John Siegel
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A study on 1.7 million people in Hong Kong shows superior hybrid immunity to Covid in people who got vaccinated before infection vs. people who got infected first. "Our findings are a direct rebuttal to arguments for natural immunity," the authors write. doi.org/10.1016/j.va...
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December 6, 2025 at 5:02 PM
A study on 1.7 million people in Hong Kong shows superior hybrid immunity to Covid in people who got vaccinated before infection vs. people who got infected first. "Our findings are a direct rebuttal to arguments for natural immunity," the authors write. doi.org/10.1016/j.va...
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ordinary americans are filming ice agents and trying to save their neighbors. for all the hemming and hawing during 2024 about how democracy was an elite concern, the elites gave up far more quickly than average people.
October 24, 2025 at 1:51 PM
ordinary americans are filming ice agents and trying to save their neighbors. for all the hemming and hawing during 2024 about how democracy was an elite concern, the elites gave up far more quickly than average people.
They'll become even angrier as they see their racist experiment fail. As The Rise of the Creative Class shows, areas around the globe that embrace diverse talent have the best economies, and those under a blanket of conformity fail. See: the SF Bay Area. MAGA hates this.
"Fundamentally un-American."
A group of VC-backed Christian nationalists seeks a theocratic haven in Tennessee. Political control, religious purity tests, talk of civil collapse — and they’re buying up land.
This isn’t a drill. This is the Network State.
www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...
A group of VC-backed Christian nationalists seeks a theocratic haven in Tennessee. Political control, religious purity tests, talk of civil collapse — and they’re buying up land.
This isn’t a drill. This is the Network State.
www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...
Meet the out-of-state investors funding a Christian nationalist community in Tennessee
For the politically connected investors behind the project, our NewsChannel 5 investigation has now discovered, it’s about business, power and creating an alternative view of America.
www.newschannel5.com
July 29, 2025 at 4:15 PM
They'll become even angrier as they see their racist experiment fail. As The Rise of the Creative Class shows, areas around the globe that embrace diverse talent have the best economies, and those under a blanket of conformity fail. See: the SF Bay Area. MAGA hates this.
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US taxpayers just paid $10M for Trump’s trip to Scotland so he could cut a ribbon on his new golf course, but we “can’t afford” pediatric cancer research.
July 29, 2025 at 11:38 AM
US taxpayers just paid $10M for Trump’s trip to Scotland so he could cut a ribbon on his new golf course, but we “can’t afford” pediatric cancer research.
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This is exactly the right tone when privileged people suffer minor or temporary consequences standing up for powerless people. It’s still about the powerless people.
ICE is Gestapo trash.
ICE is Gestapo trash.
"I'm happy to report I'm just fine. I lost a button. But I'm gonna sleep in my bed tonight, safe, with my family... At that elevator, I was separated from someone named Edgardo... Edgardo is in ICE detention and he's not going to sleep in his bed tonight."
June 17, 2025 at 9:37 PM
This is exactly the right tone when privileged people suffer minor or temporary consequences standing up for powerless people. It’s still about the powerless people.
ICE is Gestapo trash.
ICE is Gestapo trash.
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Guard Soldiers Deployed in Trump's LA Crackdown Aren't Getting Paid Yet www.military.com/daily-news/2...
Guard Soldiers Deployed in Trump's LA Crackdown Aren't Getting Paid Yet
According to more than a dozen Guardsmen across four units who spoke to Military.com, none has received formal activation orders, the critical paperwork that not only authorizes their duty status,…
www.military.com
June 11, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Guard Soldiers Deployed in Trump's LA Crackdown Aren't Getting Paid Yet www.military.com/daily-news/2...
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Pete Buttigieg has entered the chat.
March 25, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Pete Buttigieg has entered the chat.
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Facts are far less persuasive than fear.
Trump’s fear mongering, the media's compulsive need to share it, and even the urge to reshare the horrible things he says to stoke our amygdalas thinking we're turning people off to Trump are actually creating conservatives.
Trump’s fear mongering, the media's compulsive need to share it, and even the urge to reshare the horrible things he says to stoke our amygdalas thinking we're turning people off to Trump are actually creating conservatives.
Donald Trump has just one move.
Fear.
And it's working. Everyone is afraid of him. Senate Democrats. Big law. The media. Even his fellow billionaires.
Here's how we can all help change that.
www.theframelab.org/harnessing-c...
Fear.
