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mattypbs.bsky.social
Pretty Boys Skate
@mattypbs.bsky.social
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Gen X skateboarder waiting to see which kills me first: a global pandemic, climate change, World War 3, or stage IV cancer.
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mattypbs.bsky.social
I’m so sick tonight. I’ve spent hours on the toilet. I spend at least one day per week like this following my treatments.
October 7, 2025 at 10:04 AM
mattypbs.bsky.social
I hate waiting for scan results. It’s excruciating.
August 22, 2025 at 1:43 AM
mattypbs.bsky.social
Now I get to wait for however many days it takes to see if my cancer has come back. ⏳
August 20, 2025 at 11:56 PM
mattypbs.bsky.social
Going in for scans today. 😬 #cancer
August 20, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
CNN is reporting the FEMA response was delayed 3 days because of Noem’s cost controls, and FEMA officials were “taken aback” by how limited the agency’s response was.
July 10, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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mehdirhasan.bsky.social
BREAKING: Zeteo has released, globally, the film the BBC so controversially refused to air.

"Gaza: Doctors Under Attack" is now available to watch in full at gazadoctors.film and zeteo.com.

Here's the trailer:
July 2, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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covid19disease.bsky.social
⚠️ BREAKING:

U.S. 🇺🇲 Sees 1.701 Million COVID-19 Cases in a Week as COVID-19 Transmission Exceeds to 26.0%

Currently 1 in 197 Americans Infected with COVID-19.
July 1, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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sagan.bsky.social
A message from Carl Sagan from 1995—some of his last prophetic words.
June 10, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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drericding.bsky.social
Dear MAGA & DOGE fans—National Weather Service is now so understaffed by 20-40% in Florida & Southern US, that meterologist urgently warn they cannot confidently predict hurricane 🌀 paths anymore. These senseless cuts will endanger your life.
June 4, 2025 at 3:00 AM
mattypbs.bsky.social
The suicide rate for cancer patients is 11x that of the general public.
June 4, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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raskin.house.gov
"I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."
May 4, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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drericding.bsky.social
RFK Jr’s HHS Plans to Cut the National Suicide Hotline’s Program for LGBTQ Youth. It receives on average 2,100 contacts a day. This is metaphorically telling LGBTQ youth they can go kill themselves. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
HHS plans to cut the national suicide hotline’s program for LGBTQ youth
In February, the program received an average of 2,100 contacts per day.
www.motherjones.com
April 24, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
A US citizen with a learning disability who has just suffered a medical emergency asks a CBP officer for directions outside the emergency room. He ends up detained in an icebox for ten days and has the assistant secretary of DHS lying about him to the public at large. popular.info/p/us-citizen...
Tricia McLaughlin & @TriciaOhio 0... The narrative being pushed about Jose Hermosillo is false. On April 8, Hermosillo approached Border Patrol in Tucson and stated he had entered the U.S. illegally through Nogales. He said he wanted to turn himself in and completed a sworn statement identifying as a Mexican citizen who had entered unlawfully. He was processed and appeared in court on April 11. Afterward, he was held by the U.S. Marshals in Florence, AZ. A few days later, his family presented documents showing U.S. citizenship. The charges were dismissed, and he was released to his family. This arrest was the direct result of Hermosillo's own actions and statements. In an interview with Popular Information, his first with any media outlet, Hermosillo said DHS'. 's account was false. According to Hermosillo, he was visiting his girlfriend's family in Tucson from his home in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Several hours before his arrest, Hermosillo was transported to a hospital in Tucson by ambulance after suffering from a seizure. He has a New Mexico state ID, but did not take it with him during the medical emergency. After being released from the hospital following treatment, Hermosillo did not know how to return to where he was staying. He approached the Border Patrol officer because he was looking for someone to help him. "I saw a car, and I askled] him for help," Hermosillo said. He told the officer that he was staying in Tucson. "You" re not from here. Do you have your papers?" the officer said, according to Hermosillo. When the officer asked where he was from, Hermosillo said he told the officer, "New Mexico." The officer then accused Hermosillo of lying. "Don't make me lout] like [I'm] stupid," the officer said. "I know you're from Mexico." After that, Hermosillo said, he was arrested. Hermosillo said that he never told the officer that he was born in Mexico, was a citizen of Mexico, or entered the country illegally. And he would not have said those things because they are not true. He signed the transcript released by DHS because the officer ordered him to "sign everything." But Hermosillo did not read it, because he cannot read. According to Hermosillo's girlfriend, Grace Hernandez, Hermosillo has learning disabilities and can only write his name. Hermosillo said he did not graduate from high school and dropped out after the 10th grade. The officer also signed the document, which said Hermosillo "read" the document or had it read to him. But Hermosillo said no one read him the document. Other documents created by the officer have inaccuracies. For example, the criminal complaint says that Hermosillo was detained "at or near Nogales, Arizona." But Hermosillo was detained in Tuscon, which is more than 70 miles from Nogales. John Mennell, a spokesperson for the U.S. Border Patrol, said that it was an "unintentional" error. Hermosillo said he was detained with about 15 other men in a cell at the Florence Correctional Center. He was served only cold food. He said he contracted the flu because "they have it cold in there and everybody's getting sick." Hermosillo said he requested medicine but was not provided with any.
April 23, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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laurenthal.bsky.social
Almost all NOAA Research websites that rely on cloud services - including Amazon, Google and WordPress - are poised to disappear at midnight ET Saturday after a contract was targeted for "early termination." Labs may also feel the effects.

