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Quarantegan
@quarantegan.bsky.social
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Covid is airborne. Covid is not mild (ask your neurons & vasculature).
And -- Covid is not over 😷 #wekeepussafe #covidcompetentcommunity #makeairbreathableagain #maskup
[art credits: Eyvind Earle, "Paradise"; Artur Rosa, "Layers of Impossibility"]
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The incredible @lauramiers.bsky.social is calling out what we've all been warning was coming -- this is a eugenicist-filled administration, & that's not a casual ideology. They've put us on a road they're committed to ploughing down, & that plough is going to take a lot of our fellow humans with it.
A tweet from Laura Miers on X from October 17th 2025 reads: "My insurance has decided it will not cover ANY of my GI drugs going forward. In order to not get impacted & die, I have to come up with $1000+ a month. They have covered these drugs for the last 4 years. I sense a major shift approaching, & a fuck ton of people are going to die."
October 17, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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An electron-microscope image of a contrast-dyed Covid 19 viron fills the left side of the image. It is a large red sphere with small purple and green spikes evenly across the surface. The test on the right side of the image reads: "SARS-CoV-2, also known as Covid 19, is an airborne vascular disease that can cross the blood-brain barrier, damage the immune system, and result in long-term disability. Does that sound like a cold to you? #MaskUp #CleanTheAir #CovidIsNotOver"
September 17, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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"Here’s the truth: the pandemic is not over. It’s much worse than you have been led to believe... Everything from how it’s spread, to how it’s prevented, to what it does once it’s in your body, is being tragically misunderstood."

Still 🏆 2.5 yrs on.

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Electron microscope image of SARS-CoV-2 virus, contrast-dyed a golden yellow; the background is contrast-dyed in an ombre wash from top to bottom of dark turquoise blue through purple to deep magenta pink.
September 16, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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#MaskUp #CleanTheAir #CovidIsNotOver
An electron-microscope image of a contrast-dyed Covid 19 viron fills the left side of the image. It is a large red sphere with small purple and green spikes evenly across the surface. The test on the right side of the image reads: "SARS-CoV-2, also known as Covid 19, is an airborne vascular disease that can cross the blood-brain barrier, damage the immune system, and result in long-term disability. Does that sound like a cold to you? #MaskUp #CleanTheAir #CovidIsNotOver"
September 15, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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Nailed it 🎉 Glad 5.6 years of Covid-caution is a benefit somewhere beyond consistently negative NAAT & RAT results! Now if I could only find a PCP, a dentist, and an optometrist who could pass even the short version of this test...
The all-test image reads: Exam Complete! 100% You got 20 out of 20 questions correct (Weighted score: 27.4/27.4) [masked emoji] Epidemiologist's NIghtmare Perfect score! You're so well-informed, conspiracy theorists actively avoid you at parties.
September 11, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Impact Research memo, page 2.
The second page of a memo from a public relations firm, Impact Research, to President Joe Biden and his staff on February 24, 2022 (about a third of the way through the deadliest few months of the pandemic to date). In summary, the introduction on page 1 of the memo states that two years into the pandemic, people are over it and want to get back to normal, and that "nearly every American finally has the tools to protect themselves from this virus." The three bullet points on this page read "Acknowledge COVID still exists and likely will for a long time", "Don't set 'COVID zero' as the victory condition", and "Stop talking about restrictions and the unknown future ahead".
July 21, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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There seem to be a lot of #BlueMAGA voices that are outraged at any perceived maligning of what they believe to be Joe Biden's heroic management of the pandemic he declared "over" in '23 - the one that is, in fact, ongoing.

"He did the best he could."

