It’s good to see people fact checking his BS below that thread, but it’s frustrating that a podcaster who allegedly built a brand off science continues to spout Covid denialist slop after admitting he doesn’t even keep up with the research on Covid (which continues to show how dangerous it is)

In short, or maybe in long, I think he’s making far more wild and misrepresentative claims than the OP, and take from that what you will, but to me it sounds a lot like the usual line of people who would like to move on in spite of all those pesky reality bits.

Warning that this is a very sobering read. "That scale in turn raises a troubling question: whether Covid is not only leaving millions chronically unwell but also accelerating the slow neurological processes that end in dementia"

"but sure, it's the people imploring others to prevent these issues who are the problem"

The most confusing people to me are the ones who are like “How dare you suggest that COVID is disabling and harmful for people, I got vaccinated twice in 2022 (never again) and now I will huff pathogens and lick elevator buttons and get sick often BECAUSE THE GOVERNMENT SAID I CAN 😤”

@nbcommiedyke.bsky.social Notice how he argues with you but not me because I actually stay up to date on this material. www.panaccindex.info/p/what-covid...

Doctors say that vaccines are the best way to protect children against measles. A guy who eats dogs and snorts cocaine off toilet seats says they should just swim in untreated sewage water instead. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.

thank you for calling this what it is: A Smear!! he immediately goes to lying about what she said and refuting that, classic strawman. at no point. does she say vaxx doesn't reduce transmission somewhat, her point is that layered protection is best (for everyone!). something that is simply true.

Yup. But Michael is comfortable smearing public health advocates and disabled ppl because he is fundamentally a denialist when it comes to Covid and has been on this train for years. It’s really gross! He’s using his credibility in other areas to attempt to discredit *actual public health advocates*

Accurate information relevant to the limitations of vaccinations isn't anti-vaxx. I've been following Julie for a while now, and never has she engaged in rhetoric anywhere near close to that which might be considered "anti-vaxx" (instant block). Vaccines and masks together protect us best:

Calling a very well known vaccine advocate “anti vaxx” because she VERY correctly calls for people to take supportive measures like masking since our current vaccines do not stop transmission is wild. As someone who actually does vax outreach in LA the lines Michael is pushing feed anti vax ideology

His response makes more sense when you remember that he fell down a rabbit hole of covid denialism years ago and has spent the years since tripling down on that denialism in the face of endless peer reviewed studies and experts proving his minimizing wrong.

Another thing that the rest of the country doesn't know about what it's like living in Minneapolis these days: The frequent, middle-of-the-night, low-altitude helicopter flyovers, for no reason other than physical and psychological torment.

We literally know now that anti-trans legislation was pushed by a pedophile ring to allow a pedophile ring to serve a pedophile ring’s interests, and legislators have decided the best course of action is to keep doing what the pedophile ring wants.

How Covid Quietly Rewires the Brain www.bloomberg.com/news/feature... By Jason Gale February 25, 2026 at 9:00 PM GMT+9 Adapted from After Covid: The Health Impacts That Will Last Generations, published by Johns Hopkins University Press. Copyright © 2026 by Jason Gale.

This stunt where ICE releases people far from home with no proper clothing and no way home should be treated as attempted homicide. In this case, actual homicide. These cases are not accidental or based on misunderstandings. They are deliberate attempts to inflict bodily harm.

after failed military incursion, us government responds with economic sanctions

Kansas is sending letters to trans people telling them that their licenses will be revoked as of tomorrow and that they risk arrest for driving on a suspended license. This is pure cruelty. www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...

straight up denying peer-reviewed research bc they're "over it" @badmedicaltakes.bsky.social

I can't overstate how much of an insane fucking lie this is oh my god. I have followed Julia for YEARS. she is constantly encouraging people to get vaccinated and made a lot of good content on how to get the vaxx when the trump admin tried to make it impossible last year. fuck you, mike.

