Vinny Eng
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Obviously "mass deportation will lower housing costs" was never a real argument but @mtkonczal.bsky.social crunched the numbers. Get ready to for crimes against humanity to save you a two liter of shasta mikekonczal.substack.com/p/mass-depor...
Mass Deportation Will Save Renters Less Than $5 a Month
President Trump wants to deport his way to affordability. But immigration can’t explain the housing crisis, and deportation won’t fix it.
mikekonczal.substack.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Obviously "mass deportation will lower housing costs" was never a real argument but @mtkonczal.bsky.social crunched the numbers. Get ready to for crimes against humanity to save you a two liter of shasta mikekonczal.substack.com/p/mass-depor...
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December 1, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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NEW: Egg producers suspect bird flu is traveling through the air. The USDA didn’t test the theory after a disastrous Midwestern outbreak.
Here’s how we did.
By @natlash.bsky.social
Here’s how we did.
By @natlash.bsky.social
How ProPublica Investigated a Bird Flu Outbreak in America’s Heartland
Early this year, bird flu ripped through 80 farms in Ohio and Indiana. Using genetic markers, wind simulations, satellite imagery, property records and more, we found that the virus could’ve been airb...
www.propublica.org
November 18, 2025 at 2:00 PM
NEW: Egg producers suspect bird flu is traveling through the air. The USDA didn’t test the theory after a disastrous Midwestern outbreak.
Here’s how we did.
By @natlash.bsky.social
Here’s how we did.
By @natlash.bsky.social
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One Health expert Dr. John Korslund (@hogvet51.bsky.social) shares his thoughts on our recent investigation on his blog. Worth a read if you're interested in #h5n1 #birdflu (and #h5n5)
hogvet51.substack.com/p/a-grim-wee...
hogvet51.substack.com/p/a-grim-wee...
November 25, 2025 at 10:57 PM
One Health expert Dr. John Korslund (@hogvet51.bsky.social) shares his thoughts on our recent investigation on his blog. Worth a read if you're interested in #h5n1 #birdflu (and #h5n5)
hogvet51.substack.com/p/a-grim-wee...
hogvet51.substack.com/p/a-grim-wee...
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15/ And the "severely ill" patient in Washington State confirmed to be infected with bird flu last week highlights the threat of a virus that has the potential to spark a pandemic.
Read more about this deep-dive into the Ohio/Indiana outbreak here: www.propublica.org/article/bird...
Read more about this deep-dive into the Ohio/Indiana outbreak here: www.propublica.org/article/bird...
What the U.S. Government Is Dismissing That Could Seed a Bird Flu Pandemic
Egg producers suspect bird flu is traveling through the air. After a disastrous Midwestern outbreak early this year, we tested that theory and found that where the wind blew, the virus followed. Vacci...
www.propublica.org
November 18, 2025 at 9:11 PM
15/ And the "severely ill" patient in Washington State confirmed to be infected with bird flu last week highlights the threat of a virus that has the potential to spark a pandemic.
Read more about this deep-dive into the Ohio/Indiana outbreak here: www.propublica.org/article/bird...
Read more about this deep-dive into the Ohio/Indiana outbreak here: www.propublica.org/article/bird...
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14/ Meanwhile, this fall has proven even worse than last year. Right now, the virus is spreading in northern Indiana, hitting 43 duck and chicken farms just in the last month, after wiping out dozens of turkey flocks in Minnesota.
November 18, 2025 at 9:11 PM
14/ Meanwhile, this fall has proven even worse than last year. Right now, the virus is spreading in northern Indiana, hitting 43 duck and chicken farms just in the last month, after wiping out dozens of turkey flocks in Minnesota.
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1/ Today, ProPublica is running a piece I've been working on for a bit. It's about what happened with a devastating wave of bird flu earlier this year, as egg prices hit record highs.
And it's a story that illuminates the ways the U.S. is failing to control what could become the next pandemic. 🧵
And it's a story that illuminates the ways the U.S. is failing to control what could become the next pandemic. 🧵
November 18, 2025 at 9:11 PM
1/ Today, ProPublica is running a piece I've been working on for a bit. It's about what happened with a devastating wave of bird flu earlier this year, as egg prices hit record highs.
