Wendy

@perfectrose2024.bsky.social

Enjoy other's art, photographs & literary efforts. "In the know" re: pandemic. Enjoy TV series such as Will Trent, Tracker, 911. A longtime viewer of the daytime drama, The Young & The Restless. Have met many of the cast in Vancouver at events here.

Civil rights groups are demanding answers after a man from El Salvador died in ICE custody over the weekend. Activists joined the family of Edwin Lopez-Cornejo on Tuesday and called for an independent investigation.

Perfectly said. No, I cannot do another daily task. Unless I want to skip one of my two meals. And no, I cannot go to any more appointments or physical therapy or anything. I need to rest more. I can't remember the last time I had *any* energy at all. I have to move and I have no idea how.

David Keegan@drdavidkeegan.bsky.social · 23h ago

One of the things a patient with complex chronic disease dreads to hear from any doc is, “Add this new thing to your routine. It will only take 5 minutes each day.” The “only” is doing *such* heavy lifting. When you add in all the other bits and pieces, tracking medications, handling the 1/3

A friend dug up a piece I did on my experience running NYP Ryan F. Larkin Field Hospital during the COVID crisis in NYC. In light of all of the madness this week I updated it. I was there. I saw what this disease did and the desperate fight we were in to stop it. It was much worse than you know.

Revisiting a unique moment: How hard can it be?

As it turns out running a Covid Field Hospital in New York City was actually pretty hard

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Authorities say wildfires in eastern Washington state forced the evacuation of tens of thousands of people in the Spokane area, including patients at its U.S. Veterans Affairs hospital, while destroying hundreds of homes, businesses and other structures.

RFK Jr's CDC reportedly scaled back foodborne disease tracking last year, removing cyclospora from mandatory reporting. The CDC also lost roughly 3,000 employees since 2025. Now a cyclosporiasis outbreak has killed 2 and sickened thousands across 45 states. "Make America Healthy Again."

Gill: All 100 senators last week passed a non-binding resolution condemning any pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell. They're simultaneously considering confirming the guy who met with her and moved her to a low-security facility as the top cop in the United States. That is so insane to me.

Among other problems, the bill would impose or incentivize age-verification systems, restrict young people’s access to lawful information, and create risks that adults could lose access to accounts or data after being mistakenly identified as minors. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

The SCREEN Act Threatens Privacy Far Beyond Adult Websites

The Senate Commerce Committee is set to consider S. 737, the SCREEN Act, a sweeping age-verification bill that would require online services to verify users’ ages before they can access any sexually e...

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The SCREEN Act is the biggest threat to your right to free, anonymous speech, ever. That this bill is very likely to be signed into law should send a chill down everyone's spines. Within the next month (or sooner), it will be the single most talked about topic in America - and rightfully so.

Social media post:
alpha @omarsbigsister
The SCREEN Act, which will go for a full
committee markup next Wednesday, on its own
would force every single adult in the US to do ID/
age verification. With that would come mass
censorship & surveillance over the last bit of
freedom and information we have - the internet.