And it's working. Everyone is afraid of him. Senate Democrats. Big law. The media. Even his fellow billionaires.
Here's how we can all help change that.
www.theframelab.org/harnessing-c...
March 22, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Facts are far less persuasive than fear.
Trump’s fear mongering, the media's compulsive need to share it, and even the urge to reshare the horrible things he says to stoke our amygdalas thinking we're turning people off to Trump are actually creating conservatives.
Trump’s fear mongering, the media's compulsive need to share it, and even the urge to reshare the horrible things he says to stoke our amygdalas thinking we're turning people off to Trump are actually creating conservatives.
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Reminder that ending the Affordable Care Act is part of Project 2025.
The ACA saves lives; Republicans don't care if people die from their policies.
The ACA saves lives; Republicans don't care if people die from their policies.
March 22, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Reminder that ending the Affordable Care Act is part of Project 2025.
The ACA saves lives; Republicans don't care if people die from their policies.
The ACA saves lives; Republicans don't care if people die from their policies.
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Will Rollins shows why Welcome invests in tough to win races. By focusing on moderate messaging, he brought Ken Calvert to his closest election yet. www.welcomestack.org/p/why-rollin...
Why Will Rollins Overperformed
Will Rollins shows the Welcome model in action
www.welcomestack.org
March 17, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Will Rollins shows why Welcome invests in tough to win races. By focusing on moderate messaging, he brought Ken Calvert to his closest election yet. www.welcomestack.org/p/why-rollin...
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True, I went to a town hall in 2016 with the member of Congress we then defeated.
Every single wave election I've ever seen in my career has started with massive blowback from voters at town halls like this.
It happened to Obama in 2010.
It's happening again to Trump in 2026.
They've badly misplayed their hand since day one.
It happened to Obama in 2010.
It's happening again to Trump in 2026.
They've badly misplayed their hand since day one.
February 23, 2025 at 2:41 PM
True, I went to a town hall in 2016 with the member of Congress we then defeated.
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⚠️RFK Jr just told the US Senate that he does not know if COVID vaccines saved millions of lives.
2.4 million lives were saved by the COVID vaccines in the first 8 months alone.
COVID vaccines prevented >18.5 million US hospitalizations, 3.2 million deaths and saved $1.15 trillion in the US alone
2.4 million lives were saved by the COVID vaccines in the first 8 months alone.
COVID vaccines prevented >18.5 million US hospitalizations, 3.2 million deaths and saved $1.15 trillion in the US alone
January 30, 2025 at 4:26 PM
⚠️RFK Jr just told the US Senate that he does not know if COVID vaccines saved millions of lives.
2.4 million lives were saved by the COVID vaccines in the first 8 months alone.
COVID vaccines prevented >18.5 million US hospitalizations, 3.2 million deaths and saved $1.15 trillion in the US alone
2.4 million lives were saved by the COVID vaccines in the first 8 months alone.
COVID vaccines prevented >18.5 million US hospitalizations, 3.2 million deaths and saved $1.15 trillion in the US alone
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Not the banner you want seeing over this article from … checks notes … 8 days ago
January 30, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Not the banner you want seeing over this article from … checks notes … 8 days ago
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Dwight Eisenhower knew there would be Holocaust deniers. I’m not sure he thought they would still exist 80 years later.
“Get it all on record now - get the films - get the witnesses - because somewhere down the road of history, some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.”
“Get it all on record now - get the films - get the witnesses - because somewhere down the road of history, some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.”
January 28, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Dwight Eisenhower knew there would be Holocaust deniers. I’m not sure he thought they would still exist 80 years later.
“Get it all on record now - get the films - get the witnesses - because somewhere down the road of history, some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.”
“Get it all on record now - get the films - get the witnesses - because somewhere down the road of history, some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.”
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Funny, that.
Now that Trump is using ethnic cleansing language about Gaza where are the protests??
January 27, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Funny, that.
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The reason conservatives don’t want people learning about the Tuskegee Airmen is that their story completely destroys the racist ‘DEI bad’ narrative.
January 26, 2025 at 11:26 PM
The reason conservatives don’t want people learning about the Tuskegee Airmen is that their story completely destroys the racist ‘DEI bad’ narrative.
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🔥 Michael Fanone live on CNN with a message for the founder of Oath Keepers Stewart Rhodes that was just freed by Trump saying he has no regrets
January 22, 2025 at 4:58 PM
🔥 Michael Fanone live on CNN with a message for the founder of Oath Keepers Stewart Rhodes that was just freed by Trump saying he has no regrets
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Thanks to MAGA, oppressed "top bankers" can finally say hateful slurs at work without the fear of “getting cancelled.”