And it's a story that illuminates the ways the U.S. is failing to control what could become the next pandemic. 🧵
And it's a story that illuminates the ways the U.S. is failing to control what could become the next pandemic. 🧵
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"Historically low vaccination rates, skepticism fueled by the pandemic, misinformation, and “health freedom” ideologies have put communities at risk for the reemergence of
preventable, potentially deadly viruses like measles and pertussis." #RSNA25
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
preventable, potentially deadly viruses like measles and pertussis." #RSNA25
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
South Carolina’s Measles Outbreak Shows Chilling Effect of Vaccine Misinformation - KFF Health News
When a measles outbreak emerged in Spartanburg, South Carolina, in October, health officials announced that most cases were tied to one public charter school, where only 17% of the 605 students enroll...
kffhealthnews.org
December 1, 2025 at 3:42 AM
"Historically low vaccination rates, skepticism fueled by the pandemic, misinformation, and “health freedom” ideologies have put communities at risk for the reemergence of
preventable, potentially deadly viruses like measles and pertussis." #RSNA25
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
preventable, potentially deadly viruses like measles and pertussis." #RSNA25
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
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every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades
December 1, 2025 at 12:04 AM
every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades
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Btw we already had someone to do 11.7% of work tasks, they were called "a secretary" and the suits decided it was cheaper to make everyone do their own emails and schedules.
But you can add up any number of secretaries and still not get one programmer, or architect, or nurse.
But you can add up any number of secretaries and still not get one programmer, or architect, or nurse.
November 29, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Btw we already had someone to do 11.7% of work tasks, they were called "a secretary" and the suits decided it was cheaper to make everyone do their own emails and schedules.
But you can add up any number of secretaries and still not get one programmer, or architect, or nurse.
But you can add up any number of secretaries and still not get one programmer, or architect, or nurse.
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“It’s a mockery of due process. It’s a mockery of our constitutional rights.”
December 1, 2025 at 3:48 AM
“It’s a mockery of due process. It’s a mockery of our constitutional rights.”
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Bookmark this for the investigations to come: the Trump team’s boat bombings trace back to at least 2018. That’s when White House officials asked me & others about whether they could do something like this.
We said it was illegal then. Now they’ve done it anyway.
We said it was illegal then. Now they’ve done it anyway.
November 29, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Bookmark this for the investigations to come: the Trump team’s boat bombings trace back to at least 2018. That’s when White House officials asked me & others about whether they could do something like this.
We said it was illegal then. Now they’ve done it anyway.
We said it was illegal then. Now they’ve done it anyway.
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#WorldAIDSDay this year is a grim one
Stories of the devastating impact of US, British and wider European aid cuts on the fight against HIV – particularly in sub-Saharan Africa – continue to mount as 2025 comes to an end…
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Stories of the devastating impact of US, British and wider European aid cuts on the fight against HIV – particularly in sub-Saharan Africa – continue to mount as 2025 comes to an end…
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Aid cuts have shaken HIV/Aids care to its core – and will mean millions more infections ahead
Reports highlight devastating impact of slashed funding, especially in parts of Africa, that could lead to 3.3m new HIV infections by 2030
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:15 AM
#WorldAIDSDay this year is a grim one
Stories of the devastating impact of US, British and wider European aid cuts on the fight against HIV – particularly in sub-Saharan Africa – continue to mount as 2025 comes to an end…
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Stories of the devastating impact of US, British and wider European aid cuts on the fight against HIV – particularly in sub-Saharan Africa – continue to mount as 2025 comes to an end…
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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Chief Bovino is not a political appointee. He is a civil servant, subject to the same requirements to be nonpartisan as any other employee. These messages are being broadcast from an official government account.
![Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh •9h “BREAKING: Gov. Tim Walz says Somalians are ESSENTIAL to the Minnesota community - despite STEALING millions or even billions in taxpayer dollars.
‘They bring diversity and ENERGY to a place like Minnesota!’ Pathetic. Somalians LEECH - DEPORT THEM.”
Response from Gregory Bovino’s official account: “Waltz is of the same class as newsome, stein, pritzker - gubners [governors] who choose illegal aliens over their own citizens. Amazing incompetence”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2vtbmhmrwzbqcfv4we4uxzzt/bafkreihst32abq4yk2kvsi3sg5bjedowsscsf5lfojdskehwivjizr2tme@jpeg)
December 1, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Chief Bovino is not a political appointee. He is a civil servant, subject to the same requirements to be nonpartisan as any other employee. These messages are being broadcast from an official government account.
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Republicans bet big on book bans, anti-trans hysteria, and bathroom bills. Voters countered with: rent, childcare, test scores, school buses.
Result? Democrats swept school board races in three battleground states.
Result? Democrats swept school board races in three battleground states.
GOP goes all-in on culture war—and it's not going great
In yet another sign the electorate is rejecting MAGA’s culture-war politics, Democrats swept school board elections in Texas, Pennsylvania, and Ohio.
“From Texas to Pennsylvania to Ohio, ...
www.dailykos.com
December 1, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Republicans bet big on book bans, anti-trans hysteria, and bathroom bills. Voters countered with: rent, childcare, test scores, school buses.
Result? Democrats swept school board races in three battleground states.
Result? Democrats swept school board races in three battleground states.
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Lol, Zillow tried to rate the climate risks facing individual properties. The real estate industry *hated* it, precisely because it worked -- it made selling risky properties more difficult. So they rebelled & Zillow caved.
Don't look up!
Don't look up!
