Weekly COVID update: Get your updated vaccine AND mask up to protect yourself and those at risk!

The Sick Times@thesicktimes.org · 6d ago

COVID-19 spread seems to have peaked for the summer in the South, but may still be increasing in the West and is starting to go up more in Northern states. thesicktimes.org/2026/09/22/n...

I think about this scene from Andor a LOT and repeat this phrase to myself often: "Power doesn't panic."

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · last wk.

Anyway, panic is a psy-op. Stay furious. Stay serious. Organize.

ngl I was stunned by this article's cite to a study showing that 5.4 million children & teens in the US have family caregiving responsibilities @jessicacalarco.com has done lotsa interesting work on how the US uses women in lieu of a social safety net but I had no idea how much labor falls on..kids

I Travel Like Sound Dog@chadstanton.blacksky.app · last wk.

“Although Black and Hispanic teen girls are disproportionately providing family care compared to white youth, Black boys and young men are also becoming the main caregivers in their families. During COVID-19, Black and brown youth caregivers filled gaps in a broken healthcare system.”

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This plays into gaslighting & overlooks deeper, more pressing systemic failures around the medical industrial complex, healthcare crisis, and medical misogyny & racism. It can even be put in conversation with the ongoing, mass-disabling COVID pandemic.

WIRED@wired.com · 4w ago

In addition to providing a rare approximation of national unity (uniting everyone from medical professionals to liberal feminists and MAHA acolytes) the perimenopause telehealth boom offers something else: a glimpse into the future of medicine in America.

IC is a juicy archive for all things abolitionist that I keep coming back to again and again. Check it out to see how criminalization affects so much more than prisons and to dream-scheme our way to more possibilities

Interrupting Criminalization@interruptcrim.bsky.social · last mo.

We're so close to 10k followers! Would you quote post this with why you think people should give us a follow? ☺️👉👈

Illinois law says local officials can't help federal agents deport people. So how did so many residents end up on ICE's radar through information shared by local police, sheriffs, and prosecutors? I filed 394 FOIA requests to find out. (An @injusticewatch.org partnership with @theintercept.com!)

Illinois promised to protect immigrants. Local officials helped deport them anyway.

In over a third of Illinois counties, cops, sheriffs, and even prosecutors helped federal immigration agents route at least 150 people into the deportation system since Trump returned to office, despi...

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"Collective economic disobedience must be prioritized above individualistic financial literacy gospel. And the stakes couldn’t be higher. If we don’t get creative and break the rules, we will be robbed of everything." -- Such a great piece by Myriam Robinson-Puche!

Debt Collective 🟥@debtcollective.bsky.social · last mo.

Why economic disobedience — not personal finance guidance — is our best path forward. www.inthered.org/p/fascism-pr...