E Rosalie

Public health + national security | Johns Hopkins alum | COVID19Tracking alum | Tracking medical misinfo 💉 and information disorder, info ecosystem mapping, FIMI

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2026-08-26 22:03:52 UTC

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/new-twitter-launches-says-musks-x-gave-up-the-name/

2026-07-13 05:33:04 UTC

For every $1 the government claimed to save by cutting foreign aid, it added about $380 to the federal deficit elsewhere in the budget.
That's without factoring in the increased cost of armed conflicts we won't prevent, deaths we can't stop, and allies we won't have the next time we need them.

2026-04-13 22:15:58 UTC

Péter Magyar, a conservative politician and the new Hungarian prime minister, says CPAC was paid by the Hungarian government and will not be any longer.
Hungary also paid consulting firms in DC as well as conservative influencers.

2026-03-15 16:21:57 UTC

Just so we’re 1000% clear: no state or local government should be giving financial incentives to build a data center. If anything, it should come with increased taxation—because wherever they go, they gobble up water and energy. They should be paying locals for the privilege of being tolerated.

2026-01-22 16:29:07 UTC

1/7 U.S. scientific innovation cannot recover from this in the near future. For a while, it was reversible. Not anymore. The best-case scenario is that we recover within a decade, but at that point, competitors will likely have eclipsed us.
I did not expect U.S. decline to be a story of suicide.
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2025-12-16 14:04:42 UTC

The wildest thing about trad wives is that they will urge other women not to have jobs and focus solely on their families, and they do so from their place of work.
If your social media activity results in having to pay taxes, you have a job. They have security that they urge others not to have.

2025-12-11 05:02:19 UTC

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has removed any mention of fossil fuels – the main driver of global warming – from its popular online page explaining the causes of climate change. https://www.euronews.com/green/2025/12/10/we-look-ridiculous-us-government-website-removes-fossil-fuels-as-cause-of-global-warming

2025-10-04 14:23:45 UTC

Even the most devoted “alt” health advocates don’t gamble on “alt” aeronautics or “alt” electricians—because the risks are obvious and personal. The irony is that “alt” health itself exists only because mainstream medicine has been so successful people feel safe enough to treat it as optional.

2025-10-01 21:29:20 UTC

USAID paused the shipment of lifesaving drugs. Children died waiting.
https://wapo.st/489jGvd

2025-09-29 14:23:48 UTC

Is left-wing extremism on the rise? Looks like it. Is left-wing extremism ever lethal? Yes. Is that the group that worries me most? No. This graph clearly illustrates why.
If you're looking at the rates for this year and NOW you care about extremism, you don't care about extremism.
People who want solutions don't have time for you to derail a conversation you don't really care about.
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2025-09-21 07:12:52 UTC

If you're bored, DOGE Libs is the gift that keeps on giving. https://dogelibs.vercel.app/

2025-09-13 23:47:02 UTC

Looked at my data collections for state-backed activity. If the report were a picture:
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2025-09-09 02:45:00 UTC

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Why so sure?
➡️The Soviets politicized science. Now the U.S. is doing the same.
➡️The Soviets suppressed genetic research. Now the U.S. is suppressing mRNA research.
2/6

2025-09-09 02:45:00 UTC

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Why do you care?
➡️Infectious diseases don't have a political party, and they don't respect borders.
➡️Your local health department barely has enough money to do basic functions. We won't be able to stop what we can't see, and that's doubly true if it takes a long time to make people sick.
4/6

2025-09-09 02:45:00 UTC

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➡️The Soviets drove out world-class scientists whose work challenged the regime and its friends. I think you know what the next line is.
➡️The Soviets hid tuberculosis. Now the U.S. is cutting surveillance and pretending TB isn’t spreading.
3/6

2025-09-09 02:44:59 UTC

PREDICTION: In a few years, we’ll learn that 2025 was a banner year for tuberculosis spreading across the country.
➡️First in small, containable pockets.
➡️Then, uncontrolled, because CDC budget cuts dismantled the ability and know-how needed to ID, track, respond, and contain.
1/6

2025-09-02 23:29:35 UTC

Paul Offit's work saves the lives of approximately 600,000 children each year. Blocking him because one man who has no particular expertise or insight is butthurt is Lysenkoism in action.
https://wapo.st/4lXDzbE

2025-08-29 01:33:01 UTC

The headlines have surpassed Mad Libs and are firmly entrenched in Cards Against Humanity: The CEO of the Thiel Foundation to become CDC director.

