Inexperienced Seattle Mayor Apologizes for Naively Assuming Police Knew How to Do Their Job: tinyurl.com/3dv6uy9m
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Seconding this as a deaf person** who also masks. Yes, I rely on lip-reading, but there are ways that I can make it work. And there are masks that enable lip-reading. **D/deaf people were used as a convenient excuse to say that masking is "ableist" 😑
Dr. Antje Gamble@drantjegamble.bsky.social · 3d agoAlso, I never will accept that wearing a mask was impeding anyone’s ’freedom’. I still mask, esp at work when I’m around hundreds of co-eds (who are always sick). I lecture for hours in a mask. I still live my damn life.
Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.
Reuters Legal@legal.reuters.com · 2d agoAmazon.com's Whole Foods did not violate U.S. labor law by prohibiting employees from wearing clothing and accessories that said "Black Lives Matter" or "BLM," the National Labor Relations Board has ruled.
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ICE Collected Nearly 1 Million People’s DNA Last Year—Including Young Children
Internal documents show ICE's DNA collection has skyrocketed in the second Trump administration. Now hundreds of thousands of people never convicted of a crime are in an FBI criminal database forever.
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There's already so many ways to play N64 games without supporting a fashy little freak's pet project. Do not buy the war crime n64. aftermath.site/war-crime-n64-...
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When pressed on how to keep schools open, Nate Silver suggested hazard pay but couldn't seem to figure out what happens when you run out of people who are willing to get sick and possibly die at work. So much punditry really boils down to a guy going "oh no not like that."
Jonathan Howard@joho.bsky.social · 4d agoThis is what I mean when I talk about the Fantasy of the Optional Pandemic, where the virus was erased from the equation and mitigation measures were always portrayed as an avoidable choice. Headlines about what actually happened are never even acknowledged.
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As we recall the trauma caused by COVID in 2020, we should not forget COVID continues to harm. Many still suffer from Long COVID, people who mask are often harassed, and we haven’t scaled clean air infrastructure. If we truly acknowledge past harms, we should be working to create a better future.
It was inevitable that reactionary centrists would turn against harm reduction and call for a return to mass incarceration
The Cities That Said Yes to Drugs
Policies that gave addicts clean needles and places to use drugs were intended to reduce harm. They created a “zombie apocalypse.”
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The U.S. government has charged Samuel Tunick with allegedly typing in a passcode to wipe his phone before officers could search it. “I hope people understand that the charges against me are meant to intimidate people,” he said. www.404media.co/the-governme...
‘The Government Hopes To Set a Precedent’: An Interview With the Man Charged for Allegedly Wiping His GrapheneOS Phone
The U.S. government has charged Samuel Tunick with allegedly typing in a passcode to wipe his phone before officers could search it. “I hope people understand that the charges against me are meant to…
404media.co
"Blame Elon Musk and Donald Trump for the Out-of-Control Ebola Crisis" Jeremy Konyndyk, who helped lead the U.S. response to the 2014 Ebola outbreak, on the deadly consequences DOGE's dismantling of USAID has had, as Congo struggles to contain the virus.
Blame Elon Musk and Donald Trump for the Out-of-Control Ebola Crisis
Jeremy Konyndyk, who helped lead the U.S. response to the 2014 Ebola outbreak, writes about the deadly consequences DOGE's dismantling of USAID has had, as Congo struggles to contain the virus.
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Wow! ICE’s airport arrests of people seemingly waiting in government immigration backlogs caught up a Fulbright scholar and public health researcher working at Johns Hopkins in their public health department. Not exactly the “worst of the worst”! Yet they threw her in detention anyway.
Baltimore Banner@thebaltimorebanner.com · 6d agoICE detains Hopkins public health researcher as agency expands airport arrests
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One thing buried under the concrete grief of losing people is the less tangible trauma of learning how many people would happily feed you to it if it meant they didn’t have to cover their face for ten min in a 7-11 or skip a few buffets. I feel like we’re also grieving the country we thought we knew
I think this is true, and I also find it interesting that it's mostly Republicans grappling with COVID (as opposed to ignoring it), just from the the perspective that we did it all wrong and more people should have died.
Gravel Influencer@gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · last wk.Watching Republicans re-litigate the COVID response, it remains clear to me that one reason they view the pandemic response as a failure is that too many of the people that they wanted to die are still alive.
I still believe a lot of people read about post-black plague Europe and decided its economic acceleration was due to killing off a big chunk of surplus population. We see echos of it today when the right talks about a post-deportation economy.
Gravel Influencer@gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · last wk.Watching Republicans re-litigate the COVID response, it remains clear to me that one reason they view the pandemic response as a failure is that too many of the people that they wanted to die are still alive.
we need to focus on things we can actually do, like cutting taxes for rich people, and hoping with all their new found wealth they find it in their hearts to recreate the social commons that we defunded in order to cut their taxes
The radical left want to do things just like the radical right. Coincidence? I doubt it. I believe it our responsibility as the adults in the room to beat them both and assure the American people that we will do nothing forever.
Yes, the Problems are bad, but this is no time for radical things like Solutions
