"The Biden era has normalized illness and demonized mitigations for the sake of “back to normal”. We now live in a country where educated liberals genuinely think it’s okay-and in fact good- that their kids are constantly ill (to be expected given the immune system-damaging nature of COVID). Where leftists argue that killing old people is less harmful than wearing masks. Where concern for community health is painted as cowardly and using the modern scientific tools we are lucky enough to have is portrayed as rude and stupid. And terribly, this liberal political project under Joe Biden has come down like a hammer on community solidarity, leaving “the vulnerable” squabbling with their mocking former comrades. It’s hard to overstate just how much damage the normalization of COVID has done to the very concepts of public health and community.

My beliefs throughout the pandemic have never changed: that vulnerable people deserve access to society, that mitigation must be prioritized, that great progress is possible with great effort, that community care is most critical in times of state abandonment. It’s hard to know where to go from here, at the nadir of a COVID response that vilifies and mocks any gesture toward prevention and care. But for those of us who are still here, education must start from a place of unpacking several years-worth of propaganda, while learning from disability justice activists who have reckoned with their social marginalization for decades.

Despite the multitude of falsehoods that continue to be poured over the heads of our comrades by outlets that can’t or won’t reckon with Biden’s failure, the truth has the advantage of being obvious, and patient. So we’ll continue to repeat it, until the people are ready to hear it: COVID is not mild. COVID is not harmless. COVID is not inevitable. COVID is not over. Stay safe out there."

got tagged by @mgs3dickeater to share five songs I'm listening to a lot lately which is funny bc I listen to like. The same ten or so artists on repeat so if we've talked about music before these aren't going to be a surprise at all lol

Satan's A Woman by Twin Temple

Good Girl by Brutalismus 3000

Gimme That Boom by Skindred

We Rise Again by Gogol Bordello

Solamente Por Pensar by Ska-P

um @ranocchiowo @anarchotahdigism @boycoyote and any other mutual who wants to jump in and do it too :3

love how people are like "I can excuse ableism, it's not like ableism ever killed anyone, you absolutely need to provide proof of ableism, though, that's not fair to just accuse someone of ableism even if their whole thing was making 'edgy' jokes that often punched down" it's supposed to be okay to make jokey jokes about spreading suffering and death? It's okay to mock intellectual disabilities? Saneism is okay again? No, I don't think so because these people howling don't remember the ableism driving the pandemic that is killing thousands a week

if someone is silent on covid, if someone is talking about dining out, or not wearing masks in public, or associating with those that do, they are actively perpetuating the genocide of disabled people, primarily poor people of color. y'all know ableism is bad, deadly even, but you can excuse it because eugenics isn't a deal breaker remember when we recognized anti-maskers and their apologists as fascists needing punched? remember that? That was anti-ableism, anti-eugenics action But y'all decided no, it's okay to turn on disabled people and feed us to the fire because our lives are inconvenient to your personal pleasures. So what if your jokes happen to feed other people's suffering and oppression, right? You got your lols and your brunch, that's all that mattered. fix your fucking hearts

do y'all remember in 2020 how people would see crowds of unmasked people at protests and deride them for being dangerous, for not listening to the disabled, for endangering others, for being insincere in their commitment to their espoused beliefs, if not outright suspected of being fascists? Remember how we fought anti-maskers? The ethics of masking never changed Y'all just dropped your own masks and chose the side of eugenics I'm so disgusted at all these unmasked crowds claiming to care about other lives when they're actually disabling and killing people right now to feel better about themselves In the US alone, COVID kills 1,000 to 3,000 people a week-- mostly poor disabled people of color. The CDC director and other prominent US figures have repeatedly praised the fact that COVID, which disables people with sufficient infections or severity and damages you with every infection, is killing the disabled. The rich demanded COVID spread because it profited them and outright Nazis praised this, then those fascist capitalist positions were adopted by "mainstream society," a titanic fascist victory. The people you claim to support, like Palestinians, Sudanese, West Papuans, Ethiopians--for them, masking is a luxury because genocidal extractive nations have made it difficult if not impossible to get a hold of masks & other COVID-mitigating supplies as COVID has been avowedly used as a weapon of eugenics. They desperately want medical supplies, including masks, because they know COVID is killing them but there's little they can do when they don't have materials to spare to churn out locally produced options and certainly nothing generally affordable. You have that choice and you choose instead to continue to spread COVID, ensuring more suffering and death, while telling yourself that because you're against bombs, bullets, and famines, you're still a good person. You're killing your own friends, family, neighbors, communities for personal pleasure yet believe you're to be trusted and to be considered good.

