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Educator, chaotic good, C19 realist, cultural historian, no BS

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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
EVERYONE STOP EVERYTHING Mychal the Librarian is hosting the Reading Rainbow revival!!! reactormag.com/reading-rain...
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Reading Rainbow Is Back, With Mychal the Librarian Hosting! - Reactor
The butterfly is back in the sky; can’t wait to fly twice as high.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
From the LinkedIn of the woman—a white lawyer from Carlsbad, CA—who filmed this encounter and shared the video:
know we're not supposed to share things like this on Linkedn, but I'm going to share it anyway because it was horrifying and it's happening everywhere and it needs to be shared.
This morning when I was driving home after dropping my son off at summer camp, I saw a swarm of ICE agents as I drove past our local Home Depot. It looked like they were tying up some workers, and my first reaction was to pull into the parking lot.
I couldn't think. I couldn't process. I couldn't reason. I just jumped out of my car and started filming.
I then watched as these two people were disappeared into unmarked vehicles, with one of the ICE vehicles trying to back into me when I wasn't looking.
Another woman tried to help. An ICE agent tried to slap her phone down when she tried to get a phone number to call this man's family. They wouldn't let her. Instead, they whisked him away and accused her of obstructing justice.
I'm currently lying awake in bed at 11pm thinking about how these men won't return home to their families tonight, and their families will probably never know what happened to them.
I've been through some traumatic events in my life, but I've never witnessed anything like this.
This was down the street from my son's elementary school in our little peaceful coastal town.
You may not see it on the news, but you'll hear it from me because it needs to be shared.
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sophia / صوفيا @brownisthecolor.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Some of the bottles of rice and formula and flour Egyptians threw into the sea have actually made it to Gaza - now people in Cyprus and Lebanon are joining the effort, with scientists from all over the world virtually assisting them in figuring the time and location to do so based on the currents. 💚
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
I like Brad Lander. He's from St Louis. He should avenge the ousting of fellow St Louisan Cori Bush by ousting Chuck Schumer. The dirty money AIPAC-GOP-Vichy Dem network that targeted Cori also targeted Mamdani and is embodied by Schumer and Cuomo. Time to clean house!
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JPWeiland @jpweiland.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Wake me up when the "Dragon blood eyes" or "Jet engine cough" variants show up
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
I can't think of anyone currently running for office more dangerous than Andrew Cuomo. Not just for NYC but for the nation, because unfortunately NYC disproportionately affects the rest of the states. Bad politicians elsewhere don't have the same structural power. NYC: Do not vote for this man.
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Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @helenbranswell.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
An analysis comparing the number of scientific papers on vaccines published by recently fired #ACIP members to those published by the 8 people Sec. Kennedy chose to replace them shows a stark difference in depth of expertise in the field. www.science.org/content/arti...
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The members of RFK Jr.’s new vaccine committee have published little on vaccines
Purge at immunization panel represents a major loss of expertise, as measured by scientific papers
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Good Luck Out There @goodluckoutthere.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Looks here, Robert Wallace, newly appointed by RFK to the ACIP breeds horses in Virginia. So that's nice. www.lusitanostud.com/take-action
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Cielo Azure Lusitanos
Cielo Azure Lusitanos Drs. Jill and Robert Malone 355 Hebron Valley Rd, Madison, VA 22727 cieloazure@gmail.com
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Here is a short script you can use to call your representatives and tell them to demand RFKJ’s resignation.
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Demand Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Resignation ⭑ 5 Calls
Updates June 10, 2025: RFK Jr. has announced the removal of every member of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), the scientific …
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Good Luck Out There @goodluckoutthere.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
For no reason in particular, Here's screenshots of all the top vaccine makers and their top recipients of funds. Oh, and a conflict of interest disclosure from one of the former #acip members, as required by the committee rules.
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Dr. Zachary Rubin @rubinallergy.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
RFK Jr did the thing he promised not to do. drrubin.substack.com/p/rfk-jr-jus...
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RFK Jr. Just Fired All Members of a CDC Vaccine Advisory Committee
Why this decision may prove to be extremely costly
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Good Luck Out There @goodluckoutthere.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
A comprehensive guide with references (so you don't have to find them) to help people leave a comment about COVID vaccine access on the ACIP docket for the June 24-27th meeting, even though all current members have been summarily dismissed. Get loud!
QRC code for guide
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Dr. Zachary Rubin @rubinallergy.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
RFK Jr must resign - or be impeached drrubin.substack.com/p/robert-f-k...
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Must Resign — Or Be Impeached
As HHS Secretary, he's not protecting Americans — he's endangering them.
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Good Luck Out There @goodluckoutthere.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
This is because there have been years of propaganda about wasteful government spending and "illegals."
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Did you hear the news 'bout Billie Joe?! sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/searching-...
