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☣️SARS-CoV-2 is airborne 😷 KN95+ 🧼 Clean the air 🫩 LC sux

[James Throt MBBS, MD, PhD, FRCPath @JamesThrot]

One of the worst things society has ever done is discussing infectious disease in binary terms:

“you either die or you survive”

This implies survival = full recovery.

Surviving viral illness can often mean never returning to baseline health.

And people need to remember this.

[PACO @PacoOnPause]

This alone should be ringing alarm bells. There are people who are working in high stakes professions who are working through cognitive impairments caused by covid. And the current gameplan is for everyone to keep getting reinfected over and over again.

[Masked Rogue 😷 🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @unMaskedRogue]

Caring about COVID feels a lot like caring about climate change. Pretty much everyone knows it’s real, knows it’s a massive threat, knows our kids and grandkids will pay the cost for our inaction, yet prioritizes comfort and wilful ignorance over action.

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨BREAKING: ICE/Border Patrol agents are now hitting unaccompanied minors with their vehicles, detaining and disappearing them, even after being shown a U.S. passport.

Yesterday, agents rear-ended a car being driven by a 16-year-old, with her 15-year-old brother in the passenger seat.

Instead of calling a guardian, agents photographed the 15-year-old… and then took him.

The 16-year-old showed agents her U.S. passport…. But, that did not matter, they still handcuffed her and threw her into their unmarked car.

Both minors.
Both unaccompanied.

Detaining children, ignoring proof of citizenship, and hauling minors away, after rear ending the car they were driving, is not immigration enforcement.

That is child trafficking.

And it’s happening in broad daylight by the Trump administration.

Share this.
Document everything.
Demand accountability.

Because if federal agents can do this to kids with a passport, no one is safe.

[Atlanta Rey 📚 @areyoflight]

🚨 PSA: Before you judge chronically ill people for:

– being at home all day
– not working full-time
– not earning our own income

Remember this:
We didn’t choose our illness.

Most of us want to be well.
We want to work.
We want our old lives back.

[Briana Mills, LMFT ♿️🏳️‍🌈🍉 @theBrianaMills]

We're all vulnerable to disability. It doesn't matter how many vitamins you take, if you eat a raw diet, if you add ginger to everything, or whatever wellness grift you try, disability will happen by either accident, illness, or age. Everyone benefits from disability justice.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

In one hand: a clothespin from the 1960s. Solid hardwood, smooth from decades of use. It still works perfectly, some 60 years later.
In the other: a clothespin from 2025. Lighter, paler wood, brittle. The spring is thin and unstable. Marketed as “extra durable,” my dad just raised an eyebrow.
At first glance, it’s just two clothespins. But they tell a bigger story — the shift from durability to disposability, from craftsmanship to cost-cutting, from stewardship to constant consumption. This is planned obsolescence in action.
Products are designed to fail so we must keep buying. Slowly, subtly, they break. Frayed wires, cracked hinges, brittle springs. Not because we want more, but because the old was never built to last.
The costs are everywhere. Landfills overflow. Wallets empty. And maybe most quietly, our spirits grow accustomed to impermanence, to the idea that nothing is meant to endure.
What if this philosophy extends beyond objects? What if it shapes how we treat relationships, communities, homes, even the Earth — as temporary, replaceable, disposable?
It doesn’t have to be this way. That 1960s clothespin reminds us another path is possible. That we once made things to last, and we can again. That quality, care, and intention matter. That we can design for repair, for continuity, for meaning.

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

Call the police and file a report as a witness! It may seem pointless right now but that type of documenting is critical for lawyers later‼️
WE ARE NOT OKAY‼️

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨Last night, in Minneapolis, federal agents fired green chemical gas into a residential neighborhood after community members showed up to document what was happening on their own block.

Let’s be very clear about what that means…

This wasn’t a federal courthouse.
This wasn’t federal property.
This was people standing in the streets where they live… streets lined with houses, apartments, kids, babies, and pregnant people.

That green gas didn’t just hit people outside. It spread through the neighborhood, into yards and homes.

Agents also threw flash bangs at a family trying to leave because of the smoke, even though they had small children, including a 6-month-old who was later taken to the hospital by ambulance.

