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Covid is airborne. Covid is not mild (ask your neurons & vasculature). And -- Covid is not over 😷 #wekeepussafe #covidcompetentcommunity #makeairbreathableagain #maskup [art credits: Eyvind Earle, "Paradise"; Artur Rosa, "Layers of Impossibility"]

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Quarantegan @quarantegan.bsky.social · Jul 21

There seem to be a lot of #BlueMAGA voices that are outraged at any perceived maligning of what they believe to be Joe Biden's heroic management of the pandemic he declared "over" in '23 - the one that is, in fact, ongoing.

"He did the best he could."

No. He did what Impact Research told him to.

The first page of a memo from a public relations firm, Impact Research, to President Joe Biden and his staff on February 24, 2022 (about a third of the way through the deadliest few months of the pandemic to date). In summary, the memo states that two years into the pandemic, people are over it and want to get back to normal, and that "nearly every American finally has the tools to protect themselves from this virus." The first two bullet points read "Declare the crisis phase of COVID over and push for feeling and acting more normal", and "Recognize that people are 'worn out' and feeling real harm from the years-long restrictions and [next words underlined] take their side."

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Dr Gina van Raphael @aliagvr.bsky.social · Apr 17

People don't realise Hitler targeted those with disabilities immediately, in the July 1933 Sterilisation Law.

The law mandated forced sterilisation for people with:
Mental illness
Epilepsy
Physical deformities
Blindness and deafness
Alcoholism (considered hereditary).

400,000 were sterilised.

Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · Apr 17

Tried to his this idea pretty hard in my @liberalcurrents.com essay today www.liberalcurrents.com/children-are...

Kennedy has said that kids with ASD "are kids who will never throw a baseball, they'll never go out and date. They'll never write a poem. They'll never pay taxes."
What he is saying here is that autistic people cannot be full members of society.
They cannot participate meaningfully in all life has to offer. As such, they are
somehow set apart from the general public. Not only that, they'll never pay taxes, meaning they will never be productive and never put into society what they are taking out.
The fascistic impulse—and I do believe fascist impulses are what animate MAGA— is to see neurodivergence and disability as deleterious to the public body and as disqualifying for full citizenship. One cannot obtain the fullness of membership in the national body if one can't live up to its ideals.

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jasfriedman.bsky.social @jasfriedman.bsky.social · 9d

www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...

I never forgive those who said sars2 is mild.
This type of behaviour in the 21st century isnt ok.

Post-COVID Smell Loss May Be More Widespread Than Recognized

Self-reported problems with thinking, concentrating more likely in those with olfactory issues

www.medpagetoday.com

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jasfriedman.bsky.social @jasfriedman.bsky.social · 9d

WE ARE HURTING and SUFFERING!
secretldn.com/new-covid-st...
BECAUSE we arent cleaning the air

UK Cases Of A New Covid Strain Are Rising – Here’s Everything You Need To Know About The New ‘Stratus’ Variant

A new Covid variant called ‘Stratus’ is spreading across the UK. Here’s everything that you should know about the symptoms.

secretldn.com

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 1d

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 8h

Trump Tyranny Tracker: Day 261

The daily tracker documenting the latest in corruption, power consolidation, civil & human rights abuses, and weaponization of government news.

Trump Tyranny Tracker: Day 261

October 7, 2025

trumptyrannytracker.substack.com

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Quarantegan @quarantegan.bsky.social · 8h

Weekly, #ThreatModelCybersecurity (𝘛𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘥𝘢𝘺𝘴) & #ThreatModelCovid (𝘛𝘩𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘥𝘢𝘺𝘴) newsletters supply vital, unpaywalled intel.

If you can, even $1/month on Patreon supports this significant journalistic undertaking!

