance most climate scientists say is going to kill us all is a behavior he's actively, unabashedly embracing

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The Sick Times @thesicktimes.org · 08/09/2026

As @mileswgriffis.bsky.social and his husband participated in the effort to rehabilitate the burn scar from the 2020 Dome Fire, the ritual of planting the Joshua trees took on an even greater meaning when he realized the uncanny overlaps with the COVID-19 pandemic. thesicktimes.org/2026/09/08/w...

Black text over an image of the Dome Fire burn scar reads, “After a lightning bolt hit the forest in August 2020, igniting the fire, Cima Dome became forever bound to the COVID-19 pandemic for me. It was the year I lost both my health and my refuge. Things only got worse in 2023, when a second fire broke outignited in the preserve, burning nearly 100,000 acres and killing another 1 million Joshua trees. Where do you mourn when your sanctuary suddenly becomes a place to grieve? Miles W. Griffis, The Sick Times.”

Black text over an image of the Dome Fire burn scar reads, “Because I lost my abilities to the pandemic, this wild gardening has given me some control to confront two crises at once. I plant Joshua trees and leave out water for our nonhuman neighbors to offer mutual aid for the environment. I name each tree to oppose our society’s denial of the pandemic’s “incalculable” mass death and its continuing effects. I imagine each Joshua tree as a spiked fist rising from the ashes of indifference. Miles W. Griffis, The Sick Times.”

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DCapTO @dcapto.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

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Britta Shoot @brittashoot.com · 07/09/2026

Know who hates masking? People doing it basically nonstop in public since 2020. I'm glad it doesn't bother some folks! I hate it. And I hate wearing my little mask chain so people might be marginally nicer when thanking me for picking up their shifts while they were sick. I’ll probably delete this

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Asked in a Bills women’s group for advice on the most Covid-safe area of a football stadium (least crowded, most ventilation) and I was told “Please stay home if you have this many concerns.” This is how ableds view the disabled: You don’t deserve to leave the house. Don’t make us perceive you.

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Britta Shoot @brittashoot.com · 03/09/2026

I sent old cloth face masks to a student making a mask quilt for their capstone project and they sent me a postcard of their gorgeous final product held aloft at the shore! A perfect exchange!! 💌

Against an orange cloth background, a postcard of a colorful quilt made of old cloth face masks used by necessity in 2020. The quilt is held aloft between some beach boulders above the sand.

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 02/09/2026

"Bottom 60% of households" is a wild phrase

CBS NEWS
The findings? For the bottom 60% of U.S. households, a
"minimal quality of life" is out of reach, according to the group, a research organization focused on improving lower earners' economic well-being.

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Kari Dru @karidru.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

"Menopause Is Fake" From the same magazine that brought you "Long Covid Patients are Lazy Malingerers" Wired is doing some nasty work.

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betsy ladyzhets 😷 @betsyladyzhets.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

We got an email today (as well as a few social media comments last week) asking, what is the source for this? Why isn't it in any other news outlets? Folks... The Sick Times is the source! We broke the story!

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 01/09/2026

It’s not suicide it is social murder. It is the result of policy that is explicitly designed to Inflict maximum pain & make a class of people feel as life isn’t worth living.

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Britta Shoot @brittashoot.com · 01/09/2026

someday you'll pick up your last penny and you probably won't know it until much later

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 01/09/2026

When the myth of "objective journalism" becomes too difficult to feign, its practitioners report the actual news less and less. Audience size and trust in media has been collapsing for as long as this has been so. Correlation isn't always causation, but sometimes it is when you'd rather it weren't!

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Pile Of Garbage @pileofgarbage.net · 01/09/2026

I love how Werner Herzog is ALWAYS like this:

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Britta Shoot @brittashoot.com · 29/08/2026

Does historians of social causes buttons exist? NOT election/politics pins but pins of activist groups + slogan/logo, specific protests Spouse: “You take so many button pics” I do! Buttons are often most enduring evidence affinity groups existed, like this PISD (pissed!) button, an ACT UP caucus

A purple square button with the letters P.I.S.D. and then the words “people with immune system disorders.” The letter I has a pink triangle as its dot. The pin is attached to white fabric on an AIDS Quilt panel.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

My fear is that it's going to happen in the middle of the night and there will be several hours when I'm sleeping and have no idea it's happened already

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