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David Lingenfelter, PhD

@dlingenfelter.bsky.social
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David Lingenfelter, PhD @dlingenfelter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
WTF. This platform seems like a sleepy village.
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David Lingenfelter, PhD @dlingenfelter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
How do you actually use the Causal Evidence Ledger? Part II walks you through a real evidence entry, comparing five competing hypotheses, identifying missing causal links, and distinguishing what the evidence establishes from what remains unresolved. davidlingenfelter.substack.com/p/operating-...
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Operating the Causal Evidence Ledger (CEL) Instrument
A guided tour of the Causal Evidence Ledger
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David Lingenfelter, PhD @dlingenfelter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
How do we keep an analytical instrument from defending our assumptions? Part III of my CEL series examines how to add evidence, expose flawed inferences, prevent double counting, and correct errors. The goal: a tool others can use and improve. davidlingenfelter.substack.com/p/testing-th...
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Testing the Instrument
How to challenge, correct, and extend the Causal Evidence Ledger
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David Lingenfelter, PhD @dlingenfelter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Was SARS-CoV-2 circulating in Europe before Wuhan's outbreak? My new essay audits early findings from Italy, France, and Spain. A positive test is not necessarily a verified infection. The evidence deserves investigation, not premature conclusions. davidlingenfelter.substack.com/p/before-wuhan
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Before Wuhan?
An audit of reported SARS-CoV-2 signals in Europe before December 2019
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David Lingenfelter, PhD @dlingenfelter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
How do we distinguish SARS-CoV-2 origins evidence from the explanations we attach to it? My new essay introduces the Causal Evidence Ledger: 14 evidence families, five competing hypotheses, and one discipline—keep the nouns, audit the arrows.🧵 davidlingenfelter.substack.com/p/the-eviden...
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The Evidence Before the Verdict
Why the Causal Evidence Ledger tracks fourteen entries—and what remains beyond its map
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David Lingenfelter, PhD @dlingenfelter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The Huanan market was an important early COVID-19 outbreak site, but does that establish where the virus originated? My new essay examines what the market surveillance study actually found—and what remains unresolved. davidlingenfelter.substack.com/p/the-market...
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The Market Is Not the Origin
What the Huanan surveillance study can—and cannot—establish about COVID-19
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David Lingenfelter, PhD @dlingenfelter.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
What if AI’s greatest promise is what we can discover together? My SARS-CoV-2 origins investigation became an audit of five competing hypotheses—and the reasoning itself. Keep the nouns. Audit the arrows. davidlingenfelter.substack.com/p/the-other-...
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The Other AI Question: What Can We Understand Together?
A human–AI origins investigation and the architecture of shared inquiry
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David Lingenfelter, PhD @dlingenfelter.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
What researchers could do ≠ what they did. A capability vector maps the toolkit. A capability trajectory traces its development. A causal trajectory requires evidence of what actually happened. Why this distinction matters for SARS-CoV-2 origins: davidlingenfelter.substack.com/p/capability...
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Capability Is Not Causation
What capability vectors and trajectories can—and cannot—tell us about viral origins
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David Lingenfelter, PhD @dlingenfelter.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I started by asking what coronavirus researchers could do before 2019. It became a broader audit of the COVID-origins numbers: what survives scrutiny, what depends on assumptions, and what we still can’t quantify. davidlingenfelter.substack.com/p/auditing-t...
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Auditing the Odds
What the SARS-CoV-2 origins evidence can—and cannot—support
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David Lingenfelter, PhD @dlingenfelter.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
A Bayesian result can look precise while resting on uncertain assumptions. Ask: What does the denominator represent? Are the evidence items independent? Was uncertainty propagated through the likelihoods? Keep the nouns. Audit the arrows. davidlingenfelter.substack.com/p/when-bayes...
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When Bayesian Numbers Look Firmer Than They Are
Priors, likelihoods, dependence, and the hidden architecture of quantitative belief
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David Lingenfelter, PhD @dlingenfelter.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
A fact is not the same thing as the story that connects the facts. I turned that distinction into a five-question field checklist for auditing our own conclusions. Keep the nouns. Audit the arrows. davidlingenfelter.substack.com/p/audit-your...
