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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 · 1h

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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prismreports.org

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 · 22h

“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

It's happened more than once! Don't want to jinx it so I never openly react, but I wish these folks knew how much the quiet solidarity does for my nervous system

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

believe it was first surfaced by @rhinestonemice.wtf and boosted to me by @crookedneighbor.bsky.social 🤝

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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 · 25/09/2026

I could hardly pick a bit to quote!! They got the local CPUSA chapter in there! They explained LC! It’s such quality reporting!

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

Read actual local journalism about the discourse & its impact! He hopes the media attention will give the community momentum to mobilize and further educate people why masking is still important. “At the end of the day, we’re still going to do the work. We’re still going to mask.” 💜✊

recorder.com

Greenfield takes stock of viral attention: Businesses, officials weigh in after coverage of lesbian bar Last Ditch takes national spotlight - Greenfield Recorder

Local leaders and business owners defend Greenfield's Last Ditch bar amid a viral dispute over Saturday night masking policies.

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

Logged off after writing this and now see that I created fine examples of how you can tell when a writer is furious: notice how many times she uses the same damn words ("fight" + “stay” lol) in individual posts, because she's so blind with rage she can barely compose or edit her outbursts

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

It’s not not the point! Story is about school administrators selling off FM broadcast licenses, often to conglomerates, instead of investing in student-run radio stations, which are thriving, often support surrounding community, and are often most diverse spaces on campuses 🫡

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

And no I haven’t read it & fucking won't. I’m seething how much it hurts everyone I care about & I’m busy finishing stories about Long COVID treatments, hiking trails, repair clinics, hacking powerchairs, community radio. Some of us stay writing to offer love and solidarity, to uplift not tear down.

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

I'll probably delete this but imagine fighting to stay employed as a journalist in 2026 & deciding to broadcast insular infighting to prop up how cool and removed you are, rather than explore the despair & abandonment fueling these fights for scraps of belonging and access

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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 · 19/09/2026

worth adding I’ve written an excellent, incredibly long essay about this — social murder, volunteers responding to institutional abandonment, supply distro in times of wrongly criminalized mutual aid, the threat of a good idea — that some wise, radical editor will eventually snap up inshallah 🙏

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Britta Shoot @brittashoot.com · 19/09/2026

So glad to have read this. Thinking about the power and the gift of being visible and present so others know there's a future. Thank you very much for sharing ❤️

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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

arstechnica.com

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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Britta Shoot @brittashoot.com · 17/09/2026

This thread really nails every bit of why this is so unnecessarily hard. Much of my former posse is greatly impacted by, works on HIV. Being an outlier from them has probably changed the rest of my life. Wild is barely the word for it.

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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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Britta Shoot @brittashoot.com · 17/09/2026

very charmed you see this & think of me! I’ll prob be close to you at a friend’s opening at The Drawing Room!

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

Let @thesicktimes.org team run media studies departments for a few years challenge

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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

Wrote about the quilt database revamp a few months ago! ⬇️ In scary weird times, you can go gently tend to creative pandemic history at your own pace, take crying breaks, be part of needed work. There are Saturday shifts!

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How a Small Team Is Bringing the AIDS Memorial Quilt into Sharp Focus

Nearly 40 years after the project started, volunteers are rephotographing the 500,000-panel collaborative artwork.

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

Extremely fking here for the ORB mask normalizing content 😷🫡

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

also I’d be a typical professor (complimentary!) & assign my own reporting + tons of other @thesicktimes.org writers so class could discuss why we have such a slim range of media depictions, mostly set in 2020-2021, that ignore Long COVID & the rising advocacy as universal precautions were dismissed

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

Understood; also not a choice for me. Wasn’t intending minimizing but instead wishing for a world in which there’s a shared response to a shared threat instead of challenging individual options. I'm sincerely sorry for how much you've suffered.

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