Jess Deming

Jess Deming

@jessdeming.bsky.social

Giving the bluesky a try. #publichealth epidemiology, emergency management + social work. She/her. Lover of good coffee, bad puns, books & community

340 Followers 653 Following 4 Posts Joined Feb 2024
2 days ago
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Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power They’re saying the quiet part out loud now.

Palantir CEO promises that his technology will reduce educated women's economic and political power newrepublic.com/post/207693/...

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4 days ago
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Insurrectionist Brunch: Trumpists plotted to deploy military on U.S. soil Before the 2024 election, a cadre of MAGA loyalists met over brunch to plot ways for Trump to use the military domestically.

This is just astonishingly great reporting.

All of the crises the White House has claimed over the last 14 months were planned in advance. All of them.

And however much contempt you have for media outlets who reverently relayed Trump's claim to have no relation to Project 2025, it isn't enough.

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1 day ago

Why is every tech ceo the villain from the Lorax

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2 days ago

"After we fucking stole it."

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Sen. Kim: "The people I talk are thinking about their grocery prices, housing prices. They're not thinking about how much money American corporations are going to make off of higher oil prices, because that's just gonna raise all of our prices at home. That's where the president is just so detached"

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3 days ago
Medicine for Ahmad's father Ahmad's family in their tent Ahmad's father's sitting on the floor using a nebulizer

We are living a hard life in tents, suffering from hunger and cold.
My father is sick and needs treatment, and I feel helpless watching him suffer.
Please don’t leave us alone… any help or even sharing this message can make a difference. 🙏💔
chuffed.org/project/161883

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4 days ago
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Does getting sick boost the immune system? Do young children have to get sick to improve their immune systems? Dr. Donald Vinh explains why some people seem to get sick more often that others.

"Let it rip" is not an effective public health / infectious disease strategy. My thoughts below.

Does getting sick boost the immune system? www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/vid...

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3 days ago

"Does getting sick boost the immune system?"

NO, IT DOES NOT.
There is no benefit to catching viruses. NONE. Viral infections wear down the immune system.

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5 days ago
Crude oil prices, showing a very sharp increase in the last day, from around 65 to 101 dollars per barrel..

Oil prices wouldn't be all over the news today if more of our economy was powered by local, secure renewable energy.

This isn't an "energy crisis". It's a fossil fuel crisis.

44% of UK electricity came from renewables in 2025. More of that plus an electrified economy => no more oil shocks.

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I’m hollering at my screen… yaaas!

Actress Sheryl Underwood, an Air Force Reserve veteran, is asking the questions we all want answers to.

“Why is this not impeachable? And where are the politicians that say, ‘this dude don’t have it all the way together, he cannot be the commander in chief?’” 🔥

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Aurora Match 7th. #iceland #northernlights #aurora #onlyskies #nature #photography

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1 week ago

This is a profound continental divide. Canadians overwhelmingly view other Canadians, even those unlike them, as being good people. Americans, more than any other country, view their neighbours and fellow citizens as bad people. Anti-Americanism flourishes in the United States

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LIEU: Did Amalia commit a crime?

NOEM: She did not. She's with her family

LIEU: The reason she's with her family is because she almost died in ICE detention until folks brought a lawsuit forcing her release

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2 weeks ago

Every stage of this process - his arrest, spending a year in jail, being dumped on the streets to die - would be deeply shameful in a society that actually valued human life.

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2 weeks ago

The point of power is to use it, and Jay Bhattacharya is fucking pathetic. He's an embarrassment to the world. He's the worst foot we've ever put forward on the global scientific stage. And worse than any of that he's so, so small. What a waste of a life

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Cop Who Shot Unarmed Black Man Let Off With A Promotion

Cop Who Shot Unarmed Black Man Let Off With A Promotion https://theonion.com/cop-who-shot-unarmed-black-man-let-off-with-a-promotion-1828002782/

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This is one of RFK Jr’s closest friends and business partners.

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2 weeks ago

as a sentient adult who lived through the dotcom bubble and the mortgage crisis i cant imagine why i would be skeptical of wall street pushing to put billions in ai based on "trust me, bro, it will work"

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2 weeks ago
Instagram user the holistic mother: 

There are notable longterm health benefits associated with having had the measles
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2 weeks ago
@nathithehumbleguy on threads: 
Ladies if you're always walking around with earphones or headphones on whether jogging or at the mall don't be surprised if no one approaches you. Most guys won't ask you to take them off just to start a conversation.
Sometimes you might be blocking more than just the noise

he’s so close to getting it

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3 weeks ago
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Wishing a meaningful & reflective Mark Wahlberg 40 Day Challenge to all who observe.

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3 weeks ago

The drunk uncle theory.

You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there

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👇👇👇👇

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"Moderna's CEO announced the company will no longer invest in new Phase 3 vaccine trials for infectious diseases: 'You cannot make a return on investment if you don't have access to the U.S. market. Vaccines for Epstein-Barr virus, herpes, and shingles have been shelved.”
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In terms of what cures are being lost:

- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease

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1 month ago

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

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1 month ago
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Nick Fuentes: “The number one political enemy in America is women. … They have to be imprisoned.”

Fuentes, yesterday: “Our #1 political enemy is women because women constrain everything, every conversation, every man, everything. They have to be imprisoned. They are the ones that are hurting the fertility rate. They're the ones making us sympathetic to poor people, which are also brown people.”

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Crockett: "The US is falling apart, partially bc he's allowing for killings in the street, but also bc we have a 34 count convicted felon being shielded from any type of accountability as it relates to a child sex trafficking ring. I don't understand why we're pretending any of this is normal."

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Just a quick update from the Twin Cities. (Please forgive the unsolicited message). THINGS ARE NOT BETTER IN MINNEAPOLIS. The media is mostly moving on, Trump is focused on other stuff, BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED ON THE GROUND. More than 2,000 DHS thugs continue to roam the streets, abducting people 24/7, assaulting legal observers with impunity, and routinely denying 1st, 4th, and 5th amendment rights. Drones and helicopters are overhead every day. Hundreds and hundreds of terrified families have not left their homes since mid-December ... relying on the community to bring them food and help with rent and other necessities. (Those people are NOT violent drug cartel sex offending murderers, as DHS would tell you. Most are legal residents or citizens.)  If anything, things have just become more stressful and intractable (think trench warfare as a suitable metaphor): The resistance is better organized and numerous, but DHS has become more clever and better at disguise... and the county sheriff's office is increasingly supporting them . Do not let anyone tell you that Homans (the new person in charge of the occupation) is making anything better. Do not let anyone tell you that 700 ICE agents leaving the city has made much of a difference; the remaining force (again, ~2,000) is still larger than the entire city's police force (which is legally unable to do anything). Please call your congressional reps ... especially if there is any chance the administration might listen to them.

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

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1 month ago

the most impactful thing Elon Musk has ever done or will ever do regarding science and innovation in this country is illegally cut billions of dollars of research funds for literally no reason

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1 month ago

One hallmark of pseudoscience is an emphasis on confirmation rather than refutation.

Scientists are constantly and consistently trying to prove themselves wrong, whereas those who practice pseudoscience are more concerned with proving themselves right.

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