If your idea of supporting liberation requires leaving behind others and refusing to admit culpability when your actions harm others, you're just another oppressor! Wear a mask the entire time and every time you're in public if you actually believe genocide must be opposed.

can't relate to so many queer or radical posts cause they're discussing shit like going to COVID-spreading places for COVID-spreading activities to socialize with people meanwhile if I do that, I'll wind up dead. The isolation we disabled & covid-conscious face is deadly, too, but we survive a bit longer taking all these COVID precautions rather than chasing the shallow relationships and past times that y'all ableists love to casually chat about, completely ignoring the bodies left in your wake. Your pursuit of vibes, fun, pleasure, leisure, luxury is nothing less than a slow suicide for yourself and disablement and death for whomever you infect along the way. Most people I know still doing their best to remain in isolation because of how dangerous y'all are are forced to rely on abusive people to survive since many of us can't work at all, and in-person work has been deadly to us for at least 4 years. Many of us, myself included, have had to rely on abusers to survive, because we have no options less dangerous or deadly than the devils we know and despise. All we ask is that you actually value our lives and mask but you don't so you don't

Your silence on COVID speaks volumes about who you are and how you move. Your silence is complicity and it is killing us.

The Israeli occupation of Palestine has clearly been herding Gazans into "safe zones" that the occupation then bombs to force the survivors to relocate in a slow but steady effort to push them all out into Egypt or to their deaths yet there has not been a single fucking riot in the so-called west by the so-called left People are being forcibly marched to their deaths, facing summary executions, famine, disease, but all these fucking westerners can manage is a fucking letter writing campaign and some parades that only result in the spread of COVID because it's nearly all performative outrage.. If even 1% of these radlibs got together with friends and fought cops and burned down precincts and blockaded military bases, the Israeli occupation would lose the unmitigated support it's enjoyed from the bloodthirsty Democrats & other vaunted "enlightened" neoliberals. The genocide could be halted quickly if so-called leftists actually cared enough to stop genocide. The only people doing direct actions are also the only people I've seen consistently masking.

Western leftists have personally aided and abetted and embraced one of the largest genocides of the past century by participating in the fascist Big Lie that is the back to normal propaganda. Tens of millions are dead, with more dying every day, because Western leftists could not and would not hold to their principles and resist eugenics. Instead, they embraced Nazi positions about unmitigated spread while clutching pearls at genocides perpetrated by more overt and kinetic means. They have spread suffering, disablement, and death, but still position themselves as "friends" and "allies" to the oppressed. Their labor unions have remained virtually silent on the genocide of COVID while breaking silence largely to support the Israeli occupation. Western "leftists" are fucking worthless, broadly speaking. I am disgusted constantly by the ableism on display by those claiming to oppose one genocide while at best ignoring another, if they aren't merry participants. These deaths could all stop if y'all would fucking put on masks and riot.

Friend's friend died of Long COVID a few days ago She was queer, disabled, a bright light in the world for her friends, a fierce advocate for COVID safety, as well as a beloved mother & wife.

