The impact of #longCOVID on the workforce, regardless of origin, is essential context. The decision to ignore that in service to special interests means workers are treated as consumables - disabled, cast aside and replaced. Immigrants make handy scapegoats, but they're not the cause. #polisky 🧵:

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Institutional medicine's widespread culture of dishonesty has been one of the most shocking takeaways from the pandemic. I knew there was a problem with bullying and authoritarianism, but the sheer scale and normalization of manipulation of science is breathtaking. #medsky #scisky #polisky

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The foundation of fascism is widespread hatred and distrust, where everyone is "other" and the individual bows down to tyranny out of fear of their neighbor. Hitler's Germany, Putin's Russia, Trump's America. The push to strip society of empathy is about building that foundation. #cdnpoli #polisky

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OK, #polisky, time to fess up: who snuck this into CNN just so you would have a fun example of party ID effects for your public opinion lecture?

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It's #LongCovidAwarenessDay. #longCOVID is about justice - workers' rights, equity, disability, the environment (add up the carbon footprint of the hospital days!), fighting misinfo and pseudoscience. If you care about any of those, you care about stopping COVID. #polisky #cdnpoli #scisky #medsky

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Science, Pseudoscience and Pub...

Early cases were dragged out, but are now establishing precedents. Unions in particular need to be aware that COVID and #longCOVID are often a result of unsafe working conditions, especially in the absence of protections against the known risk of airborne transmission. #polisky #cdnpoli

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Matter of Aungst v Family Doll...

This is important information for Americans too. When organizations provide support to anti-democracy forces, there should be a price to pay. Once Americans manage to restore their democracy, the companies that funded the efforts to take it down will have some explaining to do. #usa #polisky

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Random thought: what are the odds the wars (Iran, Cuba, etc) are meant to escalate, because they're about getting as much of the military as possible tied up overseas so that there's less chance of resistance when the ICE brownshirts try to steal the elections? #USA #polisky