Grumpy retired American mathematician and computer scientist. Erdös number equals 1. Boycott Musk. Indict Trump. Find me over at bsky, @shallit.bsky.social
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1. If you claim "no vaccine in history was developed/approved as rapidly as the Covid vaccines" without having examined the timeline for the Salk polio vaccine, nor the technological advances that made rollout so speedy, you might be a #covidiot .
nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
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Look, the simple truth is that on November 3rd, the Republican Party needs to be punished. The Republican Party needs to be punished BIG TIME for continuing to embrace a sociopathic madman who is a traitor to, and an enemy of, America.
VOTE.
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In one day, two politicians - Bolsonaro in Brazil and Vucic in Serbia - with ties to Trump and his family have lost surprise elections, thanks to high turnout. The rise of the international far-right is not inevitable.
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First, every time Trump insults a reporter for asking a legitimate question, every follow up from another Reporter should be the same question until he answers it. Leaving your colleagues out to dry is simply wrong. 1
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The more I read about JD Vance’s rise to power on the wings of Peter Thiel’s money, the more important it is that he never gets close to the 2028 nomination. He’s nuts, and dangerous.
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If Putin stops fighting, the war ends. If Zelensky stops fighting then his country will be occupied, leaders murdered, language banned, businesses stolen, children kidnapped. That's what happens in Russian-occupied Ukraine.
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A 6th person in Pennsylvania has died from measles. Once again, I’m calling on Sec Kennedy to state unequivocally that the MMR vaccine is both safe and effective, and the only way to prevent a measles infection in an unvaccinated adult or child.
Breaking news: A 39-year-old woman from Franklin County, Pennsylvania, who had been diagnosed with measles has died, according to the local coroner’s office, marking the sixth such death reported since the state’s outbreak began this year. wapo.st/4ykZXlI
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Historian of fascism here. This is an escalation of an attempt to normalize extreme violence, ritualize violence, militarize the country, and make violence entertaining so when they ask you to commit violence in their name, you will be ready.
Trump & Hegseth aren't just proposing to livestream an execution for people who want to watch.
They're proposing to broadcast a man being shot to death, even if deserved by our system, and even if you agree with this version of the death penalty, knowing that the footage will be clipped, shared, and pushed into social media feeds.
Including those of our children. The gruesome image will be everywhere.
Parents will have virtually no control over whether their kids see it. Once those images are released, there is no taking them back.
Hope all the parents in the Trump Admin are cool with that.
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if you think allowing other people to marry the person of their choice curtails your "religious liberty," you're a religious fanatic who does not belong in government.
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito says in a new book that he believes the court's landmark decision extending marriage rights to same-sex couples was "perhaps the decisive point in our nation's turn against religious liberty."
Read more: abcnews.link/M860KYr
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It appears @bennyjohnson has now deleted his X post where he clearly pre-composed a post about Sen. Schmitt getting Jack Smith to perjure himself. Genuinely crazy how many big accts on this website appear to be coordinating with Republican politicians behind the scenes.
It's pretty appropriate that Trump wants to change the initialism for the names of the Great Lakes from "HOMES" to "SHAME".
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Allow me, I speak anti-vaxx. Kennedy is complaining that disgraced researchers he hired at HHS can’t have unfettered access to Americans’ private health data in pursuit of their debunked theory that vaccines cause autism. nbcnews.com/health/health-ne…
RFK Jr. just REVEALED that HMOs are blocking him from crucial vaccine safety data.
“We’ve paid them now $600 million to collect our data, and we don’t have access to it.”
“I cannot get access to that data today.”
“No independent scientist is allowed in there without passing through all kinds of gatekeepers and getting HMO’s to approve the study design.”
“Any study design that might yield an outcome that was inconvenient to the official orthodoxies was simply not allowed.”
“We’re actually paying these companies to hide the data from us.”
@MAHA_Institute
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Incredible. First @SecMullinDHS claimed that @DHSgov identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials said, no no no, that’s just people we flagged, here’s the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens.
All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.
From 16,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump’s Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada Fizzle.
"The state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen."
nytimes.com/2026/09/24/us/po…
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Trump’s obsession with these vulgar memorials to his own vanity is a reminder of the darkness around him, of his hostility to democracy, his loathing of honor, and his disordered mind.
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