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@APazyryk

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2x Ivies. I bat 6th for Team Reality. Glue Guy. Twitter can be a great place to learn if you avoid framing every issue in terms of your Culture War priors.

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Altai Pazyryk
4 months
@whitepowderenth @whstancil @barkattack Or that Stancil took 3 tries to pass the Minnesota bar and doesn’t have a Minnesota law license.
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@sarahbeth345 20,000 Gazan civilian casualties in a month via an air campaign against a postage stamp sized city with zero air defenses defended by dudes in T shirts armed with AK-47s. What’s a better name for that?
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@stillgray "Ukraine went woke" is one of the strangest sentences I've ever read. Care to explain how or is anything you dislike (justifiably or not) now "woke.?
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@emmaogreen Emma Green - Gov't & Arabic major @ Georgetown & Epoch Times writer - has something to say about Covid. With zero college science credits, Emma frames it in the culture war terms that fueled her career. @TheAtlantic became a joke when it embraced the wokists of the right & left.
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@AaronChalfin You’re eliding the fact that Stuyvesant is majority Asian - a significant omission considering that all highly selective privates follow the Harvard model of admissions, which is clearly meant to cap Asian enrollment.
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@thehankrose @andrewkimmel @strxwmxn @mtracey Michael Tracey is a "reporter" who claims the images of Russian atrocities in Ukraine are hoaxes. A real reporter would stop tweeting from the frontlines of .... his living room and conduct a real investigation.
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@IAPonomarenko The NLAW didn't misfire. It is designed to pass over the top of the target. When directly above, the warhead explodes sending a "shaped charge" - molten metal - down into the vehicle burning a hole & lighting up ammo/fuel. It worked as intended.
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@itslaylas In Gaza, are most of the Christians Greek Orthodox by virtue of roots in the Eastern Roman Empire or Roman Catholic by virtue of the crusader founded Kingdom of Israel?
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@nhannahjones The US and allies spent 20 years and untold billions in Afghanistan to try to bolster its economy, educational system and military. How much aid has the West provided South Africa since its emancipation? Not everything is about race.
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2 years
@Ash_Stewart_ .50 caliber sniper rifle. He brought his own gear.
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@TheEliKlein @19joho @hiltzikm That's not what your tweet says.
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2 years
@jswatz You can ask Twitter to remove your blue check mark right now. Oh wait, you didn't mean it. You were just performing for the crowd.
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2 years
@bbwxt20 @prasann_pandya Elon has said he doubted at the time that SBF had $3 billion in liquidity per SBF's initial offer via an intermediary. Let's try to demonstrate more than a toddler's level understanding of finance, shall we?
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@social_brains @mushfiq_econ @Columbia Junior authors in academic papers typically do the heavy lifting. Excluding the junior author’s name is egregious.
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@RichardHanania Great topic. Let’s start by going over the history of military conscription starting (checks notes) at least 4,000 years ago… You can begin by covering the first 2,000 years…
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@DrJohnLoMonaco @RALee85 Gets off at least 10 rounds before either tank can fire a single round.
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2 years
@ASBMilitary If you’re going to push Russian propaganda, at least make it plausible.
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2 years
@lisa_iannattone @fitterhappierAJ @lisa_iannattone , @fitterhappierAJ , @farid_jalali , @radcentrism & others deserve blue checks for fighting through the vitriole & misinformation produced by the hyper-credentialed, yet consistently wrong, crowd of Covid minimizers the past two years. Do you hear that? @verified
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@Incindery1 AI and outsourcing jobs will be the plan as life expectancy drops and higher rates of disability and chronic disease become normalized.
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@mtracey Does Erdogan plan to rely on diplomacy now in his dealings with the Kurds? That was your follow up question to Erdogan, Mr. Objective Roving Journalist, right?
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@mtracey Is this the courageous new, "real reporting" you promised?
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@andrewkimmel @mtracey Bring Glenn Greenwald along too under the same arrangement if you can pull him away from his Brazilian mansion.
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@mtracey Michael Tracey tries so hard to be like his heroes Glenn Greenwald and Tucker Carlson b/c real reporting is beyond Michael's skillset.