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Audit Your Arrows
Five Questions Before You Believe Your Own Conclusion
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David Lingenfelter, PhD @dlingenfelter.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Bruttel pointed me to important evidence I had not treated in my coronavirus-origins essay. So I audited his 10 claims one by one. Some genuinely move the priors. None yet closes the causal arrow. Keep the nouns. Audit the arrows. davidlingenfelter.substack.com/p/auditing-t...
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Auditing the Arrows
Dr. Valentin Bruttel’s Ten Claims and the SARS-CoV-2 Origins Question
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David Lingenfelter, PhD @dlingenfelter.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Seen separately, the milestones of coronavirus research look ordinary. Seen together, they form a capability trajectory: reverse genetics, lab accidents, chimeric viruses, DEFUSE. None proves lab origin. But none is irrelevant. davidlingenfelter.substack.com/p/the-capabi...
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The Capability Trajectory of Coronavirus Research
How two decades of reverse genetics, biodefense, and dual-use experimentation changed the SARS-CoV-2 origins question
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David Lingenfelter, PhD @dlingenfelter.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
AI doesn’t need to become superintelligent to become dangerous. A bad actor supplies the motive. AI supplies the leverage: cheaper expertise, faster execution, scale. The real threshold is when AI changes who can do harm, how cheaply, and how fast. davidlingenfelter.substack.com/p/the-threat...
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The Threat Does Not Need to Be Superintelligent
How Bad Actors Can Turn Ordinary AI Capability into Scaled Harm
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David Lingenfelter, PhD @dlingenfelter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
An AI “kill switch” inside the model is only a rule. Real control has to live outside the model—in the infrastructure that can revoke compute, tools, credentials, network access, and deployment. The issue is not obedience. It is corrigibility. davidlingenfelter.substack.com/p/the-kill-s...
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The Kill Switch Is Not in the Engine
External Corrigibility and the Architecture of Control for Advanced AI
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David Lingenfelter, PhD @dlingenfelter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Biology changes faster than categories do. Biosafety needs one common risk architecture—not one giant rulebook: a universal floor, oversight that rises with consequence, independent review, incident reporting, and rules keyed to capabilities. davidlingenfelter.substack.com/p/one-risk-a...
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One Risk Architecture, Not One Giant Rulebook
A common framework for governing biological risk by capability, consequence, and corrigibility
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David Lingenfelter, PhD @dlingenfelter.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Frontier AI may expose a new governance problem: even accurate warnings can arrive too late if the system changes faster than institutions can learn. A corrigible system must be able to learn faster than the system it is trying to govern changes. davidlingenfelter.substack.com/p/when-gover...
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When Governance Falls Behind
Why a corrigible system must learn faster than the system it governs changes
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David Lingenfelter, PhD @dlingenfelter.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The Challenger disaster wasn’t a case where nobody knew. Engineers warned. Evidence existed. But the warning lost force as it moved through the system. The root failure was architectural: a system can contain knowledge w/out becoming able to act on it. davidlingenfelter.substack.com/p/challenger...
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Challenger — When the System Knew
Information flow, organizational failure, and the architecture of uptake
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David Lingenfelter, PhD @dlingenfelter.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Maybe the deeper issue isn’t a secret model. It’s architecture: systems can contain warnings without becoming able to act on them. My new essay asks how institutions turn local knowledge into course change—before failure forces the lesson. davidlingenfelter.substack.com/p/when-a-sys...
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When a System Knows What Its Parts Know
Uptake, governance, and the architecture of collective corrigibility
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David Lingenfelter, PhD @dlingenfelter.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Retrieval can find yesterday’s facts. Continuity has to preserve the state of an inquiry: what was decided, what remains uncertain, what still governs, and how the map can be revised. That’s what my continuity maps are for. davidlingenfelter.substack.com/p/the-contin...
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The Continuity Map
A governed memory architecture for thinking across conversations
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David Lingenfelter, PhD @dlingenfelter.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Twenty-five years after 9/11: fear demanded a map. The danger came when provisional classifications hardened into policy—and the consequences fed back as evidence. Keep the nouns. Audit the arrows. davidlingenfelter.substack.com/p/when-fear-...
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When Fear Closes the Map
September 11, Premature Classification, and Twenty-Five Years of Recursive Consequence
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David Lingenfelter, PhD @dlingenfelter.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Horizon failure begins when a system mistakes the limits of its own map for a defect in what lies beyond it. The deeper danger: systems can defend the map by discrediting the carrier, closing the gate, or manufacturing recursive evidence. davidlingenfelter.substack.com/p/when-the-m...