No. He did what Impact Research told him to.
The first page of a memo from a public relations firm, Impact Research, to President Joe Biden and his staff on February 24, 2022 (about a third of the way through the deadliest few months of the pandemic to date). In summary, the memo states that two years into the pandemic, people are over it and want to get back to normal, and that "nearly every American finally has the tools to protect themselves from this virus." The first two bullet points read "Declare the crisis phase of COVID over and push for feeling and acting more normal", and "Recognize that people are 'worn out' and feeling real harm from the years-long restrictions and [next words underlined] take their side."
July 21, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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The second page of a memo from a public relations firm, Impact Research, to President Joe Biden and his staff on February 24, 2022 (about a third of the way through the deadliest few months of the pandemic to date). In summary, the memo's introduction on page one stated that two years into the pandemic, people are over it and want to get back to normal, and that "nearly every American finally has the tools to protect themselves from this virus." The three bullet points on this second page read "Acknowledge COVID still exists and likely will for a long time", "Don't set 'COVID zero' as the victory condition", and "Stop talking about restrictions and the unknown future ahead".
July 21, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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Biden did not, in fact, do everything he could. He did everything Impact Research told him he should do to "save the economy" and "his legacy". Which was, in a word, "let it rip".
The first page of a memo from a public relations firm, Impact Research, to President Joe Biden and his staff on February 24, 2022 (about a third of the way through the deadliest few months of the pandemic to date). In summary, the memo states that two years into the pandemic, people are over it and want to get back to normal, and that "nearly every American finally has the tools to protect themselves from this virus." The first two bullet points read "Declare the crisis phase of COVID over and push for feeling and acting more normal", and "Recognize that people are 'worn out' and feeling real harm from the years-long restrictions and [next words underlined] take their side."
July 21, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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Damn, I didn't have any of those three on my radar. I'm going to need a bigger grid than I'd anticipated :/
Text at the top reads "Eugenics Bingo! Cross out each ghoul as they get added to the Trump Administration. Any candidates requiring Senate approval must be confirmed in order to be crossed out. Prizes for completed lines have yet to be determined. A full card wins... IDK, prayer for your soul?". Text is above a 5x5 grid of small photos each labeled with a name; nine of the images have a pink "X" in their upper lefthand corners. The center square in the grid shows the city seal of Great Barrington, Massachusetts, with the words "free space" in each corner of the square. Starting from the top left and ending in the bottom right, the names are: Kevin Bass, Tracy Beth Hoag (X'ed), Robert F Kennedy Jr (X'ed), Francois Balloux, Emily Oster, Monica Gandhi, Ashish Jha, Martin Kulldorf (X'ed), Vinay Prasad (X'ed), Leana Wen, Jason Hicks, Jay Bhattacharya, "free space", Sunetra Gupta, Anders Tegnel, Aseem Malhotra (X'ed), David Leonhardt, John Ioannidis, Allison Krug, Marty Makary (X'ed), Casey Means (X'ed), Bob Wachter, Renata Moon, Mehmet Oz (X'ed), and Alasdair Munro.
July 16, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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#RATforCovid #HowToRapidTestForCovid
July 12, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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A screenshot from live MSNBC coverage of the No Kings protest and march in New York City shows a dark-haired brown-skinned female reporter looking and speaking into the camera. She is wearing a rain jacket, and people in the crowd behind her are dressed in rain gear and holding umbrellas. The time stamp in the upper lefthand corner says 3:02 pm. Over her right shoulder and very close by, a protester is holding a large boldly-written all-caps protest sign up to the camera: it has a heart in the upper right corner and smile in the lower left corner, and reads "NATIONAL GUARD DEEZ NUTZ".
June 18, 2025 at 5:38 AM
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An artistic rendering of three masked people of varying genders and skin tones grouped together in the center of the image, as if they are smiling and posing for a photo. The center person, wearing a t-shirt in the colors of the lesbian Pride flag, is making a peace sign with one hand and holding a small Progress Pride flag in the other. The two people on either side, one wearing a trans Pride flag pin, are reaching across to touch hands, each making half of a heart shape. Behind the group is a distant rounded rainbow, a rainbow heart hovers above their heads, and all are set against a light blue background. Text in the lower right-hand corner reads "Art by Grae Salisbury".
June 12, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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Excellent question. We should report scientific findings accurately; we should also be aware of how people are going to hear/perceive them:
The "Phoebe Teaches Joey" meme format: a 2-wide by 4-high grid of small photos depict Phoebe, a long-haired blonde white woman, and Joey, a clean-shaven dark-short-haired white man, who are characters from the 1990's sitcom "Friends". Phoebe is always on the left, Joey is always on the right, and the inference is that they are speaking back and forth to each other. The subject being referenced in the meme is the shelter-in-place orders early in the Covid pandemic, intended to stop the spread by eliminating exposure between people as much as possible, orders which many willfully ignored. In the first line in the first box, Phoebe says "Stay"; Joey responds in the second box by repeating "Stay". In the second line, Phoebe says "the fuck", and Joey repeats "the fuck". In the third line, Phoebe says "home", and Joey repeats "home". In the final line Phoebe, putting it all together, says "Stay the fuck home". Joey responds: "Picnic in the park!".
May 12, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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Just one example of something I didn't know 5 minutes ago, now easy assimilated into my ADHD brain that usually makes reading through fact-filled missives like this extremely hard. Like magic, I find Olga's Trackers a breeze to read & retain.

