Rodney Hinton, Jr., a Black man wearing an orange prison jumpsuit, mean mugs a crowd of police as he is led past them in court

I haven't seen the same outpouring of support for Rodney Hinton, Jr. that we saw for Luigi Mangione. GoFundMe took down the fundraiser for Hinton, who is accused of killing an officer shortly after he watched bodycam footage of police killing his 18-year-old son.

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RFK Jr and health agency falsely claim MMR vaccine includes ‘aborted fetus debris’ Experts are alarmed as department says it will alter vaccine testing methods and build new ‘surveillance systems’

Guardian - RFK Jr and health agency falsely claim MMR vaccine includes ‘aborted fetus debris’

Experts are alarmed as department says it will alter vaccine testing methods and build new ‘surveillance systems’.

Repeat COVID Infections & Dementia

A time bomb no one wants to talk about 🧵

Germany’s Crackdown on Pro-Palestine Speech Just Got Even More Unhinged A German judge has ruled it is a crime to ask, ‘Have we learned nothing from the Holocaust,’ while protesting against Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza.

“A German judge has ruled it is a crime to ask, ‘Have we learned nothing from the Holocaust,’ while protesting against Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza.”

Oh come on! Food banks aren't part of a real social safety net; they exist because the system is failing. A true safety net includes things like income support, disability benefits, housing, healthcare, and childcare. We need lasting solutions, not emergency stopgaps.

Cop City is officially "opening" today. The movement against it carries so many lessons for people everywhere, because the issues are everywhere today: the un-democratic militarization and expansion of policing and state violence, backed by dark money private funding.

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android diva 🎵💙
#hatsunemiku #初音ミク #illustration #fanart

Scientists Tally Oil Majors’ Climate Damage With Eye to Legal Liability New research breaks down economic losses from global warming and attributes them to individual companies. It could bolster lawsuits against big emitters.

OUT: You can’t connect extreme weather to climate change

5Mn AGO: You can’t connect extreme weather to fossil-fuel companies

IN: 🎁🔗⤵️
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

How ‘revenge of the Covid contrarians’ unleashed by RFK Jr puts broader vaccine advances at risk The health secretary has pledged to fight chronic illness, but experts say he risks increasing it with department cuts

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"...the infrastructure built to mitigate Covid-19 has become a clear target – an aim that has the dual effect of weakening immunization efforts as the US endures the largest measles outbreak since 2000":

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

My secret? 2-3 days a week on campus max, remote job with a flexible schedule, one class online, proper meds for my chronic illness

Wow almost like having more free/rest time and consistent medical care is life-changing or smth??? Wild

Tfw having a work-life balance actually makes a huge difference in whether or not i burn out during the semester??? Who could have ever predicted this????????? Someone should run a study

Sad I havent been around here lately, it's finals week

On track to pass all 3 of my classes with top grades tho.

Turns out having an effective mobility aid & time to rest between class days made all the difference in the world, and im suddenly no longer struggling with school

What a concept right

COVID five years later: Governments are ignoring the rights of workers and students Trying to avoid COVID-19 is seen as a personal choice, despite it being a public health threat for everyone.

"The more we learn about the dangers of repeated COVID infections, it seems that without better protections, workers’ rights to safe work and students’ rights to safe learning spaces are being ignored to maintain the status quo." #covid #students #education #workers
www.thespec.com/opinion/cont...

Ableism & eugenics 🤝 anti-mask & anti-vaxx ideology

If you want to distance yourself from #ableism, #eugenics, anti-maskers and anti-vaxxers as much as possible, an easy way to do this is to wear a mask in public spaces

It’s not too late to start again if you’ve stopped

#WeAreStillinApandemic

How to call Congress—when the phone isn't an option Proxy calling gives some disabled people a better way to flood Capitol Hill phone lines.

Calling Congress isn't always easy, people like @novicsara.bsky.social, who is deaf, who use relay services get hung up on. For @motherjones.com, I looked into limits with urges to call Congress, and one cool solution: @autisticadvocacy.org's proxy calling system. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

2. Link for those unable to access article:

archive.ph/LnVy8

Fungal infections are ‘taking over the world’. Can they be stopped? As a landmark WHO report warns of a lack of treatments and diagnosis, we investigate a threat that now kills twice as many people as TB

1. Outstanding article on the rapidly-growing biorisk that pathogenic fungi pose to global health.

The Mucormycosis infections seen during the Delta wave of Covid-19 in India are a stark example of pathogen - pathogen interaction.

www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

💡New study finds that "Sediment composition influences #microplastic trapping in seagrass meadows" with finer sediments retaining more particles than sandy sediments.
Smaller plastics are trapped 117% more than larger plastics. Sediment composition affects microplastic depth.
doi.org/10.1016/j.en...

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also, fold n go wheelchairs are owned, designed, & run by wheelchair-users, so they include way more quality-of-life features that other powered wheelchair companies outright dont consider, like hill tolerance & waterproofing. also pricey, but still about 1/5 as expensive as the average power chair

idk about if theyre marginalized-owned, but i know Body Braid is a fairly small business that makes full-body braces for people with EDS. i've made three people (myself included) cry from just trying one. theyre a little pricey but it's so, so worth it

Los Angeles Public Health to Address Long Covid in Free Virtual Town Hall - SM Mirror Experts From UCLA and LA. Public Health Join Forces to Share Insights The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health...

Los Angeles Public Health to Address Long Covid in Free Virtual Town Hall smmirror.com/2025/04/los-...

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What to FOIA? Let us know The Trans Journalists Association and MuckRock have partnered to help uncover, preserve and report on how the U.S. government is impacting trans communities through executive orders, legislation and o...

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MICHIGAN NAME & GENDER MARKER CHANGE (2025)

Almost lost amid all the turmoil and uncertainty facing the transgender community are the infrequent wins we have attained.

In Michigan, there was the passage of new laws making name and gender marker changes easier.

www.reddit.com/r/MI_transge...

i love when the nyt does an expose like "ok, here's what we spent the last few months complicit in"

“I’ve been disappeared because a rainforest killing plagiarism machine picked me out of a hat”, coming to a dystopia near you