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Michael Konomos

@mkonomos.bsky.social

Shot the video, made the music with the Moog DFAM and Bastl Timber. If you feel like you are dragging along, you aren’t weak. You are a badass to keep going even though you are tired of all this. That’s enough. Do what you can.

May 14, 2025 at 11:00 AM

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BK. Titanji

@boghuma.bsky.social

Absolutely brilliant science communication by @unbiasedscipod.bsky.social and Marta Tufet of GAVI. Clear explanation of why placebo controlled trials are not required for vaccines already known to be efficacious. I had to share.

May 9, 2025 at 12:38 PM

Michael Konomos

@mkonomos.bsky.social

I learned the other day that RFK Jr does not believe the germ theory of disease. It's worse than being a flat earther. I don't even know why this fact isn't next to every statement that he makes. Children know this. He doesn't believe it.

pauloffit.substack.com/p/understand...

Understanding RFK Jr.

If you want to know why RFK Jr. believes so many weird things, just read his book, The Real Anthony Fauci. Four pages explain everything.

pauloffit.substack.com

May 2, 2025 at 1:32 PM

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD

@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social

The possibility that RFK Jr. is going to undermine herd immunity in the United States grows increasingly likely.

This would mean that US will be responsible for starting numerous pandemics and potentially destroying the effectiveness of the entire globe’s vaccine arsenal.

This is bioterrorism.

May 2, 2025 at 12:04 AM

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BK. Titanji

@boghuma.bsky.social

I feel compelled to debunk this. As someone who does translational research using human derived cell lines, primary cells etc. and someone who also understands how vaccines are developed and made, this is a FALSE and prevalent line of anti-vaccine BULLSHIT.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · May 1

RFK Jr on measles: "The MMR vaccine contains a lot of aborted fetus debris."

May 1, 2025 at 4:00 PM

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BK. Titanji

@boghuma.bsky.social

More insanity.
1. Collaborative research gave us vaccines for Ebola
2. Drugs for HIV
3. Malaria vaccines
4. Researched and enhanced tracking of emerging infectious disease threats.
And much more
This is another damaging own goal.
www.statnews.com/2025/05/01/n...

NIH halts funding for new projects with foreign collaborators, citing national security concerns

NIH announced it will no longer allow subawards to foreign institutions, as part of a national security-minded overhaul to how it manages research funding

www.statnews.com

May 2, 2025 at 11:49 AM

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Ryan Marino, MD

@ryanmarino.bsky.social

‘Kennedy told reporters that there were "many, many good ways to treat measles and doctors need to know that and to know those methods.’

One problem; there is no treatment for measles. Signed, a doctor who’s been forced to deal with measles because of this stupid fraud.

RFK Jr. asks CDC for new measles treatment guidance amid his unfounded claims

Kennedy claimed that drugs like budesonide and clarithromycin "have been shown very effective" for measles, but doctors say they don't fight the infection itself.

www.cbsnews.com

May 2, 2025 at 3:11 AM

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Ossoff's Office

@ossoff.senate.gov

Sen. Ossoff: Who out there in the American public is sitting at home demanding that we shut down cancer research and Alzheimer's research?

April 30, 2025 at 6:14 PM

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Tim Onion

@bencollins.bsky.social

April 28, 2025: Migrants are making SOS signs out of their bodies so drones can see them at our country's concentration camps.

A drone view of detainees forming the letters SOS with their bodies in the courtyard at the Bluebonnet Detention Facility, where Venezuelans at the center of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling are held, in Anson, Texas, U.S. April 28, 2025. REUTERS/Paul Ratje

April 30, 2025 at 7:08 PM

Michael Konomos

@mkonomos.bsky.social

Made this using Dreadbox Nymphes and Moog DFAM. Really enjoyed taking some time away from work and from fighting against these fascists. You have to engage in self care too.

April 30, 2025 at 10:41 AM

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southpaw

@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
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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

Michael Konomos

@mkonomos.bsky.social

I wrote this poem last year, reflecting on relationships with significant people in my life. I filmed the video myself and created the glitched piano track with the help of the Digitakt and the synths sounds with Dreadbox Typhon.

Take care of each other.

#ambientmusic #synth

April 23, 2025 at 5:16 PM

Michael Konomos

@mkonomos.bsky.social

I released a new much video today. Everything was shot and animated and glitched by me, music all original as well.

Bathroom Floor (music video)
youtu.be/NmPTVulb1zc