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E. Rosalie

@erosalie.infoepi.com

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Public health + national security • Johns Hopkins alum • Tracking mysterious weaponized pigeons and FIMI

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E. Rosalie @erosalie.infoepi.com · Apr 2

It’s wild watching every advanced agency developed during my lifetime be destroyed on purpose, by people who want to profit from it and cheered on by those who will be hurt the most because they don't understand how things work.

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E. Rosalie @erosalie.infoepi.com · 19h

Please don't @ me about how you dislike this proposal as if it were my first choice. I, too, have dreams about an ideal world I wish I lived in. The difference is that I'm not naive enough to hold out for that.

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E. Rosalie @erosalie.infoepi.com · 19h

Broker a deal: The White House sufficiently arms Ukraine that it can take back its land and end the war. Ukraine, in return, nominates him for a Nobel. Everyone goes home happy.

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E. Rosalie @erosalie.infoepi.com · 2d

If you’re looking for anything in particular let me know.

E. Rosalie @erosalie.infoepi.com · 2d

US civil rights agency opens sweeping antisemitism probe - this would investigate actions to withhold funding from certain institutions, most likely in cases where the demands were not related to antisemitism. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Exclusive: US civil rights agency opens sweeping antisemitism probe

A Democrat-led civil rights watchdog agency opened a sweeping investigation into how the federal government has responded to allegations of antisemitism on college campuses, a review that could bring a rare dose of official scrutiny to the Trump administration’s confrontations with Columbia and other universities.

www.reuters.com

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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 2d

Shorter Judge Immergut: did I stutter?

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E. Rosalie @erosalie.infoepi.com · 2d

Yarvin does not like the state of things and says he and people like him should make plans to flee the country.

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E. Rosalie @erosalie.infoepi.com · 2d

Take it from a man who was placed in an internment camp. It was not so long ago.

George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 2d

I understand this. Please tell me you do, too.

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E. Rosalie @erosalie.infoepi.com · 3d

I’m not sure if Russia is spending more money funding Ibrahim Traore stan channels on YouTube or their “three day” super duper special operation, and that might be why they’re losing.

a man in a suit and tie says " this comes from overconfidence and not " in front of a russian flag

ALT: a man in a suit and tie says " this comes from overconfidence and not " in front of a russian flag

media.tenor.com

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 4d

President Macron:
“We were very naive to leave our public space to social media networks controlled by US or Chinese companies that don’t share our interests and not interested in survival of our democracies.”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MggN...

French President Macron Speaks at German Unity Day Ceremony | WION LIVE

YouTube video by WION

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E. Rosalie @erosalie.infoepi.com · 4d

Even the most devoted “alt” health advocates don’t gamble on “alt” aeronautics or “alt” electricians—because the risks are obvious and personal. The irony is that “alt” health itself exists only because mainstream medicine has been so successful people feel safe enough to treat it as optional.

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E. Rosalie @erosalie.infoepi.com · 4d

No, I will not hook you up. Do not ask 😂

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E. Rosalie @erosalie.infoepi.com · 4d

Gen-Z men are cooked.

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E. Rosalie @erosalie.infoepi.com · 4d

In the last month, I've had multiple college-age girls tell me they are intentionally trying to date millennial men, not because they are older/established, but because they aren't "podcast bros" and they "mostly respect women." One said she'd rather be single than date a Gen Z guy. Just wow.

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E. Rosalie @erosalie.infoepi.com · 5d

I was served a video on Instagram warning about "government backdoors" in software. It recommended specific software as secure. The claims bothered me, so I looked into them. The recommended software is based in China and has known vulnerabilities. Seems a little coincidental.

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E. Rosalie @erosalie.infoepi.com · 5d

China started its own Visa to outcompete the US for talent since we recently tacked on a $100k fee. The plan they have could work but they are running into considerable domestic opposition. www.wired.com/story/china...

China Rolls Out Its First Talent Visa as the US Retreats on H-1Bs

The Chinese government unveiled a program to woo foreign talent just as the US cracked down on H-1Bs with a $100,000 fee. The move immediately provoked xenophobic backlash.

www.wired.com

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E. Rosalie @erosalie.infoepi.com · 5d

The irony of people destroying democracy because they are afraid of an imagined one world government is that we're now far more likely to end up with one world oligarchy.

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E. Rosalie @erosalie.infoepi.com · 5d

🚨 Elon Musk’s SpaceX Took Money Directly From Chinese Investors, Company Insider Testifies: The unsealed testimony marks the first time direct Chinese investment has been disclosed. As one of America’s most important military contractors, it raises grave concerns.

www.propublica.org/article/elo...

Elon Musk’s SpaceX Took Money Directly From Chinese Investors, Company Insider Testifies

The newly unsealed testimony marks the first time direct Chinese investment in the company has been disclosed, raising new questions about foreign ownership interests in one of America’s most important military contractors.

www.propublica.org

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E. Rosalie @erosalie.infoepi.com · 5d

Researchers increasingly seem to be moving data to EU platforms, primarily due to data privacy and surveillance concerns. I've also started to notice people who aren't in the tech world doing this too. Is anyone else observing this trend?

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E. Rosalie @erosalie.infoepi.com · 6d

So did I get the gist of the generals' meeting right:

Hegseth wants the men--and yes, only the men, according to his speech--in the military to be hella sexy. He demands eye candy at all times. All soldiers must have an appearance that makes him feel tingly inside.

Alrighty then.

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E. Rosalie @erosalie.infoepi.com · 6d

* Seven brothers, with the seventh killing the bodyguard.

E. Rosalie @erosalie.infoepi.com · 6d

This painting becomes much darker when you learn that it depicts a princess who fell in love with her bodyguard in the moments before he goes to duel her six brothers. He killed five of her brothers before the sixth, whom the princess begged her lover to spare, ultimately killed him.

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E. Rosalie @erosalie.infoepi.com · 6d

Staffer: What do we tell the public?!

"We control both houses of Congress, the Presidency, and the Supreme Court..."

Staffer: "Yes..."

"Ooooh let's blame the shutdown on the opposition!"

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E. Rosalie @erosalie.infoepi.com · 6d

USAID paused the shipment of lifesaving drugs. Children died waiting.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 6d

*Sees the most Catholic person in the world doing the most Catholic thing there imaginable*: goddamn Pagans!

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 6d

Far-right Catholics freaking out about the Pope doing normal Pope things will always be entertaining.

The Pope blessed some water? Can you even imagine?

Matt Walsh: Horrific. The whole thing. Pope Leo blesses a block of ice and then stands there while these communist freaks do some kind of weird pagan Earth worshipping hippy ritual. The leader of the Catholic Church shouldn’t be anywhere near this nonsense. What the hell are we doing here

@CatholicSat: The Blessing of the Waters by Pope Leo XIV, at today’s ‘Raising Hope for Climate Justice’ International Conference at Castel Gandolfo.

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E. Rosalie @erosalie.infoepi.com · 6d

A partisan jab may electrify a campaign rally. But in a room of officers fulfilling their duty, it should fall flat—and if it doesn’t, the republic has a deeper problem. If a day comes when upholding and ignoring the Constitution are treated the same, on that day, there will be no honor in service.

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