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Not only have we not attained endemicity for SARS-CoV-2, we have destroyed endemicity for many other viral and bacterial infections like tuberculosis, polio, & staph-A. It's just not the case specifically because of immune system damage from covid. libguides.mskcc.org/CovidImpacts...

Unlike this naysayer, I believe we can be a manufacturing cunt country again. We dominated the world at this once, we can again.

The only reason I can think of for this news not being absolutely everywhere is that large media orgs don’t want to be seen as putting their thumbs on the scales a week before election day. And that’s cowardly as shit.

Yes, making the richest people in the world even richer at the cost of human knowledge, skill, and labor is the dream of all working class people everywhere. We were put on this earth to give our bodies, minds, and soul to the technologists to devour and sell it back to us. That’s liberation.

13/ “My guys wear masks every day. They have glasses they can wear,” Fenn said. “Me? I don’t wear it at all. Never have, never will, because I’ve been doing it for 40 years.” Read the full story:

7/ Price also told us she has never set foot on the property. "They're a very private bunch," she said. So last Saturday, we tracked down two of the farm’s workers ourselves. One had a visibly red eye — a symptom present in over 90% of bird flu cases in humans.

6/ Price said the state’s policy not to monitor workers is meant to allow farmers to decide whether to contact the health dept, rather than “forcing it on them.” “If we started seeing people actively dying from this, obviously that would change how we respond to this,” she said.

The "30%/one third" rule of thumb for housing has always been funny because it a) hasn't been based in any empirical research on affordability b) has been both used as an affordability metric **and a housing market pricing metric**. There's a very good history of this in a Canadian context.

special Buckeye edition, episode 4 bsky.app/profile/kyle...

Leo Kottke - Live VPRO Radio 1975 https://voodoowagon.blogspot.com/2015/07/leo-kottke-live-vpro-radio-1975.html

Beyond disgusted by even more rape allegations against the President of the United States. "In total, more than 25 different women...have independently accused Donald Trump of rape, sexual assault, or other sexual misconduct." Report w/ new details: democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

This is why he bought Twitter. An actual digital commons that is easily accessible is the worst nightmare of the fascists. Zuck will hear about his lack of institutional control from the others.

GOUT COP!

I'm going to try to do this cleanly. Today's right wing governments are networked to each other. Those networks are well-documented. You can read about them in books. Following the elections in one node of that network is good practice for understanding the U.S. node.

Every friend I have in animation and voiceover has said that Bauza gave them nothing but generosity and kindness. Just a remarkably good guy on top of being one of the best actors. He really made the Tunes his own, kept the spirit of Mel Blanc alive, all while being so hardworking and supportive

Obviously meant a lot to me for there to be an Asian Bugs Bunny. Really sad about the news and appreciate Eric Bauza being such a positive force in animation

The colors at sunrise were *insane* this morning. The sky, the fall colors at Promontory Point, the lake...Sheesh! Sure picked a good morning to wake up early

Aspiring arbiter of healthy communication once again types some words only pertinent to himself.

AI Capabilities = Real Screaming Mad People of Every Political Stripe at Municipal Meetings Across the Country = Not Real The technofascist mind at work

big failure from the NBA to not get two of its teams to move one (1) regular season game. the NBA owns 42% of the WNBA (functionally more, since a lot of NBA owners own teams) and should be invested in wanting the league to grow, even at minor expense to its more popular product

Here's the same uniform, still in use, in 2007 for ceremonies on "Founder's Day". The cloaks in the black & white image above were also probably the same scarlet. The hats they're wearing are "sugarloaf" hats that were in vogue when it was founded "for 20 spinsters of good character".

This is such a fantastic photo: "The Witches' Tea Party" but I want to use it to explain the origin of the tall, pointy witches hat. The real story of this photo: These are residents at the Hospital of the Holy & Undivided Trinity: an almshouse in Castle Rising, Norfolk, England established 1610.

Hard to overstate just how fucking good he was in Babylon 5 as Bester.

This was VERY FUCKING TRUE of what the atmosphere was in 1992. Basically, because it was "the right people" who were getting sick, nobody in the mainstream gave two shits. Better to let them die for their "sin". Don't come at me about how "pro-gay" Clinton was, either.

Much like mass shootings, rape becomes a subject of intense focus when an especially horrific case happens e.g. Cornell 7. Men rape women every day. But it’s like background noise. The background noise of patriarchy.

We need free healthcare and a completely different culture of medicine in this country, and we need it NOW. Until then, take care of yourselves and help each other stay on top of shit.

Okay if this is going to do numbers then watch the whole 15 minute interview here: kmbc.com/article/one-...

Hi. I, a trans woman, am the Executive Producer of this show. I wrote the question. He called trans girls men. He has now said it in three different places in the past week.

you can find and join one near you: wecanbeavillage.org

i do not mean the democratic or republican base i mean independent political power, like unions, base-building organizations, member-led movements

This is the real NYC miracle. Organizing communities not just candidates.

When I lived on Camp Lejeune I was the only girl on a soccer team and no thanks to me the Chiefs went undefeated that season. But I got to play every game, in a position where I could do the least damage lol, but I played and me and the boys had a blast.

Study: Long‐COVID Associated With Incident Hypertension: A Population‐Based Cohort Study Published: 10 October 2026 www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/...

A Swedish study of over 1.2 million adults found that non-hospitalised people with diagnosed long COVID had a 14% higher risk of developing high blood pressure than those without long COVID. Researchers highlight the importance of cardiovascular follow-up and regular blood pressure monitoring.

"A Genocide Was Committed in Sudan’s El Fasher. A Year Later, Survivors Recount the Horrors" The RSF killed, raped, & disappeared thousands as they overran North Darfur’s capital in Oct 2025. No one has been held accountable in the year since, writes Eisa Dafallah. zeteo.com/p/a-genocide...

like this? this is the whole logic of deplatforming, en toto. if you were wondering why center-right liberals and blackshirts were horrified by deplatforming as a strategy and quailed about 'cancel culture', this is why: because it works.

currently chewing on this thread. think there's some lessons to be extracted here by the US left.

Maybe the fascists overplayed their hand; both domestic news media and foreign social media didn't so much put a thumb on the scale as elbow it from the rafters, and maybe people finally saw that. I don't know.

The mobilization itself was already not something I ever expected to see, but to actually win? Hell, to double the winning margin from the 2022 runoff? Genuinely surreal. Maybe child raping billionaires *don't* have to run the world with a shit-eating grin. Maybe that can stop.

Former Israeli military chief Gadi Eisenkot is challenging Netanyahu in the elections scheduled for tomorrow, Tuesday, October 27. With Israeli opinion polls placing him ahead of Netanyahu, we take a closer look at his military record, the destruction associated with his Dahiya Doctrine.

Some ground rules that have helped us: - Go outside your bubble, try new social media channels - Don’t underestimate the power of WhatsApp (although less so in the U.S.) - Post on the Instagram grid, not just stories - Watch every Instagram video until the end before sharing - IGNORE THEM

After the first round elections, Congressman André Janones created a WhatsApp channel titled “Lula’s Army.” It ballooned to 10 million people following his commands on how to behave online to counteract Meta’s far-right-favouring algorithms. The right knows how to use socials. We must learn, too.

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

When you realize she brought herself to this all b/c Megan and Cardi got invited to Kamala's rally it becomes that much more pathetic.

yup.

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And that tracks with what they're doing. They aren't going after any particular geographical focus within CA. They're sending threats to every county and making allegations about a supposedly statewide issue. It's setting up a claim that all of CA's elections were conducted illegally, close or not.