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A short summary (in Olga Lautman's Trump Tyranny Tracker newsletter) of a news item regarding a hack of the Signal-clone app TeleMessage, the full reporting of which is accessible through the link in the post which redirects to 404 Media.
May 5, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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I would argue we should be considered to be somewhere in the lavender-purple range, but who am I to say...
A graphic by Statista titled "The State of Democracy: Global Democracy Index rates, by country/territory (2022)". An asterisked note at the bottom reads "takes into account electoral process and pluralism, civil liberties, the functioning of government, political participation, and political culture. Source: The Economist Intelligence Unit". The graphic depicts the landmasses of the world, color coded according to scores that fall into four categories: full democracies (navy 9-10, azure 8-8.99); flawed democracies (light blue 7-7.99, aqua 6-6.99); hybrid regimes (lavender 5-5.99, purple 4-4.99); and authoritarian regimes (pink 3-3.99, red 2-2.99, and maroon 0-1.99). The color gray indicates "no data". The United States is depicted in light blue, or a score of 7-7.99 under "flawed democracies"; before the Trump administration began dismantling the government structures and rule of law, the United States was scored in the "full democracies" category.
April 22, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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Cybersecurity news of the week from talented and cat-recommended journalist @violetblue.bsky.social 😺

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A vertical three-pane photo depiction of a scene from the movie "Escape from New York". The first pane is of an elderly balding white man with a mustache sitting in a wingback leather chair in a dimly lit room; underneath his image are the words "We need you to rescue the president". In the second pane, a younger white man with shoulder-length hair, light full beard, and a black eyepatch over his left eye is sitting in a matching leather wingback chair, wearing a brown leather jacket, and with an American flag visible in the background; under his image is the word "No". In the final pane, the same elderly man from the first pane is depicted above the words "Understandable. Have a nice day". At the bottom of the whole thing are the words "Directed by John Carpenter".
April 9, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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🎯🎯🎯
A Tweet from Brian Allen (Blue Check), username @allenanalysis: "Telling Denmark it's not doing enough for Greenland -- when both have universal healthcare and your country can't even guarantee insulin or an ambulance without bankruptcy -- is peak American delusion. You don't get to lecture nations that take care of their people when yours lets them die in medical debt" Under the post's text is a still photo of a Fox News segment of Vice President VD Vance's speech at the US military base in Greenland in late March 2025. The chiron at the bottom of the screen reads "Vance: Denmark isn't doing enough to keep Greenland safe". JD Vance is center-frame wearing a black parka, caught mid-speech; behind him are line of military personnel in camouflage fatigues, standing at attention.
April 7, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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🧵 I’ve gone back to watch this section of @taylorlorenz.bsky.social’s turn on @zeteo.com's #We'reNotKidding multiple times now — I never hear this kind of discussion anywhere in media:
March 10, 2025 at 2:10 AM