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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
19% more deaths from Covid in the US than counted thru 2021 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Applying machine learning to identify unrecognized COVID-19 deaths recorded as other causes of death in the United States
A machine learning approach suggests that COVID-19 deaths were undercounted unevenly across sociodemographic groups in 2020–2021.
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Conor Browne @brownecfm.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
This is exactly what happens when a novel seasonal influenza strain meets a population with Covid-induced immune dysregulation; it's not 'like Covid again', it's the ongoing and continuous effects of Covid. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Flu: It is like Covid again, says principal as 170 pupils sick
Confirmed flu cases among adults and children across Northern Ireland have more than trebled in the last two weeks.
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vladtheobserver.bsky.social @vladtheobserver.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Happy Thanksgiving 🦃 to all the truly good folks in the world regardless if we agree on politics. If you mask 😷, are for science and democracy, count yourselves amongst them! 🍻. The rest of y’all can marinate in the world you created.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
What's happening with Jimmy Kimmel is about politics and power.
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vladtheobserver.bsky.social @vladtheobserver.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
@gavinnewsom.bsky.social It’s time to seriously consider setting up CA’s own FDA & CDC. The federal republic has been dismantled & we don’t want to live in the middle ages of disease and safety.
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vladtheobserver.bsky.social @vladtheobserver.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Only putting this up to encourage businesses & companies/hospitals. This reading is from my cubicle. It IS possible to clean the air with HVAC upgrades. Protect your employees. It’s taken me 5yrs of hounding them but the results are worth it.
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vladtheobserver.bsky.social @vladtheobserver.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Not the greatest guy in the world to model your life after but as a character & influence to GenX Americans, an absolute titan.
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vladtheobserver.bsky.social @vladtheobserver.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
#GenZStare Seeing lots of articles about the GenZ stare & mentioning COVID "lockdowns" which is hilarious. I would put culprit in order 1) Virtual/Device Addiction 2) Changing society/world strife 3) COVID...repeated cog. damage affecting social interaction processing.
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vladtheobserver.bsky.social @vladtheobserver.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Anyone know what our NYC community prognosis for masking and public health is with Zohran Mamdani? Don’t know much about his views on that.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 15/06/2025
Masks are under serious threat at being banned widely due to politicization. This would be a public health disaster. If you are only wearing a mask at protests, please consider also wearing them elsewhere. The more people mask, the more we normalize masks and protect them against bans.
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vladtheobserver.bsky.social @vladtheobserver.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 11/06/2025
NEW: After firing expert scientists on the CDC's vaccine advisory committee, RFK Jr. has named their replacements. The new committee contains many figures known for spreading disinformation about vaccines and COVID including Robert Malone and Martin Kulldorff. This is bad.
The list includes several well-known critics of vaccines.

The eight new members, a significant decline from the 17 that previously served on the panel, include: 

Dr. Joseph R. Hibbeln, a psychiatrist and nutritional scientist who previously worked on nutritional neuroscience at the NIH;
Dr. Martin Kulldorf, an epidemiologist formerly at Harvard Medical School, who has served on an FDA safety committee as well as the vaccine subgroup of ACIP;
Retsef Levi, a professor of operations management at the MIT Sloan School of Management;
Dr. Robert Malone, a physician who conducted early research on mRNA vaccine technology;
Dr. Cody Meissner, a professor of pediatrics at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine, who has previously held advisory roles at CDC and FDA, including as an ACIP member;
Dr. James Pagano, an emergency medicine physician; 
Vicky Pebsworth, a nurse with a PhD in public health, who has previously served on FDA vaccine advisory committees;
Dr. Michael Ross, an obstetrician and gynecologicist, who has served on a CDC advisory committee for the prevention of breast and cervical cancer.
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vladtheobserver.bsky.social @vladtheobserver.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
www.espn.com.sg/mma/story/_/...
