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The Febrile Muse

@CMDoran.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy
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Mainly retired PharmD/writer w/34y exp.Infect Diseases. Portrayal of ID in arts/literature.Passionate abt sci literacy and politics. PersonalAcct, boost means I find […] [bridged from masto.ai/@CMDoran on the fediverse by fed.brid.gy ]

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Tim Richards @timrichards.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026
The headline says it all. #USpol www.smh.com.au/business/the-economy…
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Don’t blame Ukraine: Prices go up and up, thanks to Trump’s wars
The US president’s battles with trading partners and Iran are responsible for the elevated US inflation rate – not Ukraine’s bombing of Russian oil refineries.
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Zhi Zhu 🕸️ @zhizhu.newsie.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026
"The wins for President Vladimir V. Putin of #Russia came in rapid succession from #Washington. #Trump proffered sanctions relief for Russian #diesel fuel. He publicly called for #Ukraine to get a new leader. And he pressured Kyiv to stop a strike campaign […] [Original post on newsie.social]
Headline from the NYTimes:

News Analysis
Trump Hands Victories to Putin, Who Offers More War in Return

Russia has reaped a diesel deal and an increase in U.S. pressure on Ukraine as President Trump’s political needs align with his longstanding inclinations toward Russia.
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GhostOnTheHalfShell @ghostonthehalfshell.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026
Why he would think that there is an obvious solution to this. Pull the plug on the companies and put them all in jail. And then make all the data centers “migrate to the cloud”. They have been in Russia. Iran has been working on this area as well.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Two days late, a little progress. But bigger fonts please.
NYT home page with photo of Putin and three headlines: 
Trump Hands Victories to Putin, Who Offers More War in Return
U.K. and Europe Recoil From Trump’s Diesel Deal With Putin
Zelensky Comment Raises Fear That U.S. Is Cutting Intelligence Sharing
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Apparently, under normal conditions, a Danish national medical ethics committee would have reviewed it, but since the study won’t be done in Denmark, a group at the University of Southern Denmark did the review instead. Hats off to @melodyschreiber.com for her diligence in covering this story.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This is a disaster. The ethics committee in Denmark that approved the Guinea-Bissau study which will withhold the birth dose of HepB vaccine “had never considered medical studies before but it changed the rules in order to vote on this one”. Four members of the committee have resigned in protest.
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Controversial vaccine trial touted by RFK Jr gets go-ahead in Guinea-Bissau
Recommended dose of hepatitis B vaccine will be withheld from thousands of newborns by Danish researchers
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Mignon Fogarty @grammargirl.zirk.us.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
Just got a mass email from our bank that essentially says, "If you give your username and password to an AI agent, you're on your own." You've. Been. Warned. 🤣
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Nonilex @nonilex.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026
More coverage of this insane #atrocity. #Pentagon officials said on Thursday that the #Army officer convicted in the 2009 #FortHood #shooting would be executed in #public, a practice that ended in the #US nearly a century ago & is most commonly carried out in a handful of countries including […]
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Abraham Samma 🔭 🔬 :iterm2_logo: @abesamma.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
Latest sign that show US democracy may be dead or dying. OSCE election observers have not been invited to monitor the US mind term elections. It is very clear this administration is trying to undermine the integrity of this election. This is dangerous because an unstable US will affect the whole […]
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The Febrile Muse @cmdoran.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@climatenewsnow/117… Gross
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 21/09/2026
find me a mainstream news story on the flimsy Paramount settlement that even hints at the fact right wing oligarchs are waging propaganda warfare on an informed electorate and that owning CBS, CNN, and TikTok is central to Ellison's vision of it
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aburtch @aburtch.shakedown.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026
HOLY SHIT! This is what they must mean by #AI #music #fraud. I opened Spotify (reasons, don't judge) and the homepage said "New Release from Whiskeytown." Screenshot below. For those who don't know Whiskeytown was Ryan Adams first band out of Raleigh, NC […] [Original post on shakedown.social]
Screenshot from Spotify says “new release from Whiskeytown” the song that plays when you click is is DEFINITELY not Whiskeytown.
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Artemis @artemis201.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026
#Longmont CO is proposing to use AI to generate police reports. Can't see how this would go wrong in any way. Anyway if you're from #LongmontCO and would like to provide feedback, the city council is meeting tomorrow (Tuesday) evening at 7pm and will be reviewing the proposal […]
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Chris Lombardi @chrisaintmarchin.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026
Cancer-striken Joe Biden stands for hours as Trump dozes off during 9/11 memorials - Irish Star www.irishstar.com/news/politics/can…
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Cancer-striken Biden stands for hours as Trump dozes off during 9/11 memorial
President Donald Trump and Joe Biden were compared as both attended seperate September 11 memorial ceremornies, with many pointing out Trump's closed eyes
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David Moscrop @davidmoscrop.com · 10/09/2026
*Reads Jason Stanley’s book ‘Erasing History’* *Reads the news* Uh oh.
