🚨Must read/listen: “After COVID infection, the immune dysfunction usually…lasts a few months, & then it does begin to recover. But…people are often catching COVID more than once a year. And that would keep you in a permanent state of immune dysfunction…because you just keep adding infections…”
This episode was both (1) very scary, and (2) a refusal to wallow in that scariness, instead centering agency, resistance and possibility - pointing both to historical struggles against similar regimes and concrete, practical actions we can take.
Okay, the internet can be good sometimes.
m.youtube.com/shorts/TOvRW...
"The United States used Fort Snelling as a concentration camp during the Dakota Indian Wars ... [T]he use of the former Fort Snelling site as a federal detention center serves as a reminder of the federal government's ongoing efforts to deprive Native people and Hispanic immigrants of their rights."
My thoughts on how critical fully funded public libraries are to any Left political project in the U.S. open.substack.com/pub/prisoncu...
ID: A flier for the event reads, "The Sick Times: Free Webinar, The Long COVID Op-Ed. Help Break the Stigma. February 19th, 7-8:15pm ET. Learn how to pitch and share your story with tips from expert guests. Hosted by Miles Griffis and Betsy Ladyzhets. Below are the headshots of three guests, Torie Bosch, First Opinion Editor, STAT. Madeline Miller, Best-selling author. Funmi Okunola, MD, Co-founder Long COVID the Answers. A button at the bottom reads, "Comment "RSVP" for a registration link!"
Join us for a free webinar! The Sick Times editors @mileswgriffis.bsky.social and @betsyladyzhets.bsky.social — plus special guest speakers — will demystify the process of writing and pitching op-eds and essays on Long COVID. Register now: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
The artist and producer yuniVERSE, a young Indonesian-Australian woman, performs on a stage with large flowers. She lies on stage equipment and wears a white, high quality mask decorated with beautiful and original metal swirls. She wears a black tank top, a black fishnet top, a skirt, and a large bedazzled belt. She presses the microphone to her mask. The text reads, “The Sick Times. These artists are making concerts safer with COVID-19 precautions. By Katie Chow."
I think ultimately we’re a subculture, but instead of being centered around a style of clothing or music, we’re centered on anti-ableism, and it makes our commitment more powerful. — Camille Mai, Rebirth Canal
While most of the music industry has “moved on,” COVID-conscious performers have been working to prevent their shows from being superspreaders. Read more from @katiechow.bsky.social: bit.ly/3ZIW4YQ
“Detection [of COVID-19] was significantly more common in the ED than in the ICU. Of the positive samples, 80% were collected in the ED and 20% in the ICU.”
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This is why we're still raising funds for our neighbors to shelter in place. Even if ICE left TODAY it's too late for so many people to make their rent if they haven't been able to work.
$3311 / $5900 for 3 neighbors in my small condo building to stay housed for March
Venmo Caz-A
paypal.me/ccabb
american’s are too polarized these days. it used to be that everyone believed some people deserved some rights. now one side believes everyone should die painfully and the other thinks most people should get to live. i am paid $500000 a year for my insights
Bragging about the respectable path that delivered us to this moment.
General PSA: there is SO MUCH COVID going around right now. If you are feeling sick, you should test
I’m going to say again, infecting your allies with a potentially debilitating and deadly illness is extremely foolish behavior in any kind of movement. You’re doing work for the other guys.
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!
consider that they are preparing you for the next pandemic by removing any pretense of protection—they never wanted it for covid, which is why sars2 remains in harmful circulation, & they don’t want it for the next novel pathogen.
this is the preparation. prepare to suffer.
better to mask up now.
I saw someone
buying roses
and I thought:
maybe that’s love.
I saw someone
carrying chocolates
and I thought:
maybe that’s love.
I saw someone
entering a jeweler’s
and I thought:
maybe that’s love.
And I saw someone
wearing a mask
and I thought:
that’s definitely love.
A photo shows German biathalete Justus Strelow in Munich, Germany during an pre-Olympics event on January 19, 2026. He is a young white man and wears a black, high quality mask and a red t-shirt. Behind him are logos of brands and the German Olympic team. The text reads, “The Sick Times. Winter Olympic athletes are rightfully taking COVID-19 precautions. By Miles W. Griffis.”
"Many of these athletes are also taking precautions by isolating and masking around family members and friends — something disabled people, including those with Long COVID, have been doing since the beginning of the pandemic." — Miles W. Griffis, Winter Olympic athletes are rightfully taking COVID-19 precautions
Some Winter Olympics athletes, teams, and their loved ones are protecting themselves from airborne pathogens by masking and isolating.
Meanwhile, the media stigmatizes disease prevention while minimizing serious risks of Long COVID.
Read more from @mileswgriffis.bsky.social: bit.ly/4rHDA6R
my hand holding 5 small whistles in cool color combos: a sweet bisexual, a northern lights, a lemon & lime, a pastel rainbow, and a flame colored one.
I've finally managed to do some shop restock, so I'm going to schedule a thread today that showcases some of our favorite new (and old!) items.
Starting of course with the whistles. YOU CAN GET 100 WHISTLES FOR FREE at the link in my bio. But if you want THESE ones from US:
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Mayor Frey meets with CEOs to plan events celebrating Minneapolis Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said he met with 15 CEOs today and plans are being made to hold a series of “galvanizing events” to celebrate Minneapolis.
oh FFS, maybe get them to throw some of that money into rent funds instead of a zip line
AOC: "Extreme level of wealth inequality leads to social instability and drives authoritarianism, right-wing populism, and really dangerous domestic internal politics. That is a direct outcome of the failure of democracies over decades to deliver."
An EMT was forced to watch George Floyd suffocate. A doctor was denied access to Renée Good.
For all the constant fucking hand wringing about protests blocking access to ambulance care, a thing that does not happen, the pigs kill us and force our healthcare professionals to watch us die publicly
so many families are in awful positions because ICE’s bullshit has collapsed the already fragile social safety net.
this family is living in their van in minnesota in winter. they’ve applied for help at over a dozen orgs and are still unhoused. with babies.
I'm pretty proud of this poem I made out of the euphemisms that companies used to describe the ICE occupation in corporate communications. Also read the whole story: racketmn.com/corporate-co...
I’ll believe it when I hear it from the people who live there.
"Medicaid cuts and immigration raids only make... already pressing issues worse. 32% of the home care workforce is staffed by immigrants, and immigrants make up 21% of staff in nursing homes."
Excellent piece by @racheldl.bsky.social for @aapd.com:
www.aapd.com/recent-immig...
You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.
collaborators suddenly realize that they could cancel their contract for a concentration camp after insisting it wasn’t possible. a world of fascists who have never felt pushback once in their life, suddenly stunned to see everyone hates them. makes you think!
kansascitydefender.com/justice/plat...
this looks great!
Notice how the popular media narrative has moved on, while people on the ground in Minneapolis are still struggling and crying out that things are as bad as ever. This is how fascist regimes operate — overreach, recalibration, normalization. Get louder, not quieter.
