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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 20h

Remember that there are righteous people among us, always.

Left: Netherlands, 1942

Right: Illinois, 2025

One day in the summer of 1942, after the onset of the deportations of the Jews from Holland to “the East”, a student, who was a courier for the ASG student underground group in Amsterdam, approached the de Vries family, asking them to hide a Jewish child. The de Vrieses, who had two children of their own, decided to accept the offer despite the risk that was involved in hiding Jews, and soon four year-old Louise Pinto was brought to their home.

Amid the smoke bombs and screams that ricocheted throughout a South Shore building last month during a massive military-style immigration raid, one man heard a knock on his door.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.

“I wasn’t planning on letting her stay, but I didn’t know what the hell was going on,” the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.

“I didn’t want them to take her,” said the man, who didn’t want to be named because he fears he’ll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.

“I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her, ‘Just stay there. Don’t open, don’t, shh, just stay quiet,’” he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.

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Henry L Niman PhD @hlniman.bsky.social · 3h

MMWR staff and 70 CDC Disease Detectives fired yesterday

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Tyson Graber @rnaguru.bsky.social · 23h

Avg. of SARS-CoV-2 N1, N2 or other viral genetic markers normalized to Pepper Mild Mottle Virus as a fecal strength indicator; Samples collected by @ottawacity.bsky.social, tested & analyzed by Delatolla lab (uOttawa); Data i/o by @dougmanuel.bsky.social; Plots and tweet bot by @rnaguru.bsky.social

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Tyson Graber @rnaguru.bsky.social · 23h

Ottawa WAVE (Wastewater Analytics for Viral Epidemiology) as of Oct 05. LEFT IMAGE: 7d trendline of SARS-CoV-2 signal since spring 2020 (A); Past year (B), and 2 months (C), inferred case incidence (D), and Reff (E) determined with ern (PMID: 38905266). RIGHT IMAGE: other viral traces

Plots of SARS-CoV-2 signal across time in Ottawa, Canada;

Plots of IAV, RSV, IBV, MPOX wastewater signal across time in Ottawa, Canada;

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Tyson Graber @rnaguru.bsky.social · 1d

I’m starting to see why Americans don’t let go of that Second Amendment thing.

CollinCountyDems @collincountydems.bsky.social · 2d

This is terrifying!

ICE breaks into this woman’s car in the pick-up line at West Loop Elementary school in Chicago and detains her before she can pick her kids up from school. (They were eventually let go after showing their documents)

This is Trump’s America.

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Tyson Graber @rnaguru.bsky.social · 1d

Hopefully they also compile data comparing incident-free miles for self-driving versus regular cars.

Tyson Graber @rnaguru.bsky.social · 1d

Avg. of SARS-CoV-2 N1, N2 or other viral genetic markers normalized to Pepper Mild Mottle Virus as a fecal strength indicator; Samples collected by @ottawacity.bsky.social, tested & analyzed by Delatolla lab (uOttawa); Data i/o by @dougmanuel.bsky.social; Plots and tweet bot by @rnaguru.bsky.social

Tyson Graber @rnaguru.bsky.social · 1d

Ottawa WAVE (Wastewater Analytics for Viral Epidemiology) as of Oct 05. LEFT IMAGE: 7d trendline of SARS-CoV-2 signal since spring 2020 (A); Past year (B), and 2 months (C), inferred case incidence (D), and Reff (E) determined with ern (PMID: 38905266). RIGHT IMAGE: other viral traces

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David Schraub @schraubd.bsky.social · 2d

Scene from #wartornPortland yesterday. As you can see, things have gotten so dire that even our babies are being trained in amphibious operations.

Picture of my baby and his mom at the pool for swim lessons

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Tyson Graber @rnaguru.bsky.social · 2d

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Tyson Graber @rnaguru.bsky.social · 2d

Dr. Thackery’s last words in the series finale of The Knick seem fitting here: “This is all we are.”

