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#LongCovidAwareness #BLM #VoteBlue #GunControlNow #CovidIsAirborne #WarrenDemocrat #Ukraine #GazaCeasefireNow #iDissent

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

🔥 @RepMcGovern: “First of all— ICE IS being funded. Stop the B.S. $85 Billion. Their normal budget is $10 Billion… why are we demanding reforms? Because ICE is terrorizing communities & attacking 🇺🇸 citizens.”

He reminds us how out of control Trump’s racist goon squad is 👇🏽

[John Fugelsang @JohnFugelsang]

They had to get just the right lighting for all those profile photos.

Still no investigation, no hospital record, & most ppl can't recall the shooter's name.

And if you think "God protected Trump," you believe God wanted Cory Comperatore to die, horribly, in front of his kids.

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨This is what ICE calls an “arrest”…

In McKinney, Texas, five ICE agents are piled on top of one man, face down on the ground.

He’s not visibly fighting back.

And yet, one agent has him in a chokehold… while four others are kneeling on his body, pinning him down.

Then, out of nowhere, the agent tightens the chokehold… and hits him in the face.

While he’s already restrained… While four grown agents are already on top of him.

That is excessive force.

A chokehold on a restrained person… that alone is dangerous. People die like that.

Having multiple officers on top of someone’s back, while they’re face down… that’s how you cut off someone’s ability to breathe.

And then hitting him while he’s pinned down?

That’s punishment. That’s abuse of force.

There is a line… even during an arrest.

And piling onto a man who isn’t resisting, restricting his breathing, and striking him in the face while he’s restrained… crosses it.

Badly.

Because if five agents can’t restrain one man without choking him and hitting him…

then this was never about safety.

It was about control.

And people should be outraged.

[Dame Sa 🐝 3.5% @LongCovidHell]

76% of inpatient Covid cases were caught in hospital.

SEVENTY SIX PERCENT!

How is the media not all over this?
It’s a national scandal!

Nobody should be catching ANY preventable disease while seeking medical treatment.

We urgently need airborne infection control in the NHS.

[Thomas Keith @iwasnevrhere_]

A Kuwaiti analyst openly criticized Gulf policy toward Washington after the latest strikes, saying the region paid billions for influence and received nothing in return. He pointed directly to Jared Kushner, noting that Gulf money flowed heavily into his orbit, yet the same states that financed those channels still ended up facing strikes and pressure.

His conclusion was appeasing Zionist interests and trying to buy leverage in Washington has produced humiliation, not protection. Gulf governments, he argued, must rethink the entire strategy of trying to influence the United States through money while being expected to serve Israel’s regional agenda.

[Molly Jong-Fast @MollyJongFast]

Why why why?

[NoelCaslerComedy @caslernoel]

“As I’ve said many times before - when all is said and done, Donald Trump will surpass any historical tyrant and rightfully take his place as the worst human ever to emerge from the privilege and relative peace of post-World War II America.

Trump’s withdrawal of the U.S. on climate change initiatives and treaties, coupled with his opposition to environmental conservation and cancelling of renewable energy projects alone will cause untold catastrophes, and compound both economic hardship and human suffering across the globe.

Future generations will inherit a far more dangerous and toxic world than the one we were born into - and many of us had hoped to nurture and improve.

POTUS is an enemy of progress itself: he has stolen over a decade of momentum and innovation while dulling the spirit of scientific and academic excellence - at a time it was most needed for the betterment of mankind.

The irony of it is Donald Trump may destroy what we have come to know as the United States, and much of the world beyond it in the process, and his particular brand of evil couldn’t have been created anywhere else but in America.

His french-fried fascism sprung from the greed and ignorance that men like him have not only gotten away with, they have protected and promulgated for centuries.

The kicker is that his vulgar mediocrity has become a cornerstone of his appeal to the ‘America First’ base and the craven corporations that bent the knee and allowed this awful and obscene autocrat to flourish.” https://t.co/3KMm59sFdX

[0️⃣BlackBetty ⚓️ @BabyD1111229]

She Called The FBI In 1996. They Opened A File. Then They Told Her It Never Existed. She Spent 29 Years Being Called A Liar.

