Some of the most radical mutual aid work in America is coming out of the communities still advocating for public awareness on SARS2/COVID & the importance of filtering the air. Whether its wildfire smoke, or the acceleration of airborne disease events, masking is 100% part of our future.

Lex McMenamin (they/them)@lexmcmenamin.com · last wk.

I spoke to the mutual aid groups and mask blocs combatting the spread of COVID and viral illness by freely distributing masks and tests and lending out air purifiers — who nationally have now distributed thousands of masks for wildfire smoke, too, amid an anti-public health admin @us.theguardian.com

Thank you for hosting this conversation. Folks don’t understand that when you are traumatized you do things that may not seem to make sense — because trauma doesn’t make sense. I wish more people could open their hearts to that.

I hope Julian Assange is relaxing.

"The COVID-19 pandemic at 6 years: Mass death, debilitation and media silence" "The pandemic has killed over 30 million people worldwide, left more than 400 million suffering from Long COVID... It is one of the most catastrophic events in modern history—and it is not over."

The COVID-19 pandemic at 6 years: Mass death, debilitation and media silence

As the sixth anniversary of the WHO pandemic declaration passes with total media silence, wastewater data, excess death estimates and new research on Long COVID reveal an ongoing public health catastr...

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Much needed synthesis of the current literature on the long term harms of Covid. Congrats Nancy for an interesting and excellent presentation

Nancy Malek@n95anaesthetist.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Doctors: does Covid cause long-term harm? Let's examine the evidence. 🧵 1/4 youtu.be/uGtU_gSCANo?...

The Epstein files contain emails with doctors advising how to get babies to “suck harder”. Doctors providing abortions to underage girls. Doctors treating STIs and ectopic pregnancies in children. None of them have lost their licenses. They enabled a pedophile & they’re still treating patients.

Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries. One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home. Abolish the billionaire class:

Donate to Support for Washington Post international employees, organized by Michelle Lee

Among the hundreds of journalists laid off by The Washington Post on … Michelle Lee needs your support for Support for Washington Post international employees

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This woman is a hero. Mark Tramo gave Epstein “tips” to get babies to suck harder She stood outside his building with a sign that had a quote from the email She was all alone One woman & one voice She screamed as loud as she could. She made sure they heard her Tramo’s contract won’t be renewed

NBC is editing out footage of JD Vance being booed at the Olympics. CBS is state sponsored propaganda. Bezos fired over 300 journalists from The Washington Post and left many stranded in foreign countries. They’re crowd funding to get home. Support independent journalism.

More than a decade ago I worked social media for the NDIS. I realised Serco was going to be a service provider. I gave some feed back criticising the decision. Contract not renewed. And now here we are. Serco is now providing outsourced phone case management to the NDIS

Guardian Australia@australia.theguardian.com · 7mo ago

Outsourced call centre staff at NDIS have to pretend to work for government, workers say

Advice to governments from a public health investigation of South Australia’s algal bloom crisis – Croakey Health Media www.croakey.org/advice-to-go... By Prof @franbaum.bsky.social

A powerful introduction to a parliamentary debate in the Netherlands on post-acute infection syndromes (PAIS), including #LongCOVID, #MECFS, chronic Lyme & post-sepsis conditions. Dutch MP Kostić describes it as one of the biggest medical scandals of recent decades. (29/1/26)

An entire political movement founded on uncovering hidden messages in documents to discover the powerful secret pedophiles and meanwhile the powerful pedophiles out here sending gmails saying "Hi fellow pedophile when are we meeting to do pedophilia again"

Wajahat Ali@wajali.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Disgusting. In an email on Sept. 11, 2013, Mr. Richard Branson, founder of the Virgin Group, wrote to Mr. Epstein, “It was really nice seeing you yesterday.” He added: “Any time you’re in the area would love to see you. As long as you bring your harem!” www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

Fast-tracking data centres without sober assessment of systemic risks is a policy of state violence that will contribute to & culminate in social murder via #ClimateBreakdown, increased frequency & intensity of heatwaves, dangerous fire weather, drought, extreme rainfall, floods, sea-level rise etc

Greg Jericho@grogsgamut.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Record temperatures, bushfires, meh fire up those data centres that use stonks of water and require a shit tonne of electricity www.afr.com/politics/fed...

“Epidemiological studies have begun to show a concerning trend: individuals with a history of COVID-19 infection are at an elevated risk for developing diabetes, often within months of recovery...” This has actually been known for years, but I’m glad to see more attention on it.

Unseen Post-COVID Diabetes: Causes and Forecasts

As we navigate through the lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, one of the most alarming outcomes is the increasing prevalence of diabetes among those who have been infected with the virus.

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I wonder if people are really ready to live life without vaccines? Small coffins, small graves… The need to have more children to take into account the death and disability rate… What a terrible and sad step backwards…

22. Remember the flu waves in 2020/21? No, because they didn't happen, despite not acting against airborne transmission. The rebound wave in 2022 could have been mitigated by ramping up vax, masks, clean air, but no, that's not "normal". There's no humane sick pay either.

