Unknown Etiology
@viralpersistence.bsky.social
fund research and clinical trials for infection associated chronic illnesses now, and furthermore provide clean energy-powered hotel cold on demand for free.
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i still have the letter of commendation given to me by my county’s medical director for volunteering to transport the first confirmed COVID patient in my state to a specialty facility. less than a month later we went from PAPR suits to reusing N95s for months and wearing trash bags as gowns.
i keep thinking about how much time i spent training on how to properly wear a PAPR device and then when a pandemic hit wore one once and then never again. i literally haven’t seen a PAPR unit since 2020. it’s like they disappeared.
January 31, 2026 at 12:50 AM
i still have the letter of commendation given to me by my county’s medical director for volunteering to transport the first confirmed COVID patient in my state to a specialty facility. less than a month later we went from PAPR suits to reusing N95s for months and wearing trash bags as gowns.
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ICE isn’t just brutal. It’s also big business. From 2008 to 2021 ICE spent *$1.2 billion* on geolocation tracking, $561M on data analysis, $252M on government databases, and $97M on data brokers. Most of that went to companies who will lobby for this system to stay in place.
January 28, 2026 at 9:17 PM
ICE isn’t just brutal. It’s also big business. From 2008 to 2021 ICE spent *$1.2 billion* on geolocation tracking, $561M on data analysis, $252M on government databases, and $97M on data brokers. Most of that went to companies who will lobby for this system to stay in place.
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January 30, 2026 at 9:17 PM
I think there's an unwillingness in the pro-science movement to acknowledge that a significant percentage of maha moms are driven by a desire to abuse, control and even dispose of people they find inconvenient and resent being expected to take care of: children, the elderly, and disabled people.
the thing about maha is that it's an inherently unstable coalition. you can't have a coalition of chronically ill people who are more or less seeking knowledge and people who are primarily driven by violent prejudice against us. the former group is confused but mostly not self hating.
January 30, 2026 at 9:45 PM
I think there's an unwillingness in the pro-science movement to acknowledge that a significant percentage of maha moms are driven by a desire to abuse, control and even dispose of people they find inconvenient and resent being expected to take care of: children, the elderly, and disabled people.
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We used to make fun of people for pretending to be experts after reading one well-written article about a topic. Now I long to return to that arcadian idyll, that golden age of people actually reading one article before pretending to be an expert.
January 30, 2026 at 5:30 PM
We used to make fun of people for pretending to be experts after reading one well-written article about a topic. Now I long to return to that arcadian idyll, that golden age of people actually reading one article before pretending to be an expert.
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New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham supports a legislative push to ban 287(g) agreements, which entail local officials sending inmates at local jails into U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody, a spokesperson told Source New Mexico on Thursday.
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Gov supports NM ban on local law enforcement agreements with ICE • Source New Mexico
Lujan Grisham had already endorsed the "Immigrant Safety Act" but hadn't yet weighed on an amendment to it banning 287(g) agreements.
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January 29, 2026 at 11:53 PM
New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham supports a legislative push to ban 287(g) agreements, which entail local officials sending inmates at local jails into U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody, a spokesperson told Source New Mexico on Thursday.
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Like you, we have been watching horrors unfold especially in Minnesota. We have been checking on our #MEAction Minnesota community and sending all our love and support. This situation is heartbreaking and sickening.
Take action: makesmesick.org
#pwME #Disability #DisabilityJustice #pwLC
Take action: makesmesick.org
#pwME #Disability #DisabilityJustice #pwLC
January 29, 2026 at 5:25 PM
Like you, we have been watching horrors unfold especially in Minnesota. We have been checking on our #MEAction Minnesota community and sending all our love and support. This situation is heartbreaking and sickening.
Take action: makesmesick.org
#pwME #Disability #DisabilityJustice #pwLC
Take action: makesmesick.org
#pwME #Disability #DisabilityJustice #pwLC
if we defeat ICE/DHS and succeed at making deportations extremely rare over the next few years, we will save tens of millions of lives over the next several decades of climate crisis.
