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Filip Vanevski, PhD

@filipvanevski.bsky.social
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Just a progressive scientist who actually cares more about people than scoring points. What's so wrong with being compassionate and caring? It's a lie that we have to trample our neighbors in order to succeed.

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🖤💋SammieSam💋🖤 @sammiestsam.sheshed.rocks · 02/02/2026
Good Monday morning, friends!! I was definitely radicalized by some of these programs. But thankfully my family has always been deemed "radical" by the Nazis who've always been here. Have a day y'all!! Stay warm! #SheShed #FuckICE
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
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Filip Vanevski, PhD @filipvanevski.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Not meant in a conspiratorial way, but if we don't trust other statements coming from these agencies we should apply a similar standard of skepticism to communications like this. Don't let them do to you what they did to their base and get baited into believing things without proper justification.
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Filip Vanevski, PhD @filipvanevski.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
MAGA logic: Trump suing the government he runs for billions that would be paid by American taxpayers? - "The statute is what the statute is" Respecting the rights guaranteed in the bill of rights? - "The statute is what the President says it is"
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Filip Vanevski, PhD @filipvanevski.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
MAGA principles: Manipulating the system to avoid accountability for exploiting others in the pursuit of personal gain? - shrewd business practice Using legal procedures in ways that are consistent with the purposes for which they were intended? - perversion of justice
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Filip Vanevski, PhD @filipvanevski.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
I'm sure Soros bought out all the tickets to deprive patriots from being able to enjoy such a masterpiece, or some other slop.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Damn. 🔥 “.. Observing human behavior confirms that for some among us, the perfidious lust for unbridled power and the imposition of cruelty in its quest know no bounds and are bereft of human decency. And the rule of law be damned.” storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Filip Vanevski, PhD @filipvanevski.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Aren't the detention centers just temporary to keep the forced labor ranks well stocked until they can breed enough white lower caste workers to replace them?
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Bambi @bkoslen54.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
If Trump thinks Americans are going to go quietly into fascism he’s even more demented then we thought. He doesn’t understand our love of country, our love of freedom,our love of Democracy. He doesn’t understand the pushback he’s unleashed in America. He doesn’t understand the upset he’s unleashed!
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
The thing that shocks me most is that all of this incriminating stuff was sitting at the DOJ for 4 years and Biden & Garland were not cynical or ruthless enough to use it against Trump & Musk in the run up to 2024. If only they were the evil ‘weaponizers of government’ that MAGA claimed they were!
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Filip Vanevski, PhD @filipvanevski.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Imagine letting political correctness be the thing that allowed fascism to take over.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 30/01/2026
Journalism is not a crime. The Justice Department should investigate the federal agents who killed US citizens in broad daylight, not arrest reporters like Don Lemon. He should be released. It's a spine-chilling assault on press freedom and threatens the public's right to know.
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ray 鄺羡華 @raykwong.lol · 30/01/2026
Thank you, Beth! 💙 @atoth99.bsky.social @bostonbitch.bsky.social @genxer-71.bsky.social @bab102.bsky.social @rebelb1ue.bsky.social @proisraeldemocrat.bsky.social @mojochefjeff.bsky.social @claynobles.bsky.social @bluestormcomin1.bsky.social @raykwong.bsky.social
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Filip Vanevski, PhD @filipvanevski.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
I was trying to think of what all the knee-jerk defense of these murders reminded me of, and then it clicked. It's just like when a hardcore fundamentalist defends God commanding genocide, rape, stoning women to death, etc in the Bible with, "Nothing bad would've happened if they had just obeyed."
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Filip Vanevski, PhD @filipvanevski.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
The justifications coming from some people about why Alex Pretti deserved to be shot dead sound eerily familiar. It's like with Adam and Eve, where the common response to how all the suffering inflicted on humankind as punishment could possibly be perfect justice is, "Well, they didn't comply."
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Filip Vanevski, PhD @filipvanevski.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
After Christianity was adopted by Rome as the state religion, the "Just War" theory (refined by St. Augustine) replaced any vestigial pacifism from its time as a persecuted minority without any cohesive creed. The God of the Bible commanded a whole lot of genocide, and if he's Jesus, well...
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Filip Vanevski, PhD @filipvanevski.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
The decision to keep four different Gospels (instead of the "harmonized" Diatessaron, a single gospel without contradictions) allowed Christianity to spread to very different cultures. Being so confusing it can support totally opposing views, maybe the Bible really is Trump's favorite book?
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Filip Vanevski, PhD @filipvanevski.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
GOP politics is basically just shitposting.
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Filip Vanevski, PhD @filipvanevski.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
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Filip Vanevski, PhD @filipvanevski.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Just some of the questions we can’t allow them to get away without answering...

