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Peter Bornstein

@spidadoc.bsky.social

Semiretired MD/MBA Infectious Diseases physician consultant. Part time assistant beekeeper. All posts personal, and do not reflect views of SPIDA, Fairview Health Services, or any pathogens. #IDSky peterbornstein.substack.com

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The Board of Peace has wasted no time starting its first war.

28.02.2026 13:40 β€” πŸ‘ 292    πŸ” 114    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 7

Clavicular? Idon'tcaremaxxed.

18.02.2026 22:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Faith and Science Bad Faith Skeptics are making America less healthy

Practice Good Faith.

open.substack.com/pub/peterbor...

16.02.2026 13:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

American Lysenkoism

11.02.2026 14:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Of course he does. I'm waiting for him to put his name on our Country--Trump States of America [shiver].

05.02.2026 23:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

American Gulag.

02.02.2026 01:34 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Minneapolis Residents Wear Their Passports, Desperate to Ward Off ICE

What’s next? Sewing emblems onto clothing?

Minneapolis Residents Wear Their Passports, Desperate to Ward Off ICE www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/u...

31.01.2026 22:36 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Kristi Noem Calls On Minneapolis Residents To Stop Obstructing Murders WASHINGTONβ€”Urging locals to β€œfully cooperate” with federal agents, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem called on Minneapolis residents Monday to stop obstructing murders. β€œThe brave ...

Kristi Noem Calls On Minneapolis Residents To Stop Obstructing Murders

31.01.2026 17:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1527    πŸ” 288    πŸ’¬ 24    πŸ“Œ 11
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St. Peter police chief intervenes, prevents federal agents from arresting resident The police chief of St. Peter intervened to prevent federal agents from taking a local resident who was observing ICE enforcement actions into custody. It is believed to the first time local police in...

This is in small-town Minnesota. This is not in one of those demonic blue cities that the GOP talk about. This is pretty goddam rural. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

31.01.2026 14:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1054    πŸ” 344    πŸ’¬ 45    πŸ“Œ 51
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ICE claim that a man shattered his skull running into wall triggers tension at a Minnesota hospital Nurses in Minneapolis doubted federal immigration officers' claims about a Mexican immigrant's severe injuries

You don’t get eight skull fractures from running into a wall.

abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory...

31.01.2026 17:07 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
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

28.01.2026 17:02 β€” πŸ‘ 97509    πŸ” 40928    πŸ’¬ 4305    πŸ“Œ 5374

"I was only following orders" wasn't an acceptable excuse at the Nuremberg trials & won't work now.

#AccountabilityIsComing

28.01.2026 19:31 β€” πŸ‘ 30110    πŸ” 7437    πŸ’¬ 1699    πŸ“Œ 346

Yes, we know.

25.01.2026 01:11 β€” πŸ‘ 2250    πŸ” 273    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 2

They are just asking for guillotines.

25.01.2026 01:01 β€” πŸ‘ 40    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti
Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti

β€œWe are heartbroken but also very angry.

Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact.

I do not throw around the β€˜hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. 

Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.

Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti β€œWe are heartbroken but also very angry. Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the β€˜hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.

"Please get the truth out about our son."

25.01.2026 00:43 β€” πŸ‘ 24946    πŸ” 12875    πŸ’¬ 200    πŸ“Œ 448

The person killed by ICE in Minneapolis today was an ICU nurse and a public health researcher at the Minneapolis VA.

24.01.2026 19:42 β€” πŸ‘ 35    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ramping up the gaslighting to insane levels

24.01.2026 19:48 β€” πŸ‘ 785    πŸ” 129    πŸ’¬ 67    πŸ“Œ 7

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz: "Thank God. Thank God we have video. Because according to DHS, these 7 heroic guys took an onslaught of a battalion against him or something. It's nonsense, people. It is nonsense and it's lies."

24.01.2026 19:52 β€” πŸ‘ 7742    πŸ” 1971    πŸ’¬ 125    πŸ“Œ 60
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CW: EXTREME VIOLENCE

I've synced up videos from both perspectives about as well as I can

Audio from both is included

They are both slowed down to ~.5x, zoomed in, and have their colors enhanced

The captions are from the pink lady's video on the left

24.01.2026 19:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1031    πŸ” 537    πŸ’¬ 78    πŸ“Œ 95
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This is #AlexPretti

He was killed today in #Minneapolis

He was 37 year old US citizen, a son, a brother and nurse who worked for the VA.

We should all be horrified about what is happening in the US.

We need our elected officials to stop playing politics and start protecting lives.

24.01.2026 19:57 β€” πŸ‘ 51    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 2

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.

White. Hot. Rage.

24.01.2026 19:31 β€” πŸ‘ 60655    πŸ” 18888    πŸ’¬ 1405    πŸ“Œ 741

I'm so sorry, Dimitri. This is just beyond understanding. May his memory be for a blessing.

24.01.2026 19:50 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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RFK’s Anti-Vax Team Readies Its Next Moves β€œTheir game is, let’s really destabilize trust in the vaccine, and make people really anxious about it.”

To be very clear, Kennedy's team is messing with a vaccine which has led to a 99 percent drop in the incidence of hepatitis B, which kills, early and painfully, 25 percent of the people who get it as children. lnk.thebulwark.com/3Xt957M

04.12.2025 03:00 β€” πŸ‘ 4208    πŸ” 1960    πŸ’¬ 265    πŸ“Œ 162

My wife asks me why I am listening to the ACIP panel today, as I find it so infuriating and grinding my teeth. I tell her,"I am bearing witness." Some of the ACIP members are real doorknobs.

04.12.2025 20:12 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Loved his score for The Wolverine with James Mangold!

08.10.2025 14:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump urges pregnant women to avoid Tylenol over unproven autism link Some studies have suggested an association between the two, but experts say there is no causal relationship.

American Lysenkoism

www.bbc.com/news/article...

22.09.2025 23:44 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Do YOU remember β€œthe 21st night of September?”

Earth Wind & Fire’s co-writer Allee Willis said she told the band: β€œWe can’t leave β€˜baa-dee-ya’ in the chorus. That has to mean something.’”

Maurice White replied: β€œNo, that feels great. That’s what people are going to remember. We’re leaving it.”

21.09.2025 12:34 β€” πŸ‘ 2658    πŸ” 750    πŸ’¬ 118    πŸ“Œ 66
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New $100,000 H-1B Fee Wilts Rural Hospitals, Deepening Health Gaps The presidential proclamation introduces a $100,000 H-1B fee for petitions filed on or after September 21, 2025, applying to beneficiaries located outside the United States at filing. The fee must be ...

Big tech will be fine. It's the rural healthcare systems--and their patients--that will really suffer. www.visaverge.com/h1b/new-1000...

20.09.2025 17:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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New $100,000 H-1B Fee Wilts Rural Hospitals, Deepening Health Gaps The presidential proclamation introduces a $100,000 H-1B fee for petitions filed on or after September 21, 2025, applying to beneficiaries located outside the United States at filing. The fee must be ...

Putting the nail to the coffin of rural health care.

www.visaverge.com/h1b/new-1000...

20.09.2025 14:01 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

"'It became necessary to destroy the town to save it,' a United States major said today. He was talking about the decision by allied commanders to bomb and shell the town regardless of civilian casualties, to rout the Vietcong." --Peter Arnett, reporting on the Battle of BαΊΏn Tre

28.08.2025 14:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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