She struggled and suffered for two years with long COVID before it managed to kill her. She was a sweetheart I never was privileged to know though I clearly recall when she was active in my friend's life and the absolute joy she brought. She meant the world to her loved ones. She was one of us, the forgotten and discarded, left behind to rot and die as the world committed to the fascist fantasy of the Big Lie that is "back to normal." She deserved to live long and well but for the callousness of anti-maskers & eugenics. She deserved better. May her memory be a blessing.

thinking about how hundreds of Ukranian mercenaries showed up to help the IOF begin its ground invasion in Gaza around the same time US special forces showed up yet people are still supporting the militaries and governments of the regimes giving real material support to genocide The US cancelled COVID subsidies and gave that $50bil to Ukraine. The US took 14bil in funding from the IRS (which is so understaffed and underfunded it can only afford to go after poor people in audits) to give to the Israeli occupation and genocide of Palestine. Like, Ukraine's still fending off the obviously immoral Russian invasion but still somehow has fighters to spare to support massacring indigenous people? And it just so happens that funding the US's proxy war with Russia is also killing disabled, marginalized, and oppressed people of color in the US and Palestine? how fucking white to manage such effective investments in genocide

people wearing respirators? so fuckin cool and hot people wearing respirators to peace parades? mmm okay baby tell me more let's see how cool you are I bet there's a lot you're curious about people wearing respirators doing direct action? please I might black out tell me more let them know I love them, we are the same person, we share the same fight and the same love oh my gods yes we're gonna shake the gates of hell together

reminder that Biden has killed over a million people with COVID and disabled tens of millions more We have no idea just how many because he committed to the path of obfuscation and sabotage begun by Trump, explicitly requested by the rich and praised by Nazis Y'all keep leaving that out whenever you mention how horrific Biden is because for you, the holocaust of the pandemic doesn't merit consideration

Reminder that Genocide Joe ended all of Trump's paltry COVID mitigation efforts and subsidies, then buried pandemic data and had regime officials declare to press pools that the deaths of the disabled were encouraging Then when COVID finally surged enough again to affect the comfortable, gave out expired but still usable tests and after a handful of months, ended that again. Keep in mind these tests have never been sufficiently accurate and that everyone should be testing twice every single day. COVID is infectious 5-10 days before it might show up on a test and you remain infectious until a few days after your last negative. COVID is infectious days before you show symptoms; many people don't experience what they think of as typical COVID symptoms for their first 1-3 infections. COVID symptoms include (but aren't limited to): GI distress (upset stomach, diarrhea), runny nose, reduction/loss in taste and smell, headaches, fatigue, fever, joint and muscle aches, loss of appetite, insomnia, cognitive difficulties and it may present in any combination of these symptoms or even none. If you think it's "bad allergies," it could easily be COVID. If you think it's "just a cold" or "a mild or severe flu" it could easily be COVID. COVID doesn't stay positive on tests; that is, you may test positive a day or two prior and then test negative for days before testing positive again. To know for sure, you have to be testing frequently and swabbing the back of your throat, cheeks, and nasal passages. Biden's normalized the mass murder of thousands of disabled people of color a week but blue maga only cares what red maga might be up to one day instead of the very real suffering and deaths Democrats are causing now. Wear a mask the entire time you're out in public every time. Give up COVID-spreading activities. If possible, help others upgrade their masks and resume masking. Anything less is killing people. Show real solidarity and commitment to anti-eugenics. Wear a mask.

white queers talk a lot about the importance of queer solidarity but when they see me limping along in public in my mask, their eyes glaze over or they shy away from me or they give me a look of pity or contempt When I see those "queer solidarity will save us from genocide," I know you're lying because you've already condemned us disabled queers to death

literally western politicians only care when yt ppl die but y'all are still urging people to contact their representatives and march fucking staggering levels of refusal to engage with the necessity for direct action and denouncing cooperating with systems of oppression fuck the politicians, fuck the troops, fuck the police, fuck convincing any fascist to please just stop begging never stops genocide but then almost none of y'all are masking or talking about covid so you're just as culpable in genocide so I'm not surprised you're not actually interested in doing anything impactful beyond performative hand-wringing

The Persian New Year begins at the end of this month and I hope that liberation comes for people this year.

May all Iranian peoples be free, may we see the death of the Perseosupremacist theofascist Iranian regime, may the pursuit of liberation drag all the bloodthirsty power-worshippers to deep cold soil and insodoing bring life and love to everyone everywhere. May all peoples be free. Jin, jiyan, azadi.

you say you're a radical but what are you doing to halt the spread of COVID?

