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Violinda

@violindasu.bsky.social
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Nomad, living on the road in my RV, Jeep in tow, with my dog, Ava. Still Coviding. LGBTQ ally. Doomer. Cynic. Avid reader. Crone.

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YTJF. @thewayoftheid.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Someone tell the Democratic Party that fascism is, in fact, a kitchen table issue
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Jim Baird @jimbaird.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
"We estimate that 5,400 (3,400–7,400) acute deaths in North America and 64,300 (37,800–90,900) chronic deaths in North America and Europe were attributable to PM2.5 exposure to the 2023 Canadian wildfires." #ClimateCrisis #health #survival #airpollution www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Smoke from Canada’s wildfires killed nine-year-old Carter Vigh – and 82,000 others around the world
Toxic particles spewed by 2023’s wildfires were even responsible for 22,000 early deaths in Europe, researchers say
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Violinda @violindasu.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Oh, it'll be a turning point alright. .now the Trump regime escalate military take over, sweeps, arrests that will include Democrats, liberals, progressives, trans...h
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Lelani Arris @arthurdent2022.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Thank climate change: “Giant sequoias, the world’s largest trees, evolved to survive low-intensity fire, which helps them release seeds. But recent megafires have overwhelmed even these natural defenses. Since 2020, wildfires have killed as much as a fifth of all mature sequoias” 😢
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
There is a real possibility that Charlie Kirk’s death will serve as a pretext for authoritarian purges. And our political culture does not have much experience with that. Mainstream reporters and politicians are not in the habit of recognizing or naming it.
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Aaron Weiss (no relation) @aweiss.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Someone shot up my kid's school today, and our governor is paying tribute to a guy who thought that is an acceptable price to pay for having the Second Amendment. Jared Polis has failed Colorado.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Governor Polis Orders Flags to Half-Staff to Honor the Anniversary of September 11th and the Passing of Charlie Kirk
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#9 Dream @gayfabfourfan.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
“Children are not spared from Long COVID. A study from Taiwan shows that in children ages 6 to 18 years, COVID infection can lead to changes in the brain that are associated with persistent headaches, memory, and attention problems.”
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Democracy Dies in Darkness @guitarisdead.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
MAGA lives in an alternate reality where Donald Trump is not a pedophile. A world where 20+ sexual abuse accusers and a rape conviction prove that Donald Trump is a pious man. Where six bankruptcies and a fraud conviction make him a good businessman. It would be hilarious if it wasn’t so dangerous.
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Brendonowicz (Wears an N95) ☭🩺 #MedicareForAll @brendonowicz.cryptoanarchy.network · 03/09/2025
Just say “after quarantine.” Saying we’re past COVID after two presidents have deliberately stopped testing for it is a bit like saying the era of school shootings is over because we no longer hope for any government intervention. COVID causes serious brain damage and many don’t know they have it.
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Brendonowicz (Wears an N95) ☭🩺 #MedicareForAll @brendonowicz.cryptoanarchy.network · 03/09/2025
Seriously, these scores are a significant impairment from a single infection and these people have zero awareness of it! Between brain damage, immune compromise, and strokes + heart attacks at all ages, it’s ruining tons of lives. Plus it’s sky high right now. www.thelancet.com/journals/ecl...
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Changes in memory and cognition during the SARS-CoV-2 human challenge study
These results support larger cross sectional findings indicating that mild Wildtype SARS-CoV-2 infection can be followed by small changes in cognition and memory that persist for at least a year. The ...
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Long COVID Hitting Doctors and Nurses Hard. David Putrino, PhD, at Mount Sinai, has treated about 3,500 people with long COVID and sees 500–700 new patients per year. He says 5–7% are healthcare workers, showing disproportionate long COVID impact in this group. Source: archive.md/8odRz
Long COVID Hitting Doctors and Nurses Hard

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Violinda @violindasu.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
And here we go: the photo implies that surgical masks protect against airborne infectious diseases...they DO NOT! N95s DO!!!!!
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ᴄ ꜱᴛᴜᴀʀᴛ ʜᴀʀᴅᴡɪᴄᴋ🛸 @cstuarthardwick.com · 04/09/2025
During the 20 years following WWII, the worst epidemic year for polio in the US was 1951. There were 58.000 cases and 3100 deaths. In 2024, there were over 50,000 recorded deaths from acute COVID-19 and an estimated 75,000 premature deaths from long term or permanent effects of COVID-19.
