Carsten
@blackpeartree.bsky.social
my garden will grow so high
that I will be completely hidden
that I will be completely hidden
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Wow. New NBC poll finds 78% support vaccines, including 72% of independents and 67% of Republicans.
As I keep trying to argue, Democrats should polarize the shit out of the vaccine/public health debate. Make people take sides. It will split Republicans and MAGA.
See this:
As I keep trying to argue, Democrats should polarize the shit out of the vaccine/public health debate. Make people take sides. It will split Republicans and MAGA.
See this:
Trump/RFK are decapitating our public health system, a pillar of American greatness. So Dem Govs should scour every corner of the law for creative new ways to defend their people from this madness.
Dems should polarize this debate to the max.
Thoughts on this here:
newrepublic.com/article/1998...
Dems should polarize this debate to the max.
Thoughts on this here:
newrepublic.com/article/1998...
September 7, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Wow. New NBC poll finds 78% support vaccines, including 72% of independents and 67% of Republicans.
As I keep trying to argue, Democrats should polarize the shit out of the vaccine/public health debate. Make people take sides. It will split Republicans and MAGA.
See this:
As I keep trying to argue, Democrats should polarize the shit out of the vaccine/public health debate. Make people take sides. It will split Republicans and MAGA.
See this:
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The thing about living in a human society is you either decide that everyone (except those for whom it would be medically dangerous) has to take VACCINES into their bodies or everyone (with no exceptions at all) has to take VIRULENT PATHOGENS in from those around them and, look, the first is better.
September 3, 2025 at 9:49 PM
The thing about living in a human society is you either decide that everyone (except those for whom it would be medically dangerous) has to take VACCINES into their bodies or everyone (with no exceptions at all) has to take VIRULENT PATHOGENS in from those around them and, look, the first is better.
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With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.
July 27, 2025 at 9:01 PM
With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.
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Wait, did Bari Weiss’ right-wing gripe machine really just cut an ad for Zohran Mamdani?
Or are they really oblivious enough to think that Americans LIKE medical bills?
This is wild.
Or are they really oblivious enough to think that Americans LIKE medical bills?
This is wild.
thank you, muckraking journalists of the bari weiss tribune, for exposing the awesome stuff zohran mamdani has tweeted about like abolishing medical bills and seizing the property of millionaires
July 26, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Wait, did Bari Weiss’ right-wing gripe machine really just cut an ad for Zohran Mamdani?
Or are they really oblivious enough to think that Americans LIKE medical bills?
This is wild.
Or are they really oblivious enough to think that Americans LIKE medical bills?
This is wild.
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I worked as a chronic disease epidemiologist for 25 years. This is an area that is absolutely exploited by snake oil merchants. There are a few reasons for this, including that the causes of chronic disease are often unclear. Combined with a lack of cures for many chronic diseases, it is a fertile…
July 8, 2025 at 10:02 PM
I worked as a chronic disease epidemiologist for 25 years. This is an area that is absolutely exploited by snake oil merchants. There are a few reasons for this, including that the causes of chronic disease are often unclear. Combined with a lack of cures for many chronic diseases, it is a fertile…
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Meet the Press: Do you think billionaires have a right to exist?
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social: I don't think we should have billionaires because frankly it is so much money in a moment of such inequality & ultimately what we need more of his equality across the city & across the state & country.
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social: I don't think we should have billionaires because frankly it is so much money in a moment of such inequality & ultimately what we need more of his equality across the city & across the state & country.
June 29, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Meet the Press: Do you think billionaires have a right to exist?
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social: I don't think we should have billionaires because frankly it is so much money in a moment of such inequality & ultimately what we need more of his equality across the city & across the state & country.
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social: I don't think we should have billionaires because frankly it is so much money in a moment of such inequality & ultimately what we need more of his equality across the city & across the state & country.
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In the meantime, here are alternative and credible sources for vaccine information and guidance:
• www.who.int/teams/immuni...
• www.canada.ca/en/public-he...
• www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/immunisat...
• www.gov.uk/government/p...
• www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp... (ARCHIVED)
• www.who.int/teams/immuni...
• www.canada.ca/en/public-he...
• www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/immunisat...
• www.gov.uk/government/p...
• www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp... (ARCHIVED)
June 13, 2025 at 4:10 PM
In the meantime, here are alternative and credible sources for vaccine information and guidance:
• www.who.int/teams/immuni...
• www.canada.ca/en/public-he...
• www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/immunisat...
• www.gov.uk/government/p...
• www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp... (ARCHIVED)
• www.who.int/teams/immuni...
• www.canada.ca/en/public-he...
• www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/immunisat...
• www.gov.uk/government/p...
• www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp... (ARCHIVED)
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Just listened to this episode at the gym, and I would recommend it: there is a clear top-down coordinated effort to get us all to buy into a false narrative about what really happened during the Covid-19 pandemic which we need to be aware of/resist
Episode 41: "In Covid's Wake" Part 2
Republican counties may have three times higher COVID death rates than Democratic counties, but have you considered that they have lower rates of liberal groupthink?
