babs ✨
@itsbabs.bsky.social
artist 📸 + activist / have lupus, studying the spectacularization of hydroxychloroquine / just trying to have a nice time On The Internet™️ / she/they #DoMaskBlocShit 😷🦋🍐🏳️🌈
tiktok/twitter: @babs_zone
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tiktok/twitter: @babs_zone
elsewhere: https://bio.site/amphoto
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@itsbabs.bsky.social
· Aug 5
are you so over wildfire smoke? allergies? this getting covid repeatedly thing? protect yourself with filtered air!
•Bonafide Masks
•WellBefore
•Dräger
•BeHealthy
•Laianzhi
•BNX
•3M
•MaskC
•CambridgeMask
*buying directly from distributors (some use amazon)=best way to avoid less than quality product
•Bonafide Masks
•WellBefore
•Dräger
•BeHealthy
•Laianzhi
•BNX
•3M
•MaskC
•CambridgeMask
*buying directly from distributors (some use amazon)=best way to avoid less than quality product
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I would love to have a discussion with Jake Tapper about the history of the term "concentration camp" and its usage. It would do so much good if he would actually address this head on.
God the gall of @jaketapper.bsky.social lecturing that Minneapolis small business owner about the meaning of the word "concentration camp" while people are being crammed into poorly resourced buildings by the thousands and shuttled off never to be heard from again
February 13, 2026 at 12:50 AM
I would love to have a discussion with Jake Tapper about the history of the term "concentration camp" and its usage. It would do so much good if he would actually address this head on.
lmfao you absolute weasels
February 13, 2026 at 12:58 AM
lmfao you absolute weasels
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yes i will keep rting this in hopes the repeated notifications spur an ounce of self reflection
i truly hope you can make the connection between what you've just posted and businesses trying to keep their shared air a little less pathogenic. to further underscore this point, it behooves us not to forget who is most impacted by some of those airborne pathogens...
February 12, 2026 at 11:15 PM
yes i will keep rting this in hopes the repeated notifications spur an ounce of self reflection
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i truly hope you can make the connection between what you've just posted and businesses trying to keep their shared air a little less pathogenic. to further underscore this point, it behooves us not to forget who is most impacted by some of those airborne pathogens...
![GuardianUS
'Petri dish for disease': attorney raises alarm of possible Covid outbreak at
'Alligator Alcatraz'
A respiratory disease is running rampant through Florida immigration jail, according to attorney of a detained person
Richard Luscombe in Miami
Tue 12 Aug 2025 09.00 EDT
He added: "Based on what multiple detainees have told me, in the last 72 to 100 hours, there is some respiratory disease which has made the majority, or I would even say vast majority of detainees, sick in some form.
"There are people who are losing breath. There are people who are walking around coughing on one another. Their requests for masks from the guards are denied, and they only are allowed to shower once or maybe twice a week.
"I said to Luis, 'pass the phone. Let me hear it from somebody else. I just want to make sure that people's stories are straight! And unfortunately they very much are."
The development follows a claim by a woman, a state licensed corrections officer, who said she contracted Covid-19 after working at the camp in unsanitary conditions for about a week last month, and was subsequently fired.
"We had to use the porta-johns. We didn't have hot water half the time. Our bathrooms were backed up," the woman told NBC6 News after being granted anonymity to discuss conditions there.
"[The detainees] have no sunlight. There's no clock in there. They don't even know what time of the day it is.
The bathrooms are backed up because so many people [are] using them."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:reatxkwxwfh2osvbkbxyjktg/bafkreiav55ygaif6qb76rolplb3ydimsxu5vzmhytevcgnznw2ixalmwpe@jpeg)
February 12, 2026 at 1:17 AM
i truly hope you can make the connection between what you've just posted and businesses trying to keep their shared air a little less pathogenic. to further underscore this point, it behooves us not to forget who is most impacted by some of those airborne pathogens...
yes i will keep rting this in hopes the repeated notifications spur an ounce of self reflection
i truly hope you can make the connection between what you've just posted and businesses trying to keep their shared air a little less pathogenic. to further underscore this point, it behooves us not to forget who is most impacted by some of those airborne pathogens...