January 14, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Thanks to MAGA, oppressed "top bankers" can finally say hateful slurs at work without the fear of “getting cancelled.”
As Rachel Bitecofer observes, Dems ran no ads reminding low information voters about Jan 6.
thecycle.substack.com/p/trump-maga...
thecycle.substack.com/p/trump-maga...
January 13, 2025 at 3:59 PM
As Rachel Bitecofer observes, Dems ran no ads reminding low information voters about Jan 6.
thecycle.substack.com/p/trump-maga...
thecycle.substack.com/p/trump-maga...
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When a liberal area suffers a climate change disaster, Republicans say “God is punishing them.”
When a conservative area suffers a climate change disaster, Republicans say “Democrats control weather machines.”
Must be hard going through life as a full-blown idiot.
When a conservative area suffers a climate change disaster, Republicans say “Democrats control weather machines.”
Must be hard going through life as a full-blown idiot.
January 8, 2025 at 9:45 PM
When a liberal area suffers a climate change disaster, Republicans say “God is punishing them.”
When a conservative area suffers a climate change disaster, Republicans say “Democrats control weather machines.”
Must be hard going through life as a full-blown idiot.
When a conservative area suffers a climate change disaster, Republicans say “Democrats control weather machines.”
Must be hard going through life as a full-blown idiot.
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A great read.
Killer lines :
1.American's did not drift rightward as couchward
2. 19 million Americans who cast votes for Biden in 2020 did not vote this time around.
Killer lines :
1.American's did not drift rightward as couchward
2. 19 million Americans who cast votes for Biden in 2020 did not vote this time around.
I want to thank everyone who stepped up to do what they can to win these specials!
These wins will be treated as non-stories. But if we just took it for granted and blew it, the narrative would be paralyzing.
These wins will be treated as non-stories. But if we just took it for granted and blew it, the narrative would be paralyzing.
January 8, 2025 at 10:20 PM
A great read.
Killer lines :
1.American's did not drift rightward as couchward
2. 19 million Americans who cast votes for Biden in 2020 did not vote this time around.
Killer lines :
1.American's did not drift rightward as couchward
2. 19 million Americans who cast votes for Biden in 2020 did not vote this time around.
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There have been huge demands on the water supply in LA to fight the fires.
Retired UC Davis Civil Engineering Professor & Watershed management expert Jay Lund blames the size of the fires, not bad water management.
www.newsweek.com/did-californ...
Retired UC Davis Civil Engineering Professor & Watershed management expert Jay Lund blames the size of the fires, not bad water management.
www.newsweek.com/did-californ...
January 8, 2025 at 10:30 PM
There have been huge demands on the water supply in LA to fight the fires.
Retired UC Davis Civil Engineering Professor & Watershed management expert Jay Lund blames the size of the fires, not bad water management.
www.newsweek.com/did-californ...
Retired UC Davis Civil Engineering Professor & Watershed management expert Jay Lund blames the size of the fires, not bad water management.
www.newsweek.com/did-californ...
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The Coloradan who set off a truck bomb in Las Vegas had called for the military and militias to overthrow the US government and "purge" Democrats. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lk_U...
Man who blew up cybertruck in Las Vegas was calling for militias, military government takeover
YouTube video by Next 9NEWS
www.youtube.com
January 8, 2025 at 3:45 AM
The Coloradan who set off a truck bomb in Las Vegas had called for the military and militias to overthrow the US government and "purge" Democrats. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lk_U...
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The video evidence is what I always come back to when I think of Jan. 6. We @propublica.org created this interactive piece of videos that Parler users recorded and uploaded from their own POV that day, and it remains as disturbing today as it was then.
projects.propublica.org/parler-capit...
projects.propublica.org/parler-capit...
What Parler Saw During the Attack on the Capitol
ProPublica sifted through thousands of videos taken by Parler users to create an immersive, first-person view of the Capitol riot as experienced by those who were there.
projects.propublica.org
January 6, 2025 at 2:38 PM
The video evidence is what I always come back to when I think of Jan. 6. We @propublica.org created this interactive piece of videos that Parler users recorded and uploaded from their own POV that day, and it remains as disturbing today as it was then.
projects.propublica.org/parler-capit...
projects.propublica.org/parler-capit...