2025-08-24 21:49:10 UTC

RFK Jr. wrote on X, "AAP should also be candid with doctors and hospitals that recommendations that diverge from the CDC’s official list are not shielded from liability under the 1986 Vaccine Injury Act."
This is false. He's a liar. He's trying to scare people into refusing vaccines.

2025-08-15 22:23:29 UTC

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Can you imagine Ronald Reagan watching this unfold? In the last half-century, no president but this one would have given Putin confidence he could walk free after abducting a generation.
Reagan believed the United States should never reward aggression.

2025-08-15 22:23:29 UTC

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Peace through strength never meant comfort through capitulation. When you honor a tyrant, you dishonor every soldier who fought for liberty. By doing so, we have mocked ourselves and undermined the very rule of law that once held Nazis to account.

2025-08-15 22:23:29 UTC

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America has had low points before—but this is subterranean.

2025-08-15 22:23:28 UTC

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For these crimes, the International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin. Yet here he is, welcomed to the United States with open arms and concierge treatment.

2025-08-15 22:23:28 UTC

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Thousands of Ukrainian children with living parents have been abducted by Russia—stripped of their names, language, and culture. This is not random cruelty. It is a deliberate part of Russia’s genocidal campaign to erase Ukraine.

2025-08-15 22:23:28 UTC

When the leader of the free world lays out a red carpet for the thief of children, the world sees not strength, but surrender—and freedom loses ground without a shot being fired.

2025-08-11 03:10:35 UTC

Trump's former surgeon general blasts Kennedy for 'tepid' response to CDC shootings
Dr. Jerome Adams said HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “failed” in his response to the deadly violence.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/10/surgeon-general-blasts-kennedy-response-cdc-shootings-00502310

2025-08-10 02:01:16 UTC

The CDC shooter was fixated on vaccine conspiracy theories. He shot at the CDC and killed a police officer. RFK Jr., through his anti-vaccine group, funded the pseudoscience propaganda film PIandemic, one of the biggest drivers of false vaccine claims. It is beyond inappropriate for him to remain in office.
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/rfk-jr-plandemic-funding-1235173801/

2025-08-06 21:28:46 UTC

This is incredible.
Researchers at the University of Edinburgh said on Wednesday they have discovered differences in the DNA of people with chronic fatigue syndrome that should help dispel the notion that the debilitating condition is psychological or driven by laziness.

2025-07-14 15:35:02 UTC

If a free or low-cost test caught your lung, breast, colon, or cervical cancer, thank the 16-member panel that approved these life-saving screenings and made them affordable. RFK Jr. canceled that panel's meeting. If ACIP is any indicator, I hope you like cancer because health insurance won't have to cover any of these screenings if RFK Jr. does away with them. https://www.statnews.com/2025/07/09/uspstf-rfk-jr-meeting-canceled-preventive-care/

2025-07-12 03:48:29 UTC

I find this remarkable. The declines that have happened since 2016 are reversed. Americans have grown markedly more positive toward immigration over the past year, with the share wanting immigration reduced dropping from 55% in 2024 to 30% today. https://news.gallup.com/poll/692522/surge-concern-immigration-abated.aspx
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2025-07-03 18:31:31 UTC

There is no tax relief for working-class families. This was a welfare bill for corporations and extremely wealthy people. Read it. Don't listen to them. They took no money to pay down the debt. None. And instead, they are going to increase the debt more than any other single bill. This cements US decline. This isn't fiscally conservative or liberal. This was fiscally detached from reality.

2025-06-28 18:14:00 UTC

The latest budget proposal for the "Big, Beautiful Bill" features a $5 trillion increase in the debt ceiling. This is the largest increase ever, 200% larger than the next largest. Although the bill includes tax cuts, these do not reduce the national debt. This is not remotely fiscally conservative.
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2025-06-27 23:13:29 UTC

1/23 🚨🧵This should be a MUCH bigger story.
The White House, under pressure from Bukele, quietly dismissed U.S. terrorism-related charges against MS-13 leaders, undoing the U.S.-led Joint Task Force dismantling the transnational gang.
THIS is why the deportations had to be a show.

2025-06-26 20:01:32 UTC

Dismantling of USAID is expected to kill more people than the bombs dropped on Japan during WW2. Now, the US is actively threatening access to vaccines at home and abroad. The potential death toll in just a few short months is staggering.
These are slow-moving massacres of choice.

