Stanley Beck

All of the money that changed hands in the Teapot Dome scandal totaled less than $10 million after adjusting for inflation, and it was considered so corrupt we still teach it in high school government classes a century later.

Where are you getting your test kits? We are down to our last one and Altruan will not ship to the US anymore.

Stay strong! I’ve got lupus too and mask in public. I think people don’t like the reminder that things shouldn’t have gone back to normal, because COVID is still here. We are the ones paying attention to the research & unfortunately the more research there is, the more correct we are to be careful.

Well, COVID causes brain damage, quite possibly every time we catch it. That adds up year after year. The less cautious you get, the more you catch COVID, the worse your brain function. It’s a bad cycle.

John Stewart is trash🚮
Mask up folks😷 Covid will adapt to survive. Will you?

There are several of these being studied right now. An American one, was super promising, but I think it lost funding with the current regime. However, there’s one in Spain, another in France and Japan. The Japanese one is I think in human trials. We may get out of this mess eventually.

49% of covid cases are asymptomatic. Every infection causes cumulative damage.

Flu-A Subclade K is incredibly transmissible

Vaccines alone can’t keep us from transmitting / catching covid and Flu or getting long covid.

Consider wearing an N95 / FFP3 respirator.

The thesis of the book is that early COVID lockdowns weren't worth it and mid-COVID mitigation measures like masks, contact tracing and business closures don't work.

This is laughably false and the authors have endorsed the people now running Trump's HHS.

Yes, @weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social because it looks like vaccines, while great at keeping us from severe covid infections, they don’t appear to stop long covid & they don’t stop brain damage or long-term lowering of immune system. I’ve tried to find research to say otherwise, but cannot. Can you?

Anything new about long covid in vaccinated vs unvaccinated?

What a disappointment @governorferguson.bsky.social is turning out to be. Without a livable planet, there is no point to anything else. Climate has to become the highest priority, it’s obvious.

Graphic attached to window of walkway at Bainbridge Island ferry terminal showing Mean Sea Level of 2024 and two possible higher sea levels in 2100

Which sea level will we choose? (If we agree to @governorferguson.bsky.social’s raid on Climate Commitment Act funding, we may be choosing the higher level)

Next year's artists signed contracts to perform at "The Kennedy Center for Performing Arts." Since a venue with that name no longer exists, and one with a very division name many artists would not wish to be associated with does, they should be able to get out of their contracts.

This anodyne BS is how the NYT summarizes the most corrupt presidency in US history.

Trump said he didn't know what Project 2025 was; he lied.

He said he would get prices down; he lied.

He said he'd only deport criminals; he lied.

He started wars and attacked his own people.

YouTube video by Katie Phang Trump’s WAR on Judges ERUPTS as Violent Threats Surge

There has been a startling & disturbing increase in violent threats against judges who rule against Felon Trump.

I break down the latest data from the US Marshals Service & detail the hypocrisy from the Far-Right who accuse Democrats of promoting political violence.

youtu.be/Elmprpo0miE?...

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One big Holocaust education issue in the US is that people don't know the difference between a concentration camp and an extermination camp (though the two were often linked), so they assume that people referring to a "concentration camp" are being unfairly hyperbolic in a case like this.

So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.

Trump’s Son-in-Law Pitches $112B Tech Utopia on Gaza Rubble Jared Kushner has been showing a 32-page PowerPoint presentation to nearby countries.

Ivanka Trump’s husband is trying to get Middle Eastern leaders to invest in his vision of a high-tech paradise on the ruins of Gaza with a PowerPoint presentation.

I doubt she does anything. They have servants that do their laundry. He’s pretending they are people who do their own laundry.

another reminder that 49% of covid infections are asymptomatic.

meaning you can be sick and infectious without knowing it.

testing is the only way to catch these infections, so you can get paxlovid (if possible), rest, and isolate.

Trump likes to say that INFLATION came from Biden,
but the fact is that the inflation under Biden
was caused by the Covid Pandemic under Trump.

Trump blames Inflation under Biden
on money Biden sent to Americans to help them thru Covid.

Trump sent stimulus money too
WITH HIS NAME ON IT, of course.

I think so too. All the very cautious people who I know, threw caution to the wind after catching covid. They masked everywhere, but after they caught it, it was like wearing a mask stopped making sense to them. Like Covid makes you want to catch it.

"Why is the flu so much worse than before and why are people getting Norovirus?" they ask, and the answer is that we are now experiencing the cascading system failure in public health experts predicted Covid would cause, per its weakening of human immune system functions.

Please help boycott Amazon. Walmart, Target and Home Depot. All enabling Trump extremism. Tell your friends. Thanks!

The most corrupt president in modern U.S. history should be behind bars.

🚨 Newly obtained recording from late 2020: Trump is heard pressuring the Speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives to convene a special legislative session to overturn his election loss.

TikTok signs deal to give U.S. operations to Oracle-led investor group The agreement aims to resolve a yearslong standoff between the popular social media platform and the U.S. government over national security concerns tied to China's parent company, ByteDance.

As of tonight, the Ellisons also own TikTok. So now our media is almost fully controlled by fascists.

www.npr.org/2025/12/18/n...

COVID-19 Causes Myelin Loss in the Brain, Resulting in Depression, Insomnia and Cognitive Issues Seen in Long COVID - Thailand Medical News

COVID-19 Causes Myelin Loss in the Brain, Resulting in Depression, Insomnia and Cognitive Issues Seen in Long COVID

www.thailandmedical.news/news/covid-1...

My friend’s parents really thought those checks were from him and could not be convinced not to vote for him.

"These findings offer vital insights into how COVID 19 affects the central nervous system and may help explain the cognitive problems, such as memory and concentration, reported both shortly after infection and months or even years later."