noyes

luckytran , 15 hours ago to random

NY Governor Hochul is not only banning masks, she is ending sick leave for COVID. Shame. https://hellgatenyc.com/governor-hochul-ends-covid-sick

luckytran , 2 days ago to random

BREAKING: Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass says she is discussing a mask ban for protests with the City Attorney.

Source: https://youtu.be/5R6krNYXnZI?si=xLMg1x5DbwtImKfy&t=232

video/mp4

luckytran , 2 days ago to random

When leaders talk about banning masks for safety, they ignore the safety of many diverse communities. People who are higher risk, and Asian people have been attacked for wearing masks. Black and Brown communities are disproportionately targeted by police. Safety means EVERYONE.

Nonilex , 5 days ago to random

#TrumpForSale why #billionaires are flocking to #Trump

#AllInWithChrisHayes had an excellent segment on #CorruptCandidateTrump today.

🧵 has links to the articles mentioned in the report.

Video in 3 parts
#oligarchy #kleptocracy #Vote #VoteBlue #BidenHarris2024 #democracy
All in with Chris Hayes segment part 1

All in with Chris Hayes segment part 1

luckytran , 5 days ago to random

Politicians say mask bans should come back as pre-COVID, they were law since 1845.

But scientists discovered viruses in the 1890s, discovered how they worked in the mid-1900s, and discovered SARS in the 2000s.

Mask bans are outdated, anti-science laws that belong in the past.

Strandjunker , 5 days ago to random

In 1869 it was decided to have 9 Supreme Court justices because there were 9 Circuit Courts.

Now there are 13 Circuit Courts. So what exactly are we waiting for?

luckytran , 15 days ago to random

"But, on private properties, like at grocery stores or at a workplace, people can be required to remove masks if requested."

This part of North Carolina's anti-mask bill is particularly horrible. It will increase harassment of people wearing masks, and puts public health at risk.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/06/north-carolina-house-passes-revised-mask-ban/

tomkindlon , 15 days ago to AusCOVID19 group

A new definition for Long COVID that has been launched today by the National Academies in the US
https://nap.nationalacademies.org/resource/27768/One_pager_Long_COVID_Definition.pdf

5 pages of highlights from report:
https://nap.nationalacademies.org/resource/27768/Long_COVID_Definition_Highlights.pdf

Hashtags:
@longcovid
#LongCovid #PwLC #postcovid #postcovid19 #LC #Covidlonghaulers #PostCovidSyndrome #longhaulers #PASC #COVIDBrain
@covid19 #Coronavirus
#COVIDー19 #COVID19 #COVID #COVID_19 #SARSCoV2 @novid #novid #CovidIsNotOver
@auscovid19 #auscovid19

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randahl , 20 days ago to random

Using US weapons, Israel bombs a UN school in Gaza killing 40.

Their excuse? 9 of them were terrorists.

Imagine if your local police got a tip about 9 criminals at you local school, and they decided to solve the problem by bombing the school killing 40 people. Would any sane person accept that?

This is a clear violation of the principle of proportionality and therefore a violation of international law.

Again.

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/06/06/middleeast/israel-airstrike-un-school-gaza-intl-hnk/index.html

rbreich , 21 days ago to random

Four years ago today, Trump called it "stupendous" and "joyous" news that American unemployment was only at 13.3%.

Four years later, unemployment has been under 4% for 27 straight months.

Yes, we are indeed better off than we were four years ago.

DemocracyMattersALot , 24 days ago (edited 24 days ago) to random

LOL. It took #VonShitsInPants 3 days to gird his loins and spit out this lie. Severe narcissistic injury.

Trump says he's 'OK' with jail time, house arrest after hush money conviction

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4699029-trump-ok-jail-time-house-arrest-hush-money-conviction/

Strandjunker , 25 days ago to random

“Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal. He should not be invited to address a joint meeting of Congress.”

— Bernie Sanders

I agree 100%! How about you?

DemocracyMattersALot , 29 days ago to random

No one has killed more Americans than Donald Trump. No one. In history.

#TrumpForLifeInPrison #NeverAgainTrump #COVID #VoteBlue #NoRepublicansEverAgain

DemocracyMattersALot , 1 month ago to random

LOL. Spoken like a true grifter! He figured out cryptocurrencies' potential for robbing people blind.

