This is the single most meaningful "sign" of good character.
It demonstrates that the person
1) Actually cares about other people's health (And their own!)
2) Is willing to inconvenience themselves to practice their values
3) Believes in science
4) Doesn't need to be told to be a good person
at ~200k views, this seems to’ve really impacted folks on tiktok; i’m not saying anything i haven’t said before in a million different ways… but that’s what we gotta do to see change—keep repeating things in different ways, eventually each niche framing finds its people.
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjLKRxUT/
While the markets spin out of control, private equity firms are accelerating their looting of shareholders and businesses.
www.levernews.com/vampire-capi...
Oregonians! Can you submit written testimony in support of the Pause Act before our Senate hearing on Wednesday? Click here for the toolkit: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Since the start of COVID, the number of people reporting a disability soared. Yet the majority of the world acts like COVID is over, and Long COVID doesn't exist.
The Pause Act will have a hearing in the Senate Committee on Finance & Revenue in mid-March. With 1-click, you can send an email to your legislators and ask them to support the Pause Act! Head to actionnetwork.org/letters/supp... to tell your legislators that you care about this bill.
Forests give us all clean air and water and provide countless defenses against climate change. We can’t let the government feed them to the chainsaws of wealthy corporations.
Musk is a corrupt POS stealing from Americans!
Bill Nye claims Elon Musk wants to replace NOAA weather satellites with Starlink
Source: WashingtonExaminer
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Can I just have one fucking day where Trump doesn’t spew some random Russian propaganda fucking bullshit.
For fucks sake, be a real goddamn leader and not a Russian puppet
NEW: My office is hearing that DOGE is now at the IRS. That means Musk's henchmen are in a position to dig through a trove of data about every taxpayer in America. And if your refund is delayed, they could very well be the reason.
If you are concerned about egg prices, you should also be concerned about what is behind it. In the last 2 months, we are slowly taking the path of scenario 2 below. One
single mutation allows #H5N1 human-to-human transmission. Fewer eggs = a lot of #BirdFlu everywhere = more virus mutating.
Last week Divest Oregon stopped by to advocate for the Pause Act (SB 681), which would require a moratorium on new private investments by the State Treasurer in fossil fuel-dominant funds. I think it's an important bill and I look forward to the Senate sending it over to us!
So funny that skeets basically willed this into action.
Dems last week were like "Mr. Peanut will cost treble this month!" and Bluesky was like "um, Warren needs to be outside the Treasury with a bullhorn and Raskin needs to break into USAID."
THY WILL BE DONE! WE'RE THE PUPPETMASTER NOW!
The Treasury Department right now. People are turning out against Musk and DOGE staging a takeover of the Treasury’s payment system. This crowd is big. The whole block is packed. “Lock him up,” everyone yells.
If you’re a big polluter, and you can destroy the government that protects people from your pollution, that’s a win for you. And if you paid to get Trump in, you see it as the political reward you’re due.
There have been 2,861 reported COVID-19 deaths in the world in the last 28 days, according to the WHO, with the U.S. accounting for 2,100 deaths.
Hospitalizations and ER visits are also on the rise, and death rates for COVID-19 are at 1.8%, according to the CDC.
abcnews.go.com/Health/5-yea...
PMC C0VID-19 Forecast for Feb 3, 2025 (U.S.)
🔹500-600k infections/day
🔹High/very high transmission in half of states
🔹1-in-3 exposure risk in a group of 35
🔹0.8-3.5 million new Long C0VID conditions resulting from the next month's infections
Video report: pmc19.com/data
The creepy billionaires at the inauguration live on data, and Trump’s Musk-rats just got access to huge federal data sets. Watch out for the Great Thievery to go after your data. In a battle between your privacy and their profit, who likely wins?
