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John W. DeFeo
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Dad, analyst, artist. Grateful American. Former media exec at @LiveScience, @spacedotcom and @tomsguide. Politically sober. RTs and Likes ≠ Endorsements.
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    John W. DeFeo
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    Feb 7, 2025
    Whatever their background, plight, or even formal diagnosis, there are certain individuals who function like a "black hole." No amount of kindness, generosity, time, commitment, money, goodwill or good faith will fill it, or will ever be enough. Recognizing such types is a skill.
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    John W. DeFeo
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    Sep 2, 2022
    I am not a Republican and I have zero admiration or respect for the Republican party, let alone Donald Trump, whom I've reviled since before he was President. That said, I consider this iteration of the Democratic party to be the greatest threat to U.S. democracy in my lifetime.
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    Cernovich
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    Sep 2, 2022
    Nazi aesthetic
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    John W. DeFeo
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    Feb 14, 2022
    Tonight, 70,000 maskless adults are shoulder to shoulder, enjoying life together in California. Tomorrow, approximately 7,000,000 California school-children will be forced to wear masks and keep apart from each other. Politics are a disease. End the cruelty. Unmask the kids.
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    John W. DeFeo
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    Feb 16, 2022
    The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare many shortcomings and frailties in our society, but for me, none has been more damaging than the collapse of objective journalism. I've worked in newsrooms for most of my career; I'd like to share how my experiences explain my view: 1/30 🧵
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    John W. DeFeo
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    Jul 23, 2022
    Remember when the media (and "public health") went berserk on @joerogan over his claim that young males suffered real risks of post-shot heart inflammation? Not only was Rogan correct at the time...the risk that he highlighted was understated as revealed by later research. 1/2
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    John W. DeFeo
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    Feb 4, 2022
    The percentage of a child's life lived during the pandemic: Age 1 - 100% Age 2 - 100% Age 3 - 67% Age 4 - 50% Age 5 - 40% Age 6 - 33% Age 7 - 29% Age 8 - 25% Segregation, inequity, forced dress, anti-socialization and "us vs. them" thinking is being presented as "normal." 1/4
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    John W. DeFeo
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    Nov 11, 2022
    This is extraordinary. An 18-month, $192,000,000 contract for a "Covid-19 graphic designer," bid non-competitively under an emergency contract authorized by an associate analyst who started working at the California Dept. of Public Health in Feb. 2021. Yes, that's $192 million.
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    Laura Powell
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    Nov 11, 2022
    It appears that the @CAPublicHealth has a contract for graphic design services related to Covid-19 for $192 million. That's $10.7 million per month to produce images like this one. We must fight the Covid-industrial complex. Credit to @JimSmit95248518 & @hamill_law for sharing.
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    John W. DeFeo
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    Sep 17, 2022
    For years, I was unable to see my nephews in person. When I was finally allowed into Canada in Feb. 2022, I was disallowed from taking them to the movies, the arcade, anywhere, not because I was unvaccinated, but because I didn't have a digital QR vaccine passport. #TrudeauMustGo
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    John W. DeFeo
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    Jun 12, 2022
    Why do mask mandates fail? Even with strict compliance and N95s? The video below (and the continuation in the next tweet) explain why. The rest of this🧵summarizes why I believe those pushing for mask mandates are dishonest &/or willfully ignorant &/or mentally unwell. 1/31
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    John W. DeFeo
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    Sep 2, 2022
    Replying to @ifihadastick
    Really scary stuff. The censorship. The lies. The collusion. The legislation crafted by foreign lobbyists. The use of federal law enforcement against ordinary citizens exercising constitutional rights. The ever-creeping infrastructure tied back to the CCP. The list is endless.
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    John W. DeFeo
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    Mar 29, 2022
    I appreciate recent COVID-19 coverage from @nytimes and @washingtonpost. Nevertheless, corrections, clarifications, retractions and updates about previous COVID-19 reporting (and omissions) could fill each paper's A1-A20 section for a week. Some non-exhaustive examples: 1/42 🧵
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    John W. DeFeo
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    Jul 24, 2022
    Earlier this month, someone made the case to me that if Americans weren't so selfish and disrespectful, but instead, if they wore masks as commonly as people in Japan do, that Covid transmission would be snuffed out. Sadly, it seems like data has little power over delusion.
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    John W. DeFeo
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    May 3, 2022
    The 2020 Great Barrington Declaration was: 1. Objectively correct on many points; 2. Embraced by a plurality (if not majority) of public health scientists; and 3. Censored or intentionally mischaracterized. This was written in 2020: things only acknowledged by the press now.
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    John W. DeFeo
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    Jun 12, 2022
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    In the video clips below, spanning 2009 to 2020, infectious disease experts laugh at the idea of mask mandates or mask-wearing to prevent illness (alluding to crime, ineffectiveness, loss of dignity and annoyance). Did "the science" change in April 2020? It did not. 4/31
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