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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

RFK Jr is funding a grotesquely unethical study on newborn babies in Guinea-Bissau; ethicists, pediatricians, clinical trial experts, & infectious disease experts are calling this horrific trial The New Tuskegee. It is unethical to withhold a life saving intervention from half of newborns FFS.

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 07/10/2026

I don’t think Zohran Mamdani has committed genocide

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Adam @abrokenbattery.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

“The harm you have done is incalculable. It’s not me who has been spreading great harm around the world. It’s you, mate.” George Monbiot on being accused by Prof Michael Sharpe of “spreading” #LongCovid by writing about it and why he started writing about the #MECFS scandal.

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Miles W. Griffis @mileswgriffis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

📚 Author Jennifer Yeh shares her experience with Long COVID, & how having the diseases will keep her from going on a book tour when her debut novel comes out. She writes about how running & exertion worsened her condition & made her mostly homebound. jenniferyeh.substack.com/p/long-covid...

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Long Covid

Or, why I won’t be going on book tour

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If the letter is true-ish and these checks are going specifically to people with unsubsidized plans, it probably represents a straightforward upward redistribution of wealth

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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I really wish the world’s most dangerous, extreme anti-vaccine activist & conspiracy theorist, RFK Jr, who is a eugenicist & a MAHA dude who repeatedly peddles vile lies, had not been put in charge of the US health system Here he is telling truly horrific, dangerous lies about HPV & COVID vaccines

RFK Jr saying that the HPV vaccine increases the risk of cervical cancer & the Covid vaccine increases the risk of Covid—these are 2 dangerous lies

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Prof. Michael Fuhrer @michaelsfuhrer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I don't why I never plotted this before. In the last year in the US, Covid-19 (red) was detected in clinical & public health labs fewer times than influenza (blue), RSV (green), or *rhinoviruses* (orange). Despite similar test volumes for flu/RSV, and about 1/3 the test volume for rhinoviruses!

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Conor Browne @brownecfm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A friend has Covid right now. They have lost their sense of smell and they're having cognitive problems. This hit me today, as it often does: we made, and continue to make, a huge collective mistake in allowing a virus that impacts the brain to transmit unmitigated globally.

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Strategic Tape Reserve @strategictaper.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Rather than pop songs, what the supermarkets should really be playing over the PA is longform, slowly developing drone and sound collage kind of stuff because shoppers would stay in the supermarket to find out what the sound does next, and during that time they’d buy additional stuff.

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Strategic Tape Reserve @strategictaper.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A lot of people think circuit-bending is cool. You can make new sounds. It’s experimental. That’s great. But what if you circuit-bent some old test equipment that was then subsequently used to calibrate a nuclear power plant? Think about what would happen. Yeah, that wouldn’t be so “cool”, would it?

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The Sick Times @thesicktimes.org · 23/09/2026

The Telegraph recently published an article about "sickfluencers" titled “How having a disability became cool." We've republished a piece by Julia Doubleday at The Gauntlet pushing back against the article, which she calls "absurd on its face." thesicktimes.org/2026/09/21/c...

A young woman stands by a staircase with a backdrop of tree canopy. She wears a white, high quality mask and has long dark hair. She wears a teal sweatshirt and black pants. The text reads, “The Gauntlet x The Sick Times. COVID-19 — not TikTok — is disabling young women “Sickfluencers” are symptoms of a mass disabling event. By Julia Doubleday.”

“The country is sicker than it’s ever been before” — now why would that be? Six years after COVID-19 hit, four years after the virus has been allowed to run totally rampant without mitigation, the country is sicker than it’s ever been before, but we can’t come up with any reason why that would be other than “women be faking?”

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Miles W. Griffis @mileswgriffis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Over 1,700 people have signed a petition calling on McMaster University to review a Long COVID clinical trial evaluating a pseudoscientific "mind body" program. "It seems like we're in the dark ages," the petition author told @spichaksimon.bsky.social thesicktimes.org/2026/09/22/p...

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People with Long COVID demand pause of McMaster University clinical trial - The Sick Times

The trial, run by researchers at McMaster University in Canada, is testing the Lightning Process, a pseudoscientific mind-body program that outside experts have heavily criticized.

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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Eugenics: a common thread throughout the MAHA Administration Example: Bhattacharya & Memoli, who lead the NIH, say the US government should stop doing pandemic preparedness & instead the government must just urge individuals to get healthy so that at least the healthy survive the next pandemic 😳

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/09/2026

Abdul El-Sayed: "Weijia, with all due respect, this is the third time you've asked about a Twitch streamer ... their whole game is to make us fight culture wars so that we don't pay attention to the fact the president has made $2.2 billion ... "

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

They recognize Trump as a daddy figure because he’s abusive like they are to their kids

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 08/09/2026

Zohran Mamdani released 170K documents revealing that post-9/11 asbestos levels remained dangerous for months, despite officials saying the air was safe. As we saw at the start of COVID, officials still treat essential workers as expendable. This is a long-overdue step in the right direction.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

If you object to public-funded housing of homeless people, in the end the objection cannot be the cost, because we pay a premium to be cruel to homeless people. At the bottom of the objection will always sit dehumanizing cruelty and a desire for eradication.

