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#9 Dream @gayfabfourfan.bsky.social · 20h

Really disappointed & surprised to see this unscientific & unkind take from you, @jamellebouie.net. COVID is still dangerous: it can cause organ- & immune system damage. New damning studies—that aren’t reported by the media—come out regularly.

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emily fraser 🌿🐌✨ @emilyesfraser.bsky.social · 8h

Every time a liberal says some bs like this an RFK gets its wings

C.H. Romatowski @chromatowski.bsky.social · 9h

I hesitate to elevate this comment—IME people aware of how uninformed it is are in the majority on Bsky—but worth observing that this coming from eg the NYT opinion page is part of why RFK has an opening to pretend to be better on Long Covid than liberals. They’ve made the bar that low.

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(and i think it is a demand that stems from fear more than a rational assessment of the threat environment)

October 14, 2025 at 5:06 AM

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TravelingMD @travellingmd.bsky.social · 11h

All you need to know about today's America is spelled out on this TEMU ad!

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 11h

Way too many people still think that whatever happens to people as a result of American imperialism abroad *cough Palestine Sudan Congo cough* is acceptable, fine even, not our problem, as long as the lesser evil wins in the United States.

And it's not. I'm sorry. It's just not.

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 1d

“One veteran researcher who still has his job (and, like other public-health workers I spoke with for this story, requested anonymity for fear of losing it) told me he believes that Kennedy’s ultimate goal is to “silence the scientific voice of career CDC scientists.””

Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 1d

"Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things"
- Peter Drucker

You’re Fired. Just Kidding!

How much more whiplash can the CDC withstand?

www.theatlantic.com

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Healthcare-Global @healthcare-global.bsky.social · 12h

www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

Scientists just found a molecule that could stop Parkinson’s in its tracks

Researchers have designed a peptide that prevents the deadly misfolding of alpha-synuclein, the protein behind Parkinson’s and some dementias. In lab and animal tests, it stabilized the protein and im...

www.sciencedaily.com

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My Zero Carbon #ClimateAction @myzerocarbon.org · 12h

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First Solar Furnace to Recycle Steel Can Melt Metal with Sunshine in 2 Hours

Find out more: www.goodnewsnetwork.org/fir...

#ClimateAction

First Solar Furnace to Recycle Steel Can Melt Metal with Sunshine in 2 Hours

The Swiss import most of the steel they use, including 15,800 metric tons for the watchmaking industry alone.

www.goodnewsnetwork.org

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Jan Kirsch, M.D., M.P.H. @drjanicekirsch.bsky.social · 12h

MORE MURDER AT SEA
The regime has now killed a total of 27 people branded as narco- terrorists.
(Normally the Coast Guard would interdict suspicious vessels)
But this manslaughter is meant to divert us from domestic disasters.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 12h

What the USA really needs to worry about is, who is counting the votes.

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Brendonowicz (Wears an N95) ☭🩺 #MedicareForAll @brendonowicz.bsky.social · 13h

On behalf of Wisconsin: yes, we know we need to cut down

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Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social · 15h

when work makes people sick and insists on making them sicker by denying the right of protection and there is no safety net --- consider other people.
via @thesicktimes.org

Despite the ongoing pandemic, some companies are banning employees from masking - The Sick Times

While some anti-mask policies have failed — a win for workers — there is a larger effort to ban masks in the U.S. on state and local levels. And more businesses may attempt to ban masks in the workpla...

thesicktimes.org

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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 13h

The “Oops, protein powder is full of lead” thing would explain so much.

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 14h

I need ppl to understand that no matter how well meaning someone running as a democrat is, when they are absorbed and become somewhat dependent on the party, they will make concessions and use language they provide etc

It’s like how capitalists, no matter how well meaning, need to increase profit

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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 17h

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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Miriam @miriamboosh.bsky.social · 15h

Did they free Link yet?

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Yaneer Bar-Yam @yaneerbaryam.bsky.social · 16h

Our new review compares SARS-CoV-2 & HIV on key similarities & outcomes:
–Immune cell (T&other) depletion & dysfunction
–Increases in other infections after COVID
–Rising incidence of signature diseases of immune deficiency
–Limitations of public response
ajpmfocus.org/article/S277...

COVID-19 is “Airborne AIDS”: provocative oversimplification, emerging science, or something in between?

