Amidst union negotiations in Hampden, MOMs has banned its workers from wearing respiratory safety masks unless they get a doctor's note. Masking makes EVERYONE safer and should not be impeded. Email the owner and demand he respect workers' safety rights and public health! tinyurl.com/supportmomsw...

The doctor who claimed that vaccines cause autism lost his medical license for faking for the study. But his lies and the damage he did to public health persist long after his paper was pulled. This is why science communication is so difficult; all it takes is one grifter.

eugenics playing out before us

The Author, Séamas O'Reilly@seamas.bsky.social · yesterday

Not to be some wild-eyed innocent, but I think it should be slightly bigger news that The Lancet have crunched the numbers and found that Musk's USAID cuts will kill 14 million people. And that's just by 2030. That's 9,600 people a day, every day, until the next world cup rolls around.

Our nation is obsessed with the moral comfort of middle class white people and it makes me fucking sick People are getting killed, raped, imprisoned and tortured by ICE. Yes, it is worth it to risk our freedom and the more of us that do, the less risky it is for all of us! Read a fucking book!!!!

Pandemics historically lead to fascism/wear a fucking mask

Riley Bruce@rileybruce.bsky.social · 2d ago

What’s a thing from your area of expertise (or special interest) that you think it would behoove everyone else to know?

I wrote about the end times

Hearing Things@hearingthingsco.bsky.social · 2d ago

The dream is dead but we didn’t kill it

ICE plans to spends tens of millions of dollars on the gloves, which are supposed to incapacitate people. A manual 404 Media found says the gloves may even contribute to “sudden death.”

Here's the Manual for ICE's Electric Shock Gloves

ICE plans to spends tens of millions of dollars on the gloves, which are supposed to incapacitate people. A manual 404 Media found says the gloves may even contribute to “sudden death.”

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Worth reiterating every time that this is not some cancel-culture purity test: JK Rowling has pledged more than a billion dollars of her Harry Potter money towards bankrolling anti-trans lawsuits. This finances that.

Nicholas Hoult In 'Harry Potter' Season 2 As Gilderoy Lockhart - Excl.

Nicholas Hoult has joined Season 2 of HBO Max's 'Harry Potter. He will play Gilderoy Lockhart, portrayed in the second movie by Kenneth Branagh.

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making our kids sick again, todd blanche corrupt swearing in salsa that will make you chuck, potus in a catering truck weeeee didn’t start the fiiiire

Musicology Duck@musicologyduck.bsky.social · 4d ago

i cannot take one more day of coming home from work to three new verses of "we didn't start the fire"

again, these are literally Nazi tactics!! these are Nazis!! and Democrats will say it's too unpopular to speak up against this

Mark Grimshaw@markgrimshawtism.bsky.social · 3d ago

This post just popped up on my Facebook from a page with tens of thousands of followers. Behind the black box are the names of 10 children the OP is alleging to be trans. The post also include photos of all 10 children, and the name of the schools they attend. They’re now doxxing minors.

"This is modern day shackling." Hundreds of Haitians in Ohio are being summoned into ICE offices and fitted with ankle monitors. They had legal status. They had work permits. They had lives here. The Roberts Court made sure this was ok.

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Jul ErinReed The Compliance Crew strikes!! In coordinated action, yellow-clad trans-masc Kansans used women’s rooms at zoos, libraries, museums, etc. as req. by law in coordinated action Cops called to Dodge City water park where 3 used women's room. You GO guys.

Police Called on Trans Men Using Women's Restroom As Required By Kansas Law

“As a trans man, I have the immense privilege of blending in. But these laws force me to choose between safety and obeying the law.”

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Today in @thenation.com: a harrowing piece written from inside the Dilley ICE detention center by Maryam Tahmasebi, a green card holder who's been locked up along with her husband and son for months despite none of them committing any crime. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

One Woman’s Message From the Hell of ICE Detention

My husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare.

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Texas is literally trying to ban Islam & Muslims in fascist violation of the Constitution and corporate media is largely silent. Because anti-Muslim hate is par for their course. This is why independent media matters. See this report by @saadia---m.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/letsaddr...

Texas Republicans Plan to Banish Muslims

Ban halal food, ban hijabs, and bring back banishment. That's the Texas GOP plan for 2027.

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fwiw I always rec taking a break between undergrad and grad school. doing so can help you realize later, if you do get a faculty gig in academia, that all workplaces are sort of hellscape microcosms of broader social issues and that higher ed isn't really unique in this regard.

