emeritrix
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WA PEOPLE: CALL YOUR FREAKING STATE REPS. FILL OUT THIS FORM THAT WILL CONTACT LIKE THREE OF THEM FOR YOU.
Washington state lawmakers are rushing through HB-2112, which is the bill that will force Washington citizens to upload their ID or credit card to view adult content online.
Friday, Jan 16th, has been announced as the public hearing for the bill.
app.leg.wa.gov/BillSummary/...
Friday, Jan 16th, has been announced as the public hearing for the bill.
app.leg.wa.gov/BillSummary/...
HB 2112 Washington State Legislature
app.leg.wa.gov
January 12, 2026 at 11:44 PM
WA PEOPLE: CALL YOUR FREAKING STATE REPS. FILL OUT THIS FORM THAT WILL CONTACT LIKE THREE OF THEM FOR YOU.
No Mask Bans! No Secret Police! These are not incompatible goals.
January 12, 2026 at 10:19 PM
No Mask Bans! No Secret Police! These are not incompatible goals.
LEOs should be readily identifiable (name, agency, badge number), but in respirator masks: "the leading cause of death by far among ICE officers is COVID-19": they should all be wearing respirators (N95s not cloth gaiters). They are sickening enough already.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
January 12, 2026 at 9:03 PM
LEOs should be readily identifiable (name, agency, badge number), but in respirator masks: "the leading cause of death by far among ICE officers is COVID-19": they should all be wearing respirators (N95s not cloth gaiters). They are sickening enough already.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
NO MASK BANS. Yes, LEOs must be required to clearly display name, agency, and badge number. But they should be wearing respirator masks (N95, KN95, NOT cloth gaiters) to keep them from spreading disease. #PDX @councilorkanal.bsky.social
January 12, 2026 at 8:51 PM
NO MASK BANS. Yes, LEOs must be required to clearly display name, agency, and badge number. But they should be wearing respirator masks (N95, KN95, NOT cloth gaiters) to keep them from spreading disease. #PDX @councilorkanal.bsky.social
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Mask wearing is much more useful than hand washing against Flu A in a tested office setting. Total risk reduces 8.75% to 0.45% w/N95 on the infected student.
Influenza A transmission risk:
Long-range airborne: 54.3%
Close contact aerosols: 44.5%
Fomite: 4.2%
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Influenza A transmission risk:
Long-range airborne: 54.3%
Close contact aerosols: 44.5%
Fomite: 4.2%
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Transmission of Influenza A in a Student Office Based on Realistic Person-to-Person Contact and Surface Touch Behaviour
Influenza A viruses result in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of individuals worldwide each year. In this study, influenza A transmission in a graduate student office is simulated via long-range airborne, fomite, and close contact routes based ...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
January 12, 2026 at 1:06 PM
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"Climate projections under moderate emissions pathways suggest a cumulative decline of 2.8 years in life expectancy by 2100, amounting to US$35 trillion losses" in Pacific Rim countries.
Client Challenge
www.nature.com
January 12, 2026 at 1:33 PM
"Climate projections under moderate emissions pathways suggest a cumulative decline of 2.8 years in life expectancy by 2100, amounting to US$35 trillion losses" in Pacific Rim countries.
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It has really grated on me how often commentators have mentioned that Renee Good was mother to a six-year-old as proof that she was a good and non-dangerous person. If she hadn't had any children, she would have been just as righteous.
January 12, 2026 at 1:15 PM
It has really grated on me how often commentators have mentioned that Renee Good was mother to a six-year-old as proof that she was a good and non-dangerous person. If she hadn't had any children, she would have been just as righteous.
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We can’t comply our way out of fascism any more than we can ignore our way out of a pandemic.
ICE is a tool of fascism. So are unmitigated pandemics & the people who won’t wear an n95. So are anti-trans laws & those who want to delay trans liberation. So are genocides & those who ignore them.
ICE is a tool of fascism. So are unmitigated pandemics & the people who won’t wear an n95. So are anti-trans laws & those who want to delay trans liberation. So are genocides & those who ignore them.
January 11, 2026 at 5:28 PM
We can’t comply our way out of fascism any more than we can ignore our way out of a pandemic.
ICE is a tool of fascism. So are unmitigated pandemics & the people who won’t wear an n95. So are anti-trans laws & those who want to delay trans liberation. So are genocides & those who ignore them.
ICE is a tool of fascism. So are unmitigated pandemics & the people who won’t wear an n95. So are anti-trans laws & those who want to delay trans liberation. So are genocides & those who ignore them.
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The sign on Kristi Noem's podium reads "One of ours, all of yours." The reader will recall that this was a fascist rallying cry in the Spanish Civil War. What it means is that one of "our" people is worth all of "your" people.