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Republican counties may have three times higher COVID death rates than Democratic counties, but have you considered that they have lower rates of liberal groupthink?
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"In Covid's Wake" Part 2: Wron… - If Books Could Kill - Apple Podcasts
Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 06/19/2025 · 1h 10m
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June 21, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Just listened to this episode at the gym, and I would recommend it: there is a clear top-down coordinated effort to get us all to buy into a false narrative about what really happened during the Covid-19 pandemic which we need to be aware of/resist
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OMFG, the HPV vaccine 😩
Having the nation's public health now led by the world's most dangerous, most extreme, & most notorious anti-vaxxer, one who has made a fortune peddling disgusting anti-vaccine lies, is going to get many people killed
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
Having the nation's public health now led by the world's most dangerous, most extreme, & most notorious anti-vaxxer, one who has made a fortune peddling disgusting anti-vaccine lies, is going to get many people killed
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
June 19, 2025 at 5:03 PM
OMFG, the HPV vaccine 😩
Having the nation's public health now led by the world's most dangerous, most extreme, & most notorious anti-vaxxer, one who has made a fortune peddling disgusting anti-vaccine lies, is going to get many people killed
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
Having the nation's public health now led by the world's most dangerous, most extreme, & most notorious anti-vaxxer, one who has made a fortune peddling disgusting anti-vaccine lies, is going to get many people killed
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
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absolutely crazymaking times for anyone of a certain age with a functioning memory
the script for this iran war drumbeat is EXACTLY the same as the runup to iraq. ive heard almost verbatim "with us or against us" and "the smoking gun will be a mushroom cloud." neocon deep state stays winning
June 19, 2025 at 11:46 AM
absolutely crazymaking times for anyone of a certain age with a functioning memory
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From the moment he was nominated, RFK, Jr. has made it clear that he would put his conspiracy theories over the health and well-being of American families. And he is making good on that promise. thehill.com/homenews/edu...
thehill.com
June 19, 2025 at 12:15 AM
From the moment he was nominated, RFK, Jr. has made it clear that he would put his conspiracy theories over the health and well-being of American families. And he is making good on that promise. thehill.com/homenews/edu...
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I study infectious disease, but don’t think I could’ve done a better take down of the ludicrous premise and biased arguments made in this book, which could indeed kill by sowing mistrust in expertise and promoting dangerous anti-science propaganda
Episode 40: In Covid's Wake
Looking back at a pandemic that killed more than 1 million people, two political scientists bravely ask, "Could we have done even less?"
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Looking back at a pandemic that killed more than 1 million people, two political scientists bravely ask, "Could we have done even less?"
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...
"In Covid's Wake": Lying About… - If Books Could Kill - Apple Podcasts
Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 06/17/2025 · 58m
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June 18, 2025 at 8:57 PM
I study infectious disease, but don’t think I could’ve done a better take down of the ludicrous premise and biased arguments made in this book, which could indeed kill by sowing mistrust in expertise and promoting dangerous anti-science propaganda
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my kid never got his full range of shots (he caught it before they were available), if RFK takes that away I am going to melt the fuck down
Absolute insanity
*CDC STOPS RECOMMENDING COVID VACCINE FOR KIDS, PREGNANT WOMEN
*CDC STOPS RECOMMENDING COVID VACCINE FOR KIDS, PREGNANT WOMEN
May 27, 2025 at 3:02 PM
my kid never got his full range of shots (he caught it before they were available), if RFK takes that away I am going to melt the fuck down
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When Americans raised concerns about RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine views, he said he was "not gonna take away vaccines from anybody."
But now he's taking them away from millions of mommas and babies.
Vaccine recommendations should be based on science, not RFK Jr.'s political agenda.
But now he's taking them away from millions of mommas and babies.
Vaccine recommendations should be based on science, not RFK Jr.'s political agenda.
May 27, 2025 at 6:30 PM
When Americans raised concerns about RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine views, he said he was "not gonna take away vaccines from anybody."
But now he's taking them away from millions of mommas and babies.
Vaccine recommendations should be based on science, not RFK Jr.'s political agenda.
But now he's taking them away from millions of mommas and babies.
Vaccine recommendations should be based on science, not RFK Jr.'s political agenda.
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Thinking of this @propublica.org reporting today about stillbirths of unvaccinated parents during the Delta wave, before CDC had explicitly recommended COVID vaccines for pregnant people and the damage the virus did to the placentas.
www.propublica.org/article/covi...
www.propublica.org/article/covi...
May 27, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Thinking of this @propublica.org reporting today about stillbirths of unvaccinated parents during the Delta wave, before CDC had explicitly recommended COVID vaccines for pregnant people and the damage the virus did to the placentas.
www.propublica.org/article/covi...
www.propublica.org/article/covi...