[picture of immigration and customs enforcement agent]

“If you’re traveling with a potentially hazardous amount of glitter, does it need to be declared? If so, do you need to count how many individual pieces there are for filling out the form?”

“What kinds of purposes for visiting the U.S. are not allowed? Like, can you come just to nap for three months straight?”

“If you’re staying in a treehouse in the woods, what address should you give? Can you list the GPS coordinates of the trunk, or should it be for the particular branch you’re on?”

“What’s the best way to pack a bag to make sure your dildo doesn’t accidentally turn on in transit and run out power before you find the right opportunity to use it?”

“How small does a llama have to be in order to quality as a service animal you can board with? Does it need a passport, or would an Instagram account do?”
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Filip Vanevski, PhD @filipvanevski.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
The reason for pointing out fascism is to identify the underlying circumstances that led to the horrors we know took place when fascism was allowed to thrive. Anybody who thinks calling out fascism is just saying, "these things are the same" has got their head on backwards.
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Filip Vanevski, PhD @filipvanevski.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
If somebody in one breath says, "You cannot call them fascist, they're not doing X, Y, Z that this real fascist did" and in the next breath, "All the people in this group I can't define are anti-American socialist, communist, Marxist, globalists," methinks their motives are highly suspect.
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Filip Vanevski, PhD @filipvanevski.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Consider something known to have caused unimaginable suffering, necessarily false in all but one form and with any given form incredibly unlikely, ultimately providing nothing good that can't be found elsewhere. Where such a thing is transcendently unassailable by logic, reason cannot stand.
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Filip Vanevski, PhD @filipvanevski.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
History recounts too many stories with the same tired plot: people fall for a bait-and-switch, choosing to believe the unbelievable because of some promised reward if true, headless of all the terrible entailments being smuggled in. It's high past time we provide some fresh material.
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Filip Vanevski, PhD @filipvanevski.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Be Minnesota, not Texas.
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Filip Vanevski, PhD @filipvanevski.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
The issues poling is going to be nuts this midterm. Who would've thought we'd have things on offer like: - Fascism - Theocracy - Feudalism - State-run terrorism - Eugenics - Imperialism - White supremacy
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Filip Vanevski, PhD @filipvanevski.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Whenever truth is just an opinion we're screwed, so I'd start there. We could try something like this:
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Filip Vanevski, PhD @filipvanevski.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
An interesting watch for anybody curious about what happened with the GOP. youtu.be/F8INVD1d8CA?...
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The rise of the ultra right in the US DW Documentary
YouTube video by The Digital Nomad
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Filip Vanevski, PhD @filipvanevski.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Plenty of reasons why Texas doesn't react the same way as Minnesota. Maybe there's a lesson from history. About 100 years ago, popular fascist uprising, most people rather onboard with the whole thing, happy to hand over their authority to the state. Ring any bells? Here's a hint: NAZI GERMANY!!!
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Filip Vanevski, PhD @filipvanevski.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Many of the actions in Texas are just prisoner transfers. In Minnesota: ~630 wrongful detention lawsuits Racial profiling by federal immigration agents Retaliatory arrests against observers and traffic stops without reasonable suspicion Designation of schools and hospitals as enforcement zones
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Filip Vanevski, PhD @filipvanevski.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
I'm drafting our new laws!
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Filip Vanevski, PhD @filipvanevski.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
People will chide, "you can't just throw around words like fascism, there are no camps with millions of Jews, it's not that hard to find somebody who spoke out and hasn't been killed yet, and most of them can't even speak German!" right up to the point their resettlement flight to Somalia takes off.
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Filip Vanevski, PhD @filipvanevski.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
This, from the people that brought you pandemic-era classics like: - The Constitution cannot be suspended in times of crisis and restrictions on freedoms sow distrust in public health - Things done by Nazis to control Jews during the Holocaust are exactly like requiring people to wear safety masks
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Filip Vanevski, PhD @filipvanevski.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
"If the government orders you to do something, you don't have the right to disobey just because the government's actions are illegal or they lack the authority to make you. That's domestic terrorism, but even when it's not, you started it so it's your fault when somebody kills you." - MAGA, 2026