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2 years
@MeetJess The article blames pilot shortages strictly on increasing demand for holiday "post-pandemic" without ever addressing the shortfall induced by Covid + long Covid.
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@social_brains @mushfiq_econ @Columbia Great questions for her to answer. But someone who did enough work in the draft to get credit should be credited on the largely unchanged final.
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Life insurance actuaries are reporting that many more people are dying – still – than in the years b4 the pandemic. while deaths during COVID-19 had largely occurred among the old & infirm, this ..wave is hitting prime-of-life people hard. Predictable.
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@mtracey Have you booked a flight to Ukraine yet, Mr. Roving Journalist?
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2 years
@damagecontrol45 @jmvasquez1974 False. The guy spreading that rumor is a Bugaloo Boi volunteer who got rejected due to that background. Here's a Rolling Stone story based on an investigation into what happened.
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@RealDianeYap Person who landed a Silicon Valley tech role with a 690 math SAT complains about others being “diversity hires.”
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@highlighter_lf @richsignorelli What's the strategic advantage to Musk of forcing a valuation apart from delay?
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@inkblue01 Veldhoen is stepping into his role as scientific crank with his full chest. I’m so proud of him.
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1 year
@PeImeniPusha Nobody's trying to conquer Russia. Analogy fail.
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2 years
@AmandaMarcotte @beyerstein So unless the Chinese Communist Party voluntarily comes forward with evidence that its gain of function research in Wuhan led to an accidental release, no one’s allowed to connect the dots? Good one, Amanda!
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@0cean_and_Earth @mtracey 38 follower account created in March 2022 says what? Smells like a bot to me.
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@PolinaEdmunds Why does Gubanova keep getting underscored? Is it the small country thing? Or is it related to payback for leaving the Russian figure skating community?
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Altai Pazyryk
2 years
@bustersdad @DavidSacks @elonmusk @Twitter If it’s so easy, why is Musk begging the court for as much time as possible to go on a fishing expedition. Musk could just hire you and be done with it, yes?
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@fitterhappierAJ @LazarusLong13 The larger question is one of institutional failure. How did Veldhoen get to be a tenured immunologist and why isn’t his current institution putting a stop to his midwittery and misinformation?
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2 years
@hjelle_brian Your ongoing engagement with other scientists on Twitter is very educational and informative even when you disagree. Please continue with those because our public health officials and politicians aren't communicating the science in good faith currently.
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@Naked_Determina @pazzobazzo @mtracey An even better question is why should Zelensky or anyone else care about what you think his priorities should be?
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@mtracey Now do something useful and courageous and tweet out real time pictures of Russian troop movements. I dare you.
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@SpaceKidette @slsandpet Scientists know that Covid attacks all tissues that contain the ACE2 receptor, which explains the rampant organ failure. Politicians want to ignore this evidence because they want to pass on the unsolvable problem of long Covid to the next guy.
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@mtracey Ethnic cleansing, which is happening in east Ukraine right now & which has characterized Russian policy in the past in, for eg, the Crimea, is fine as long it's being applied to east Europeans, Mike? Keep up the "courageous," "original" reporting from your safe space in Poland.
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@mysteriouskat @Essiebanana What part of the narrative do you disagree with?
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@EylonALevy @mehdirhasan That’s a sad attempt at deflection. Stick to the issue. Why did IDF lie about this calendar?
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2 years
@NigelStead9 @ClintEhrlich Clint is prepared to bend the knee to N Korea too especially if the price is right.
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Altai Pazyryk
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Dude has literally never heard of Worldcom or Enron.
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$TSLA CFO leaving. The dude was a pro at an elite level but CFOs don’t make or break tech companies. Not a huge deal. Relax.
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@AJDelgado13 How/why did Ukraine develop its own language if it was never independent of Russia?
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@VirginiaBuysse “Children are our future” so let’s infect them repeatedly with a BSL3 level pathogen says the early childhood development staff member at UNC (non-tenure track). Virginia’s doesn’t getthat our immune systems are used to fight cancer AND viruses. She has a non-science PhD.
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@Incindery1 Too many have taken the find out fork in the road.
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@elizavetaka The long term damage that SARS2 causes is internal and, at least initially for many, subclinical (ie symptom free). Further, public health has communicated the idea that the virus causes respiratory damage and little else.