More work by Violet, ie the #CovidSafetyHandbook:

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Threat modeling cybersecurity, Covid, and more with Violet Blue

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Quarantegan @quarantegan.bsky.social · 8h

#ThreatModelCovid for 10/9:

- 🇺🇸: CDC data blackout continues

- 🇺🇸: Highest measles case count in 33 yrs

- 🇬🇧: New rules deny C19 boosters to thousands

- 🇫🇷: C19 cases soar, pharmacies out of tests

- Study: Severe infections leave brainstem damage

- Study: C19 tied to HPV-related cancer risks

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Quarantegan @quarantegan.bsky.social · 8h

📣 Today's #ThreatModelCovid: CDC on the fritz, new measles record, 🧠-stem damage from severe Covid, & more 🦠

Read, share, & support 𝙏𝙝𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙩 𝙈𝙤𝙙𝙚𝙡 newsletters (Tuesdays: #infosec, Thursdays: #covid) & their author, investigative journalist @violetblue.bsky.social

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Covid: October 9, 2025 | Threat Model

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Dr Gina van Raphael @aliagvr.bsky.social · 9d

I was in the USSR before the Wall came down. I was in 'Red' China before it opened post '90s. I lived for years in an absolute monarchy with little tolerance for government critique.

In not ONE of those places did I see anything close to this, ever.

PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 10d

Suzie Rizzio -
"This is in Chicago & I know friends that went there for a TXT concert & decided to walk downtown before the show & they said they felt like they were in a Communist Country! Everywhere you looked there were men in Military uniforms harassing anyone that had brown skin." #cdnpoli

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Dr Gina van Raphael @aliagvr.bsky.social · 4d

I've spent a lot of time explaining to friends and colleagues the very well-funded TechBro dangerous ideas of Network States, TESCREAL, and bizarre eventual government takeover.

@gilduran.com does a superb job here that, as he encourages, must be a warning to all.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2W3...

Gil Duran on Trump, Tech, and “The Nerd Reich”

YouTube video by Commonwealth Club World Affairs of California

www.youtube.com

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 5d

The evil genius of crypto is that it creates fake ‘money’ that trades for real value. Keep the scam running and you can swallow the world.

That is the endgame.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 2d

The Kremlin's new film feature, Толерантность (Tolerance), presents Europe as a bubbling hellhole in which gays and lesbians have rights and bigots, racists and hooligans face repression. It beats the drum for the invasion and conquest of Europe to liberate the Europeans from themselves.

Пропагандистский фильм о Европе «Толерантность» с Захаром Прилепиным собрал в прокате сто тысяч рублей Бюджет, по оценкам экспертов — не меньше 200 миллионов — Meduza

Писатель Захар Прилепин сыграл серийного убийцу, противника европейских либеральных ценностей, в фильме Андрея Грачева «Толерантность». Это картина о вымышленном европейском государстве, где общество ...

meduza.io

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 1d

I'm interviewing Paulina Borsook for the Nerd Reich podcast on Friday. Got any questions for her/us?

Let me know—and sign up to get notified when it gets published.

Newsletter (paywall-free!): www.thenerdreich.com

YouTube: www.youtube.com/@TheNerdReic...

Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 15d

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).

But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 1d

We aren't on the verge of an authoritarian takeover. We are in the middle of it.

But I worry people don't see the whole scheme. They just pay attention to each new daily outrage. So I went to the Senate floor to explain Trump's plan.

Here's a 🧵of the speech. It's important.

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 10h

4. Gavin Newsom is dangerous because he could fuse Washington and San Francisco.

"You know, I actually held a fundraiser for him back in 2003 here in San Francisco. And I'm tempted to talk about that a lot, because it might hurt him."

more to come at the Nerd Reich (free!)

www.thenerdreich.com

The Nerd Reich | Silicon Valley Tech Extremism

Silicon Valley tech billionaire politics: authoritarianism, fascism, plutocracy, weirdness

www.thenerdreich.com

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Death Panel @deathpanel.bsky.social · 24d

In our latest, @dreanyc123.bsky.social returns to discuss how healthcare workers can resist ICE and refuse to participate in criminalizing the people the care for, and the resources available from Beyond Do No Harm

www.patreon.com/posts/138979...

