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In our latest, we look back at 2025, a year where normalization slipped into naturalization, as a cadre of villains who rose to prominence on the back of covid denial took the reins of the federal government to play out their revenge fantasies.
It’s Covid Year Six.
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It’s Covid Year Six.
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December 16, 2025 at 1:39 AM
In our latest, we look back at 2025, a year where normalization slipped into naturalization, as a cadre of villains who rose to prominence on the back of covid denial took the reins of the federal government to play out their revenge fantasies.
It’s Covid Year Six.
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It’s Covid Year Six.
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Shockingly, this bill would have failed were it not for the 3 Democrat defections.
Just now, a national trans healthcare felony ban for youth has passed the US House, with 10 year prison terms.
3 Dems crossed party lines to vote to jail providers.
4 GOP crossed party lines to vote against.
It is not expected to pass the Senate, where Dems hold filibuster power.
Story to come.
3 Dems crossed party lines to vote to jail providers.
4 GOP crossed party lines to vote against.
It is not expected to pass the Senate, where Dems hold filibuster power.
Story to come.
December 18, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Shockingly, this bill would have failed were it not for the 3 Democrat defections.
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We’re entering a new era of childhood mortality & disability, & almost no one will care bc they’ll just get used to “the new normal” within a few years. They’ll ignore the harm.
How do I know? Because that’s exactly how it went w/COVID, which is the 2nd largest threat to childhood health rn.
How do I know? Because that’s exactly how it went w/COVID, which is the 2nd largest threat to childhood health rn.
Breaking: After contentious debates and three failed attempts at a vote, a federal vaccine committee decided on Friday to end the decades-long recommendation that all newborns be immunized at birth against hepatitis B.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
An End to Hepatitis B Shots for All Newborns
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:57 PM
We’re entering a new era of childhood mortality & disability, & almost no one will care bc they’ll just get used to “the new normal” within a few years. They’ll ignore the harm.
How do I know? Because that’s exactly how it went w/COVID, which is the 2nd largest threat to childhood health rn.
How do I know? Because that’s exactly how it went w/COVID, which is the 2nd largest threat to childhood health rn.
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Not acknowledging World AIDS Day and engaging in COVID revisionism are straight from the eugenics playbook. One of the most effective ways of making people invisible is by erasing their history.
December 2, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Not acknowledging World AIDS Day and engaging in COVID revisionism are straight from the eugenics playbook. One of the most effective ways of making people invisible is by erasing their history.
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right now we are "in the middle of the pandemic". If we are ever going to reach the end of the pandemic we need to talk about it like the present crisis it is. Remember when HIV was a death sentence? HIV denialism didn't lead to a cure. Organizing did.
March 21, 2025 at 2:23 AM
right now we are "in the middle of the pandemic". If we are ever going to reach the end of the pandemic we need to talk about it like the present crisis it is. Remember when HIV was a death sentence? HIV denialism didn't lead to a cure. Organizing did.
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Respect Alice Wong’s call here:
“When I am in public spaces and see most people unmasked either because they think the virus is a hoax, that masking is virtue signaling & a sign of weakness, aren't thinking about it, or that they simply don’t care, I feel like an expendable burden not worth saving.”
“When I am in public spaces and see most people unmasked either because they think the virus is a hoax, that masking is virtue signaling & a sign of weakness, aren't thinking about it, or that they simply don’t care, I feel like an expendable burden not worth saving.”
COVID Isn’t Going Anywhere. Masking Up Could Save My Life.
"When I am in public spaces and see most people unmasked, I feel like an expendable burden not worth saving."
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November 15, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Respect Alice Wong’s call here:
“When I am in public spaces and see most people unmasked either because they think the virus is a hoax, that masking is virtue signaling & a sign of weakness, aren't thinking about it, or that they simply don’t care, I feel like an expendable burden not worth saving.”
“When I am in public spaces and see most people unmasked either because they think the virus is a hoax, that masking is virtue signaling & a sign of weakness, aren't thinking about it, or that they simply don’t care, I feel like an expendable burden not worth saving.”
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🧵 Rest in power, Alice Wong. @sfdirewolf.bsky.social A trailblazer, a fierce advocate, and a relentless voice for disability rights. Her work changed the landscape for so many. /1
November 15, 2025 at 7:52 AM
🧵 Rest in power, Alice Wong. @sfdirewolf.bsky.social A trailblazer, a fierce advocate, and a relentless voice for disability rights. Her work changed the landscape for so many. /1
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UVA student journalist is fired for not adhering to expectations of "politeness" and "courtesies" with an interview subject, the UVA interim president. c-ville.com/student-jour...