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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
💯 Surprised by the demise of U.S. public health? Some of us already saw the signs when they let 5M+ kids get long COVID with zero mitigations
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CIDRAP @cidrap.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
CDC cuts back foodborne illness surveillance program The CDC's FoodNet program has reduced required surveillance from eight foodborne pathogens to two, a move some experts warn could leave the country more vulnerable to outbreaks. www.cidrap.umn.edu/f...
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Lyle Lewis @race2extinct.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Scientists shocked. Humans shrug. Collapse ahead. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Collapse of critical Atlantic current is no longer low-likelihood, study finds
Scientists say ‘shocking’ discovery shows rapid cuts in carbon emissions are needed to avoid catastrophic fallout
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
The precise moment when and where in recent weeks America crossed that invisible line from democracy into authoritarianism can and will be debated by future historians, but it’s clear that the line itself has been crossed. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...
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America Tips Into Fascism
Today is different than before.
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Nobody @davidepike.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
They can’t even dependably deploy basic PPE and infection control anymore: just another toady cog in the growing fascist-industrial collusive complex we find ourselves in.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 10/08/2025
Absolutely heartbreaking to see CDC staffers say they were surprised that the shooting didn’t happen sooner.
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Lyle Lewis @race2extinct.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Modern humans can’t change course because we’re hard-wired to believe we’re exceptional. It’s not possible to rip through Earth’s environmental resources at warp speed and avoid extinction. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Self-termination is most likely’: the history and future of societal collapse
An epic analysis of 5,000 years of civilisation argues that a global collapse is coming unless inequality is vanquished
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Lyle Lewis @race2extinct.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
“It’s funny how, as a culture, we feel immortal — as if no matter how much damage we do to the natural systems that support life on Earth, and no matter how many other species we send to extinction daily, it can’t possibly happen to us.” — Sue Coulstock, Racing to Extinction
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
USA: Study finds removing school mask mandates contributed to almost 22,000 U.S. COVID deaths in a year. Issue Date: May 2025 Source: www.nber.org/papers/w33849
Spillovers from Public Health Policies in Schools: Evidence from COVID Mask Mandates
Matthew A. Guzman, Scott A. Imberman, Neil R. Filosa, Tara Kilbride & Nat Malkus
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Working Paper 33849
DOI 10.3386/w33849
Issue Date May 2025
Schools have long played a frontline role in efforts to contain infectious diseases and prevent spread to the wider community. These include vaccination requirements, school closures during periods of high illness, and the implementation of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPI) during outbreaks. In this paper we investigate the impact of mask mandates in schools on COVID spread. We use event study and difference-in-differences models that exploit the removal of mask mandates in districts serving 50% of public school students in the U.S. surrounding the revocation of CDC guidance recommending school masking in February and early March of 2022. We estimate that going from 0% to 100% mandated masking in a county reduces COVID deaths by 0.57 per 100k people. 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. Due to the fact that COVID deaths among students and, to a lesser extent, school staff were rare in the U.S. given school age profiles, we argue that the bulk of these deaths were from spillovers to residents in the wider community.
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Violinda @violindasu.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
I'm still here, still masking, no visiting with neighbors inside, no restaurants. I seem to be the only one in this corner of SW MN. My daughter's family is also still cautious, but she caught it over a year ago, previously healthy, now struggling with PEM syndrome. I don't understand people at all.
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Met4Cast @met4cast.net · 06/07/2025
We’re going to need a bigger scale.. The exceptional mediterranean heatwave continues with anomalies close to 8°C above average. This is around 9 standard deviations above normal. 5 is considered an exceptional, once in a several thousand year event. This is EXTREME.
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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Nearing the quarter-century mark in our nation’s life, we have collectively failed those who came before by allowing the ascension of the very fascism millions of our forebears courageously fought, bled, and died driving back into the sewers of history. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/born-on-th...
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Born on The Farce of July
This Independence Day isn't a birthday for our nation; it's a funeral.
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Ian James @ianjames.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
David Suzuki: “We’re on our way to more than a three-degree temperature rise by the end of this century, and scientists agree we shouldn’t rise above one and half degrees.”