#CryptoIsBullshit #GetRobbed #DonaldTrump #GrifterOfTheUS #NeverTrump #VoteBlue

rbreich , 1 month ago to random

Impeach Justice Samuel Alito https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuHFFkezgVs&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

randahl , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani: Indicted.

Trump's lawyer John Eastman: Indicted.

Trump's CFO Allen Weisselberg: Jailed… twice.

Trump's adviser Peter Navarro: Jailed.

Trump's adviser Steve Bannon: Going to jail.

Trump's fixer Michael Cohen: Already went to jail.

— If you still think Trump is innocent, you are in for a surprise.

luckytran , 1 month ago to random

News: Biobot is sunsetting its COVID-19 wastewater public data visualization platform.

While Biobot will continue to publish their contextualized weekly respiratory risk reports, this represents another decrease in data transparency, and a step in the wrong direction.

Source: https://biobot.io/from-raw-data-to-actionable-insights-biobots-evolution-of-public-data-sharing/

DemocracyMattersALot , 1 month ago to random

Don't Ask Alito To Recuse -- Tell Him To Resign https://www.nationalmemo.com/samuel-alito

#SCOTUS #SamAlito #AlitoResign #JohnRoberts #SupremeCorruption

luckytran , 1 month ago to random

The US government is ending the program that provides free COVID vaccines to people who are uninsured and underinsured.

This is a public health failure that will further decrease already low vax rates, and puts marginalized communities at greater risk.

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/4670459-cdc-ending-free-covid-vaccines-uninsured/

luckytran , 1 month ago to random

"The Raw Milk Institute called the warnings "clearly fearmongering." The institute's founder told the LATimes his customers are specifically requesting raw milk from H5N1-infected cows."

This is an example of how minimizing COVID is destructive to public health far beyond COVID.

Source: https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/05/anti-pasteurization-crowd-reaffirms-love-of-raw-milk-despite-bird-flu-outbreak/

Yet, raw milk enthusiasts are undaunted by the heightened risk. The California-based Raw Milk Institute called the warnings "clearly fearmongering." The institute's founder, Mark McAfee, told the Los Angeles Times this weekend that his customers are, in fact, specifically requesting raw milk from H5N1-infected cows. According to McAfee, his customers believe, without evidence, that directly drinking high levels of the avian influenza virus will give them immunity to the deadly pathogen.

Osteopenia_Powers , 1 month ago to random

@DemocracyMattersALot
Trumpers seem to think non-poisonous water is a privilege that only some deserve.

lowqualityfacts , 1 month ago to random

We made a comic about an exterminator.

randahl , 1 month ago to random

Picture 1: If elected, Trump promises to destroy media he does not like. For instance, he has often characterised CNN as "fake news", and they are now to be destroyed.

Picture 2: A majority of American voters still want him for president.

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oatmeal , 1 month ago to israel group

#Israel / whistleblowers claim abuse of Palestinians at detention centre

Three Israeli whistleblowers working at the Sde Teiman desert camp say military responsible for series of abuses.

[…] The witnesses told #CNN the facility, some 18 miles from the Gaza frontier, is split into two parts: enclosures where around 70 Palestinian detainees from Gaza are placed under extreme physical restraint, and a field hospital “where injured detainees are immobilised, diapered, and fed through straws”.

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/05/10/middleeast/israel-sde-teiman-detention-whistleblowers-intl-cmd

@israel
@palestine
#Israel #WarCrimes #Gaza

luckytran , 1 month ago to random

We don’t talk about it enough but it’s a huge failure that there isn’t more urgency to develop better COVID vaccines.

An Operation Warp Speed for nasal vaccines and more variant proof vaccines would transform our ability to deal with COVID and help us mitigate future pandemics.

Strandjunker , 1 month ago to random

On June 1, 2020, he hid in an underground bunker like Adolf Hitler, then emerged briefly to gas his own people & clear a path for a photo op in front of a church he never attended with an upside down Bible he never read. — Don’t normalize him. Donald Trump is a wannabe dictator.

saddestrobots , 1 month ago to random

none of the shitlibs who are mad at leftie college kids have updated any of their rhetoric or mental models since 2016, so you just get a lot of monologuing about how kids are "entitled" as if america's client state perpetrating genocide is the same thing as your college loans

adachika192 , 1 month ago to palestine group

https://www.undp.org/press-releases/war-gaza-enters-seventh-month-174-million-more-palestinians-will-be-pushed-poverty-across-state-palestine-according-united-nations

As war in Gaza enters seventh month, 1.74 million more Palestinians will be pushed into poverty across State of Palestine according to United Nations assessment (Press Release | UNDP, 2024-05-01)

"... #UNDP [United Nations Development Programme] and #ESCWA [Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia] released an update of their joint initial rapid assessment ... released in November 2023... The new updated assessment estimates the impacts at six months, with projections for seven-, eight- and nine-months scenarios."

