Don’t love the image of Mamdani planting olive trees in “protest” of bibi just hours before his police arrested peaceful protesters. something has got to give soon. he can’t keep pretending the nypd isn’t an issue.

And still many feel the need to make those who are vulnerable, having a vulnerable familymember,or do not want to catch Covid themselves due to this reason ..very uncomfortable when wearing a mask. Everywhere they go. The courage and determination it takes to keep on wearing the mask!👍👏❤️

VirusSucks.com@virussucks.com · 2d ago

COVID infections have deadly consequence. People are dying from cardiac and stroke outcomes that often creep up in a year or two after acute infections. www.nature.com/articles/s41... COVID-19 and cardiovascular outcomes in patients with pre-existing hypertension. #LongCOVID #fatigue

This is what they've done.

Steve Vladeck@stevevladeck.bsky.social · 2d ago

#BREAKING: In non-Missouri emergency docket news, #SCOTUS *grants* the Trump administration's request for a stay in the SAVE case, allowing DHS to have access to certain Social Security information. The three Democratic appointees dissent.

This is what they've done.

Effie Seiberg@effies.bsky.social · last yr.

This is super cool bc: 1) Many of the highest-risk conditions, like ME/CFS & Long Covid, aren't on the list 2) The best way to protect the vulnerable is to protect the population so others don't infect them 3) None of this accounts for Novavax which is not mRNA www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

it is no exaggeration to say that the only way 300,000+ masks were distributed to angelenos as our city burned is bc we learned how to do this kind of thing together: in our leisure spaces, at our drag shows. you laugh—til you need us. and i’ll have a mask for you, because we all deserve clean air.

babs ✨@itsbabs.bsky.social · last yr.

thinking about all the people who i’ve learned to invent a better from the worse with as we’ve been abandoned these pandemic years and oh, what a road trip of its own it’s been.

that there’s a not insignificant population desperate to exist with just a smidge more clean air than is offered nigh anywhere else. don’t wanna wear a mask? awesome, congrats, essentially the entire rest of the world caters to you—places where inhaling virus is less likely are few & far between.

babs ✨@itsbabs.bsky.social · last yr.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: our punk and drag shows have more covid mitigation than disease foundation summits and physicians conferences. Why can we do what people whose careers supposedly depend on the knowledge—with far more resources— can’t? #WeKeepUsSafe

totally sucks to log back on after driving across the country to see so much hate levied at the action of masking specifically, not to mention the people who are desperate for the very few places (it’s literally named last ditch people) still safe if not encouraging toward those who wear them.

hey @wutrain.bsky.social I know this isn’t under the mayor/city, but I just saw an MBTA bus with an ad for a crisis pregnancy center on the back, and thats pretty alarming seeing as just a year ago the city was running public ads about how dangerous those centers are

What was this, the second time in a month that leftists gleefully joined in on a harassment campaign initiated by reactionaries against covid cautious people? Seems like that indicates a critical absence in awareness and analysis. Maybe y’all should fix that. And your hearts too.

all I wanna say about the Boston Globe lesbian bar drama bs article is that the author follows a lot of noxious transphobes and I saw queer Bsky users sharing it saying things like “all these freaks have mental disorders and should be locked up in institutions” and that all really fucking sucks

your tax $$ is funding genocide and you can’t afford food but the queer maskers are the problem….bffr

Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot

Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

theguardian.com

It should be a scandal, the way ME/CFS and Long COVID patients are treated. Millions and millions of people. Most of us are too tired to effectively advocate, which is why it’s such a relief to see real attention. Help this break containment!

George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 3d ago

Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

reporting in with wedding event look #1 [ alt caption: please invite me to your mask required lesbian bar ]

ah yes the disabled advocating for themselves is the REAL reason republicans won. fascists want us to lack compassion, to dismiss one another’s struggles. fall for “this is why they hate us!!!” rhetoric. Don’t fall for it.

doom boy@doomboy.bsky.social · 3d ago

which is frustrating as all hell, because it means that all we had to do in 2016 was tell these self-centered wreckers to buzz off, and we could've saved ourselves the fucking decade of time that we wasted "unpacking" and "decentering" and "holding space" while republicans annihilated the country

bj silly is lowkey best conceptual artist but no one’s ready for that conversation

"Disability activists warned for years that this would be the outcome of allowing COVID-19 to spread unmitigated. Now that it’s time to pay the piper, the state and its media allies are working desperately to sever the connection between COVID-19 and its consequences."