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
🚨ATTENTION MOMS🚨 Friday, May 30th at 3pm Meet me outside of the CDC with your pregnant bellies, your babies, your toddlers, your strollers, your signs, and your baby gear. We are standing up for science and vaccines! @standupforscience.bsky.social RSVP: actionnetwork.org/events/moms-...
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Good Luck Out There @goodluckoutthere.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
It's absolutely false that the FDA policy recommendations for who should receive the COVID vaccine in 2025-2026 will automatically translate to what the ACIP votes should be the clinical recommendations even though the news is reporting it as if the new restrictions on seasonal vaxes is a done deal
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Good Luck Out There @goodluckoutthere.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
A thread on how to contact the voting members of the ACIP CDC Advisory Committee before public comment opens for the June 25-27th meeting that will address the FDA policy paper calling for placebo studies to be done for new COVID vaccines and recommending access only to 65+ and other high risk.
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Good Luck Out There @goodluckoutthere.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Getting tired of being asked to pay to read mediocre "hot takes" when blogs used to all be free. I'm all for supporting folks, but you can miss me with your trying to capitalize on people's uncertainty in this moment. Feels predatory.
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JPWeiland @jpweiland.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
🧬 Variant Evolution Rate Since 2020 We witnessed a huge weekly growth advantage in new variants for the first year after Omicron arrived, and then to a lesser extent after Pirola. Now we have 9 months of the lowest growth advantages since 2020. 🧵
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Good Luck Out There @goodluckoutthere.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
They used two of my articles. 🫠
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Good Luck Out There @goodluckoutthere.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Remember when all those kids were getting acute hepatitis in 2022 and us "citizen scientists" were out here saying it was COVID. Turns out, yeah, it was COVID. gut.bmj.com/content/earl...
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Characteristic immune cell interactions in livers of children with acute hepatitis revealed by spatial single-cell analysis identify a possible postacute sequel of COVID-19
Background A rise in paediatric cases of acute hepatitis of unknown origin (AHUO) was observed in 2022, some requiring liver transplantation. A link to adeno-associated virus 2 infection and CD4+T-cel...
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Good Luck Out There @goodluckoutthere.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Let me rephrase this 2 months later - 400 cases across 18 states now and at least 1 child who passed away.
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
This is beyond just misinformation. It is fever dream of lies codified in legislation. Buckle up world, this is where we are headed... Yep... Dark Age 2.0. Proposed bill would ban administration of mRNA vaccines in Montana nbcmontana.com/newsletter-d...
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Proposed bill would ban administration of mRNA vaccines in Montana
Legislators heard a bill on Friday that would make Montana the first state to ban the use of mRNA vaccines.
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Good Luck Out There @goodluckoutthere.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
I appreciate this perspective on how COVID vaccines and infections did not increase the number of "died suddenly" from cardiac arrest cases. However, data is only through 2022. Data through 2025 would give me more confidence in the validity of the claims here. www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
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#DiedSuddenly Was BS: Why Did We Believe It?
A hashtag that gained a lot of traction during the COVID-19 pandemic is, thankfully, in decline, but can we avoid buying into such nonsense again?
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Good Luck Out There @goodluckoutthere.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Found the Far UVC in this classroom at another school than my kid’s on a chaperoning trip and turned them on. Health classroom. Some teacher knows what’s up. ❤️
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Patrickthebiosteamist @patbiosteamist.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Lots of updates for the past week in the worlds of Covid and public health. Major ACIP Impacts & Large Hits to Early / Mid-Career Scientists youtu.be/sJz2RdzJBBE
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Major ACIP Impacts & Large Hits to Early / Mid-Career Scientists
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Good Luck Out There @goodluckoutthere.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
So basically similar to the chance of getting long COVID per infection? Good thing there's only 1 asteroid, unlike the multiple infections so many people have at this point.
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Tom Kindlon @tomkindlon.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
"Now offline: Government resources about Long COVID as a disability" by Betsy Ladyzhets @betsyladyzhets.bsky.social in @thesicktimes.bsky.social thesicktimes.org/2025/02/11/n... Screenshot from latest Science for ME weekly update #LongCovid #PASC @mileswgriffis.bsky.social
The Sick Times "Now offline: Government resources about Long COVID as a disability"
Discusses the deletion of Long Covid disability information from some US government websites. Similar information about ME/CFS, POTS, and Lyme disease was not deleted. However, current law has not changed and "people with Long COVID are still legally entitled to accommodations."
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Good Luck Out There @goodluckoutthere.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Thankful NYS still has a regulation that all HCWs who are not vaxxed for flu need to mask in areas where there's patients, but why is there not the same regulation for COVID which can be equally and even more dangerous than the flu? Make it make sense. www.health.ny.gov/diseases/com...
