Patrick Murray
@intelpatrick.bsky.social
Dad, husband, retired @intel engineer, now NCSU ISE Adj. Lecturer & volunteer, and a proud parent of http://colum.edu, http://bu.edu, & http://ncsu.edu grads.
Motto: You are what you do.
Motto: You are what you do.
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During this season of giving, let’s do what we can to give back to the communities that have given us so much. From our family to yours, have a wonderful Thanksgiving!
November 27, 2025 at 2:14 PM
During this season of giving, let’s do what we can to give back to the communities that have given us so much. From our family to yours, have a wonderful Thanksgiving!
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And that especially includes getting vaccinated during the pregnancy.
Among the scariest moments of my intern year of residency, infants with pertussis was definitely near the top. The best defense for kids under two months old is to prevent exposure by making sure everyone in the family is up to date on TDaP.
Third unvaccinated Kentucky baby dies of whooping cough • Kentucky Lantern
A third unvaccinated infant in Kentucky has died of pertussis as public health officials urge Kentuckians to get vaccinated against the disease.
kentuckylantern.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:03 PM
And that especially includes getting vaccinated during the pregnancy.
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We killed how many cancer research trials to pay for this?
November 26, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Jfc... we're just over 2 weeks until aca enrollment closes...
Trump’s idea looks pretty much like what we proposed—extend and reform Affordable Care credits; Johnson instead wants to rummage around in Republican box of stupid health care notions.
Trump to push new Republican plan on Obamacare subsidies
The plan calls for a short-term extension of the subsidies in exchange for new eligibility limits.
www.axios.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Jfc... we're just over 2 weeks until aca enrollment closes...
Yes it does...
It says a lot about our country that the FBI had no interest in interviewing Brett Kavanaugh but wants to talk to Mark Kelly.
November 26, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Yes it does...
Yep, middle class ain't what it was
"“Middle Class”- roughly 45% of the country—is actually the Working Poor. These are the families earning enough to lose their benefits but not enough to pay for childcare and rent. They are the ones trapped in the Valley of Death."
This is an insightful but deeply upsetting article about why everyone in the US feels poor, and why the current political situation emerges as a direct result.
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
November 26, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Yep, middle class ain't what it was
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More of this please. Now.
November 26, 2025 at 12:11 AM
More of this please. Now.
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Three things about the Witkoff tapes:
1) It appears Western intelligence services have decided to let Witkoff (and Trump) know they have recordings of their traitorous conversations w/Russia.
2) This Ukraine "deal" was all Witkoff's idea.
3) Congressional leaders should demand he be fired.
1) It appears Western intelligence services have decided to let Witkoff (and Trump) know they have recordings of their traitorous conversations w/Russia.
2) This Ukraine "deal" was all Witkoff's idea.
3) Congressional leaders should demand he be fired.
EXCLUSIVE: US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff advised Russia on how to pitch Ukraine plans to Trump, in audio files reviewed by Bloomberg
November 25, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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If trump makes it sound good, then it's a bad deal for everyone else...esp the most vulnerable of Americans
Trump’s plan for the Affordable Care Act makes some concessions to Democrats but still ultimately makes poor people pay more for worse insurance. @ddayen.bsky.social and Ryan Cooper report on the ruined health care system:
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Trump’s Obamacare Plan Is Still Not Great - The American Prospect
The Republican plan to more than double premiums is gone, but the insurance will get worse, and the poor will pay more.
trib.al
November 25, 2025 at 9:36 PM
If trump makes it sound good, then it's a bad deal for everyone else...esp the most vulnerable of Americans
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Mark Kelly: "I said something that was pretty simple and non-controversial, and that was that members of the military should follow the law. In response to that, Trump said I should be executed, I should be hanged ... it says a lot more about him than it says about me. I'm not going to be silenced."
November 25, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Mark Kelly: "I said something that was pretty simple and non-controversial, and that was that members of the military should follow the law. In response to that, Trump said I should be executed, I should be hanged ... it says a lot more about him than it says about me. I'm not going to be silenced."
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The 'wellness' industry makes a hell of a lot more money than the pharmaceutical industry. By a lot. They are the real enemy to public health. These fear-mongering ignoramuses are always selling something, always.
November 25, 2025 at 1:53 PM
The 'wellness' industry makes a hell of a lot more money than the pharmaceutical industry. By a lot. They are the real enemy to public health. These fear-mongering ignoramuses are always selling something, always.
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Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.
