Someone tell the Democratic Party that fascism is, in fact, a kitchen table issue

Smoke from Canada’s wildfires killed nine-year-old Carter Vigh – and 82,000 others around the world Toxic particles spewed by 2023’s wildfires were even responsible for 22,000 early deaths in Europe, researchers say

"We estimate that 5,400 (3,400–7,400) acute deaths in North America and 64,300 (37,800–90,900) chronic deaths in North America and Europe were attributable to PM2.5 exposure to the 2023 Canadian wildfires."

#ClimateCrisis #health #survival #airpollution
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Oh, it'll be a turning point alright.
.now the Trump regime escalate military take over, sweeps, arrests that will include Democrats, liberals, progressives, trans...h

Thank climate change: “Giant sequoias, the world’s largest trees, evolved to survive low-intensity fire, which helps them release seeds. But recent megafires have overwhelmed even these natural defenses. Since 2020, wildfires have killed as much as a fifth of all mature sequoias” 😢

There is a real possibility that Charlie Kirk’s death will serve as a pretext for authoritarian purges.

And our political culture does not have much experience with that. Mainstream reporters and politicians are not in the habit of recognizing or naming it.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Governor Polis Orders Flags to Half-Staff to Honor the Anniversary of September 11th and the Passing of Charlie Kirk

Someone shot up my kid's school today, and our governor is paying tribute to a guy who thought that is an acceptable price to pay for having the Second Amendment.

Jared Polis has failed Colorado.

“Children are not spared from Long COVID. A study from Taiwan shows that in children ages 6 to 18 years, COVID infection can lead to changes in the brain that are associated with persistent headaches, memory, and attention problems.”

MAGA lives in an alternate reality where Donald Trump is not a pedophile. A world where 20+ sexual abuse accusers and a rape conviction prove that Donald Trump is a pious man. Where six bankruptcies and a fraud conviction make him a good businessman. It would be hilarious if it wasn’t so dangerous.

Just say “after quarantine.” Saying we’re past COVID after two presidents have deliberately stopped testing for it is a bit like saying the era of school shootings is over because we no longer hope for any government intervention. COVID causes serious brain damage and many don’t know they have it.

Changes in memory and cognition during the SARS-CoV-2 human challenge study These results support larger cross sectional findings indicating that mild Wildtype SARS-CoV-2 infection can be followed by small changes in cognition and memory that persist for at least a year. The ...

Seriously, these scores are a significant impairment from a single infection and these people have zero awareness of it! Between brain damage, immune compromise, and strokes + heart attacks at all ages, it’s ruining tons of lives. Plus it’s sky high right now. www.thelancet.com/journals/ecl...

Long COVID Hitting Doctors and Nurses Hard David Brzostowicki September 03, 2025

Long COVID Hitting Doctors and Nurses Hard.

David Putrino, PhD, at Mount Sinai, has treated about 3,500 people with long COVID and sees 500–700 new patients per year. He says 5–7% are healthcare workers, showing disproportionate long COVID impact in this group.

Source: archive.md/8odRz

And here we go: the photo implies that surgical masks protect against airborne infectious diseases...they DO NOT! N95s DO!!!!!

During the 20 years following WWII, the worst epidemic year for polio in the US was 1951. There were 58.000 cases and 3100 deaths.

In 2024, there were over 50,000 recorded deaths from acute COVID-19 and an estimated 75,000 premature deaths from long term or permanent effects of COVID-19.

💯 Surprised by the demise of U.S. public health? Some of us already saw the signs when they let 5M+ kids get long COVID with zero mitigations

CDC cuts back foodborne illness surveillance program

The CDC's FoodNet program has reduced required surveillance from eight foodborne pathogens to two, a move some experts warn could leave the country more vulnerable to outbreaks.

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Collapse of critical Atlantic current is no longer low-likelihood, study finds Scientists say ‘shocking’ discovery shows rapid cuts in carbon emissions are needed to avoid catastrophic fallout

Scientists shocked. Humans shrug. Collapse ahead.
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America Tips Into Fascism Today is different than before.

The precise moment when and where in recent weeks America crossed that invisible line from democracy into authoritarianism can and will be debated by future historians, but it’s clear that the line itself has been crossed. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...

They can’t even dependably deploy basic PPE
and infection control anymore: just another toady cog in the growing fascist-industrial collusive complex we find ourselves in.

Absolutely heartbreaking to see CDC staffers say they were surprised that the shooting didn’t happen sooner.

‘Self-termination is most likely’: the history and future of societal collapse An epic analysis of 5,000 years of civilisation argues that a global collapse is coming unless inequality is vanquished

Modern humans can’t change course because we’re hard-wired to believe we’re exceptional. It’s not possible to rip through Earth’s environmental resources at warp speed and avoid extinction.

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“It’s funny how, as a culture, we feel immortal — as if no matter how much damage we do to the natural systems that support life on Earth, and no matter how many other species we send to extinction daily, it can’t possibly happen to us.”
— Sue Coulstock, Racing to Extinction

Spillovers from Public Health Policies in Schools: Evidence from COVID Mask Mandates Matthew A. Guzman, Scott A. Imberman, Neil R. Filosa, Tara Kilbride & Nat Malkus X LinkedIn Facebook Bluesky Threads Email Link Working Paper 33849 DOI 10.3386/w33849 Issue Date May 2025 Schools have long played a frontline role in efforts to contain infectious diseases and prevent spread to the wider community. These include vaccination requirements, school closures during periods of high illness, and the implementation of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPI) during outbreaks. In this paper we investigate the impact of mask mandates in schools on COVID spread. We use event study and difference-in-differences models that exploit the removal of mask mandates in districts serving 50% of public school students in the U.S. surrounding the revocation of CDC guidance recommending school masking in February and early March of 2022. We estimate that going from 0% to 100% mandated masking in a county reduces COVID deaths by 0.57 per 100k people. We further estimate that the removal of mandates during this time contributed to 21800 COVID deaths through the rest of 2022, 9% of the U.S. total that year. Due to the fact that COVID deaths among students and, to a lesser extent, school staff were rare in the U.S. given school age profiles, we argue that the bulk of these deaths were from spillovers to residents in the wider community.

USA: Study finds removing school mask mandates contributed to almost 22,000 U.S. COVID deaths in a year.

Issue Date: May 2025

Source: www.nber.org/papers/w33849

I'm still here, still masking, no visiting with neighbors inside, no restaurants. I seem to be the only one in this corner of SW MN. My daughter's family is also still cautious, but she caught it over a year ago, previously healthy, now struggling with PEM syndrome. I don't understand people at all.

We’re going to need a bigger scale..

The exceptional mediterranean heatwave continues with anomalies close to 8°C above average.

This is around 9 standard deviations above normal. 5 is considered an exceptional, once in a several thousand year event. This is EXTREME.

Born on The Farce of July This Independence Day isn't a birthday for our nation; it's a funeral.

Nearing the quarter-century mark in our nation’s life, we have collectively failed those who came before by allowing the ascension of the very fascism millions of our forebears courageously fought, bled, and died driving back into the sewers of history.

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David Suzuki: “We’re on our way to more than a three-degree temperature rise by the end of this century, and scientists agree we shouldn’t rise above one and half degrees.”

Cue 'this is a bridge to far', 'this is illegal', ' this is unconstitutional', strongly worded letters, the hearings, Democrats marching down to the speakers office...he f**cking bombed Iran!!!! We are literally on the brink of nuclear war with this mad man. What's to stop Iran from attacking us???