Jess M. F. Hughes

I love your whole store, @bibiblossoms.bsky.social! Your pins especially make great gifts—something for everyone! (Existential dread meter is my fave, if anyone’s looking to get me a present..)

The U.S. is a country that is unable to handle death but is awash in it. A country with people who often can't process grief. These are terrible things.

Singing Resistance to lead nationwide 'day of song.' Here's when the big event is — and what you need to know The activist group has gained popularity in the wake of ICE occupation in Minnesota, with singing chapters popping up across the country.

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ACOG Withdraws from CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices ACOG announced its withdrawal as a liaison organization from CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), citing concerns about recent changes that undermine the committee’s scientific i...

ACOG’s letter on leaving ACIP is scathing:

“In recent months, ACIP has ignored peer-reviewed reports on vaccine safety; shared presentations containing cherry-picked data without appropriate scientific context; and unilaterally changed the … vaccine schedule without regard to expert input”

“As we prepare for more waves of bad news, I’m remembering that there is always a next right thing to do, that I am never alone in my despair, and that when we come together, we can create new worlds that are kinder and more of what we all deserve." - B Loewe

I don’t have the energy rn to express how horrific this is. Please submit a public comment.

REBUILD - Darkness Rising Project Need help finding a Black therapist? We can help.

A reminder that REBUILD can connect people of color detained by ICE and released with free therapy/counseling: www.darknessrisingproject.org/help-me-find...

Strange Structures Found Lurking in The Blood of People With Long COVID A hidden physical change in the body may be helping to drive the prolonged malaise some people experience after contracting COVID-19.

Microclots and neutrophil extracellular traps merge to form structures that may contribute to thrombosis and atherosclerosis in patients with long Covid. While this research is in its early days, it may pinpoint not only a diagnosis of long Covid but potentially a therapeutic target.
#Science 🧪

Measles was declared eliminated in 2000* and yet here we are 🙃

*Source: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

How to Organize Safely in the Age of Surveillance From threat modeling to encrypted collaboration apps, we’ve collected experts’ tips and tools for safely and effectively building a group—even while being targeted and tracked by the powerful.

News you can use, from the @wired.com security team (who are the best in the biz).

They asked technologists, activists, aid groups, and cybersecurity experts for guidance on how to organize and collaborate in an age of surveillance. Here’s the result:

Disability Rights Lawyers Threatened With Budget Cuts, Reassignments - KFF Health News The Trump administration wants deep funding cuts for state-based legal services for disabled people, as rights advocates say the Justice Department pushed out many of its lawyers who worked on such is...

Grr: The Trump administration is trying to slash access to lawyers who defend the rights of Americans with disabilities. Most of the lawyers work either for the Department of Justice or for disability rights agencies that Congress set up in every state decades ago.

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Twin Cities Unions Planning ‘Largest US Rent Strike in 100+ Years’ as ICE Occupation Drives Eviction Crisis | Common Dreams "Tenants in Minnesota are in a crisis," said Minneapolis City Council Member Aisha Chughtai. "The federal invasion forced many of our neighbors to stay home and devastated our local economy."

In what could be the “largest rent strike in the US in the last 100 years," a coalition of tenant + labor unions representing over 25K workers are threatening a mass rent strike in the face of the ongoing occupation by ICE. www.commondreams.org/news/minneso...

With Latest Rollback, the U.S. Essentially Has No Clean-Car Rules

“The U.S. no longer has emission standards of any meaning,” said Margo T. Oge, who served as the E.P.A.’s top vehicle emissions regulator under three presidents and has since advised both automakers and environmental groups…

“Nothing. Zero,” she added. “Not many countries have zero.”

Not one .gov lawbreaker charged over illegal immigration procedure. Never forced to hire a criminal defense attorney. The lower courts, working.

