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@sledpress

Bodyworker and grouch. 68, she/her. NT/HSP. Half-blind, still mostly redheaded, divides life between books, large barbells, cats, and music.

 Greater Washington DC Area
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Joined June 2009
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Dolly Parton's family asked that, in lieu of flowers, fans make a donation to the singer's Imagination Library. Here's what the charity does ⬇️ rollingstone.com/music/music…
Turning Pages: Inside Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library

Turning Pages: Inside Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library

Core team of 15 staff and thousands of volunteers and partners help the country-music philanthropist deliver books to kids around the world.

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The only downside is Jefffrey probably paid too much in hospital parking - which we should fix - but his story I have seen for 25 years in Canada’s publicly funded healthcare system where no 3rd party investor is profiting from illness and healing. @JeffreyLuscombe
Jeffrey Luscombe (@JeffreyLuscombe) profile pictureJeffrey Luscombe
@JeffreyLuscombe22 Sep 2025
My free respirologist found a lump in my neck and sent me for a free ultrasound then a free biopsy where they found cancer so I was put in a free hospital and a free oncologist surgically removed the cancer and then he gave me free checkups for the last five years. 🇨🇦 #canada
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acute covid may present with NO respiratory symptoms your illness can still be covid if your main symptoms are gastrointestinal (like "stomach flu") or neurological (altered senses, memory loss, headache, etc.) take a covid test even if you don't have respiratory symptoms
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chantzy@chantz_y21 Nov 2024
Wow, this account posted a whole thread on IG about how to navigate the holidays & have conversations with loved ones. If they aren't open to making an event safer, here's a good reminder👇🏼
Post from tesladrienne: And you know what? you do not have to go. It can be hard to set boundaries and say no to family, especially when there are traditions involved. However, if you've tried communicating, making adjustments, suggesting alternatives, and they still refuse to take precautions + respect your safety needs, it's possible that you won't be able to get through to them. You shouldn't be expected to spend the holidays with people who won't hear you. I give you permission to politely bow out and make your own (safer) traditions. Remember: getting sick during the holiday season* is not inevitable!

ALT Post from tesladrienne: And you know what? you do not have to go. It can be hard to set boundaries and say no to family, especially when there are traditions involved. However, if you've tried communicating, making adjustments, suggesting alternatives, and they still refuse to take precautions + respect your safety needs, it's possible that you won't be able to get through to them. You shouldn't be expected to spend the holidays with people who won't hear you. I give you permission to politely bow out and make your own (safer) traditions. Remember: getting sick during the holiday season* is not inevitable!

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📷 @colebutta
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I know everyone is talking about Matt Gaetz but please don't miss this: Georgia fired every single person on its maternal mortality review committee. Why? They didn't like that reporters found out that the state's ban killed two women propublica.org/article/georg…
Georgia Dismissed All Members of Maternal Mortality Committee After ProPublica Obtained Internal...

Georgia Dismissed All Members of Maternal Mortality Committee After ProPublica Obtained Internal...

In a letter, the state’s public health commissioner said the action was taken because “confidential information provided to the Maternal Mortality Review Committee was inappropriately shared with...

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“We must not comply in advance!” You’re already doing it. It’s why you, your family, friends & everyone around you are sick all the time. Put a mask back on! Don’t be afraid to be the only one. We’re still in a pandemic & your health is fucked from it. Protect your baseline.
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See, usually you indict the crook who tried to keep power via a coup. And you don’t let the crook who tried to keep power via a coup to run for president again. And you certainly don’t vote for that crook again. But we are after all the exceptional country….
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@cnnbrk21 Nov 2024
Brazilian ex-President Jair Bolsonaro has been indicted over alleged knowledge of a coup plot to kill his successor and overturn the election results cnn.it/3YZdFuO
Brazil’s Bolsonaro and allies indicted in 2022 coup plot probe | CNN

Brazil’s Bolsonaro and allies indicted in 2022 coup plot probe | CNN

Brazilian authorities have indicted the country’s former far-right President Jair Bolsonaro alongside 36 other individuals as part of the investigation into a coup plot to keep him in power following...

