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Just some guy who wants to help make the world better — for all of us — than when I found it.

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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 16h
"Just 5 Infections Responsible For More Than 2 Million New Cancer Cases Annually" 🦠H. pylori 🦠Human papillomavirus (HPV) 🦠Hepatitis B virus (HBV) 🦠Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) 🦠Hepatitis C virus (HCV)
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Just 5 Infections Responsible For More Than 2 Million New Cancer Cases Annually
Cancer may seem like an inevitable part of life, but there are so many factors that can help reduce your risk.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"RKF took money earmarked to provide health care for Black infants and spent it on his personal security detail" is a ludicrous headline. Comic book villainy.
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Exclusive | RFK Jr.’s Enhanced Security Was Funded With Money From Minority Health Office
The cost of the health secretary’s security grew from roughly $10 million in fiscal year 2025 to $17 million in fiscal year 2026.
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A great reflection post by Dr. Paul Sax on three recent studies which have examined very different approaches to addressing LongCOVID. We do not have a home run yet but it is a good thing that we are casting a wide net to find answers for the many affected. voices.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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Three Very Different Ways to Treat Long Covid
Two that are promising, and one that is difficult to talk about
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Aimee Witteman @aimeewitteman.bsky.social · 21h
This recent NYT story on the rise of tick-borne illnesses hit very close to home when it was published last month. I’ve spent much of my career working on climate change. I didn’t expect one of its health impacts to become quite so personal. Consider this a PSA. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/20/m...
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The Summer the Ticks Took Over
A scientific and civilizational horror story.
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 29/09/2026
This period will go down as one of the greatest moments for Democrat attack ads in history. We're seeing LBJ "Daisy"-level spots daily.
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026
A key component of the Cambridge Analytica outrage was your friends subjecting you to data theft without your consent or knowledge. Facebook is running the same playbook on your text messages. Even if you’re not on Meta properties, they’re ingesting your interactions.
Aten installed Muse on both his iPhone and a Mac mini that he uses to test out various Al agents and tech. It took Meta a single day to begin "helpfully" pitching article ideas based on texts he'd sent to a podcast co-host.
When he asked Muse how it got the information, it said that it read banners from incoming texts. But that's not true, either.
After doing a little digging, Aten says Muse synced 187,000 lines from his Messages database, despite Full Disk Access being Off.Unless Aten is the most popular person on the face of the planet, I sincerely doubt he'd gotten 187,000 lines of text in roughly 24 hours. What happened is that, without permission, Muse went into the app and downloaded the information.
He had not given Muse permission to access Messages, and full disk access was not enabled. It just went ahead and uploaded those texts anyway.
Muse can take "unexpected actions" indeed.
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Deb Houry @drdebhoury.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
First time speaking as CDC Director at a health conference and she doesn't address measles or vaccines; and won't answer a question on 4th PA measles related death- not sure this is the path to rebuilding trust... which she states is her priority www.ajc.com/news/2026/09... @altcdc.altgov.info
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In first public appearance, new CDC director vows to rebuild trust
Dr. Erica Schwartz avoided commenting on measles deaths in Pennsylvania.
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The irony of it all Yesterday, @NEJM posted a new essay suggesting that the US government attacks on biomedical science will subside. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.... On the same day, it was announced the President wants control of NIH funding
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A striking thing about the various estimates of how many people Musk killed when he shuttered USAID is that, while of course the exact number is unknown, the estimates all point to a figure of about 750,000 deaths within a year, of which 500,000 were kids Mass murder isn’t “ill fated cost-cutting”
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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Please know that this is one of my few legitimate areas of actual, high-level professional expertise: Kicking the healthiest people off of a health insurance program will bankrupt it. Not 'could;' not 'might,' not 'probably," but absolutely will, with mathematical certainty.
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Yup The peer reviewed research evidence supports a zoonotic origin, & this new discovery does even more to make zoonosis the likely origin As Dr Markus Hoffman says (he co-discovered the FCS in SARS-CoV-2): “For me, there is currently no compelling evidence that Sars-CoV-2 was engineered in a lab”
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FREEBROOKLYN❌👑 @freebklyn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
In NYC, it releases on Thursday, 10/8, at Angelika Film Center, and there are Q&As with Alex Gibney and Ashley St. Clair after two of the Friday viewings and two of the Saturday viewings! angelikafilmcenter.com/nyc/movies/d...
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Movie Information | Tickets | Showtimes
Experience cinema like never before! Secure your tickets, enjoy gift cards, and take advantage of food and drink deals. Don't miss our special screenings and events!
