April Lee

Learner, listener, protector of people, animals and planet. Army veteran. Live your values.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Since we’re not doing separation of church and state anymore, when can we expect the churches to start paying income taxes?

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Really heartbreaking. 💔

[🍁KayElle N 95+ @KayElleTweets]

Sadly, everyone who has had covid (especially reinfections) has some form of longCovid.

No one gets out unscathed.
C19 never leaves the body.

It does insidious, ongoing, systemic damage.

Often silent, at first… until it’s loud.

[Don Salmon @dijoni]

Just look at this police officer and she’s a female brutalizing, a pregnant black mother. It is disgusting.. and she have a history of being violent. She is a degenerate who should never have got the badge. and if they do not take away the gun, she will eventually kill somebody.

[Pete Buttigieg @PeteButtigieg]

This week someone targeted my family for harm with a false report. We’re physically OK, but that doesn’t mean we weren’t harmed. I am beyond furious.

Whatever your politics, this is awful, wrong, and can never become normal. https://t.co/72wxaVLzVT

[Nyrae @TemiXo_1]

If abortion is “playing God,” then so is:
Chemo
Pacemakers
C-sections
Viagra
Insulin
You’re not consistent. You’re just controlling.

[Jackie Singh @HackingButLegal]

You should know that if you get the measles, it will wipe out immunity to anything you had immunity to before you were infected, including any vaccinations

[GOP Ls @GOP__Ls]

🚨 The NRA chief set a kitten on fire after torturing it with his fraternity brothers.

Its paws were cut off before it was strung up and burned.

[The Yeti of Kananaskis @kananaskinyeti]

Covid killed the pope. And the queen. And Pele. It’s the reason Biden dropped out. It’s why your favourite artist is sick, stopped touring or has come down with serious health complications. It’s why the kids are failing at school, it’s why the schools are failing. It’s all Covid

[MP Arizona☀️🏳️‍🌈💙🌵🐕🐕‍🦺🫂💦🏜🐟🌴🎙🌎🌻♍️🌊 @AzPetrich]

I saw a comment saying the U.S. is the only country in the World Cup without universal healthcare. And I was like nahhh no way that's accurate.
20 seconds on the world wide web later, THE UNITES STATES IS THE ONLY COUNTRY IN THE WORLD CUP WITHOUT UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE.

[kaila 🎃🏒 @strkrhds]

a woman’s actively documenting her process of trying to get a D&C in an abortion ban state. they made her get THREE ultrasounds after the fetus died to make sure it stayed dead since her body naturally didn’t dispel. they’ve left the dead fetus in her for THREE WEEKS so far.

[Matthew Chapman @fawfulfan]

The cause of the algae problem in the Reflecting Pool is simple: the Reflecting Pool is not a swimming pool, but Trump treated it like one.

It's supposed to have natural drainage. Instead, he sealed and painted over the granite and turned it into a huge pool of standing water.

[Marit Bovbjerg, PhD MS @BovbjergMarit]

@AlterIvan1 Yesterday, in line at a public bathroom-

4yo: what’s that thing on your face?

Mom, embarrassed: she was born after the pandemic, so…

Me, to kid: it’s so I don’t get sick

Kid, to mom: oh mommy you should wear a thing on your face! You get sick all the time

[PACO @PacoOnPause]

I guess I shouldn't be surprised that saying most kids have had COVID multiple times is "controversial" since according to this 2024 Ipsos poll, half of Americans believe they'll never get COVID again.

I'd imagine the % who don't want to learn more is even higher.

[AJ Leonardi, MBBS, PhD, MPH @fitterhappierAJ]

When I told everybody here and argued with many overly confident people that the evidence appeared to me to show that Covid was a serious and exceptional infection, and that the long Covid risk would remain and probably increase after infection, I was accused of not understanding that immunity builds with infection

I tried to explain that the virus harms immunity and was called an alarmist by people that had more advanced credentials than I, whilst I was still a medical student.

For a while, many people brushed me aside and did not credit me given my understanding of the immune system as shown by my work in the olearly 2010s on T cell differentiation and death which I was awarded a PhD by the National Cancer Institute for.

In fact, the National Cancer Institute was threatened for hosting me with a NYT oped that I was spreading misinformation.

Now, the NYT is raising the alarm on increasing long covid incidence on reinfection in children- over double

It’s hard to convey the indignant rage I feel over my future- and your futures- having been robbed from us.

https://t.co/gsSDrEK4Yz

[Laura Miers @LauraMiers]

@RealCheckMarker I will never forget when we began hearing Covid causes more T cell death & loss of naive T cells than HIV.

Then The Establishment came for AJ & the people who were saying this, & everyone was silenced until a billionaire began saying it last year.

[Covie @covie_93]

They literally met in the Situation Room to come up with a defense for the President of the United States raping children.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Some thoughts on the new Epstein Files revelations:

I’ve now read everything that’s come out from the new Haberman and Swan book, and the thing I keep coming back to is the Situation Room. They held multiple meetings in the Situation Room about the Epstein files. That room is for war. It’s for national security emergencies. It is not for figuring out how to spin a scandal you’re telling the country is a hoax.

While the President was deflecting or calling this old news, his own Vice President and Chief of Staff were huddled in the most leak-proof room in America because they knew how bad it really was.

You don’t take a nothingburger to the Situation Room.

And I have to be honest, reading all this brings back a lot of frustration about what happened in the House of Representatives. I sat there and watched Mike Johnson send the House home early to dodge a vote on releasing these files. I watched him refuse to swear in a duly elected colleague for months just to stall the discharge petition. Month after month of excuses, arm twisting, and procedural games, all to keep this information from the public. We only got the files because survivors, families, and a handful of members in both parties simply refused to let it go.

So when people ask me why I talk so much about transparency and accountability, this is why. The truth eventually comes out. It always does.

The only question is whether your leaders helped reveal it or helped bury it.

Everyone who voted to keep these files hidden should have to answer for that.

Finally, notice what’s missing from all of this is any sign that Trump’s DOJ will actually investigate the powerful men named in these files.

Draw your own conclusions about why a Justice Department run by the President’s former defense lawyers might not be eager to pull that thread.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Buttigieg: We didn't know it, but we've all been trusting our lives to the restraint of whoever the president might be. And now we have a president who is completely unrestrained. And so the only answer to that is a functioning Congress.

It turns out we do not have a functioning Congress. The House of Representatives is not representative. One of the most important organs of our democracy is not democratic.

They say, "Oh, no. We're not manipulating the map to disempower black people. We're manipulating the map to disempower Democrats who happen to be black people.”

So, the time has come to make it impossible to manipulate the map for any reason and just have fair maps.

[Elizabeth Warren @ewarren]

Acting AG Todd Blanche—formerly Donald Trump's personal lawyer—signed an order blocking the IRS from investigating the President, his family, and his businesses.

This may be valued at over $100 million.

I have a bill to stop this corruption.