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Violinda @violindasu.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Cue 'this is a bridge to far', 'this is illegal', ' this is unconstitutional', strongly worded letters, the hearings, Democrats marching down to the speakers office...he f**cking bombed Iran!!!! We are literally on the brink of nuclear war with this mad man. What's to stop Iran from attacking us???
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 22/06/2025
Yes. They are.
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Kari Dru @karidru.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
I want to discuss nuance. Because while we have masked kidnappers running rampant across the country and this is obviously fucked up and unacceptable; A lot of the pushback I'm hearing is "nobody should cover their face." Uhm. No. Religion, Cold Weather, and Germs still exist.
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
“A deranged maniac impersonated a police officer and killed lawmakers but if you’re an immigrant be sure you immediately comply with plain clothes people who won’t identify themselves telling you to get in a van”, what a fuckin country
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
It’s not a surprise that the man who purposely incited a violent attempt to overthrow an American election would now purposely incite violence on the streets of Los Angeles as a justification for military force against American citizens. Not a surprise at all.
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Kate Violette @kateviolette.com · 09/06/2025
There needs to be five-alarm level public health messaging about this. This was published in JAMA -- the Journal of the American Medical Association -- last month. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
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Christine Cooper 🇨🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @coopspeak.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
This is utterly frightening. Vaccines are among the greatest contributions to human health around the globe. This man must be stopped.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
New: theonion.com/protesters-u...
Protesters Urged Not To Give Trump Administration Pretext For What It Already Doing
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George Tsakraklides @tsakraklides.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
In financial terms, this civilisation is the product of ecological fraud: stolen habitats, exhausted resources and exterminated species. open.substack.com/pub/georgets...
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The Pseudoscience of Economics
Value comes in many shapes and forms.
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SeattleSanta @seattlesanta.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
A 98 year old World War 2 veteran, returned to his tank to destroy one last Nazi car. He has a message for Elon Musk, Tesla, Putin, Trump and the international regressive movement. We crushed fascism before, and we'll crush it again, so let's go shall we? #3E #teslatakedown
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Education under the Trump regime
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Ruth Ann Crystal @drruth.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
✨Please share! My newsletter is out. In this issue: 🧫COVID and Mast Cells 🛌Long COVID POTS and P-synuclein deposits in skin 🫁COVID, H5N1, Measles, Pertussis updates 🤰Preeclampsia protein signature seen for decades 🦠Gut and nasal microbiomes and much more buff.ly/qzUjKeW #medsky 🛟😷🧪 🧠📈
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COVID & Health News, 5/4/25
Acute respiratory illness levels are now LOW across America.
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Lyle Lewis @race2extinct.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Either we run out of lithium and the economy falters, or we extract it and the biosphere unravels. Every “solution” accelerates the collapse. grist.org/energy/chile...
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Chile’s lithium boom promises jobs and money — but threatens a critical water source
The Atacama Desert is a major source of lithium for EV batteries. As global demand ramps up, the local Lickanantay people are racing to protect already scarce water supplies and their way of life.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Language & transparency are more important than ever right now. There’s no such thing as “mild” covid. There’s no such thing as “soft” eugenics. You can’t “deport” citizens. Fascism isn’t theoretical. It’s here. It’s growing. And it’s putting us all in danger.
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altFAA @altfaa.altgov.info · 05/05/2025
Just a quick update on flight safety. It's on everyone's minds and I would like to provide a very important statistic. So far, in 2025, we have had the most aircraft related fatalities in the US since 2001. And yes, we are referring to 9/11. It's only May.
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That's HEDLEY! @hedleylamarr23.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Lost in this week's noise is the fact that the other day, the President of the United States was handed a softball question about the Declaration of Independence, and his "answer" made clear that he has no idea what it says or what it was about, even though there's a copy on the wall in his office.
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Beth S Linas, PhD, MHS @bethlinas.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Remember the awesome COVID-19 dashboard Hopkins created and populated during the pandemic? They are back but this time tracking measles
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Measles Outbreak Response | Center for Outbreak Response Innovation
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 05/05/2025
Allow me to address the elephant in the room: The decades-long outsourcing of domestic manufacturing to China was not an insidious Chinese conspiracy for dominance but the greedy strategy of the American ruling class to explode its profit margins by exploiting global inequality.
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