The CDC says it's fine to resume normal activities 24 hrs after Covid symptoms are improving. A new, large prospective study with digital tracking shows recovery takes much longer than that www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

This is of a piece with so much else being done. How many things have to die before we peasants understand that we are not to be served, only the powerful & wealthy? 🫤

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🪱 : "Raw /whale/ milk, on the other hand..."

Here's a non-paywalled article about this feature ~ chipp.in/security-pri... Good info, despite the misspelling of "switch" in the AI-generated image... Or, maybe that's just an illustration of the motivation for the feature? 😅

NEW: The @wired.com Security desk put together a comprehensive guide to filming ICE—with tips for reducing risk at the forefront. No paywall, but please consider subscribing to help find these kinds of resources. And stay safe out there. www.wired.com/story/how-to... www.wired.com/v2/offers/wi...

SCOOP: 404 Media is publishing a version of the user guide for ELITE, a tool Palantir made for ICE which brings up dossiers on individual people and provides a “confidence score” of their address. The full user guide here:

I don't know if it's a generational thing, or what, but it seems that so, so many people with actual power in large organiztions (biz, gov't, whatever) just cannot understand how the whole "digital" thing works, what it can do, how pervasive it is, and how persistent its output is. 🤷‍♂️

"Good enough?" So, as long as 50% + 1 passengers arrive safely, or don't get blown up or gassed, we're fine? 🤷‍♂️

THREAD: 404 Media has been covering ICE and the technology they've been using to surveil and raid "targets", detain people based on a flawed facial recognition app, and lie about violence on the streets. They have established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality.

But just think, there will be sooo much less anxiety among the peasants re: disease, climate, pollution and asteroid impacts! Gr*k says everything will be fine!

America first The original youtu.be/ADNvfu7fjps?

When did police start dressing like Fortnite characters? And what is camouflage good for in a city? Dress is a form of speech and we need to pay attention to the message we’re being sent.

New: We built an interactive map of every ICE contractor working with the Trump administration. readsludge.com/2026/01/16/t...

It’s Wednesday and that means it’s time for Defend Public Health’s Whopper of the Week! This week we take on RFK Jr.’s claims that Lyme Disease is a bioweapon. Hint: it’s not.

I wonder what the Venn diagram between this list & lists of current / former militia members looks like? Or current / former members of Erik Prince's Constellis (nee Academi, nee Xe, nee Blackwater)? 🤔

So, how long until Gr*k outs him as a fascist? 🤣

No surprise: Trump's planning multiple strategies to subvert the 2026 midterms. It's an existential thing for MAGA. If they lose Congress, their progress will falter, and their chance of achieving permanent control in 2028 will die. Free NYT article, essential reading. #ProudBlue wapo.st/4syrYUW

Just days into 2026, the killing of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good by a federal immigration officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has sparked protests around the US. If you’re planning to protest, here’s how to safeguard your digital security.

*There are people who imagine that the Grateful Dead hippie John Perry Barlow was some starry-eyed Internet utopian, but I actually knew that guy *Read that, and then look out the window right now. Touch the Trumpian grass

Democrats need to understand that they can just say “It’s insane to threaten Greenland” and “I don’t think ICE should murder Americans in the street” and you don’t need to pretend to link it to the affordability crisis. Say bad things are bad.

Better yet, disestablish all of DHS, and undo the nightmarish idiocies that we created in a panic 25 years ago. Reestablish the INS, get rid of ODNI, fix the damage from the Patriot Act, etc.

As some of the scientists still at CDC fighting the good fight with all we have left, we appreciate when journalists use precise language in their headlines. It matters.💚 Career scientists weren't involved in this sham, & would not propose change based upon political ideology & vibes G'night all 😴

A replication of the Stanford Prison Experiment* looked at the difference in applicants just when they included the word "prison" in the ads and when they just said they were looking for people to participate in a psych experiment. Those who responded to the former rather than the latter 1/

A typical satisfied customer. 🤣

It’s official, the majority of Project 2025 (51%) has now been implemented throughout the U.S. government. What a shame. All because White America couldn’t vote for the literal sitting vice president—because she was a Black Woman.

#tryhard 😒

With Republicans active in 59 separate voting cases and the DOJ litigating another 30, the picture becomes clear: voter suppression is now a defining feature of the MAGA takeover. It will be the leading GOP strategy in 2026, and it’s our job to prevent it, Marc Elias writes. https://bit.ly/3KCHVZj

Fighting fascism: It's good for society and your health.

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A major milestone for next generation Covid vax: The first clinical trial for a pancoronavirus formulation of an existing vaccine was registered. With more news incl trial results & 12 preclinical reports—in my monthly update @plos.org absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/12/31/m... #Vaccines

Please Support my efforts to #ConnectTheDots Widespread immune damage from Covid is evident. Flu is Rampant, and Covid is rising. It’s time to act. We have to warn people now.

The Epstein Files: My Observations (Free) jkbjournalist.substack.com/p/the-epstei...

This point needs to be massively amplified. This USPS 'process' change is something that most people will not otherwise be aware of, /and/ they will have to change their own habits to accommodate it. This must not be allowed to be lost in the noise.

2025 in review: hegemonic suicide, medieval peasant brain, and other highlights from a very long year hegemon.substack.com/p/2025-hegem...

US Weekly COVID update: Dec 22, 2025 🔸1 in 67 Actively Infectious 🔸732,000 New Daily Infections 🔸4,470,000 Infections In The Past Week 🔸232,000,000 Infections in 2025 🔸224,000 to 890,000 Weekly Long COVID Cases 🔸1,300 to 2,200 Weekly Deaths Source: pmc19.com/data/

*chef kiss*

The most #shocking thing about this is that it came from the NYT. 😒

Those "cuts that closed offices, canceled programs and deprived people of food, medicine and other aid" will claim 490,000 lives lost per year leading to between 12 and 16 million more child deaths by 2045. As though genocide was the intent. bsky.app/profile/upsh...

NEW: The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica did it instead. Use information from your prescription label to locate the factory and see if the plant has a history of inspection violations.

Researchers in Brazil found SARS-CoV-2 uses a sophisticated tactic to evade the body’s defenses. It can dodge the immune system before invading cells, then manipulate the host cell’s genetic material after infection—an approach not previously seen in other pathogens. This helps it escape detection.

With 11 days until Christmas, the temptation to fall back on Amazon is real. Convenience has a way of erasing memory. So I’m reposting this as a reminder of what Amazon actually is—and how to resist it. Help spread if you agree. open.substack.com/pub/psychope...

Regardless of any other consideration, this kind of thing should prevent AIs, most especially 'motivated' ones such as Grok, from being taken seriously about anything, except in certain narrow domains where human expert oversight regularly verifies their effectiveness.

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later. harpers.org/archive/1941...

IMO, the cat is blameless ~ probably startled & agitated by the vrooming roadster passing by! 🙀

"Hoist with his own petard." Especially appropriate, given the historical context / origin of the phrase. 😅

My state isn't qui-i-i-te ready to do this, this decade, but it's still a valid strategy for others.

LOL. Maybe they're HQ'd under his bed. Or no, wait, maybe in his closet? 🙄