Barb Draa
@barbdraa.bsky.social
Covid is airborne. Mask up. 💛 greyhounds. Enough about me.
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This is important for us all to watch, absorb, save, and rewatch. I trust Marc Elias and others at Democracy Docket. They have been winning in the courts throughout Trumps many assaults.
The video is 49 mins.
Please repost.
youtube.com/watch?v=_GUg...
The video is 49 mins.
Please repost.
youtube.com/watch?v=_GUg...
Can We Actually Save America?
YouTube video by Democracy Docket
youtube.com
September 29, 2025 at 10:10 AM
This is important for us all to watch, absorb, save, and rewatch. I trust Marc Elias and others at Democracy Docket. They have been winning in the courts throughout Trumps many assaults.
The video is 49 mins.
Please repost.
youtube.com/watch?v=_GUg...
The video is 49 mins.
Please repost.
youtube.com/watch?v=_GUg...
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Things just keep getting more unhinged. The rhetoric coming out of the MAGA is fueling dangerous escalation. Democratic state lawmakers who left Texas to block the GOP’s redistricting scheme had to be evacuated from their suburban Chicago hotel due to a potential bomb threat, according to police.
August 7, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Things just keep getting more unhinged. The rhetoric coming out of the MAGA is fueling dangerous escalation. Democratic state lawmakers who left Texas to block the GOP’s redistricting scheme had to be evacuated from their suburban Chicago hotel due to a potential bomb threat, according to police.
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"Prayer for Werewolves" by Stephanie Burt
(found via @jaymarose.bsky.social)
Read or listen here:
onbeing.org/poetry/praye...
(found via @jaymarose.bsky.social)
Read or listen here:
onbeing.org/poetry/praye...
July 2, 2025 at 7:16 PM
"Prayer for Werewolves" by Stephanie Burt
(found via @jaymarose.bsky.social)
Read or listen here:
onbeing.org/poetry/praye...
(found via @jaymarose.bsky.social)
Read or listen here:
onbeing.org/poetry/praye...
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Do these task forces ever include doctors who work in hospitals, or just the laptop class YouTube doctors?
Alberta task force including Trump's NIH appointee recommends halting use of COVID-19 vaccines (Gift Article) www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... 🔓 @alannasmith.bsky.social @carrietait.bsky.social
Get weekly updates: CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter 🍁
Get weekly updates: CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter 🍁
January 25, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Do these task forces ever include doctors who work in hospitals, or just the laptop class YouTube doctors?
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So, the current state of social media sandboxes:
BlueSky users: Building homes, castles, families, animals and cities connecting them. Everyone is sharing their snacks.
X users: Shouting at BlueSky users to come back, so Xers can break their cities and eat their snacks.
BlueSky users: Building homes, castles, families, animals and cities connecting them. Everyone is sharing their snacks.
X users: Shouting at BlueSky users to come back, so Xers can break their cities and eat their snacks.
As the left flees and X loses broader relevance, it becomes a more overtly right-wing site, @alibreland.bsky.social writes. But the right needs liberals on X in order to push conservative perspectives into the mainstream.
The Right Has a Bluesky Problem
The X exodus is weakening a way for conservatives to speak to the masses.
www.theatlantic.com
November 24, 2024 at 12:54 PM
So, the current state of social media sandboxes:
BlueSky users: Building homes, castles, families, animals and cities connecting them. Everyone is sharing their snacks.
X users: Shouting at BlueSky users to come back, so Xers can break their cities and eat their snacks.
BlueSky users: Building homes, castles, families, animals and cities connecting them. Everyone is sharing their snacks.
X users: Shouting at BlueSky users to come back, so Xers can break their cities and eat their snacks.
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Wow every day there is a new reason to tell you we are going to have to do this ourselves so here’s a new podcast called Public Health is Dead full of people who know things giving us more guidance about how to stay alive than the government has or will! Coming Nov 29 www.publichealthisdead.com
Public Health Is Dead
New podcast in production
www.publichealthisdead.com
November 15, 2024 at 5:23 AM
Wow every day there is a new reason to tell you we are going to have to do this ourselves so here’s a new podcast called Public Health is Dead full of people who know things giving us more guidance about how to stay alive than the government has or will! Coming Nov 29 www.publichealthisdead.com
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Covid is no laughing matter.
