Kimberly #MaskUp Ratliff, MSc
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The editorial board of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, the newspaper which serves an area including Palm Beach (Mar-a-Lago) along with many retirees, is calling for Congress to convene a blue ribbon health panel to independently evaluate the president's health and his medical fitness for office.
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December 6, 2025 at 1:54 PM
The editorial board of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, the newspaper which serves an area including Palm Beach (Mar-a-Lago) along with many retirees, is calling for Congress to convene a blue ribbon health panel to independently evaluate the president's health and his medical fitness for office.
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This is all-hands on deck. RFK Jr. wants to destroy vaccination in the US. COVID and HBV vaccination were the first step. These diseases WILL come back. And your personal vaccination status is important, but so is the coverage in your community. So up your game and fight. www.vox.com/2015/3/25/82...
The lives vaccines have saved in the US, in one chart
Vox is a general interest news site for the 21st century. Its mission: to help everyone understand our complicated world, so that we can all help shape it. In text, video and audio, our reporters expl...
www.vox.com
December 6, 2025 at 12:35 PM
This is all-hands on deck. RFK Jr. wants to destroy vaccination in the US. COVID and HBV vaccination were the first step. These diseases WILL come back. And your personal vaccination status is important, but so is the coverage in your community. So up your game and fight. www.vox.com/2015/3/25/82...
Is it any surprise that the regime of Donald "grab 'em by the pussy" Trump is not listening to a woman when she says no?
Sabrina Carpenter ratioed the White House after it used her song in an ICE video.
The WH deleted the post…but now it’s back with a new ICE video, this time using an altered clip from Carpenter’s SNL monologue.
The WH deleted the post…but now it’s back with a new ICE video, this time using an altered clip from Carpenter’s SNL monologue.
December 6, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Is it any surprise that the regime of Donald "grab 'em by the pussy" Trump is not listening to a woman when she says no?
If you're still on X, you're being manipulated. And even if you think you're too smart to be manipulated you're being manipulated. Stop going over there. Stop giving Musk and revenue with each scroll. Because if it's true for Europe ⬇️ it's at least partially true for your country, too.
"The EU concluded that X had become the single most dangerous vector of election disinformation in Europe."
I'm not exaggerating and the EU agrees with me.
deanblundell.substack.com/p/elon-muskx...
deanblundell.substack.com/p/elon-muskx...
December 6, 2025 at 10:01 AM
If you're still on X, you're being manipulated. And even if you think you're too smart to be manipulated you're being manipulated. Stop going over there. Stop giving Musk and revenue with each scroll. Because if it's true for Europe ⬇️ it's at least partially true for your country, too.
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This is why we have to coordinate to boycott big business & withhold our labor. In my household we've made it a goal to pay cash as much as possible (to starve big banks on credit card interest & Visa/MC on processing fees), to buy used/thrift/shop small biz/trade with neighbors whenever possible.
The bottom 90% lost a collective $79 trillion in wages over the past 50 years.
Why? Because the top 1% ate up an increasingly larger share of the national income — so that $79 trillion flowed to them instead of the working class.
The greatest trick of all is trickle-down economics.
Why? Because the top 1% ate up an increasingly larger share of the national income — so that $79 trillion flowed to them instead of the working class.
The greatest trick of all is trickle-down economics.
December 5, 2025 at 1:34 PM
This is why we have to coordinate to boycott big business & withhold our labor. In my household we've made it a goal to pay cash as much as possible (to starve big banks on credit card interest & Visa/MC on processing fees), to buy used/thrift/shop small biz/trade with neighbors whenever possible.
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Some warnings from Spain that flu is collapsing care at overtaxed ERs. Our vax isn’t a good match this year, and our immunity is low because of repeated covid infections, so please wear N95s this holiday season. For everyone, but infants and seniors in particular, flu can be fatal.
December 4, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Some warnings from Spain that flu is collapsing care at overtaxed ERs. Our vax isn’t a good match this year, and our immunity is low because of repeated covid infections, so please wear N95s this holiday season. For everyone, but infants and seniors in particular, flu can be fatal.