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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026
I just learned from a meeting with radio astronomers that AST SpaceMobile is already disrupting GPS signals with only a handful of direct-to-device satellites in orbit. This seems... bad. And like someone in some government somewhere should maybe care about this?
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Nonilex @nonilex.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026
The show of force appeared aimed at not just ferreting out anyone who may have shared information, but intimidating others who might do so in the future, acc/to people with knowledge of the effort. …The scope of the investigation is without parallel. Mass #polygraph tests have never been […]
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 04/09/2026
Trump continues to disperse disaster recovery funds based on how states vote, which for any other president or public official, in any other time, in any other country, in any other context would be a morally horrific scandal that would dominate headlines for months.
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POLITICO Pro: Trump rejects disaster appeals by four Democratic governors
New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Rhode Island will have to pay the entire cost of recovery from a major February snowstorm.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Impeach Fetterman
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Vee @veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026
Another brilliant idea! THIS is what the great John Lewis would call “GOOD TROUBLE” — Protesters in Minneapolis have reportedly been dressing up in jeans, body armor, and masks, and then walking into groups of ICE agents and accusing one or two of them of […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 01/09/2026
There it is: Trump is *literally* pushing “Unhumans,” a book that encourages right-wing readers to view liberals and Democrats as “unhuman.” I raised the alarm on this extremely dangerous strategy in 2024 (and again last month): www.thenerdreich.com/why-trump-ke...
Donald Trump truth social post pushing for people to buy “Unhumans” book.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 01/09/2026
The book equates all MAGA’s opponents to demons, communists and unhumans. It encourages them to prepare for all-out war to purge their enemies from society. JD Vance endorsed the GENOCIDAL book in 2024 www.thenerdreich.com/unhumans-jd-...
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'Unhumans': J.D. Vance and the language of genocide
Trump's VP pick endorses the tactic of dehumanization
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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026
It's been widely reported that former Rep. Eric Swalwell, a longtime Trump critic under investigation for sexual assault, had his electronics confiscated at an airport by the FBI last month. It's messy story in which facts are still emerging. But what caught my eye as a surveillance nerd was […]
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Heidi Li Feldman @heidilifeldman.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026
Between USPS and the Roberts Six, the attempted coup is already underway, right before our eyes. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/us/polit…
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
It’s been almost 90 days since the American people have seen or heard from Mitch McConnell. We’re still paying his salary.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Here’s the start of this abhorrent post that honestly sounds like it was made in a hostage situation.
CDC stands ready to assist Pennsylvania in responding to the measles outbreak, as we have successfully done in other states. CDC can provide federal expertise to help the affected community understand the risks of measles and protect vulnerable populations, including through the MMR vaccine.
We appreciate Secretary Kennedy's efforts to clarify conflicting information from Pennsylvania officials about whether the two reported deaths were caused by measles.
CDC is working to determine what actually occurred. These discrepancies raise important questions, particularly because the Governor's Office has not provided CDC with information relevant to the outbreak and has declined our offers of assistance.
Accuracy is critical to reliable national transparency, and public trust. During
19. concerns arose about deaths being
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026
New Mexico flipped from fossil fuels to renewables in five years. In July 2021 its largest utility drew 83% of its power from coal and gas; this July, renewables supplied 62%. Solar carries the scorching days, batteries release stored sun through the evening, and wind picks up after dark. The […]
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Grand Rapids Michigan News @grandrapidsnews.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026
FBI: Massachusetts man scammed $600,000 from West Michigan seniors in scheme. A Massachusetts man has been sentenced to up to 20 years for defrauding elderly residents in Michigan, taking over $600,000 in a scheme targeting seniors […]
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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026
cheers to @timnitGebru for finding the smoking gun on TESCREAL->Cofnas www.linkedin.com/posts/timnit-gebru…
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Well guys, I KNEW that we were going to connect the network hounding Arday to the TESCREAL bozos somehow. I could smell it. This is a "paper" by the professor of "ethics" who hired the vile Cofnas… | Timnit Gebru | 80 comments
Well guys, I KNEW that we were going to connect the network hounding Arday to the TESCREAL bozos somehow. I could smell it. This is a "paper" by the professor of "ethics" who hired the vile Cofnas at Ghent University. This is the kind of "research" they do. ✴️ Reminder the L in TESCREAL stands for "longtermism". Read more at https://lnkd.in/ge2VFMe4. These are the eugenicists who pushed generative AI down your throats, including Ben Goertzel who told Epstein that when he creates a super brain, there won't be the kind of women who accused Epstein of rape. ✴️ "Dysgenic pressures" is the opposite of "eugenic pressures." In this so-called paper, they're talking about undesirables like Black people reproducing too much. | 80 comments on LinkedIn
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Tim Richards @timrichards.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2026
The Explore travel section in the Canberra Times and other regional newspapers now has online my story about Scenic Plus class on New Zealand's Northern Explorer train. Read on about an 11-hour rail journey involving a 7-course meal... --- The New Zealand train trip where the food is as […]
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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 10/07/2026
The Chinese Massacre: One of Los Angeles' Worst Atrocities In Santa Ana stands the site of a former Chinatown that was burned down in one of the most brazen acts of officially sanctioned anti-Asian violence in Southern California until the World War II-era incarceration of Japanese Americans […]
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The Febrile Muse @cmdoran.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 07/07/2026
RE: masto.ai/@Nonilex/116878877082213015 He is absent. So are other Republicans. So are true leaders.
