Going From Reading The Green's Manifesto To Reforms Is Such A Punch In The Gut, I Think My Reading Order

Alex Stokes Contompasis defended anti-fascists being assaulted by the Proud Boys in Albany, New York on January 6, 2021 & wound up with a 20-year prison sentence for his trouble. You'll find more info about Alex's case on his support website. Watch this excellent video explaining his case! Donate to Alex's sentence appeal. 

Write to Alex: Alexander Stokes Contompasis DIN: 22B5028 Upstate Correctional Facility P.O. Box 2001 Malone, NY, 12953

I have quite a few followers here, and I feel determined to bring this issue to light.

200 hostages DOES NOT justify slaying 9000+ innocent people & kids! This is GENOCIDE no matter which side of the world or religion you are on! Where are your hearts?

EFF: Congress Amended KOSA, But It’s Still A Censorship Bill. Despite small changes, the Kids Online Safety Act “is a censorship bill that will harm the rights of both adult and minor users. We oppose it, and urge you to contact your congressperson about it today.”

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COVID lulls aren't being earned by policy; they're being bought with infections and deaths

Celebrating a COVID lull years into the Biden Administration's utter abandonment is woefully out of touch with the science

Cases are low right now for one simple reason: most people have recently had COVID. If not during the massive winter JN.1 surge, which infected an estimated 100 million people, then in the previous variant-soup wave of late summer 2023. COVID infections confer a temporary immunity, meaning that after a big surge- when tens of millions of people are infected in a matter of months- the public has a transient “wall” of immunity that lowers transmission in the short-term. Celebrating lulls that were “bought” with a surge is celebrating the successful mass infection of the public, thousands of new Long COVID cases, overall worsened health of the public, and tens of thousands of dead people. That’s the cost of every lull that wasn’t earned with policy.

75,603 people died of COVID in 2023 according to death certificates, which is certainly an undercount. (I would note that death certificate flu was 5,999, also a significant undercount and not the number the CDC uses when reporting flu burden). But let’s take the 75k number at face value and provide some perspective about this level of mortality.

75,603 deaths in one year makes COVID the infectious disease killing the most people in the US by far, and likely to remain so.

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Red hot actionable news: the website StopKOSA.com will send a letter from you about this godawful bill to your legislators. Zero effort. You literally just give them your e and mailing address.

You can see the text they’re going to use, and it’s editable, so you have the option (and it’s much easier than writing from scratch) to add a few words up front or tinker and paraphrase if you like, but you very much don’t have to. They will also offer you your legislators’ phone numbers — WITH handy talking points notes — for optional follow-up after the letter is taken care of.

(Hat tip to Julia Serano for alerting me to it. She has more to say about the potential of this bill to effectively eradicate LGBTQ+ content from the internet. If you thought FOSTA/SESTA was bad…)

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KOSA is a censorship bill that won’t make kids safe. Instead, it'll put all internet users at risk, especially LGBTQ+ youth. If you believe in a free and open internet, tell your lawmakers to reject #KOSA! https://stopkosa.com/

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KOSA is a censorship bill that won’t make kids safe. Instead, it'll put all internet users at risk, especially youth. If you believe in a fr

Study was of 17 subjects, interesting but not enough information yet.

PubMed Central (PMC)

Avascular necrosis of femoral head following COVID-19 infection

It is crucial to be aware of post-COVID-19 non-pulmonary complications. Avascular necrosis (AVN) is one of these complications. It should be

This is a new Covid side effect I did not know about. If you have a sore hip after Covid this could be why.

Biden Admin Working With Social Media Companies to Limit Pro-Palestinian Content by Ken Klippenstein

Bonus:

My children wanted to do everything on their own. No, fuck that, we worked so fucking hard so you can have better things. I never worked for me, it was always to make your life easier.

Here is the goggle doc on what to do! Even if you don’t need to live in New York, you can message the tourism board.