when i was in my mid-20’s, i chose a d.o. over a m.d. for primary care, mistakenly thinking they’d be less ableist. while going over side effects of a med prescribed for nerve pain, she was like, “decrease in sex drive, but u probably feel so bad all the time u don’t want to have sex anyways haha.”
Heather Hill@rollin-academic.bsky.social · 3h agoA question from Reddit that I'll answer here: "What's the most unhinged thing a doctor has said to you with a straight face?"
The temps have been getting to 121. Dez has medications that need to stay at certain temps or could lead to more health emergencies. Please help us keep our power on? I've reposted this 5 times cuz I keep making errors and I'm mentally exhausted. Tired of explaining every day and posting proof
Xodanix3@xodanix3.bsky.social · yesterdayNeed to raise $422.38 by August 12 to avoid electricity shut off. 💕💸 #helpsky #tipaNative #disabilitycrowdfund
Detainees in the Adelanto ICE Processing Center have noticed contamination in the drinking water. Last week, we reported on footage from inside the facility that showed evidence of the inhumane conditions inside the facility. The full story: lataco.com/contaminated... 🎥: Aisha Wallace-Palomares
...then scapegoated. we are branded as childlike dreamers (anarkiddies), when if we were heeded shit would have been different. but libs believed the far-right lies about 'free speech' and now we got an even worse situation. spineless leading the spineless.
radicals are treated like the cannon fodder of history by liberals. we push things further & 20 years later the sanitized story is packaged as a way to continue support for this whole system. but we have knowledge, theory & best practices for how to confront fascism. we are ignored, demonized &...
Someone who follows the news from Gaza gets tired. Can you imagine what it's like for someone living in that reality?
pandemic discourse is percolating & ppl who haven’t spoken abt it in the present tense in years have logged in the chat. as another covid wave builds amidst ongoing heatwaves, i just don’t have the stomach for it.
frozen green grapes + fresh lemon juice + tajín for breakfast.
When you pass the buck of American imperialism to the German Nazis, you don't just draw attention to how bad the US has become, you exonerate both the Nazis and the historic imperialists/authoritarians of your own country, since the former were inspired by the latter.
Reposting this article cause y'all should know hyper monitoring Black people has been a part of Ohio since the State's creation Ankle monitors on our Haitian neighbors is just the reiteration of Ohio's original Black Laws #SpringfieldOhio #ProtectHaitianImmigrants
Greetings From Sundown Ohio@sundownohio.bsky.social · 2d agoMy neighbors are being forced to wear ankle monitors, I felt it was a good time to bring up Ohio's Black Laws. This is one of the first pieces I wrote to challenge the myth of Ohio ever being Pro-Black. Monitoring/regulation of Blk folks movement is so very Ohio open.substack.com/pub/sundowno...
went to this fuck ass bar to use the restroom. white security dude @ the door asked for my id & told me to take off my mask. me: do u really need me to tho? him: idk u me: yeah ur right u don’t know me like that. i walk past him while he huffs & puffs. what the fuck?
from a Fifth Estate mag from 2016, but a quote from 2009. still timely.
On the March – Ricardo Flores Magón (1917)
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 3d ago#OtD 2 Aug 1917 a multi-ethnic armed uprising took place in rural Oklahoma in opposition to conscription during WWI, in what would later become known as the Green Corn rebellion stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9163...
seen on Temple St, bt DTLA. i just liked the Mayan warrior dude.
excerpt, since i know a lot of ppl refuse to click on substack links. important story, though
Max Granger@maxgranger.info · 7d agoBREAKING: Tree sit goes up to stop border wall construction in Arizona. The action is reportedly the first tree sit in the U.S. aimed at stopping construction of a border barrier. Land defenders on the ground are asking people to show up and support.
Day 3, tree sit is still up ❤️🔥
Max Granger@maxgranger.info · 7d agoBREAKING: Tree sit goes up to stop border wall construction in Arizona. The action is reportedly the first tree sit in the U.S. aimed at stopping construction of a border barrier. Land defenders on the ground are asking people to show up and support.
is there a such thing as “adequate conditions” in a fucking concentration camp?
as disability pride month ends, all i can think of is every disabled person, elder, & child being tortured, routinely reinfected w deadly disabling viruses, & denied treatment in concentration camps & other prisons, especially those who are queer, trans, black, indigenous, & ppl of color.
"As such it was the first significant example of interethnic cooperation in the battle against colonial control."
CHINGA LA CHOTA! tldr: cops being openly bigoted are protected by privacy laws. even if the law wasnt bigoted (which it is), the fucking cops are.
Los Angeles Times@latimes.com · 5d agoLAPD officer who recorded colleagues' racist comments to be charged with felony eavesdropping
Detainees at Adelanto ICE Processing Center claim that staff have provided them with water from an unknown source that is routinely contaminated. A video L.A. TACO received backs this up. The full story: lataco.com/contaminated... By Aisha Wallace-Palomares
"the Epstein class" is the updated version of the bad 'class' politics of "we are the 99%." if you have no real class analysis you will fall for that shit every time.
now is a time to become more precise & discerning, not less?
“making peace w terfs is fine cus the epst*in class is the real enemy” is a take that could only formulate from this particular moment & i fucking hate it.
Priscillano turns out to have had acute leukemia. Here's the gofundme the family created to help cover his funeral costs www.gofundme.com/f/support-pr...
Donate to Help cover Funeral Costs for Prisciliano, organized by Joanny Santiago-Hernandez
***Update: Prisciliano fought hard to battle everything going on wi… Joanny Santiago-Hernandez needs your support for Help cover Funeral Costs for Prisciliano
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Prisciliano Trejo Ricano came to the U.S. at 3yrs old. ICE took him this June. He was 29. He told his family he didn't feel right but ICE wouldn't give him medical attention. After a month, ICE finally moved him to a hospital Prisciliano died five days later enlacelatinonc.org/en/Young-Mex...
A young Mexican man living in Durham died in ICE custody.
News in Spanish about politics, immigration and community issues for Latinos in North Carolina.
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