last night, someone on tiktok asked
me how wearing a mask is antifascist, so i answered: unfortunately, even passive, austere eugenics works faster if YOU participate.

so step up: stand out, mask up, and take care take care take care for yourself & others—before those who seek to harm stop you.

If there's a con coming up in your area, please consider becoming Con-Crud Busters for your con! Just 1 member means you're already a Division

We’ve been out at Amoeba Music goday & will be for a little longer.

We hope everyone is watching out for their neighbors.

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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: our punk and drag shows have more covid mitigation than disease foundation summits and physicians conferences. Why can we do what people whose careers supposedly depend on the knowledge—with far more resources— can’t? #WeKeepUsSafe

The air quality today in LA due to fireworks is very bad.

It would be a great day to mask up

i cannot emphasize enough that there is no better time to mask up.

preventing illness before it happens is your best bet as the nets meant to catch you disintegrate before your eyes.

Air quality issues relevant all 2025 in Los Angeles. If you need a mask to mitigate air quality issues, please do look for this signage to find a friendly Free Masks squad member! We got tons of KN95 masks to give away!

-via @nickelpin.bsky.social

EXACTLY 🤪

In Georgia, the law is GA Code § 16-11-38 (2024). There's an exception for people who've been told by a doctor or public health agency to mask in order to avoid *spreading* infection, but not for people trying to avoid being infected.

All of the folks who said immunocompromised people have...

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The uncomfortable truth of this situation is that if all the other folks in this video expressing outrage were also masked, this arrest would be less likely to happen. Your outrage means nothing in the absence of solidarity.

Long COVID manifests with T cell dysregulation, inflammation and an uncoordinated adaptive immune response to SARS-CoV-2 - Nature Immunology Roan et al. use Olink and single‐cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) to show a dysregulated crosstalk between the cellular and humoral immune responses in individuals with long COVID 8 months postinfectio...

Immune damage is another very important reason why we shouldn’t be catching #SARSCoV2 Covid is not mild. It is weakening our immune systems and leaving us at risk of other infections.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Many are asking why bird flu has suddenly disappeared from the headlines.

The truth is, it hasn’t gone anywhere.

According to my CDC sources, H5N1 is spreading especially among symptomatic farm workers.

tweet from user @dustindrury that reads: you can do almost all the things you’re doing rn with a mask on just like that you are doing the things while not getting sick or anyone else sick it’s science but it’s not rocket science

Again: You can buy these clear plastic masks at Amazon. Accusing this guy of conspiracy to commit civil disorder for...that, really vague stuff that opens the door to go after people handing out N95s, water, selling hot dogs, etc.

Also: wear a mask, protect yourself from our ongoing pandemic.

The Department of Energy is quietly slashing disability rights "If we don't put a line in the sand here, other agencies will try and do the same.”

The Department of Energy is trying to get rid of accessibility requirements for new construction via rulemaking. This unprecedented move, which seems to be illegal, could be the blueprint for other federal agencies to follow. New from me at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

We’re here outside Amoeba as per usual with free N95s & covid tests to keep the community safe & healthy during the current virus wave.

We’ve been out here on & off for 6 months now!

Time flies!

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the thing that pisses me off the most is how few people will take this seriously— not even like, let alone retweet— because the rest of yall hate masks so much that you’ll close your eyes to the ways protecting oneself is being criminalized, to your own detriments of course #provemewrong

We know a lot is going on but please don’t forget that the “razor blade throat” covid variant is on the rise.

Don’t get it & don’t spread it.

Mask up in all public spaces.

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DEMANDS: 1. ICE OUT OF LA! Stop direct and indirect LAPD collaboration with ICE; stop ICE and federal troops from using state or city resources, including processing centers and staging areas; declare ICE a rogue federal agency with no place in LA County. 2. DROP ALL CHARGES! Drop the charges against SEIU California President David Huerta and all others arrested for protesting ICE activity in their neighborhoods. 3. FREE THEM ALL! Allow everyone kidnapped by ICE to return to their families and loved ones. Publicize the names and locations of the kidnapped; allow observers to report whether they have access to food, sanitation, and legal counsel.