Story for @bloomberg.com (free link):
US Weather Agency Websites to Vanish Under Planned Contract Cuts
The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency is poised to eliminate most websites tied to its research division under plans for the cancellation of a cloud web services contract, a move that could s...
www.bloomberg.com
April 4, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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cnn.com
Tesla sales plunged 24% in the first three months of this year, as the company reported by far the largest drop in deliveries in its history
Tesla sales plunge: Biggest decline in history | CNN Business
Tesla sales plunged 13% in the first three months of this year, as the company reported the largest drop in deliveries in its history by far, as backlash against CEO Elon Musk, and growing competition...
www.cnn.com
April 2, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
Our immigration policies should not be wielded as union busting, political cudgels. Or as ways to suppress freedom of speech or assembly.
The image is a screenshot of a post on X by a user named Chicano Marine (@elchicanomarine ), with Mexican and U.S. flag emojis. The post reads: "Ahh… WE have hit the disappearing Union leaders phase of authoritarianism." Below this, there is an image with the text: "ICE detains farmworker union leader Lelo Juarez Zeferino." The image shows a person in a denim shirt against a background split between blue and yellow colors.
March 30, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
CARTOON OF THE DAY #2 🇺🇸

(From @adamzyglis.bsky.social )
March 30, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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achtungamerica.bsky.social
If you care about the cuts to cancer research, please join the April 5th National Day of Action. Hands Off! #cansky #oncsky
handsoff2025.com
March 30, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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cnn.com
The Palestinian co-director of Oscar-winning film "No Other Land" Hamdan Ballal was beaten up by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank and taken away by Israeli soldiers, his colleagues and eyewitnesses said.
Oscar-winning Palestinian director of ‘No Other Land’ assaulted by Israeli settlers in the West Bank | CNN
The Palestinian co-director of Oscar-winning film “No Other Land” Hamdan Ballal was beaten up by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank and taken away by Israeli soldiers, his colleagues and eyewi...
www.cnn.com
March 24, 2025 at 9:23 PM
mattypbs.bsky.social
Typical MAGA…doesn’t wear masks in a cancer center. I’m actually surprised they’re even here and not off taking Ivermectin. #cancer #maga
March 18, 2025 at 6:46 AM
mattypbs.bsky.social
These signs are so soft.

Stand up and be disruptive!

Get kicked out!
March 5, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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helenbranswell.bsky.social
#HHS has canceled the March meeting of outside experts who were to advise #FDA on what next winter's #flu shots should target. The irony of this: Canceling #VRBPAC makes the US more reliant on the WHO-led strain selection process. www.statnews.com/2025/02/26/f...
FDA cancels vaccine advisory committee meeting
The advisory committee meeting is a critical resource for vaccine makers trying to figure out which flu strains to include in their shots for the next flu season.
www.statnews.com
February 27, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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drericding.bsky.social
I’m quietly meditating… yet there are 2 chilling thoughts keep haunting me—

📌1. Measles is not just highly infectious with R0 of 12-18, but it has a long ***2 WEEK*** INCUBATION period—ie Texas outbreak could be in the HUNDREDS or more already, and we are seeing just the early tip of iceberg.
I’m quietly meditating tonight… yet there are 2 chilling thoughts keep haunting me— 📌1. Measles is not just highly infectious with R0 of 12-18, but it has a long ***2 WEEK*** INCUBATION period—ie Texas outbreak could be in the HUNDREDS or more already, and we are seeing just the early tip of iceberg. About 20% of cases are hospitalized traditionally. 📌2. Measles infection partly wipes out memory B cells memory of how to fight past infections. Ie. Your immunity to past infections (that you’ve successfully defeated in the past) may be partly wiped out by measles. ➡️Read: this also includes wiping away immunity achieved thru past vaccinations for other diseases, not just past infection acquired immunity. Both the details above give me chills thinking about the larger consequences of a potential massive measles outbreak.
February 27, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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profgalloway.com
DOGE savings (WSJ): $2.6b

TSLA subsidies (10 years): $15b

Annual increase in deficit: $900b

Cuts to Medicare: $880b
February 26, 2025 at 12:12 AM
mattypbs.bsky.social
Amazing!
scifri.bsky.social Science Friday @scifri.bsky.social · Feb 21
In a small trial, nearly half of pancreatic cancer patients who received an mRNA vaccine had no signs of relapse after three years.

Dr. Vinod Balachandran from @mskcancercenter.bsky.social joins us to discuss the results and what they could mean for cancer treatment.
A Vaccine For Pancreatic Cancer Continues To Show Promise
In a small trial, nearly half of pancreatic cancer patients who received an mRNA vaccine for the disease had no relapse three years later.
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February 21, 2025 at 8:57 PM