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Ex-MMA star Askren in hospital with severe illness
Former MMA champion Ben Askren was hospitalized after developing severe pneumonia, his wife posted on social media on Saturday.
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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
“While much of the media was busy running a full-scale PR rehabilitation tour for Elon Musk—casting him as a bold disruptor who stepped away from government and claiming that his unauthorized DOGE project had merely failed to “cut waste,”—the real story slipped past the headlines” My latest…
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Did Musk Really "Leave"? NO
Unauthorized DOGE Is Still Operational and Dangerous
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Meet "Nimbus", aka SARS-CoV-2 variant NB.1.8.1. (Thread) 1/
Diagram showing the ancestry of Nimbus (NB.1.8.1). The evolution of NB.1.8.1 has including three recombination events, including XBB (Kraken) and BA.2.86 (Pirola) lineages.Evolutionary tree of SARS-CoV-2 variants showing the small fraction of diversity covered by every variant with a Greek letter except "Omicron", and the enormous diversity within "Omicron", including Nimbus NB.1.8.1.
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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Just spoke with my CDC sources They said a new COVID-19 wave is hitting NYC and LA. Cases up~20% this week expected to rise further over the next month. Exactly 4 months since the January 20 peak, the virus is resurging.
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vladtheobserver.bsky.social @vladtheobserver.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Great write-up. 👇🏻 whn.global/stuck-in-the...
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 10/05/2025
"I did this!"
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christianhanley.bsky.social @christianhanley.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
@davetroy.com does it again, connecting the dots between tech barons, foreign influence campaigns, and what we in the public see expressed in our politics. It's another dire warning and compelling call to action. america2.news/convergence-...
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'Convergence' Is Here – And We're Not Prepared
American politics is converging towards a vague concept of authoritarian "unity," influenced by a small network of backers.
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vladtheobserver.bsky.social @vladtheobserver.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Musk’s DOGE involved in what appears to be a foreign espionage operation and data theft. They also have death threatened US federal whistleblowers and disabled security systems, deliberately allowing Russian IPs to access sensitive US federal government systems. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor dataThe IT team met to discuss insider threats - namely, the DOGE engineers, whose activities it had little insight into or control over. "We had no idea what they did," he explained. Those conversations are reflected in his official disclosure.
They eventually launched a formal breach investigation, according to the disclosure, and prepared a request for assistance from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). However, those efforts were disrupted without an explanation, Berulis said. That was deeply troubling to Berulis, who felt he needed help to try to get to the bottom of what happened and determine what new vulnerabilities might be exploited as a result.
In the days after Berulis and his colleagues prepared a request for CISAs help investigating the breach, Berulis found a printed letter in an envelope taped to his door, which included threatening language, sensitive personal information and overhead pictures of him walking his dog, according to the cover letter attached to his official disclosure. It's unclear who sent it, but the letter made specific reference to his decision to report the breach. Law enforcement is investigating the letter.While investigating the data taken from the agency, Berulis tried to determine its ultimate destination. But whoever had exfiltrated it had disguised its destination too, according to the disclosure.
DOGE staffers had permission to access the system, but removing data is another matter.
Berulis says someone appeared to be doing something called DNS tunneling to prevent the data exfiltration from being detected. He came to that conclusion, outlined in his disclosure, after he saw a traffic spike in DNS requests parallel to the data being exfiltrated, a spike 1,000 times the normal number of requests.
When someone uses this kind of technique, they set up a domain name that pings the target system with questions or queries. But they configure the compromised server so that it answers those DNS queries by sending out packets of data, allowing the attacker to steal information that has been broken down into smaller chunks.
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U.S. government systems," said one threat intelligence researcher who requested anonymity because they weren't authorized to speak publicly by their employer.
