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"Be ruthless to systems, be kind to people" - Michael Brooks #CleanTheAir & #MaskUp to protect the vulnerable (at the very least in medical facilities!)

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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
the Vice President of the United States has gone on record citing this man as one of his biggest intellectual influences if you didn't know this, it's probably because for some reason literally no mainstream political media outlets think it's worth mentioning
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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon
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Orla Hegarty @orla-hegarty.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Remember those really cheap, DIY fans with filters for classrooms? They work! #CorsiRosenthal pubs.acs.org/aeacd5/artic...
Image of air cleaner in the link with graph showing >60% reduction in particle levels
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 25/09/2026
Two people were arrested at the City Council meeting, including one who was pulled away mid-sentence. trib.al/SzszpFM
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Woman Arrested, Dragged Away After Criticizing Flock at City Council
Two people were arrested at the City Council meeting, including one who was pulled away mid-sentence.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/09/2026
peter thiel is another one of those guys who we are supposed to think is brilliant but every time he opens his mouth my first thought is “this guy sounds like an idiot”
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emily fraser 🌿🐌✨ @emilyesfraser.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Can y’all PLEASE start recognizing how hard you’re being propagandized against disabled people & maybe stop contributing to the hate?
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This aired just the once in 1998 on the live SNL show for which McKay wrote it. It was effectively banned as it never aired again. I wonder why. MEDIA-OPOLY
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 21/09/2026
Nearly all of the money for Trump’s pet projects comes from billionaires representing industries that are desperate because they are hated as much as, if not more than, the president they are increasingly spending tens of millions to prop up. trib.al/5woGLEZ
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 22/09/2026
It’s now hard to determine where thousands of people are after they’ve been taken by ICE. trib.al/Yb8i23b
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ICE Just Made Thousands of Detainees Vanish From Its System
It’s now hard to determine where thousands of people are after they’ve been taken by ICE.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is not great
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Lady Emily ☄️ @ladyemily.nebula.tv · 20/09/2026
Damon Albarn beginning the Gorillaz US tour by holding up the Palestinian flag and talking about how you should never be neutral is really nice to see but also really funny that he did this with a giant muppet right behind him
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 18/09/2026
The president made the comments while fantasizing about a billionaire begging him for mercy. trib.al/WLzvMR9
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Trump Says He Could Do Just About Anything With His “Crazy” Power
The president made the comments while fantasizing about a billionaire begging him for mercy.
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Dr. Jen Irwin @drjenirwin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“Air sampling at four US airports in 2023 and 2024 detected SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, in over 98% of samples and influenza A in over 17%, according to a study published in PLOS Global Public Health” www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/air...
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Airport air sampling captures COVID, influenza viruses
Researchers say air monitoring complements wastewater testing in detecting respiratory pathogens from diverse populations, including asymptomatic or pre-symptomatic people.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
As the UK prepares to vote on Assisted Dying, I want to share Stéphanie Lavoie’s story. She was a 30 year old disabled Canadian suffering from Lyme Disease & severe malnutrition. She needed a feeding tube. She was given MAiD instead. She was only 59lbs when she died.
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Woman with ‘unmanageable’ pain from Lyme disease chooses to die. She wasn’t always believed | Globalnews.ca
Stéphanie Lavoie spent her adult life facing escalating symptoms from Lyme disease that left her bedridden and barely able to eat. Her family says the medical system failed her.
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Monty Burns 