January 29, 2026 at 5:41 AM
if we defeat ICE/DHS and succeed at making deportations extremely rare over the next few years, we will save tens of millions of lives over the next several decades of climate crisis.
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NEW MEXICANS: Friday is Library Legislative Day at the State Legislature. So if you want to call/email your representatives and senators about library stuff, do it tomorrow (Thursday) and Friday, because it will have more impact because they’ll be getting fact sheets and stuff in person on Friday.
January 29, 2026 at 1:06 AM
NEW MEXICANS: Friday is Library Legislative Day at the State Legislature. So if you want to call/email your representatives and senators about library stuff, do it tomorrow (Thursday) and Friday, because it will have more impact because they’ll be getting fact sheets and stuff in person on Friday.
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there are a scary number of people in that space who essentially preach "survival of the fittest" ("novid" rhetoric) every day and it's a big reason why i distanced myself from it
January 28, 2026 at 5:42 PM
there are a scary number of people in that space who essentially preach "survival of the fittest" ("novid" rhetoric) every day and it's a big reason why i distanced myself from it
“your body is naturally strong enough to avoid infections and chronic illness as long as you avoid covid“ is a perfect mirror of anti vax rhetoric, which it also feeds into
covid influencer: “everything is eugenics except actual eugenics, which is fine”
January 28, 2026 at 5:50 PM
“your body is naturally strong enough to avoid infections and chronic illness as long as you avoid covid“ is a perfect mirror of anti vax rhetoric, which it also feeds into
insisting on attributing everything to covid will cause you to say some actual bad person shit sooner or later.
January 28, 2026 at 5:30 PM
insisting on attributing everything to covid will cause you to say some actual bad person shit sooner or later.
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Begging people to please stop posting @halfwaypost.bsky.social's fake stories. It's not even satire. They're not satirizing anything; they're just writing fan fiction.
If you look in the replies to any of their posts, it's like 95% people who think it's real. They should stop it.
If you look in the replies to any of their posts, it's like 95% people who think it's real. They should stop it.
January 28, 2026 at 3:37 PM
Begging people to please stop posting @halfwaypost.bsky.social's fake stories. It's not even satire. They're not satirizing anything; they're just writing fan fiction.
If you look in the replies to any of their posts, it's like 95% people who think it's real. They should stop it.
If you look in the replies to any of their posts, it's like 95% people who think it's real. They should stop it.
people should have to do experiments in a lab at school where the outcome is unknown to everyone including the teacher.
January 28, 2026 at 4:51 AM
people should have to do experiments in a lab at school where the outcome is unknown to everyone including the teacher.
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More and more people are saying this (seriously today seems to be a turning point on discourse)
Abolish DHS. If you can imagine a world before Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, you can imagine a world without the Department of Homeland Security. My latest at @startribune.com. (gift link)
Perry: Abolish ICE? How about DHS altogether.
"We have models for how to structure federal immigration oversight that doesn't rely on an unaccountable masked secret police force running rampant in our streets," David M. Perry writes.
www.startribune.com
January 27, 2026 at 11:50 PM
More and more people are saying this (seriously today seems to be a turning point on discourse)
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It is in the grand scheme of things pointless, but I believe the next lib president should award the Medal of Freedom to the Dixie Chicks for being more courageous and right than every mainstream pundit that fell upwards in 2003.
January 27, 2026 at 3:46 PM
It is in the grand scheme of things pointless, but I believe the next lib president should award the Medal of Freedom to the Dixie Chicks for being more courageous and right than every mainstream pundit that fell upwards in 2003.
I called my senators and told them it doesn’t make sense to have demands to follow already existing law and that everyone knows they aren’t actually doing anything unless they try to claw back dhs funding
Dems coalescing around 5 restrictions on ICE, I'm told:
DHS required to cooperate with state probes (big)
CBP stays at border
warrants for arrests
IDs, bodycams
ICE out of churches, schools
"That package unites a lot of Dems," Sen Chris Murphy tells me on the pod:
newrepublic.com/article/2057...
DHS required to cooperate with state probes (big)
CBP stays at border
warrants for arrests
IDs, bodycams
ICE out of churches, schools
"That package unites a lot of Dems," Sen Chris Murphy tells me on the pod:
newrepublic.com/article/2057...
