Immuno(un)compromising Writer
@jacobscheier
Part of that weird mentally ill cult that reads scientific studies and believes eugenics is bad. Blocked by Vinay Prasad. #WearAMask #FreePalestine.
About to teach a university creative writing course for the 1st time in over a yr. But lecture not the workshop setting I love(d) that c*vid normalization stole from me I loved my teaching career. COVID normalization stole it from me - The Globe and Mail share.google/TG68PVhPYIRklV…
And?? We know from experience you won’t roll any of it back. You’ll blame the parliamentarian and the filibuster and two or three obstinate senators of that Congress. Safe to say at least 90-95% of this stuff will be permanent.
It is entirely possible that we win the Senate if they pass a bill with such unspinnably terrible consequences across society. The impacts will be inescapable and it will be obvious who to blame. I hope this bill dies, but if it passes they will pay a steep political price.
Great, resonant essay by @julia_doubleday -- very grounding for CC ppl/those of who have remained true to our values.
In 2020, Arundhati Roy wrote a gorgeous, prescient essay called “The Pandemic is a Portal”. In this piece, I discuss who actually walked through it: the COVID conscious community, and why I’m proud to be a part of it. thegauntlet.news/p/the-pandemic…
Name one time in history where the people starving thousands of children are the good guys.
You aren’t a capitalist you’ve been propagandized since birth to sympathize with your oppressors
NPR played an outsized roll in manufacturing consent for c*vid minimization.
NPR was corporatized and conservatized. Don’t care where you are on defunding it but if you’re not including that in your critique you’re being dishonest.
Only 6 House reps voted to cut military funding to a country currently carrying out a genocide. 2 of those votes were from Republicans. None were from AOC
Not soon enough. Source: CBC search.app/CBCws
The really scary part about horrible air quality because of wildfire smoke is not that ppl don't care but that they don't even notice
Amazing that the technology exists to massively reduce the risk of catching covid or any other virus transmitted through the air but neither capitalists nor neoliberal states want to pay for it so instead long covid is now the number one chronic illness in children
I'm not saying Stephen King has been a sleeper cell agent for the Mossad all these years, but I don't mind if ppl spread that around the internet.
The Epstein client list is real. So is the Tooth Fairy and Santa Claus.
Actually it's F--up that we have a let it rip culture and policy around the flu, especially the inadequate disease control for it in hospitals.
On what issue have you changed your mind 180 degrees?
Feel confident when I say the only nationally recognized male politician definitely not on the Epstein list is Bernie.
Up until Epstein's list is released, we have only one conclusion: all of them are on it. Every last damned billionaire, prince and politician. Have a nice day.
when "leftists" with big accounts tell you to "be serious" then block you before you can reply
People aren’t mad at you for wearing a mask, they are mad at you for ruining the illusion
Most leftist anti-maskers think they are annoyed by the masking-left but actually are mad at material reality. I also wish it wasn't airborne, there wasn't asymptomatic spread, and that vaccines offered sufficient prevention of transmission. But wishing that doesn't make it so.
Socialist organizers need to get it through their heads that the "normal" people they hope to appeal to by ignoring calls for community care on the pandemic are never going to be reliable. It's how you get an org filled with cowards, flakes, and abusers
Most of the "leftists" online who are making the case that Biden dropped more people from Medicare than Trump is, are completely ignoring why. And that's pathetic. Biden dropped them because he declared the pandemic over, which it wasn't. Be better "leftists." So disappointing.