September 3, 1996.

A file is opened inside FBI headquarters.

Classification: child pornography.

The woman who made the call is identified only as "a professional artist."

She described photos she had seen inside a Manhattan mansion. She described the man who owned those photos. She described what she witnessed being done to young girls.

She gave them everything.

Then she waited.

Nobody called back.

Nine years later, a local detective in Palm Beach knocked on a different door. Found forty victims. Handed the FBI photographs, videos, and documented evidence of child trafficking across multiple states.

The FBI opened a formal investigation.

Two years later — they closed it.

One plea deal. Thirteen months. Out by noon every day on work release.

The trafficking continued. The FBI kept receiving tips. For eleven more years, women were brought to his island, his Manhattan townhouse, his private ranch.

For eleven more years — the file sat there.

It took a newspaper reporter to force the arrest in 2019.

Thirty-three days later, he was dead.

Now twelve women — listed only as Doe 1 through Doe 12 — are standing in federal court.

They're not suing his estate.

They're suing the FBI.

They want $100 million. And they want every internal document, every memo, every email showing exactly who received each tip — and made the decision to do nothing.

But here's the part that changes everything.

When the FBI's own internal review was published in 2020 — it didn't mention the 1996 complaint. Not once.

For another five years, the woman who made that call was told: your report doesn't exist.

In December 2025, the DOJ confirmed it did.

One page. Dated September 3, 1996.

Which means someone inside the FBI knew that file existed — and chose not to include it in their own review.

The question isn't whether the file was real.

The question is: who decided to make it disappear?

https://t.co/wg524otvAD

[Don’t Boo…Revolt! @BreeNewsome]

The police state is coming for everybody, not just the negroes! We been telling y’all 🤷🏾‍♀️

[Dr. Catharine Young @DrCatharineY]

We were told NIH funding cuts were about eliminating DEI.

But the data now shows grants are down across nearly every field of medicine: cancer, diabetes, mental health, brain disorders.

With the greatest cuts hitting Alzheimer’s research, down more than 50%.

[Ziyad Al-Aly, MD @zalaly]

What are the broader implications?

Reinfection will add to the pandemic's high and growing toll of death, disease, and disability

Prevention of infection and reinfection with SARS-CoV-2 should continue to be the goal of public health policy

https://t.co/RVENVKRucU

[Ziyad Al-Aly, MD @zalaly]

In this study of 5.8 million people

41k with reinfection

444k with 1 infection (no reinfection)

5.3 million non-infected controls

Compared to no reinfection, reinfection increased risk of death, hospitalization, and other adverse health outcomes

https://t.co/RVENVKRucU

[Ziyad Al-Aly, MD @zalaly]

Here is the latest from our team in @NatureMedicine

Should you protect yourself from Covid-19 reinfection

Yes!

Reinfection is not benign; it is best to avoid it

by @Bcbowe @Biostayan @zalaly

A thread 🧵

https://t.co/RVENVKRucU

[Ziyad Al-Aly, MD @zalaly]

Compared to people who did not get reinfection, those with reinfection had

2 fold increased risk of death

3 fold increased risk of hospitalization

3 fold increased risk of heart problems

3 fold increased risk of blood clotting

https://t.co/RVENVL8xeU

[Laura Miers @LauraMiers]

@michael_hoerger I’ve been posting this article since it came out in November 2022. At most, 100 people will see it. That’s it. I’ve tried links & no links. I’ve tried words. No dice. From where I sit, this app (& our societies!) have actively blocked reinfections discussions for 4 years.

[Janice Hough @leftcoastbabe]

@sentdefender Almost enough to convince an impartial observer that it might have been a really bad idea for a reality TV host to appoint a weekend Fox News host to head the world's most powerful military.

[Cat in the Hat 🐈‍⬛ 🎩 🇬🇧 @_CatintheHat]

CATA: “We have evidence from correspondence that advice was ignored and removed from the record and not disclosed to the Inquiry”

“These matters were not about minor issues…”

“The Inquiry has DECLINED to receive this evidence.”