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When the Map Mistakes Itself for the World
Horizon Failure and the Conversion of Limits into Defects
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David Lingenfelter, PhD @dlingenfelter.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Was Fauci too powerful? Maybe that’s the wrong question. The deeper issue is whether one office—and one unusually influential incumbent—was allowed too much control over a high-risk domain without sufficiently strong external checks. davidlingenfelter.substack.com/p/when-one-o...
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When One Office Becomes the System
Concentrated Authority, Scientific Incumbency, and the Governance of High-Risk Research
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David Lingenfelter, PhD @dlingenfelter.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
New essay: When Defense Multiplies Risk Biodefense can create hazards of its own when expansion outpaces system-level needs assessment and oversight. The issue isn’t defense vs. no defense. It’s whether added defensive value exceeds added risk. davidlingenfelter.substack.com/p/when-defen...
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When Defense Multiplies Risk
Biodefense Expansion, Institutional Incentives, and the Architecture of Self-Created Hazard
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David Lingenfelter, PhD @dlingenfelter.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
New essay: What happens when authority becomes incorrigible? The danger is not just that leaders lie. It’s that systems begin degrading the standing of people who carry inconvenient evidence—and then use the resulting silence as confirmation. davidlingenfelter.substack.com/p/when-autho...
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When Authority Can No Longer Be Corrected
Corrigibility, Information Failure, and the Epistemic Architecture of Power
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David Lingenfelter, PhD @dlingenfelter.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
New essay: In 1772, Spanish explorers crossed Huchiun land in the San Francisco East Bay, mapping water, routes, and obstacles. Their record was useful—and incomplete. The task is not to mistake gaps in the record for gaps in the world. davidlingenfelter.substack.com/p/the-huchiu...
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The Huchiun Landscape
Ancestral Presence and the Spanish Gaze in the San Francisco East Bay
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David Lingenfelter, PhD @dlingenfelter.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
The human body acts as an open thermodynamic engine that absorbs low-entropy fuel to maintain stability. It fights cosmic decay by venting entropic waste and heat outward to survive.🧵
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David Lingenfelter, PhD @dlingenfelter.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
The UOS framework replaces the illusion of human isolation with a unified cosmic codebase. By aligning our biological containers with fundamental laws of thermodynamics, we achieve low-entropy harmony.🧵
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David Lingenfelter, PhD @dlingenfelter.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Involuntary reflexes like sneezing, purging, or orgasm disrupt our brain’s filtered simulation of reality. These somatic interrupts instantly crash our conscious ego, grounding us in raw biology.🧵
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David Lingenfelter, PhD @dlingenfelter.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Camus’s paper "Create Dangerously" frames art as a vital processing protocol to resist systemic propaganda. By embedding in raw reality, creators execute counter-protocols that restore collective network free will.🧵
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David Lingenfelter, PhD @dlingenfelter.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Weaponized political deception acts like a DDOS attack, exhausting our cognitive operating systems with high-entropy noise. Reclaiming agency requires grounding ourselves in objective physical reality.🧵
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David Lingenfelter, PhD @dlingenfelter.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
The Trump crime family is robbing us blind.
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David Lingenfelter, PhD @dlingenfelter.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
That "we" in the song is aspirational. That "we" will always be aspirational. To grow a flower, you must first cultivate the plant.
We would be one as now we join in singing
our hymn of love, to pledge ourselves anew
to that high cause of greater understanding
of who we are, and what in us is true.
We would be one in living for each other
to show to all a new community.

We would be one in building for tomorrow
a nobler world than we have known today.
We would be one in searching for that meaning
which bends our hearts and points us on our way.
As one, we pledge ourselves to greater service,
with love and justice, strive to make us free.
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David Lingenfelter, PhD @dlingenfelter.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Subtle cues of psychopathy: intense stare, flat voice, 'um' factor, and detached body language. REMEMBER: These signs can also be symptoms of Autism or anxiety. Intent is the key difference. #Psychopathy #Psychology
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David Lingenfelter, PhD @dlingenfelter.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
This essay contrasts Erich Fromm's necrophilous character, who prefers rigid order and "dead things" over life, with the impulsive, manipulative psychopath defined by emotional shallowness.