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Wake up babe new recession indicator just dropped
December 4, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Wake up babe new recession indicator just dropped
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December 4, 2025 at 5:04 PM
SATURDAY Dec 13 2PM
16th St NW & H St NW
Surround The White House
Deliver the People’s Indictment of Donald Trump: A Unified Declaration of Illegitmacy
TRUMP MUST GO NOW!
Sign up & spread the word:
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Tomorrow, the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (made up primarily of vaccine skeptics appointed by RFK Jr) will be voting on whether to continue recommending the Hep B vaccine for newborns. This will likely be contentious.
You can follow updates tomorrow with the ACIP feed.
You can follow updates tomorrow with the ACIP feed.
December 4, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Tomorrow, the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (made up primarily of vaccine skeptics appointed by RFK Jr) will be voting on whether to continue recommending the Hep B vaccine for newborns. This will likely be contentious.
You can follow updates tomorrow with the ACIP feed.
You can follow updates tomorrow with the ACIP feed.
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Masks are our last, first, and best line of defense, and it would really benefit y’all to get used to the idea of wearing them more because soon they might be the only tool we have left.
If new proposals detailed in an FDA memo are put into place, experts told me it would mean the end of annual flu shots. And end of most vaccines for pregnant people. And maybe the end of updates to pneumonia vaccines. And more.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
FDA official proposes ‘impossible’ standards for vaccine testing that could curtail access to immunizations
www.cidrap.umn.edu
December 3, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Masks are our last, first, and best line of defense, and it would really benefit y’all to get used to the idea of wearing them more because soon they might be the only tool we have left.
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I think the fact that a special election generated basically midterm level turnout and a Trump +22 district is now only Rep+8 should absolutely be a pants shitting moment for elected Republicans across the country. It would be one thing if turnout was low but it definately wasn't!
Updating - total reported turnout in the TN7 special is now 168k, or 93% of the total votes cast in the November, 2022 midterm general election, a race the GOP won by 22 pts. The GOP has some serious issues right now.
December 3, 2025 at 5:48 AM
I think the fact that a special election generated basically midterm level turnout and a Trump +22 district is now only Rep+8 should absolutely be a pants shitting moment for elected Republicans across the country. It would be one thing if turnout was low but it definately wasn't!
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an actual lefty candidate managed a 13 point shift left from 2024 on midterm-level turnout in fucking Tennessee
we are going to win
we are going to win
December 3, 2025 at 4:22 AM
an actual lefty candidate managed a 13 point shift left from 2024 on midterm-level turnout in fucking Tennessee
we are going to win
we are going to win
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A +14 shift to the Dems in a very red district applied nationwide next year means a solidly blue House and a chance to retake the Senate against an extremely unfavorable map.
December 3, 2025 at 2:30 AM
A +14 shift to the Dems in a very red district applied nationwide next year means a solidly blue House and a chance to retake the Senate against an extremely unfavorable map.
I don't have Long COVID, but a household member does. We can't find a medical office that will honor our request for everyone we interact with during the appt to wear a mask (including receptionist, nurse or medical assistant, physician or provider). He masks but 2-way masking is safer. #MedSky
During our Long COVlD forum, Ann Wallace, Ph.D told us that finding healthcare providers who don’t do harm has been one of the most challenging things in caring for her daughters with #LongCOVID.
Watch the full presentation: masktogetheramerica.org/blog/masktog...
Watch the full presentation: masktogetheramerica.org/blog/masktog...
December 2, 2025 at 11:33 PM
I don't have Long COVID, but a household member does. We can't find a medical office that will honor our request for everyone we interact with during the appt to wear a mask (including receptionist, nurse or medical assistant, physician or provider). He masks but 2-way masking is safer. #MedSky
This #GivingTuesday if you'd like to support a local Mask Bloc run by mostly neurospicy, disabled & chronically ill volunteers -- and help vulnerable community members in Charlotte, NC to #MaskUp #WearAMask -- consider a tax-deductible gift to CLT Mask Bloc: opencollective.com/charlotte-ma...
