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Bodyworker and grouch. 68, she/her. NT/HSP. Half-blind, still mostly redheaded, divides life between books, large barbells, cats, and music.

[Raghu Venugopal MD @raghu_venugopal]

The only downside is Jefffrey probably paid too much in hospital parking - which we should fix - but his story I have seen for 25 years in Canada’s publicly funded healthcare system where no 3rd party investor is profiting from illness and healing. @JeffreyLuscombe

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

People are breaking down on TikTok because they just realized Obamacare *is* the Affordable Care Act.

The heartbreaking part? So many have pre-existing conditions.

One man admitted he voted for Trump without knowing it was Obamacare that allowed his mother with stage 4

[covid is oncogenic @chaitrovert]

acute covid may present with NO respiratory symptoms

your illness can still be covid if your main symptoms are gastrointestinal (like "stomach flu") or neurological (altered senses, memory loss, headache, etc.)

take a covid test even if you don't have respiratory symptoms

[chantzy @chantz_y]

Wow, this account posted a whole thread on IG about how to navigate the holidays & have conversations with loved ones. If they aren't open to making an event safer, here's a good reminder👇🏼

[Bodega Cats @Bodegacats_]

📷 @colebutta

[Jessica Valenti @JessicaValenti]

I know everyone is talking about Matt Gaetz but please don't miss this:

Georgia fired every single person on its maternal mortality review committee. Why? They didn't like that reporters found out that the state's ban killed two women
https://t.co/flwecfYeVJ

[ᴘᴏᴛᴀᴛᴜᴍ @pot8um]

“We must not comply in advance!”

You’re already doing it.

It’s why you, your family, friends & everyone around you are sick all the time.

Put a mask back on!
Don’t be afraid to be the only one.

We’re still in a pandemic & your health is fucked from it. Protect your baseline.

[Patrick Skinner @SkinnerPm]

See, usually you indict the crook who tried to keep power via a coup. And you don’t let the crook who tried to keep power via a coup to run for president again. And you certainly don’t vote for that crook again. But we are after all the exceptional country….

[Olive Siffleur @OliveSiffleur]

I was just listening to a documentary about Shakespeare's mother and hearing how people in the 1500s moved town meetings outdoors to avoid spreading disease in enclosed spaces. Elizabethans had a better understanding of airborne disease than most doctors now.

[Willie Ross Jr. Knee Deep @RossKneeDeep]

A little story if you dont mind. I once owned a business. One day myself and a white employee were going to a client's home in a city called Livonia (Mi). We were driving down a main street going west. A police car was going east.

The cop looked over at us as we passed. I told my white employee that we're about to get pulled over. Sure enough, the cop whipped a u-turn, hit his lights, and pulled up behind us.

My employee was a little shaken and asked, what did you do, Mr. Ross? I said, nothing. The cop asks for the usual. I asked him, "Why did you stop me?" He said your brake lights are out. My employee blurted out, "That’s Bull $h*t Mr. Ross!!! How did he see your brake light while he was driving towards us?"

The officer saw my fire department badge when I gave him my driver's license and didn't pursue his ruse any further and let me go. He was fishing. Hoping to find a black guy driving dirty. When the cop pulled away, we checked my brake lights, and they were fine.

I told my employee, "You've just witnessed, "Driving While Black." It's a real thing.

[Kelly @broadwaybabyto]

“If somebody doesn't help me, I'm going to die," she recalls wailing, watching doctors and nurses pass her by.

"Somebody said to me, 'I don't know what you expect me to do,'" she said. "'You're a healthy 21-year-old young female.'"

This is exactly what happened to me at 24… 🧵

[ACLU @ACLU]

BREAKING: The House just rejected a bill that could have given the Trump administration the power to crush dissent and go after political enemies.

This is a victory for all our right to speak truth to power.

[Introvert, Dear @IntrovertDear]

I can’t believe I have to say this, but please don’t bring your socially anxious friend to a gathering only to leave them alone with a group of people they don’t know.

[Kristi Yamaguccimane @TheWapplehouse]

The richest neighborhood in Wilmington, a community called Landfall, passed a HOA policy a few years ago to require contractors provide proof of citizenship for every worker and my buddy Cole who does countertops said every job site stopped for 3 months so they had to reverse it

[paulypandemic @we_are_ssd]

Congress needs to amend the Airborne Act to ASHRAE 241 instead of 62.

You can sign this letter to your member of Congress which supports it with 241 amendments

https://t.co/ipaCYqdVIv

[Thought Provoking Berserker ⚛️🦍🦅 @Provokethoughtz]

Absolutely 👏🏾🙌🏾

[Mike Hoerger, PhD MSCR MBA @michael_hoerger]

Just re-upped for the winter. FlowFlex rapid tests from Pharmalynk.

Discount code for 20% off site wide: 20off

Discount code for free shipping (can only use one, didn't try): freeship

Dec 2025 expiry. Some bulk discounts. Good experience shopping there. No COIs.

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

I can't figure out if vaccines work or not.

Tough one. I can see why RFK Jr is so concerned.

Need Sherlock Holmes on this one.

[People's CDC @PeoplesCDC]

CDC’s infection control committee (HICPAC) meets Nov 14 and 15. They will be considering revised infection control guidelines for healthcare settings.