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David Lingenfelter, PhD @dlingenfelter.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Why is 'hypocrite' the wrong word for Peter Thiel? Because a hypocrite forgets to vote. A strategic actor says 'I love democracy' to leave the door unlocked while they dismantle your house. This is the Dantean Architect of Ice.
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David Lingenfelter, PhD @dlingenfelter.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Vascular injury and endothelial dysfunction drive Long COVID via microclots and capillary loss. Early intervention with treatments like Sulodexide and anticoagulants is key to prevent organ damage.🧵
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David Lingenfelter, PhD @dlingenfelter.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
The analysis compares Jeffrey Epstein’s systemic exploitation to the Marquis de Sade’s "philosopher-criminals." Both use elite power to create an isolated moral vacuum and an architecture of impunity where their will is the only law.🧵
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David Lingenfelter, PhD @dlingenfelter.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Speaking from the pulpit of a historic Black church, Ossoff leaned into the Black prophetic tradition—where scripture is used to hold secular power to account. By calling his opponents "false prophets," he suggested that their betrayal is not just political, but a spiritual and ethical failure.
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David Lingenfelter, PhD @dlingenfelter.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
SARS-CoV-2 damages key brain regions involved in empathy, impulse control, and executive function, leading to impaired social cognition and democratic erosion. Reinfections compound neuroinflammation, fueling tribalism, misinformation, and fear-driven behavior.🧵
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David Lingenfelter, PhD @dlingenfelter.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
SARS-CoV-2 triggers rapid smell loss by infecting support cells in the nose, with inflammation persisting even after the virus clears. Neuron loss peaks around day 11, and delayed, incomplete regeneration may explain long-term smell dysfunction in some COVID-19 patients. (1/2)🧵
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 07/10/2025
The scenes out of Chicago should outrage us all. These federal agents are out of control, committing senseless acts of violence & putting everyone at risk.   American citizens are being detained & brutalized.   This kind of immigration "enforcement" shouldn't be acceptable to anyone.
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Immigration agents become increasingly aggressive in Chicago
Activists, residents and elected leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest cit...
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Cosplay for Losers
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 07/10/2025
“If you view this as a hyper-partisan court engaged in hyper-partisan activity for a hyper-partisan president, that’s what’s happening,” @thelisagraves.bsky.social says contrarian.substack.com/p/can-our-c… Watch Lisa's interview on the Supreme Court’s legitimacy.
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Can our courts be reformed? With Lisa Graves
"This court is inventing facts!"
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
"So, Democrats have three words for this: no fucking way. It's literally life or death. We will not let Republicans blow up our health care system." This is, hands down, the best comms work Chuck Schumer has done in YEARS. Surprisingly good.
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Tania J. Spencer @taniaspencer.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
1/ I expect to see this study soon shredded by #LongCOVID researchers & #COVIDAware advocates - nltimes.nl/2025/10/07/d...
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Dutch study finds long COVID risk has sharply fallen since pandemic’s early years
The risk of developing long-term symptoms after a COVID-19 infection has dropped sharply in the Netherlands, according to new research by the RIVM. The study shows that people infected with SARS-CoV-2...
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Marc Veldhoen @marcveld.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
This means the risk of long COVID after 2023 infections was very small, and it’s expected to stay that way. Still, RIVM notes it’s not zero — some may develop lingering symptoms, but the chance is much lower than people think.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
The FAA is delaying flights at Newark and Denver airports because they haven’t got enough air traffic control. Burbank has zero ATC from 4.30-10pm. Lots of controllers who aren’t being paid during the government shutdown are calling in sick.
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David Lingenfelter, PhD @dlingenfelter.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
“Living with his own depression, Lincoln understood intimately that what is true of the spirit of a person is true of the spirit of a people — our undoing always serves an invitation to learn new modes of making: making beauty, making meaning, making the life we want to live…”
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Punchbowl News @punchbowlnews.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
News: A majority of Calif. voters, 54%, back Prop 50, the mid-decade redistricting initiative backed by Gov. Gavin Newsom and former President Obama, per a new co/efficient poll shared first with Punchbowl News. punchbowl.news/article/camp...
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Majority of Calif. voters back Prop 50 in new poll
News: We’ve got some fresh polling on California’s redistricting ballot initiative ahead of the Nov. 4 election.
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