TracingVRL by A.J. Fish

@maddow.msnbc.com and @bostonjoan.bsky.social @corinnelow.com follow the AltNPS account, which I used to do too. Now when journalists ask the anonymous account to cite their work with a link, the account (which sells merch) stays mum while their followers grow hostile. ⤵️⤵️

Newsletter August 9: Officer Killed at CDC, Following Antivaxx Videos from U.S. Government Officials

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This killing followed video announcements by RFK Jr. exaggerating the harms of COVID and measles vaccines.

#Antivaxx #CDC #publichealth #RFKJr #infodemic

Newsletter August 9: Officer Killed at CDC, Following Antivaxx Videos from U.S. Government Officials

tracingvrl.substack.com/p/officer-ki...

This killing followed video announcements by RFK Jr. exaggerating the harms of COVID and measles vaccines.

#Antivaxx #CDC #publichealth #RFKJr #infodemic

"Oh but my friend travels to China frequently for business and they have elections on the local level, and *no corruption* on the national level. Xi can't be bought" - overheard in San Francisco

I've been opening my newsletters lately with the reiteration that "The U.S. government is under antivaxx occupation."

Surely AI agents with human-sounding first and last names are buying stock now #unreality lives on

The Sydney Sweeney News Cycle Proves That Democrats Simply Can’t Win If you’re lucky enough to have missed it, here’s the skinny on...

Read this from @talkingpointsmemo.com twice talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...

How do we switch the algorithm back, I'm seeing too many accounts I don't follow #bluesky

It stinks people think they're a publisher. I am looking to migrate for my next project.

Surprised to see a @cbsnews.com reporter interrogate the claims of AI promoters. It's safe to do so from social media, where the older viewers don't go. Seeing years of fawning AI coverage from @cbsnews.com 60 Minutes, and now Ben Mankowitz, there must be a chill from honest coverage of AI there.

Corporation for Public Broadcasting says it's shutting down The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funnels federal money to public media stations, says it's winding down operations after President Trump signed a law rescinding all funding.

President Trump's rescissions package took funding (from foreign aid & public broadcasting) that was already allocated by Congress under President Biden. It's akin to taxation without representation. www.npr.org/2025/08/01/n...

A list of the largest US ISPs from May 1996. The full table includes Subscribers, Signups/Week, PHone Nubmer, Home Page, Montly Fees, and cost per hour. The top ten are Netcom, Spry Net, PSINet, Global Network Nav, Concentric, EarthLink, IDT Corp, Internet America, TIAC, and Mindspring.

It is now believed that there may be hundreds of thousands of people on the Internet

Thanks AltWacher ...AltNPS is a ripoff account, it ***sells merch*** by posting news without attribution, implying it did the work. (One of my mission statements for TracingCOVID was to "attribute out".)
... Sadly, AltNPS it has many prominent followers. We elevate *personless labor* to our peril.

As someone very critical of AI, I'm pretty depressed that most critics don't seem to understand thar there's no experiance more perfectly personalized and targetable for ad tech than a chat box where you're telling a machine what you want.

Israelis rebuff Trump, insisting images of starvation in Gaza are 'fake' The Israeli government is defending a top military officer who dismissed images of starving Palestinians as 'fake' over the weekend, despite President Trump stating Monday that he believes the picture...

#Unreality is my beat and it carries a huge cost to publics www.latimes.com/world-nation...

I fell for the antivax lies, then measles put my son in hospital Jade Hurrell’s son is one of a growing number of unvaccinated children to have fallen seriously ill from the disease. She wants other parents to understand the danger

“Jade Hurrell’s son is one of a growing number of unvaccinated children to have fallen seriously ill from the disease. She wants other parents to understand the danger”
www.thetimes.com/art...

Israel Intercepts Gaza-Bound Ship of Activists and Aid

This is way outside my beat, but witnessing a group of humans slowly starve to death is so ubelieveably horrifying www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/w... #Gaza

She lit a fire in me too

Which conspiracy theory is your current favorite conspiracy theory? Epstein's files? Obama's treason? God anointing Trump Ruler of the Planet? Hillary Clinton's drugs, pizza, computer?

Meet Craig 'Craigslist' Newmark, the self-professed 'nerd' who built a $1 billion online listing empire and donated $20 million to a media company that's now facing a massive editorial exodus Craig Newmark started a newsletter in 1995 that grew into Craigslist. Today, a forthcoming company — tech news site The Markup — backed by Newmark is making headlines.

Weird how he became a billionaire by making classifieds free

It’s just parasitism on real journalism to do this day after day.

This is from a 2001 episode of the show ER. It depicts some BS about the MMR vaccine that still circulates today! Only now it comes from the head of the HHS and not just a duped mom.

EXCLUSIVE: At least 6 companies in the independent publishing sector have faced simultaneous tax office audits over the past 1.5 years.

Company directors spoke exclusively to HKFP, weeks after it emerged independent newsrooms were also facing the same scrutiny. hongkongfp.com/2025/07/20/i...

Some Things We Don't Do Anymore - This American Life Trump froze U.S. foreign aid and dismantled USAID. We examine the agency’s impact and hear from people trying to navigate this chaotic moment.

"Now, as USAID officially winds down, we try to assess its impact. What was good? What was not so good? We meet people around the world wrestling with these questions and trying to navigate this chaotic moment." #USAID #ThisAmericanLife #PublicRadio www.thisamericanlife.org/862/some-thi...

The Manhattan Statement on Higher Education America’s colleges and universities have long been the bright lights of our civilization. For nearly four centuries, they have pioneered new fields of knowledge, brought the arts and sciences to new h...

There’s so much to breakdown in this newly dropped manifesto against higher education by Chris Rufo and signed by all the usual suspects affiliated with the Manhattan Institute. It warrants attention since it’s targeted at university grants. manhattan.institute/article/the-...

‘The gesture speaks for itself’: Germans respond to Musk’s apparent Nazi salute Some say it was an unambiguous Nazi salute but others are unsure and say focus should be on Musk’s stated support for far-right

You know what is weird ... in San Francisco I see many Teslas, but only in the wealthier suburbs do Teslas have anti-Elon bumper stickers. ... Newsom is dyslexic, which might explain his comments. But Ro Khanna also praised Musk (just before this) www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Resources For Those Affected by Central Texas Floods | Austin PBS, KLRU-TV Austin PBS, Austin’s community licensed public television station, bringing exceptional educational television to the Central Texas community.

Austin PBS is raising money for victims of the Camp Mystic Flash Flood Alley disaster. Would this station be affected? austinpbs.org/what-we-do/t...

Russia Plans USAID-Inspired Development Model in Bid to Extend Global Influence - The Moscow Times Russia is advancing plans to revamp its international development efforts, with U.S. foreign aid models serving as inspiration, the head of the state cultural diplomacy agency said Tuesday.

Why are you doing this www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/07/08/r...

The Stages of Changes It Takes to Leave a Narcissist — Phoenix Thriving Therapy When clients come to me seeking therapy there is so much confusion, internal chaos that they are going through, they verbalize feeling like they cannot make sense of their thoughts, that they are “stu...

Pass this along to whomever www.phoenixthrivingtherapy.com/blog/the-sta...

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