...this was arguably the most mask-off Jesse moment ever (I have the Twitter receipts for it). it gives his whole game away: a happy trans child is impossible, while torturing trans kids *is* acceptable if there's even a chance they wind up cis (excerpt from: juliaserano.medium.com/the-cass-rev...)

...this right here is the skeleton key for understanding all of Jesse Singal's reporting on this subject: (excerpt from: juliaserano.medium.com/the-cass-rev...)

also, they sound better! don't buy 1990s and 2000s music, all the digitally-recorded and mixed alt-rock and hip-hop favorites, on brand new vinyl. It wasn't made for that! Buy analog recordings on vinyl, listen to digital recordings on disc.

“The democrats need to be more culturally normal” fucking you first, Gavin

1. The New York Times, unsurprisingly, has released yet another hit piece on transgender people. This time, it comes from Jesse Singal. I fact check it in my latest piece. End your NYT subscription, and put it towards people doing good work on the issue. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Interesting: Ward 2 Councilmember Brooke Pinto has introduced a bill that would require that MPD release footage from body cameras of D.C. officers who are accompanying federal agents when they shoot or use serious force against someone. Currently footage is released only if D.C. officer shoots.

devastated to learn that the idea of bisexual lesbians has followed me to bluesky 😭 ultimately it's whatever but it always gives lesbophobia and (when cis ppl proclaim it) transphobia.

who amogus has not gotten cracked so good we had an ontological moral epiphany that made us insufferable to normal ppl tho

2007, what a time

Watching genocide denialism become such a central part of the ideology of the right wing of the Democratic Party is especially disgusting as Trump establishes a system of concentration camps (that right wing Dems fund). Excusing crimes against humanity is really of the moment for millions of people

turns out the average person really doesn’t like supporting genocides?

what if, and I know this is hard, we celebrated Alysa Liu without making a dig at Eileen Gu that could have been written by JD Vance

epstein files are an extreme case but they do demonstrate why any viable left wing opposition to the status quo must be open about its support of marxism, and make communicating basic marxist theory a core part of its messaging. you cant just skip to the end unfortunately

What you only have a hammer, everything looks like a nail

Something I’ve been working on

COVID is ongoing and it may be that the worst of the population-wide long term effects have yet to begin. Note this book, like much of what passes for “journalism” on COVID—that helped shape public policy, argues that precautions were worse than for example repeatedly exposing kids to COVID.

It’s so infuriating to have eyes and ears and a working memory 😡

This is why all those moron liberals waving off Newsom’s anti-trans position as “just about sports” are catastrophically wrong. Fuck that guy and fuck anyone defending that move. We all know where it’s headed

what's crazy is that people, regardless of politics or original level of concern, any like COVID no longer matters and isn't still killing people. so many libs got their vax, maybe a booster, and gave a huge middle finger to the millions of people that couldn't go "back to normal". disgusting.

i saw a post recently that said "americans weren't traumatized by death during covid, only by having their normal lives interrupted" and i can't stop thinking about what a disgusting and absurd idea that is. there were bodies stacked in the hospital parking lots

does anyone care that rightwing members of nyc city council follow twitter accounts circulating calls for people to bring dogs to times square to terrorize a ramadan prayer event does anyone care that doj civil rights assistant ag follows accounts telling people to spray bacon grease on worshippers

fell for it again award

Incredible opinion. It holds that the common ICE tactic of jumping out of an unidentified rental vehicle and seizing suspected noncitizens while masked violates the Fourth Amendment because the *manner* of the seizure is incompatible with a free society governed by the rule of law.

democratic party cheerleaders are really doing their best to make it seem like the nominee for president in 2028 is gavin newsom already huh

every election cycle, democrats give up even more of the pretense of a primary election to the reality of it being a coronation. And they start earlier and earlier to telegraph this intent. We are barely out of 2025

{whispering} people convicted of violent crimes also do not deserve to live in these conditions

Jeffrey Epstein’s friends want to “keep kids safe online” by enacting mass AI surveillance

Australian police beat a 69 year old woman at an anti-genocide protest so badly that they've broken her spine in FOUR places