2025-06-25 20:34:48 UTC

The American Academy of Pediatrics will no longer participate in ACIP (vaccine advisory group), as it views the body as politicized and no longer credible.
Senator Bill Cassidy called upon RFK Jr. to postpone the meeting, and other elected officials have called upon RFK Jr. to recall the retired members.
RFK Jr. did not respond and pushed forward with the meetings today.
https://infoepi.substack.com/p/pediatrics-org-says-vaccine-recommendation

2025-06-10 22:26:27 UTC

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In that context, the raids are so much more problematic. It is not the case that lawmakers have done more humane things first or expanded guest worker programs so that people can find workers. They won't do that. They don't want to have to give workers rights. They like the exploitation.
It is far more horrifying than most people know.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/25/us/unaccompanied-migrant-child-workers-exploitation.html?unlocked_article_code=1.N08.6_ib.uFehiDT1DdFx&smid=url-share

2025-06-10 22:12:18 UTC

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That sends a message that you can still hire people, and electeds will still pretend they are outraged about something they tacitly encourage. No one wants to acknowledge that the demand for workers is what brings people here.

2025-06-10 22:12:17 UTC

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We are deploying the military to quell protests against disruptive raids and mistreatment by ICE, but what happened to an employer who was sentenced for knowingly hiring ineligible workers? Well, he was pardoned. https://www.newsweek.com/trump-goes-easy-slaughterhouse-exec-employed-undocumented-immigrants-756137

2025-06-10 22:12:17 UTC

Worth discussing: Texas’s legislature has repeatedly refused to mandate E-Verify, which quickly verifies whether someone has authorization to work. Texas talks tough on immigration while conspicuously ignoring the single most effective policy. https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-e-verify-requirements-immigration

2025-06-10 22:12:17 UTC

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Why not do it? The state knows it would lead to business closures and labor shortages, which businesses would not like. So it's clear Texas wants them there. If it didn't, it would have a policy in place.

2025-06-09 18:43:31 UTC

Moving from deporting violent criminals ➡️ deporting anyone without legal status ➡️ deporting people with legal status ➡️ banning immigration from "third world" countries and banning "third world workers" "who have ruined our country" ➡️ to paying "non-Europeans citizens to repatriate."
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2025-06-08 22:22:34 UTC

This is disturbing. I do not care what a journalist said, nor about who. A representative of the President should not be "inquiring" about discipline at a media outlet. This isn't Mother Russia. #censorship
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2025-06-08 01:48:32 UTC

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This is what a power grab masquerading as law enforcement looks like.
Keep your eyes on this.
This isn’t just a California issue. This is a test balloon for authoritarian federalism. Autocracy comes slowly and then all at once—usually at a time when you are already overwhelmed.
If you see it move from “immigration enforcement” to “riot response” to “restoring order” to “troops necessary,” this is how freedom dies—not in darkness, but in the fog of public safety.

2025-06-08 01:48:31 UTC

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➡️ Provoke unrest through aggressive federal action
➡️ Accuse local leaders of failing to respond
➡️ Justify federal military deployment
➡️ Claim constitutional authority through the Insurrection Act (or threat of it)
Let’s call this what it is:
A show of force and potentially a trial to see what powers the President can seize.
It also sends a warning to other states that this is what is to come.
ICE raids, then militarization.
Local officials cut out of the process.

2025-06-08 01:48:31 UTC

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The rhetoric ("insurrection") is pre-loaded for escalation, and well-known political operatives who are paid to gin up culture wars are running on all cylinders.
There is no timeline, scope, or sunset clause for the Guard's deployment.
Just vague allusions to “restoring order” and “protecting federal property.”
The result?
Communities terrorized
Public trust shattered
State sovereignty undermined
A dangerous precedent set

2025-06-08 01:48:31 UTC

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Federal troops on your streets. Welcome to a police state.
Using militarized immigration enforcement against an "enemy" and then using that enemy as justification for increased military measures is not about public safety. It's an authoritarian strategy.
This is bad faith on multiple levels:
ICE acted without local coordination.
Federal agents used violent crowd suppression tactics, seemingly before there was ever a need.
There is no formal request for assistance.

2025-06-08 01:48:30 UTC

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In 1965 (deployed over a six-day riot) and 1992 (Bush prepared federal help, but ultimately very little was used, and the governor called the shots), the National Guard was deployed at the request of the state.
To federalize the Guard without the governor’s consent—especially when the state is actively opposing the move—is an overt escalation and a red flag for potential abuse of federal authority.

