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Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Same as they did to force people to go back to work while still sick and contagious with covid

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DisMoviePod @dismoviepod.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Masking works. My respirator has kept me free from Covid and flu for six years. 😷 Vaccines are great, but not inhaling viruses into your body is super cool when vaccines do not provide 100% protection. Vaccines & masking in combination FTW.

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Canada could face ‘worst kind’ of flu season as experts warn evolving strain may be mismatch for vaccine | CBC News

With flu cases now rising in Canada, medical experts are bracing for a difficult influenza season linked to the global spread of an evolving H3N2 strain that could be a mismatch for this year’s vaccin...

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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Just sayin'

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Masks in healthcare" in the Mamdani campaign font and style

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

It’s been 6 weeks since Adelita Grijalva won her election & she’s not sworn in Congress is being paid as federal workers work for free & Americans go hungry There’s no incentive for the GOP to end the shutdown They’re funding ICE. They’re funding themselves. They’re funding Argentina It’s a coup

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Kim Crawley (she/her) 😷🍉 @stopgenai.com · 07/11/2025

. @animenewsnetwork.com's neutral line on this is absolutely disgusting. No! Fuck the planet killing torment nexus! 🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻

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The Vertlartnic @thev.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

You Only Feel So Bad Because Your Body’s Intimidated By How Well You Are

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Esther @elhopkins.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Our government had a choice when they came in. To carry on with the same COVID policies from the Tories or mitigate for airborne transmission and they chose the former. I have never been more disappointed in my life to see this continuation.

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

BREAKING: Starbucks workers have just authorized a massive strike. Union Starbucks baristas voted to authorize the strike by 92%. Now baristas in over 25 cities could launch an unfair labor practice strike on Thursday, November 13th.

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Leslie Lee III, MA @leslieleeiii.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

I've been struggling with Long COVID for about three years. I'm seeking support to access new treatments and daily maintenance. Please consider donating or sharing. Every bit helps, and thank you all so much for the support. It has meant the world to me. gofund.me/d0a10512b

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Donate to Support Leslie Lee III's Long COVID Recovery, organized by Leslie Lee III

Short version: I'm a teacher and writer seeking support for medical and ot… Leslie Lee III needs your support for Support Leslie Lee III's Long COVID Recovery

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Judy Stone @drjudystone.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

The Small Men Making a Big Mess at FDA open.substack.com/pub/rasmusse... @angierasmussen.bsky.social on Vinay Prasad and George Tidmarsh and the venomous atmosphere from Prasad

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The Small Men Making a Big Mess at FDA

Turns out that putting Vinay Prasad in charge of regulating drugs and vaccines was a bad idea

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Xander Lenc @xlenc.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

NYC is going to have the world's biggest media-manufactured crime panic in history the second Mamdani is elected. They aren't even going to wait until he is inaugurated. Whether or not you like the guy, you need to start preparing now for the fire hose of disinformation that is about to activate.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 03/11/2025

The Trump administration has put a stop to EPA rules that would have required more than 130 industrial facilities to install air monitors to measure pollution. Millions of people living near these plants face an increased risk of cancer. By @lisalsong.bsky.social, 📸: @annie-flanagan.bsky.social

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Air Pollution From Industrial Facilities Is Far Worse Than Estimated

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain." This James Baldwin quote is hitting harder than ever.

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Tinker Ready @tinkerr.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Using lessons of HIV to go after Long COVID youtu.be/6kC1lyY6hPc?...

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Long COVID: from crisis to cure

YouTube video by PolyBio Research Foundation

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Jessica Wildfire @jessicawildfire.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

It's not like we were born with an innate understanding of N95 masks and airborne transmission. Many of us put in the intellectual effort to understand it, starting in 2020. You don't need a medical degree to understand this stuff. It has been explained, and explained, and explained.

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Toscha 🍂 @poemless.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Some context to the viral videos: Around 9am Friday, ICE/CBP *encircled* several square miles of a safe suburb and *stormed* it using multiple units. They were in cars, on foot in alleys & gangways, and in helicopters. They demanded papers, threatened residents, pointed guns, kidnapped people.

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Leslie Lee III, MA @leslieleeiii.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Same thing he said when Trump won the first time, without understanding that of elections matter he should stop backing losers like Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Every word of this article is true. And I challenge you to read it.

