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Doug Aoki 青木定夫 @nantanreikan.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 01/06/2025
On May 28, the small Alpine village of Blatten, Switzerland, was almost entirely buried under a massive landslide, following the collapse of a nearby glacier.
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A Swiss Village, Destroyed by a Landslide
On May 28, the small Alpine village of Blatten, Switzerland, was almost entirely buried under a massive landslide, following the collapse of a nearby glacier.
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Mike Honey @mikehoney.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Here's the latest variant picture for Canada to early May. The LP.8.1.* variant remains dominant but appears to have peaked. It feel back to 38%. The NB.1.8.1 "Nimbus" variant has grown to 16%. #COVID19 #Canada #LP_8_1 #NB_1_8_1 #Nimbus 🧵
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Mike Honey @mikehoney.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
For Canada, the NB.1.8.1 "Nimbus" variant shows a healthy growth advantage of 3.1% per day (22% per week) over LP.8.1.*, which predicts a crossover in mid-June. 🧵
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
NEW: @wendyorent.bsky.social wrote a beautiful review of David Zweig’s new book on COVID school closures, “An Abundance of Caution” for @accountabilityji.bsky.social. Orent absolutely takes an ice pick to it. If you read anything today, read this. www.accountabilityjournalism.org/insights/an-...
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An Abundance Of Bias: New COVID School Closures Book Rewrites History — AJI
AJI Science Adviser Wendy Orent reviews the new book, “An Abundance of Caution: American Schools, the Virus, and a Story of Bad Decisions” by writer David Zweig, who was an early school reopening advo...
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Matthew Kavanagh @matthewkavanagh.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Hmmm… so masks work and so do mask mandates in schools. “We further estimate that the removal of mandates during this time contributed to 21800 COVID deaths through the rest of 2022, 9% of the U.S. total that year.
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EvolutionaryEve @evolutionaryeve.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
To be clear, my point about the vaccination rates is that even in a highly vaxxed population, SARS-CoV-2 is still resulting in hospitalization/death from acute infection at significant rates, even with the added protection against those things that's conferred by the vaccine.
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Still COVIDing Canada @stillcovidingca.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
COVID-19 Disease Burden Remains Greater Than Influenza, Study Shows Forbes May 31, 2025 By Dave Wessner stillcoviding.ca/en/news/covi... #COVID #health #CovidIsNotOver
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COVID-19 Disease Burden Remains Greater Than Influenza, Study Shows
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🇨🇦Merlin Ca🇨🇦 @merlinofcanada.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Danielle Smith owns this Measles outbreak. Alberta highest rate per capita of measles in Canada. How Alberta Gave Measles the Advantage Danielle Smith promotes and thrives on post-pandemic chaos. It’s putting children at too much risk. thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...
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How Alberta Gave Measles the Advantage | The Tyee
Danielle Smith promotes and thrives on post-pandemic chaos. It’s putting children at too much risk.
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🇨🇦Merlin Ca🇨🇦 @merlinofcanada.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
I guarantee this is Dr. Bonnie Henry fucking up again. BC Won’t Require Measles Vaccination for Schools As outbreaks grow, that’s the wrong strategy against the most infectious disease, one retired doctor says. thetyee.ca/News/2025/05...
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BC Won’t Require Measles Vaccination for Schools | The Tyee
As outbreaks grow, that's the wrong strategy against the most infectious disease, one retired doctor says.
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Alice Wong @sfdirewolf.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Mask up NOW “A new COVID variant, known as NB.1.8.1, has made landfall in the United States, and it's more transmissible than other variants.” www.huffpost.com/entry/the-mo...
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A New COVID Variant Is Here, And It's More Transmissible — Here Are The Signs And Symptoms
A new COVID variant, known as NB.1.8.1, has made landfall in the United States, and it's more transmissible than other variants.
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Cassie Creswell @cassiecreswell.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
“Medication records from pharmacy chains, lab testing and genomics data from patients treated by the Department of Veterans Affairs and Indian Health Service, claims from private insurers and data from smartwatches and fitness trackers will all be linked together” www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-...
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RFK Jr.'s autism study to amass medical records of many Americans
The autism study is planning to link confidential data "with broad coverage in the U.S. population" in one place for the first time.
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
As with Covid, there’s a fictional world and the real world.