WE DID 20 TAKES, AND THAT WAS THE BEST ONE.
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Greg Folkers @gregfolkers.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
CIDRAP: Repeat COVID infections tied to higher odds of new health conditions by Laine Bergeson @cidrap.bsky.social bit.ly/4cBiPop bit.ly/4hnxGVd
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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Scientists Find Parasites in Almost Every Fish From a Recent Tuna Haul – 96% Were Infected What is eyebrow-raising is just how many worms were in each sample and how widely they were spread among the organs Sure you still want to eat fish? www.sciencealert.com/scientists-f...
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Scientists Find Parasites in Almost Every Fish From a Recent Tuna Haul – 96% Were Infected
A fatty tuna that is often used for sashimi or canning may be swimming with parasites more often than not.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The richest man owns X. The second and fourth richest men control Google. The third richest man owns The Washington Post. The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the seventh richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?
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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Dolly with her parents and seven of her siblings performing In The Pines in '76. 😭
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 26/08/2026
Meta has agreed to a massive settlement in a lawsuit over how it intentionally designed Instagram and Facebook to addict children. trib.al/e1mKTMZ
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Meta Caves With $17 Billion Settlement in Social Media Addiction Case
Meta has agreed to a massive settlement in a lawsuit over how it intentionally designed Instagram and Facebook to addict children.
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Carole King @carolekingofficial.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
My heart is breaking. In addition to her musical talents, she was an exemplary human being. R I P Dolly Parton www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/a...
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Dolly Parton, Country Music Superstar Whose Songs Spoke to Millions, Dies at 80
Known for her outsize persona, appearance and talent, she rose from rural poverty to become a top-selling singer, songwriter and entrepreneur.
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Fun @funkelly.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
To be loved is to be changed.
A large brown doodle dog, he’s laying on a bleu dog bed in an office. This was the day he was rescued from the shelter, and he was deathly ill with infectious pneumonia. Grateful he got the help he needed, he is so loved. The same large brown doodle dog looking much healthier and happier at home. He is smiling up at the camera and looks so much better than the previous photo.
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CBS News @cbsnews.com · 20/08/2026
FDA upgrades recall of frozen blueberries sold at Publix to highest health risk level.
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FDA upgrades recall of frozen blueberries sold at Publix to highest health risk level
Recalled frozen blueberries and mixed berries that could be contaminated with E. coli pose the most severe category of health risk, according to the FDA.
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babs ✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
annually relevant
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...
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Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study Projects
A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it
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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
41 years ago, Carl Sagan gave a clear and elegant explanation of the science behind global warming.
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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 14/08/2026
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaahhaahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahaha
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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Video of an ICE agent pulling a gun on a wife and mother, who is a US citizen born and raised in the area, near Bailey's Crossroads in Northern Virginia yesterday. Chillingly, they claimed she “almost ran them over” until she told them she had video proving that was a lie.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
A new study shows that Medicare for All would save over 114,000 lives and over $1 trillion every year. The new research out of Yale shows that reductions in administrative overhead, lower pharmaceutical prices, less fraudulent billing, and fewer emergency care trips would lead to huge savings. /1
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Yale Study: Medicare for All Would Save Over 114,000 Lives and $1 Trillion a Year | Common Dreams
"Do not tell me we cannot afford Medicare for All," the senator said. "What we cannot afford is a broken healthcare system based on greed."
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
In dishonor of Ross Douthat's last NYT column, I'm breaking my self-imposed ban on reading him—smug bad faith, whiny victimization, and steadfast refusal to let evidence affect opinion—and will screenshot and comment. This is the column if you want to read it yourself (I don't recommend it). 1/x
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Opinion | Who Is My Enemy? I’m No Longer Sure.
Where does the side of the angels really lie?
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 07/08/2026
This is incredibly disturbing. The number of cases in Mississippi alone of Black people who met their deaths in dubious/highly suspicious ways, only for authorities to shrug it off and do a piss poor job if investigating...there are so many names
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Tasia Fortune Identified as Woman Found Hanging in Tree Behind Vacant Jackson Home
The woman whose body was found hanging from a tree behind a vacant Jackson, Mississippi, home is 29-year-old Tasia Fortune, the Hinds County Coroner’s Office said.
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Clean Air Cville has just released a step-by-step PC Fan Air Purifier build guide with a complete supply list and photos: www.cleanaircville.org/buildguide This design uses silent PC fans so is great for classrooms & places a totally silent air filter is needed: www.reddit.com/r/crboxes/co...
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From the crboxes community on Reddit: DIY Air Purifier Build Guide | Clean Air Cville
Explore this post and more from the crboxes community
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Thia Fin @thiafin.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
And Congress and the Supreme Court are just going to ignore it...the media too.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
A new study shows that among people hospitalized with COVID19, other viruses such as EBV, HSV1, and CMV may be reactivated. This effect isn’t limited to those who are immunocompromised, either. So if you’re wondering why I’m still masking indoors in public, have a read.
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COVID can wake up a slew of dormant viruses inside you
Reactivation of typically harmless anelloviruses, in particular, seems to be linked with developing long COVID, study finds.
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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Blogged it. Happy Hater Week. aftermath.site/war-crime-n6...
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Do Not Buy The War Crime N64
There's so many ways to play the N64. You do not need to support Palmer Luckey's little project.
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✨John Carpenter’s BOObies✨ @ourflagmeansbeth.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
A crime.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
News outlets that covered the US-Saudi nuclear deal without mentioning that Jared Kushner, Trump’s top foreign policy advisor, is getting paid by the Saudi government: WSJ NYT AP Reuters CNN NBC ABC CBS The Guardian Semafor Washington Post Fox News New York Post BBC Newsweek MS NOW
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A nuclear deal for the Saudis. A media blackout for Kushner’s corruption.
On Wednesday, the Trump administration signed a 30-year nuclear agreement with Saudi Arabia that paves the way for the kingdom to enrich its own uranium.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
the reason we dont have medicare for all is bc corporations need employer based healthcare to keep you chained to your desk in a job you hate that doesnt pay you what youre worth
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ElleO 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽 @ellohhlo.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
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RED DOTS REPRESENT TECH EXECUTIVES WHO LIVE WITHIN 5 MILES OF A DATA CENTER