The Sick Times@thesicktimes.org · 4d ago

The Telegraph recently published an article about "sickfluencers" titled “How having a disability became cool." We've republished a piece by Julia Doubleday at The Gauntlet pushing back against the article, which she calls "absurd on its face." thesicktimes.org/2026/09/21/c...

so many “radicals” are brainrotted from anti-SJW youtube and it shows. fight fascism and take a stand against eugenics.

james@james.claims · 3d ago

It’s not lost on me that the person that people from all sides are trying to elevate to lolcowdom is the Black Nigerian gender-expansive he/him lesbian.

Hey if you’re sharing the lesbian bar article, you’re manufacturing a bunch of consent for the media to do more hit pieces on our communities and it’s fucking wild that you don’t realize it.

they also published a transphobic op ed the exact same day. and their subscriber numbers went way up. the bigotries are out in the open but because they're two of the most accepted bigotries in society (transphobia and ableism) they get a pass

Erin Biba@erinbiba.bsky.social · 4d ago

Hey so uhhhhh that Boston Globe story about the lesbian bar relaxing its covid rules is an *absolute fucking hit piece* targeting the disabled, chronically ill, and covid-conscious and it would be great if folks sharing and joking about it could recognize that framing.

Personally if I was living under a fascist right wing party one thing I wouldn’t do would be to ally with it on ridiculing a minority group that’s a historic genocidal target of fascism, but hey, that’s me.

Chantzy@chantzy.bsky.social · 3d ago

Many liberals on here share the same views as Ted Cruz, it seems. Some of y'all are even using the same ableist language as him

“There’s a new Mr. Beast book.” You bolt awake in your workshop in Mainz. It’s 1450. You’re Johannes Gutenberg, and you’ve changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. Your printing press must burn.

starting a new job today!! going to the socialism conference with my fav direct action group ever this weekend!!! said group near and dear to my heart tabling at Georgia’s Weather Report (Queeriod!) this sunday you should come say hi bc seren nation is so back :3

Today, on #SevereMEAwarenessDay, we're sharing the introduction and two excerpts from the new book, “What Is Myalgic Encephalomyelitis Like?” These excepted essays were written by Madelleine Muller. thesicktimes.org/2026/08/08/t...

Not only do these dudes not understand science, they are embarrassingly insecure and cringey

“Immigration camps in the United States today disappear people politically before, all too frequently, they disappear them physically. To combat the suffering we should use language that reveals the inhumanity rather than conceals it. The word camp does just that.”

Don’t call them ICE detention centers. Call them camps | John Washington

I’ve spent a decade reporting on immigration enforcement. The word ‘camp’ best captures the political function of these facilities

theguardian.com

AND no one really knows who is high risk. I was not high risk on paper (other than being queer) but here i am with long covid anyway. Everyone seems to have decided that they must be Das Übermensch.

Nicholas Slayton@nslayton.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Since we're talking COVID: Masks work, ivermectin does not. Vaccines massively protect you and help against long-term stuff, but you need to keep up with boosters. You need to keep masking; COVID isn't over because WE DIDN'T STOP THE TRANSMISSIONS in 2020-2021. Also many are still at high risk

We will be ready to have a real discussion about Covid when we accept the fact that “the vulnerable will fall by the wayside,” said by Fauci, under Biden, was eugenicist policy.

The vehemence with which currently healthy people demanded compliance from disabled and vulnerable people still at risk - and whom they immediately abandoned and ostracized if they would not comply - always suggested to me that this was not rationalism speaking.

Nicole Bedera@nbedera.bsky.social · 2mo ago

One more thing I want to be clear about: Most people are not talking about the trauma of lockdowns. They’re overwhelmingly talking about the trauma of being forced “back to normal” when “normal” had a new level of danger and cruelty.

the long trauma of covid will be with us so long as people live in denial of the fact that covid is not over

The Fig Economy@figgityfigs.bsky.social · 2mo ago

One of my Crank Theories of Everything, at least of Everything in the Recent Past, is that we are dealing (badly) with COVID trauma we’d mostly prefer to pretend never happened.