Hundreds of thousands of hours of human capital spent to try to slow down this system's lawless abuse. And still it grinds on. This is courts WORKING.
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COMMENTING GUIDE: Opposing Two Trump Regime Rules Banning Gender-Affirming Care, Deadline 2/17/26 Creator profile picture Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer by Matthew Cortland January 26 Edit I. Bottom Line Up Front The Trump Regime's Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has published two companion proposed rules designed to eliminate access to gender-affirming care for minors nationwide. Together, these rules would: Ban hospitals from providing this care (CMS-3481-P) — regardless of how the care is paid for Prohibit Medicaid and CHIP from covering this care (CMS-2451-P) — cutting off funding for lower-income families You have the opportunity to help defend trans kids by submitting comments against these vile proposed rules. Because even if a state wanted to continue covering gender-affirming care through Medicaid, the hospital rule would prevent hospitals from providing it. The two rules use different regulatory mechanisms to accomplish the same policy goal: eliminating access to gender-affirming care for anyone under 18 (or under 19 for CHIP). You should submit your comment to both dockets. The deadline is 5PM ET on February 17, 2026.

Public comment on Dr Oz's proposed rules to ban gender-affirming care for youth closes 2/17

One rule bans hospital-based care, the other eliminates Medicaid/CHIP coverage

Together they'd make care virtually unavailable nationwide, including in shield law states

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Alice Wong Writer, editor, and disability justice activist. Born on March 27, 1974 in Indianapolis, IN, USA, she died from an infection on Nov 14, 2025 in San Francisco, CA, USA, aged 51 years.

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Myself and @sesmith.lol and others were interviewed for the Lancet’s obituary of our friend Alice. <3

Volunteer — Stand With Minnesota

It only took me a month, but I finally made a volunteer page on Stand With Minnesota. Because we are about to need a lot of freaking volunteers. Help us keep Minnesota housed!

Kind of an on the nose “capitalism is a disease” example

Crips for eSims for Gaza Crips for eSims for Gaza is a collaboration between Jane Shi, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Alice Wong.

Crips for eSIMs is still sending and topping up eSIMs for people in Gaza - the project is in the red right now (including our UK team).

Please share widely - US / Canada / UK specific links in the description: chuffed.org/project/crip...

FDA’s rejection of Moderna threatens to stifle broader vaccine industry Experts say the FDA "moved the goalposts" on Moderna, creating "a destructive precedent that will undermine the future of vaccine development" in the U.S.

“I consider it an unprecedented action that really violates the basic principles of a data-driven regulatory agency and the fundamentals of public health, and it’s that simple…it’s a destructive precedent that will undermine the future of vaccine development and the preeminence of American research”

BREAKING: The House passed the so-called SAVE America Act which threatens to upend our freedom to vote.

The bill could disenfranchise millions of eligible voters by requiring documents like passports or birth certificates to register to vote and forcing voter roll purges. The Senate must reject it.

Bad Bunny said, “I’m working seriously. It’s not like I’m here trying to do crazy things. That’s why I didn’t upload songs until I felt as prepared as possible, at the flow level, at the rhythm level, at the lyric level.”

Gonna share this with my classes to encourage them to proofread more, lol.

Reminder that this tool was not for brain surgery but for sinus surgery, which is normally a relatively minor and safe procedure. I think some people in the QTs and replies are mistakenly thinking it was brain surgery due to the severity of the errors/outcomes, but it was just sinus surgery!

Why covid-19 is “a vascular disease masquerading as a respiratory one” Covid-19 is not just a respiratory infection. Cardiovascular symptoms are seen in both acute and long covid. Katharine Lang reports on what we’ve learnt since the onset of the pandemic Cardiovascular...

February 2026 - the BMJ publishes a piece called "Why covid-19 is “a vascular disease masquerading as a respiratory one”

Some of us have been screaming this for years

www.bmj.com/content/392/...

Mapping US institutional collapse in real time

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.

Hundreds of kids are still detained.

We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

How and Why I Wrote 'City of Heroes' What role can artists play in the struggle against the forces of oppression?

Some thoughts on the role of the artist in the struggle against oppression

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Feel like there has been a lot of “conspiracy theorists were right” but what actually happened was victims were and that’s much harder to accept for most people

Hey all, so w42st kindly interviewed me for a story about disability, ableism and curbcut access post snow storms.

Kindly read and share ❤

#Disability #Ableism #Wheelchair #Access #Snow #NYC

Trans athletes may not have fitness advantage in women’s sport, landmark study finds Findings suggest physical performance in trans women converges toward that of cis women over time

you don't say? at some point we're going to acknowledge what every study ever on this subject has said, right? right? www.independent.co.uk/news/science...