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Michael Bazaconomicon 💀 🎃 👻
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Infectious disease epidemiologist in the public sector, EIDs, Outbreaks, Zoonoses,

Virginia Tech and Pitt grad, UMD Public Health adjunct faculty, Smash All Fascism, he/him, and most importantly Dad, DC adjacent
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Michael Bazaconomicon 💀 🎃 👻 @mcbazacophd.bsky.social · Feb 8
Fulcrum symbol, from Star Wars Rebels in white on blue to green fade background.
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kakape.bsky.social
The deadly fever in Ethiopia has been identified as Marburg disease.
It’s the first time a Marburg outbreak has been identified in Ethiopia.
#IDsky 🧪

www.afro.who.int/countries/et...
Ethiopia confirms first outbreak of Marburg virus disease
Ethiopia’s Ministry of Health has confirmed an outbreak of Marburg virus disease in the South Ethiopia Region, the first of its kind in the country, following laboratory testing of samples from a clus...
www.afro.who.int
November 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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mjsdc.bsky.social
A brutal 2–1 decision from the 5th Circuit forcing the removal of a young girl to Venezuela even though she has lived in Texas for years and it is the only home she can remember. The dissent verges on incandescence in its fury and despondency. Incredibly bleak.
www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
Hague Convention cases are difficult and sad matters. I sympathize with Brito’s inability to enter the United States to visit his child. But the Hague Convention does not permit a court to adjudicate the merits of custody disputes. See England, 234 F.3d at 271; 22 U.S.C. § 9001(b)(4). As difficult as it is to be separated from a child, A.F.’s relationship with Brito in Texas is no different than it was after he moved to Spain: all interactions are virtual. It is not our province to consider his ability to see A.F. She left Venezuela when she was three. Her entire life as she knows it—including the last three years—is in Texas, and she has grown well-settled. The majority opinion today fails to provide sufficient deference to the district court and reshapes Hague Convention jurisprudence by creating a new emphasis on immigration. It relies on inferential leaps based on limited evidence to determine that a child—who lives a stable, happy, and enriching life in Texas—should be uprooted because of various hypothetical possibilities. This does not comport with our case law, nor does it fit within the purposes of the Hague Convention. I respectfully dissent.
June 2, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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pbump.com
Dropping kid off at school, saw a pickup with a Blue Lives Matter flag, an FOP sticker … and a decal reading, “When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.”
November 13, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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measuredandslow.bsky.social
Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.
November 12, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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gregsargent.bsky.social
This has gotten lost: Abigail Spanberger won big after vowing to RESCIND Glenn Youngkin's executive order directing local cooperation with ICE and voting AGAINST the anti-immigrant Laken Riley Act. Yet she gained bigly with working class.

New piece laying this out:

newrepublic.com/article/2030...
November 12, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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justinhendrix.bsky.social
"President Donald Trump’s federal law enforcement crackdown has hit a disgusting new low, after federal agents reportedly pepper-sprayed a 1-year-old in Chicago and then lied about it."
Damning Video Shows DHS Agents Pepper-Spray a Baby
The Department of Homeland Security has denied it.
newrepublic.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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jaredlholt.bsky.social
Some pro-Israel and anti-Muslim groups closed out last week's NYC mayoral election by boosting hateful rhetoric and conspiracy theories about @cairnational.bsky.social -- a Muslim civil rights group that supported Zohran Mamdani.

Our latest blog takes a closer look: openmeasures.io/zohran-mamda...
Ahead of Zohran Mamdani’s Victory, Opponents Smeared a Muslim Advocacy Group Supporting Him - Open Measures
Open Measures builds accessible and transparent products to contextualize the spread of harmful online information that impacts public discourse and global events.
openmeasures.io
November 11, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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pescado70.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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mcbazacophd.bsky.social
Elections show strong support for Dem policies.

Dem Senators cave.

Every single person says it’s a huge mistake and they shouldn’t do it.

Duckworth canary bill on ACA extension fails on party lines.

Dem Senators get a chance to vote again and still fucking cave!

What was the point of this.
November 11, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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johnny2hats.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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guitardave.bsky.social
youtu.be/VwcKwGS7OSQ?...

Just a friendly reminder to all the Fascists currently destroying America and Ukraine...

All You Fascists Bound to LOSE!

Woody Guthrie

#TheResistance
#Resist 💙✊🗽🇺🇲🇺🇦👊
Woody Guthrie~ All You Fascists Bound To Lose
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July 13, 2025 at 11:40 PM
mcbazacophd.bsky.social
Elections show strong support for Dem policies.

Dem Senators cave.

Every single person says it’s a huge mistake and they shouldn’t do it.

Duckworth canary bill on ACA extension fails on party lines.

Dem Senators get a chance to vote again and still fucking cave!