All of this is very much the fault of our leaders, who have decided the political ramifications of "normalcy" are more important than the health and lives of the 400 million people living with long COVID across the globe, the immunocompromised folks who are increasingly being shut out of every conceivable public space, and the disabled community which has been screaming into the wind about our marginalization since before the virus even hit US soil.
But I want to be very clear. You are helping them do this.

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Tania J. Spencer @taniaspencer.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

1/ "The reality is that we have been living in this deeply flawed landscape of 'personal choice', & you’ve made yours": annabookwriter.medium.com/to-my-unmask...

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To My Unmasked Friend in the Fifth Year of COVID

I’m going to be honest with you, because I love you, and you deserve nothing but honesty. I’m going to try really hard not to be angry…

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

My niece, all of 12 years old, read my article about the government shutdown and cancellation of SNAP funding She has now planned a rally for next week and is fundraising for the local food bank and encouraging others to donate. This kid man… she’s incredible.

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Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Vote NO on ballot prop 6 in NYC because having municipal elections on off years is like having crops bloom at different times of the year to keep the bees alive. The bees here are campaign volunteers, small dollar donations from working folks, news coverage, voter attention spans etc. #NYCvotes

Photo of different colored autumn squash with the words Vote No on prop 6

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#9 Dream @gayfabfourfan.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

An airborne virus on the loose that causes long term organ damage and basically no one, including doctors, acknowledging it or wearing masks—not even in hospitals or on airplanes. Fun times. #COVID

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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Kind of want to write a book called "The Neurodivergent's Guide to Surviving a Pandemic"™️ and the main premise of the book is that we don't care when neurotypical people tell us "but everyone else has moved on"

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 01/11/2025

In Belmont Cragin on Chicago's northwest side this morning, a rally is opening in support of day laborers outside the Armitage/Cicero Home Depot. Activists are calling out the corporation for continuing to allow ICE and Border Patrol to stalk and attack immigrants in their parking lots.

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 31/10/2025

It’s funny to think that the masked ICE Agents terrorizing communities are the same folks that spent two years saying they couldn’t breathe with a mask on.

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Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

It’s Halloween The Return: of my Halloween playlist. Enjoy everyone from Onyx to Buck Owens to Mephisto Waltz to The Dickies to Fastway to Neil Young

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Halloween: The Return

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Leslie Lee III, MA @leslieleeiii.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

870K in Australia alone and no treatments! What are you doing to help @gidmk.bsky.social besides attacking the credibility and integrity of Long COVID researchers when their results don't match your pre-existing COVID minimizing beliefs?

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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Australia: Nurse among patients calling for better access to long COVID treatment Former ICU nurse Julie Mirtschen, 43, from Port Macquarie, developed long COVID after back-to-back flu and COVID infections in March 2020. Researchers say she’s among up to 870,000 Australians living with long COVID.

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Long COVID patients seeking help 'let down by the system'

Patients are calling for better access to long COVID care after the closure of one of the country's last public clinics.

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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

John Mandrola is quoted in this article by @lizzylawrence.bsky.social. Writers should know that Mandrola is a political doctor who will reflexively defend our current medical establishment. He feels we should be “ecstatic” about the culture of fear and paranoia described in this A+ article.

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Anyone who cares about healthcare should be ecstatic that @VPrasadMDMPH is "wreaking havoc" at FDA
If only he had been there when LAAO came up.
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It is so rare for the CBER director to reach out directly to reviewers that Vinay got reported for cyberfishing when he emailed them.
Gold from @statnews
at the University of California San Francisco, he offered center-wide lectures about clinical trial designs and statistical analyses.
His first lecture, delivered just a month after mass layoffs at the agency, was on Kaplan-Meier curves, which are used to evaluate whether drugs help people live longer.
"There was no discussion of the business of the center or any of the major changes that are going on," one agency employee said. "It was 45 minutes of Kaplan-Meier curves."
He also has a habit of reaching out to reviewers directly with questions and bypassing their managers, something leaders at the FDA have historically tended to avoid given the power dynamics at the organization.
"People in power typically recognize that they have power, and if they send an email, the person feels like they have to do it," one agency official said. "You want

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Sue Poncin @sueponcin.com · 31/10/2025

Dr. James C. Jackson of Vanderbilt University takeaway from today’s IACC Expert Panel on Long Covid and other chronic conditions: Brain fog is not an accurate term. It needs to be referred to as brain damage. Yup.