"The scale of the problem that Covid is posing for individuals and society appears to be on a par with climate change: too big to tackle, so we look away"
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...
"The scale of the problem that Covid is posing for individuals and society appears to be on a par with climate change: too big to tackle, so we look away"
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...
Covid is no laughing matter when it continues to hurt so many | Letters
Letters: Dr Elke Hausmann and Sue Hewison respond to Tim Dowling’s column about his sons testing positive
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2024 at 8:51 PM
Covid is no laughing matter.
"The scale of the problem that Covid is posing for individuals and society appears to be on a par with climate change: too big to tackle, so we look away"
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...
"The scale of the problem that Covid is posing for individuals and society appears to be on a par with climate change: too big to tackle, so we look away"
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...
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More here. sciencebasedmedicine.org/lucy-mcbride...
sciencebasedmedicine.org
March 9, 2024 at 12:57 PM
More here. sciencebasedmedicine.org/lucy-mcbride...
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My main life goal, I think, is to get the public interested in actual ravens beyond Edgar Allan Poe's work, and crows beyond horror movies. These creatures aren't evil.
"Bring us good news, Sister Raven."
These animals co-existed with humanity way before Colombus. TY to @kenket.bsky.social.
"Bring us good news, Sister Raven."
These animals co-existed with humanity way before Colombus. TY to @kenket.bsky.social.
November 27, 2023 at 10:43 PM
My main life goal, I think, is to get the public interested in actual ravens beyond Edgar Allan Poe's work, and crows beyond horror movies. These creatures aren't evil.
"Bring us good news, Sister Raven."
These animals co-existed with humanity way before Colombus. TY to @kenket.bsky.social.
"Bring us good news, Sister Raven."
These animals co-existed with humanity way before Colombus. TY to @kenket.bsky.social.
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It’s Time To Return To The Early Victorian Era Principles Of Catching Every Disease And Dying Young, To Avoid A Lifetime Of Crippling Immunity Debt
November 29, 2023 at 11:52 AM
It’s Time To Return To The Early Victorian Era Principles Of Catching Every Disease And Dying Young, To Avoid A Lifetime Of Crippling Immunity Debt
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US COVID SHOTS ARE FREE.
Please do not let Walgreens and CVS mislead you or your family members or neighbors about this! They are the biggest part of the federal bridge (free shots for uninsured people) program, but the rollout’s logistics have been a little scattered and you may get pushback.
Please do not let Walgreens and CVS mislead you or your family members or neighbors about this! They are the biggest part of the federal bridge (free shots for uninsured people) program, but the rollout’s logistics have been a little scattered and you may get pushback.
PSA: the CDC has a program that pays for your COVID vaccine if your insurer won't. The guy at CVS told me that my insurer had not added the new vaccine to its formulary yet, so I'd need to pay $190. I told him about this program, showed him the website, and paid nothing. 🤗
Bridge Access Program | CDCCenters for Disease Control and Prevention. CDC twenty four seven. Saving...
www.cdc.gov
September 19, 2023 at 10:57 PM
US COVID SHOTS ARE FREE.
Please do not let Walgreens and CVS mislead you or your family members or neighbors about this! They are the biggest part of the federal bridge (free shots for uninsured people) program, but the rollout’s logistics have been a little scattered and you may get pushback.
Please do not let Walgreens and CVS mislead you or your family members or neighbors about this! They are the biggest part of the federal bridge (free shots for uninsured people) program, but the rollout’s logistics have been a little scattered and you may get pushback.
Reposted by Barb Draa
Got my Covid booster but WOW the pharmacy was a shitshow! Mine actually went through on my insurance but if you go & they tell you it's not covered (which is happening to a lot of people right now) tell them it's covered by the CDC's Bridge Access Program, it's supposed to be free for everyone
Bridge Access Program | CDCCenters for Disease Control and Prevention. CDC twenty four seven. Saving...
www.cdc.gov
September 19, 2023 at 1:39 AM
Got my Covid booster but WOW the pharmacy was a shitshow! Mine actually went through on my insurance but if you go & they tell you it's not covered (which is happening to a lot of people right now) tell them it's covered by the CDC's Bridge Access Program, it's supposed to be free for everyone