Action:
Holding our dollars makes a difference. It's one of the ways that we fight back. Spend only if you need to. When you do spend your money, direct it to small businesses. This is not a one day or one week trend, do it till we #BreakEm
Feel free to share your ideas, and please spread the word
NEW: My staff has confirmed reports that Medicaid portals are down in all 50 states following last night's federal funding freeze. This is a blatant attempt to rip away health care from millions of Americans overnight and will get people killed.
If you are in a red state, flood your Governor’s offices with phone calls demanding to know what the plan will be if Medicaid and Meals on Wheels and SNAP and Headstart don’t receive funding this week. This is on them for going along with a insane autocrat.
Call them. They knew.
Another result of this silence is that federal influenza updates are lagging. Epidemiologist Caitlin Rivers dug up data for all 50 states. And look at that: what seemed like a fall from a January peak turns out to be a rebound. caitlinrivers.substack.com/p/outbreak-o... 6/12
Health and Human Services has shut down most of its communications. No new studies at the National Institutes of Health can be launched. www.statnews.com/2025/01/27/n... 5/12
The PEPFAR program, which distributes HIV drugs, is estimated to have saved 25 million lives. The Trump administration has stopped it and taken its computer system offline, raising fears the program is done for good. Story by @apoorvanyt.bsky.social [Gift link] nyti.ms/4aCJHSx 2/12
Now that the US is leaving the World Health Organization, CDC workers have been ordered to stop working with the agency. This will interrupt work on outbreaks of Marburg virus and mpox, among many other diseases. apnews.com/article/cdc-... 3/12
Something disability justice activists have been screaming about for the last five years and some of you may just now be realizing: eugenicists believe disease is good. They believe themselves part of the “superior” race and that disease clears out the poor and unworthy. 1/
With Indiana becoming the latest state to put forward a mask ban & Trump ordering CDC, FDA and NIH to stop providing public health updates… it’s a good time to remind people to push back on mask bans
They’re discriminatory & dangerous. Everyone should have the legal right to protect their health:
Genocide powered by Big Tech? Leaked docs reveal Microsoft’s deepened ties with the Israeli military during Gaza’s 2023 war. From cloud computing to AI tools, their tech reportedly supported combat and intelligence.
Trump is about to sign an executive order to stop funding for research into how viruses spread and evade medicines, the WSJ reports.
STG the main impetus of his Presidency seems to be to kill as many Americans as possible.
If you would like to see how much economic activity and grants and how many people are employed through NIH in your state, just use this handy website.
And then contact your Congressional Rep and tell them to prioritize NIH. www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...
To report a dead bird for possible avian flu in the US, contact: Local wildlife agencies, State health departments & USDA's toll-free hotline at (866) 536-7593.
Also contact your local animal services agency to dispose of or incinerate the carcass.
#ornithology🐦
#conservationscience🌍
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NEW: Trump orders federal health agencies to STOP communicating health advisories, weekly scientific reports, updates to websites, and to stop making social media posts. I said previously I was worried about the lack of reporting. Here it is. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Don’t underestimate the impact you’re making when you choose to wear a mask.
You’re protecting your health & the health of your community. You’re helping ease the burden on our healthcare system.
You’re standing in solidarity with disabled people & telling the government that no one is expendable
I’ve challenged fossil fuel’s lies and greenwashing for years; now we see what they really wanted all along, because they got it.
The moral of the story is you can’t trust looters and polluters; particularly not when they’ve paid billions for political influence.
I haven’t posted since TikTok kissed the ring. This was an experiment. According to TT, viewing a video of someone tearing up a Nazi flag is considered hate speech.
Seeing screenshots of searches for #Democrat blocked and #Republican served up on Instagram made me wonder if that was in the USA only. It wasn't - I checked from the UK.
Alt: screenshots of Instagram app, showing the Democrat hashtag results are hidden as they "may contain sensitive content".
Has it hit yet? Who’s the Instagram crowd, the Never Meta, the ones not going back to TikTok, and those buying in for “nostalgia”? When you wonder how people just went along in history—stop wondering. You’re living it. This is how it happens, and now you know.
Keep encouraging people to leave Meta
