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Excellent ways to protect yourself for the next year as America dies. open.substack.com/pub/bridgest... #resist
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@piddles.bsky.social
Autistic. Environmentalist. Dog lover. Hates Shitler WITH A FUCKING PASSION.
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Excellent ways to protect yourself for the next year as America dies. open.substack.com/pub/bridgest... #resist
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If you’re on LinkedIn, beware that the company appears to be bending the knee. www.advocate.com/news/linkedi...
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ICE has detained multiple U.S. citizens under new rules. Brian Gavidia was questioned by ICE. They returned his phone, 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗗. “I stated I was American. He still attacked me. We are not safe, guys, not safe in America today.” Citizens are not safe. www.cnn.com/2025/06/27/u...
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Federal employees from across the government support current and former NASA employees in their formal declaration of dissent. We must protect NASA's ability to operate safely and independently. Stand with NASA and Stand Up for Science: www.standupforscience.net/nasa-voyager...
Are you one of the 100 FBI agents who reviewed the Epstein files? See this:
ATTN: If you’re one of the 1,000 FBI agents who reviewed the Epstein files, feel free to reach out to me via signal (in my bio). I’ll keep you anonymous- as I have the thousands of current and former federal workers who have sent me tips. Please share this widely. 🙏🏻
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CBS canceled Colbert’s show just THREE DAYS after Colbert called out CBS parent company Paramount for its $16M settlement with Trump – a deal that looks like bribery. America deserves to know if his show was canceled for political reasons. Watch and share his message.
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From the 1890s to 2025, mosquitoes have been both a bug and a feature in concentration camps. Unlike leaders during reconcentración, however, the officials funding, building, and running today's camps know the exact role that these insects play not just in discomfort, but in disease and death. [FIN]
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Replying to @andreapitzer.bsky.social
Here is a perfect example of the cruelty inherent in this kind of camp, even when it's not a death factory. No one is machine-gunning or gassing detainees. But if we keep human beings in a dangerous setting, with facilities optimized to put them at risk, the camp itself will harm them. [16/17]
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The WaPo reports Yale professor emeritus of epidemiology Durland Fish as saying, “The risk of mosquito-borne disease at this site is significant.” Viruses he detected during a mosquito study conducted in the area of the detention center can cause neurological damage, including encephalitis. [15/17]
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Replying to @andreapitzer.bsky.social
But I am arguing that a desire to abuse civilians in ways that leave no one accountable leads to the nasty locations in which so many camps have been sited across history. The Everglades camp location was embraced in part due to the punishment that mosquitoes will provide. [14/17]
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Australia outsourced immigration detention in 2001 to the nation of Nauru and to Manus in PNG, to create a punitive disincentive around migration. Manus had staggering malaria rates, and the mosquito-borne dengue outbreak at the detention facility in Nauru in 2014 was entirely foreseeable: [12/17]
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Replying to @andreapitzer.bsky.social
In Chinese concentration camps, mosquitoes were also used to administer punishments that would not violate official rules against assaulting camp prisoners. There are several examples, but here's part of the testimony Liu Xinhu gave before Congress in 1995. [11/17]
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Replying to @andreapitzer.bsky.social
Mosquitoes as deliberate torture caught on elsewhere. In Cuba when UMAP camps were imposed under Castro, "Jehovah Witnesses were subject to all manner of cruel treatment: beaten; deprived of food, water... tied up naked outside and left for the mosquitoes and sun." [10/17]
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Replying to @andreapitzer.bsky.social
It's possible some degree of unknowing negligence with specific regard to mosquitoes reigned when Spain imposed reconcentración on Cuba, as scientists were just establishing a direct link between mosquitoes and malaria in those years. But in the 1920s, the USSR would weaponize the insect. [8/17]
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"Upon arrival I found 30 cases of small-pox and average fresh ones of five a day, which practically have to be turned out to die. At nightfall clouds of huge vampire bats softly swirl out on their orgies over the dead. Mosquitoes work in relays, and keep up their pestering, day and night." [7/17]
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In the Philippines soon afterward, the U.S. set up its first overseas concentration camps. Mosquito-borne malaria surged among detainees. As one soldier wrote: "Now this little spot of black sogginess is a reconcentrado pen, with a dead-line outside, beyond which everything living is shot..." [6/17]
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With reconcentrados surrounded by standing water in overcrowded and unsanitary settings, mosquito-borne malaria became a leading cause of death. Encephalitis deaths were also common. More than 100,000 civilians died in squalid conditions in these camps, from hunger and disease. [5/17]
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Replying to @andreapitzer.bsky.social
Mosquitoes have likewise long had a starring role in concentration camps around the world, starting with the first reconcentrados in Cuba in the 1890s. Forcing families out of the countryside and behind barbed wire was *meant* to punish civilians by depriving them of food and shelter. [4/17]
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Another thing to know is that mosquitoes are brutal in Florida. The state has a long history of lethal illnesses spread by mosquitoes. No one in government is unaware of the constant battle and treatments that have worked to keep mosquitoes at bay in an incredibly inhospitable climate. [3/17]
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One thing to keep in mind is that building in the Everglades was a deliberate choice. The administration wanted a punitive, dangerous camp. The shoddy, temporary facilities (at far above permanent-facility per-bed costs) exacerbate the conditions. Mosquitoes apparently have free rein. [2/17]
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"In its current degraded state, the DOJ is purely reactive, capable only of defending the policies of an aging demagogue and targeting his enemies for retribution. In short, Bondi presides over a department of weaponization and nothing else." — @lizdye.bsky.social
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In the second post is an article about RFK Jr. asking HHS employees to inform on one another about DEI over the past 5 years. What is truly amazing is that anyone at all can complete the form. A guy in Poland told me he filled it out. Link to fashy form: forms.office.com/pages/respon...
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