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@SteveStuWill The little one was too smart to reach with his hand to block the shutting door. He seems very .... practiced ... at avoiding being locked out by older brother...
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2 years
@ThiefPenitent @a_centrism Today's Ivies have massive grade inflation.
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@BritMartinez Most (all) of them present photos that are heavily filtered.
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2 years
@andrew_croxford Plenty of people get infected, have serious symptoms (eg sick for 4 weeks) but don't get hospitalized. These fall outside your arbitrarily-limited set of "mild/asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2-infected." You're arbitrarily excluding a very large population who often do experience LC.
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@fitterhappierAJ These “experts” are now claiming their “textbooks” tell them that it’ll take 100 infections beginning at infancy to confer immunity for individuals. Is there anyone out there who gets 100 flu infections by age 50?
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@farid__jalali Tesla is about to close a truly awful quarter. This is a distraction.
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@DailyJLee Did the CDC do more than post guidelines on its website? Did it actually send letters to schools and school districts explaining the situation?
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@TRyanGregory How do people like Musgrave ever end up as doctors? That's the question that must be answered in light of how so many in the medical profession have self-owned on Twitter during the pandemic.
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@itslaylas Perhaps keep those clothes in their current smelly state as evidence in any future legal proceedings.
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2 years
@Incindery1 Yep. We could see the narrative shift as the first Omicron wave loomed and Biden’s administration knew they had lost control of the pandemic.
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@tony_burnetti @zeynep @Itisallacademic @jbakcoleman How many people critical of AJ Leonardi on this thread are immunologists? @tony_burnetti You're not an immunologist. @zeynep and @jbakcoleman aren't. It's a weird flex when non-immunologists try to win an argument by authority on an immunology question over an immunologist.
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@adream608 @mtracey @mtracey imagines himself an anti-war leftist, ant-imperialist ... whose views just happen to align with those of an authoritarian whose military has invaded multiple countries in the past two decades.
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@USMortality @alexmeshkin And they were demonstrably wrong.
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@sfmcguire79 @elonmusk Why did it disappear?
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@mlipsitch @angoffinet @BulletinAtomic @zeynep has a lot of experience … getting things wrong throughout the course of the pandemic …
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Radical Centrist,wrathful tantric deity🇺🇦🇹🇼🎗️
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Zeynep (1) denied aerosol transmission of SARS2 (2) denied mass reinfections by SARS2 (3) told everyone SARS2’s severity was due to its novelty (rather than its structural biology) and that therefore it would attenuate and become a cold (4) denied the extent of Long Covid
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@hahaTerrance @dezlking @therecount Legacy admissions & huge athletic preferences should be abolished at the Ivies in my opinion.
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@tongbingxue Why aren’t the students wearing N95s which are far more protective?
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@Antonio_Caramia @RogerGustafsso2 @JohnSnowProject Balloux has never bothered to keep up with the science and he’s not about to start.
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@Harvard But hybrid immunity though …
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Mr "I've had COVID 7 times" cancels another concert. No reason given yet. Ed Sheeran CANCELS Las Vegas concert just hours before taking to the stage as he issues apology to fans: 'I can't believe I'm typing this'
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@dezlking @therecount “I had a 3.9 GPA, a 1550 SAT score, two varsity sports, my own political policy startup and a spot on Canada’s 30 Under 30 list when I applied to Harvard.” Calvin is an underachiever?
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@Zweigling @danaparish @Sisu4Democracy @CDCDirector 2020 Walensky explicitly says the forthcoming vaccines won’t be enough and that was before Omicron emerged and made vaccines less effective.
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@BallouxFrancois @Brian_Orak @fitterhappierAJ @fitterhappierAJ lives in your head rent free @BallouxFrancois . It's fascinating to watch you go on and on as hospitalization of kids in your beloved UK hits new records.
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@Anto_Berto @fitterhappierAJ You’re the 847th ranked immunologist in the world by H-index and 4th in …. Singapore. The only reason that obvious midwit and social media influencer @zeynep boosts you is because you confirm her silly priors.
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@KasperKepp @ImmunolCellBiol Below is an excerpt from Professor Iwasaki’s website. She is a chaired professor at Yale Med, has done extensive research on C19 and is as mainstream as they come. Are you accusing Prof Iwasaki of being a cult member, Kasper?