NIH director calls Trump's anti-DEl orders
'misunderstood,'
downplays reorganization plans
But Bhattacharya says DEl-centric research is less impactful than broadly studying chronic diseaseHEALTH NEWS
One of the country's leading Alzheimer's projects is in jeopardy
A pause to NIH funding has researchers scrambling for contingency plans at the University of Washington's Alzheimer's Disease Research Center.
The center's brain bank is preserving more than 4,000 brains for research.
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April 13, 2025, 6:00 AM EDT
By Evan Bush
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
i think people are missing the forest for the trees with this one. RFK Jr wants complete centralized knowledge of every American's health in order to exact control on what medications are allowed and in order to fabricate "evidence" for each and all of his nonsense theories.
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Covid leaked from a lab and we did too much to limit it.
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Jenn Allen @jenn-allen.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Same thing happened in Fall 2024, when the feds released a report on Long Covid that explicitly state that repeat infections are dangerous, the risk of developing LC is cumulative, and that 1 in 5 Canadians adults had Long Covid. Not a word from Canadian media. tinyurl.com/hahbhcy9
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Dealing with the fallout: Post-COVID Condition and its continued impact on individuals and society
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handle.invalid @handle.invalid · 15/04/2025
The Russian army is systematically using chemical weapons in the war in Ukraine. Currently, cases of the occupiers' use of... by Suspilne in Ukraine
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Russian Army systematically uses chemical weapons in war against Ukraine
The Russian army is systematically using chemical weapons in the...
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Alan! @o2bnobx.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
The planet also detected our life and was like: NOPE.
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Orla Hegarty @orla-hegarty.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
“How denial of airborne COVID transmission broke the world” “With airborne mitigations, many of the common complaints about “lockdowns” would never have materialized” healthydebate.ca/2025/03/topi...
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How denial of airborne COVID transmission broke the world - Healthy Debate
Five years later, the greatest basic science failure in generations caused the pandemic harms highlighted by people across the political spectrum, and broke our social cohesion.
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Kasia @kasiak.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
All The best of the worst being platformed now …
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MantaHunk 🌎🏳️‍🌈☮️🟧 @mantahunk.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Somebody needs to check in with MTG to see how much Boeing stock she is buying today.
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Jessica Wildfire @jessicawildfire.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
You don't have to move out to the country to start prepping. In fact, it's not a good idea for most of us. www.the-sentinel-intelligence.com/p/during-col...
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During Collapse, Cities Don't Have to Become Death Traps
It's not that simple...
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Jessica Wildfire @jessicawildfire.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Our problems, in order: The destruction of the planet we live on; diseases circulating that cause severe long term damage; the ignorance that drives fascism. These problems require simultaneous attention and you can't neglect any one of them.
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Jay Bhattacharya got famous saying the wonderful things he would have done. He made it all sound so easy, but bad people stopped him. He’s in charge now. He’s the medical establishment. It’s our turn to say what we *would do.* I would stop firing and censoring people at the NIH. What about you?
Jay Bhattacharya & @DrJBhattacharya
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Imagine there hadn't been an @NIH-led
"devastating takedown" of the@gbdeclaration in Oct 2020. Imagine no media/social media suppression. We would have won the policy argument. Schools would have opened. We would have prioritized protection of the vulnerable. Instead, lockdowns.
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Yes, he said this an about Covid, and he’s now part of a government where it is true, and not just about Covid, but about everything. The Trump administration lies about everything constantly. He’s part of that machine.
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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
FT: Germany is willing to send Taurus long-range missiles to Ukraine, Friedrich Merz has said. Merz also denounced a Russian attack on the Ukrainian city of Sumy on Sunday as “a serious war crime” and said that Kyiv needed help to “get ahead” in the conflict. www.ft.com/content/c8c5...
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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
When war crimes go unanswered, and handshakes with smiles replace consequences, the message is clear: kill more — we allow it.
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Taras Melnyk @taras19921.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
🇺🇦Kharkiv russia is a Terrorist State!
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Igor Kyivskyi @igor-kyivskyi.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Sumy.. today💔 "I don't think putin is a bad person" - Witkoff in an interview with Tucker Carlson.
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Taras Melnyk @taras19921.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
russia is a terrorist state!