Why?

[Felix Prehn 🐶 @felixprehn]

Private equity firms bought 500 hospitals. Death rates in their emergency rooms went up 13%. They fired 12% of the staff. Then they paid themselves billions in dividends.

A Harvard study just confirmed what doctors already knew: people are dying so investors can hit quarterly targets.

Exactly what happens. A PE firm buys a hospital using debt. The debt gets placed on the hospital's balance sheet, not the firm's. Now the hospital owes hundreds of millions it never borrowed. To service that debt, the hospital cuts costs. Costs mean nurses.

The numbers from the Harvard/University of Chicago study are horrifying. After PE acquisition, emergency department salary spending dropped 18.2%. ICU salary spending dropped 15.9%. Hospital-wide employees were cut 11.6%. Emergency department deaths rose 13%, seven additional deaths per 10,000 visits.

A separate study found patients undergoing surgery at PE-acquired hospitals had 17% higher odds of dying within 90 days.

Steward Health Care, owned by Cerberus Capital, filed bankruptcy with $9 billion in debt after closing hospitals across Massachusetts. The CEO lived on a $40 million yacht while emergency rooms went dark. Eight hospitals serving 2 million people nearly disappeared because a PE fund extracted more cash than the system could survive.

The private equity industry has poured over $1 trillion into healthcare. They operate a quarter of ERs nationwide. This isn't going away.

The investing angle nobody talks about.

Non-PE hospital operators like HCA Healthcare (HCA) and Tenet (THC) are the direct beneficiaries. Every time a PE hospital closes or deteriorates, patients flow to the nearest competitor. HCA has returned 1,200% since 2011. Patient volume from PE closures is a structural tailwind nobody's pricing in.

Medical staffing firms (AMN Healthcare, Cross Country) charge premium rates specifically because PE hospitals cut staff. The staffing shortage IS the business model for these companies.

The disruption play: outpatient surgical centers (SCA Health, now part of UnitedHealth) are pulling profitable procedures out of hospitals entirely. PE-owned hospitals lose their highest-margin surgeries to outpatient, and the death spiral accelerates.

Pull up tradevision and monitor healthcare M&A alerts, hospital closure filings, and patient volume migration data. When a PE-owned hospital announces "restructuring," the patient volume shift to competitors like HCA starts within 30 days. That 30-day window is when the competitor's earnings revisions haven't updated yet. Free to try.

(a private equity firm bought your local hospital. borrowed $500 million in the hospital's name. fired 12% of the nurses. emergency room deaths rose 13%. then they paid themselves dividends. nobody went to prison. they're currently buying another hospital.)

[Bitcoin Teddy @Bitcoin_Teddy]

Thomas Massie just went nuclear on Trump’s DOJ for bringing zero “charges, arrests, or investigations” over the Epstein files.

“Who should be investigated?”

“I’ll name them right here.”

“Leon Black.”

“Jes Staley, accused of terrible things.”

“Leslie Wexner.”

“Why did the FBI list him as a co-conspirator in their own documents in a child sex trafficking case, and then tell him that they had no questions for him?”

“Over 3 million documents describing horrible things, unspeakable things, much of it redacted.”

“Over two dozen people have resigned, CEOs, members of government worldwide.”

“But I haven’t seen any arrests or investigations here in the United States.”

“Prince Andrew, Duke of York, who has since been stripped of his royal titles due to his affiliation with Jeffrey Epstein, has been arrested.”

“Peter Mandelson, who previously served as UK’s ambassador to the United States, resigned in disgrace from UK’s House of Lords and the Labour Party, and he’s been arrested.”

“Former Prime Minister of Norway, Thorbjørn Jagland, has been charged.”

“But we don’t see any charges, arrests, or investigations in the United States.”

“What do we see?”

“We see our FBI director celebrating in the locker room at the Olympics overseas.”

“We need justice.”

[Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren]

It costs American taxpayers $11,500 every second to fund Donald Trump’s war in Iran.

So while your money flies away to fund this war, remember that Donald Trump wouldn't lift a finger to lower health care costs here in America.