What was the point of this.
November 11, 2025 at 2:51 AM
mcbazacophd.bsky.social
I miss Pittsburgh.
November 11, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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mementomorty.bsky.social
It seems almost weekly now that there is a headline about a healthcare worker who has been violently assaulted by a patient. When will it stop?
November 10, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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wajali.bsky.social
Thanks to @mostmuscle.bsky.social

www.opensecrets.org/orgs/america...
November 10, 2025 at 4:46 AM
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rincewind.run
okay, so, with Dems successfully keeping anyone up in 2026 for voting for this turd let's take a look at who's up in 2026 anyway:

1. Cory Booker - apparently involved behind the scenes, constantly looking for bipartisanship. I don't dislike him personally but he doesn't have what we need. Primary.
November 10, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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bgrueskin.bsky.social
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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publichealthguy1.bsky.social
no offense, but during this shutdown, i’ve raised awareness/advocated for the welfare of federal workers nonstop. i live in a community full of these workers. they include my friends. i have already addressed this multiple times in a nuanced way.
pip-urria.bsky.social pip-urria.bsky.social @pip-urria.bsky.social · 5d
let's ask the SNAP recipients how willing they were to stay hungry through xmas, and fed workers w no current income how they'd pay their rent/mtge the next few months. and would we have any air traffic controllers left by txgiving?
there were actual victims in this hostage situation
November 10, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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alkapdc.bsky.social
New:

On The Gateway Pundit's podcast yesterday, Stewart Rhodes announced he's relaunching the Oath Keepers

He also urged Trump to “call us up as a militia" & "order us all to come together in our counties under his command."
www.mediamatters.org/oath-keepers...
STEWART RHODES (FOUNDER, OATH KEEPERS): I've been invited to speak across the country about January 6. And now that I'm relaunching Oath Keepers, I'm getting more invitations to come speak as well. So, yeah, I'm relaunching the organization and rebuilding it. ... They tried to take us out after January 6 but what man means for evil, God will use for good. I came out stronger after it, and so my goal is to rebuild the organization stronger than ever because it's an essential mission. Absolutely. JIM HOFT (HOST): Oh, that's wonderful news. So the Oath Keepers is going to have a relaunch here, and Stewart's breaking that news this weekend? RHODES: Yes, sir. ... RHODES: I mean, I have to make sure that if I'm ever taken out again or if I'm or when I'm taken out again, that the organization can drive on without me. That's not what happened last time. ... So we want to make sure it's got resilience and redundancy built in that it can drive on strong. With the same mission, though. You can't call yourself an Oath Keeper if you're not willing to protect people against radical antifa and other leftist violence in the streets. STEWART RHODES (FOUNDER, OATH KEEPERS): And one other thing I want to say is that President Trump, as commander in chief, always has absolute authority to call all of us up as the militia because every one of us — in federal statues defining the militia, it's every able-bodied male from age 17-45. And for us veterans, it goes up to age 64 because of our prior training and experience. Right now, under federal statutes, President Trump can call us up as the militia if he sees it necessary, especially for three purposes: to repel invasions, to suppress insurrections, and to execute the laws of the union. And right now, we see all three of those in play. ... And the militia is all of us. So the National Guard is part of the militia, which is why it's completely lawful for him to use the National Guard as he has, and he should do more of that, I think, across the country. ... He could just say given the circumstances of an invasion, insurrection, and resistance against federal law being being enforced, I'm calling up the militia, ordering all the men to come together [in] every county, put the veterans in charge of training and organizing all the other men and just have them stand too and await his orders. He can do that and I think he should do that. And so that's what I'll be advocating for from him. So from the bottom, from down the rank and file, we can let President Trump know that we're ready to serve, encourage him to do that, call us up as a militia, order us all to come together in our counties under his command, which gives you complete legal sanction to do what you're doing.
November 10, 2025 at 4:54 PM
mcbazacophd.bsky.social
Yo, annual reminder to buy your sage now because when you need it in a week it’ll be sold out everywhere.
November 10, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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amybrown.xyz
Ms Rachel says The New York Times asked her if she’s funded by Hamas
Screenshot of a post from Ms Rachel’s Instagram Real Question from The NY Times As you know, a group has suggested, albeit without evidence, that you are accepting money in order to further Hamas's agenda. Is that true? This accusation is not only absurd, it's patently false.
November 10, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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mcbazacophd.bsky.social
I’m a federal employee who was furloughed and just missed my second full paycheck. I have two young kids, so it’s tough.

It’s hard but DAMN worth it. Hold the line.

Capitulating now puts all that folks have sacrificed to this point in the trash bin.

@vanhollen.senate.gov @alsobrooks.senate.gov
November 10, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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solomonmissouri.bsky.social
Because many struggle with math…
November 10, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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gailsimone.bsky.social
A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.
November 10, 2025 at 1:16 PM