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DanTroy.bsky.social @dantroy.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
One disturbing element of all this is the insider trading advantage he and his circle will benefit from.
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MantaHunk 🌎🏳️‍🌈☮️🟧 @mantahunk.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
You don't have to listen to MantaHunk. Listen to Justin, an economics professor. He summarizes it perfectly and succinctly. I listened to 5 minutes of Trump and had to turn it off because I was listening to a madman. Nothing was based on reality or history. As usual, he couldn't form a sentence.
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
OTD in 1941 Churchill warned Stalin for 2nd time of intel he had that Hitler would invade USSR. Stalin dismissed it as a “western provocation”. Imagine Russia being run by an idiot that would do that, in this day & age. About an ISIS attack for example.
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Kasia @kasiak.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Same for Canadian and US press …
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Ontario School Safety @onschoolsafety.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
It’s time to stop ignoring the evidence about the impact of infectious diseases like COVID-19 on our kids. It’s time to stop ignoring the evidence about how these diseases spread in the air we breathe. It’s time to educate, and make schools & school buses safer for kids, educators, and drivers.
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 08/03/2025
⚡️ US to stop participating in future military exercises in Europe. The U.S. has told its allies that it does not plan to participate in military exercises held in Europe beyond those already scheduled in 2025, Swedish media outlet Expressen reported.
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US to stop participating in future military exercises in Europe, Swedish media reports
The United States has notified its allies that it does not plan to participate in military exercises held in Europe beyond those already scheduled in 2025, Swedish media outlet Expressen reported on M...
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 09/03/2025
⚡️Russia launched nearly 1,200 bombs, 870 drones, over 80 missiles against Ukraine this week, Zelensky says. The weapons that Russia used against Ukraine this week contained more than 82,000 foreign components, President Volodymyr Zelensky said.
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Russia launched nearly 1,200 bombs, 870 drones, over 80 missiles against Ukraine this week, Zelensky says
The weapons that Russia used against Ukraine this week contained more than 82,000 foreign components, President Volodymyr Zelensky said.
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mcchris85.bsky.social @mcchris85.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
That'll bring about a peace deal.
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mcchris85.bsky.social @mcchris85.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
'Darling, there's a Russian column driving down our street'. 'Don't worry, it's just a negotiating tactic. President Trump knows what he's doing'.
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Jakub Krupa @jakubkrupa.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Lots of terrible & misinformed takes on Poland tonight, proving once again how shallow the coverage of Poland by most international media is: this time based on an out of context misreading of Tusk’s remark on nuclear & a misunderstanding of his comments on military training. 🫠
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Dick Zoutman @dickzoutman.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
It is alarming how many children and young people suffer a wide variety of serious heart conditions as a result of getting COVID. COVID is bad for you. Don’t get COVID. Get vaccinated. Wear an N95. Breathe clean air.
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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Public health experts "know that how we respond to the next pandemic depends on how we understand the last, and that the next one is probably closer than most people think. Mind-bogglingly, many of them worry that Covid-19 has left us more, rather than less, vulnerable to it."
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
“Someone with a 1-hr car commute needs to earn 40% more to be as happy as someone with a short walk to work. On the other hand, if someone shifts from a long commute to a walk, their happiness increases as much as if they’d fallen in love.” #CityMakingMath 50 reasons to want more walkable streets.
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50 Reasons Why Everyone Should Want More Walkable Streets
From making you live longer to making cities more resilient: If you want a reason to make your city more walkable, it's in here.
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J. Offir, PhD @joffirphd.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
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Trump’s ‘Gulf of America’ debacle is no joke – this is how authoritarians get started | Jeffrey Abramson and Jack E Davis
The move has disturbing historical precedents, and retaliation against the Associated Press signals more restrictions to come
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 26/02/2025
Remember when Elon Musk said Jeff Bezos’ ex-wife MacKenzie Scott was destroying Western civilization by giving billions to charities for women, minorities, and marginalized groups? After learning about his comment, she doubled her donations. Perfect response.
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Please look up the influenza epidemic of 1918-19 to understand that the CDC not selecting strains for next year’s vaccines sets the stage for a public health calamity that will, without doubt and at bare minimum, catastrophically and directly impact people you know. This is a five alarm fire.
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Kasia @kasiak.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
#Progress
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
absolutely rush that baby through production
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