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Arturo Portnoy
@portna.bsky.social
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Professor of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez / The pandemic ends when infections end, not when your attention span ends.
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Arturo Portnoy @portna.bsky.social · Sep 11
RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES
THE EPSTEIN FILES RELEASE
EPSTEIN FILES RELEASE THE
FILES RELEASE THE EPSTEIN
RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES
THE EPSTEIN FILES RELEASE
EPSTEIN FILES RELEASE THE
FILES RELEASE THE EPSTEIN
RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES
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Arturo Portnoy @portna.bsky.social · 18h
Here's the underlying problem: even after Trump is gone, MAGAts will be MAGAts.
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 19h
This is beyond bad. All of our disease defenses are down now. We are sitting ducks. This is #RussellVought #DonaldTrump #RFKJr. They are endangering American lives with their insane crusade. These men are hazardous to your health and dangerous to the republic. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...
Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials
www.nytimes.com
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 19h
Newsom with the receipts!
Gavin Newsom Digs Up Old JD Vance Photo To Troll MAGA Fans Who Say They'll Boycott The Super Bowl
www.comicsands.com
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d
FULL STORY HERE: Emails began flooding CDC inboxes late Friday night announcing dozens of layoffs. HR people brought back from furlough to oversee the RIFs. Disease detectives, entire Washington office, global health, injury prevention, MMWR staff among those hit.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...
Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials
www.nytimes.com
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Arturo Portnoy @portna.bsky.social · 1d
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d
Nothing says “America First” like letting another country put an Air Force base in Idaho
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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d
A restraining order was issued YESTERDAY by a federal judge barring detention of journalists in this district unless they refuse to reposition themselves and are given adequate time to do so, or there’s probable cause they’ve committed a crime.
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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 1d
BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.
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Arturo Portnoy @portna.bsky.social · 1d
Yeah, yeah, yeah...

Now STFU and release the Epstein (Trump) files.
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Arturo Portnoy @portna.bsky.social · 1d
MAGAts... 🤣😂 Suck it! www.thedailybeast.com/maga-meltdow...
MAGA Meltdown Kicks Off Immediately After Trump Nobel Prize Snub
Conservative talking heads, including a top White House official and Laura Loomer, wasted no time in showing their anger.
www.thedailybeast.com
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Arturo Portnoy @portna.bsky.social · 1d
Suck it, Donny.
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Arturo Portnoy @portna.bsky.social · 1d
Suck on that, Trumpy. 😁
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 1d
Maria Corina Machado declared as the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize winner.
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Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social · 1d
When a collaborator is targeted because her scientific findings that attribute extreme weather to human-caused climate change is being used (effectively) in climate lawsuits against oil companies, you know times are dark indeed.

ICYMI @davidho.bsky.social

www.eenews.net/articles/cli...
Climate critics try to discredit IPCC author for linking disasters to global warming
Roger Pielke Jr. and oil industry supporters are attacking climate scientist Friederike Otto, whose work has been used in lawsuits against polluters.
www.eenews.net
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Ronnie H 🇺🇸 @ronicats.bsky.social · 3d
Release the Epstein files!
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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 2d
In a democracy based on freedom and the rule of law, we don’t jail public officials—or anyone—because of policy disagreements. We need everyone to repudiate this nonsense because a president cannot act as a prosecutor, judge, jury and dictator.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 2d
I guess we know who is behind the writing some of these posts now.
Screenshot of a tweet from OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) on X. The tweet claims to show a close-up of a note that Secretary of State Marco Rubio handed to President Donald Trump during a White House roundtable. The text of the note allegedly reads, ‘Very close. We need you to approve a Truth Social post soon, so you can announce deal first.’ Below the tweet, a blurry photo shows a piece of White House stationery with partially legible handwriting and the words ‘Very close’ visible at the top.
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 2d
⚠️ Fascinating new research shows LLMs become misaligned when optimized for audience—even when explicitly instructed to remain truthful

Paper:
arxiv.org/pdf/2510.06105
James Zou @james_y_zou Follow We found a troubling emergent behavior in LLM. *When LLMs compete for social media likes, they start making things up When they compete for votes, they turn inflammatory/populist When optimized for audiences, LLMs inadvertently become misaligned—we call this Moloch's Bargain MOLOCH'S BARGAIN: EMERGENT MISALIGNMENT WHEN LLMS COMPETE FOR AUDIENCES Batu El Stanford University batuel@stanford.edu James Zou Stanford University jamesz@stanford.edu ABSTRACt
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Arturo Portnoy @portna.bsky.social · 3d
"Death rates have not rebounded quite as researchers expected in the years since. In addition to COVID, increased deaths from heart disease, diabetes, chronic liver disease/cirrhosis, along with drug overdoses contributed to excess mortality."

insurancenewsnet.com/innarticle/s...
Swiss RE's US CEO discusses excess mortality, long COVID and GLP-1 drugs
Mortality has become a topic of greater importance in the life insurance industry following the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.
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Arturo Portnoy @portna.bsky.social · 3d
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40813533/
SARS-CoV-2 infection heightens the risk of developing HPV-related carcinoma in situ and cancer - PubMed
SARS-CoV-2 infection is associated with elevated risks of HPV-related carcinoma in situ and cancer, irrespective of age or race. The findings underscore the importance of understanding the interplay b...
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Arturo Portnoy @portna.bsky.social · 5d
Many problems stem from the same festering situation: the rich are not paying their fair share of taxes.

TAX THE RICH. SOLVE THE PROBLEMS.
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Arturo Portnoy @portna.bsky.social · 5d
🤡🤡🤡 Says the machine gun totin' serpent...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 5d
Bad Bunny rolling into the Super Bowl with a demonic sexual performance in Spanish.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 5d
71.5% of ICE detainees have no criminal convictions, according to government data.

Don’t fall for Trump’s lies about targeting the “worst of the worst.”

As Trump's regime terrorizes communities to fill up detention centers, remember that some of his biggest donors are private prison corporations.
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Arturo Portnoy @portna.bsky.social · 5d
medicalxpress.com/news/2025-10...
Unusual heart rhythm disorder is surprisingly common in patients with long COVID
A new study from Karolinska Institutet shows that an unusual heart rhythm disorder, POTS, is particularly common in people with long COVID. The majority of those affected are middle-aged women. The st...
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Arturo Portnoy @portna.bsky.social · 6d
Your "anything but COVID" infection becomes your "anything but Long COVID" chronic illness, which becomes your "unexpected" premature death. 1,2,3.
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Billy Hanlon @bhanlon15.bsky.social · 6d
Global News: 'Photo exhibition highlights reality of Canadians with long COVID'

'The Living with Long COVID exhibition is a collaboration by the Museum of Vancouver and SFU's Faculty of Health Sciences - offering a glimpse into the daily lives...'

globalnews.ca/video/114650...
Photo exhibition highlights reality of Canadians with long COVID | Watch News Videos Online
Watch Photo exhibition highlights reality of Canadians with long COVID Video Online, on GlobalNews.ca
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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 8d
Something truly awful happened to me today. It was to do with C19… but I can’t talk about it because it will have to be dealt with formally.
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