David Lingenfelter, PhD
@dlingenfelter.bsky.social
Independent Scientist
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The scenes out of Chicago should outrage us all. These federal agents are out of control, committing senseless acts of violence & putting everyone at risk.
American citizens are being detained & brutalized.
This kind of immigration "enforcement" shouldn't be acceptable to anyone.
American citizens are being detained & brutalized.
This kind of immigration "enforcement" shouldn't be acceptable to anyone.
Immigration agents become increasingly aggressive in Chicago
Activists, residents and elected leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest cit...
www.pbs.org
October 7, 2025 at 8:02 PM
The scenes out of Chicago should outrage us all. These federal agents are out of control, committing senseless acts of violence & putting everyone at risk.
American citizens are being detained & brutalized.
This kind of immigration "enforcement" shouldn't be acceptable to anyone.
American citizens are being detained & brutalized.
This kind of immigration "enforcement" shouldn't be acceptable to anyone.
Reposted by David Lingenfelter, PhD
Cosplay for Losers
Pete Hegseth put on his military fatigues for a new photo op a week after yelling at top brass about grooming and DEI.
Pentagon Pete Cosplays After Bizarre General Pep Talk
The Defense Secretary suited up for a new photo op with the troops.
trib.al
October 8, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Cosplay for Losers
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“If you view this as a hyper-partisan court engaged in hyper-partisan activity for a hyper-partisan president, that’s what’s happening,” @thelisagraves.bsky.social says https://contrarian.substack.com/p/can-our-courts-be-reformed-with-lisa
Watch Lisa's interview on the Supreme Court’s legitimacy.
Watch Lisa's interview on the Supreme Court’s legitimacy.
Can our courts be reformed? With Lisa Graves
"This court is inventing facts!"
contrarian.substack.com
October 7, 2025 at 2:21 PM
“If you view this as a hyper-partisan court engaged in hyper-partisan activity for a hyper-partisan president, that’s what’s happening,” @thelisagraves.bsky.social says https://contrarian.substack.com/p/can-our-courts-be-reformed-with-lisa
Watch Lisa's interview on the Supreme Court’s legitimacy.
Watch Lisa's interview on the Supreme Court’s legitimacy.
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"So, Democrats have three words for this: no fucking way. It's literally life or death. We will not let Republicans blow up our health care system."
This is, hands down, the best comms work Chuck Schumer has done in YEARS. Surprisingly good.
This is, hands down, the best comms work Chuck Schumer has done in YEARS. Surprisingly good.
October 8, 2025 at 2:27 AM
"So, Democrats have three words for this: no fucking way. It's literally life or death. We will not let Republicans blow up our health care system."
This is, hands down, the best comms work Chuck Schumer has done in YEARS. Surprisingly good.
This is, hands down, the best comms work Chuck Schumer has done in YEARS. Surprisingly good.
Reposted by David Lingenfelter, PhD
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I expect to see this study soon shredded by #LongCOVID researchers & #COVIDAware advocates -
nltimes.nl/2025/10/07/d...
I expect to see this study soon shredded by #LongCOVID researchers & #COVIDAware advocates -
nltimes.nl/2025/10/07/d...
Dutch study finds long COVID risk has sharply fallen since pandemic’s early years
The risk of developing long-term symptoms after a COVID-19 infection has dropped sharply in the Netherlands, according to new research by the RIVM. The study shows that people infected with SARS-CoV-2...
nltimes.nl
October 7, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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I expect to see this study soon shredded by #LongCOVID researchers & #COVIDAware advocates -
nltimes.nl/2025/10/07/d...
I expect to see this study soon shredded by #LongCOVID researchers & #COVIDAware advocates -
nltimes.nl/2025/10/07/d...
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This means the risk of long COVID after 2023 infections was very small, and it’s expected to stay that way. Still, RIVM notes it’s not zero — some may develop lingering symptoms, but the chance is much lower than people think.
October 7, 2025 at 10:46 AM
This means the risk of long COVID after 2023 infections was very small, and it’s expected to stay that way. Still, RIVM notes it’s not zero — some may develop lingering symptoms, but the chance is much lower than people think.
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The FAA is delaying flights at Newark and Denver airports because they haven’t got enough air traffic control. Burbank has zero ATC from 4.30-10pm.
Lots of controllers who aren’t being paid during the government shutdown are calling in sick.
Lots of controllers who aren’t being paid during the government shutdown are calling in sick.
October 6, 2025 at 11:02 PM
The FAA is delaying flights at Newark and Denver airports because they haven’t got enough air traffic control. Burbank has zero ATC from 4.30-10pm.
Lots of controllers who aren’t being paid during the government shutdown are calling in sick.
Lots of controllers who aren’t being paid during the government shutdown are calling in sick.
“Living with his own depression, Lincoln understood intimately that what is true of the spirit of a person is true of the spirit of a people — our undoing always serves an invitation to learn new modes of making: making beauty, making meaning, making the life we want to live…”
Undoing as remaking – how Lincoln drew poetry and power from his suicidal depression www.themarginalian.org/2020/12/03/l...
October 7, 2025 at 5:33 AM
“Living with his own depression, Lincoln understood intimately that what is true of the spirit of a person is true of the spirit of a people — our undoing always serves an invitation to learn new modes of making: making beauty, making meaning, making the life we want to live…”
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News: A majority of Calif. voters, 54%, back Prop 50, the mid-decade redistricting initiative backed by Gov. Gavin Newsom and former President Obama, per a new co/efficient poll shared first with Punchbowl News.
punchbowl.news/article/camp...
punchbowl.news/article/camp...
Majority of Calif. voters back Prop 50 in new poll
News: We’ve got some fresh polling on California’s redistricting ballot initiative ahead of the Nov. 4 election.
punchbowl.news
October 6, 2025 at 10:15 AM
News: A majority of Calif. voters, 54%, back Prop 50, the mid-decade redistricting initiative backed by Gov. Gavin Newsom and former President Obama, per a new co/efficient poll shared first with Punchbowl News.
punchbowl.news/article/camp...
punchbowl.news/article/camp...
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It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...
October 6, 2025 at 8:40 PM
It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...
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The fact that a vast majority of Americans agree on a wide array of issues and yet our political leaders advance none of them illustrates just how broken our system is. Power has shifted from the majority to a monied-few. How do we win it back? I have some thoughts. open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...
A Word About the Most Important Voting Bloc in America
Meet the self-interested majority (who know "a man is not a piece of fruit")
open.substack.com
October 6, 2025 at 11:37 PM
The fact that a vast majority of Americans agree on a wide array of issues and yet our political leaders advance none of them illustrates just how broken our system is. Power has shifted from the majority to a monied-few. How do we win it back? I have some thoughts. open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...
Reposted by David Lingenfelter, PhD
Greta Thunberg speaks to the press after being released from illegal detainment in Israel: "I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me, but that is not the story.”
October 6, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Greta Thunberg speaks to the press after being released from illegal detainment in Israel: "I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me, but that is not the story.”
Capital doesn’t need labor much anymore to make a profit.
October 6, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Capital doesn’t need labor much anymore to make a profit.
Baby on board!
“There’s a baby!”
Guns drawn. Windows smashed. With a 1 month old in the car. (They did this as he was coming home from an immigration court appointment— which is illegal in Colorado: coloradosun.com/2025/10/01/i...)
Guns drawn. Windows smashed. With a 1 month old in the car. (They did this as he was coming home from an immigration court appointment— which is illegal in Colorado: coloradosun.com/2025/10/01/i...)
October 5, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Baby on board!
You have already seen some of those infographics. Getting them all organized into a single book should prove to be a useful reference for front line physicians and medical educators.
If you have been following me for my Covid related content, please note that I will be back at that public education project in a week or two. My goal there is to create a book of 91 infographics that tell the story of how Covid impacts the 10 organ systems of the human body.
October 5, 2025 at 3:51 PM
You have already seen some of those infographics. Getting them all organized into a single book should prove to be a useful reference for front line physicians and medical educators.
If you have been following me for my Covid related content, please note that I will be back at that public education project in a week or two. My goal there is to create a book of 91 infographics that tell the story of how Covid impacts the 10 organ systems of the human body.
October 5, 2025 at 3:50 PM
If you have been following me for my Covid related content, please note that I will be back at that public education project in a week or two. My goal there is to create a book of 91 infographics that tell the story of how Covid impacts the 10 organ systems of the human body.
What many of us are feeling now is not a personal disorder. It’s a rational response to a nation that’s becoming ever more disordered.
This is not a sickness or individual distress. It’s a sensible reaction to a society becoming sicker and more stressed.
open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
This is not a sickness or individual distress. It’s a sensible reaction to a society becoming sicker and more stressed.
open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
Sunday thought: A national trauma
We need to talk about it openly
open.substack.com
October 5, 2025 at 3:43 PM
What many of us are feeling now is not a personal disorder. It’s a rational response to a nation that’s becoming ever more disordered.
This is not a sickness or individual distress. It’s a sensible reaction to a society becoming sicker and more stressed.
open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
This is not a sickness or individual distress. It’s a sensible reaction to a society becoming sicker and more stressed.
open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
This essay describes the steps that I took with Gemini to produce the first draft of the deep research report Longitudinal Trajectories of Cognitive Decline of SARS-CoV-2 Survivors. researcher?r=1etq2&utm_medium=ios
October 5, 2025 at 3:38 PM
This essay describes the steps that I took with Gemini to produce the first draft of the deep research report Longitudinal Trajectories of Cognitive Decline of SARS-CoV-2 Survivors. researcher?r=1etq2&utm_medium=ios
Reposted by David Lingenfelter, PhD
The actual issue before us — which is very simple & clear — is that you are masterminding a police state for your overlord & classifying opponents as “terrorists” & in the process destroying the Constitution & a free society.
Jew to Jew, Stephen, you’re a complete piece of shit.
Jew to Jew, Stephen, you’re a complete piece of shit.
October 5, 2025 at 3:53 AM
The actual issue before us — which is very simple & clear — is that you are masterminding a police state for your overlord & classifying opponents as “terrorists” & in the process destroying the Constitution & a free society.
Jew to Jew, Stephen, you’re a complete piece of shit.
Jew to Jew, Stephen, you’re a complete piece of shit.
Trump and his predators are the enemy within. Governors: call out your national guards. Do what you were elected to do. Protect your citizens from these criminals.
October 5, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Trump and his predators are the enemy within. Governors: call out your national guards. Do what you were elected to do. Protect your citizens from these criminals.
These fascists count on you, not knowing the difference between socialism and Stalinism. The difference is enormous.
Not only does this story get a number of basic facts wrong, it doesn’t take time to actually explore why Portlanders elected these folks. Coming in with a pre-baked PDX story to fit a NYT narrative about NYC is harmful, especially at this moment.
What Happens When Socialists Are in Charge? Portland Offers a Glimpse.
www.nytimes.com
October 5, 2025 at 12:08 AM
These fascists count on you, not knowing the difference between socialism and Stalinism. The difference is enormous.
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Why was there no other video of this? This was produced with music and editing and drone shots the same way the El Salvador prison.
DHS released a glossy ICE raid video straight out of an authoritarian playbook: helicopters over Chicago, 900 people swept up, children separated, citizens detained. They call it “Operation Midway Blitz.” I call it despicable state propaganda masking terrorist constitutional crimes.
October 4, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Why was there no other video of this? This was produced with music and editing and drone shots the same way the El Salvador prison.
Unless our state governors take forceful action, this kind of violence will continue to escalate.
DHS released a glossy ICE raid video straight out of an authoritarian playbook: helicopters over Chicago, 900 people swept up, children separated, citizens detained. They call it “Operation Midway Blitz.” I call it despicable state propaganda masking terrorist constitutional crimes.
October 5, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Unless our state governors take forceful action, this kind of violence will continue to escalate.
What stops state governors from calling out their national guards to protect us from these Trump predators?
I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane
I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane
October 5, 2025 at 12:03 AM
What stops state governors from calling out their national guards to protect us from these Trump predators?
The governor of the great state of Illinois should call up their troops to protect us from Trump’s predators.
This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.
October 5, 2025 at 12:01 AM
The governor of the great state of Illinois should call up their troops to protect us from Trump’s predators.