And, the green gas matters. This isn’t “normal” tear gas.

That same green smoke has been documented before… in Portland… where it was used by federal agents to “protect” federal buildings.

Independent testing found it contained hexachloroethane, which produces zinc chloride smoke when deployed. The U.S. military stopped using it decades ago because of how toxic it is.

Exposure to this gas is linked to burning skin and eyes, coughing, vomiting, chest pain, and serious respiratory injury, with the risk of delayed and long-term lung damage. This is especially dangerous for infants, children, pregnant people, and anyone with asthma or other respiratory conditions.

Now, federal agents are using it in neighborhoods.

And on top of that… ICE and other federal agents are not supposed to be doing crowd control in residential areas at all.

Their authority is limited to specific federal functions. Crowd control in city streets is not one of them. They do not have blanket jurisdiction to gas neighborhoods because people are in their own neighborhood streets.

So what we’re watching is federal agents:

• acting outside their role
• performing crowd control where they have no jurisdiction
• firing toxic green gas into civilian neighborhoods
• and exposing families inside their own homes to chemicals that cause real physical harm.

This isn’t public safety.
This isn’t lawful enforcement.

This is the federal government treating American neighborhoods like hostile territory… and using chemical weapons to do it.

That should alarm everyone, because there is nothing stopping this from happening in your neighborhood next.

[Sean Sweeney @seandsweeney]

If any of you are wondering what it’s like in Minnesota right now…

It’s worse than what you are seeing.

People are being grabbed at random in stores, in cars & even at home.

Schools and businesses are staying closed out of fear.

I live here & am seeing it with my own eyes.

[Max Nesterak @maxnesterak]

A witness shared this video with me showing an ICE officer shooting a driver in an SUV in south Minneapolis. DHS says the woman is dead.

[Governor Tim Walz @GovTimWalz]

Federal agents are arresting American citizens.

This isn’t about public safety - it’s about stoking fear.

https://t.co/ADoVuwiXgh

[Kelly @broadwaybabyto]

A woman in Saskatchewan needs surgery for a parathyroid issue and is being offered MAiD instead.

There’s no one in the province who can perform the procedure and the government won’t pay to send her elsewhere.

This is why disability advocates warn about assisted dying

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨This is terrifying.

ICE illegally broke into a home in Burnsville, Minnesota, without a warrant, searched the entire residence, broke down doors, and detained U.S. citizens.

According to the family, everything started when a couple renting the basement was followed home from the grocery store by ICE agents. Ring footage shows agents detaining the man while the woman ran into the house with her 7-year-old son.

That’s when the chaos began.

Angel, the owner of the house, says ICE agents forced their way inside without showing a warrant, then took his sister, mom, daughter, and niece into the kitchen, made them hand over their phones, and pointed guns at them, telling them not to move.

He says all four are U.S. citizens… and only after they were terrified at gunpoint did they finally get the chance to show their paperwork.

And to make this even worse, the man detained outside the house had a work permit, which is more than Melania Trump had when she came to America, and allegedly worked without a work permit.

This raid raises urgent questions: if ICE can allegedly storm the homes of U.S. citizens without a warrant, what protections do any of us really have?

[Ren 🪷 @RejectMelons]

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[Kelly @broadwaybabyto]

Healthcare is a basic human right

Housing is a basic human right

Education is a basic human right

Food, clean air & water are basic human rights

A UBI would ensure everyone has their most basic needs met

Tax billionaires & corporations properly and it’s more than doable!

[Nicensteiner @Nicensteiner]

Read this as many times as you need.

https://t.co/v6kRt8rvQw

[𝐶𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑛𝑖𝑎𝑛⋆☭ @undrcvrbrothr]

Nobody should have to "earn" a living. Nobody should have have to "prove themselves" to live a life. "Cost of living" is not a real thing. Nobody should have to pay a fucking thing to exist, and with basic necessities. You don't "owe" anyone anything because you're alive.

[Cameron Kasky @camkasky]

Democrats need to be aggressively hard on A.I. data centers driving up power costs, sucking fresh water out of the ground in marginalized communities, and pouring gasoline on the fire that is our unemployment crisis.