Beyond Do No Harm w/ Andrea Ritchie (09/15/25) | The Death Panel

www.patreon.com

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Death Panel @deathpanel.bsky.social · 22h

In our latest, we speak with @workshops4gaza.bsky.social about their work redirecting funds to keep people alive in Palestine, the need to stand up to free the movement’s political prisoners, and more

on.soundcloud.com/NNw9iO7ABgX9...

Workshops for Gaza

Note: This episode was originally released October 6th for Death Panel patrons. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Bea

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Quarantegan @quarantegan.bsky.social · 8h

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Open Forum Infectious Diseases @ofidjournal.bsky.social · 14h

Infant CD4 T-cell response to SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccination is restricted in cytokine production and modified by vaccine manufacturer

✅ Just Accepted
#IDSky
🔗 https://bit.ly/46AbHpP

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The Creatively Maladjusted @tyrotcm.bsky.social · 14h

Don't call cops' face coverings masks. Balaclavas or neck gaiters or face coverings, but not that. Don't want to conflate them with N95s, since most people don't know what a disposable respirator is off hand & so N95s are often referred to as masks.

The Creatively Maladjusted @tyrotcm.bsky.social · 14h

I'm immunocompromised and have severe lung disease. Anything that weakens support for respirators, including disposable ones like n95s, endangers people like me.

Precision of speech is imperative in circumstances like these.

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A Rogue Monster @aroguemonster.bsky.social · Sep 4

Every year Haymarket books hosts Socialism Conference in Chicago and it is a FULLY MASKED EVENT. its just so easy.

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chadzia dax 🔞😷🖖🏻 @m00psy.bsky.social · Sep 5

it makes all the sense!! and it makes me sad to see attendees and speakers unmasked—that is risking a lot both personally and on other people’s behalf (since they likely have to come into contact with workers while traveling to and from the con).

chadzia dax 🔞😷🖖🏻 @m00psy.bsky.social · May 31

like if you don’t care about yourself, fellow attendees, workers, and everyone you come into contact with during and after travel, do it for the actors and writers and artists you’re there to show appreciation for in the first place? 🙏🏻 they can’t keep making media for us if they get too disabled.

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Jadzia Axelrod 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @planetx.bsky.social · Sep 4

Masking at conventions makes so much sense I don't know why we don't all do it. The chances of getting get sick at a con are so high we have a cute little name for it: "con crud." That its easy to get COVID at cons should come as no surprise. Why would you not want to protect yourself and others?

Jadzia on stage at New York Comic Con, wearing a K95 mask.

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Covid-Safer SF/Bay Area @covidsafersf.bsky.social · 13h

1/ Thrilling to see so many mask-required events taking place in the Bay Area this weekend, with many requiring KN95s or better! 🧵
(Oakland) Fri., 10/10, 7-8 p.m.: Latin fusion dance class ⬇️
bsky.app/profile/covi...

Covid-Safer SF/Bay Area @covidsafersf.bsky.social · 2d

(Oakland) Fri., 10/10, 7-8 p.m.: KN95-or-better Latin fusion dance class at In Lak’ech Dance Studio. Air purifier, fans, & open door for ventilation. Contact tracing.
More info: linktr.ee/supernova_me...
Link to their Instagram post: www.instagram.com/p/DPhKH__iVkw/

Video capture image of three figures wearing respirators, dancing in a dance studio in front of a wall of mirrors. Text reads: “Join us Friday October 10th 7-8pm at In Lak’ech Dance Studio in West Oakland. Link in bio. I’m cooking up something spooky, so dress in your spookiest.”

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Greg Morosoff @gregmorosoff.bsky.social · 13h

Now might be a good time to talk about full face gas masks.

There are many out there.
Make sure you use NATO approved cartridges.

And yes, I do own one.
Also, make sure you have at least a few N95s on hand.

Foam ear protection will keep pepper out of ears.

#TheAlliedForces
#TheLiberalPrepper

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