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Travis Bernhardt

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Travis Bernhardt @tbernhardt.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
there we go, found it, this one archive.org/details/borg...
the text of the short story Ragnarok by Jorge Luis Borges from the collection Labyrinths, translated by J.E.I
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Travis Bernhardt @tbernhardt.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
lareviewofbooks.org/article/dang...
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Travis Bernhardt @tbernhardt.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
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Perhaps ordinary politics will succeed tomorrow. But it could not undo these crimes; it could not retroactively prevent them. The failure to act sooner—to act urgently, preemptively—is a perfectly mainstream grievance in American political life so long as the perpetrators of preemptive violence are the Pentagon or the police. It is only the Left that is accused of irrational impatience. It is helpful, once again, to resolve the abstract into the particular. One must imagine a sensible and centrist columnist, bloody hands clawing desperately through the rubble of his recently bombed-out DC town house in search of his child, buried below. One must imagine him desperate, carrying that child—still alive, thank God, but both legs reduced to shredded, bleeding stumps—through the smoky streets, desperate to reach an emergency room. You must imagine him dodging several additional air strikes, slipping past the ground forces deployed to sweep up any men between the ages of 16 and 55 found out in the streets, and finally reaching a field hospital where his child’s life can be saved. You must imagine him finally sitting down, catching his breath, and composing a newsletter about how the counterproductive thing would be for anybody to try to avenge this crime, about how people need to accept that this is just how things are, how dissidents in whatever country bombed his house should moderate some of their social positions, then wait a decade or two for the right electoral opportunity.
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Travis Bernhardt @tbernhardt.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
in the context of NIH cutting 1.7b in funding for long covid research incl. 577m to develop antivirals www.yahoo.com/news/somethi...
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Travis Bernhardt @tbernhardt.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
tbh this framing would have improved this video
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Travis Bernhardt @tbernhardt.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
measles requires 95% immunity (infection or 2x vaccine doses) for herd immunity to work, 80-85% is worrisome in BC: "Just under 82 per cent of two-year-olds have gotten one dose of the measles, mumps and rubella, or MMR, vaccine, and around 72 per cent of seven-year-olds have gotten both doses"
Measles is one of the most infectious diseases on Earth. An infected person can walk through a room and up to two hours later a healthy person can walk through the same room and get sick, just by breathing the lingering air.

The disease can cause brain swelling, leading to seizures, deafness or brain damage, and kills about one in every 3,000 people, according to HealthLinkBC. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention gives a grimmer estimate, reporting that one in four cases of measles requires hospitalization and one in 1,000 cases results in death.

Unvaccinated people who survive a measles infection are at a radically higher risk of dying from another illness in the years after the infection. Measles can wipe out 11 to 73 per cent of an unvaccinated person’s antibodies, meaning their immune system forgets how to fight off pathogens it previously defeated.
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Travis Bernhardt @tbernhardt.bsky.social · 18/03/2024
astonishing short excerpt from Ghada Karmi's book Return, in which she is invited by the NYT's bureau chief to visit what used to be her home before it was stolen in 1948 (the NYT owns the newer residence built on top of it) newyorkwarcrimes.com/why-does-the...
screenshot from the article
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Travis Bernhardt @tbernhardt.bsky.social · 03/03/2024
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Travis Bernhardt @tbernhardt.bsky.social · 29/02/2024
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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