2025-06-08 01:48:30 UTC

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Let’s be very clear—this is not crowd control. This would be a federal occupation of a U.S. city.
This follows a massive militarized ICE raid across LA communities—the Fashion District, Home Depot parking lots, residential areas—carried out without local coordination and with heavy use of force.
Flash bangs. Riot shields. Armed federal agents are storming neighborhoods. Even union leader David Huerta was arrested.

2025-06-08 01:48:30 UTC

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Once federalized under Title 10, the National Guard becomes active-duty military personnel, just like the Army. It would be the use of military force against the state's wishes and without a clear need.
It strips away the governor's authority and puts control squarely in the President’s hands, for a situation he is far removed from, involving people he doesn't know.
The playbook is easy to spot. It’s top-down, unilateral, and involves provocation. That's how you recognize it.

2025-06-08 01:48:30 UTC

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And when the public pushed back, DHS claimed that the LAPD didn’t respond quickly enough. Well-known political operatives are spreading chaotic videos, screaming about insurrection. That’s the pretext that creates a police state.
It’s part of a well-worn script, but not one used in the United States.

2025-06-08 01:48:29 UTC

🚨 THREAD: What just happened in Los Angeles is not normal, and it differs from past deployments of the National Guard in key ways that you need to understand. This is a breakdown of the history, the playbook, and why this move reeks of bad faith.
Gov. Gavin Newsom and the White House confirm that the federal government is preparing to federalize the National Guard and deploy up to 2,000 military troops in Los Angeles.

2025-06-06 03:48:40 UTC

I can only imagine what Musk must feel like, having his federal funding for critical work ripped away by someone who doesn't even really understand what he does.

2025-05-16 22:42:23 UTC

Since November of last year, Georgia has seen daily protests against its increasingly authoritarian government. https://www.fpri.org/multimedia/2025/05/gradually-then-suddenly-georgias-slide-into-authoritarianism/

2025-05-03 23:08:57 UTC

The CDC reported 12 seasonal flu-related deaths of children this week, bringing the total number of pediatric flu deaths this season to 216—the most in 15 years. This is likely due to the plummeting flu vaccination rate among American children, which has dropped from 64% to below 50%.
CDC failing to promote the flu vaccine (RFK Jr terminated programs doing that) is killing children in the US.

2025-05-02 02:48:08 UTC

How the rest of the world is covering the tariff situation in one headline.
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2025-04-23 23:31:38 UTC

In 2011, a man experimented on autistic children by injecting them with puberty blockers. He was charged with practicing medicine without a license.
RFK Jr. has hired that man and is giving him taxpayer money and access to your children's records, whether you like it or not.

2025-04-23 22:38:51 UTC

This is really worrisome.
Hernández Romero was classified as a gang member because he has tattoos that say “mom” and “dad” with crowns. No one has heard from Hernández Romero, who has no documented history of criminal activity, since March 14. “We’ve had no proof of life in over a month.”
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2025-04-22 12:12:32 UTC

In 2000, only 317 counties had at least 25% of their residents' income from government aid, such as Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. By 2020, this rose to 1,986 counties. 80% of these counties support Republicans, meaning that government cuts will disproportionately affect supporters.
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2025-04-17 18:26:51 UTC

Mark my words. As a consequence of RFK Jr., among other things, we will see women who took high-dose Vitamin A during pregnancy because of his advice. They might have babies with heart defects, neural tube defects, or develop liver failure themselves. I guarantee he will explain that away, too.

2025-04-10 17:58:22 UTC

What we are seeing is a purge—of the administrative state, of the universities, of expertise—that is consistent with events like the Cultural Revolution in China in the 1960s and ’70s, or the dismantling of the tsarist civil service after the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917. https://www.thenation.com/article/society/trump-science-health-purge/

2025-04-09 15:33:34 UTC

ICE director envisions Amazon-like mass deportation system: ‘Prime, but with human beings’ https://michiganadvance.com/2025/04/09/ice-director-envisions-amazon-like-mass-deportation-system-prime-but-with-human-beings/

2025-04-07 03:38:07 UTC

A big step forward in cancer therapy has been slowed by layoffs and new restrictions at the National Institutes of Health, where it was developed. https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025/04/06/nih-firings-cancer-immunotherapy-treatment/

2025-04-05 16:21:58 UTC

I could live off the penguin memes for days.
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2025-04-04 02:18:28 UTC

If you assume he means "Liberation Day," like Putin means it when he says he's "liberating the Ukrainians," then it makes sense.