This one struck a nerve.
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Go! Go! アンディロボ! @gogoandyrobo.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
I once went to Vancouver, and asked a pharmacist how much a vial of insulin costs, they said $35. Then I called my pharmacy in the states, and they said $360. Insulin companies extort their customers and people are dying because of it. Prices are getting better, but not by much. Keeping an 👁️ on this
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Communist China Just Cured Diabetes and America's Insulin Industry is Not Happy About it
Groundbreaking Diabetes Cure Developed by Chinese Scientists
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Rosie (she/her) @airfriedrosie.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Remember Streeting's review into whether young people are being overdiagnosed with ADHD, autism, and mental health issues? Well, the interim report is out, and there's a reason the media are silent on it (spoiler: it proves what a lot of us have been saying all along)
In others, notably ADHD and autism, rising diagnoses and referrals appear to exceed changes in underlying epidemiological prevalence and are likely to reflect a combination of:

improved recognition
changing help-seeking behaviour
institutional incentives
pressures within existing service pathways
Across both ADHD and autism, best currently available population-based estimates remain relatively stable, while administrative diagnoses, self-identification and recorded service demand have increased substantially. In autism, the evidence also points to particularly rapid growth in identified need within educational systems, including increasing identification among girls and among young people without learning disability.These patterns suggest that rising demand is not simply the result of increasing prevalence, but of several processes operating simultaneously, including:

real increases in distress in some groups
improved recognition of previously unmet need
changing expectations about support
systems that frequently rely on formal diagnosis as the primary route to assistance
Across the system, support is too often accessed through pathways that are slow, fragmented and heavily dependent on diagnostic categorisation. While diagnosis remains essential for some forms of clinical decision-making, the evidence suggests that current arrangements do not always provide the most effective or efficient way of identifying and responding to need. In particular, where access to support depends heavily on formal diagnosis, demand for diagnostic assessment can increase more rapidly than systems are able to respond, generating long waiting times, duplication of assessment and pressure on specialist services.

The next phase of the review will therefore focus on clarifying the relationship between distress, diagnosis and need, and on examining how systems might respond more effectively to these patterns. A central objective will be to identify opportunities for developing more coherent, evidence-informed care pathways that enable support to be provided earlier and more proportionately, while ensuring that specialist services are available in a timely and appropriate manner for those whose needs are most complex.
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Shane @incompleteness.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Researchers concluded that long COVID symptoms emerge when a coronavirus infection activates a dormant herpes virus, which leads to the creation of SITH-1 protein in the body www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/...
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Researchers link Long COVID to another virus | NHK WORLD-JAPAN News
Researchers in Japan have released findings showing that COVID-19 after effects, including fatigue, occur when a coronavirus infection activates another virus already inside the body.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
An agent from HSI—the criminal investigation arm of ICE—shot and killed a young man in May while responding to a local 911 call as part of Trump’s ‘Memphis Safe Task Force.’ The call had nothing to do with immigration. Jonah Neal. Say his name.
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He was having a mental health crisis. Memphis task force agents came and shot him
Jonah Neal, 25, was struck by a Homeland Security Investigations agent in May. There have been at least four deadly shootings related to the task force.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Trump just fired all three remaining members of the Election Assistance Commission, leaving the agency with no commissioners just months before the midterms
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Trump fires all commissioners of federal election agency
Months before the midterms, the only federal agency dedicated solely to election administration is now unable to do anything.
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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 09/07/2026
Return Of The Horsedip

90% of news articles now are just "rich dipshit says some stuff"
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Dr David S Anderson @dsaarchaeology.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Original Tweet from @Mantia: What’s something that seems obvious within your profession, but the general public seems to misunderstand?

Quote tweet from @hwitteman: That $35 that scientific journals charge you to read a paper goes 100% to the publisher, 0% to the authors. If you just email us to ask for our papers, we are allowed to send them to you for free, and we will be genuinely delighted to do so.
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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
A growing outbreak of the Cyclospora parasite, which causes severe diarrhea, has sickened more than 1,200 people across the U.S. Experts say the true number is much higher. In March 2025, RFK Jr. dissolved the CDC’s Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria, which monitored parasitic diseases
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