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Isn't it nice when there's something we can ALL agree on? #ReleaseTheUnredactedEPSTEIN-Files
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.
When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.
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90for90.bsky.social @90for90.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
🚨Boebert aide affair allegations Colorado’s 4th CD voters have an interesting choice on their ballots: incumbent (R) Congresswoman Boebert, or challenger (D) U.S. Navy Admiral (ret.) Laubacher. CO’s 4th CD voters are about to tell America a lot about themselves. www.rawstory.com/there-will-b...
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'There will be things exposed': Boebert aide got warning before affair allegations got out
An aide named in an explosive ethics complaint against Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) reportedly got a warning from her ex-husband weeks before the allegations of affairs and payoffs became public knowled...
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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
My reaction to this was “huh, doesn’t sound like Duckworth.” So I watched it. She’s talking about tariffs & funding USAID & farm bankruptcies & it’s obvious that the “save face” bit was acknowledging these things will change only if Trump agrees & you get him to do that by letting him think he won/1
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 23/09/2026
I wrote about how Trump is treating presidential power like it's his own possession and using it to punish blue states — but also about how at least he's promised lots of cash for all of us. www.ctinsider.com/columnist/ar...
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NYT has now independently corroborated all the major allegations against Susan Collins in the ProPublica report, including that investigators were prepared to move against her and then Trump intervened to shut it down. This put Trump in a position of exceptional and extortionate leverage over her.
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F.B.I. Shut Down Inquiry Into Top Ally of Senator Susan Collins
The inquiry was closed last year because senior bureau officials questioned the veracity of a campaign donor’s account, according to current and former officials.
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Texas and Florida would become ground zero for a possible Democratic tsunami, with the party’s chance at a large congressional majority potentially hinging on whether it could break through Republican gerrymanders in those states. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/u...
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Hispanic Voters, Abandoning Trump, Are Transforming the Midterm Map (Gift Article)
Texas and even Florida are the places to watch in November if a polling pattern holds.
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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
She's bragging about starving children
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
If these numbers hold, and are indicative of what's happening nationwide (and at present they seem to be), then the sheer number of new faces in American politics is by itself going to change the bounds of what seems possible. Wave elections change winning parties, not just losing ones.
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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
some idiot pundit: wow, libs hate him this much but they don't want him to die, this must be a sign they're interested in healing *Evelyn Normielib leaning into the mic* I want him to suffer
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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DEI Speedwagon @myrrlyn.net · 18/09/2026
everybody thinks the block they pulled out in jenga wasn’t load bearing, and nearly all of them were right
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I almost spat out my soda laughing at this. Like rats deserting the sinking MAGA ship.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible
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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Hard not to conclude that Wojnarowicz saw what was coming for us, since his work consistently highlighted the kinds of destructive forces evident in almost all corners of American society today: "Democracy at Work," 1990
A graphic image showing the Grim Reaper clothed in dollar bills, with one edge labeled "'Democracy' at Work," and various figures being injured by the reaper's scythe, with spatters of blood labeled "unemployment," "killer cops," "homophobia," etc. The sun above is emblazoned with a swastika built of dollars
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Micah @rincewind.run · 18/09/2026
the problem for Dem consultants is that they haven't properly internalized that tech - not the rank and file, but the guys at the top - has completely turned against them and should now be treated as an implacable political enemy you can't win them back by playing nice on policy and you shouldn't
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 16/09/2026
The truth is none of y’all hate Robert Kraft enough. Get on my level. (From February) gillianbrockell.com/the-truth-ab...
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The truth about ICE and the New England Patriots jets (Go Seahawks)
The best reason to hate the New England Patriots is where their team planes have been.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
promise kept
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Republicans don’t have a Nazi problem—they are the Nazi problem
A spate of recent revelations have shown the ideologies and their adherents are one and the same.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
All of these guys backed Trump because they thought he would be easier to manipulate. Now they’re finding out that his f-ups are not something whose consequences they can escape.
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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I generally think we are much more likely to see a SCOTUS that stands up more to Trump because Roberts and Barrett and Kav at least read the news and know that the other party wants to make them irrelevant.. and is about to have the votes in '28 to do it.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Amazing stuff buried in new NYT poll: *Dems lead GOP on economy AND ON IMMIGRATION *70% of Latinos disapprove of Trump (!), 63% STRONGLY (!!) *60% of independents disapprove of Trump STRONGLY (!!!) On the pod, we bring you all these numbers and much more: newrepublic.com/article/2154...
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Trump Rages Openly at Midterm Woes as His Worst Poll Yet Lands Hard
As a gold-standard poll delivers harsh news to a seething Trump, a Democratic strategist with experience in midterms explains what the data is really telling us—and how to prepare for what’s coming.