DEMANDS: 4. IMMEDIATE RELIEE FOR WORKING CLASS ANGELENOS! Raids accelerate mass sweeps and evictions: tenants, housed and unhoused, are displaced when family members are kidnapped or too scared to go to work. Declare a county wide eviction moratorium, implement a rent freeze, abolish 41.18, and stop the sweeps. 5. A BUDGET FOR THE PEOPLE, NOT THE WEALTHY! LA City Council uses our tax dollars to evict, criminalize and cage. When the people take back the budget, we can house and ensure necessities for all. • Defund LAPD • Cancel the 2026 World Cup and the 2028 Olympics, which keep electeds beholden to billionaire developers like Trump. • All Angelenos, regardless of immigration status, should participate in the creation of the LA city budget.

We endorse these demands put out by @latenantsunion.bsky.social:

1. ICE OUT OF LA
2. DROP ALL CHARGES
3. FREE THEM ALL
4. IMMEDIATE RELIEF FOR WORKING CLASS ANGELENOS
5. A BUDGET FOR THE PEOPLE, NOT THE WEALTHY

Pcc tweet “There should be a discussion about how the nonprofits ushered hundreds people away from of the point of contention at the detention center, allowing for DHS to target and attack a smaller crowd (still a couple hundred ppl). Don't talk about "shutting it down" - be about it.” _@tothederanged • 3d Also do you see how people are still out there and didn't leave after an hour? No pointless speeches, nobody advertising their stupid organization, no long ass march to nowhere? Direct fucking confrontation.

We need to do some serious narrative work here - we should be careful about inflating labor’s role in the uprising. Them and other nonprofits have steered people away from the actual contention points on the ground.

It’s the young people of LA that are providing the spark. Not labor.

Hot pink chairs and benches stacked up in a protest with protesters hiding behind them as law enforcement fires upon the barricades with rubber bullets and tear gas

RIOS rios.imagines RIOS rios.imagines Images of the bright pink Civic furniture line that we designed for@grandpark_la "The Park for Everyone," being used by LA protesters stopped us in our tracks. These pieces were designed to move, adapt, welcome, connect - and now protect. We stand in solidarity with our city during moments of civic expression in support of unjust treatment, and we are reminded of why we design: for our community, diversity, and a sense of belonging. Photo by: David Ryder-AFP/Getty Images

Everyone saw Grand Park's hot pink benches being stacked into a barricade on Sunday. What an exceptional statement from RIOS, the benches' designers instagram.com/rios.imagines

"These pieces were designed to move, adapt, welcome, connect — and now protect"

We’re not waste. We are not “the bureaucracy”. We're real people living and working alongside you to make our communities safer and healthier places to live. Say hello to our colleague Abby. She is fired but fighting and she is a patriot
@firedbutfighting.bsky.social

#FedWorkerFriday #WeArePatriots

tweet by user @dustindrury: hey people dealing with forest fire smoke rn as we learned in LA the gov & public health won't recommend or give you masks until the damage is already done you need to be the one out there teaching & helping your friends, family & community

tweet by user @dustindrury: hey people dealing with forest fire smoke rn as we learned in LA the gov & public health won't recommend or give you masks until the damage is already done you need to be the one out there teaching & helping your friends, family & community

In Canada, it was illegal to proactively offer Assisted dying when terminal patients were the only ones eligible.

When it was expanded to include disabled people, they started allowing doctors to “offer it”. Encourage them to bring it up.

Do you think this should be permitted?

🚨🚨🚨LA EMERGENCY PROTEST🚨🚨🚨

From the Community Self Defense Coalition:

STOP DEPORTATIONS NOW!
ICE HAS HUNDREDS OF MEMBERS OF OUR COMMUNITY KIDNAPPED AND IS HOLDING THEM AT THIS LOCATION

Friday, June 6, 2025 4:30PM
535 Alameda St, LA, CA 90012 

joining the chorus of folks asking for care with language re: ICE covering faces—yes, they use nonmedical face coverings, meanwhile, the right has been&continues to be against mask/respirator use to protect oneself &others to the extent of bans—we must make the distinction AND normalize medical use.

This is also false. Mask wearing was not mandated for years.

Yes, please again emphasize that they are wearing gaitors. Not masks. Gaitors have zero benefit for disease prevention. They provide no protection for that.

Face masks and respirators (higher quality face masks) are distinctly different.

There are mask ban bills. Make these distinctions.