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Filip Vanevski, PhD @filipvanevski.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
What else did we expect from handing over so much power to bored fraudsters channeling combined impostor syndrome/megalomania to pursue incomprehensible ideals existing only in the warped realities of minds disordered by a particular cognitive dyslexia operating on the hero/villain axis.
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Filip Vanevski, PhD @filipvanevski.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
This is really hard. Anybody that starts to find it difficult to be able to form a coherent thought including both MAGA and human should probably disconnect and administer some self-care.
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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now
Alex Pretti from his early days working at the VA
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Filip Vanevski, PhD @filipvanevski.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Nice, the Mexico play, always a classic.
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Filip Vanevski, PhD @filipvanevski.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
That actually makes sense when you think about it. Peace is destructive when you consider the countries that decide not to be involved. To not be involved in peace they have to go to war. Eek.
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Filip Vanevski, PhD @filipvanevski.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
I've heard some rumblings from MAGA about the declaration of independence being a form of protest, but also an act of war, blurring the lines and hinting at some implication that protestesting the government is a form of insurrection. Seems on brand.
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Filip Vanevski, PhD @filipvanevski.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Trump could pull out of the deal, dump toxic waste all over Greenland, use the military to evacuate any survivors to their new home in Somalia, seize the land as payment, and charge Denmark $100B/year in rent for leaving up a shack with their flag. "Promises made, promised kept," they'd say.
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Filip Vanevski, PhD @filipvanevski.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Disqualification from holding office? - Anti-democratic! Let the voters decide! Punishment for committing crimes? - Political persecution! Let the voters decide! Limit authority to disenfranchise voters? - Voting sucks, screw democracy!
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Filip Vanevski, PhD @filipvanevski.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Sure, ICE isn't a secret police force, just an anonymous one. People who look or think different vanish in broad daylight while the world watches, not for breaking the law, but to deliver the performative cruelty that was promised. The bullets in her face was the sentence.
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Filip Vanevski, PhD @filipvanevski.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
She was phenomenal in Lovecraft Country.
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Filip Vanevski, PhD @filipvanevski.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
I think he's just a really big fan, Putin didn't have to lift a finger.
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Filip Vanevski, PhD @filipvanevski.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
I don't see the issue, Trump has armed militants tracking down US citizens in America, why wouldn't he do the same in Venezuela?
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Filip Vanevski, PhD @filipvanevski.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
What new laws would you pass to preserve democracy? Here's my No. 1:
Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire Bill 

Any U.S. public official—whether elected or appointed (including the President)—who, within the scope of official duties, makes three false statements that are deceptive or knowingly untrue, shall be immediately removed from office and barred indefinitely from any future public office.

Key Elements

Deceptive Intent: The statement must be made with knowledge that it is false or with reckless disregard for the truth, leaving no room for honest error.
Materiality: The false statement must relate to a material matter within the official’s duties, affecting the integrity of the office.
Three Statements: The threshold of three such deceptive statements triggers removal.
Permanent Disqualification: The individual is barred from any subsequent public office.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
San Francisco’s Ocean Beach!
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Filip Vanevski, PhD @filipvanevski.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
"religiosity is not a direct solution to material hardship but appears associated with differences in how individuals interpret and respond to resource insecurity, with higher religiosity corresponding to weaker negative associations with well-being" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Resource insecurity and well-being: Examining the role of perceived health, financial satisfaction, and religiosity
The current study examines the relationship between resource insecurity and subjective well-being (SWB) and whether the relationship is mediated by an…
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Filip Vanevski, PhD @filipvanevski.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
I wouldn't be surprised if the tally started to skyrocket soon, Trump announcing he's now prevented hundreds of wars, wars he considered starting and then decided nah.
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