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Peter Kirn @pkirn.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Throng, a 3D BlueSky interface, imagines social media as a mob: cdm.link/create-digit... This just-posted absurdity from @cee.wtf is actually a revealing experiment (and reminds us we don't *have* to have this timeline UI... hello Second Life...) oh god you're all coming for me

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

If we had clean air standards and mandatory respirators in healthcare, this wouldn’t happen. Patients deserve protection. They’re scared. They’re vulnerable. They’re often immune compromised. Infecting a baby in the NICU is a massive infection control failure. people.com/newborn-baby...

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Pa. Mom Says Her Newborn Was Exposed to Measles in Hospital NICU: ‘He’s Already Had to Overcome So Many Battles’

Brittany Nicole Sponenberg’s newborn was exposed to measles while in the NICU at Geisinger Medical Center. The hospital has since updated its visitor screening protocols as measles cases in the U.S. r...

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Miles W. Griffis @mileswgriffis.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

BREAKING: The Department of Defense is funding a new clinical trials program for Long COVID with an initial grant of $8 million. Called PROBE-PASC, the program will focus on mechanistic trials that will study the disease’s underlying biology in tandem with testing treatments.

A graphic features an aerial photo of the U.S. Pentagon building. Text overlaid on the photo reads, “The Sick Times: Breaking: Department of Defense announces $8 million grant for Long COVID clinical trials”.

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Jon Douglas @atranscendedman.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

UCSF and UC Santa Cruz researchers review evidence that teaching is a high risk COVID occupation. In 2022, 9.5% of employed US elementary and secondary teachers reported Long COVID, supporting cleaner air and workplace accommodations. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Coronavirus Disease 2019 is an Occupational Disease for Teachers: How to Support the Teacher Workforce - Alison K. Cohen, Lora Bartlett, 2026

Analyzing a growing body of epidemiological research that considers coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) as an occupational disease situates teaching (eg, pre-ki...

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Ryan Singh @singhisking.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

A 2,000 foot chunk of glacier snapped off and dropped 4,000 feet in Nepal. The flash flood killed 98 people. 391 tourists are missing. 47 Americans unaccounted for. 19 bridges gone. This isn't a natural disaster. This is climate breakdown.

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Kill Tim Faust 💀 @tbone.malware-virus.biz · 26/08/2026

my wife has a friend who sent Dolly Parton a painting she made & a letter explaining how much Dolly's music meant to her while she was transitioning. Dolly responded to it personally & paid for her top surgery. Sounds like an urban legend but it's real. I think we're going to more stories like this.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

This is a concern that I’ve spoken about several times as well, and Twitter randos always told me I was “overreacting” or “fear-mongering” I said this at the time, but it’s nice to have official confirmation. And I very much worry about US leadership in that scenario today.

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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Fossil fuel demand is still growing — but solar and wind are growing faster. EVs are surging as oil prices spike. The transition is happening. The question is whether we accelerate it fast enough to avoid the worst. Speed matters. #EnergyTransition #CleanEnergy

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Strategic Tape Reserve @strategictaper.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Before I listened to music the first time, I didn’t think I would like it. I was afraid it would be weird. But then after a sales event, my mentor took me to a bar that had a DJ playing music with a laptop. The laptop being there put me at ease and I realized maybe music wasn’t so weird after all.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

From an essay on the 1970s I wrote a while back:

grew up north of San Francisco in an atmosphere where, once you were twelve or so, hippie dudes in their
thirties started to offer you drugs and neck rubs that were clearly only
the beginning— and it was immensely hard to refuse them. There were
no grounds. Sex was good; everyone should have it all the time; anything
could be construed as consent; and almost nothing meant no, including
“no.” Those who remember feminists as being angrily anti-sex during the
1980s don’t recall the huge task they undertook— and undertook successfully— of pointing out that, like everything else, sex involves power; power is distributed unequally; and unequal power not uncommonly deteriorates into exploitation.
It was the culture. Rock stars were open about their liaisons with un-
derage groupies, and forty-something Woody Allen had cast underage
Mariel Hemingway as his love interest in his film Manhattan (1977). In
1978, Louis Malle released Pretty Baby, in which a then-eleven-year-old
and sometimes unclothed Brooke Shields played a prostitute. (Two years
earlier, Playboy Press had published nude photographs by the aptly named Gary Gross of a painted, vamping Shields at the age of ten in a book titled Sugar and Spice. In 1978, British photographer David Hamilton published Young Girl, a collection of prettily prurient photographs of half-undressed pubescent girls; as Hamilton’s stock-in-trade for years, these images were everywhere as posters and books. On February 1, 1978, forty-four-year-old film director Roman Polanski decided to skip bail and headed for France after being charged with raping a thirteen-year-old girl he had plied with champagne and Quaaludes. (His implied excuse was that everyone was doing it.) Some defended him on the grounds that the girl looked fourteen.