2025-04-03 12:53:28 UTC

Fun fact: The administration didn't place any tariffs on Russia yesterday.

2025-03-22 03:28:03 UTC

UPDATED: There are now five countries that have warned people about traveling to the United States: the UK, Germany, Canada, Denmark, and Finland. https://infoepi.notion.site/Travel-Warnings-to-the-US-1bc6edeaf5c88057820be4f861981337
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2025-03-19 01:55:56 UTC

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2025-03-19 01:55:55 UTC

France gave us the talking to that we sorely needed.
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2025-03-18 05:45:54 UTC

The state of Christianity in the US right now.
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2025-03-11 23:55:43 UTC

Financial Times points out that something has recently gone very wrong and it's only going wrong in the US.
I keep saying that people are underestimating the economic damage happening right now.
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2025-03-09 19:06:38 UTC

What he's saying blows way past this argument: "I'm taking their legal guns to stop death." The lawless aggressor remains well-armed.
It's like saying, I'm taking all bullet-proof vests and bullet proof glass because that will save lives.
It's interesting that conservatives are tolerating this.
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2025-03-01 23:46:44 UTC

Since February 26, an additional 1,322 adults (from 14,482 to 15,804) and 141 infants (from 1,541 to 1,682) have died as a consequence of a single frozen USAID program.
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2025-02-28 21:09:56 UTC

It sure does look a little like being triggered by a fact-check.
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2025-02-28 00:33:47 UTC

Tesla lost enough value today that it could have fully funded USAID for a year.
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2025-02-24 23:18:20 UTC

Oh I think everyone was already making that assumption.
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2025-02-20 23:34:27 UTC

Call me crazy, but I cut the luxury items first when I need to save money. A country shouldn't be stripping disabled people of healthcare or school kids of food to eat so a techno-welfare queen can go to Mars.

2025-02-19 19:31:05 UTC

I am struggling to outline why the MAHA policy agenda won't improve child health because half of the words I need to use appear on a banned list. What do we use for socioeconomic status?
"Children in the US have poorer health than those in peer nations, and much appears tied to [need a new word]."

2025-02-18 05:09:36 UTC

The top official at the Social Security Administration stepped down after a clash with DOGE employees over access to sensitive personal records, two sources told ABC News.

2025-02-16 01:45:04 UTC

I 100% believe this. The French government knows the people are not afraid to challenge them and they will be stubborn enough to stand there until they get what they want. The way some of them talk about uprising is like, "do you want to get lunch?"
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2025-02-15 02:14:00 UTC

Posting classified information on the DOGE website pretty much shreds their claim they haven't been accessing or moving it to insecure locations. That website is so insecure, it's basically an incel.

2025-02-12 19:15:38 UTC

Musk called someone the "R" word for saying the government uses SQL The government is built on SQL.
If you're not a data scientist, imagine a car mechanic putting windshield wiper fluid in the gas tank while calling you a moron for saying gas goes there. It's like that.
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2025-02-08 20:11:18 UTC

The worst thing about anti-intellectualism? People demand you treat their half-baked opinions, formed reading facebook comments on the toilet, like the opinions of people who put in the hard work to know what they're talking about.

2025-02-06 19:00:01 UTC

Schools across the United States are closing due to spikes in influenza and other seasonal illnesses. As the 2024–2025 flu season rages on with no peak yet in sight, some school systems are overwhelmed with sick students and staff.
Schools and even entire school districts are temporarily closing down in Texas, Ohio, Georgia, Tennessee and other states. https://www.today.com/health/cold-flu/flu-school-closures-2025-rcna190771

2025-02-06 12:40:35 UTC

In the early COVID-19 pandemic, the Chinese government censored scientific research for 6 days; this is frequently called out by US elected officials. Now, US scientists have been prohibited from speaking with the public for 17 days and counting.

2025-02-05 23:42:58 UTC

German investigators believe that a wave of car vandalism across Germany, initially blamed on radical climate activists, is actually part of a Russian-orchestrated sabotage campaign, according to a Spiegel report https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/justiz/hunderte-autos-beschaedigt-deutschlandweite-sabotageserie-offenbar-aus-russland-gesteuert-a-7625e908-2f28-4ef8-bb69-35e5bacd6125

2025-02-05 23:18:11 UTC

In recent days, officials affiliated with DOGE have visited the offices of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, said the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe private interactions. https://wapo.st/3EotvIV

2025-02-05 23:18:11 UTC

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DOGE officials have also sought access to payment and contracting systems across the Department of Health and Human Services, which control hundreds of billions of dollars in payments to health-care providers, and they appear to have gained access to at least some of those systems, the people said.

