Galina Esther Shubina, my coffee is my own
galsh.bsky.social
Galina Esther Shubina, my coffee is my own
@galsh.bsky.social
Humans. Data. Puns. AI/ML. WIDS_Sweden. MSc Epidemiology program at LSHTM. Tripledot Studios. Ex-King. Ex-Google. Ex-Northvolt. ☕☕☕. A mostly American living in Sweden. Formerly @galinash on the semi-dead app.
It's just a massive steal at this point. It doesn't matter what money was appropriate for. There are no checks or balances.
The Project 2025 author is using millions of dollars in USAID money for his own security detail.

It is estimated that 762,000 people have *already died* as a result of Elon Musk and Russell Vought’s obscene murder of USAID, including more than 500,000 children.

Vought is a mass murderer.
Exclusive: White House uses USAID funds for budget director Vought's security, documents show
The White House budget office is using millions of dollars from the former U.S. foreign aid agency to pay for the security detail of Russell Vought, President Donald Trump's budget chief and an archit...
www.reuters.com
February 14, 2026 at 12:18 AM
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NEW: A federal tool meant to find noncitizens on voter rolls is consistently marking citizens as noncitizens, especially if they were born outside the U.S., causing chaos as election clerks try not to disenfranchise voters, @zachdespart.bsky.social and I found. 🧵 www.propublica.org/article/save...
“Not Ready for Prime Time.” A Federal Tool to Check Voter Citizenship Keeps Making Mistakes.
The Department of Homeland Security pushed out the revamped tool while it was still adding data. That led to widespread misidentification, particularly for citizens born outside the U.S.
www.propublica.org
February 13, 2026 at 1:21 PM
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Name names. Marty Makary, Vinay Prasad, Jay Bhattacharya, Tracy Beth Hoeg, Martin Kulldorff, Russell Vought, RFK Jr., Donald Trump. All of them contributed to this by their relentless attacks on vaccines and biomedical R&D.
In terms of what cures are being lost:

- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease
February 13, 2026 at 10:13 AM
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February 13, 2026 at 11:29 AM
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Lots of bizarre anecdotes about Noem-Lewandowski DHS dysfunction in this WSJ story, but among them are more details about how CBP director Rodney Scott has been marginalized so that CBP field commanders like Bovino can report directly to the top:

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
February 13, 2026 at 8:55 AM
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When the Supreme Court allowed immigration agents to consider race during sweeps, Justice Brett Kavanaugh said that citizens shouldn’t be concerned because agents will “promptly let the individual go.”

For these Americans, that wasn’t true.

(Published Oct. 2025)
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
www.propublica.org
February 13, 2026 at 4:00 AM
Prasad, Bhattacharya and the rest of the pro-covid cranks are fucking evil.
In terms of what cures are being lost:

- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease
February 13, 2026 at 6:57 AM
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cool, cool. so we are sort of like citizens, but not really?
February 12, 2026 at 9:09 PM
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I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it.

I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”

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February 12, 2026 at 5:59 PM
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February 12, 2026 at 5:24 PM
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Opinion | Epstein's friends aren't just pedophiles—they're also job creators.

by Bret Stephens
February 12, 2026 at 5:22 PM
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There's a scandal in Sweden now as the National board of Health & Welfare refused to lower the colorectal cancer screening age from 60 to 50 despite the strong recommendation from experts (translation in alt).

www.dn.se/sverige/stor...
February 12, 2026 at 5:18 PM
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Top tip: if you ever hear anyone talking about the "need to defend Western values," rest assured that they hold views functionally indistinguishable from the Taliban.
February 12, 2026 at 4:39 PM
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RON JOHNSON: Did you ever encourage people to go out there and exercise their First Amendment rights?

KEITH ELLISON: I freely admit being in favor of the First Amendment
February 12, 2026 at 2:58 PM
My hubby pointed out that this is basically half a plot of Nena's song Neunundneunzig Luftballons.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/99_Luft...
February 12, 2026 at 11:58 AM
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You gotta admit, the staffers in the background keeping it real are the best part.
February 12, 2026 at 6:12 AM
Hey, look what I brought from Boston @janeruffino.bsky.social
February 12, 2026 at 9:10 AM
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Juana Rodriguez, a U.S. citizen born in Idaho, said she was among those detained. The ACLU said in its news release that her 3-year-old son cried as officers told him to hold on to her pocket.
February 12, 2026 at 1:43 AM
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This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.
More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...
Idaho families sue over immigration raid that swept up hundreds, including U.S. citizens — NBC News
About 400 people, including children and U.S. citizens, were detained for four hours while they were denied food and water in the raid, according to the lawsuit.
apple.news
February 12, 2026 at 2:26 AM
What is this awful crap 🤡😡
“Russia’s South Caucasus.”

Something has gone seriously wrong at the Washington Post
February 12, 2026 at 1:50 AM
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February 11, 2026 at 11:29 PM
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what is with these people and dogs?
This is some genuinely psycho shit...
February 11, 2026 at 9:07 PM
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You can joke about Pam Bondi’s ridiculous unprofessionalism all you want, but I’m deeply shocked by it: She acts as if she fears absolutely no consequences, convinced that there will be no more political power transfers. — This should shake everyone to their core.
February 11, 2026 at 5:48 PM