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Esther @elhopkins.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

I told my friend this week to take a COVID test and much to their surprise they were covid positive with no symptoms and the problem is it’s not harmless and folks still transmit to others. Now they are home resting.

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 31/10/2025

25 hospitalizations, six deaths and one fetal loss have been reported in a listeria outbreak linked to recalled ready-to-eat pasta salads supplied by Nate's Fine Foods Inc. sold at Trader Joe's, Sprouts, Kroger, Walmart. FDA, CDC are investigating multi-state outbreak.

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Grimm @grimmbanks.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Aye, we were all so close to seeing the truth. Some still see it. Others have chosen to look the other way coz it's familiar.

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Covid was the biggest transfer of power from bosses to workers in 75 years and billionaires were so angry at this they demanded governments inflict 'pain' on the economy to punish 'arrogant' workers and it's amazing how so little analysis of the last 5 years includes this

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⳽ⳑⲇⳕⲛⲉ @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

i remember how during the pandemic lockdown there was a weird sense that we were going to emerge from it in to a better world. it was odd. then the 'sensibles' started demanding we 'go back to normal' despite 'normal' sucking for most ppl.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

This is what I mean when I say that present-day covid denialism is right wing. It was a plan born of corporatists and wholly adopted by centrists and even leftists eager to pretend the pandemic was over, which should immediately give anyone thinking about it pause.

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Sbooks @bemorelikeharper.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Their delusion of control makes more sense where you understand that they see themselves as “God”. They control what we deem as “reality”. A core tenet of white supremacy. And in many ways they do. They have exerted God-like power throughout history. This feeds the delusion.

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A doer of deeds @loozcoilz.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Quit standing around and recording and beat some ass. It was two of them and at least 3x the people. The problem is, people voted for this. They want to see it. If it was a white woman they would have turned that airport inside out.

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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

To all you bozos who thought Makary was qualified or would stand up to RFK...

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🌷🧿 khthoniaa 🧿🌷 @khthoniaa.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

If you still wear a mask & take precautions to protect yourself and others from COVID-19/other infections: Thank you for saving lives and for putting people before the status quo. Every time you wear a mask, test before/after going to crowded events, and stay home when sick, you make a difference.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Private equity destroys 200-year-old book distribution company that libraries around the country rely on and now libraries are having trouble getting new books: www.404media.co/libraries-sc...

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Libraries Scramble for Books After Giant Distributor Shuts Down

Why it might have been and may continue to be harder to get new releases from your local library.

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

A common theme of Trump II is an utterly cowardly class of elites while everyday regular people have risen to the occasion

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Da(N95)iella [fka DaniAtomicus] @sharpflower.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

In the editing room! 🎙️ Bad Press: how the media manufactures consent in the era of COVID. Public health is often in the news but it’s not always covered well. Power influences the narratives we hear from outlets and journalists. Coming soon w/ Julia Doubleday + Kayli Jamieson. Don’t miss it! 🩷💚💀

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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

NEW: ICE is planning to build a shadow deportation network in Texas. A proposal outlines a 24/7 transport operation run by armed contractors—turning Texas into the logistical backbone of an industrialized deportation machine. My latest @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ice-is...

Early planning documents reviewed by WIRED describe a statewide transport grid designed for steady detainee transfers across Texas, with ICE estimating each trip to average 100 miles. Every county would have its own small, around-the-clock team of contractors collecting immigrants from local authorities deputized by ICE. It is a subtle transfer of the physical custody process into the hands of a private security firm—authorized to carry firearms and perform transport duties “in any and all local, county, state, and ICE locations.”

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NPR @npr.org · 30/10/2025

The White House plans to bar hospitals that treat transgender children and youth from getting any Medicare and Medicaid payments. The move would affect trans youth who have private insurance, too. n.pr/4qFa1mY

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Trump pushes an end to medical care for transgender youth nationally

The White House plans to bar hospitals that treat transgender children and youth from getting any Medicare and Medicaid payments. The move would affect trans youth who have private insurance, too.

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Nele @nelehelena.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

If I could go to a Halloween party, I would go as a doctor and repeatedly tell people "your labs are fine" "it's stress" "you're just deconditioned". I would whisper it in their ear. #ChronicIllness #MedicalGaslighting

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