I know i say "wear a mask and riot" and "fuck a peaceful protest" but I'd had a nice long post about how digital work and advocacy is praxis (or can be) on my old account. Right now, COVID is spreading and killing thousands of people in the US alone and nearly all """radicals""""" and """""leftists"""" are philosophically no different than the fascists they claim to oppose because they are so thoroughly wedded to eugenics that they refuse to wear and enforce masking. COVID causes long COVID in 10-30% of cases so the so-called US alone may well be a majority disabled nation now due to rampant eugenics forcing the spread of COVID. Long COVID is a rotting death and makes everything an order of magnitude more difficult if you still are able to do the things you were prior. Repeated COVID infections means you're guaranteed to be immunocompromised permanently and disabled in other ways you'll likely find out the hard way. With 40% of cases being asymptomatic and most only showing severe symptoms after 2-3 infections, and many starting to drop dead after 3 to 5 infections, many people accrue damage from and spread COVID without realizing it until it is far, far too late. As a result, it's guaranteed that the ableists have disabled and killed people. They've kept disabled people like me who are high risk out of radical spaces & communities. They've abandoned solidarity for everyone but the abled, ableist middle class while focusing most of their efforts on electoralism, despite the clear and constant failures of such actions. The BLM Rebellion of 2020-2021 had significant---albeit broadly temporary--impacts on electoral politics, society, and communities because it was a constant and ongoing rebellion that was also much more disability inclusive than prior leftist movement moments. For the first time, people recognized the need for remote actions & support because while masking was at the high water mark, more abled people understood that a lot of us disabled could not and would not risk COVID but we had had skills vital to the project. Things disabled people were absolutely critical for during the BLM Rebellion: police scanner observation and transcription, evacuation coordination, event & route planning, translation services, postering, graphics art & design, self defense seminars, radio nets, mutual aid fundraising, mutual aid distribution, bail fund coordination, zine writing, mask & test distributions, contact tracing (remember this??!??!), car brigades, organizing medical supplies, teaching first aid skills, and countless other roles often organized & performed remotely. For every fighter, there are at least a dozen support roles and with some thought and effort, those roles can be aided or done digitally. Posting on its own can be praxis in that it shares information, knowledge, tactics, demonstrates that there are other radicals out there willing to do what they can, normalizes radicalism, and in some cases, regimes pay close attention to internet support.

During the height of the Jina Amini rebellion in 2022, the Iranian regime tried to cut the internet repeatedly to stifle information out of and into Iran to hinder protest coordination and outrage. It also paid extremely close attention to when the rebellion was trending and refrained from reprisals until the mass attention of the internet citizenry turned away. Posting literally helped save lives by forcing the regime to wait, buying people time to organize, prepare, and act accordingly in Iran and internationally. Personally, I will always remember and be grateful for the Palestinians who turned out across the world, but especially in occupied Palestine, for Iranians. Iran is not the only regime that will wait until posts slacken and attention wanes before massacring people. If you are disabled, if you have arrest risks, if for any reasons you don't want to be involved in a radical riot, but you want to support those who can and do, there is so much you can do year round but especially things kick off!! Any skills, resources, knowledge, or support you can organize or contribute is valuable! eSims for Gaza right now are monumental in ensuring Gazans can coordinate information, requests, record Israeli occupation war crimes & apartheid cruelty, and many disabled graphics designers are offering their services in exchange for esim donations. It's been incredible to see.

The people who are against digital activism are ableist and racist and ignorant as hell beyond that. You can make an impact and even save and change lives while homebound. Begging genociders to stop profitable genocides has never and will never work. Riots & boycotts work because they directly confront and attack power and if those actions are supported by communities, they can continue for quite some time, as we saw with the BLM uprising. Regimes do not fall because people ask regime leaders to please stop committing atrocities; they fall when the people are able to bring to bear the sum of their hopes and wrath and bring the fight to those who have been oppressing them. That requires inclusive community & an outright rejection of the regime and its systems of cooptation & recuperation.

If a revolution or movement isn't inclusive, if it excludes the disabled, the poor, the marginalized, the oppressed, it's not a revolution or movement, it's just another genocidal regime change.