Student journalist terminated following interview with UVA interim President Paul Mahoney - C-VILLE Weekly
Getting an interview with, let alone answers from, upper leadership at the University of Virginia is an uphill battle for any news organization. The groups with the most access to UVA’s administration...
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November 14, 2025 at 8:53 PM
UVA student journalist is fired for not adhering to expectations of "politeness" and "courtesies" with an interview subject, the UVA interim president. c-ville.com/student-jour...
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NEW: The president, who has framed mental health as a national crisis, paused rules to hold insurers accountable for unlawfully denying coverage. And Congress cut funding to the agency that enforces insurers’ equal treatment of mental and physical health.
Trump’s Rollback of Rules for Mental Health Coverage Could Lead More Americans to Go Without Care
The president, who has framed mental health as a national crisis, paused rules to hold insurers accountable for unlawfully denying coverage. And Congress cut funding to the agency that enforces insure...
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August 18, 2025 at 12:30 PM
NEW: The president, who has framed mental health as a national crisis, paused rules to hold insurers accountable for unlawfully denying coverage. And Congress cut funding to the agency that enforces insurers’ equal treatment of mental and physical health.
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Anyway, moral of the story is that you should all make zines and leave some at the laundromat.
August 4, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Anyway, moral of the story is that you should all make zines and leave some at the laundromat.
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Just a reminder that the bipartisan embrace of covid necropolitics and the eugenics as healthcare inversion narrative was a part of the broader infrastructure now being built by MAHA to kill as many people as possible through social Darwinian driven policies and eugenics.
I knew we were cooked as a society when everyone just sorta decided they were sick of dealing with Covid and everyone just decided to pretend like it wasn't a thing anymore.
July 6, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Just a reminder that the bipartisan embrace of covid necropolitics and the eugenics as healthcare inversion narrative was a part of the broader infrastructure now being built by MAHA to kill as many people as possible through social Darwinian driven policies and eugenics.
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Aside from the fact that anyone can get seriously ill from COVID, a key point they are deliberately hiding when removing access is that COVID vaccines reduce transmission. People choose to get vaccinated to protect other people. It is wrong and harmful to take that choice away.
May 27, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Aside from the fact that anyone can get seriously ill from COVID, a key point they are deliberately hiding when removing access is that COVID vaccines reduce transmission. People choose to get vaccinated to protect other people. It is wrong and harmful to take that choice away.
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I wrote about Republicans’ efforts to restrict access to COVID vaccines, and how this aligns with ongoing efforts to claim that COVID is the problem of a few “vulnerable” individuals, rather than a collective public health crisis.
Read here:
www.thegauntlet.news/p/republican...
Read here:
www.thegauntlet.news/p/republican...
Republicans' New Vaccine Restrictions Codify a False Healthy/Unhealthy Dichotomy
Denying vaccine access to the "healthy" makes no sense, not least because anybody can become disabled by a single COVID infection
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May 26, 2025 at 7:04 PM
I wrote about Republicans’ efforts to restrict access to COVID vaccines, and how this aligns with ongoing efforts to claim that COVID is the problem of a few “vulnerable” individuals, rather than a collective public health crisis.
Read here:
www.thegauntlet.news/p/republican...
Read here:
www.thegauntlet.news/p/republican...
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Charlottesville is not taking this ICE abduction lying down. Some Quaker activists have called for a protest. TODAY (Wednesday) 11 a.m. - 12 noon in front of the Albemarle County Court House from 11am to 12 noon. Come with signs, to protest warrantless kidnapping of one of our neighbors yesterday.
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April 23, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Charlottesville is not taking this ICE abduction lying down. Some Quaker activists have called for a protest. TODAY (Wednesday) 11 a.m. - 12 noon in front of the Albemarle County Court House from 11am to 12 noon. Come with signs, to protest warrantless kidnapping of one of our neighbors yesterday.
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there's also the very real possibility of global financial crisis + future pandemic due to the massive cuts to monitoring infectious diseases, the CDC, NIH, FDA, USDA, and other federal agencies that handle things like emergency disaster relief and vaccine distribution in remote areas
What's absolutely wild about this is the way they've manufactured a global financial crisis for no reason at all. This isn't 2007-08, where it was a bubble bursting. This is taking a relatively thriving economy and deliberately destroying it in the first three months of your presidency.