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Nonilex @nonilex.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 07/07/2026
Last week’s attack in #Monaco – in which a bomb exploded in the entranceway of one of the city-state’s ritziest apartment buildings, targeting Ukrainian-born businessman Vadym Yermolaiev–injured 3 people, including Yermolaiev, a woman & a child. Although the motive remains unclear, Monaco’s […]
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
PASTOR LORAN LIVINGSTON (@CentralChurchNC): “There has never been a Christian nation, and never will be. You don’t live in one now. A Christian nation wouldn’t have killed and displaced 20 million Native Americans, or thought owning slaves was pleasing to God.”
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Alexander Karn @xankarn.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 05/07/2026
Impossible to embrace or take deep pride in a country where masked Nazis ride the Metro in the Capital. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/04/us/white…
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Alexander Karn @xankarn.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 05/07/2026
It’s brings to mind this photo of Elizabeth Eckford (1957). Except that the politics and culture are somehow moving in reverse today. A democracy in retrograde.
African-American girls waits to attend school while crowd of white onlookers stands by menacingly.
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le.x @le-x.leipzig.town.ap.brid.gy · 05/07/2026
Hummel in der Blüte einer Hummelwiesenblume und Bienen auf einer Kugeldistel #gartenliebe #Bloomscrolling
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Dr. Dan Killam @dantheclamman.scicomm.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 30/05/2026
Pulse oximetry has previously been noted to have a bias against people with higher skin melanin content. It over-measures blood oxygen for Black people and others with more melanin, because most oximeters were calibrated for people with light skin. This can lead to someone with a real blood O2 […]
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Bruce Mirken @brucemirken.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 26/06/2026
He's gone quiet, but #RFKJr is still trying to destroy #vaccination, and people will die if he succeeds. www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-vaccin… #ImpeachRFKJr
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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 07/06/2026
Outside the AI bubble, a backlash has been brewing for some time — and not only among students booing pro-AI commencement speakers. Just 10 percent of Americans say they're thrilled about the future of AI, a Pew poll found in March; that same month, some 80 percent of registered U.S. voters in […]
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Aure Free Press :verified: @free-press.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/06/2026
PISSED OFF RUSSIANS... Huge crowds in Sochi airport, RUSSIA on Sunday. The airport has been closed down due to drone attacks. It's only been open for 8 minutes since Friday. Dozens of incoming and outcoming flights delayed, some canceled. How was YOUR […] [Original post on mstdn.social]
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
This is the single most alarming thing I’ve seen yet from RFK Jr. He is attempting to get identifiable medical records from ALL OF US. “Under the proposal, HHS would get data from 90% of the population’s medical records by 2028”. This CANNOT be permitted to happen.
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RFK Jr. seeks to peek at Americans’ medical records for clues on autism and vaccines | CNN
U.S. health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is pursuing federal government access to most Americans’ medical records, in a quest to research a link between vaccines and autism — a connection the medic...
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The Febrile Muse @cmdoran.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 04/06/2026
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
“Mr. Secretary, I may have to get you a new pair of glasses.” @marcorubio hilariously pretends not to be able to see Trump and his family are enriching themselves off the presidency.
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The Febrile Muse @cmdoran.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 04/06/2026
@openvibe Before I would even consider pro it needs to be a better product. My feed does not pull in a timely fashion and I can't always see who is responding in a timely manner either. In addition, I don't want to be forced to cross post.
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The Febrile Muse @cmdoran.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 02/06/2026
Original post: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:qzlnfdmhzb… Crossposted with @openvibe
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Street Art Utopia @streetartutopia.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 28/05/2026
Seattle gave Mark Zuckerberg a proper welcome after he pulled up in his mega-yacht the day after Meta cut 1,400 local jobs. One local artist even set up an easel on the dock and painted Zuck’s yacht going up in flames 🔥
A large luxury mega-yacht docked in Seattle behind a protest banner reading “Wealth Inequality Zucks.” The yacht fills most of the background, with tall masts and a clear blue sky above, while the handmade banner is stretched across a fence in the foreground.
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