One of the bragging rights that the US ed system had in the 20th century is that we didn't have education tracks. Essentially, any kid could go to a CC or state school & major in whatever they wanted to (obviously an oversimplification). I fear this aspect of the American dream is dying.
November 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.
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you see this one yet?
X rolled out a new feature overnight showing where accounts are based. This network of “Trump-supporting independent women” that claimed to be “real Americans” are based in Thailand.
The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.
The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.
November 24, 2025 at 2:08 AM
you see this one yet?
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Homeland Security is calling U.S. cities “sanctuary sewers.” The Trump regime wants Americans to hate other Americans. It’s deeply unpatriotic and must be stopped.
November 24, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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DC has their heads up their you know where.... health care premiums are hitting all of us really hard. .. sorry for the taxi driver in this example
Vance asks for a "little bit of patience." Sound familiar? Hoover plunged the nation into Depression asking Americans "if you will have patience".
Meanwhile, a taxi driver with cancer in Arizona has premiums go up from $44 to $2,600 a month.
Meanwhile, a taxi driver with cancer in Arizona has premiums go up from $44 to $2,600 a month.
November 24, 2025 at 1:54 AM
DC has their heads up their you know where.... health care premiums are hitting all of us really hard. .. sorry for the taxi driver in this example
Jfc...
Nursing home magnate Joseph Schwartz was sentenced in April to three years for defrauding the government of $38 million.
Seven months later, President Trump pardoned him, but the White House denies a lobbying tie.
Seven months later, President Trump pardoned him, but the White House denies a lobbying tie.
The case of a felon who paid lobbyists nearly $1 million to seek a Trump pardon
Nursing home magnate Joseph Schwartz was sentenced in April to three years for defrauding the government of $38 million. Seven months later, Trump pardoned him, but the White House denies a lobbying t...
www.washingtonpost.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Jfc...
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Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 24, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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November 24, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Duke Tech Policy has expertise in global cybersecurity policy with projects on areas including critical minerals and infrastructure, supply chain, semiconductors, data privacy, and more.
About the research: techpolicy.sanford.duke.edu/cybersecurit...
About the research: techpolicy.sanford.duke.edu/cybersecurit...
This administration just wants to hurt Americans
“The outbreaks are fueled by falling vaccination rates, fading immunity, and delays in public health tracking systems”
Waning Immunity and Falling Vaccination Rates Fuel Pertussis Outbreaks - KFF Health News
New details from health officials suggest the whooping-cough surge may be part of a national pattern driven by slipping vaccine coverage and waning immunity, with infants bearing the brunt of the cons...
kffhealthnews.org
November 24, 2025 at 1:38 AM
This administration just wants to hurt Americans
Holy shit
Stunning development: Senators now confirm the Trump admin’s 28-point “peace plan” for Ukraine wasn’t a U.S. plan at all. It was a Russian wish list. Follow along. This is crazy. 1/
November 23, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Holy shit
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YOU GET PFAS... and YOU get PFAS... and you... get the point. We take having clean and safe drinking water for granted, but behind the scenes, RFK Jr and Lee Zeldin at the EPA are working to let polluters have at it with zero consequences. #impeachthequack
Take Action! tr.ee/impeachthequack
Take Action! tr.ee/impeachthequack
November 22, 2025 at 8:05 PM
YOU GET PFAS... and YOU get PFAS... and you... get the point. We take having clean and safe drinking water for granted, but behind the scenes, RFK Jr and Lee Zeldin at the EPA are working to let polluters have at it with zero consequences. #impeachthequack
Take Action! tr.ee/impeachthequack
Take Action! tr.ee/impeachthequack
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The healthcare system will collapse without these important positions, they manage and keep everything running smoothly. Disgraceful.
November 22, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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Heads up.. you're going to get pulled in, and remember: if you're not paying for the product, you're the product
On the one hand, ChatGPT is super popular. On the other hand, AI companies need to make SO MUCH revenue.
Bubble or no bubble? More data here -> 🎁 https://wapo.st/3KfxpXE
Bubble or no bubble? More data here -> 🎁 https://wapo.st/3KfxpXE
November 22, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Heads up.. you're going to get pulled in, and remember: if you're not paying for the product, you're the product
Wow... just Wow..
I need everyone, esp anyone working in education or tech (but really everyone) to WATCH THIS CLIP of @drtanksley.bsky.social discussing the technologies infiltrating our schools & psyches and how she is addressing it with our young people. youtu.be/5mtcSL4S3HQ
Howard University AI Panel
YouTube video by Tiera Tanksley
youtu.be
November 22, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Wow... just Wow..