Fascists try to force their victims to look like the criminals they imagine them to be. This is such sick, disgusting humiliation. I think people who have never been around ankle monitors don't realize how painful they are, how difficult they render daily life

Yael Schacher@yaelschacher.bsky.social · 5d ago

So many immigrants I've interviewed break down about this. "Monsanto Maler was one of several Haitian immigrants who traveled from Springfield for a check in...after an ankle monitor was attached to him, Maler was seen collapsing to the ground and crying." www.springfieldnewssun.com/local/hundre...

The worst part about all of this is, seeing everyone talk about Covid and the pandemic, as if it’s in the past tense. COVID IS STILL DISABLING and KILLING PEOPLE. It causes brain damage, cardiovascular damage, immune system, dysregulation, and fucking cancer. Pretend it’s not here at your own risk.

💢 🇵🇸 Israeli forces shot and killed Muhannad Jamal Ghayath east of Deir al-Balah & wounded 10 Palestinians across Gaza on Sat., according to Palestine Online. 9 Palestinians were wounded east of Khan Younis, where Israeli troops repeatedly opened fire toward displacement tents & shelters. A child...

⚡️ Israel's Brutal Retaliation Against Imprisoned Palestinian Doctors Seeking Legal Appeals The escalated abuse against Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya following a legal challenge to his detention has sent a chilling message to the families of... Story by Ismail Nofal www.dropsitenews.com/p/doctor-hus...

Just off the top of my head: - Volunteers for Habeas Dockets habeasdockets.org/volunteer - People with language skills who can act as interpreters to do intake with detainees and/or their families - Folks willing to be vetted and volunteer with groups like Haven Watch helping people who get released

If you are a lawyer barred in Minnesota, I will personally sponsor your admission to the District Minnesota (you need one other person as well) and teach you how to do habeas cases. It's going to be all hands on deck.

Mara Abolish I.C.E.@mauratwit.bsky.social · last wk.

A concentration camp will begin hiring and operations in Minnesota next week. A concentration camp will begin hiring and operations in Minnesota next week. A concentration camp will begin hiring and operations in Minnesota next week. A concentration camp will begin hiring and operations in Minnes

Go read @lilianasegura.bsky.social's deep reporting on the police killing of Kohen Wiley, the ugly history of the small Mississippi town where it happened, and a pitch-perfect kicker. theintercept.com/2026/08/06/k...

Black Residents Warned of Abusive Cops for Years. Then Police Shot and Killed a Toddler.

In Senatobia, Mississippi, where police killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley, community members had urged leaders to rein in the police. Are they listening now?

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Florida is gearing up to execute #WilliamSilvia in just 11 days. William deals with severe mental illness, paranoia and severe emotional distress, both leading up to his crime and at this moment. A defense psychologist argued that his lifetime of abuse caused a "trauma-related dissociative episode".

Kinda wild that this is like a minor foot note in our media discourse that the president's refugee policy is just blatantly white supremacist. Future gens will look back at this period like "wtf"

Alex Ip 葉清霖@alexip718.com · last wk.

BREAKING: in July 2026, *every single one* of the 2,528 refugees admitted in the U.S. were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 10,255 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November), and nobody else. For reference, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees in 2024.

This is the highest-resolution view of the surface of the Sun. Ever. Taken by the NSF's Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, features as small as 19 km across can be resolved. The wispy things are magnetic field boundaries formed by Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities. The island of Ireland for scale.

“I’m going to grow up without a father” - 12 year old Ashley Corejo, whose Dad Edwin Jovanny Lopez Corejo died in ICE’s Delaney Hall. Jovanny was diabetic and the family says he was denied consistent access to his meds, something we hear from many Delaney families.

Getting real sick of slop midwives pleading for a 'respectful discussion' of AI as relates to the arts. Your use of AI to 'make art' is not respectful. It benefits from stolen art, destroys the planet, and does not make you an artist any more than someone driving 26.2 miles is a marathoner.

Some of the people with Cyclosporiasis will end up disabled. They will survive the acute infection, but their lives will never be the same. You never know what infection, accident or injury might change your health forever. Disability justice benefits everyone.

BREAKING: Another ICE Prisoner Has Died at Delaney Hall in NJ via our @jordanchariton.bsky.social www.statuscoupsubstack.com/p/breaking-a...

BREAKING: Another Delaney Hall ICE Prisoner Has Died

A Delaney Hall ICE prisoner has died, the second prisoner that we know of who has died while being imprisoned inside the for-profit New Jersey ICE prison.

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