last night, someone on tiktok asked me how wearing a mask is antifascist, so i answered: unfortunately, even passive, austere eugenics works faster if YOU participate. so step up: stand out, mask up, and take care take care take care for yourself & others—before those who seek to harm stop you.

If there's a con coming up in your area, please consider becoming Con-Crud Busters for your con! Just 1 member means you're already a Division

We’ve been out at Amoeba Music goday & will be for a little longer. We hope everyone is watching out for their neighbors. 🩵

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: our punk and drag shows have more covid mitigation than disease foundation summits and physicians conferences. Why can we do what people whose careers supposedly depend on the knowledge—with far more resources— can’t? #WeKeepUsSafe

Brian (Stuttering Loudly)@stutteringloudly.bsky.social · last yr.

Disability related conferences (or ANY conference) can easily do this, rather than coming up with so many excuses Buy 1-2 boxes of masks for those who don’t have masks or forgot, or didn’t know, etc Conferences that don’t try have shown what they REALLY think about disabled / immunocompromised ppl

The air quality today in LA due to fireworks is very bad. It would be a great day to mask up

i cannot emphasize enough that there is no better time to mask up. preventing illness before it happens is your best bet as the nets meant to catch you disintegrate before your eyes.

Philip Bump@pbump.com · last yr.

Spoke with someone who works with a public hospital system. His assessment of the effects of the GOP spending bill: “I think this is going to be a very apparent catastrophe, very quickly.”

Air quality issues relevant all 2025 in Los Angeles. If you need a mask to mitigate air quality issues, please do look for this signage to find a friendly Free Masks squad member! We got tons of KN95 masks to give away! -via @nickelpin.bsky.social

sain 🍊 store open@epitomime.bsky.social · last yr.

There's an actual fire at AX ...

In Georgia, the law is GA Code § 16-11-38 (2024). There's an exception for people who've been told by a doctor or public health agency to mask in order to avoid *spreading* infection, but not for people trying to avoid being infected. All of the folks who said immunocompromised people have... 1/3

Derek@dbkrause.bsky.social · last yr.

#nokings #savannah And here’s a lady getting arrested for wearing a medical mask

The uncomfortable truth of this situation is that if all the other folks in this video expressing outrage were also masked, this arrest would be less likely to happen. Your outrage means nothing in the absence of solidarity.

Derek@dbkrause.bsky.social · last yr.

#nokings #savannah And here’s a lady getting arrested for wearing a medical mask

Immune damage is another very important reason why we shouldn’t be catching #SARSCoV2 Covid is not mild. It is weakening our immune systems and leaving us at risk of other infections. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Long COVID manifests with T cell dysregulation, inflammation and an uncoordinated adaptive immune response to SARS-CoV-2 - Nature Immunology

Roan et al. use Olink and single‐cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) to show a dysregulated crosstalk between the cellular and humoral immune responses in individuals with long COVID 8 months postinfectio...

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Many are asking why bird flu has suddenly disappeared from the headlines. The truth is, it hasn’t gone anywhere. According to my CDC sources, H5N1 is spreading especially among symptomatic farm workers.

Again: You can buy these clear plastic masks at Amazon. Accusing this guy of conspiracy to commit civil disorder for...that, really vague stuff that opens the door to go after people handing out N95s, water, selling hot dogs, etc. Also: wear a mask, protect yourself from our ongoing pandemic.

babs ✨@itsbabs.bsky.social · last yr.

Really bad: Right wing narratives are moving from merely stigmatizing personal protective equipment to portraying it as proof of intent and participation.

The Department of Energy is trying to get rid of accessibility requirements for new construction via rulemaking. This unprecedented move, which seems to be illegal, could be the blueprint for other federal agencies to follow. New from me at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The Department of Energy is quietly slashing disability rights

"If we don't put a line in the sand here, other agencies will try and do the same.”

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We’re here outside Amoeba as per usual with free N95s & covid tests to keep the community safe & healthy during the current virus wave. We’ve been out here on & off for 6 months now! Time flies! 🩵

the thing that pisses me off the most is how few people will take this seriously— not even like, let alone retweet— because the rest of yall hate masks so much that you’ll close your eyes to the ways protecting oneself is being criminalized, to your own detriments of course #provemewrong

babs ✨@itsbabs.bsky.social · last yr.

