A LOT of industry folks need to take "I think there's a very high possibility that this is all a bunch of horseshit" to HEART.

I’m very very tired of “living in fear” being lobbed at maskwearers by people who frequently say they can’t wear one because no one else around them is.

Living in fear is ignoring science and endangering lives and your own health because you’re terrified of not fitting in.

Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn’t a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division

The Nation pulls NO punches, from @espiers.bsky.social

"There's no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign. Refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins “Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.”

Don’t let this just be a moment. This is every bit as dire as the loss of Medicaid. People will die.

For 12 months, America had a limited proof of concept for universal healthcare, and it was so uniformly successful we had no choice but to obliterate our society

Ben Ryan posted on Twitter to his anti-trans audience: Journalist Walter Bragman issues a blistering response to @PeteButtigieg’s statement over trans inclusion in sports, calling it “craven shit” and saying Mr. Buttigieg is catering to bigots. “To just put a fine point on it: Parents do not, in fact, have legitimate concerns about trans kids playing sports,” Mr. Bragman says. “Just because they believe bullshit doesn’t make it legitimate. “Fuck anti-trans bigots.”

Ben Ryan adds: Enraged, journalist Walker Bragman issues followup comments about @PeteButtigieg’s remarks about trans girls in sports. “No, there’s no middle ground,” he says. “It’s human rights or discrimination.”

I said what I said.

Screenshot of scene from the old game Oregon Trail. There is a green graphic on a black background. The graphic is of an ox pulling a wagon and below it is says YOU HAVE LISTENED TO RFK Jr.

Citizens’ Impeachment has long held that if just 5% of Americans contacted their members of Congress about impeachment, it would be the largest collective action of its kind in American history. It would almost certainly lead to his removal from office.

Advocate for impeachment in five minutes:

I think a lot about how COVID-19 was sold as an "individual responsibility," an approach which got over a million people killed but that the culture still accepted. Following that P.R. success, they're eager to say every illness is your fault.

US FDA suspends milk quality tests amid workforce cuts The Food and Drug Administration is suspending a quality control program for testing of fluid milk and other dairy products due to reduced capacity in its food safety and nutrition division, according to an internal email seen by Reuters.

they want you sick and preferably dead www.reuters.com/business/hea...

It doesn’t matter if you’re given permission to do so by the highest authority in the land and by every person around you: Doing wrong is doing wrong.

#WearAnN95 & don’t spread COVID. It’s a dangerous virus with serious long term harms, & everyone is potentially vulnerable.

You can’t tell me you’d never end up in a cult if you’ve abandoned masking lol.

You are susceptible to misinformation too.

This National Public Health Week, I encourage fellow journalists to refer to the Covid-19 pandemic in the present tense. Sure, the government emergency in the US is over, but that means people can be forced to come into work while sick with Covid, which increases the risk of developing Long Covid.

Billionaires Score Best-Ever Day as Stocks Soar on Tariff Pause The world’s wealthiest people added $304 billion to their combined net worth on Wednesday — the largest one-day gain in the history of the Bloomberg Billionaires Index — as stock markets soared after ...

See how this works? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Please ignore tired pieces in publications like the Atlantic that are still trying to stigmatize mask wearing.

Wearing a mask to prevent sickness from airborne viruses is a science-informed position, and it has been that way for over 100 years.

Just saw the video of Kristi Noem standing in front of the US government’s concentration camp and holy shit that is so blatantly a concentration camp.

just profoundly disturbed by the kidnapping and disappearing of people right off the streets of this country. hard to think about much else—and there’s so much else.

1. Perhaps the most damaging blowback from the response to Covid-19 in 2020 and 2021 is the mainstreaming of a public health ideology that is rooted in a dangerous combination of survivorship bias, nostalgia, and the naturalistic fallacy.

Reposing what @juliadoubleday.bsky.social posted on X: There is an obsession (especially in the media) w creating a false dichotomy between ppl whose bodies already express the harm of multiple covid infections and those whose bodies aren’t yet doing that (or they aren’t aware of it). It’s false

The easiest way you can show solidarity right now is to wear a mask when you're doing your grocery shopping.

Seriously. You're protecting people around you and normalizing community care.

I wear a mask when I do my grocery shopping. Will you join me?

AI chatbots are still anti-thinking plagiarism machines that are wrong most of the time. I don’t care who uses them or says they’re great or thinks they’re our collective future. My future involves a lot of thinking, original work, and getting things right, so I have no use for them

Saying they’ll ban masks but make “exceptions” for health reasons reminds me of how they say they’ll make “exceptions” for rape victims to have abortions. Then they don’t

If you don’t wear a mask bc you’re worried friends or family will pull away, know that none of those ppl would be there for you anyway if you come down with a debilitating post-infectious illness like #LongCovid or #MECFS. 🧵