Echinocentric @Echinocentric@qoto.org

"It’s an inconvenient truth that #Covid is associated with an excess of heart attacks and strokes beyond the first month of infection. That can no longer be ignored or refuted."

https://erictopol.substack.com/p/heart-attacks-and-strokes-late-after

What is wrong with The New York Times? Instead of reporting on what proposed radical measures in Florida represent for civil liberties, education and the state’s residents, this long-delayed report focuses on… what it means for #DeSantis’s presidential campaign.

Gift link: http://bit.ly/3SPenXY

We need better national reporting in the public interest. Our major outlets are locked in partisan framing and fixated on predicting election outcomes.

#journalism #USPol #Florida #NewYorkTimes

It was a long week. A lot of you have told me the same.

I don't want to look at news, I don't want to look at work

I want to look at funny videos.

🧵thread updated throughout the day. Keep checking back for a giggle.

Let's roll...

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The republicans and anyone supporting them have nothing but fascist threats and lies left. Now is the time to press them on it and expose them for wha they are. Many Americans have no idea how far this has gone. Now is the time to expose the republicans as the fascists they are.
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RT @tlecaque
If the biggest defense you can muster is "he wants transgender people to kill themselves" instead of "he wants to do the killing himself" maybe g…
https://twitter.com/tlecaque/status/1632521213141499905

I had to have a talk with my nonbinary/leaning transgender child today about how they needed to be careful about what they said and who they said it to. That it was getting dangerous out there and they needed to protect themselves. So, thanks for that, all you hateful homophobic fuckwits who are so concerned with the mote in someone else's eye instead of the fucking 2x4 in your own. #LGBTQ #Queer

People like to act like “this was all so long ago” and I’m just sitting here like…my Grandma is still with us and she’s 93. Some of us still have living relatives who lived through this nightmare.

Don’t let yourself think of it as some long, bygone era that could never happen again.

Hesitation, appeasement, and living in denial let it happen the first time.

Quoting @onthisday: https://mastodon.social/@onthisday/109972742503879719

Florida Republicans have proposed to bill to kidnap trans children away from their parents

Full stop.

This is how Nazis galvanize their base

Scapegoating the most marginalized citizens and inciting violence

The book burning photo from May 1933? Nazis were burning books from Magnus Hirschfeld’s Institute of Sexology including works on transgender studies. Right before all out genocide commenced.

#TransRightAreHumanRights

https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/254/?Tab=RelatedBills

Do you realize how morally, spiritually, and intellectually vacant a movement would have to be to be taken over by Donald Trump?

GOP is banning books, banning Black history, banning abortion, banning drag shows, banning diversity programs, banning rights for transgender teens, banning saying gay in school, banning academic freedom BUT the GOP tell us they are ALL about FREEDOM.

March 1, 2023. Good Morning! Reminder that if you care about your life, the people around you, and the future, we need to get out and vote for people who accept science, and understand that we're in danger. Not just a pandemic, also climate change, and the rise of far right crap

Pay attention to politicians - politics used to be about selling your ideas, trying to convince people that your plans and ideas are better than the other guy. Like any argument, when your ONLY argument is slandering your opponents, it's because you have nothing to offer.

Conservatives are blatantly lacking in ideas, and instead spreading misinformation and disinformation, slandering their opponents, denying reality, instead of offering ideas to fix problems, they want to convince you those problems aren't real, and inventing new problems.

Covid is still rampant, CPC were never conservatives, they're Reform, Climate Change is real, the effects are accelerating - we have a lot of shitty things to deal with, if we let their alt-right fantasies distract us from reality, it's going to get much worse. Stay safe. ☮️❤️🍁

#GoodMorning #CovidIsNotOver #NeverVoteConservative #Peace #Love #Canada

Illustrators and cartoonists are supporting the decision made by distributors to drop Scott Adams cartoon 'Dilbert' after his racist online rant.

"It begs the question, now that everyone is piling on him, what took so long?" said one illustrator.

https://t.co/hVfzVYCKA9

A new study suggests that people who see themselves as more attractive are less likely to wear a mask to prevent COVID-19, as they believe it compromises their looks.

https://t.co/p102n6sDGh

I hope when I inevitably choke to death on gummy bears, people just say I was killed by bears and leave it at that.

Dear Work,
I am unable to do you today due to the fact that I don’t feel like it.
Thank you and goodbye.

The Supreme Court has agreed to take up a case that could threaten the existence of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau — and potentially the status of numerous other agencies, including the Federal Reserve.
https://t.co/ygsxCBGYAO

@therobburgessshow
Ron DeSantis scares me more than the others, because he's got all the bigoted evil of Trump, but can form complete sentences and walk down a ramp without assistance. He's a semi-functional Donnie, and so is capable of succeeding, where TFG failed.

I wonder how many people realize that even the lab leak theory still requires that a SARS-type virus was recovered from a wild bat population.

Crazy idea, instead of worrying about labs maybe we should worry about pushing human settlement into wild, virus generating ecosystems.

nahhhh let's go for it boys then we can just blame something else after the next pandemic.