A Dem Senator’s Harsh Takedown of Trump Hits Home: “Breaking Point”
As Trump scrambles to contain the damage from the latest ICE horrors, Senator Chris Murphy offers a sharp indictment of Trump-ICE lawlessness—and explains how Dems can meet the urgency of the moment.
newrepublic.com
January 27, 2026 at 3:47 PM
I called my senators and told them it doesn’t make sense to have demands to follow already existing law and that everyone knows they aren’t actually doing anything unless they try to claw back dhs funding
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As a VA nurse, Alex Pretti was a member of AFGE. This union also reps Border Patrol, and may have repped Pretti's killer. I talked to VA workers who are furious and want Border Patrol out of AFGE. "For a union member to kill another is a fundamental betrayal of what a union is supposed to be.”
Alex Pretti’s Killer May Be Part of His Union
Border Patrol agents belong to the same federal workers union as VA nurses, a situation some of Pretti’s colleagues are determined to change.
jewishcurrents.org
January 26, 2026 at 11:06 PM
As a VA nurse, Alex Pretti was a member of AFGE. This union also reps Border Patrol, and may have repped Pretti's killer. I talked to VA workers who are furious and want Border Patrol out of AFGE. "For a union member to kill another is a fundamental betrayal of what a union is supposed to be.”
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you have to call your senator because i took 1 minute out of my life to call the zodiac killer
January 27, 2026 at 2:39 PM
you have to call your senator because i took 1 minute out of my life to call the zodiac killer
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This is what surveillance can look and feel like.
I’m no artist 😂. But lately I’ve been so overcome by this ball of surveillance encapsulating me in my bed island. Endless questionnaires to prove I’m still disabled, and to what degree. Every system clawing away to wring me dry of my humanity.
I’m no artist 😂. But lately I’ve been so overcome by this ball of surveillance encapsulating me in my bed island. Endless questionnaires to prove I’m still disabled, and to what degree. Every system clawing away to wring me dry of my humanity.
January 27, 2026 at 3:37 AM
This is what surveillance can look and feel like.
I’m no artist 😂. But lately I’ve been so overcome by this ball of surveillance encapsulating me in my bed island. Endless questionnaires to prove I’m still disabled, and to what degree. Every system clawing away to wring me dry of my humanity.
I’m no artist 😂. But lately I’ve been so overcome by this ball of surveillance encapsulating me in my bed island. Endless questionnaires to prove I’m still disabled, and to what degree. Every system clawing away to wring me dry of my humanity.
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the poor family of this young man are only asking for $4,750 to bring his body home.
let’s blow it up 🩷
let’s blow it up 🩷
This is a more direct link for Victor Manuel Diaz's fundraiser to help his mother repatriate his body to Nicaragua. The total is still only at $2,859. PayPal-friendly payment.
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January 27, 2026 at 12:54 AM
the poor family of this young man are only asking for $4,750 to bring his body home.
let’s blow it up 🩷
let’s blow it up 🩷
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As someone with 25-year NIH funded lab, I endorse. Linking NIH and DHS/ICE funding in the same bill is blood money
As a someone with a 33 year NIH-funded lab whose grant is supposed to be reviewed this week, shut NIH down if that is what's needed to end ICE terrorism. Innocent lives are more important 🧪
The Senate may choose to vote together on the DHS and LHHS bills. Thus, a filibuster on DHS may mean no funding for NIH. What my colleagues are saying:
“Shut it down, public health will understand. I’ll work without pay again.”
- anonymous NIHer
“Shut it down, public health will understand. I’ll work without pay again.”
- anonymous NIHer
January 26, 2026 at 1:51 PM
As someone with 25-year NIH funded lab, I endorse. Linking NIH and DHS/ICE funding in the same bill is blood money
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(one reason Democrats should stop DHS funding is that it is a literally revolutionary amount of resources they are distributing to DHS)
January 26, 2026 at 2:15 PM
(one reason Democrats should stop DHS funding is that it is a literally revolutionary amount of resources they are distributing to DHS)