Manda Adams 🌈♿️she/her

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This could be us but our Supreme Court sucks

"Today’s decision sets a course for the United States to become a country where masked officers pluck people from streets and businesses because of how they look."

Living a moral life in an age of bullies requires collective action; it cannot be done alone. Each of us must organize and participate in a vast network of moral resistance. From this solidarity we will grow stronger. This is what our current moment requires.

*young me, developing a strong sense of justice* This is gonna be great, what an asset, this will never drive me insane

This is who they are. And every single politician who fails to call this out publicly and loudly and unequivocally is affirmatively, actively contributing to this evil.

Not enough has been written about Schrödinger’s assistant, Otto.

“What you should immediately do if a relative is arrested by ICE” ~ @latimes.com www.latimes.com/california/s...

Healthcare settings have a duty to mitigate COVID. Patients shouldn’t be infected in the place they go to seek care. What about HCWs? A new study showed 40% had symptoms of Long Covid. This is a mass disabling event. It’s creating chronic illness patients, while taking HCWs out of the workforce:

Love this work by Mark Cohen… Shot from the hip! A street level view of 1970s New York www.theguardian.com/artanddesign... #photography

1/ I never took DHS's scary-sounding notice that I had 7 days to leave the country too seriously, because it was obviously some kind of mistake. But what about the people the emails were actually aimed at? Let's talk a bit about immigration "parole" and what Trump is doing here

I know times are bad because any date from the future (2034, 2078, 2026) sounds like it could be the title of a post-apocalyptic movie.

Reminds me that the coiner of the phrase “be gay, do crime” meant that shit and gets annoyed when people use it as a silly little phrase instead of a call to action

Thank you. I am sick of all the outrage being about the one man they say is a mistake. They were all mistakes. All horrible dismissals of due process. Each and every extraordinary rendition is a mistake and a crime.

This, all day every day.

As the administration and the Supreme Court have demonstrated, the law is not a moral instrument. And we cannot afford to treat it as such in an era that necessitates widespread resistance.

I think we should name the extent of the administration's law-breaking and call out their lies. We should also tell the truth of people's stories. Sometimes, this will mean pointing out that someone had legal status or didn't commit any crimes. But we can do that without abandoning everyone else.

People will argue that we should be willing to defy the law in the name of justice while also treating criminalized people as disposable. It's incoherent.

Put differently, if the administration scooped up 20 activists tomorrow, myself included, and shipped us off to some nightmarish place, and you heard a news report saying "15 of those activists had no criminal record," I would be one of the other five. Would my fate be important?

I wrote about this a bit in my last book but it really shakes me that a defining feature of this catastrophic era is that we just keep going to work. We work through pandemics, we work through natural disasters, we work through economic calamity, we work through coups, we work, we work, we work.

As Bluesky has grown, I've seen a lot of backsliding on alt text. Please try to be considerate to others and include alt text with all of your images. It helps everyone. Indeed, in the "accessibility" setting in Bluesky you can set it to make sure you add alt text, which is a useful thing to do.

Hearing from all corners of HHS this morning about a total bloodletting — firings of scientists, analysts and many more as delayed RIFs take effect. Many folks didn’t see early AM email and showed up, only to be turned away when badges didn’t work. Was sent this photo of long lines at one HHS site.

BTW, the original reporting about how the DOGE kids want to rewrite the social-security COBOL code-base ... ... came from @makenakelly.bsky.social at @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/doge-r... (As ever, the Wired team continues to absolutely kill it in their DOGE coverage: Subscribe if you can)

Remember back during COVID, when there was a sudden influx of people applying for unemployment benefits? The New Jersey system crashed ... ... and governor blamed it on old COBOL systems Nope He was wrong the COBOL ran *fine* It was the newer web-site code that croaked 5/9

So, the DOGE kids intend to rewrite the social-security administration's COBOL code-base! and they want to do it ... ... in *a few months* I did a huge dive into COBOL a few years ago (www.wealthsimple.com/en-ca/magazi...) ... ... so let me explain why DOGE is *way* over its skis here 1/9

All anti-mask laws—even those with so called “medical exceptions”—stigmatize mask-wearing. Fewer people wearing masks increases the spread of infectious diseases. No matter how lawmakers try to spin it, any law that criminalizes wearing a mask endangers public health. Period.

One of the best ways you can help us fight mask bans is to wear a mask. Wear it to show solidarity with disabled and vulnerable people. Wear it to stand up to fascism. Wear it to protect your health for the battle ahead. The more people masking, the harder they are to ban. Normalize masking!

I just think the MOST vulnerable people should have the MOST support and luxury and not the exact fucking opposite every fucking time in this goddamned country

"people should start saving now" is an awful shitty thing to say to the 7.5M disabled people on SSI who legally cannot save more than $2k without losing their benefits which are a max of $943 a month to fucking begin with www.cnbc.com/2025/03/01/d...

Because the first question shifts the blame to the desperate, making their morality the focus, while the second question demands accountability from the powerful. It's easier to question survival than to challenge greed.

When did firing national park rangers, scientists and air traffic controllers become a better idea than just taxing billionaires?

We must speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues

Though based on the latest science we should update Seuss to clarify that trees & other plants do have ways of speaking to each other & other kingdoms of life through astonishingly complex means & that Western science has been engaged in a long overdue process of learning to listen & understand them

BREAKING: In a stunning moment, Rep. Jasmine Crockett exposes near $1 billion in new contracts for Musk in just 2 weeks: "This is nothing more than a money grab. He's not out there trying to save money for the American people, he's lining his pockets."

NEW: The Trump admin is considering destroying 160 million COVID tests, worth half a billion dollars. This would be a horrible waste. COVID is still around, and causes high levels of illness and deaths throughout the year. Tests are expensive. The government should send them to people for free.

The “it’s just a flu!” COVID minimizing language has made people downplay the risks of COVID & forget how serious flu can be. After 5 years of COVID reinfections it’s hard to know if you’re “healthy” “I wasn’t aware that the flu virus could do something like this to a perfectly healthy child”

❤️ This Valentine's Day, we are sending extra love to the dedicated, hard-working federal workers in our country! Amidst unprecedented budget cuts, illegal funding freezes, and an unpredictable political climate, your continued commitment and service does not go unnoticed.

My favorite covert public assistance program: The mortgage interest deduction.