Peter Backes ๐บ๐ธ๐บ๐ฆ๐จ๐ฆ
@PeterBackes3
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Troll for truth/counter-propaganda operative in defense of liberal democracy with no illusions about the future. Tend to community, especially the vulnerable.
Brooklyn, NY
Joined April 2020
This is false. Never happened. Keeps getting repeated. Just a flat out lie.
BREAKING: Fired CNN anchor Jim Acosta receivd $4 million from USAID for Ukraine to "disseminate positive information." In other words,they paid him millions to lie to the public. What's your response?
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I've testified to congress a half dozen times, and I've met some truly heinous politicians in the process. @RepClayHiggins is by far the worst I've encountered. A truly horrible human being. Here's a clip by the way:
hereโs what Clay Higgins had to say on social media after the attempted murder of Nancy Pelosiโs husband
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Using the latest dataset from CDC and a numeric scale for gun laws, we can clearly see the impact of gun laws on firearm mortality. The population-weighted correlation is an astounding r = -0.8, which is quite significant.
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How challenges with denialism and anti-science influences helped to write #ScienceUnderSiege. @PeterHotez and I interview with The Lost in Science Team at @3CR: https://t.co/rnyGH11G2B
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This week, Chris speaks to climate scientist Michael E. Mann and vaccinologist Peter Hotez about how their common challenges with denialism and anti-science influences led to writing their new book,...
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Yesterday the President of the United States of America went on national TV and blamed Democrats for an assassination in which no suspect has been identified or arrested and no motive is known. Given there is no ID, arrest or motive, how could the President possibly say that???
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"Leading Climate and Vaccine Scientists on How to Fight Antiscience" | My co-author @PeterHotez & I spoke with Mina Kim of @KQED @KQEDForum about our new book #ScienceUnderSiege:
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We talk to Hotez and Mann about their daily battles against disinformation, their personal toll and what we can all do to counter the antiscience threat. Their new book is โScience Under Siege.โ
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"Leading Climate and Vaccine Scientists on How to Fight Antiscience" | @PeterHotez & I discuss our new book #ScienceUnderSiege on @KQEDnews @KQEDForum tomorrow (Thursday) 10am PT/1pm ET:| https://t.co/ZOzO842VFR
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We talk to Hotez and Mann about their daily battles against disinformation, their personal toll and what we can all do to counter the antiscience threat. Their new book is โScience Under Siege.โ
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Maxwell: โThis would take whatever slim shred of a life I have after this mess and kill it.โ Imagine having the gall to say this after damaging so many innocent lives. https://t.co/WCfyLYveWx
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Bloomberg News obtained over 18,000 messages to and from the disgraced financier, revealing the deep ties to the people around him.
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In todayโs Vatnik Soup, Iโll cover the agenda-setting and flood of disinformation that spread on X and other platforms right after Charlie Kirkโs assassination. Itโs far from the first or last time a tragedy has been weaponized for political purposes. 1/18
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Journalists, take note:
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Half of Texas counties are below MMR vaccine rate needed for herd immunity. My comments and interview โฆ@KXAN_Newsโฉ Austin TX
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More than half of Texasโ counties have MMR vaccination rates among kindergartners below the threshold the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says is needed for herd immunity.
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Itโs tragic and wrong that Charlie Kirk was murdered. Release the Epstein files.
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This you?
The Left is the party of murder
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Thank you, Grok.
@PeterBackes3 After reviewing available sources, including Charlie Kirk's X posts and public statements from June 2025 onward, I couldn't find any comments from him regarding the assassination of Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark. If such statements exist, they may not be publicly
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@PeterBackes3 After reviewing available sources, including Charlie Kirk's X posts and public statements from June 2025 onward, I couldn't find any comments from him regarding the assassination of Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark. If such statements exist, they may not be publicly
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New interview with @WBUR on my and @PeterHotez's new book, #ScienceUnderSiege, detailing anti-science attacks and how we can counter them: https://t.co/UYFZJBONks
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What can the public and scientific community do to counter those attacks?
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@Kyiv This is untrue, Several bystanders did help her as soon as they realized what had happened.. You have been fooled by an edited video.
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.@BillNye and I have an important message: ๐จ Science at NASA is in danger. ๐จ NASA science gives us so much more than rockets and moon rocks. It grows our economy, strengthens national security, and creates entirely new industries and jobs. Join us in speaking out to save it.
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Close the skies over Ukraine! (and now Poland)
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MAGA, after everything we now know about Trump and Epstein, now is the time to decide who and what it is youโre willing to protect. https://t.co/vvii5hDY7q
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