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ok team, I’m hoping we can rally for this. I’m hosting this gfm on behalf of two local organizers who raised and distributed SO MUCH mutual aid in 2020 that they accrued an absolutely wild tax bill. they’ve been fighting this for years, with expert help, and now they need us. gofund.me/8bd971c75

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Donate to Support Mutual Aid Organizers Facing Tax Bill, organized by Rachel Hands

I’m running this crowdfunding effort on behalf of two local mutual aid or… Rachel Hands needs your support for Support Mutual Aid Organizers Facing Tax Bill

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babs ✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 4h

actually spent the perfect autumn afternoon at bread and puppet the other day myself shot on iphone 14 film tk

hand printed cotton banners hang on a clothesline over a sea of golden leaves from the tree behind them. the banners read: YES and STORY among others.

two people wearing papermache mask heads of an older couple sit in a green field surrounded by trees turning orange and yellow not fall. the man is dressed as a mechanic while the woman is giving bubbe.

the puppet museum archive: a large wooden paneled room filled with life size handmade creatures and accessories.

a large hand painted banner on the side of a building. a yellow sun with hands extended like ray’s reads “THE NOT SOCIETY AFTER YET THE END”

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A Chronic Voice @achronicvoice.com · 5h

"A flare that started 3 days ago might only register today. A trigger from last wk might not show up until the week after. The feedback loop is long & confusing, & it takes real #time, not a weekend of journaling, to start making sense of it": buff.ly/edCuy6g by @thethrivingspoonie.com #ChronicPain

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The Quiet Work of Learning Your Body’s Patterns With Chronic Illness

When your body doesn't give you clear signals, pattern recognition feels impossible. This post is about why most tracking attempts fall apart, what you're actually looking for when you pay attention…

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 06/10/2026

Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.

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Nowcowan @nowcowan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

My pinned thread already has several voting guides already for Los Angeles city/county

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Atlas Mugged (N95 Duckbill 😷)✊🏿🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @pamacious.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

LGBTQ and Muslim oppression were at the top of the chart of concerns from a poll of Council for National Policy Members in 2014. The Council for National Policy is like a big umbrella org under which leaders from hundreds of orgs like Heritage, NRA, Breitbart, the Federalist Society, etc. converge.

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

There have been a few stories about "unaccompanied minors," and one of the reasons why Stephen Miller and Markwayne Mullin are focusing on this is that they are paying 287(g) partner to locate these kids. newrepublic.com/article/2142...

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The Trump Administration’s Depraved Exploitation of Immigrant Children

The Department of Homeland Security is using underage-sex-trafficking conspiracy theories to bolster its mass deportation machine.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Saying he'd be cool with Iran nuking my home city is pretty bad but not quite as bad as when Hillary said some trump supporters were deplorable so I can see why the media turned the latter into a major scandal and not the former

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babs ✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

wedding event look #3 — actually a 3-piece suit but i totally slacked on a full length photo ??? guess i was ✨livin in the moment✨ so hopefully the wedding photog got one 🤪 rocked the same gold sparkly mask cover as the first event 🤙🏻

babs (a white femme person with blonde and brown hair just past shoulder length) takes a selfie outdoors. they are wearing an red-orange, white, and brown plaid vest, and gold tarot card earrings to match their necklaces and gold and orange eye makeup. their lips are a bright matte red.

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g @g--0.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

a lot of leftists who accept that governments are engaging in all sorts of nefariousness and misinformation, seem to have a huge blind spot when it comes to nefariousness and misinformation in public health specifically

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Litsa Dremousis @litsadremousis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I agree w/ all of this except the “unlucky few” part: Millions of Americans have #LongCovid

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Dr. Jen Irwin @drjenirwin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Paco nails it 👇 “What have you read that makes you so confident that it won’t happen to you?”

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babs ✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

hard to put into words how grateful in am to be back in vermont in the fall 🥺

a blue sky with puffy white clouds over a road during into red, orange, and yellow foliage hat stretches to the horizon. it is the most perfect fall day in vermont.

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babs ✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

i know precisely this feeling. i could sneeze in—thus ruining—a mask, or i could go outside and expel nasally freely like god intended

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babs ✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

idk about other regular respirator wearers, but do you motion to cover your dough still when wearing it? i do, with the elbow, even tho im pretty sure whatever throat clearing i’m up to is surely the same regardless because on the mask, no?