That analyst, who has extensive experience hunting nation-state-sponsored hackers, reviewed the whistleblower's technical claims.Within minutes after DOGE accessed the NLRB's systems, someone with an IP address in Russia started trying to log in, according to Berulis' disclosure. The attempts were "near real-time," according to the disclosure. Those attempts were blocked, but they were especially alarming. Whoever was attempting to log in was using one of the newly created DOGE accounts - and the person had the correct username and password, according to Berulis. While it's possible the user was disguising their location, it's highly unlikely they'd appear to be coming from Russia if they wanted to avoid suspicion, cybersecurity experts interviewed by NPR explained.
On their own, a few failed login attempts from a Russian IP address aren't a smoking gun, those cybersecurity experts interviewed by NPR said. But given the overall picture of activity, it's a concerning sign that foreign adversaries may already be searching for ways into government systems that DOGE engineers may have left exposed.
"When you move fast and break stuff, the opportunity to ride the coattails of authorized access is ridiculously easy to achieve," said Handorf. What he means is that if DOGE engineers left access points to the network open, it would be very easy for spies or criminals to break in and steal data behind DOGE.
He said he could also see foreign adversaries trying to recruit or pay DOGE team members for access to sensitive data. "It would not surprise me if DOGE is accidentally compromised."
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vladtheobserver.bsky.social @vladtheobserver.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
FFS.🤦🏻‍♂️ 🐛 Brain has made a decree. Here we go!
FFS…🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️ here we go! It’s official 🐛 Brain has made a decree.
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vladtheobserver.bsky.social @vladtheobserver.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Dystopia Takes: Rn, & maybe for some time now, most of folks’ expensive financial advisors r giving them bad advice. I see analysts trying to process intentional destruction of economy through the lens of norms/history; Unless they follow likes of @davetroy.com @jessicawildfire.bsky.social. 😬
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vladtheobserver.bsky.social @vladtheobserver.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
An update on expired Novavax stocks at pharmacies from a Novavax rep. YMMV:
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vladtheobserver.bsky.social @vladtheobserver.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
@novavax.bsky.social@novavax.bsky.social Reports were coming in that your Fall 2024 updated COVID shots expired on March 31. Are you going to be sending fresher ones to pharmacies? What's the plan for people who need it now?
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Hi, BlueSky. It's Hillary. I've joined up here to help get the word out about an important election in Wisconsin tomorrow, and other ways to defend our democracy against those who think votes can be bought.
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vladtheobserver.bsky.social @vladtheobserver.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Confirmed with Altruan rep this AM. FDA blocking them from selling us PlusLife tests now in USA and Canada. 🤬
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vladtheobserver.bsky.social @vladtheobserver.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Unpopular opinion: “Future <fill in blank> will look back on this era and <fill in blank>” statements are a form of reality dissonance in face of trauma. It’s assuming good guys win at some point & restore civilization even though all evidence points the opposite way rn.
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vladtheobserver.bsky.social @vladtheobserver.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
For all Coviding/Covid-Smart folks who are a part of a growing club that relies on PlusLife testing to navigate our Pandemicene in the U.S., as of today I noticed Altruan has stopped allowing purchase or shipping to US. Hope this is temporary & still gathering info. 😣
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vladtheobserver.bsky.social @vladtheobserver.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Amongst many, MANY, issues with American culture that has led us here is folks think being stupid is bravery. Bravery is about understanding the risk & being scared but doing the right thing anyway. Being too dumb to assess threat & risking everyone & yourself is ≠ bravery 🫠
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Fred Guttenberg @fredguttenberg.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."
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vladtheobserver.bsky.social @vladtheobserver.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
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vladtheobserver.bsky.social @vladtheobserver.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
50 knows..😅. @molesen.bsky.social
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vladtheobserver.bsky.social @vladtheobserver.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Deborah Birx been out there last 48hrs giving antivax crowd a heck of a lot of material to work with with her “mrna vaccines should have only been given to old people” bs.
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vladtheobserver.bsky.social @vladtheobserver.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Looks like Elmo’s Stable Geniuses’ maths ain’t mathing. . threadreaderapp.com/thread/18918...