Fun show… check it out.

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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 2d

🚨 Horrifying. Does misinformation do real harm? Yep.

Who believes FALSE claim Tylenol causes (true / probably true) autism?

- 41% of parents
- 57% of Republicans

Thx MAHA / MAGA. Dark Age 2.0

www.kff.org/public-opini... via @kff.org

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Dr. Susan Winters ☕️ @docwinter.bsky.social · 2d

💉 New study: 2024–25 COVID vaccines cut ER visits by 29%, hospitalizations by 39%, and death by 64%.

➡️ Protection was seen across ALL age groups — not just the elderly.
➡️ Benefits held even if you’d had COVID or prior shots.

#COVID19 #VaccinesWork #PublicHealth #MedSky #COVIDVaccine #TrustScience

Annual COVID Vaccines Save Lives, New Study Shows

A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination

www.scientificamerican.com

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Tyson Graber @rnaguru.bsky.social · 2d

The game has changed, and Poilievre can’t adapt. It’s not in his DNA — he’s a dinosaur. Time for a new Conservative leader who uses politics to achieve the party’s aims, not to define them.

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Tyson Graber @rnaguru.bsky.social · 2d

Avg. of SARS-CoV-2 N1, N2 or other viral genetic markers normalized to Pepper Mild Mottle Virus as a fecal strength indicator; Samples collected by @ottawacity.bsky.social, tested & analyzed by Delatolla lab (uOttawa); Data i/o by @dougmanuel.bsky.social; Plots and tweet bot by @rnaguru.bsky.social

Tyson Graber @rnaguru.bsky.social · 2d

Ottawa WAVE (Wastewater Analytics for Viral Epidemiology) as of Oct 05. LEFT IMAGE: 7d trendline of SARS-CoV-2 signal since spring 2020 (A); Past year (B), and 2 months (C), inferred case incidence (D), and Reff (E) determined with ern (PMID: 38905266). RIGHT IMAGE: other viral traces

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💞Sabrina💞 @sabrinarina.bsky.social · 4d

Oregon National Guard Adjutant General, General Gronewold says if they are federalized, that he will advise the Title 10 commander to utilize National Guard Troops to PROTECT protesters at ICE facilities. This is the right answer.

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Tyson Graber @rnaguru.bsky.social · 3d

Weeeeeiiiird.

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 3d

Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece.

It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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Tyson Graber @rnaguru.bsky.social · 3d

Avg. of SARS-CoV-2 N1, N2 or other viral genetic markers normalized to Pepper Mild Mottle Virus as a fecal strength indicator; Samples collected by @ottawacity.bsky.social, tested & analyzed by Delatolla lab (uOttawa); Data i/o by @dougmanuel.bsky.social; Plots and tweet bot by @rnaguru.bsky.social

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Tyson Graber @rnaguru.bsky.social · 3d

Ottawa WAVE (Wastewater Analytics for Viral Epidemiology) as of Sep 28. LEFT IMAGE: 7d trendline of SARS-CoV-2 signal since spring 2020 (A); Past year (B), and 2 months (C), inferred case incidence (D), and Reff (E) determined with ern (PMID: 38905266). RIGHT IMAGE: other viral traces

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Tyson Graber @rnaguru.bsky.social · 5d

80% of success is showing up. The other 30% is duct tape and stubborness.

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 5d

The 2025 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine will be announced Monday. The announcement is expected Monday, Oct. 6 at 5:15 a.m. EDT.
https://to.pbs.org/3IVAtri

WATCH LIVE: The winner of the Nobel Prize in medicine is...

The 2025 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine will be announced Monday.

www.pbs.org

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 6d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.bsky.social · 6d

ICE is pepper spraying CPD (Chicago police)

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Tyson Graber @rnaguru.bsky.social · 6d

Putin is shifting the Front. He can’t win with his Special Operation so he’s moving the narrative to one where NATO is directly threatening Russia.

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