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So I guess it was either World War III or drag queens reading books to our children.

It’s one thing to say HAI will happen from time to time in the context of proper maintenance and cleaning (including air filtration) of hospitals.

It’s quite another to underfund or neglect the maintenance, cleaning and repair of buildings, and then just put your hands up.

#HAI
#SaferAir

ICE arrested Nashville journalist without warrant, attorneys say The journalist, Estefany Rodriguez, was taken to a detention center and remains there as of 3 p.m. March 5.

"She frequently reported on stories critical of ICE for Nashville Noticias, the Spanish-language outlet."

www.tennessean.com/story/news/l...

So remember when I said that palantir's "neurodivergent fellowship" was bullshit (www.motherjones.com/politics/202...)? Yeah it was bullshit.

"[Alex Karp], The R‑Word, The Surveillance State, and The Quiet Part Out Loud"
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By Your Command: A Cylon-coded fundraiser A fleetwide announcement involving worthy charities, whistles and very tiny Cylons

HI! Please share! I am running a new fundraiser with Cylon whistles. 4 great orgs benefit. I explain the whole deal here, but basically if you donate $25, I'll send you one of these BSG-coded whistles. You can email or DM receipts & the more you donate, the more u get! www.moryan.com/by-your-comm...

Can anyone point me to a resource on how sign "Long COVID" in American Sign Language? I've seen various ways from spelling it out, to using the sign for "Coronavirus" or "COVID-19" followed by "Long" or "Stay". I'm curious if there is any official guidance/recommendations. Many thanks 🙏

a public utility does not need to turn a profit. this is intentional.

Republicans are using kids as a smokescreen for what Big Tech lobbyists want: a national surveillance program to harvest our data with zero protections for people and their privacy.

We must fight this dangerous expansion of surveillance technology.

"Trump Says 'I Guess' Americans Should Worry About Iran Retaliating on U.S. Soil: 'Like I Said, Some People Will Die'

Quite the headline from People.com

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*Noem

I don't know why the narrative is that Norm got fired. She's in charge of a new "security initiative" covering "the Americas." That sounds more like a promotion signaling an expansion of ICE paramilitary activity beyond US borders to me.

Close to 650 federal agents remain in Minnesota weeks after border czar announced end of operation There are still more than quadruple the 150 agents Tom Homan said there would be in the state by the end of last week.

They’re still lying to us.

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The Minneapolis council member on the front lines of the resistance to ICE • Minnesota Reformer When heavily-armed federal agents and Minneapolis police officers surrounded a Lake Street taco shop in June, Minneapolis City Council Member Jason Chavez was incensed.  “This is completely wrong,” Ch...

I profiled Jason Chavez, the Minneapolis city council member who has been embedded in community efforts to combat ICE.

“To leave your constituents to face off with a racist fascist regime on their own, without having someone that has some power…I could not let my constituents be out there alone.”

on a circadian rhythm, and they think the purpose is to aid in metabolism. But I can't find that article anymore

other research, but I don't remember her name. She studied cockroaches and took pictures. There was also something in that article about sleep in single-celled organism, suggesting that sleep pre-dates the evolution of brains. In those organisms they might sleep two hours out of every six, not

I actually spent a really long time trying to find the original article where I learned it, but I couldn't. Pretty much everything we know about sleep debt and insects sleeping came from this woman scientist who was ignored and overlooked in her own time but now her research informs a lot of

I also learned from interviewing @edwincpark.bsky.social that there's no guarantee that people who get Medicaid through SSI will be exempt from work requirements either. Like, these are people who have gone through a lot of paperwork for the government to see them as disabled enough.

really tired of conversations about how we need to get people to spend more time offline that don't acknowledge that one of the reasons people ARE online is their access needs aren't being met in physical spaces. This is especially true for queer people and disabled people.

The Massachusetts Department of Correction has been fighting me for months, trying to withhold data about its collaboration with ICE.

Yesterday, I won that fight, and obtained records showing that the state has transferred more than 2,000 people into ICE custody since 2009.

A quick thread:

For a story in @thesicktimes.org, seeking organizers in any left movement work who’ve taken a break or fully stepped away from organizing sometime since 2020 due to Long COVID. They can be anonymous in the piece and may reach out directly at longdefeat.08 on Signal #LongCOVID #NEISvoid

An illustration from Long COVID Transformed My Mommy shows two kids in bed with their mother. She wraps them both up in a hug.

An illustration from Long COVID Transformed My Sister Into a Turtle shows a turtle wearing sunglasses and headphones. The text reads, "My mommy is like a turtle that doesn't want to come out of her shell. She avoids loud noises and bright lights. She prefers cozy, quiet places."

We haven’t seen many narratives about — or for — kids whose family members have #LongCOVID. Author and educator Sara Robitaille seeks to change that with her two new children’s books, Long COVID Transformed My Mommy and Long COVID Transformed My Sister into a Turtle. bit.ly/4csWXfE

What every American I know stranded abroad due to the Iran war tells me:

“when you call the State Department numbers all over social media, you’re met with just an automated message saying not to rely on US government for assistance with departure and that no evacuations are currently planned.”

Daily activity rhythms, sleep and pregnancy are fundamentally related in the Pacific beetle mimic cockroach, Diploptera punctata Sleep and pregnancy are contentious bedfellows; sleep disorders and disturbances are associated with adverse pregnancy outcomes, although much is still unknown about this relationship. Sleep and pregnancy have been studied in many models, but the ...

disclaimer disclaimer, I am not a scientist, that was just my impression of a scientist! but it's true what I said about cockroaches!
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Resist ‘dangerous and socially unacceptable’ age checks for social media, scientists warn Computer scientists are campaigning against the global march toward age checks online.

I joined 300+ security and privacy academics in calling for a global pause on online age verification: www.politico.eu/article/age-...

Emmanuel Damas in a patterned dress shirt and striped tie leaning against a metal railing on a sunny residential street with red brick rowhouses and flowering trees in the background.

Emmanuel Damas, 56, died in ICE custody on Monday.

Damas came to the U.S. from Haiti seeking asylum. After six months in ICE custody—the last four at CoreCivic's Florence Correctional Center—he died from complications from a tooth infection.

A tooth infection.

1/3

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That is technically incorrect - the worst kind of incorrect. Because an inaccurate science meme is actually still a meme.

I'm a palestinian with the right to a homeland & self determination not because my ancestors crawled out of the sea in ancient times onto the beach in yaffa as fully formed Palestinians.

I have a right to a homeland and self determination because i'm a human being.

Today is Sex Worker's Rights Day. Sex worker rights are human rights not just because we're humans just like you, but also any rights taken from us will be taken from you too.

Surveillance, police violence, debanking, censorship, we faced all of those for years before it turned on everyone else.

States Move to Limit Access to H.I.V. Treatment

this will be a public health disaster.

We could end the transmission of HIV this year. That has been true for a decade. That we have not done so is a public policy choice.

Reminder that we had reached a nuclear deal with Iran in 2015.

Trump threw it out in 2018 because he made it his goal to destroy everything with Obama's name on it and replace it with something that had his own name on it because he is a petty vain bastard and always has been.