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Thread by @electricfutures on Thread Reader App
@electricfutures: After several delays, @DOGE has finally posted its purported savings. Why did it take so long to create a simple webpage with a 1000-row table? Who knows! Let's dig in. Headline numb...
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vladtheobserver.bsky.social @vladtheobserver.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
👇🏻 Important message from Sen. Murphy & as much as I hate to say it, Jesse Waters:
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Nina Wildflower @ninawildflower.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
McKinsey strategy on living with Covid and returning to the office "not working" says McKinsey. www.forbes.com/sites/philki...
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McKinsey On Return To Office: Leaders Are Focused On The Wrong Thing
New research from McKinsey suggests RTO is not helping organizational effectiveness. Leaders must stop obsessing over the where of work and start improving the how.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
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Rachel Maddow on Tulsi Gabbard: Six things about Trump's pick for director of national intelligence
YouTube video by MSNBC
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vladtheobserver.bsky.social @vladtheobserver.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
@marcelias.bsky.social Hi Marc. I posted on another thread also. I have folks that want to support your work. Does your org take donations? Also, is Democracy Forward legit? Thanks and keep up the great work.
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vladtheobserver.bsky.social @vladtheobserver.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
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Thread by @JuddLegum on Thread Reader App
@JuddLegum: 1. BREAKING Several Musk associates installed at OPM — including two recent high school graduates — have received unprecedented access to federal human resources databases containing sensi...
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vladtheobserver.bsky.social @vladtheobserver.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Credit to David. This has all the foundations of a great @jessicawildfire.bsky.social deep dive at some point.
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Eric Feigl-Ding @drericding.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
⚠️CDC WEBSITES DELETED—Multiple CDC websites and datasets related to HIV, LGBTQ people, youth health behaviors and more have been removed after the agency was directed to comply with an executive order from President Trump by 5pm deadline. Wildest is taking down even HIV pages!
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vladtheobserver.bsky.social @vladtheobserver.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Concentration Camps & This on same day. This is not good at all. The verbiage in here about mandatory glorification of “America” (also known as MAGA views) is a dark omen. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling – The White House
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose and
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vladtheobserver.bsky.social @vladtheobserver.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Absolute madness. S-Tier Bootlicking by Mr. Tough Guy BJJ Zuckerberg: www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
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Exclusive | Meta to Pay $25 Million to Settle 2021 Trump Lawsuit
The president had sued the social-media company after his accounts were suspended following the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.
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vladtheobserver.bsky.social @vladtheobserver.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
If there was any doubt about the current breakdown of classical capitalistic economics & the conflicts between the owner class vs the rest...great jobs report, & market DOESN'T like it. Damn those people actually doing better for themselves! www.msn.com/en-us/money/...
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vladtheobserver.bsky.social @vladtheobserver.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Great interview. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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Five years of the COVID-19 pandemic: An interview with Dr. Arijit Chakravarty
In this interview, Dr. Chakravarty discusses the current state of the COVID-19 pandemic and public health globally five years after the initial outbreak of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in Wuhan, China.
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vladtheobserver.bsky.social @vladtheobserver.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Never thought I’s see the day where Steve effing Bannon is talkin sense. Image what kind of POS Elon’s gotta be when Mr Littlefinger of Fascism is out here cooking him like this. 😄
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vladtheobserver.bsky.social @vladtheobserver.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Will we be the first nationed (developed?) to not have a god damned Postal Service soon? www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
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Trump considers privatizing U.S. Postal Service, Washington Post reports
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has expressed a keen interest in privatizing the U.S. Postal Service in recent weeks, the Washington Post reported on Saturday, citing three people with knowledge of the matter.
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vladtheobserver.bsky.social @vladtheobserver.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove on the public's trauma & dangerous game of trying to deny COVID ever happened or still looms over us like Chtulu.
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