@lynn-colorado.bsky.social
I will not give in to the lies. I will not give in to the fear. Hold on to the truth. Hope 💙
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This is also from the JP Morgan filing. Framing Epstein’s operation as a “sex-themed cult” is a good descriptor, I think. I haven’t seen it elsewhere, laid out quite like this.
December 24, 2025 at 1:03 AM
This is also from the JP Morgan filing. Framing Epstein’s operation as a “sex-themed cult” is a good descriptor, I think. I haven’t seen it elsewhere, laid out quite like this.
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Russel Brand has been charged with rape and sexual assault. I'm super surprised. www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/...
Russell Brand charged with rape and sexual assault after 2 more women come forward
Police in London said the charges against the actor and podcaster relate to "two further women" and are in addition to charges filed in April.
www.nbcnews.com
December 24, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Russel Brand has been charged with rape and sexual assault. I'm super surprised. www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/...
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The "free speech warriors" continue to push for censorship
The self-proclaimed head of USAGM, Kari Lake, who this year destroyed nearly all of the Voice of America, tells the agency's few remaining journalists the White House National Security Strategy will "guide our interview subjects, story selection, and coverage going forward."
December 24, 2025 at 1:54 AM
The "free speech warriors" continue to push for censorship
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This is sinister. If you're wondering why so many people don't report sexual assault, this is why.
jesus the Palm Beach Police really sought arrest warrants against underage Epstein victims for coming forward and cooperating, and (purported) admitting to crimes, and it caused the victims to become uncooperative with the federal investigation
![. . . very cooperative, but the police at that point had to let [redacted] know that what she had done that she could be facing charges.
Q And that was after they had told her earlier that she didn't need an attorney present, correct?
A Exactly.
Q Okay. So this happens to her with the Palm Beach Police Department and did the Palm Beach Police actually present or propose charging [redacted]?
A They did get a probable cause affidavit against [redacted].
Q And is that why Ms. [redacted] and her attorney were concerned about her testimony here?
A Yes.
Q Now was a subpoena issued for Ms. [redacted] on behalf of this grand jury?
A Yes, it was.
Q And before Ms. [redacted] would comply with that, did she -- did her attorney request some sort of order?
A Yes.
Q And what did he ask for?
A He asked for immunity for [redacted].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:eoss3vmzem55cm5kuddhdmwn/bafkreiariijffjjrgfh26o22jjr76pwprinvnbpkcho5lyi2sucfbqlooy@jpeg)
December 24, 2025 at 1:55 AM
This is sinister. If you're wondering why so many people don't report sexual assault, this is why.
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If you wanna listen to the entire thing, see the link below.
(Our podcast is in German but we run the clips from English interviews in English).
podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/p...
(Our podcast is in German but we run the clips from English interviews in English).
podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/p...
Impfen | Es wird noch viel schlimmer werden
Podcast Episode · Pandemia · 22/12/2025 · 40m
podcasts.apple.com
December 23, 2025 at 12:42 PM
If you wanna listen to the entire thing, see the link below.
(Our podcast is in German but we run the clips from English interviews in English).
podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/p...
(Our podcast is in German but we run the clips from English interviews in English).
podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/p...
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Daskalakis thinks that the Renaissance can come from the local level (which is where he is now working in New York).
But he also acknolwedges that even if that works it probably means more inequity across US states in the future...
But he also acknolwedges that even if that works it probably means more inequity across US states in the future...
December 23, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Daskalakis thinks that the Renaissance can come from the local level (which is where he is now working in New York).
But he also acknolwedges that even if that works it probably means more inequity across US states in the future...
But he also acknolwedges that even if that works it probably means more inequity across US states in the future...
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I asked him if that was not defeatist, just giving up. He thinks it's the exact opposite, "more of a message of hope than a message of despair. Because we can do something even underground and imperfectly to be ready for when the time comes to fix this disaster."
December 23, 2025 at 12:23 PM
I asked him if that was not defeatist, just giving up. He thinks it's the exact opposite, "more of a message of hope than a message of despair. Because we can do something even underground and imperfectly to be ready for when the time comes to fix this disaster."
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His analogy is that public health has built a temple, an Acropolis, but that will be destroyed. "You don't try to go back and put a scaffold around the Acropolis to fix it. You build the Sistine Chapel. So my advice is detachment from from Legacy organizations that are going to be destroyed."