January 11, 2026 at 5:43 PM
The sign on Kristi Noem's podium reads "One of ours, all of yours." The reader will recall that this was a fascist rallying cry in the Spanish Civil War. What it means is that one of "our" people is worth all of "your" people.
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BREAKING: ICE agents pepper-spray peaceful demonstrators and journalists and deploy chemical irritants in Minneapolis.
Our partners @statuscoupnews.bsky.social captured the moment live on the ground as it happened.
Our partners @statuscoupnews.bsky.social captured the moment live on the ground as it happened.
January 11, 2026 at 10:15 PM
BREAKING: ICE agents pepper-spray peaceful demonstrators and journalists and deploy chemical irritants in Minneapolis.
Our partners @statuscoupnews.bsky.social captured the moment live on the ground as it happened.
Our partners @statuscoupnews.bsky.social captured the moment live on the ground as it happened.
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Naming a police officer is not doxxing. We aren’t supposed to have secret police in America.
January 9, 2026 at 12:10 AM
Naming a police officer is not doxxing. We aren’t supposed to have secret police in America.
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Finally listened to the meeting. Here’s where we stand.
1. Portland City Council remains cleanly divided into two ideological blocs.
2. All councilors belong to a bloc and are loyal to their bloc. This includes the current president and each of the three nominees. No councilor is unaffiliated.
1. Portland City Council remains cleanly divided into two ideological blocs.
2. All councilors belong to a bloc and are loyal to their bloc. This includes the current president and each of the three nominees. No councilor is unaffiliated.
January 10, 2026 at 8:01 PM
Finally listened to the meeting. Here’s where we stand.
1. Portland City Council remains cleanly divided into two ideological blocs.
2. All councilors belong to a bloc and are loyal to their bloc. This includes the current president and each of the three nominees. No councilor is unaffiliated.
1. Portland City Council remains cleanly divided into two ideological blocs.
2. All councilors belong to a bloc and are loyal to their bloc. This includes the current president and each of the three nominees. No councilor is unaffiliated.
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ICE ALREADY ROUTINELY VIOLATES THE LEGAL PROHIBITION ON MURDER
Let's be clear about this:
The law already prohibits ICE agents from murdering people; ICE murders people anyway. Yes, Renee Good, and MANY more.
Electeds can say "we're imposing new legal conditions on ICE, like, 'you can't wear masks" but why should we believe that will stop them?
Abolish ICE
The law already prohibits ICE agents from murdering people; ICE murders people anyway. Yes, Renee Good, and MANY more.
Electeds can say "we're imposing new legal conditions on ICE, like, 'you can't wear masks" but why should we believe that will stop them?
Abolish ICE
January 11, 2026 at 9:35 PM
ICE ALREADY ROUTINELY VIOLATES THE LEGAL PROHIBITION ON MURDER
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FYI: Judge Ellis (Chicago ICE case) noted in November that video evidence shows ICE "brake-checked other motorists in an attempt to force accidents that agents could then use as justifications for deploying force."
January 11, 2026 at 7:45 PM
FYI: Judge Ellis (Chicago ICE case) noted in November that video evidence shows ICE "brake-checked other motorists in an attempt to force accidents that agents could then use as justifications for deploying force."
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"Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.
They’ve had their necks kneeled on.
They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.
At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them."
(Published Oct. 2025)
They’ve had their necks kneeled on.
They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.
At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them."
(Published Oct. 2025)
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
www.propublica.org
January 8, 2026 at 2:00 AM
"Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.
They’ve had their necks kneeled on.
They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.
At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them."
(Published Oct. 2025)
They’ve had their necks kneeled on.
They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.
At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them."
(Published Oct. 2025)
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Covid-19 and cancers connected to September 11 account for 75 percent of the deaths in ICE’s history.
No ICE agent has ever been killed by an immigrant.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
No ICE agent has ever been killed by an immigrant.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
How dangerous is it really to work for ICE?
According to ICE’s own data, none of its officers have been killed by an immigrant in the agency’s history.
www.motherjones.com
January 10, 2026 at 10:00 AM
Covid-19 and cancers connected to September 11 account for 75 percent of the deaths in ICE’s history.
No ICE agent has ever been killed by an immigrant.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
No ICE agent has ever been killed by an immigrant.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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inexcusable. they like fascism and want to support it.
They bet the media would adopt their framing if they released the video and they were right
USA Today: “Vance uses new video to defend agent”
WP: “hotly disputed”
Reuters: “White House shares new video”
The NYT even embedded DHS spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin as if she’s a credible source
USA Today: “Vance uses new video to defend agent”
WP: “hotly disputed”
Reuters: “White House shares new video”
The NYT even embedded DHS spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin as if she’s a credible source
January 10, 2026 at 1:33 PM
inexcusable. they like fascism and want to support it.