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I was just listening to a documentary about Shakespeare's mother and hearing how people in the 1500s moved town meetings outdoors to avoid spreading disease in enclosed spaces. Elizabethans had a better understanding of airborne disease than most doctors now.
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A little story if you dont mind. I once owned a business. One day myself and a white employee were going to a client's home in a city called Livonia (Mi). We were driving down a main street going west. A police car was going east. The cop looked over at us as we passed. I told my white employee that we're about to get pulled over. Sure enough, the cop whipped a u-turn, hit his lights, and pulled up behind us. My employee was a little shaken and asked, what did you do, Mr. Ross? I said, nothing. The cop asks for the usual. I asked him, "Why did you stop me?" He said your brake lights are out. My employee blurted out, "That’s Bull $h*t Mr. Ross!!! How did he see your brake light while he was driving towards us?" The officer saw my fire department badge when I gave him my driver's license and didn't pursue his ruse any further and let me go. He was fishing. Hoping to find a black guy driving dirty. When the cop pulled away, we checked my brake lights, and they were fine. I told my employee, "You've just witnessed, "Driving While Black." It's a real thing.
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“If somebody doesn't help me, I'm going to die," she recalls wailing, watching doctors and nurses pass her by. "Somebody said to me, 'I don't know what you expect me to do,'" she said. "'You're a healthy 21-year-old young female.'" This is exactly what happened to me at 24… 🧵
Screenshot of an article from the cbc that shows a photo of a young woman in glasses standing outside a hospital with two ambulances behind her. Text reads Doctors said her gangrenous appendix was just anxiety. She's not alone Joy Spence, 21, says emergency rooms kept sending her home despite crippling pain Malone Mullin • CBC News • Posted: Nov 12, 2024 5:30 AM AST | Last Updated: 9 hours ago

ALT Screenshot of an article from the cbc that shows a photo of a young woman in glasses standing outside a hospital with two ambulances behind her. Text reads Doctors said her gangrenous appendix was just anxiety. She's not alone Joy Spence, 21, says emergency rooms kept sending her home despite crippling pain Malone Mullin • CBC News • Posted: Nov 12, 2024 5:30 AM AST | Last Updated: 9 hours ago

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ACLU
@ACLU13 Nov 2024
BREAKING: The House just rejected a bill that could have given the Trump administration the power to crush dissent and go after political enemies. This is a victory for all our right to speak truth to power.
ACLU (@ACLU) profile pictureACLU
@ACLU11 Nov 2024
As soon as tomorrow, the House will vote on a bill that would give the incoming Trump administration a new tool they could use to stifle free speech, target political opponents, and punish groups that disagree with them. theintercept.com/2024/11/10/…
Congress Is About to Gift Trump Sweeping Powers to Crush His Political Enemies

Congress Is About to Gift Trump Sweeping Powers to Crush His Political Enemies

A bill that would let Donald Trump unilaterally revoke tax-exempt status from nonprofits is being fast-tracked through Congress.

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I can’t believe I have to say this, but please don’t bring your socially anxious friend to a gathering only to leave them alone with a group of people they don’t know.
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The richest neighborhood in Wilmington, a community called Landfall, passed a HOA policy a few years ago to require contractors provide proof of citizenship for every worker and my buddy Cole who does countertops said every job site stopped for 3 months so they had to reverse it
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Congress needs to amend the Airborne Act to ASHRAE 241 instead of 62. You can sign this letter to your member of Congress which supports it with 241 amendments actionnetwork.org/letters/te…
Tell Your Members of Congress to Support the Airborne Act of 2026

Tell Your Members of Congress to Support the Airborne Act of 2026

Join me to fight for Rep. Don Beyer’s Airborne Act, and urge strengthening its infection control standard with extra incentives for ASHRAE 241. Send a personalized letter to your members of Congress!...

