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brownecfm.bsky.social
This is exactly what happens when a novel seasonal influenza strain meets a population with Covid-induced immune dysregulation; it's not 'like Covid again', it's the ongoing and continuous effects of Covid.

www.bbc.com/news/article...
Flu: It is like Covid again, says principal as 170 pupils sick
Confirmed flu cases among adults and children across Northern Ireland have more than trebled in the last two weeks.
www.bbc.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:09 PM
vladtheobserver.bsky.social
Happy Thanksgiving 🦃 to all the truly good folks in the world regardless if we agree on politics. If you mask 😷, are for science and democracy, count yourselves amongst them! 🍻. The rest of y’all can marinate in the world you created.
November 28, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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petebuttigieg.bsky.social
What's happening with Jimmy Kimmel is about politics and power.
September 19, 2025 at 1:04 AM
vladtheobserver.bsky.social
@gavinnewsom.bsky.social It’s time to seriously consider setting up CA’s own FDA & CDC. The federal republic has been dismantled & we don’t want to live in the middle ages of disease and safety.
August 27, 2025 at 2:13 PM
vladtheobserver.bsky.social
Only putting this up to encourage businesses & companies/hospitals. This reading is from my cubicle. It IS possible to clean the air with HVAC upgrades. Protect your employees. It’s taken me 5yrs of hounding them but the results are worth it.
August 4, 2025 at 8:22 PM
vladtheobserver.bsky.social
Not the greatest guy in the world to model your life after but as a character & influence to GenX Americans, an absolute titan.
July 24, 2025 at 4:03 PM
vladtheobserver.bsky.social
#GenZStare Seeing lots of articles about the GenZ stare & mentioning COVID "lockdowns" which is hilarious. I would put culprit in order 1) Virtual/Device Addiction 2) Changing society/world strife 3) COVID...repeated cog. damage affecting social interaction processing.
July 20, 2025 at 5:34 PM
vladtheobserver.bsky.social
Anyone know what our NYC community prognosis for masking and public health is with Zohran Mamdani? Don’t know much about his views on that.
June 25, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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luckytran.com
Masks are under serious threat at being banned widely due to politicization. This would be a public health disaster. If you are only wearing a mask at protests, please consider also wearing them elsewhere. The more people mask, the more we normalize masks and protect them against bans.
June 15, 2025 at 3:20 PM
vladtheobserver.bsky.social
June 14, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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luckytran.com
NEW: After firing expert scientists on the CDC's vaccine advisory committee, RFK Jr. has named their replacements.

The new committee contains many figures known for spreading disinformation about vaccines and COVID including Robert Malone and Martin Kulldorff.

This is bad.
The list includes several well-known critics of vaccines. The eight new members, a significant decline from the 17 that previously served on the panel, include: Dr. Joseph R. Hibbeln, a psychiatrist and nutritional scientist who previously worked on nutritional neuroscience at the NIH; Dr. Martin Kulldorf, an epidemiologist formerly at Harvard Medical School, who has served on an FDA safety committee as well as the vaccine subgroup of ACIP; Retsef Levi, a professor of operations management at the MIT Sloan School of Management; Dr. Robert Malone, a physician who conducted early research on mRNA vaccine technology; Dr. Cody Meissner, a professor of pediatrics at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine, who has previously held advisory roles at CDC and FDA, including as an ACIP member; Dr. James Pagano, an emergency medicine physician; Vicky Pebsworth, a nurse with a PhD in public health, who has previously served on FDA vaccine advisory committees; Dr. Michael Ross, an obstetrician and gynecologicist, who has served on a CDC advisory committee for the prevention of breast and cervical cancer.
June 11, 2025 at 9:31 PM
vladtheobserver.bsky.social
www.espn.com.sg/mma/story/_/...
Ex-MMA star Askren in hospital with severe illness
Former MMA champion Ben Askren was hospitalized after developing severe pneumonia, his wife posted on social media on Saturday.
www.espn.com.sg
June 8, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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olgalautman.bsky.social
“While much of the media was busy running a full-scale PR rehabilitation tour for Elon Musk—casting him as a bold disruptor who stepped away from government and claiming that his unauthorized DOGE project had merely failed to “cut waste,”—the real story slipped past the headlines”

My latest…
Did Musk Really "Leave"? NO
Unauthorized DOGE Is Still Operational and Dangerous
olgalautman.substack.com
May 31, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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tryangregory.bsky.social
Meet "Nimbus", aka SARS-CoV-2 variant NB.1.8.1.

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Diagram showing the ancestry of Nimbus (NB.1.8.1). The evolution of NB.1.8.1 has including three recombination events, including XBB (Kraken) and BA.2.86 (Pirola) lineages. Evolutionary tree of SARS-CoV-2 variants showing the small fraction of diversity covered by every variant with a Greek letter except "Omicron", and the enormous diversity within "Omicron", including Nimbus NB.1.8.1.
May 27, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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covid19disease.bsky.social
Just spoke with my CDC sources

They said a new COVID-19 wave is hitting NYC and LA.

Cases up~20% this week expected to rise further over the next month.