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
this makes prescription drugs MORE expensive by exempting them from government price negotiations. unprecedented corruption at a massive scale
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I don’t get why some prominent Republicans are yelling at Bo French for stating Republican Party policy
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Jodi Jacobson @jljacobson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
@washingtonpost.com “in a major victory the people of this country and the rule of law…”. Fixed it for you. I have to do this so often you should pay me.
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kingkurt42.bsky.social @kingkurt42.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I think Elie Wiesel said it best: "We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented."
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Aleksandra Vaca @transiticsnews.com · 10/09/2026
I’m a Texan trans kid who almost died because of Ken Paxton. The world should know what he’s done. This was very difficult for me to write, but given what's at stake, I cannot bear to stay silent about what I went through at Paxton's hands. He must not be rewarded for what he's done to trans kids.
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I’m a Texan Trans Kid Who Almost Died Because of Ken Paxton. The World Should Know What He’s Done.
Regardless of Talarico’s recent statements on trans people, Paxton cannot be rewarded for the extreme suffering he’s inflicted on me and tens of thousands of Texan trans kids.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Okay, don’t go find and harass this guy, but: it’s kind of alarming to see this specific kind of madness spreading, about a vital race that is a coin-flip. Important to squelch this kind of thinking with extreme prejudice. Talarico must win.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/09/2026
mackenzie scott really seems like the only billionaire to figure out that you can be a literal hero to millions with a relative pittance
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Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
This is a dumb tiny thing but it is also genuinely exactly why he loves tariffs so much: the ability to set economic policy on a whim based on his own personal desires of the moment. It’s mad king shit and essentially the opposite of how stable economic management works
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/09/2026
Abdul El-Sayed: "Weijia, with all due respect, this is the third time you've asked about a Twitch streamer ... their whole game is to make us fight culture wars so that we don't pay attention to the fact the president has made $2.2 billion ... "
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June Casagrande @junecasagrande.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
LA Times, which was taken over by a billionaire who at least 3x has interfered in editorial decision-making for personal/friends' interests, doing a big negative story about a leader in the tax-the-billionaires movement.
Screenshot of a Los Angeles Times email promoting the story billed as: "
Architect of billionaire tax tried to ‘extort’ support for the measure and targeted women, union reports find
A union leader who helped create California’s proposed billionaire tax tried to force support for the measure, according to union reports that accuse him of targeting women who opposed it.
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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
"wealth has its own deranging effects. It almost inevitably turns you into a supremacist" this para...
Excerpt for the Guardian article

"In the run-up to the 2024 presidential election, at the Faena Hotel in Miami, Peter Thiel hosted panel discussions titled "the enemy", naming sustainable development goals, "precautionary principles" and "social responsibility" as those foes, rounded off with an "apocalypse ball"-themed fancy dress party .
Some of the costumes, Klein and Taylor write, were "a doctor of eugenics"; a
"Haitian chef with a bloodied cat toy hanging out of his apron la reference to the Springfield immigrant pet-eating hoax, which spread in 2024, repeated by both Trump and JD Vancel; a couple wearing pagers as a ha-ha reference to Israel's murderous attack in Lebanon.""
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
W/o getting drawn into the "seriously or literally" / "it'll never happen" trap, we need to stomp *hard* on the continuing effort to undermine Article 1 power of the purse by saying that this or that revenue stream makes something outside the normal budget process. 1/ www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...
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Lutnick says Trump’s $5,000 checks for Americans wouldn’t rely on taxpayer funds
A top White House official suggested Congress would use a budget process to fund them. Vice President JD Vance had said tariff revenues.
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Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
NYT's lead this morning: "Almost 20 months into Mr. Trump’s second term, his long-running media clashes have grown into a sweeping campaign to control speech in America that stands out for applying so many levers, so fast, all at once." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/u...
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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
On the issue of trans kids in sports. As part of my work I listen to a lot of focus groups, especially with swing voters or occasional voters, and I have a lot of thoughts about it and why and how Democratic candidates keep missing the mark in all sorts of ways.
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
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Dr. Jay Bhattacharya on Measles: “I Think I’ve Done My Best.”
As football coach Bill Parcells famously said, “you are what your record says you are”.
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Nick @nickdag.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The party of family, values, and life insists on policies that do the opposite.
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Steve Kahn is one of the docs who was arrested for distributing this editorial critical of the MAGA/MAHA Administration at the American Diabetes Association meeting (diabetesjournals.org/care/article...) Orwellian The good news? Almost 140,000 people have now read the editorial. Streisand effect!
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