2025-02-05 02:55:19 UTC

Unconstitutional, tyrannical, criminal -- the richest man in the world, with a few clicks on a keyboard, did sentence thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of citizens to death. Many are children who will starve to death in the coming weeks.
https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/113/949/023/830/519/822/original/ed64c640930c8396.png

2025-02-02 07:47:14 UTC

Tesla, the most valuable automaker in the world valued at over $1 trillion, did not pay any federal income tax last year. Few people can look ahead more than a few months with certainty. This is outrageous. https://itep.org/tesla-reported-zero-federal-income-tax-in-2024
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2025-02-01 21:03:36 UTC

USAID has gone dark. This is the agency China most wanted to see shuttered because of its unmatched success in maintaining key alliances. Russia has spent billions trying to undermine USAID, especially in Africa, but none of their efforts come close to this.
If a CCP operative were planted in the government with the goal of causing maximum damage while staying under the radar, they couldn’t have done as much as what’s happening right now. There are winners right now; it's just not the US.

2025-01-15 01:43:33 UTC

First video I saw on RedNote. Not going to lie. Pretty funny.
https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/113/829/824/175/492/489/original/e88646785f785ae8.mp4

2025-01-13 14:28:49 UTC

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I'm not claiming Ukraine didn't do it—I don't know. But if they did, the evidence will make it clear. Until then, maybe don't cite the government that downed a civilian aircraft and tried to pin it on Ukraine.
Punching down isn't journalism. It's barely toilet paper.

2025-01-13 14:28:49 UTC

I don't know how often I need to say this, but Russia has persistently, willfully, and as a matter of policy, demonstrated itself as an unreliable source. If that is your only source for a claim, your journalistic ethic is on par with InfoWars.
But it's worse than that because this is a claim about a people you know Russia to be trying to exterminate. I would ask if you would quote Germany about the Jewish people during WW2, but some of you did.
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2025-01-13 10:00:39 UTC

Last Friday, over 60 German universities announced they would stop using social network X due to ethical concerns, stating it no longer aligns with their principles.
"The platform's current direction is not compatible with the basic values of the institutions concerned -- openness to the world, scientific integrity, transparency and democratic discourse," they said.
https://www.barrons.com/news/dozens-of-german-universities-turn-back-on-x-accounts-2f2e8036

2024-12-25 21:12:25 UTC

Russian companies are using bitcoin to evade Western sanctions, thanks to a new law, the country's Finance Minister Anton Siluanov confirmed in a television interview. https://www.axios.com/2024/12/25/russia-bitcoin-evade-sanctions-crypto

2024-11-21 22:05:46 UTC

The Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected an attempt by Children's Health Defense, the anti-vaccine group founded by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., to protect doctors being investigated in Washington state for allegedly spreading misinformation about the Covid-19 virus.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-rejects-rfk-jr-groups-attempt-protect-anti-covid-vaccine-rcna181061

2024-11-15 05:20:33 UTC

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His lack of qualification and hubris could be lethal for the US even without malice. The connections needed for him to become a further vector of malign influence already exist. https://web.archive.org/web/20191002212427/https://www.globalresearch.ca/video-rfk-on-californias-newly-passed-mandatory-vaccine-law/5690811

2024-11-15 05:20:33 UTC

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RFK Jr. has co-authored pieces with known Russian propagandists--people who, like Tulsi Gabbard, have denied the Assad regime used chemical weapons on civilians. None of this is speculation. Please check my receipts. https://www.axios.com/2022/08/09/russia-propaganda-ben-swann-conspiracy

2024-11-15 05:20:33 UTC

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He is either so naive as to be a danger to the country, or he is willful. It does not matter which. web.archive.org/web/20220518210432/https://childrenshealthdefense.org/video/robert-f-kennedy-jr-interviewed-by-truth-in-media/

2024-11-15 05:20:33 UTC

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This relationship appears to go both ways. In recent years, RFK has republished and repeated overtly false claims directly from the Kremlin. There is no speculation. I do not claim intent, and to be frank, it doesn't matter.
web.archive.org/web/20200809190434/https://www.globalresearch.ca/dr-judy-mikovits-real-plague-infecting-humanity/5720582