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Legal permanent resident of the U.S., showing up to apply for citizenship, with no allegations of criminal activity, is arrested and detained by masked police. This is fascism, and that is not a word I use lightly. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/n...

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You don’t have to be particularly sharp to decipher the code here. But if you need someone to say it, this is a major technology company and a sizable defense and intelligence contractor publicly declaring, with only the thinnest patina of deniability, that its cause is white nationalism.

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When the weather gets warm, the days are bright, the sky is blue. the birds are singing... ...I think about bears coming out of hibernation, and the First Shit of Spring. See, when bears hibernate (esp brown bears, black bears don't go down as hard), they stop eating, drinking. Pooping...

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Invasive meningococcal disease is one of the scariest diseases, period. People can go from asymptomatic to dying within 24 hours. Even with appropriate care, 1 in 6 will die, and another 1 in 4 will have permanent disability including loss of limbs secondary to meningococcemia-provoked thromboses.

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Took me entirely too long to realize this was from April 1 😅

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I’m not kidding; this is DOGE at work; multiple US citizens getting notices that they just leave the country because USCIS is revoking their humanitarian parole. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

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Deporting people over speech is one of the most profoundly anti-American things imaginable. Free speech is explicitly meant to protect political speech that people hate.

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An Australian man with a US work visa was detained upon reentry, called a “retard” and told, “Trump is back in town; we’re doing things the way we should have always been doing them.” He was held with 100 people including many Canadians. Posters celebrating equity had DEI scribbled out in marker.

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The excellent "Why should I trust you?" podcast interviews Dr. Peter Marks 👇

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I can’t believe the IDSA had to write this. www.idsociety.org/public-healt...

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One way to create authoritarian governance is to deputize 1000s of street-level bureaucrats into becoming authoritarians themselves. Let them exercise their discretion in authoritarian ways and indulge their fantasies of being a petty (pun intended) autocrat. Next, repeat with regular folks.

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This precisely what we mean when we say dismantling the public health infrastructure will lead to people dying. If you cannot respond to outbreaks or health crises, they become prolonged as do the direct consequences. These include worse health and death regardless of how you voted.

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In response to unsupported claims about the magnitude of measles waning, @alxsrobert.bsky.social contributed to this FactCheck piece, drawing on evidence from our recent paper on measles dynamics in England: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... www.factcheck.org/2025/03/rfk-...

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Overheard on the train in DC today: Person #1: I don't want to talk about that. You know I don't do politics. Person #2: Yeah, but politics is doing you right now so we are going to talk about it. . Y'all. If you can be anyone, be Person #2: my new hero. 🫶🏼

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🧪 #idsky #medsky #pedsky #episky #immunosky Recently watched @vaxwar.bsky.social on PBS (www.pbs.org/video/virule...). Highly recommend. It thoroughly examines our current crisis with vaccine confidence. Some thoughts 🧵 I think that Art Caplan really nails it in terms of the problem we have:

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"I put the ‘R’ in the MMR vaccine, and I’m scared that, like measles, rubella could make a comeback under RFK Jr." - Dr. Stanley Plotkin speaks up about the serious harms rubella caused, and the risks Kennedy is bringing back. www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm... via @inquirer.com

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I don't think there's ever been anyone whose negotiation style has been more the opposite of Teddy Roosevelt's maxim to "speak softly and carry a big stick" than Donald Trump.

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My son and daughter got social Security payments because their mother died at 35. Jen earned that money and the family needed that little extra boost each month having lost a breadwinner. These people trying to shame recipients are monstrous.

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Reviving my account with new work here! doi.org/10.1111/irv.... We estimated that: - Burden flu and COVID in SG were in a comparable range and about 3-4 times higher than RSV. - Peak seasonal flu is now 3-8 weeks later as compared to pre-COVID - Flu positivity didn't return to pre-COVID levels

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Kennedy’s comments on the Novavax covid vaccine approval delay aren’t scientifically accurate and don’t conform with FDA law, experts said.

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our government is as we speak torturing a student for writing an opinion piece in her student newspaper

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RFK Jr. is a lying liar who lies. The health of the people of the United States depends on his removal from office.

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The problem with most machine-based random number generators is that they’re not TRULY random, so if you need genuine randomness it is sometimes necessary to link your code to an external random process like a physical noise source or the current rate of US tariffs on a given country.

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www.nbcnews.com/health/healt... “Given the current measles outbreak, anything less than a wholehearted full-court press to get many more children vaccinated against measles, above 90% across the country, is a public health failure,” said Dr. Peter Marks.

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You can tell who the Good Guys are because they're the ones smashing a car window to drag a mother away from her child while wearing ski masks.

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I'm disgusted and sick at the horrors being perpetrated in our name.

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No you're not gonna pay 10%. Listen to what I'm saying. You impose 25% and you let it get to half,

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Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass.: “Chaos is its own form of tariff. Who invests in a nation that can't have a set of dependable laws that people can count on?”

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i think we should assume that the policy angle for these people is maximizing pain for anyone that looks like a minority (also, we are already seeing Rubio cancel visas of Chinese nationals with no rationale)

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The executive director of a national public health organization is calling for Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to resign the federal post he assumed just weeks ago, citing “implicit and explicit bias and complete disregard for science.”

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‘like Amazon Prime but with human beings’, wow, what a very not evil thing to say

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Cleveland Clinic researchers posted a preprint assessing flu infection rate among employees who received the flu vaccine relative to those who did not receive that is making the rounds on x.com claiming negative vaccine effectiveness But it has a major flaw… www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

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There’s no credible support nor evidence for the notion that COVID was a lab debacle. The response though, especially in some countries? There’s your debacle. And we’ve only become less ready for the (inevitable — a question of when) next one as a result

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i need people to understand that asian grocery stores aren’t just a lifeline to asian americans: they’re also a source of fresh and affordable produce to low income non-asians who live in HCOL areas

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It's like with anything. You don't stop them here, they move on to more and more outrageous stuff. Eventually, sooner than you think, they can't be stopped at all. And they'll try to do it all

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Mr and Mrs California Quail. Southern California #birds #birdsOnMyWall

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Important thread about how modern life obscures important things we rely on. When most people go the store, they see loaves of bread, but you don't understand everything that makes it possible. Eg, a stable climate with predictable temperatures and precipitation, weather forecasts, plant research.

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This project was supposed to create 170 permanent jobs & 1,200 temporary construction jobs. “Anytime you can upgrade a facility — getting environmentally friendlier — that extends the life of the mill,” said Cliffs union president Shawn Coffey. “It’s for the future of my kids, grandkids.”

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New Lancet study: if PEPFAR programs do not continue, 1 million more children will become infected with HIV, 500,000 will die of AIDS, and 2.8 million will become orphans over the next 5 years. 🛟🧪

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