Exactly 4 months since the January 20 peak, the virus is resurging.
May 21, 2025 at 1:46 PM
vladtheobserver.bsky.social
Great write-up. 👇🏻

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whn.global
May 14, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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lincolnproject.us
"I did this!"
May 10, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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christianhanley.bsky.social
@davetroy.com does it again, connecting the dots between tech barons, foreign influence campaigns, and what we in the public see expressed in our politics. It's another dire warning and compelling call to action.
america2.news/convergence-...
'Convergence' Is Here – And We're Not Prepared
American politics is converging towards a vague concept of authoritarian "unity," influenced by a small network of backers.
america2.news
April 21, 2025 at 6:23 PM
vladtheobserver.bsky.social
April 21, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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youranoncentral.bsky.social
Musk’s DOGE involved in what appears to be a foreign espionage operation and data theft. They also have death threatened US federal whistleblowers and disabled security systems, deliberately allowing Russian IPs to access sensitive US federal government systems.

www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data The IT team met to discuss insider threats - namely, the DOGE engineers, whose activities it had little insight into or control over. "We had no idea what they did," he explained. Those conversations are reflected in his official disclosure. They eventually launched a formal breach investigation, according to the disclosure, and prepared a request for assistance from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). However, those efforts were disrupted without an explanation, Berulis said. That was deeply troubling to Berulis, who felt he needed help to try to get to the bottom of what happened and determine what new vulnerabilities might be exploited as a result. In the days after Berulis and his colleagues prepared a request for CISAs help investigating the breach, Berulis found a printed letter in an envelope taped to his door, which included threatening language, sensitive personal information and overhead pictures of him walking his dog, according to the cover letter attached to his official disclosure. It's unclear who sent it, but the letter made specific reference to his decision to report the breach. Law enforcement is investigating the letter. While investigating the data taken from the agency, Berulis tried to determine its ultimate destination. But whoever had exfiltrated it had disguised its destination too, according to the disclosure. DOGE staffers had permission to access the system, but removing data is another matter. Berulis says someone appeared to be doing something called DNS tunneling to prevent the data exfiltration from being detected. He came to that conclusion, outlined in his disclosure, after he saw a traffic spike in DNS requests parallel to the data being exfiltrated, a spike 1,000 times the normal number of requests. When someone uses this kind of technique, they set up a domain name that pings the target system with questions or queries. But they configure the compromised server so that it answers those DNS queries by sending out packets of data, allowing the attacker to steal information that has been broken down into smaller chunks. "We've seen Russian threat actors do things like this on U.S. government systems," said one threat intelligence researcher who requested anonymity because they weren't authorized to speak publicly by their employer. That analyst, who has extensive experience hunting nation-state-sponsored hackers, reviewed the whistleblower's technical claims. Within minutes after DOGE accessed the NLRB's systems, someone with an IP address in Russia started trying to log in, according to Berulis' disclosure. The attempts were "near real-time," according to the disclosure. Those attempts were blocked, but they were especially alarming. Whoever was attempting to log in was using one of the newly created DOGE accounts - and the person had the correct username and password, according to Berulis. While it's possible the user was disguising their location, it's highly unlikely they'd appear to be coming from Russia if they wanted to avoid suspicion, cybersecurity experts interviewed by NPR explained. On their own, a few failed login attempts from a Russian IP address aren't a smoking gun, those cybersecurity experts interviewed by NPR said. But given the overall picture of activity, it's a concerning sign that foreign adversaries may already be searching for ways into government systems that DOGE engineers may have left exposed. "When you move fast and break stuff, the opportunity to ride the coattails of authorized access is ridiculously easy to achieve," said Handorf. What he means is that if DOGE engineers left access points to the network open, it would be very easy for spies or criminals to break in and steal data behind DOGE. He said he could also see foreign adversaries trying to recruit or pay DOGE team members for access to sensitive data. "It would not surprise me if DOGE is accidentally compromised."
April 16, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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marcelias.bsky.social
Here is an up to date list of Big Law collaborators along with how much in free legal services they have pledged to Trump's causes.

Paul Weiss 40M
Cadwalader 100M
Milbank 100M
Skadden Arps 100M
Willkie Farr 100M
A&O Shearman 125M
Kirkland & Ellis 125M
Latham & Watkins 125M
Simpson Thacher 125M
April 11, 2025 at 10:27 PM
vladtheobserver.bsky.social
FFS.🤦🏻‍♂️ 🐛 Brain has made a decree. Here we go!
FFS…🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️ here we go! It’s official 🐛 Brain has made a decree.
April 10, 2025 at 2:05 PM
vladtheobserver.bsky.social
Dystopia Takes: Rn, & maybe for some time now, most of folks’ expensive financial advisors r giving them bad advice. I see analysts trying to process intentional destruction of economy through the lens of norms/history; Unless they follow likes of @davetroy.com @jessicawildfire.bsky.social. 😬
April 4, 2025 at 3:19 PM
vladtheobserver.bsky.social
An update on expired Novavax stocks at pharmacies from a Novavax rep. YMMV:
April 2, 2025 at 3:17 PM
vladtheobserver.bsky.social
@novavax.bsky.social@novavax.bsky.social Reports were coming in that your Fall 2024 updated COVID shots expired on March 31. Are you going to be sending fresher ones to pharmacies? What's the plan for people who need it now?
April 1, 2025 at 11:08 PM