"'... the destruction in Gaza today is unprecedented in scope and scale and coupled with the loss of homes, livelihoods, natural resources, infrastructure as well as institutional capacities, may have deep and systemic impacts for decades to come,' said ESCWA Executive Secretary Rola Dashti. 'This assessment projects that Gaza will be rendered fully dependent on external assistance on a scale not seen since 1948...'”

@palestine

luckytran , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

COVID killed people in prisons at disproportionately higher rates, and has been the leading cause of US police deaths over the last few years. Yet, police officers are ripping masks off protestors.

dillyd , 1 month ago to random

What's the collective noun for a bunch of asswipes who block the entire sidewalk corner including the accessibility cutout?

lowqualityfacts , 2 months ago to random

Signs you are old:
-You dropped acid in a Blockbuster.
-You hid cocaine in your VHS player.
-You bought heroin behind a RadioShack.
-Your grandfather served in WWI (he smoked crack in the trenches).

luckytran , 2 months ago to random

Every person has the right to wear a mask.

There are many good reasons for doing so: COVID, airborne pathogens, sickness, privacy, surveillance, allergies, work etc.

No one should ever have to explain or justify why they are wearing a mask — that’s none of your business.

breadandcircuses , 2 months ago to random

At some point in the next several years, as climate and environmental crises continue to worsen, it’s nearly certain that our capitalist rulers will look at all the problems caused by technology and industry — and then attempt to fix them with even more technology and industry, specifically with geoengineering.🤦‍♂️

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As nearly every climate indicator grows increasingly dire, calls for extreme technological fixes get louder. However, study after study finds that taking a gamble on forced geoengineering comes with its own dangerous risks.

New research warns that if we inject sulfate particles into the atmosphere to attempt to reflect sunlight and mimic the cooling effects of volcanic eruptions and they don't end up in the right position, they could cause further warming and even worse climate anomalies than burning greenhouse gases as usual.

"We found that some detrimental effects of this injection are of a similar magnitude to those from climate change itself in some regions," ETH Zürich atmospheric scientist Elia Wunderlin and colleagues write in their paper.

Their findings add to a growing list of research highlighting the risks of forced geoengineering, which include losing more of the ozone layer, changing global rain patterns, and further disruptions to ecological systems.

Alternatively, one type of geoengineering poses far less risk and guarantees benefits. Restoring native ecosystems has massive potential to help stabilize our climate without introducing such extreme risks and unknowns.

However, despite being a much surer and safer bet, this option doesn't appear to attract nearly as much attention, fanfare, or funding.

Regardless of future strategies, transitioning away from fossil fuels is essential to addressing our climate situation. Meanwhile, usage continues to rise, and corporations receiving public funding are making record profits.

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FULL STORY -- https://www.sciencealert.com/injecting-sulfur-into-the-atmosphere-could-pose-dangerous-risks

#Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis

futurebird , 2 months ago to random

Trump is upset he may miss his son's graduation because he's on trial.

Yeah, we do treat people in the criminal justice system harshly. People you have never thought about, people who have kids, and graduations, and moments missed forever.

But it's different now. He cries. It's happening to ME. To Me!

Nothing, no one, exists beyond the tip of some people's noses. They cannot see pain unless they feel it. Cannot recognize suffering unless it's their own.

What a stunted perspective.

mondoweiss , 2 months ago to israel group

The New Yorker asks, "Why is the most powerful country in human history essentially taking orders from a country that relies on it for aid?” and then avoids the most obvious answer.

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/04/biden-has-no-emotional-attachment-to-israel-its-about-politics/

#Palestine #Israel #Gaza
@palestine @israel

OccuWorld , 2 months ago to random

You cannot film the police, now you cannot investigate them either.

DeSantis signs controversial bill banning civilian boards from investigating police misconduct

https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2024/04/12/desantis-signs-controversial-bill-banning-civilian-boards-from-investigating-police-misconduct

Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a controversial bill Friday stripping citizen oversight boards of their power to investigate police misconduct.