COVID-19 caused by SARS-CoV-2 is often compared to other pandemics for its societal and global health impact, with some commentators drawing parallels to HIV/AIDS due to the immune dysfunction caused ...

ajpmfocus.org

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Clean Air Advocacy Ireland @cleanairie.bsky.social · 2d

New Landmark study estimates over 130 lung cancer cases in NI attributable to air pollution each year

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Lung cancer burden attributable to ambient particulate matter: a nationally representative population-based case-control study - British Journal of Cancer

British Journal of Cancer - Lung cancer burden attributable to ambient particulate matter: a nationally representative population-based case-control study

www.nature.com

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Bloom lab @jbloomlab.bsky.social · Aug 20

In new study led by @bdadonaite.bsky.social, we measure how spike mutations affect function & antigenicity of spike of KP.3.1.1 strain of SARS-CoV-2.

Sheds light on how key neutralizing epitopes are changing & importance of RBD up/down motion.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Spike mutations that affect the function and antigenicity of recent KP.3.1.1-like SARS-CoV-2 variants

SARS-CoV-2 is under strong evolutionary selection to acquire mutations in its spike protein that reduce neutralization by human polyclonal antibodies. Here we use pseudovirus-based deep mutational sca...

www.biorxiv.org

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Will🇺🇸📎✌️🌲 @econaturalist.bsky.social · 16h

My Mom came home yesterday for Hospice comfort care. She’s on oral morphine every hour.

I’m am scared & furious because I am almost out of morphine & her Doc & nurses are busy looking for more. Not one pharmacy in my town has any right now & they don’t know when they will be getting more in.

The DEA’s 2025 quotas for opioids will leave seriously ill patients in pain

Palliative care physician Rebecca Rodin writes that DEA opioid medication production limits — which are set to be even lower in 2025 — don’t address the opioid crisis. They just leave her patients in ...

www.statnews.com

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Academic Anarchy🏴 - Antifa Founder @johnbrownbread.bsky.social · 16h

Everyday we must remind people that gestapo agents and their enablers are committing atrocities. This is an ethnic cleansing. These are crimes against humanity. And they will be held accountable.

LA Public Press @lapublicpress.bsky.social · 16h

At a Boyle Heights hospital, ICE agents call the shots, doctors say.

Doctors say administrator directives allow immigration agents to interfere in medical decisions and compromise medical care.

At a Boyle Heights hospital, ICE agents call the shots, doctors say

Doctors say administrator directives allow immigration agents to interfere in medical decisions and compromise medical care.

lapublicpress.org

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Brendonowicz (Wears an N95) ☭🩺 #MedicareForAll @brendonowicz.bsky.social · 16h

Mexico: *starts reaping gains from more socialist policies and replaces entrenched oligarchs including democratically electing entire supreme court.*

US: You can’t even visit our carceral slavery/human trafficking-based country anymore!

Screenshot of article from The Guardian/Reuters with photo of a person walking on a sidewalk past a Mexican flag and now in front of a US flag.

Headline:
Topic: Trump administration
Title: US revokes visas of at least 50 Mexican officials in Trump's drug cartel crackdown
Subtitle: The administration's sweeping visa cancellations extend to Mexico's political elite, alarming allies and rivals alike
Reuters in Mexico City
Tue 14 Oct 2025 09.25 EDT
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The US government has revoked the visas of at least 50 politicians and government officials in Mexico amid the Trump administration's crackdown on drug cartels and their suspected political allies, according to two Mexican officials.

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 16h

i’m sorry what does this mean. is he calling off the peace deal because he thinks they’re hoarding corpses

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 17h

Balaji (a close associate of Thiel & Andreessen) leads the “network state” movement, which encourages tech elites to build their own “countries” by acquiring physical territory w/in host countries & building “parallel institutions” to replace existing ones in media, education, finance, & science 1/

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17h

"a test"? you mean...a violation?

AP: Israel plans to halve aid into Gaza over slow return of dead hostages, a test for the Gaza ceasefire

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Brendonowicz (Wears an N95) ☭🩺 #MedicareForAll @brendonowicz.bsky.social · 17h

And I cannot overstate how large an effect relative humidity has on inflammatory/immune responses. In grad school, my colleague was analyzing large cohorts of an imaging study and we realized the dryness of winter had a larger effect on immune markers she collected than weeks of intervention.

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