April 2, 2025 at 11:50 PM
there's also the very real possibility of global financial crisis + future pandemic due to the massive cuts to monitoring infectious diseases, the CDC, NIH, FDA, USDA, and other federal agencies that handle things like emergency disaster relief and vaccine distribution in remote areas
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We simply had to intentionally destroy the world’s strongest economy while dismantling our scientific and educational infrastructure to ensure that a team with a trans girl would never finish second place in the Mountain West volleyball standings again
April 2, 2025 at 10:30 PM
We simply had to intentionally destroy the world’s strongest economy while dismantling our scientific and educational infrastructure to ensure that a team with a trans girl would never finish second place in the Mountain West volleyball standings again
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🧵 What's the newest UVA BOV member been up to lately? Writing a chapter of Project 2025, the Trump admin game plan. Here's some higher-ed related recommendations from Cuccinelli.
I welcome expert opinion to confirm I'm correctly characterizing them
www.project2025.org/policy/
I welcome expert opinion to confirm I'm correctly characterizing them
www.project2025.org/policy/
March 27, 2025 at 11:41 AM
🧵 What's the newest UVA BOV member been up to lately? Writing a chapter of Project 2025, the Trump admin game plan. Here's some higher-ed related recommendations from Cuccinelli.
I welcome expert opinion to confirm I'm correctly characterizing them
www.project2025.org/policy/
I welcome expert opinion to confirm I'm correctly characterizing them
www.project2025.org/policy/
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I don't really have to hand it to Youngkin for tapping one of the very few people worse than Urchie for BOV. I am not joking when I say: if you have a friend from abroad studying at UVA, grab twenty of yr closest pals and escort that friend everywhere they need to go.
March 27, 2025 at 9:47 AM
I don't really have to hand it to Youngkin for tapping one of the very few people worse than Urchie for BOV. I am not joking when I say: if you have a friend from abroad studying at UVA, grab twenty of yr closest pals and escort that friend everywhere they need to go.
"I hesitate to draw any direct connection to the current moment, but I suppose what’s attractive about the notion of a provisional government is that it’s partly fiction—a state of mind, a metaphor for hope."
Chewing on SAME BED DIFFERENT DREAMS & chatting w/ Ed Park: c-ville.com/ed-park-expl...
Chewing on SAME BED DIFFERENT DREAMS & chatting w/ Ed Park: c-ville.com/ed-park-expl...
Ed Park explores metafiction and the nature of reality - C-VILLE Weekly
A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Same Bed Different Dreams by Ed Park is a complex kaleidoscope of a book that explores Korean history and diasporic identity, the nature of reality and dreams, and t...
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February 28, 2025 at 1:14 AM
"I hesitate to draw any direct connection to the current moment, but I suppose what’s attractive about the notion of a provisional government is that it’s partly fiction—a state of mind, a metaphor for hope."
Chewing on SAME BED DIFFERENT DREAMS & chatting w/ Ed Park: c-ville.com/ed-park-expl...
Chewing on SAME BED DIFFERENT DREAMS & chatting w/ Ed Park: c-ville.com/ed-park-expl...
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by embracing preparedness, you are building mental and physical resiliency for yourself and your community.
agency is, essentially, the opposite of trauma. creating plans and taking steps towards those plans is, in some ways, more important than actually succeeding at those plans. always be trying.
agency is, essentially, the opposite of trauma. creating plans and taking steps towards those plans is, in some ways, more important than actually succeeding at those plans. always be trying.
February 2, 2025 at 4:48 PM
by embracing preparedness, you are building mental and physical resiliency for yourself and your community.
agency is, essentially, the opposite of trauma. creating plans and taking steps towards those plans is, in some ways, more important than actually succeeding at those plans. always be trying.
agency is, essentially, the opposite of trauma. creating plans and taking steps towards those plans is, in some ways, more important than actually succeeding at those plans. always be trying.
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Again for those in the back: THE MORE OF US WHO WEAR MASKS IN PUBLIC PLACES, THE EASIER IT IS TO NORMALIZE THEM AS A PUBLIC HEALTH TOOL.
Indiana joins North Carolina, Nassau County and countless other parts of the US in attempting to ban masks.
The Governor of New York and Mayor of New York City are also in favour of bans.
Please, mask up. The more of us wearing them, the easier it is to normalize them as a public health tool
The Governor of New York and Mayor of New York City are also in favour of bans.
Please, mask up. The more of us wearing them, the easier it is to normalize them as a public health tool
Indiana Republicans are all about that personal freedom. 🙄
January 27, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Again for those in the back: THE MORE OF US WHO WEAR MASKS IN PUBLIC PLACES, THE EASIER IT IS TO NORMALIZE THEM AS A PUBLIC HEALTH TOOL.
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What we have instead of an opposition party is a copy of Robert's Rules of Order that has learned how to do GoFundMes and insider trading
January 28, 2025 at 1:53 PM
What we have instead of an opposition party is a copy of Robert's Rules of Order that has learned how to do GoFundMes and insider trading