December 23, 2025 at 12:21 PM
His analogy is that public health has built a temple, an Acropolis, but that will be destroyed. "You don't try to go back and put a scaffold around the Acropolis to fix it. You build the Sistine Chapel. So my advice is detachment from from Legacy organizations that are going to be destroyed."
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His advice is to look beyond the now:
"If you have political will that is designed to destroy and they have the power to destroy, it is almost futile to try to push against the destruction. Instead, you have to get through the dark age by sort of deciding what the Renaissance is going to look like"
"If you have political will that is designed to destroy and they have the power to destroy, it is almost futile to try to push against the destruction. Instead, you have to get through the dark age by sort of deciding what the Renaissance is going to look like"
December 23, 2025 at 12:19 PM
His advice is to look beyond the now:
"If you have political will that is designed to destroy and they have the power to destroy, it is almost futile to try to push against the destruction. Instead, you have to get through the dark age by sort of deciding what the Renaissance is going to look like"
"If you have political will that is designed to destroy and they have the power to destroy, it is almost futile to try to push against the destruction. Instead, you have to get through the dark age by sort of deciding what the Renaissance is going to look like"
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His view on the future is pretty bleak. He thinks much of what public health has achieved in the US will be dismantled:
"We've entered this, like, dark age and it's going to get worse. It is going to get so much worse."
"We've entered this, like, dark age and it's going to get worse. It is going to get so much worse."
December 23, 2025 at 12:18 PM
His view on the future is pretty bleak. He thinks much of what public health has achieved in the US will be dismantled:
"We've entered this, like, dark age and it's going to get worse. It is going to get so much worse."
"We've entered this, like, dark age and it's going to get worse. It is going to get so much worse."
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Daskalakis resigned 20 days after the shooting, when it became clear to him (with the firing of CDC director Susan Monarez) that he would have little power to stop harmful decisions, he says, "because if I can't mitigate harm then I'm allowing harm to occur."
December 23, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Daskalakis resigned 20 days after the shooting, when it became clear to him (with the firing of CDC director Susan Monarez) that he would have little power to stop harmful decisions, he says, "because if I can't mitigate harm then I'm allowing harm to occur."
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(Side note:
As a journalist I am still shocked by how quickly the attack on the CDC was set aside.
How rarely I have read the name David Rose in the past few months is for me a pretty good indicator of how much a large swathe of US media has failed to meet this moment.)
As a journalist I am still shocked by how quickly the attack on the CDC was set aside.
How rarely I have read the name David Rose in the past few months is for me a pretty good indicator of how much a large swathe of US media has failed to meet this moment.)
December 23, 2025 at 12:09 PM
(Side note:
As a journalist I am still shocked by how quickly the attack on the CDC was set aside.
How rarely I have read the name David Rose in the past few months is for me a pretty good indicator of how much a large swathe of US media has failed to meet this moment.)
As a journalist I am still shocked by how quickly the attack on the CDC was set aside.
How rarely I have read the name David Rose in the past few months is for me a pretty good indicator of how much a large swathe of US media has failed to meet this moment.)
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"[RFK jr.] may as well have shot the bullets himself [...] and I hold him and his colleagues personally responsible for that violence and the death of that officer", says Daskalakis.
Their rhetoric dehumanizing people who do public health created the environment that led to the attack, he says.
Their rhetoric dehumanizing people who do public health created the environment that led to the attack, he says.
December 23, 2025 at 12:05 PM
"[RFK jr.] may as well have shot the bullets himself [...] and I hold him and his colleagues personally responsible for that violence and the death of that officer", says Daskalakis.
Their rhetoric dehumanizing people who do public health created the environment that led to the attack, he says.
Their rhetoric dehumanizing people who do public health created the environment that led to the attack, he says.
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Daskalakis says that for him the lasting memory of 2025 will be the attack on the CDC on August 8, during which the police officer David Rose was killed.
"That was one of my moments where I was like, we've crossed a threshold."
And he does not mince words about who he sees as responsible: RFK jr.
"That was one of my moments where I was like, we've crossed a threshold."
And he does not mince words about who he sees as responsible: RFK jr.
December 23, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Daskalakis says that for him the lasting memory of 2025 will be the attack on the CDC on August 8, during which the police officer David Rose was killed.