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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

RE: The Atlantic, a few months after this issue a guy in El Paso went on a rampage targeting people he thought looked "Mexican"; he shot 45 and killed 23. when I read some journalists lines from his manifesto and Frum's essay and asked them who wrote which, they couldn't tell, I couldn't blame them

its a cover image of an april 2019 atlantic mag. a neon light bulb american flag signals no vacancy like a roadside motel. under the flag is a headline for david frum's cover story "How much immigration is too much?"

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New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Meta has built its business around addictive feeds and features that put our kids' mental health at risk.  Today, together with a bipartisan coalition of AGs, we begin our trial to hold Meta accountable and to continue protecting our kids from the harms of social media.

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The ag lobby really, really, really, really, really, really, really wants you to think AI is the reason reservoirs are going empty. It's not. It's agriculture.

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Miles W. Griffis @mileswgriffis.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

"My cancer experience wasn’t without setbacks or issues — but there was no unknown, and no one questioned its legitimacy. No doctor suggested the cancer was “in my head.”" thesicktimes.org/2026/08/14/b...

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Breast cancer exposed the lack of care I receive for Long COVID - The Sick Times

Cancer has a sadly well-worn path. It showed me that I deserve dignity and support for Long COVID.

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Kara Yorio @karayorio.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The Sick Times' coverage of Long COVID and other infection associated chronic conditions is invaluable. They were gracious enough to work with me on this piece, and I am grateful for the opportunity to share a story that I think will sadly resonate with so many others.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 17/08/2026

US child vaccination rates have plunged since before the pandemic, with kindergarten classrooms in more than 70% of counties now lacking herd immunity against measles.

US choropleth map showing percentage change in MMR or overall vaccination rates since before the pandemic, by county. Decreases are shown in pink, increases in green.

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

A very serious Rural Politico once told me "Dems have to go to farmer meetings! We gotta be where the people are!" I was in fact in a farmer meeting at that very moment! So I live-texted him the meeting. They were complaining that they want indentured workers that they don't have to pay or feed.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

More people died from heat between April 1, 2026 thru July 19, 2026 than in the ten entire preceding years combined

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Conor Browne @brownecfm.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

'Our ability to smell is linked to brain health, and losing this sense is often one of the first signs of neurodegenerative disorders, including Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease'. www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/202...

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6 dementia symptoms that can show up years before a diagnosis

Changes to sleep and walking can begin long before cognitive issues.

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New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Blankets of wildfire smoke. Exceedingly high temperatures. We're experiencing the climate crisis in real time, but the EPA wants to weaken limits on dangerous greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change. I'm suing to block this unlawful effort.

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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Centrists want it to be true, so they repeat the lie nonstop. Incessant lying like that is an authoritarian strategy, & it should be clear by now that the people opposed to racial justice are racial authoritarians.

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~ @asynchronia.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

This story lightened my day! Congratulations on your book. I love this moment of excitement over books.

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ceej @ceej.online · 16/07/2026

gonna start talking like this to my boss

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Jules Sherred (he/him) @geekyjules.julessherred.com · 15/07/2026

Kid1, who is both an conductor and engineer for CN and has driven trains through SK wildfires himself, just sent me this video from Ontario. When I tell you they arent paid enough!!! vt.tiktok.com/ZSXkuEadE/

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

“Fiscal conservativism” is when you spend a trillion dollars by the second week of July

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Your really have to hand it to Trump, it takes rare skill to go bankrupt running a casino and bankrupting the most lavishly funded government agency on the planet. Not sure we'll ever see this combination of private and public sector failure ever again.

NBC News • @NBCNews • 21h
The Defense Department was funded with a budget of nearly a trillion dollars, but it is running out of cash, according to three U.S. officials, a former defense official, outside experts and two congressional staff members.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Only one student enrolled in West Virginia University’s new Washington Center after GOP lawmakers mandated the creation of the program Lawmakers allocated around $3 million to the program in the last two years

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One student enrolled in WVU Washington Center after GOP lawmakers mandate creation of program • West Virginia Watch

Only one student has registered for courses at WVU's Washington Center, an academic program mandated by Republican lawmakers for the campus.

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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Platner did not magically appear. He was recruited as an avatar, someone to represent the aesthetic of white working class men. That bias is the root of why people believed he was the only populist who could win. And why they let him get much farther than he should have. My latest piece:

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Platner Didn't Have To Happen

He wasn't inevitable. He wasn't organic. He was the result of a recruitment effort rooted in the very biases that have allowed him to stay in the race this long.

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