Zillow Removes Climate Risk Scores From Home Listings
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Lol, Zillow tried to rate the climate risks facing individual properties. The real estate industry *hated* it, precisely because it worked -- it made selling risky properties more difficult. So they rebelled & Zillow caved.
Don't look up!
Don't look up!
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the primary thing that TPUSA provides to young conservatives is a blueprint for weaponizing the abject cowardice of university administrators against individual teachers and instructors, and university admins should take a long look in the mirror and think about what that says about them
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
November 30, 2025 at 8:51 PM
the primary thing that TPUSA provides to young conservatives is a blueprint for weaponizing the abject cowardice of university administrators against individual teachers and instructors, and university admins should take a long look in the mirror and think about what that says about them
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Doomerism is fundamentally selfish because it says nothing will get better fast enough *for me*. Nothing about future generations or harm reduction for others.
December 1, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Doomerism is fundamentally selfish because it says nothing will get better fast enough *for me*. Nothing about future generations or harm reduction for others.
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The path to undoing the damage is to avoiding doomering and fighting for that better future.
This was Coates whole rebuttal to Klein: the mindset grounded in the lived experience of Black Americans that you fight for a future you likely won’t see, setting up those who come next to keep going.
This was Coates whole rebuttal to Klein: the mindset grounded in the lived experience of Black Americans that you fight for a future you likely won’t see, setting up those who come next to keep going.
We doomers are seeing way more than just one issue. We are seeing systematic issues that aren't going to be resolvable for years, possibly decades. Yes, it's nice to see a light in the darkness sometimes, but until everything is back to "normal" or better, we doomers are still gonna doom. #doom
December 1, 2025 at 2:59 AM
The path to undoing the damage is to avoiding doomering and fighting for that better future.
This was Coates whole rebuttal to Klein: the mindset grounded in the lived experience of Black Americans that you fight for a future you likely won’t see, setting up those who come next to keep going.
This was Coates whole rebuttal to Klein: the mindset grounded in the lived experience of Black Americans that you fight for a future you likely won’t see, setting up those who come next to keep going.
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Earlier this year, we documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office.
ICE claims its officers use a “minimum amount of force.”
You can judge for yourself.
ICE claims its officers use a “minimum amount of force.”
You can judge for yourself.
“We’ll Smash the Fucking Window Out and Drag Him Out”
We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a “mini...
projects.propublica.org
December 1, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Earlier this year, we documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office.
ICE claims its officers use a “minimum amount of force.”
You can judge for yourself.
ICE claims its officers use a “minimum amount of force.”
You can judge for yourself.
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Senator Kelly is correct.
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
November 30, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Senator Kelly is correct.
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
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conservatives basically want to implement the caricature of affirmative action for conservative students. acceptance without meeting qualifications, good grades and degrees without having to do the work.
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
December 1, 2025 at 1:29 AM
conservatives basically want to implement the caricature of affirmative action for conservative students. acceptance without meeting qualifications, good grades and degrees without having to do the work.
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Remarkable story of a Georgia high school team who used CRISPR to make a rapid diagnostic test strip for Lyme disease, speeding dx from 2 weeks to days
www.cbsnews.com/news/teens-m...
www.cbsnews.com/news/teens-m...
Teens may have come up with a new way to detect, treat Lyme disease using CRISPR gene editing
To compete at iGEM, a sort of science Olympics, teens at a Georgia high school set their sights on finding a better way to detect and treat Lyme disease. Their approach uses CRISPR gene editing.
www.cbsnews.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Remarkable story of a Georgia high school team who used CRISPR to make a rapid diagnostic test strip for Lyme disease, speeding dx from 2 weeks to days
www.cbsnews.com/news/teens-m...
www.cbsnews.com/news/teens-m...
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Also, to be clear, when a trans instructor at OU is being punished and targeted for quite fairly grading a terrible essay, it’s bizarre to see academics online debating the rubrics.
That’s…not the problem.
That’s…not the problem.
December 1, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Also, to be clear, when a trans instructor at OU is being punished and targeted for quite fairly grading a terrible essay, it’s bizarre to see academics online debating the rubrics.
That’s…not the problem.
That’s…not the problem.
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Sounds like we need to hear sworn testimony from Admiral Bradley, Admiral Holsey, and any JAG officers involved, about who ordered what and who objected.
Reporter: If there were a second strike that killed wounded people, would that be legal?
Trump: I don’t know that happened and Pete said he did not even know what people were talking about. I wouldn’t have wanted a second strike. The first strike was very lethal. It was fine.
Trump: I don’t know that happened and Pete said he did not even know what people were talking about. I wouldn’t have wanted a second strike. The first strike was very lethal. It was fine.
November 30, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Sounds like we need to hear sworn testimony from Admiral Bradley, Admiral Holsey, and any JAG officers involved, about who ordered what and who objected.