Charlotte Mask Bloc - Open Collective
Provide the community with high-quality respirators. Donations are tax-deductible!
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December 2, 2025 at 10:33 PM
This #GivingTuesday if you'd like to support a local Mask Bloc run by mostly neurospicy, disabled & chronically ill volunteers -- and help vulnerable community members in Charlotte, NC to #MaskUp #WearAMask -- consider a tax-deductible gift to CLT Mask Bloc: opencollective.com/charlotte-ma...
GOP US House Rep Chuck Edwards owns 7 McDonald's restaurants in Western North Carolina (Hendersonville, Brevard & Canton areas). So @lesboyd.bsky.social and other WNC residents picketed & called for a boycott this weekend -- they're refusing to fund their own oppression. No $ for oligarchs. #ncpol
So, a few of us did a thing over the weekend: We called for a boycott of the McDonald's restaurants owned by Rep. Chuck Edwards and had a picket line on Friday and Sunday. We actually had a couple people thank us and go somewhere else. Please don't feed the oligarchs. They have too much already.
December 2, 2025 at 10:14 PM
GOP US House Rep Chuck Edwards owns 7 McDonald's restaurants in Western North Carolina (Hendersonville, Brevard & Canton areas). So @lesboyd.bsky.social and other WNC residents picketed & called for a boycott this weekend -- they're refusing to fund their own oppression. No $ for oligarchs. #ncpol
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A college student complaining about a grade on a paper is not national news. Not even close. The details have minimal import outside the class itself.
Well-funded political activists targeting profs and TAs—in this case because they're trans—with the help of elected state officials? National issue.
Well-funded political activists targeting profs and TAs—in this case because they're trans—with the help of elected state officials? National issue.
December 1, 2025 at 5:31 PM
A college student complaining about a grade on a paper is not national news. Not even close. The details have minimal import outside the class itself.
Well-funded political activists targeting profs and TAs—in this case because they're trans—with the help of elected state officials? National issue.
Well-funded political activists targeting profs and TAs—in this case because they're trans—with the help of elected state officials? National issue.
Justice @anitaearls.bsky.social is one of only two Democrats on North Carolina's State Supreme Court, and she's running for re-election in 2026. We must keep her voice & her views on the highest court in our state. Donate or join her team of campaign volunteers at earls4justice.com
#ncpol
#ncpol
December 2, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Justice @anitaearls.bsky.social is one of only two Democrats on North Carolina's State Supreme Court, and she's running for re-election in 2026. We must keep her voice & her views on the highest court in our state. Donate or join her team of campaign volunteers at earls4justice.com
#ncpol
#ncpol
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Candidate filing opened today in North Carolina! If you’re someone who’s interested in running for office, but doesn’t know where to start, fill out our form at NCDP.org/run-for-office! Let someone on our team contact YOU about running! 🤠🤠🤠
North Carolina Democrats
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December 1, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Candidate filing opened today in North Carolina! If you’re someone who’s interested in running for office, but doesn’t know where to start, fill out our form at NCDP.org/run-for-office! Let someone on our team contact YOU about running! 🤠🤠🤠
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hey so if you’re not feeling well, please don’t go into work. if you have to, wear a mask. tbh wear a mask either way—it’s four days after thanksgiving. covid incubation time tends to be ~3-5 days. it’s peak get infected if you aren’t already time.
test for it. get paxlovid.
prevent it. mask up.
test for it. get paxlovid.
prevent it. mask up.
December 1, 2025 at 6:46 AM
hey so if you’re not feeling well, please don’t go into work. if you have to, wear a mask. tbh wear a mask either way—it’s four days after thanksgiving. covid incubation time tends to be ~3-5 days. it’s peak get infected if you aren’t already time.
test for it. get paxlovid.
prevent it. mask up.
test for it. get paxlovid.
prevent it. mask up.