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Regulation for Prevention of Influenza Transmission by Healthcare and Residential Facility and Agency Personnel
Regulation for Prevention of Influenza Transmission by Healthcare and Residential Facility and Agency Personnel
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Good Luck Out There @goodluckoutthere.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
"there are signs up on the floor warning people about the condition of the floor, and HEPA filters were placed every 20 feet in the hallway" That will fix it! 😷https://www.burlingtontoday.com/local-news/covid-19-outbreak-infects-at-least-seven-at-joseph-brant-hospital-10231101
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COVID-19 outbreak infects at least seven at Joseph Brant Hospital
Essential measures in place to prevent spread of COVID-19 to ensure safety of all
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Good Luck Out There @goodluckoutthere.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
So basically, at this point, nearly everyone who's had multiple COVID infections and some who've only had one? www.news-medical.net/news/2025021...
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Immunocompromised individuals need regular boosters for Covid-19 protection
Vaccinations alone may not be enough to protect people with compromised immune systems from infection, even if the vaccine has generated the production of antibodies, new research from the University ...
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Good Luck Out There @goodluckoutthere.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
So, they can't hire more people? Nah, that would cost money. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...
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Key bird flu lab threatens to strike as California cases and egg prices climb
The only facility in the state able to handle high-risk cases could go offline as workers allege burnout and injuries.
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Jon Douglas @atranscendedman.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
After COVID-19, respiratory viruses returned in a set order: rhinovirus first, then coronaviruses, RSV, and flu. A global study suggests virus traits, not location, drove the timing. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Characterising the asynchronous resurgence of common respiratory viruses following the COVID-19 pandemic - Nature Communications
COVID-19-related non-pharmaceutical interventions impacted the circulation of other pathogens. Here, the authors compile a global viral activity dataset and compare the timing of resurgence of seven c...
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Good Luck Out There @goodluckoutthere.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Canada doing the work. www.utoronto.ca/news/u-t-lau...
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U of T launches rapid research response for highly pathogenic avian influenza
The University of Toronto has launched a rapid research response to address the public health risk posed by highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI).  The effort by the Emerging & Pandemic Infections ...
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Good Luck Out There @goodluckoutthere.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Public utilities should be public. Whodathunk? jacobin.com/2025/02/elec...
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Electricity for the Public Good
In a new interview, Sandeep Vaheesan discusses his book Democracy in Power and the history of America’s electrification, showing how organizers can build support for public power and public utilities ...
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Good Luck Out There @goodluckoutthere.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
A lot of the young ones know what's up. One of my kiddos chose to go plant-based at age 10. undark.org/2025/02/13/m...
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‘Make America Healthy Again’ by Transforming Animal Agriculture
Opinion | Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s slogan could be achieved by changing the practices around industrial livestock farming.
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Good Luck Out There @goodluckoutthere.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
So much fun! This study suggests the flu is also airborne. Yay! doi.org/10.1371/jour...
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Influenza Virus Aerosols in Human Exhaled Breath: Particle Size, Culturability, and Effect of Surgical Masks
Author Summary The relative importance of direct and indirect contact, large droplet spray, and aerosols as modes of influenza transmission is not known but is important in devising effective interven...
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Good Luck Out There @goodluckoutthere.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Of course it did. Measles is airborne, can live in the air for up to 2 hours, and has an average estimated basic reproduction number (R0) of 12-18. So 12-18 (esp. unvaccinated) people can get infected from one primary case. www.fox4news.com/news/texas-m...
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Good Luck Out There @goodluckoutthere.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Perhaps nature is telling us factory farming of animals for profit is actually evil? All living beings are interconnected, and there are different more sustainable methods. That knowledge is held in our collective human history. farmprogress.com/animal-health/avian-flu-explodes-in-ohio
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Avian flu explodes in Ohio
More than 10 million birds have been affected in the past 45 days.
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Distribute Aid @distributeaid.org · 01/02/2025
Do note that the minimum order size is 10,000 masks, so we encourage you to work together with other local groups to bundle your orders. Let's get these masks spread out across our communities and protect each other. It's hard to fight for human rights if you have covid!
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Good Luck Out There @goodluckoutthere.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Yeah you did. @1goodtern.bsky.social
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laviolaine @laviolaine.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Do you know this awesome community project? indoorco2map.com It's great to check general CO2 measurements if you want to visit a location. Everyone with an Aranet (other sensors, too) can participate and submit their CO2 data via an app created by @aurel.indoorco2map.com
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Indoor-CO₂ Atlas
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Good Luck Out There @goodluckoutthere.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Because the elderly were made expendable by the rhetoric of the pandemic
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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
@charlesgaba.com is a hero and downloaded CDC’s entire website. A small group of us has come together to preserve this critical resource and make it accessible to the scientific community. More to come. These data are public and they are ours. Deletion disobedience is one way to fight back.
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