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Joseph Allen (@j_g_allen) profile pictureJoseph Allen
@j_g_allen12 Nov 2024
WHOA. Indoor air quality is influenced by ventilation, and ASHRAE is the standard-setting body that, starting in the 1970s, developed bare minimum (ie, not health-focused) ventilation rates. Turns out, ASHRAE was influenced by...Big Tobacco. 🧵
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Absolutely 👏🏾🙌🏾
Image from Thought Provoking Berserker🇭🇺🇪🇺 ⚛️🦍🦅 (@Provokethoughtz)
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Just re-upped for the winter. FlowFlex rapid tests from Pharmalynk. Discount code for 20% off site wide: 20off Discount code for free shipping (can only use one, didn't try): freeship Dec 2025 expiry. Some bulk discounts. Good experience shopping there. No COIs.
Screenshot of pharmalynk flowflex tests.

ALT Screenshot of pharmalynk flowflex tests.

Mike Hoerger, PhD MSCR MBA (@michael_hoerger) profile pictureMike Hoerger, PhD MSCR MBA
@michael_hoerger11 Nov 2024
PMC COVID-19 Forecasting Model, Nov 11, 2024 We're starting to get out 1st glimpse of the shape of the winter wave. 🔸Expected transmission a month from now: 1.3 million daily infections 🔸Best-case: 0.7 million daily infections 🔸Worst-case: 1.8 million daily infections There's nothing in the data yet to suggest the winter will be markedly different from last year, which is very bad news. Within 3 weeks, we'll have a much better sense of what path we're on and what the peak of the wave may look like, likely around NYE. Info for new readers: For those unfamiliar with the PMC model, find full weekly reports for the past 14+ months at pmc19.com/data The models combine data from IHME, Biobot, and CDC to use wastewater to estimate case levels (r = .93 to .96) and forecast levels the next month based on typical (median) levels for that date and recent patterns of changes in transmission the past 4 weeks. Our work has been cited in top scientific journals and media outlets, which are fully sourced in a detailed technical appendix at pmc19.com/data/PMC_COVID_For… Examples include JAMA Onc, JAMA-NO, BMC Public Health, Time, People, TODAY, the Washington Post, the Institute for New Economic Thinking, Salon, Forbes, the New Republic, Fox, CBS, and NBC. See pgs 10-11 at the above link.
Covid-19 transmission the past year, and forecasted for the next month. The point estimate and confidence interval for estimated transmission in a month are noted in the Tweet.

ALT Covid-19 transmission the past year, and forecasted for the next month. The point estimate and confidence interval for estimated transmission in a month are noted in the Tweet.

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I can't figure out if vaccines work or not. Tough one. I can see why RFK Jr is so concerned. Need Sherlock Holmes on this one.
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CDC’s infection control committee (HICPAC) meets Nov 14 and 15. They will be considering revised infection control guidelines for healthcare settings.
People's CDC (@PeoplesCDC) profile picturePeople's CDC@PeoplesCDC12 Nov 2024
You can either email them at [email protected] or submit your demands at cdc.gov/hicpac/php/about/ind…. More instructions can be found: tinyurl.com/hicpacnov2024 @nurses
Image shows background with a white color and light blue left borders. Top text reads, “Tell CDC: HICPAC must establish robust protections from infectious diseases in healthcare." A light blue color rectangle is below the top text. Bottom text reads, "Submit comments to CDC HICPAC by Nov 13, 2024. See how at tinyurl.com/hicpacnov2024." There's a loudspeaker being raised by a pink colored hand on the bottom left corner. There’s a purple “People’s CDC” icon at the top left corner.

ALT Image shows background with a white color and light blue left borders. Top text reads, “Tell CDC: HICPAC must establish robust protections from infectious diseases in healthcare." A light blue color rectangle is below the top text. Bottom text reads, "Submit comments to CDC HICPAC by Nov 13, 2024. See how at tinyurl.com/hicpacnov2024." There's a loudspeaker being raised by a pink colored hand on the bottom left corner. There’s a purple “People’s CDC” icon at the top left corner.

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