I just got off the phone with a woman whose 19 year old daughter, after 3 COVID infections, was diagnosed with early dementia. Wrap your head around that.

The US COVID-19 surge is accelerating. The US is up 127 percent (more than double!) over the past 6 weeks, based on the amount of SARS-CoV-2 virus in sewage water. The public is being told nothing by a government and media intent on covering up this ongoing disaster.

BREAKING: The Walgreens COVID-19 index has been updated! All time record high positivity has been recorded in some states including Texas, Florida, and New York!

My friend Simon Rich told me about this better, funnier, more terrifying version of AI a few nights ago and I haven’t slept since. The WGA is standing for something very real and we all should get scared right about….now. ⁦Writers Guild of America West⁩ ⁦Writers Guild of America East⁩ time.com/6301288/the-ai…

How to avoid getting punched in the face is a discussion I have almost every shift lately with nurses. Driven by cognitive impairment, intoxication, mental illness and just poor behaviour. Violence is the reality. caep.ca/wp-content/upl…

For people who have had COVID once, reinfection doubles their chance of dying within 6 months, and vaccination doesn’t affect that. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36357676/

You're not serious about ending homelessness if you don't address the systemic barriers into housing. Application fees, credit checks, making 3x the rent, no pets, giant deposits. It's hard for a housed person to get into an apt. - imagine how hard it is for someone in a tent.

An average Hollywood CEO earned $32.6M in salary, stocks and other perks in 2022. SAG-AFTRA’s proposed deal to the AMPTP was estimated to only cost each studio around $23M annually. (Source: bit.ly/3DSARkh)

Wildfires on Hawai'i and Maui continue to decimate communities, destroy homes, and displace thousands of people. Here's what you can do to help. 🧵 nbcnews.to/3YwQjfo

Lahaina Courthouse has a Veterinarian Triage setup with lots of vets and vet nurses to help. Anyone needing medical for their pets please direct them there.

I always wanted to make mainstream media connect climate disasters to colonial greed. But it’s fucked up that dozens of my friends, family, and neighbors had to perish for that to happen. Support: mauirecoveryfund.org To help us take our #Landback and retake Democratic

Thanks Insider for interviewing me for this story on the current rise in covid (no, it's not the flu). I was surprised to have a few reporters reach out to me this week to talk about the covid increase. #CovidIsNotOver, seems that's being recognized. insider.com/august-flu-vs-…

Just before she died, Joan Meyer, a newspaperwoman since 1953, said this about a police raid on her Kansas home: “These are Hitler tactics and something has to be done.” kansas.com/opinion/editor…

When fascists tell you they’re fascists, believe them. 🧵 Trump: “Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution.” Ron DeSantis: “We’re going to start slitting throats on Day 1.”

Findings from this year’s STAATUS Index remind us that Asian Americans still don’t feel safe or that they fully belong in this country they call home. 1 in 2 Asian Americans feel unsafe in the U.S., while nearly 80% of Asian Americans do not completely feel they belong.

Official GoFundMe for Dr. Zijie Yan’s daughters. Dr. Yan was killed in the shooting at UNC last week. gofundme.com/f/in-loving-me…

If you're puzzled as to why governments and public health departments almost never mention even the possibility of SARS-CoV-2 induced immune dysregulation it's because to do so would be to admit the greatest mistake ever made in the history of health policy.

I’m still mad about it. Such disrespect for last year’s Oscar winners.

Thinking about how casting should have been getting Oscars already but glad it’s finally coming soon. American Fiction was one of my fave films of the year and had perfect casting by Jen Euston

He's spent years talking about not being able to get the big, juicy parts he deserves as a brown actor, so to see him start to write and make the films he wants to be in is such a flex. He deserves this man. All rise for the Dev-aissance 🥹