The thing is, it's not going to just harm those on Medicaid. It'll harm all of us by shutting down clinics across the country, particularly in rural areas. It'll also cost us millions of jobs and harm the economy. The only ones who win are rich people who can afford private hospitals.
"‘Defund,’ if it were properly talked about in the mainstream media, would be referred to as an evidence-based public safety program.”
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Baby chickens on a poultry farm. A black gradient takes up the bottom third of the image. On top of it, white text reads, “The Sick Times. What we know about the U.S. bird flu outbreak and its chronic disease risk, by Melody Schreiber.”
White text on a purple background and red highlights reads, "“I think we’re there,” said Lakdawala, an influenza virologist and co-director of the Center for Transmission of Airborne Pathogens at Emory School of Medicine. “Now is when people should be concerned and take it seriously.” And she has a new concern: People might wait to take it seriously until there’s widespread transmission among humans. But by then, it would be too late to prevent a pandemic."
The U.S. leads the global tally of H5N1 cases. Here's what we know about the U.S. bird flu outbreak and its chronic disease risk — including that many of the same precautions, like masking, that work against COVID-19 also work well to prevent the flu. bit.ly/41Xc4IF
Screen shot of an Instagram post by @la.spoonie.collective of Lilac Maldonado sitting in a garden holding a white flower. The caption reads “In Loving Memory of Lilac Maldonado”
My heart is so heavy. What a gentle fire breather we all lost. ✨ Lilac Maldonado
This story of Miyazaki responding to the glib forward march of AI >
The current trending one about how his producer sent a katana to Weinstein. May I never forget the meaning of pain.
When you feel yourself becoming complacent or surrendering to hopelessness or apathy, remember that everything that exists today exists because someone(s) dreamt it up and decided to put in the work to make it a reality. We can create new ways of doing things, new ways of being, new worlds.
What is a viable economic system that’s NOT capitalism?? Let us introduce you to Solidarity Economies! Another worlds is possible, and the work has started - we just need your help.
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“But something I can say for now is:
I have overcome so many silent deaths, all I want is to heal loud. As loud as I can.“
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“I have done and am doing all of those. And I am exhausted. I don’t really know how to change this because for now, the wound feels like it’s boiling and pissing blood at the bottom of my soul.”
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Chart: U.S. adults reporting a disability The number of people reporting a disability soared. Many Americans struggled with long Covid and reported cognitive issues like “brain fog.” Source: Census Here, adults refer to people older than 16.
Since the start of COVID, the number of people reporting a disability soared. Yet the majority of the world acts like COVID is over, and Long COVID doesn't exist.
Photo of Rep Al Green pointing his walking cane at Trump. Trump stands behind the pulpit, staring back at Green.
"You do not have a mandate to cut Medicaid." ~ Rep. Al Green
It doesn't surprise me that a disabled Black person is the one to speak up to power. With a point of his cane, he became an icon for disabled people around the country.
Gather and be gathered in community. Do not tear each other down; build each other up.
Feel every emotion deeply, and bring that with you. Breathe in, breathe out. Now let’s fight.
Get in we’re printing exoskeleton legs for the end times
Thinking about how I have flown with a mask for over a decade, but beginning November 2019 white women on my flights would whisper to the flight attendant to have their seats moved away from me as a masking Asian.
We're in a coup, which means we're in a nightmare, which means we're all ramped up, so let me offer you some deep time, perseverance, and beauty, before you and I go back to the work.
Between the Seige and the Sky—Nara’s memoir. A year ago I befriended Nara, a young mom in Khan Yunis disabled from MS and pancreatic cancer. She just got put on the medical evacuation list, but we still have to fundraise for her kids.
Please consider purchasing her memoir.
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I cannot emphasize enough how we are in an era where everyone is to be treated like disabled people have always been treated.