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A huge step from HHS that is at odds with science showing significant risks for young children and pregnant women — and that directly contradicts *the FDA's own publication* from last week listing pregnancy as a high-risk condition that would qualify people for this fall's Covid vaccine
May 27, 2025 at 3:18 PM
A huge step from HHS that is at odds with science showing significant risks for young children and pregnant women — and that directly contradicts *the FDA's own publication* from last week listing pregnancy as a high-risk condition that would qualify people for this fall's Covid vaccine
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Could you imagine being told by the government that your job, the thing that feeds your family and puts a roof over your head, covers your medical bills, saves towards your retirement, is “wasteful spending.” And so you’re fired by a billionaire?
February 24, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Could you imagine being told by the government that your job, the thing that feeds your family and puts a roof over your head, covers your medical bills, saves towards your retirement, is “wasteful spending.” And so you’re fired by a billionaire?
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I bet a lot of people have had an experience like this with a bad boss - there’s an email in your inbox on Saturday night saying, “Prove to me your worthiness by Monday or else.”
I’m on the side of the workers, not the billionaire asshole bosses.
I’m on the side of the workers, not the billionaire asshole bosses.
February 23, 2025 at 12:41 AM
I bet a lot of people have had an experience like this with a bad boss - there’s an email in your inbox on Saturday night saying, “Prove to me your worthiness by Monday or else.”
I’m on the side of the workers, not the billionaire asshole bosses.
I’m on the side of the workers, not the billionaire asshole bosses.
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Hey, @davidfrum.bsky.social, here’s an idea:
COVID deniers won because folks with cushy jobs at publications like The Atlantic were extremely quick to join right-wing dark money groups and their fringe scientists in demanding we abandon nonpharmaceutical interventions and layered protection.
COVID deniers won because folks with cushy jobs at publications like The Atlantic were extremely quick to join right-wing dark money groups and their fringe scientists in demanding we abandon nonpharmaceutical interventions and layered protection.
February 13, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Hey, @davidfrum.bsky.social, here’s an idea:
COVID deniers won because folks with cushy jobs at publications like The Atlantic were extremely quick to join right-wing dark money groups and their fringe scientists in demanding we abandon nonpharmaceutical interventions and layered protection.
COVID deniers won because folks with cushy jobs at publications like The Atlantic were extremely quick to join right-wing dark money groups and their fringe scientists in demanding we abandon nonpharmaceutical interventions and layered protection.
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This is sort of the skeleton key to understanding a lot of shit: there 100% is a non-trivial amount of inefficiency and waste in the federal bureaucracy, and most of it is a *direct result* of ‘reforms’ that are meant to assuage the people who complain about “waste and inefficiency in govt”
for decades the federal govt has bent over backwards to limit spending even on totally sensible things like office coffee, all so they can say your tax dollars aren't going to pay for coffee. and it was all for nothing bc elon is tweeting out conspiracy theories about non-existent fraud.
February 11, 2025 at 12:15 AM
This is sort of the skeleton key to understanding a lot of shit: there 100% is a non-trivial amount of inefficiency and waste in the federal bureaucracy, and most of it is a *direct result* of ‘reforms’ that are meant to assuage the people who complain about “waste and inefficiency in govt”
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I used to dread the first of the month (scrambling to pay rent)
But this silly wellness app announces its monthly theme on the 1st and I’m genuinely excited for the reveal each month now (this one reminds me of being in Midsummer Night’s Dream as a kid, good antidote for dreary gray February)
But this silly wellness app announces its monthly theme on the 1st and I’m genuinely excited for the reveal each month now (this one reminds me of being in Midsummer Night’s Dream as a kid, good antidote for dreary gray February)
February 1, 2025 at 3:17 PM
I used to dread the first of the month (scrambling to pay rent)
But this silly wellness app announces its monthly theme on the 1st and I’m genuinely excited for the reveal each month now (this one reminds me of being in Midsummer Night’s Dream as a kid, good antidote for dreary gray February)
But this silly wellness app announces its monthly theme on the 1st and I’m genuinely excited for the reveal each month now (this one reminds me of being in Midsummer Night’s Dream as a kid, good antidote for dreary gray February)
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It is truly wild that it is estimated that more than 20 million people died of Covid and the prevailing vibe is that the world overreacted. That is an astonishing toll! More people died of Covid in the US than in the Civil War. www.pbs.org/newshour/hea...
5 years after it appeared, things we know and still don't know about COVID
Five years after the virus that causes COVID emerged in China it still holds some mysteries.
www.pbs.org
January 4, 2025 at 10:47 PM
It is truly wild that it is estimated that more than 20 million people died of Covid and the prevailing vibe is that the world overreacted. That is an astonishing toll! More people died of Covid in the US than in the Civil War. www.pbs.org/newshour/hea...