MAHA's leaders claim they want to end sickness, but they intend to do it by ending chronically ill and disabled people's access to the care that keeps us alive.
The MAHA plan for ending chronic illness is simply ending chronically ill people.🧵
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It's normal in libraries to see a small number of book challenges by parents & patrons who have concerns about content. Today, however, 92% come from organized groups, including officials and dark money groups like Citizens for a New LA. It's time we reclaim our libraries for the people they serve.
nearly all of these MAHA influencers are being compensated by tobacco companies, and very few disclose it. in many cases, they are marketing to children. nicotine pouches harm child brain development.
Here's what your country CAN do for you. It can give you universal healthcare. It can make sure you have a safe place to live, a stocked pantry, and a great school to send your kids to. It can make sure that your job pays a living wage and your work isn't exploited by billionaires.
damn aaron swartz tried to warn everybody about sam altman
WaPo Editorial: US cut aid to Africa. The continent proved resilient.
The @washingtonpost.com describes the deaths of an estimated 750,000 people to date as "messy"
kindly begging you to wear respiratory protection—for your own and others benefit—if you’re going to be out a No Kings rally tomorrow. we want things to be better than they are now, something that cannot be achieved by making each other less well. that’s doing the fascists work for them.
It's probably a good idea to listen to the people who were saying "abolish ICE" ten years ago and pay attention to what dangers they're pointing out now and maybe get on board with that stuff too
reshare for alt text, republicans and rich people who want to privatize mail have been lying about the USPS and trying to push this narrative longer than I've been alive, and imposing massive financial burdens on it to make it "insolvent"
Every single individual involved in books or publishing, from authors to editors to to marketers to CEOs to readers, should be sounding a five-alarm fire about this and calling in their support for #libraries
📚 #PubLibs
"The ruling dealt a significant setback for the reduced childhood vaccination schedule championed by Kennedy..."
a W folks, enjoy it.
the crazy part of this is that like 30% of federal research spending was cancer research. It's hard to exaggerate how much money the US government used to spend on cancer research.
folks if the LA times is acknowledging covid as an ongoing mass disabling event it is definitely an ongoing mass disabling event
Remember that you are more likely to become disabled than not.
You can be disabled by illness, injury, climate disasters, war, police brutality, unmitigated pandemics, lack of access to healthcare, etc.
Disability justice is for us all, and it’s foundational to all other forms of justice.
we are losing so much talent, progress, and hope for no good reason www.vox.com/future-perfe...
I know this is impossible for us discuss in this current moment but... People want to do interesting, thoughtful, creative, day to day work. They want to care for each other, and feel like they are contributing to something bigger.
It should be where we start when we think about our communities.
It was on this day
six years ago
that the WHO
officially declared
COVID-19
a global pandemic.
So it is on this day
six years later
that all of us
officially enter
the seventh year
of this pandemic.
“While this new paper suggests the OPTN policy had its intended effect, it does not solve racial disparities in kidney transplantation. Other research has suggested that the adjustment largely helped patients who had regular access to care, and were already on the waitlist”
“Several years ago, nephrologists attempted a first-of-its-kind effort: remove race from a key clinical algorithm, and attempt to undo the harms… A new study found the change had big results, impacting 27% of Black patients and resulting in 5.3 more transplants per 1000 Black candidates.”
absence of a diagnosis does not guarantee the absence of an illness - mamoru - if someone you know has oeen been suffering yet a doctor says nothing is wrong, which has happened to a majority of chronically ill people at some point, you have a choice. you can either believe doctor that you probably never met, or the person suffering. and I cannot emphasize enough how absolutely damaging it is for a sick person to not be believed. the believe
Thanks 💜 it was a huge shock but it's been ok so far. Just surreal how they can pull the rug out from under any of us whenever it suits their quarterly reports or whatever.
I got the letter about this cancellation 2 days before they stopped the service and on a holiday weekend, leaving me in a panic with no option to get my meds. The meds I've taken religiously for almost 30 years.
These companies are gambling with our lives and laughing all the way to the bank.
Astellas, the manufacturer of the brandname tacrolimus, stopped offering drug rebate coupons abruptly in 2024, forcing most patients like me to finally switch to generic unless we can pay tens of thousands of dollars annually for the privilege of taking our meds.
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Folks need an old school twitter style teach-in about disability liberation & history. “Accessible technology” has always been used as a cover to hide the fact that tech “innovation” regularly excludes disabled folks AND uses us as guinea pigs to make tech for abled folks. We get retrofitted slop
You know how we resist fascism? Wear a mask ✊😷 It’s community care & a visual signal that says you will no longer accept anyone, including yourself, to be collateral damage for their profit. Demand clean air in schools, workplaces, every public space, just like we have clean water. It’s NOT too late
If you are serious about "never again" then remember: it's not about standing up to a line of tanks when the camps are already running. It's about standing up to social & professional pressure when the whole thing is just getting started, when it's not yet cool to do so. That's bravery that matters.
Funny how wearing respirators is used as an impossible consideration for others because you “have to live your life”, but it’s okay for high risk folks to spend >6 years being left out of that very same right because abled convenience and comfort is more important.
Super. Funny. 😒
Important paper. Schools are high-risk environments for respiratory disease transmission MAINLY because classrooms are underventilated. This problem has a workable solution - it just needs political will. Air quality is as important as water quality for public health. MT @martinmckee.bsky.social
Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
Name names. Marty Makary, Vinay Prasad, Jay Bhattacharya, Tracy Beth Hoeg, Martin Kulldorff, Russell Vought, RFK Jr., Donald Trump. All of them contributed to this by their relentless attacks on vaccines and biomedical R&D.