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Are any journalists currently investigating the apparent increase in reports of US citizens having their passport voided while in the middle of foreign trips because it was supposedly been “reported lost or stolen” even though the passport holder still has the passport and never reported anything?
January 10, 2026 at 10:48 AM
Are any journalists currently investigating the apparent increase in reports of US citizens having their passport voided while in the middle of foreign trips because it was supposedly been “reported lost or stolen” even though the passport holder still has the passport and never reported anything?
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If you die from a disease, you’ll never have to worry about catching that disease again!
I've always thought that the whole "natural immunity is the best way to protect people" thing was a bit like saying "getting pregnant is the best form of birth control."
Anyway, cool to see it's better for the immune system to see vaccine before virus from an effectiveness standpoint too.
Anyway, cool to see it's better for the immune system to see vaccine before virus from an effectiveness standpoint too.
A study on 1.7 million people in Hong Kong shows superior hybrid immunity to Covid in people who got vaccinated before infection vs. people who got infected first. "Our findings are a direct rebuttal to arguments for natural immunity," the authors write. doi.org/10.1016/j.va...
January 10, 2026 at 1:08 PM
If you die from a disease, you’ll never have to worry about catching that disease again!
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How does SARS-CoV-2 infection lead to dysregulation of the immune system in severe and #LongCovid?
An unanticipated mechanism described @pnas.org with depletion of specific immune T and dendritic cells, open-access
www.pnas.org/doi/suppl/10...
An unanticipated mechanism described @pnas.org with depletion of specific immune T and dendritic cells, open-access
www.pnas.org/doi/suppl/10...
January 10, 2026 at 12:54 PM
How does SARS-CoV-2 infection lead to dysregulation of the immune system in severe and #LongCovid?
An unanticipated mechanism described @pnas.org with depletion of specific immune T and dendritic cells, open-access
www.pnas.org/doi/suppl/10...
An unanticipated mechanism described @pnas.org with depletion of specific immune T and dendritic cells, open-access
www.pnas.org/doi/suppl/10...
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the government's paramilitary stormtroopers quite literally went from murdering a woman to tear gassing high school children in the same day.
Kind of wild there has been almost no coverage of the fact that the federal government unleashed chemical weapons against literal kids *at school*.
workdaymagazine.org/minneapolis-...
workdaymagazine.org/minneapolis-...
January 10, 2026 at 12:26 PM
the government's paramilitary stormtroopers quite literally went from murdering a woman to tear gassing high school children in the same day.
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Good news for us all—but particularly for COVID safe & airborne-aware advocates.
“Surgical face masks provide inadequate protection against flu-like illnesses including Covid, and should be replaced by respirator-level masks – worn every time doctors and nurses are face to face with a patient…”
“Surgical face masks provide inadequate protection against flu-like illnesses including Covid, and should be replaced by respirator-level masks – worn every time doctors and nurses are face to face with a patient…”
Face masks ‘inadequate’ and should be swapped for respirators, WHO is advised
Experts are urging guideline changes on what health professionals should wear to protect against flu-like illnesses including Covid
www.theguardian.com
January 9, 2026 at 6:26 PM
Good news for us all—but particularly for COVID safe & airborne-aware advocates.
“Surgical face masks provide inadequate protection against flu-like illnesses including Covid, and should be replaced by respirator-level masks – worn every time doctors and nurses are face to face with a patient…”
“Surgical face masks provide inadequate protection against flu-like illnesses including Covid, and should be replaced by respirator-level masks – worn every time doctors and nurses are face to face with a patient…”
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She smiles at the man who shoots her and says she isn't mad at him. Clearly initiates the effort to leave when the aggressive agents arrive.
The question now (not that this was in question) isn't who's telling the truth. It's when DHS had this video and knew that what they were saying was a lie.
The question now (not that this was in question) isn't who's telling the truth. It's when DHS had this video and knew that what they were saying was a lie.
🚨 NEW VIDEO 👇🏽This puts an end to all the lies. Horrific.
They were having a calm exchange seconds before he murdered Renee Good, and she was barely moving and clearly avoiding him.
Stop the lies.
They were having a calm exchange seconds before he murdered Renee Good, and she was barely moving and clearly avoiding him.
Stop the lies.
January 9, 2026 at 6:46 PM
She smiles at the man who shoots her and says she isn't mad at him. Clearly initiates the effort to leave when the aggressive agents arrive.
The question now (not that this was in question) isn't who's telling the truth. It's when DHS had this video and knew that what they were saying was a lie.
The question now (not that this was in question) isn't who's telling the truth. It's when DHS had this video and knew that what they were saying was a lie.