#PoliceCrime #Impunity #Desantis #Conspiracy #Racketeering #Florida #Police

oatmeal , 2 months ago to israel group

#Israel / Israeli Academic Community Under Siege

Israeli academics are reporting a significant increase in incidents where they are being excluded from international conferences, having research collaborations cancelled, and facing difficulties publishing in academic journals. This is happening across a wide range of disciplines, from the social sciences to the hard sciences.

The boycott is being driven by growing anti-Israel sentiment globally, with academics and institutions abroad citing moral and ethical concerns over Israel's actions in Gaza. There are cases of outright refusals to engage with Israeli academics, as well as more subtle forms of discrimination like ignoring requests or providing generic rejections.

Kashti, O. (2024). 'I won't work with you. You're committing genocide': Israeli academia faces an unprecedented boycott. Haaretz. Retrieved from https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-04-12/ty-article-magazine/.highlight/amid-gaza-war-israeli-academia-faces-an-unprecedented-boycott/0000018e-cee6-d5ed-adcf-fff6f1d00000

@academicchatter @israel
@palestine
#Israel #WarCrimes #Gaza

mondoweiss , 2 months ago to israel group

The New Yorker asks, "Why is the most powerful country in human history essentially taking orders from a country that relies on it for aid?” and then avoids the most obvious answer.

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/04/biden-has-no-emotional-attachment-to-israel-its-about-politics/

#Palestine #Israel #Gaza
@palestine @israel

wdlindsy , 2 months ago to random

Thomas Zimmer on what's at stake in the 2024 election"

"This isn't actually about Biden versus Trump. It's basically a referendum on whether or not an effort at achieving a democratic pluralistic multiracial society should be continued or abolished altogether. It's basically thumbs up or down on, on democratic self government and the civil rights order."

#Trump #Republicans #Project2025 #democracy #theocracy #WhiteChristianNationalism
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https://thecause.substack.com/p/thank-you-project-2025-with-thomas

mondoweiss , 2 months ago to palestine group

Benjamin Netanyahu continues to raise the risk of a regional war which could draw in the U.S. — and the mainstream media is hiding the danger from its audience.

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/04/netanyahu-killed-a-top-iranian-general-in-syria-to-provoke-a-regional-conflict-and-the-u-s-media-is-hiding-his-true-motivation/

#Palestine #Israel #Gaza
@palestine @israel

flexghost , 2 months ago to random

Joe Lieberman

Lobbyist for Chinese telecom giant ZTE
Man responsible for killing the Obamacare public option
Democrat who voted for McCain and helped Trump via 3rd parties saying “people want something different”
And Betsy DeVos simp

Has died.

Nonilex , 3 months ago to random

Qatari royal invested ~$50M in pro #Trump network #Newsmax
Before & after the investment, snr newsroom ldrs urged Newsmax staff to soften coverage of #Qatar, current & fmr employees said

A member of the Qatari royal family invested ~$50 million in Newsmax, acc/to docs & representatives for the #FarRight #media co & the royal, in a moment of acute #MiddleEast tensions during the #Trump admin.

#propaganda #disinformation
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/03/26/qatar-newsmax-investment/

flexghost , 3 months ago to random

"I want to associate myself with all my colleagues both at MSNBC and at NBC News who have voiced loud and principled objections to our company putting on the payroll someone who hasn't just attacked us as journalists

“but someone who is part of an ongoing project to get rid of our system of government."
-Maddow on NBC hiring human trash fire Ronna McDaniel

She’s right. This is dangerous.

Video of Maddow from her show. I still can’t believe I agree with Chuck Todd about something

flexghost , 3 months ago to random

How much of a scumbag do you have to be when the Supreme Court you bought won’t help you out?

luckytran , 3 months ago to random

Gonna be real hard to build trust in public health if the media keeps doing stuff like this:

The Guardian Long Covid ‘Alarming’ rise in Americans with long Covid symptoms CDC data shows nearly 18m people could be living with long Covid even as health agency relaxes isolation recommendations Melody Schreiber Fri 15 Mar 2024 07.00 EDT

Strandjunker , 3 months ago to random

For anyone who still thinks we shouldn’t prosecute Trump and his co-conspirators because their insurrection failed, consider this: there is no such thing as prosecuting a successful insurrection.