February 12, 2026 at 11:15 PM
yes i will keep rting this in hopes the repeated notifications spur an ounce of self reflection
please share your favorite google calendar replacements! cal and its integrations (and the fact that my history goes back over a decade—VERY helpful for chronic illness reasons especially) are a major thing keeping me on a google product 🫠
If you’re a journalist or community organizer and haven’t shifted away from Google yet, this is a good reminder that it’s probably a good time to start!
Set up that Proton mail account, explore Crypt Pad or Outline for docs. Take 1 small step towards privacy today techcrunch.com/2026/02/10/g...
Set up that Proton mail account, explore Crypt Pad or Outline for docs. Take 1 small step towards privacy today techcrunch.com/2026/02/10/g...
Google sent personal and financial information of student journalist to ICE | TechCrunch
The tech giant handed over the personal information of a journalist and student who attended a pro-Palestinian protest in 2024. This is the latest example of ICE using its controversial subpoena power...
techcrunch.com
February 12, 2026 at 7:25 PM
please share your favorite google calendar replacements! cal and its integrations (and the fact that my history goes back over a decade—VERY helpful for chronic illness reasons especially) are a major thing keeping me on a google product 🫠
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If people who only masked/isolated in 2020/2021 thought their mental health struggles were bad, imagining the impact of continuing to isolate to protect your health.
February 12, 2026 at 6:37 PM
If people who only masked/isolated in 2020/2021 thought their mental health struggles were bad, imagining the impact of continuing to isolate to protect your health.
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we are in an unprecedented untenable situation: wanton destruction of federal public health apparati (already reduced by biden), on top of a precarious, ever consolidating for-profit “care” system that’s been inching toward collapse for yrs as insurance rates soar—& you won’t help prevent illness? 🤨
October 14, 2025 at 7:11 PM
we are in an unprecedented untenable situation: wanton destruction of federal public health apparati (already reduced by biden), on top of a precarious, ever consolidating for-profit “care” system that’s been inching toward collapse for yrs as insurance rates soar—& you won’t help prevent illness? 🤨
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I wonder why NIH director Russ Vought made this decision?
NEW: Another NIH institute director hasn't been renewed — the director of NIAMS (arthritis, musculoskeletal and skin diseases institute).
That leaves a whopping 15 of 27 institutes and centers without a permanent director.
That leaves a whopping 15 of 27 institutes and centers without a permanent director.
February 12, 2026 at 5:17 PM
I wonder why NIH director Russ Vought made this decision?
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when even those supposedly on the left are participating in a taboo, you must ask: who does it serve? & thus, how does my complicity contribute? how does this system, these power structures align with my values? what would it mean to make a different choice? to mask up even when it is not required?
normalize respirators in your daily life. when you do, when you see the choice to use a personal air filter as more akin to sunglasses (worn by all, often for fashion regardless of ocular welfare) than, say, a cast (indicative of active health concerns, often not a choice), all around you benefit.
December 30, 2025 at 3:06 AM
when even those supposedly on the left are participating in a taboo, you must ask: who does it serve? & thus, how does my complicity contribute? how does this system, these power structures align with my values? what would it mean to make a different choice? to mask up even when it is not required?
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stigmatizing (or making illegal) tools that allow one maintain the health they have—from masks to vaccines to food & water regulations etc—is a useful device for the fascist; a sick and disabled population is not only easier to control, but easier to further marginalize, to disappear.
![GuardianUS
'Petri dish for disease': attorney raises alarm of possible Covid outbreak at
'Alligator Alcatraz'
A respiratory disease is running rampant through Florida immigration jail, according to attorney of a detained person
Richard Luscombe in Miami
Tue 12 Aug 2025 09.00 EDT
He added: "Based on what multiple detainees have told me, in the last 72 to 100 hours, there is some respiratory disease which has made the majority, or I would even say vast majority of detainees, sick in some form.
"There are people who are losing breath. There are people who are walking around coughing on one another. Their requests for masks from the guards are denied, and they only are allowed to shower once or maybe twice a week.
"I said to Luis, 'pass the phone. Let me hear it from somebody else. I just want to make sure that people's stories are straight! And unfortunately they very much are."
