Finally some good news, scientists discovered a treatment that can reduce COVID19 transmission by 70%, and its just a piece a cloth you wear in front of your dumb fucking face

So let me get this straight: Extending additional unemployment benefits to out-of-work Americans during a pandemic will make them lazy and lead to socialism, but trillions in bailouts to Wall St. bankers and corporate execs is good for the economy?

My Plan of Action for Anti-Racism by Avery Parker link.medium.com/rkgJM66937

Authoritarians create crises, blame conspiracies between their “traitorous” opponents and vulnerable populations, and then demand more power to combat the crises they created themselves. It’s as predictable a cycle as there is.

The Trump administration will propose a rule to let federally funded homeless shelters turn away trans and gender non-conforming people — in an unemployment crisis. Gabriel is an ACLU attorney who worked in NYC when women's shelters were allowed to turn away trans women. Thread:

Poignant perspectives about the feds in #Portland from a police officer and ex-CIA officer.

The "feds" in Portland aren't actually "feds" for the most part. They are contracted private security thugs with poor oversight & insufficient training. This is about millions in profits for private security companies. Mind-blowing corruption!

"In my life I have done all I can to demonstrate that the way of peace, the way of love and nonviolence is the more excellent way." nytimes.com/2020/07/30/opi…

Hydroxychloroquine is not recommended as a treatment for Covid-19, said Adm Brett Giroir, a member of WH coronavirus task force on NBC’s Meet the Press. “There’s been 5 randomized controlled, placebo controlled trials, that do not show any benefit to hydroxychloroquine,“ he said

I am the protestor named here who may face life in prison for allegedly buying paint. My co-defendants are facing the same charges as me for similarly low-level allegations. This is political repression — the state wants to silence dissent. Don’t let them. Be loud.

An NYPD spokeserpson confirmed that Derrick Ingram’s alleged crime was using a megaphone to shout in an officer’s ear during a protest in June, causing temporary hearing loss. He was arrested and charged this morning with second degree assault, a felony gothamist.com/news/protest-l…

My first for Mongabay on how endangered Amazonian groups are using #ayahausca to preserve their culture and territory. @Medicos_Yage Gaia Amazonas Amazon Conservation news.mongabay.com/2020/11/indige…

Seems like a reasonable question...

Psychedelics Today Chor Boogie® and E. Bast, also the folks at the Indigenous Medicine Conservation Fund have an amazing network including Nāēqtaw-Pianakiw

Very excited for this book! A topic so dear to my heart!

NOT A GOOD LOOK!

Can a visionary root bark from Gabon wipe out drug withdrawal symptoms even in stubborn poly-substance use cases? I went to find out: and took three ceremonial doses of the most powerful long acting psychedelic. My latest for @vice vice.com/en/article/3ad…

Sometimes we encounter folks who have a lot of skewed ideas about what a Bwiti altar actually means. Sometimes they have perspectives that are rooted in prejudice, fear, patriarchy, and colonization... medium.com/@ElizabethBast…

Palestine/Israel remains the ONLY contemporary context in which media discourse is obsessed with the invaders & occupiers’ right to “self defense” against the people they’re oppressing, but NEVER a word about the right of the occupied to defend themselves from their oppressors.

Listen, Israel. I was not born Palestinian. But you have made me Palestinian. Your cruelty, your racism, your mendacity, your crimes have burned the love of Palestine into my heart. Because to love justice is to love Palestine. Brave, beautiful Palestine. Today, #IAmAPalestinian.