Stuart Neil

RFK Jr misled Senate during confirmation, Congress members and Hawaii governor say Newly revealed emails undermine Kennedy’s testimony about 2019 Samoa trip ahead of deadly measles outbreak

Not sending the brightest to the Senate if they’re the only people to be ‘surprised’ that antivax conspiracist RFKjr lied about his role in antivax conspiracism that led to children’s death in Samoa. Which of course was a dry run for what he’s doing now to the US

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Do bunnies have funny-shaped balls?

YouTube video by The Daily Show Trump Defends Racist Obama Meme & MAGA Rages Over Bad Bunny’s Spanish Halftime Show | The Daily Show

Masterful skewering of the ludicrousness and hypocrisy that MAGA snowflake-ism has achieved over a happy and inoffensive song and dance routine performed in a language that ‘only’ 60-odd million Americans speak.

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More like:
-you’re not trans
- I am
- you aren’t
- I am
- which bathroom do you use?
- preferably one without you in it.

I’m confused. Someone dancing and singing in Spanish is a ‘slap in the face to America’…but destroying its public institutions, enriching your mates, establishing ICE as your personal Sturmabteilung and redacting yourself out of the biggest pedophile scandal in history, is not.

Just checking

Alastair Reacts to Starmer-Mandelson Turmoil YouTube video by The Rest Is Politics

An angry @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social take on the Mandelson affair, it’s monumental mishandling by Starmer, and how the usual Labour navel gazing and right wing client press not holding most of the real villains to account is gifting the fascists a free pass
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Newly revealed emails undermine RFK Jr testimony about 2019 Samoa trip ahead of measles outbreak Kennedy later said the purpose of his trip had nothing to do with vaccines. US embassy and UN staff at the time said otherwise, emails show

Not really a surprise, but it's still surprising to me that some chose to believe his lie

They text each other and have spreadsheets. scary

…and where does one get raw camel milk? Is there really a raw camel milk industry in US? (I immediately know that there is going to be yes to that 🤦‍♂️)

It must be true. I’ve never seen an autistic camel

Interesting discussion on @newsagents.bsky.social on Starmer and Mandy

I would hazard they thought that because Mandelson is gay and therefore was ‘insulated’ from Epstein’s crimes (afawk!) that his assoc within a pedophile and assurances that he didn’t know was enough.

Starmer has to go IMO

Starting to think Starmer has to go over his lack of judgement over Mandelson.

He knew he was dodgy but was panicked by needing a Littlefinger to whisper to Trump

Ultimately the knock on effect of Trump’s destabilization of international relations is going to do for Keir

In a persistent infections you are looking at virus evolution before transmission over a much longer period of time, and because it is not being cleared by a reduced immune efficacy there is whole
Bunch of different selective pressures.

This guy made low amounts but the same antibodies we all made

So even with proof reading you’re looking at an error rate of 1 in 10(6) and virus is replicating to make billions of new viruses per day. But there is a huge fitness bottle neck on transmission.

That’s the key question. He didn’t transmit it afawk. And probably most viruses are unfit

There is a lot else going on outside spike that is v interesting too

Notably one mutation that we don’t see was P681H/R in the FCS which is assoc with the successful VoCs. We are looking into that now.

Funnily enough there are still lab leakers in BSNow and DRASTIC who think this can’t happen, and that Omicron is a lab selected variant 😂🤦‍♂️

This fig still impresses me. The red is spike evolution in one person over 500days from a wave 1 infection in April 2020. The black tree below is the branch from wave 1 to omicron BA1. The branch lengths are v similar implying the entire evolution of a VoC can happen in one immunocomp host

Heroic effort by Luke Snell, Suzy Pickering and Rui Galao and many colleagues at KCL, clinical collaborators at GSTT and of course the individuals concerned, several of whom sadly passed away.

Antibody escape drives emergence of diverse spike haplotypes resembling variants of concern in persistent SARS-CoV-2 infections Snell et al. develop sequencing methodology to identify full-length spike haplotypes and show that persistent SARS-CoV-2 infections drive divergent haplotype emergence, accelerating viral evolution an...

This is finally out.

Very short take home. All the variation in spike that produced the immune escape characteristics of Omicron can occur in one single persistently infected individual over the period of a year.

This is why persistent infections matter

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Given that the schysters, lunatics and frauds on X (inc head of NIH and the crybabies from BSNow that he fired) are ‘celebrating’ Proximal Origin’s birthday with their usual crap calling for retraction, prosecution and, here, execution…

…perhaps someone can show me what the article got wrong.

1: develop a massive chip on your shoulder that you’re better than your colleagues and you really should be at somewhere further north and east.

2: get really irate when you see women/brown/gay/trans people getting positions of power in your institution

3: be universally hated by your colleagues

Epstein wanted players and influence, not toadlike tinpot dictators from provincial state universities

He is a huge misogynist but I very much doubt that.

When you find yourself getting schooled by Grok and you have to cry to Elon that his otherwise dodgy AI is not validating your particular conspiracy theory, I would hope I would have the self awareness to wonder where I went wrong.

Richard on the other hand howls ‘stooges’ into the void

Upside down hanging from the rafters

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

Peter H. Duesberg, 89, Renowned Biologist Turned H.I.V. Denialist, Dies

Despite early seminal discoveries in retroviral oncogenesis, Duesberg destroyed his reputation promoting fringe theories and conspiracy. His championing of AIDS denialism was so pernicious and influential, partic in S Africa, it literally killed 100s of thousands.

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/s...

It’s amazing how quickly the MAGA has a problem with the second amendment…..

….which they fought to preserve so citizens could protect themselves against a tyrannical government.

I guess they expected that a tyrannical government would threaten to change toilet door signs and not be their gestapo

This is ok tho

Trump on stage at Davos

Rambling, embarrassing, nonsensical senility peppered with outright untruths many of which I’m sure he actually believes.

Isn’t this what the 25th Amendment is for?