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Also consider Mikinakoos' as they're extending support beyond their traditional service areas due to the scale of this emergency!

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Happy Disability Pride Month!

MASK UP FOR GLOBAL LIBERATION

Protect your community by wearing N95s and KN95s when meeting indoors or in crowds! The more of us mask up, the less we get sick, the harder it is for police to surveil us, and the safer we make our shared spaces for disabled and immuno-compromised people.

Find local mask resources on the global COVID Action Map (you can also submit groups). If you have the means, donate masks/tests to your local orgs and encourage accessibility so we can ALL join the fight (ex interpreters/translators and medics, acess for wheelchairs/mobility devices, child care, cleaning the air, virtual options etc).

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Pandemics have no borders, and all our struggles are united!

Just swapped out the filters on our 1st Corsi-Rosenthal cube, and what a difference! Dusty old filter above, minty fresh one below.

This particular filter box spent 10+ months on low inside our house, catching tons of wildfire smoke, PM2.5, and COVID-19 aerosols, as well as pollen, dust, and mold. Glad all that's on THERE and not in our lungs!

I highly recommend building your own CR box for your home, school, work, mutual aid meet ups, etc. All you need is 4 MERV-13 filters (sold at most hardware stores), a 20" box fan, scissors, cardboard, and duct tape.

A new one costs about $75-100 - much cheaper and performs a lot better than a lot of fancy air purifiers. Building it with 2 people takes about an hour (mostly to measure and cut out the weird shroud thing), and swapping in new filters is much faster.

they perform as well as expensive HEPA air cleaners, and are comparatively VERY inexpensive. all you need is a box fan, 4 air filters, a piece of cardboard, and some duct tape!!!!

ICE killed another person in maine today, just days after the murder of lorenzo salgado araujo in houston

the maine immigrants rights coalition has released a statement confirming he was a 26 year old columbian man who was authorized to work in the US and had a valid social security number

Or the Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project (ILAP): https://ilapmaine.org/

https://www.instagram.com/projectreliefme/

this is not life-threatening, but also who wants weeks of diarrhea and a fucking parasite in them lol. if you suspect you've already had this and it's passed, i would see a doctor. you might need an antiparasitic anyway. if you're actively sick, see a doctor and they might be able to prescribe medication to help you get over it faster.

try to avoid eating raw vegetables, scrub fruit with a produce brush and rinse thoroughly with water. again, don't bother with premade greens or bagged salads. if you buy lettuce, remove the outer 2-3 layers of leaves.

Only high temperatures will kill cyclospora. It resides in what is like a shell, which is highly resistant to water and most cleaning chemicals. The substance it uses to cling to food is so strong we don't even fully know what its limits are. It may be best to avoid fruits and veggies you can't cook. Scrubbing only works if done hard enough and on foods with no hiding places (Like cucumbers and grapes). Peeling the skin off is your best bet at avoiding it however, scrubbing is not guaranteed.

it is a massive free library of out of copyright books, pamphets, text books etc. It's an incredibly useful resource for anyone who just wants to gets a head up on reading older stuff, or wants to research for a fanfic [their collection of dinner menus from the regency period has garnered me a reputation for researching this stuff with much more detail than I actually do]

because it's all public domain it also includes authors who have waived copyright, like Philip K Dick [wanna read Do Androids dream of electric sheep for free - you can, and you should, it's awesome] and HP Lovecraft

Thank you everyone who add more info!

I have looked for and wanted to read so many books that are old and copyrighted. I’m going to have to go search in these sites.

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surgical masks, N95 masks, and bandanas are all really subpar protection against tear gas because they aren't really designed to protect against that kind of thing. Sometimes I see people recommend a bandana soaked in water or vinegar, but using that to protect you against tear gas is a really miserable experience. It makes it hard to breathe, and it still doesn't protect your lungs very well. surgical masks and N95 masks actually work even worse when they're wet, which can happen often at a protest because of sweat, rain, or condensation from your own breath, and even at peak effectiveness they are not great.

I interviewed someone that was detained at Delaney Hall in New Jersey while being lost in ICE’s detention system.

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ID: [A drawing of a giant, disintegrating American flag with someone hanging on and swinging from the dangling threads of the flag. Text reads: What, to the American Incarcerated Person, is your Fourth of July? The Marshall Project.]

“I’m a federal transgender inmate, and I’ve been incarcerated since 2010. Being a double minority — a transgender and a Black person — the Fourth of July is nothing but a good meal in the chow hall.

Growing up, I didn’t know that I was on a pipeline to prison. I remember being harassed by police in the streets of Galveston, Texas, standing on the corner with my friends. Then I would watch other young people standing on the corners in their White neighborhoods who didn’t get harassed.

There’s this profound song called “Scholarship 2 the Pen” by a rapper in Houston named ‘Lil Keke. Like the title suggests, I didn’t grow up hearing about college or how I could get financial aid. Instead, I went into a Scared Straight program, which didn’t do anything but show me what prison was like. Meanwhile, in more suburban and White neighborhoods, kids heard questions like, “What college are you going to? Who are you going to intern for?” It was no surprise that I eventually caught a case.

Today, with Donald Trump in office, it seems like they’re rolling back all of our rights. I’m incarcerated here with a lot of Black men who were literally sitting in front of the television when Trump was getting elected saying, Oh, he’s gonna let us out of jail. I told them, “No, he’s not. He does not care about you.”

All of this is why the Fourth of July is nothing more to me than a big hamburger with all the fixings, a ‘brat or two, some watermelon, and some type of ice cream dish.