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We have allowed a multi system vascular virus to spread unchecked for nearly 6 years.

Public health has failed to advise folks of the risk to long term health, or of the fact that there’s no such thing as “mild” COVID.

Yet doctors blame sudden rise in young stroke patients on everything BUT Covid
Why so many people are having strokes in their 20s, 30s and 40s: ‘We’ve never had patients so young’
Dr. Mohammad Anadani has shared some intriguing theories on what’s behind the alarming trend of healthy, 20-somethings having strokes.
nypost.com
June 4, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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Kamala Harris speaking in Australia,

"I do worry that we remember history"

"It's important that we remember the 1930s"

"It’s important that we remember that history has taught us that isolation does not equal insulation"

"History has taught us the importance of relationships of trust"
May 25, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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The worldview of sea surface temperatures really does put into perspective how extreme the anomalous warmth is off the coast of Ireland.

It's the biggest & most intense marine heatwave on the planet, some >5°C above normal. Enhanced rainfall & hotter heatwaves a possible impact.
May 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Oh dear god. This is bad.
The Environmental Protection Agency has drafted a plan to eliminate all limits on greenhouse gases from coal and gas-fired power plants in the U.S., according to internal agency documents reviewed by The New York Times.
Documents Show E.P.A. Wants to Erase Greenhouse Gas Limits on Power Plants
www.nytimes.com
May 24, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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This is phenomenal.

Sea surface temperatures are >5C above average to the west of the UK and around Iceland. It's the strongest area of anomalous warmth on the planet at the moment.

It's the warmest in recorded history for northwest Europe.
May 25, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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Our sys. of checks & balances is breaking. Repubs have broken Democracy & the rule of law.

The domestic policy bill limits the power of fed. judges to hold people in contempt, "potentially shielding [T. & his admin] from the consequences of violating court orders."

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...
Republican Bill Would Limit Judges’ Contempt Power
www.nytimes.com
May 23, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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By @alejandrabee.bsky.social

The House and Senate both voted to loosen regulations on air pollutants like dioxin and mercury, which are associated with higher cancer risk.
Congress moves to loosen toxic air pollution rules
The House and Senate both voted to loosen regulations on air pollutants like dioxin and mercury, which are associated with higher cancer risk.
www.npr.org
May 22, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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Those silly eccentrics with their evermasking & their fledgling research
April 2, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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RFK is a eugenics freak first and foremost and everything falls downstream from that. he *wants* excess deaths. he thinks that only the "fit" should survive.
March 28, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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We need a study on how neuro + ❤️ disease, & immune dysfunction got rebranded in public consciousness. HIV stigma in the 80s was awful—but now? People casually accept lifelong antivirals & repeat infections, 🧠 damage, excess mortality… even though there’s no proven safe/effective antiviral for SARS2.
March 28, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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NEW – Global soil moisture in ‘irreversible’ decline due to climate change, study says | @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org

Read here: buff.ly/rFU8bL3
March 27, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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51% of Canadians believe the government should approach the United States as a threat or as an enemy. Far fewer now see it as a friend or ally.

Canadians have a less favourable view of the US than India, a country which murdered Canadian citizens on Canadian soil.
March 5, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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Since the US has just destroyed all ties with it's allies, there is no doubt China(BRICS+ nations) are the most powerful force on the planet currently.

www.bbc.com/news/article...
China says it is ready for 'any type of war' with US
The comments come in response to US tariffs and as Beijing boosts defence spending by 7.2%.
www.bbc.com
March 5, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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I have a (now) retired biologist friend that was working on experiments with exactly this about 10 years ago & he already told me we had passed the point of any possible growth benefit then. :(
March 4, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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Plants losing their appetite for carbon dioxide amid effects of warming climate

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Plants losing appetite for carbon dioxide amid effects of warming climate
Earth’s plants and soils reached peak carbon dioxide sequestration in 2008 but proportion absorbed has been declining since, study finds
www.theguardian.com
March 4, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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To appreciate how the US has changed, watch these classic movies.
- The Post
- All the President’s Men
- Hidden Figures
- American President
- Dave
- Apollo 13
- Good Night & Good Luck
- Imitation Game
- Spotlight
- Wag the Dog
- Die Hard With A Vengeance

The world they depict is unimaginable now.
March 4, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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A big problem with sufferers of narcissistic personality disorder is that they are eternal optimists. They really believe their own bullsh¡t. That’s one good reason why they should never be allowed to have any influence over long-term plans, policy or – especially – any kind of risk management.
March 5, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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“They say they will enjoy a few more nice years on earth. They know there’s no future.”
If there's a plan, it's this: The rich believe we're doomed, and they honestly see no point in providing vaccines and medicines anymore because we're all going to die anyway, so they're just going to plunder the government for their own last hurrah.
www.the-sentinel-intelligence.com/p/the-super-...
The Super Rich Know We're Doomed
They're not trying so hard to hide it anymore.
www.the-sentinel-intelligence.com
March 4, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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"We don’t need astronauts to tell us that there is no such thing as infinite growth on a (tiny, fragile) finite planet. [Yet] we march on, lemming-like, towards overshoot and collapse."

Great @irishtimes.bsky.social piece by Sadhbh O'Neill.
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
Limits to Growth reports vindicated as Earth faces overshoot and collapse
The critical lesson of the Limits to Growth reports – that there is no such thing as infinite growth on a tiny, fragile, finite planet – has escaped our consciousness
www.irishtimes.com
September 29, 2023 at 9:29 AM
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“Aside from the bill’s aim to intimidate anti-genocide protestors and enable the police to arrest anyone for wearing a mask at these protests, the bill further undermines public health in the midst of spikes in multiple respiratory illnesses around the country.”
Democratic lawmakers in Maryland push right-wing mask ban
A group of lawmakers in Maryland has proposed a bill that would criminalize so-called “masked intimidation.”
www.wsws.org
March 1, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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Watching Trump & Vance disrespect, talk over and yell at Zelensky felt like classic abuse tactics. Gaslight, blame, deflect & then threaten.

That was not diplomacy. That was not Presidential.

I’m grateful Zelensky held his own and made sure everyone knew Russia broke the first ceasefire.
February 28, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Guess I am a Flu alarmist as well.
The brains of the cats dying with #H5N1 look terrible. Higher viral RNA and antigen in the brain than in the lungs.
Cats also can serve of reassortment of avian and mammalian influenza viruses = creation of new influenza strains with pandemic potential.
#BirdFlu
February 28, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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I don’t understand how not wanting to be careless with a novel virus is “alarmist”.

I honestly thought I was being a boring, ordinary, straightforward doctor.

It’s new, it’s a disease, avoid. 🤷🏻‍♀️
February 28, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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It’s really weird and kind of terrifying living here and watching so many people just keep norm-ing it up. Like nothing’s happening, there’s nothing they can do, so might as well go to brunch. No one cares about much of anything much less anyone.
March 1, 2025 at 5:34 AM