The development follows a claim by a woman, a state licensed corrections officer, who said she contracted Covid-19 after working at the camp in unsanitary conditions for about a week last month, and was subsequently fired.
"We had to use the porta-johns. We didn't have hot water half the time. Our bathrooms were backed up," the woman told NBC6 News after being granted anonymity to discuss conditions there.
"[The detainees] have no sunlight. There's no clock in there. They don't even know what time of the day it is.
The bathrooms are backed up because so many people [are] using them."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:reatxkwxwfh2osvbkbxyjktg/bafkreifzbk5wfserwmo22extttvcogqlofignol5fehh5r364ckpidiuxa@jpeg)
December 30, 2025 at 3:03 AM
stigmatizing (or making illegal) tools that allow one maintain the health they have—from masks to vaccines to food & water regulations etc—is a useful device for the fascist; a sick and disabled population is not only easier to control, but easier to further marginalize, to disappear.
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“Kimberly & the children are facing an uncertain future. The costs of James’s medical care & extended fight against cancer have left the family out of funds. They are working hard to stay in their home”
Even people with more than most can’t survive US healthcare costs.
variety.com/2026/tv/news...
Even people with more than most can’t survive US healthcare costs.
variety.com/2026/tv/news...
James Van Der Beek’s Friends Launch GoFundMe After His Death, Say Cancer Battle ‘Left Family Out of Funds’: ‘They’re Working Hard to Stay in Their Home’
James Van Der Beek's family is raising money to help with medical bills and expenses after his death.
variety.com
February 12, 2026 at 2:00 AM
“Kimberly & the children are facing an uncertain future. The costs of James’s medical care & extended fight against cancer have left the family out of funds. They are working hard to stay in their home”
Even people with more than most can’t survive US healthcare costs.
variety.com/2026/tv/news...
Even people with more than most can’t survive US healthcare costs.
variety.com/2026/tv/news...
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🌟 Sex workers at Sheri’s Ranch, a legal brothel in Pahrump, Nevada, are unionizing with the Communications Workers of America @cwaunion.bsky.social
Last week, management fired several pro-union workers—including the union’s primary organizer, Jupiter Jetson
thenevadaindependent.com/article/sex-...
Last week, management fired several pro-union workers—including the union’s primary organizer, Jupiter Jetson
thenevadaindependent.com/article/sex-...
Sex workers at Pahrump brothel are unionizing, alleging unfair contracts and conditions - The Nevada Independent
In the last week, the brothel has fired three workers who challenged a new contract that they say is unfair. Lawyers have filed an injunction with the federal labor board.
thenevadaindependent.com
February 12, 2026 at 3:33 AM
🌟 Sex workers at Sheri’s Ranch, a legal brothel in Pahrump, Nevada, are unionizing with the Communications Workers of America @cwaunion.bsky.social
Last week, management fired several pro-union workers—including the union’s primary organizer, Jupiter Jetson
thenevadaindependent.com/article/sex-...
Last week, management fired several pro-union workers—including the union’s primary organizer, Jupiter Jetson
thenevadaindependent.com/article/sex-...
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Not to fear-monger but authoritarians are not just targeting journalists- they’re targeting dissenters and truth tellers. You should be prepared and know how to lock down your phone folks!
Steps are similar for Android phones 9.0 +
Steps are similar for Android phones 9.0 +
February 11, 2026 at 11:24 PM
Not to fear-monger but authoritarians are not just targeting journalists- they’re targeting dissenters and truth tellers. You should be prepared and know how to lock down your phone folks!
Steps are similar for Android phones 9.0 +
Steps are similar for Android phones 9.0 +
yet again the lesson that there is little to be gained from covid denial and everything to lose is repeated.
😷🤙
😷🤙
February 12, 2026 at 12:49 AM
yet again the lesson that there is little to be gained from covid denial and everything to lose is repeated.
😷🤙
😷🤙
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One thing that’s cool about our current system is how it creates things that people don’t want or need, and also those things are bad for us.
February 11, 2026 at 11:38 PM
One thing that’s cool about our current system is how it creates things that people don’t want or need, and also those things are bad for us.
see also: moving over ~50 million hydroxychloroquine pills without sound scientific justification that it either prevented or treated a novel virus despite it being a daily med for millions of autoimmune people, leading to at least 825k lupus patients rationing or going without said essential med.