Really bad: Right wing narratives are moving from merely stigmatizing personal protective equipment to portraying it as proof of intent and participation.

We know a lot is going on but please don’t forget that the “razor blade throat” covid variant is on the rise. Don’t get it & don’t spread it. Mask up in all public spaces. 🩵

We endorse these demands put out by @latenantsunion.bsky.social: 1. ICE OUT OF LA 2. DROP ALL CHARGES 3. FREE THEM ALL 4. IMMEDIATE RELIEF FOR WORKING CLASS ANGELENOS 5. A BUDGET FOR THE PEOPLE, NOT THE WEALTHY

We need to do some serious narrative work here - we should be careful about inflating labor’s role in the uprising. Them and other nonprofits have steered people away from the actual contention points on the ground. It’s the young people of LA that are providing the spark. Not labor.

Everyone saw Grand Park's hot pink benches being stacked into a barricade on Sunday. What an exceptional statement from RIOS, the benches' designers instagram.com/rios.imagines "These pieces were designed to move, adapt, welcome, connect — and now protect"

We’re not waste. We are not “the bureaucracy”. We're real people living and working alongside you to make our communities safer and healthier places to live. Say hello to our colleague Abby. She is fired but fighting and she is a patriot @firedbutfighting.bsky.social #FedWorkerFriday #WeArePatriots

Fired but Fighting (National Public Health Coalition)@firedbutfighting.bsky.social · last yr.

Abby Tighe was a federal servant in the division of overdose prevention at CDC. Her day-to-day job was working closely with local organizations to develop programs and initiatives for kids and teens, in order to keep them from smoking, drinking and using other drugs and substances.

In Canada, it was illegal to proactively offer Assisted dying when terminal patients were the only ones eligible. When it was expanded to include disabled people, they started allowing doctors to “offer it”. Encourage them to bring it up. Do you think this should be permitted?

🚨🚨🚨LA EMERGENCY PROTEST🚨🚨🚨 From the Community Self Defense Coalition: STOP DEPORTATIONS NOW! ICE HAS HUNDREDS OF MEMBERS OF OUR COMMUNITY KIDNAPPED AND IS HOLDING THEM AT THIS LOCATION Friday, June 6, 2025 4:30PM 535 Alameda St, LA, CA 90012 

People’s City Council - Los Angeles @pplscitycouncil.bsky.social · last yr.

FBI RIOT TEAM OUT IN STREETS OF LOS ANGELES (& GETTING PUSHED OUT BY COMMUNITY ON THE GROUND) Dozens of FBI, ATF, & DHS agents in camo fatigues with guns out. FUCK THESE GESTAPO PIGS! Angelenos are pushing the feds out!

joining the chorus of folks asking for care with language re: ICE covering faces—yes, they use nonmedical face coverings, meanwhile, the right has been&continues to be against mask/respirator use to protect oneself &others to the extent of bans—we must make the distinction AND normalize medical use.

babs ✨@itsbabs.bsky.social · last yr.

resist mainstreaming the far right & their ideals with choices you make every day—an easy one is to wear a respirator in, at the very least, public indoor spaces. needless spread of novel & thought-to-be-gone pathogens has been key to the eugenicists playbook. prevent it. tiktok.com/t/ZTFfYpJEC/

This is also false. Mask wearing was not mandated for years.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last yr.

MIKE JOHNSON: From the people who mandated mask wearing for years, it's absurd. They need to back off ICE & respect our agents Q: So you're ok w/agents not identifying themselves when they're arresting migrants? J: Why, so they can target them? So they can put names and faces online and dox them?

Yes, please again emphasize that they are wearing gaitors. Not masks. Gaitors have zero benefit for disease prevention. They provide no protection for that. Face masks and respirators (higher quality face masks) are distinctly different. There are mask ban bills. Make these distinctions.

babs ✨@itsbabs.bsky.social · last yr.

joining the chorus of folks asking for care with language re: ICE covering faces—yes, they use nonmedical face coverings, meanwhile, the right has been&continues to be against mask/respirator use to protect oneself &others to the extent of bans—we must make the distinction AND normalize medical use.

We’re setup at Lewis MacAdams Riverfront Park for Roots In Motion’s Wellness Fair! Come say Hi!