21. Ultimately, we need Govt, public health, and public opinion to cause a paradigm shift where we start taking infectious diseases seriously. Why do we tolerate "winter pressures" EVERY YEAR?! They are predictable AND preventable. The investment would more than pay for itself...

The man in the white shirt stopped one of the Bondi Beach shooters. He risked his own life to save countless others. He didn’t need a gun to do it. He doesn’t appear to have hurt the shooter. He stopped him so the police could arrest him. He’s a hero.

Yashar Ali 🐘@yasharali.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Incredible footage out of Australia, confirmed by NEWS AU, of a brave bystander neutralizing one of the terrorists in the Bondi Beach attack which took place during a Hanukkah gathering. Australian authorities say multiple people have been killed. At least two suspects are in custody.

How awful. This is outright health disinformation, lying to the American people. Not only is there massive evidence showing no link between vaccines & autism, there’s not even a plausible mechanism based on what we’ve learned about the genetics of autism, some environmental exposures in pregnancy

Sheryl Gay Stolberg@sherylnyt.bsky.social · 9mo ago

HEADS UP: CDC website now officially asserts that vaccines may cause autism.“Studies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities.” Also says the “vaccines do not cause autism” header remains b/c of an agreement with Cassidy.

Fifteen years of ideological choices to strangle & gut the public realm - NHS to schools to social services to local museums - is what underlies the anger "tearing our country apart"; immigration is simply the scapegoat that the far right are pushing people toward. Why can't Labour just say this?

person woman man two all beef patties special sauce camera TV lettuce cheese Hannibal Lecter pickles onions Arnold Palmer's schlong shark electricity on a cofveve sesame seed bun

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 9mo ago

Trump is ranting barely coherently to McDonald's franchise owners: "The one pilot said, 'skedaddle!' And that thing just turned on its side -- pppph. And it's so unbelievable. And that knocked out Iran nuclear capability."

1/ 🇿🇦 South Africa's worst & ongoing export, #WhiteSupremacy - www.bbc.com/news/article...

Matthew Gruter: South African man seen at neo-Nazi rally has Australian visa revoked

The civil engineer was seen in the front row of a protest organised by the National Socialist Network.

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Governments have been urged to establish mandatory indoor air quality performance standards and a transparent national system of monitoring and reporting, including universal workplace monitoring and the visible display of real-time indoor air quality data. Via @croakeynews.bsky.social

Croakey Health Media@croakeynews.bsky.social · 9mo ago

How failure to regulate indoor air quality exacerbates health inequities www.croakey.org/how-failure-... #publichealth

Turn on the lights, put on your glasses, get out your chemistry set. It’s time to do individual responsibility style public health for meat testing. Disclaimer… you’ll have to sort out your own brain worms/other gastrointestinal disaster/sepsis if you stuff up.

Sam Bergman@violanorth.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Oh.

btw print media turnaround time means that since we spoke, Canada did lose its measles elimination status! Also likely to happen in the US. COVID denialism continues to fuel grim failures in disease prevention & eradication.

Canada loses measles elimination status, with US on track to follow

The country hasn't been able to curb an outbreak of more than 5,000 cases over the last year, while US cases are at a 33-year high.

bbc.com

1/ "Diseases have been eradicated before. Public Health Is Dead asks: what if public health officials had spent the past few years working to educate the public and actually stop the spread of a preventable, novel illness?":

Britta Shoot@brittashoot.com · 9mo ago

How great to talk to the wise @sharpflower.bsky.social about COVID-19 leadership failures, the unremembered lessons of 2003 SARS1 containment in Vancouver, and the ongoing Long COVID crisis. Listen to publichealthisdead.com! And read our conversation, out now in @briarpatchmag.bsky.social 😷🫡

Disgusting. You engaged in political gamesmanship using them as pawns knowing they would get harmed and now you question *their* patriotism because some of them aren't wealthy like you and didn't want to work a high stress job for no pay?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 9mo ago

Sean Duffy threatens "action" against air traffic controllers who didn't come to work during the shutdown: "I'm concerned about their patriotism."

In a rare case of Substack notes usefulness, I just learned that Sarah Kendzior (author of They Knew and a brilliant writer) got bounced from Bluesky. What the hell? new @sarahkendzior.bsky.social

"If streateries are a pandemic relic, then they’re a monument to a moment when we correctly ordered our local politics around building community and creating a built environment that fosters maximum public benefit. "We would be wise to re-commit ourselves." Our latest opinion piece:

Opinion: D.C.'s new streatery rules are a costly miscalculation

The city's streatery guidelines are punishing small businesses and vibrant neighborhoods. We need a permanent solution to keep these staples of the city’s dining scene.

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