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babs ✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

there’s nothing like being the one person in a mask and, with negative metrix test not even 24hrs old, coughing tryna order a coffee because your throat is autoimmune dry—nay parched. like if they didn’t think mask = sick before they def do now 😮‍💨

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babs ✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

very sorry to read about maurice’s passing. my condolences to you n his 🙏🏻

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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin @bethsawin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Honestly instead of learning new techniques to hack my nervous system I'd like to live in a equitable life-affirming society that didn't push me into fight or flight hour after hour. You?

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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The "health freedom” movement is run by health authoritarians. They want to impose their anti-vaccine agenda on you, to threaten and intimidate scientists, and to let parents treat their children as disposable objects. This needs to be opposed, not appeased. My latest.

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“Health Freedom” Leaders are Health Authoritarians

"The centerpiece of the MAHA and health freedom agenda has been removal of mRNA shots."

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babs ✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

e u g e n i c s but it’s just a coincidence that it’s become taboo to wear a mask right

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"I'm supposed to be a tough guy," Curtis confided. "I can hold your hand," the mayor offered "What happens if I faint?" Sliwa asked. "I've got you," Mamdani assured him, grabbing his hand as Sliwa received his flu shot. abc7ny.com/post/nyc-may...

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Mayor Mamdani holds hands with one-time rival Curtis Sliwa to get flu shot

An apparent bromance has continued to blossom for the one-time political rivals.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

When mask bans were first being enacted, disabled people warned they marked a return to Ugly Laws. They were a crucial step towards eliminating us from public life. They were designed to make us hide away, unable to safely exist in public. Disabled people are the canaries in the coal mine.

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babs ✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

ah well still close—maybe one day we can still make some photos that feel like You happen ;)

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babs ✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

also in the rotation: “about you” - the 1975, which sounds actually so good on tidal ???

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babs ✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

angelenos are watching thermometers break again and meanwhile i’m a stones throw from the canadian border and it’s the kind off perfect fall that has me absolutely cranking nico

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Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The very empathetic and largely positive piece I’m reacting to only mentions Covid once and it’s in context of how some of the newly IDed disabled people boldly wear “Covid masks”. Totally a coincidence everyone’s got POTS &/or ME now. Unrelated to a virus that gives you POTS &/or ME running rampant

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babs ✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

wait bestie are you in LA? 👀📸✨

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betsy ladyzhets 😷 @betsyladyzhets.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Have you done The Sick Times' reader survey yet? We plan to use the results to inform future stories, updates to our website, and more! www.surveymonkey.com/r/SS6ZH8S

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JUCIFER🗑 @jucifer.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026

"Since Covid, we haven't really had to think a lot about how we flow patients through a system, or the special things that we need to have in place to really protect not only the health care givers but also the other patients who are susceptible”🙃 MF THISS WHY PPL KEEP GETTING INFECTED IN YOUR CARE

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DJ Plague Mouse 💎🐁 @rhinestonemice.wtf · 01/10/2026

I tore the boston globe last ditch lesbian bar article apart because it’s fucking garbage. Lesbians have always held the line with #publichealth and continue to, their resistence should be celebrated not exposed and laughed at and made even more vulnerable. No tolerance for fascism. None. 😷

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chadzia dax 🔞😷 @m00psy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

did you know that every day, more people are getting long covid? because the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic never actually ended, even if eveyone is acting like it? mask up and start stopping the spread again. we have the tools to actually end the pandemic. we just have to all pitch in and use them.

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october "pre-order The Struggle Is Always Worth It now!" krausch @octoberk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

💔 please read down for ways you can honor Curtis's incredible legacy

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Billy Hanlon @bhanlon15.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Many thanks to @angeladavismpr.bsky.social for covering this important topic today with @mprnews.org

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babs ✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

obsessed w the green on green

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andrea (she/her) @andrealausell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

never stopped 😷

a mirror selfie of Andrea in a doctors office bathroom. She’s wearing all black and has a shirt that has pink writing on it that says hot people care about public health. She’s wearing a black kn95, and her hair is up in a black crocheted bonnet. She’s wearing glasses and has eye makeup on. And there is a gold floral mask chain on her mask. in her hand, taking the photo is her phone and her other hand is in her pocket of her pants, and she is looking away from the camera with her eyes.

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babs ✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

despite the Moment bagels are having in LA, we simply will never be able to outdo literally any corner store in zohran mamdani’s N Y C and i accept that 😮‍💨

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

taps sign again

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is horrifying and exactly what a lot of us have been warning against for years. So fucking frustrating. We could have had better—politically, technologically, socially, and economically. We need far better leadership in all fields, at all levels.

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