Needleroozer

@needleroozer.bsky.social

Porcupines can be a little prickly sometimes, it's in our nature. Especially when attacked. Proud to be #EnemyWithin I'm tired of this JustAsBad nonsense. If you equate Democrats and Republicans I will no longer mute you, I will block you. #470716

Trump, speaking to troops in North Carolina, is now attacking ex-governor and Democratic Senate candidate Roy Cooper as a "disaster" who was culpable for a woman getting her "throat slit" (note the total silence from the crowd)

BOOM: 💥 Brazil gives Meta 72 hours to explain new fact-checking policies Brasília (AFP) – Brazil on Friday gave social media giant Meta 72 hours to explain its fact-checking policy for the country, and how it plans to protect "fundamental rights" on its platforms. www.france24.com/en/live-news...

Brazil gives Meta 72 hours to explain new fact-checking policies

Brazil on Friday gave social media giant Meta 72 hours to explain its fact-checking policy for the country, and how it plans to protect "fundamental rights" on its platforms.

france24.com

For more than 4 decades, the Assad family made sure the horrors it committed in Hama stayed unspeakable — killing tens of thousands in a savage month-long siege, then hunting those who carried the memory. Now, finally, the survivors can speak. apple.news/ApT9PZtDZTS2...

In Hama, survivors of the Assad family’s first massacre can finally speak — The Washington Post

Bashar al-Assad’s father brutally crushed an uprising in Hama, creating a blueprint for repression. Decades later, Syrians can now start to tell their stories.

apple.news

Worrisome and loaded rhetoric here. Poilievre “will fire government officials throughout my administration who are imposing a toxic work ideology.” Who will he go after? Why? And “my administration”? Is he running for president? Sounds trumpy.

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1. Vertical (mother to child) transmission of HIV in the US is close to being eliminated—one of the greatest public health successes in modern times 2. RFK Jr is an AIDS denialist, & I fear that putting an AIDS denialist in charge of the nation’s health could be a huge setback to progress

Aaron Weiss (no relation)@aweiss.bsky.social · 2y ago

After nearly three decades, a Minnesota summer camp for kids with HIV/AIDS is closing and up for sale... because retroviral drugs are so effective that there aren't enough campers. Science works, y'all. www.startribune.com/closure-of-n...

the progression of AIDS treatment in my lifetime, from how terrifying it was as a child in the 80s to stories like this 40-odd years later, is genuinely one of the human race’s most awe-inspiring scientific achievements. it was a nonnegotiable death sentence for SO LONG

Aaron Weiss (no relation)@aweiss.bsky.social · 2y ago

After nearly three decades, a Minnesota summer camp for kids with HIV/AIDS is closing and up for sale... because retroviral drugs are so effective that there aren't enough campers. Science works, y'all. www.startribune.com/closure-of-n...