February 12, 2026 at 12:23 AM
see also: moving over ~50 million hydroxychloroquine pills without sound scientific justification that it either prevented or treated a novel virus despite it being a daily med for millions of autoimmune people, leading to at least 825k lupus patients rationing or going without said essential med.
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Pandemic was a great dry run for this👍
Hide the scary unpopular info that most people don’t want to know, and get most people not only accustomed to it but in favor of it—then move on to hiding all the other facts that are inconvenient to those in power.
Hide the scary unpopular info that most people don’t want to know, and get most people not only accustomed to it but in favor of it—then move on to hiding all the other facts that are inconvenient to those in power.
February 11, 2026 at 8:49 PM
Pandemic was a great dry run for this👍
Hide the scary unpopular info that most people don’t want to know, and get most people not only accustomed to it but in favor of it—then move on to hiding all the other facts that are inconvenient to those in power.
Hide the scary unpopular info that most people don’t want to know, and get most people not only accustomed to it but in favor of it—then move on to hiding all the other facts that are inconvenient to those in power.
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August 15, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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gratified to see two respirators on the helpers in this photo; an accurate model of adept community care. passing infections around is not the way we build the movement we need. wearing a respirator is a simple action that goes a long way in strengthening us all.
“Trying to go back to a phony-baloney corporate job of filing trademarks and talking about profit shares versus incentives and other just horse s--- is just so ultimately meaningless,” Young said. “I’ll figure something else out. But right now, my city needs me.’”
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
How daily life in Minneapolis has transformed since federal agents flooded the streets
The fatal shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by immigration agents and a sweeping federal operation have transformed the city.
www.nbcnews.com
January 31, 2026 at 12:59 AM
gratified to see two respirators on the helpers in this photo; an accurate model of adept community care. passing infections around is not the way we build the movement we need. wearing a respirator is a simple action that goes a long way in strengthening us all.
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wowowow—a very kind inclusion! in honor of such a commendation, here are some of my favorite film photos that just turned ten years old, made in january 2016 somewhere in the texas desert on @amtrak.com’s sunset limited.
#filmisnotdead #filmsky #transitsky #trains
#filmisnotdead #filmsky #transitsky #trains
January 16, 2026 at 9:21 PM
wowowow—a very kind inclusion! in honor of such a commendation, here are some of my favorite film photos that just turned ten years old, made in january 2016 somewhere in the texas desert on @amtrak.com’s sunset limited.
#filmisnotdead #filmsky #transitsky #trains
#filmisnotdead #filmsky #transitsky #trains
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“If the sovereign’s power over a person through their body ceases once a body is buried, Israelis have found a workaround: they pull the body out of the earth. __Come here, I’m not done with you__.”
The rhythm of Mary Turfah’s sentences are as devastating as what she writes about
The rhythm of Mary Turfah’s sentences are as devastating as what she writes about
In Gaza, Israel takes truckloads of Palestinian bodies for DNA testing, to make sure they are not Israeli. They seldom return them. Mary Turfah examines what they are doing with the dead, how it structures Israeli power, and why they get away with it.
I’m Not Done With You | Mary Turfah
You cannot harm a corpse, though you can use it to harm others.
thebaffler.com
February 10, 2026 at 4:52 PM
“If the sovereign’s power over a person through their body ceases once a body is buried, Israelis have found a workaround: they pull the body out of the earth. __Come here, I’m not done with you__.”
The rhythm of Mary Turfah’s sentences are as devastating as what she writes about
The rhythm of Mary Turfah’s sentences are as devastating as what she writes about
as a lupus patient who relies on hydroxychloroquine, the stigma on these medications has been and continues to be terrible for those of us who rely on them. so unfortunate, unnecessary.
I feel bad for ivermectin, which genuinely is amazing stuff that won a deserved Nobel Prize but is now forever associated with crank antiscience
February 11, 2026 at 8:58 AM
as a lupus patient who relies on hydroxychloroquine, the stigma on these medications has been and continues to be terrible for those of us who rely on them. so unfortunate, unnecessary.
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AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
February 11, 2026 at 3:32 AM
AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH