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Antivaxxers own this. Infectious disease minimizers own this. Public health officials and media who keep promoting immunity debt own this.
The come back of pertussis and Measles is only the beginning of the resurgence of preventable infectious diseases in the US. This has been one of the biggest public health failures of 2025 and the competition is tough.
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The US has seen nearly 28,000 whooping cough cases this year. Here’s what you need to know | CNN
For the second year in a row, the US has surpassed 25,000 whooping cough cases — another sign of the risks of falling vaccination levels.
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December 30, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Antivaxxers own this. Infectious disease minimizers own this. Public health officials and media who keep promoting immunity debt own this.
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As we experience a huge surge of flu cases, a reminder that the widespread usage of masks at the start of the COVID pandemic wiped out a strain of the flu.
If you haven’t been masking up lately, now would be a great time to restart.
If you haven’t been masking up lately, now would be a great time to restart.
The Covid-19 pandemic killed off one strain of the flu, and that will change the next vaccines | CNN
For 10 years, Americans have had access to flu shots that protect against four strains of the virus: two A strains and two B strains. Starting this fall, however, all the flu shots distributed in the ...
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December 30, 2025 at 10:49 PM
As we experience a huge surge of flu cases, a reminder that the widespread usage of masks at the start of the COVID pandemic wiped out a strain of the flu.
If you haven’t been masking up lately, now would be a great time to restart.
If you haven’t been masking up lately, now would be a great time to restart.
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My final newsletter of 2025: We're in The Enshittifinancial Crisis, the fourth stage of enshittification, where companies turn on their shareholders. Unprofitable, unsustainable AI threatens future of venture capital, private equity and the markets themselves.
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The Enshittifinancial Crisis
Soundtrack: Lynyrd Skynyrd — Free Bird
This piece is over 19,000 words, and took me a great deal of writing and research. If you liked it, please subscribe to my premium newsletter. It’s $70 a year, ...
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December 29, 2025 at 5:14 PM
My final newsletter of 2025: We're in The Enshittifinancial Crisis, the fourth stage of enshittification, where companies turn on their shareholders. Unprofitable, unsustainable AI threatens future of venture capital, private equity and the markets themselves.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-enshitti...
www.wheresyoured.at/the-enshitti...
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It's ridiculously cute when cuttlefish dilate their pupils like this. I can't resist them. I'd give them my car keys if they asked.
🦑📷 Dennis Rabeling (inaturalist.ca/observations...)
🦑📷 Dennis Rabeling (inaturalist.ca/observations...)
December 19, 2025 at 9:49 PM
It's ridiculously cute when cuttlefish dilate their pupils like this. I can't resist them. I'd give them my car keys if they asked.
🦑📷 Dennis Rabeling (inaturalist.ca/observations...)
🦑📷 Dennis Rabeling (inaturalist.ca/observations...)
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If you're waiting for a giant blinking neon sign that says "GET VACCINATED AND WEAR AN N95 WHEN IN PUBLIC" here it is.
US flu activity takes big jump as 2 deaths in kids confirmed
The CDC also provided data on the rise of subclade K among H3N2 #influenza viruses ahead of holiday gatherings
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The CDC also provided data on the rise of subclade K among H3N2 #influenza viruses ahead of holiday gatherings
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December 19, 2025 at 9:25 PM
If you're waiting for a giant blinking neon sign that says "GET VACCINATED AND WEAR AN N95 WHEN IN PUBLIC" here it is.
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Disease Trends and Mortality from Invasive Pneumococcal Disease: A Long-Term Population-Based Study
✅ Just Accepted
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✅ Just Accepted
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December 19, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Disease Trends and Mortality from Invasive Pneumococcal Disease: A Long-Term Population-Based Study
✅ Just Accepted
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✅ Just Accepted
🔗 https://bit.ly/48OWyAz
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Me, submerged headfirst in Brie: Shu’ up, ’s medishinal.
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I feel like I have friends on here who need this information, immediately.
I feel like I have friends on here who need this information, immediately.
High-fat cheese, cream linked to lower risk of dementia: Study
People who regularly ate higher-fat cheese and cream had a lower risk of dementia over 25 years, while low-fat dairy and other dairy foods showed no clear association.
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December 19, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Me, submerged headfirst in Brie: Shu’ up, ’s medishinal.
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Straight up forgot I wrote this in 2025, but I think it’s my favorite piece. Also it’s fun to say “the business idiot”
Newsletter: We are in the era of the Business Idiot, where middle management has seized power, breeding out true meritocracy and value-creation in favor of symbolic growth and superficial intelligence. This piece ties together everything I've ever written.
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The Era Of The Business Idiot
Fair warning: this is the longest thing I've written on this newsletter. I do apologize.
Soundtrack: EL-P - $4 Vic
Listen to my podcast Better Offline. We have merch.
Last week, Bloomberg profiled ...
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December 19, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Straight up forgot I wrote this in 2025, but I think it’s my favorite piece. Also it’s fun to say “the business idiot”
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A reminder: Please don't force autistic kids (or adults) to sit still or use “whole body listening” (what Carol Greenburg @autisticenough.bsky.social calls “Whole Body Oppression”) or shame them for stimming when they need to move to listen or self-regulate.
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Autism Checklist of DOOM
Our autism checklist of doom is meant to help people the kinds of things that may upset an autistic person, ones that aren't always obvious.
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December 15, 2025 at 4:32 PM
A reminder: Please don't force autistic kids (or adults) to sit still or use “whole body listening” (what Carol Greenburg @autisticenough.bsky.social calls “Whole Body Oppression”) or shame them for stimming when they need to move to listen or self-regulate.
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Please note: Sensory overload can make autistic anxiety worse by overwhelming one's ability to filter out stimuli, & also anxiety can also come directly from autistics being more reactive to sensory inputs—leading to physical discomfort and increased emotionality.
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A Systematic Review of Autistic Adults’ Experiences of Anxiety From a Qualitative Perspective - Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders - Many autistic adults experience anxiety in ways that are qualitatively unique when compared to the experiences of non-autistic adults. In this...
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December 20, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Please note: Sensory overload can make autistic anxiety worse by overwhelming one's ability to filter out stimuli, & also anxiety can also come directly from autistics being more reactive to sensory inputs—leading to physical discomfort and increased emotionality.
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December 1, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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Archaeologist here. For 99.5% of human history (ca 300-400,000 years), we were peaceful (no war). There was conflict and smaller scale violence, but countless studies on the 119 known modern hunter gatherer groups show cooperation, negotiation, and peace instead of conflict. Please read books.
Revenge/physical combat was how people settled things for literally millions of years, it's normal human behavior, we're wolves not sheep, the government project trying to social engineer us and domesticate us into sheep has been unsuccessful
November 17, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Archaeologist here. For 99.5% of human history (ca 300-400,000 years), we were peaceful (no war). There was conflict and smaller scale violence, but countless studies on the 119 known modern hunter gatherer groups show cooperation, negotiation, and peace instead of conflict. Please read books.
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Ugh, ART did know everything. It was so annoying.
November 17, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Ugh, ART did know everything. It was so annoying.
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My latest: news.immunologic.org/p/rfk-jrs-al...
I debunk ALL of RFK Jr.’s lies about aluminum & vaccines.
•Aluminum adjuvants in vaccines DO NOT CAUSE allergies or autism.
•You eat 70X more aluminum daily than any vaccine contains.
•There is no peanut oil in any vaccine. EVER.
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I debunk ALL of RFK Jr.’s lies about aluminum & vaccines.
•Aluminum adjuvants in vaccines DO NOT CAUSE allergies or autism.
•You eat 70X more aluminum daily than any vaccine contains.
•There is no peanut oil in any vaccine. EVER.
Read ⬇️
RFK Jr.'s Aluminum Lie
No, aluminum vaccine adjuvants aren't causing autism, allergies, or other health issues. RFK Jr.'s conspiracy hinges on a 1961 patent, zero evidence, and total ignorance of immunology.
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November 17, 2025 at 11:53 PM
My latest: news.immunologic.org/p/rfk-jrs-al...
I debunk ALL of RFK Jr.’s lies about aluminum & vaccines.
•Aluminum adjuvants in vaccines DO NOT CAUSE allergies or autism.
•You eat 70X more aluminum daily than any vaccine contains.
•There is no peanut oil in any vaccine. EVER.
Read ⬇️
I debunk ALL of RFK Jr.’s lies about aluminum & vaccines.
•Aluminum adjuvants in vaccines DO NOT CAUSE allergies or autism.
•You eat 70X more aluminum daily than any vaccine contains.
•There is no peanut oil in any vaccine. EVER.
Read ⬇️
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How many autistic kids (and adults) have been driven into meltdowns not because they did anything wrong, but because their echolalic communication needs were misunderstood? Here's to all of us trying harder and doing better. TY @jessdiaryofamom.bsky.social and crew.
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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism
Both heartbreaking and revelatory: How many autistic kids (and adults) have been punished not because they did anything wrong, but because their echolalic or scripting communication needs were...
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November 14, 2025 at 11:37 PM
How many autistic kids (and adults) have been driven into meltdowns not because they did anything wrong, but because their echolalic communication needs were misunderstood? Here's to all of us trying harder and doing better. TY @jessdiaryofamom.bsky.social and crew.
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Pope Leo to #COP30 “It is not the Paris Agreement that is failing, we are failing in our response. What is failing is the political will of some. True leadership means service, and support at a scale that will make a difference.” www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...
Pope to bishops at COP30: We are guardians of creation, not rivals for its spoils - Vatican News
Pope Leo XIV sends a videomessage to the bishops and cardinals of the Global South participating in COP30 in Brazil, urging cooperation and stressing ...
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November 18, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Pope Leo to #COP30 “It is not the Paris Agreement that is failing, we are failing in our response. What is failing is the political will of some. True leadership means service, and support at a scale that will make a difference.” www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...
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"It comes down from heaven."
The entire Republican party should be dismantled and then burned and then the ashes should be salted and then concrete should be poured over all of it.
The entire Republican party should be dismantled and then burned and then the ashes should be salted and then concrete should be poured over all of it.
November 18, 2025 at 12:21 AM
"It comes down from heaven."
The entire Republican party should be dismantled and then burned and then the ashes should be salted and then concrete should be poured over all of it.
The entire Republican party should be dismantled and then burned and then the ashes should be salted and then concrete should be poured over all of it.
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I have a question. How the hell are the 30 year olds being open Nazis and dyed in the wool racists in group texts just "kids" but the children who were raped suddenly "young women."
November 18, 2025 at 12:23 AM
I have a question. How the hell are the 30 year olds being open Nazis and dyed in the wool racists in group texts just "kids" but the children who were raped suddenly "young women."
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I don’t know what I was going to tell them, but it was going to involve the words “I can’t do my job if none of you fucking listen to me”
November 18, 2025 at 1:55 AM
I don’t know what I was going to tell them, but it was going to involve the words “I can’t do my job if none of you fucking listen to me”
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People get so triggered by disabled or covid cautious people wearing masks that they will spend all day trolling our posts
Yet they say nothing about ICE covering their faces
Ask yourselves why someone masking for health is more offensive than masking for obscuring identity?
Yet they say nothing about ICE covering their faces
Ask yourselves why someone masking for health is more offensive than masking for obscuring identity?
October 23, 2025 at 9:35 PM
People get so triggered by disabled or covid cautious people wearing masks that they will spend all day trolling our posts
Yet they say nothing about ICE covering their faces
Ask yourselves why someone masking for health is more offensive than masking for obscuring identity?
Yet they say nothing about ICE covering their faces
Ask yourselves why someone masking for health is more offensive than masking for obscuring identity?
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We're facing a political emergency: a high likelihood of an shamelessly authoritarian government in 2029. So we urgently need this basic safeguard: a codified constitution.
This week's column explains what we're missing and why it's so important.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This week's column explains what we're missing and why it's so important.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
We must act now: without a written constitution, Reform UK will have carte blanche to toxify our nation | Goerge Monbiot
It means breaking with hundreds of years of tradition, but it can’t wait. As hard-right figures spread division and laud autocrats, a fail-safe is vital, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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October 23, 2025 at 6:44 AM
We're facing a political emergency: a high likelihood of an shamelessly authoritarian government in 2029. So we urgently need this basic safeguard: a codified constitution.
This week's column explains what we're missing and why it's so important.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This week's column explains what we're missing and why it's so important.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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This is how normalisation works — silence and denial. Simply stop acknowledging that COVID exists.
Parents deserve to know when a contagious virus that can cause long-term harm is spreading in classrooms.
#COVIDisNotOVER #LongCOVID #COVIDisAirborne #CleanAir #MaskUp
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Parents deserve to know when a contagious virus that can cause long-term harm is spreading in classrooms.
#COVIDisNotOVER #LongCOVID #COVIDisAirborne #CleanAir #MaskUp
Source: x.com/chaitrovert/...
October 23, 2025 at 1:29 AM
This is how normalisation works — silence and denial. Simply stop acknowledging that COVID exists.
Parents deserve to know when a contagious virus that can cause long-term harm is spreading in classrooms.
#COVIDisNotOVER #LongCOVID #COVIDisAirborne #CleanAir #MaskUp
Source: x.com/chaitrovert/...
Parents deserve to know when a contagious virus that can cause long-term harm is spreading in classrooms.
#COVIDisNotOVER #LongCOVID #COVIDisAirborne #CleanAir #MaskUp
Source: x.com/chaitrovert/...
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A new review article examines whether calling COVID-19 “Airborne AIDS” is an oversimplification—or a necessary warning about immune dysfunction and long-term risk. It doesn’t equate the two diseases—it compares shared outcomes (immune exhaustion, tissue persistence, neurocognitive effects) and (...)
October 23, 2025 at 1:34 AM
A new review article examines whether calling COVID-19 “Airborne AIDS” is an oversimplification—or a necessary warning about immune dysfunction and long-term risk. It doesn’t equate the two diseases—it compares shared outcomes (immune exhaustion, tissue persistence, neurocognitive effects) and (...)