Tom DeMichele

he/him/his

[Jenny Nicholson @JennyENicholson]

It's honestly so embarrassing to see real actors weighing in on this at all. It's like if one day I tweeted "I'm gonna buy the moon lol" and NASA released an official statement like "this is an outrage"

[tern @1goodtern]

Well, this has been a month of heavy hitting news organisations reporting on how serious the after effects of even mild infections are.
Next up: Time
https://t.co/ZaDZOHKGpz

[Laura Miers @LauraMiers]

There’s a persistent misguided belief that the worst is behind us, and we’re all “building immunity,” so each subsequent Covid infection will be milder than the last, until one fine day, it will no longer affect us at all. I hear this CONSTANTLY. This is false.

[Will Stancil @whstancil]

Look I know this is controversial but I think it’s a really big deal the world’s richest person is a far-right manchild with a huge cult of personality who spends almost all of his time cultivating hate on the world’s most important political communication network, which he owns

[ZOE AMIRA SLICK 🦋 @zoeamira]

i’m so tired of abortion rights being framed around truly tragic circumstances like assault and incest. if you get pregnant & you don’t want to be pregnant, it is your right over your own body that is under siege. no one, including a fetus, can use your body against your consent.

[derecka @dereckapurnell]

If this was about babies, there would be universal healthcare. Free education. Free daycare. Southern states would be doing all they can to drop the Black maternal mortality rate. This is about power and control

[Don’t Boo…Revolt! @BreeNewsome]

If the political establishment acknowledges that the Republican Party has mainstreamed white supremacist violence, what does it say about white society that Republicans have such strong support?

[Don’t Boo…Revolt! @BreeNewsome]

If the political establishment acknowledges that the Republican Party has mainstreamed white supremacist violence, what then is the function of “bipartisanship”?

[A.R. Moxon 🦋 @JuliusGoat]

I'll start "learning to live with Covid" when "learning to live with Covid" means "doing the things that allow us to live with Covid" and not "acting as if the way to end a pandemic is to pretend the pandemic isn't real."

[Sam Ghali, M.D. @EM_RESUS]

I just left the ER.

We are officially back to getting crushed by COVID-19.

Delta Variant is running rampant and it’s MUCH more transmissible than the original virus.

99% of our ICU admits did NOT receive a vaccine.

Virtually ALL of them wish they had.

[Ashish K. Jha @ashishkjha]

Vaccinations have fallen off a cliff

We are now administering about 500K shots a day -- half of them 2nd shots

At this rate, it'll take about another year to get to 80% fully vaccinated

But we can do better than that if we do a few things

Short thread

[Supernova Momma @SupernovaMomma]

They have resources by city https://t.co/spECw7t2li

[Kaitlan Collins @kaitlancollins]

CDC Director Walensky becomes emotional during today's covid briefing, saying she's ditching prepared remarks because she's scared of rising case numbers in the US. "Right now, I'm scared...I so badly want to be done...so I'm asking you to just hold on a little longer."

[Ankita Rao @anrao]

Maybe it's all of it -- the long American history of dehumanization, the "Kung Flu" narrative, the exotification of Asian women, the xenophobia, our poor immigration laws, a lack of living wage, criminalization of sex work. Maybe it's just...all of it.

[Ilhan Omar @IlhanMN]

It isn’t hard to understand why it’s so normalized for law enforcement to protect the humanity of white mass murderers and their willingness to continually make excuses them.

[Brianna Wu @BriannaWu]

Let’s be really clear about why this happened. Trump and his right wing accomplices have been stirring up racist, anti-Chinese sentiment for years.

They proudly call it the “China virus,” they dehumanize Asian people, and it leads to hate crimes.

[OME @Mike_Eagle]

america runs on telling people that their traumas didnt happen

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

I’m sorry, but how can you be upset about frontline workers making a living wage when Jeff Bezos made $13,000,000,000 in a single day during the pandemic?