"That was one of my moments where I was like, we've crossed a threshold."
And he does not mince words about who he sees as responsible: RFK jr.
"That was one of my moments where I was like, we've crossed a threshold."
And he does not mince words about who he sees as responsible: RFK jr.
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"It is going to get so much worse."
For the first of two end-of-the-year episodes of @pandemia.bsky.social, I talked to @drdemetre.bsky.social about what happened in 2025 at the CDC and how he thinks about the future of vaccines and public health in the US.
A quick 🧪🧵
For the first of two end-of-the-year episodes of @pandemia.bsky.social, I talked to @drdemetre.bsky.social about what happened in 2025 at the CDC and how he thinks about the future of vaccines and public health in the US.
A quick 🧪🧵
Impfen | Es wird noch viel schlimmer werden
Podcast Episode · Pandemia · 22/12/2025 · 40m
podcasts.apple.com
December 23, 2025 at 11:52 AM
"It is going to get so much worse."
For the first of two end-of-the-year episodes of @pandemia.bsky.social, I talked to @drdemetre.bsky.social about what happened in 2025 at the CDC and how he thinks about the future of vaccines and public health in the US.
A quick 🧪🧵
For the first of two end-of-the-year episodes of @pandemia.bsky.social, I talked to @drdemetre.bsky.social about what happened in 2025 at the CDC and how he thinks about the future of vaccines and public health in the US.
A quick 🧪🧵
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What our leading public health officials think
His view on the future is pretty bleak. He thinks much of what public health has achieved in the US will be dismantled:
"We've entered this, like, dark age and it's going to get worse. It is going to get so much worse."
"We've entered this, like, dark age and it's going to get worse. It is going to get so much worse."
December 24, 2025 at 1:57 AM
What our leading public health officials think
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The State department continues to use false allegations of "censorship" to censor people, or in this case sanction them
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/t...
U.S. Bars 5 European Tech Regulators and Researchers
www.nytimes.com
December 24, 2025 at 2:01 AM
The State department continues to use false allegations of "censorship" to censor people, or in this case sanction them
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/t...
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NASHVILLE - TN HS Dems Tennessee High School Dems deliver a petition to Senator @MarshaBlackburn to stop the just-announced government partnership forcing TP USA chapters into every school in Tennessee. (“to stop far right extremism”)
December 23, 2025 at 10:06 PM
NASHVILLE - TN HS Dems Tennessee High School Dems deliver a petition to Senator @MarshaBlackburn to stop the just-announced government partnership forcing TP USA chapters into every school in Tennessee. (“to stop far right extremism”)
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Multiple envoys selected by Putin meet in warm American city to discuss future of Ukraine
Kremlin envoy Kirill Dmitriev arrived at a Miami golf club for another round of golf club diplomacy with Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner.
December 23, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Multiple envoys selected by Putin meet in warm American city to discuss future of Ukraine
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In the spirit of the awful year that’s just about to end, let me ask this question: What’s the sh*ttiest year you’ve lived through so far? Let me know your thoughts.
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/office-hours-the-shittiest-year
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/office-hours-the-shittiest-year
Office Hours: The Shittiest Year?
Is 2025 the worst you’ve lived through, or have you lived through worse?
robertreich.substack.com
December 23, 2025 at 11:15 PM
In the spirit of the awful year that’s just about to end, let me ask this question: What’s the sh*ttiest year you’ve lived through so far? Let me know your thoughts.
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/office-hours-the-shittiest-year
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/office-hours-the-shittiest-year
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“The past 12 months have also brought many inspiring examples of creative people who refused to be intimidated, cowed, or corrupted.”
12 Artists Who Showed Some Spine in 2025
In a year when too many of our pop culture favorites let us down, these creative people were willing to take a stand (an
contrarian.substack.com
December 23, 2025 at 11:13 PM
“The past 12 months have also brought many inspiring examples of creative people who refused to be intimidated, cowed, or corrupted.”
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Out-of-state traveler possibly exposed people to measles at Denver International Airport this month
Out-of-state traveler possibly exposed people to measles at Denver International Airport this month
An out-of-state resident traveling through Denver International Airport on the evening of Dec. 12 possibly exposed others to measles.
coloradosun.com
December 23, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Out-of-state traveler possibly exposed people to measles at Denver International Airport this month