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@RolandBakerIII She has continued to minimize and deceive by refusing to publicly link her obvs long Covid to Covid thereby not being the leader she craves to be. Not going to forgive someone who continues to harm others with blatant misinformation.
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Altai Pazyryk
2 years
@mtracey LMFAO at Michael Tracey covering the Russo-Ukrainian War by strolling the streets of his hometown NYC taking pictures of street vendors. That must be what Tracey's Twitter bio means by "roving journalist"!
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@justthefacts85 @emilygraymd_mph Gandhi couldn't help herself. She was drawn to publicity like a moth to flame. Hasan needs to invite the irrepressible Vinay Prasad next ...
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@RichardHanania Now tweet the same about Finland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland, Belaurus, Kazakhstan, etc. You know you want to.
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@inkblue01 Veldhoen: “Viruses that defeat our immunity and continue to digest our organs to make more copies of themselves are a good thing ackshually.”
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@oldfshndanne Bob Wachter, who almost died when his feverish Covid state caused him to fall, is the only one not wearing masks.
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@Noahpinion Who exactly has Stancil convinced with his calling everyone a racist? That doesn’t work so well for … someone who looks like him… I get that you agree with his blank slatism but for those who don’t or who don’t have a view, he’s unpersuasive.
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@jlz0z @lisa_iannattone The way that so many PhD virologists and epidemiologists have self-owned in this pandemic supports my theory that those fields are filled with people who lacked the cognitive ability to win entry into medical school.
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@RichardHanania It's "funny" how there aren't more pictures being taken of dangerous, real world fighting that's ongoing. The Snake Island garrison that was pounded to death by Russian warships included women. Sorry, no pics.
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@BiobotAnalytics Have you lost government funding for your dynamic Covid-19 dashboard? Presumably that’s why you’re taking down your dashboard.
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@arijitchakrav @BrownUniversity Keep this receipt. It should go well with a revised tweet tagging Brown SPH’s board.
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@fitterhappierAJ Waiting for @Zeynep ’s 40 tweet thread explaining why she’s still correct. I’m sure her thread will be very “nuanced.”
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@RadCentrism Bien got trained at two midtier institutions before doing a fellowship at Stanford. His MD is from notoriously social Justice oriented Georgetown Med. Imagine how much he had to pander & pretend to care about the underprivileged to get in there. Now this .
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@mch37662175 @clairlemon No, you decide on their validity by (a) reading their research and the related contrary research of others and (b) seeing whether their predictions play out in the real world. Listening to them (or anyone else) yammer on doesn't accomplish much.
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@dr_musgrave Why bother to drain swamps & spray breeding grounds? Let malaria retake its rightful place in the hierarchy of human disease!!!
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@RadioFreeTom Another rant without nary an indication that Tom has the slightest clue about the ongoing research into long Covid. Did you know that life insurers deny applications of long Covid sufferers and that the Bank of England attributes the labor shortfall in England in part to LC?
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@catladyactivist Half inch scar from my latest blood draw carried out by a new technician …
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@RadCentrism @Osinttechnical That's why the Javelin and certain other systems have 2 stage thrusters. The first stage is just enough to get the projectile out of the tube and far enough away so that the second, more powerful thruster can ignite without hurting the operator or his comrades.
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@mtracey Michael’s trying so hard to copy the Greenwald grift where the only “reporting” he does is on other reporters. Never has to leave his living room or turn off his TV.
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@AlisaValdesRod1 This is the truth that politicians don’t want publicized. Instead they put forth coordinated messaging about Omicron’s “mildness” to make sure the Christmas shopping season goes smoothly.
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@HazyPug
The Hazy Pug 🥃
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@Kaitain_US I mean… what are we actually seeing here? Men in uniform being handed stuff at a dock. Nothing is certain until the dust has settled.
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@Incindery1 The virus destroyed her ACE2 rich pancreas.
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@DaniBeckman @GidMK Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz ( @GidMK ) is too busy running troll account ( @EricPhDing ) and mocking long Covid patients from both accounts to pay attention to neuroscientists.
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@Saffiya_Khan1 @DailyJLee Gideon appears to run the @EricPhDing troll account.
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