It drives a Conservative voter block right out of the state. https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/2106514011630305506

Ok so, as funny as this was, the ACTUAL situation is the following:

1. In parts of Russia, particularly the Siberian and Far Eastern steppes, plague is endemic in some local animal populations - rodents and the like, ground squirrels in particular. Sometimes people get infected, just like in other parts of the world with endemic plague (e.g. the western US, where people also sometimes catch plague from prairie dogs and such). Plague is not a dangerous epidemiological threat these days, it is easily treated with antibiotics.

2. A woman in Irkutsk, who worked at an institute for combating these endemic plague populations (this has been going on for many decades, but it's tricky to eradicate it completely) fell ill with pneumonia of unknown etiology. She died in the hospital.

3. The woman had been on a work trip to Buryatia to study one of those animal populations with endemic plague just before she fell ill. Because of this and the fact that her pneumonia was of unknown etiology, the hospital where she was treated and people she had contact with were put in quarantine as a precautionary measure.

4. A suspected pneumonic plague diagnosis was NOT confirmed during the autopsy of the woman who died.

5. There's a nasty flu going around right now, a bunch of my friends and my wife had it, so authorities are somewhat worried, but it appears to just be normal seasonal flu.

6. All the above combined gave enough material for domestic and foreign actors to spam the internet with fake news and panic slop. Most of the people the woman had been in contact with have been tested, some had flu or COVID. There are no heightened quarantine measures. No hospitals or cities are on lockdown. Absolutely nothing out of the ordinary is happening. When a person who studies dangerous illnesses falls ill, you take some common sense routine security measures, that's just the normal thing to do everywhere in the world.

We discussed the Irkutsk case (though this was recorded before it was confirmed that the woman did not die of plague) and other news on our most recent episode: https://rwasamizdat.substack.com/p/rwa-news-plague-bears-and-bridges

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The Prime Minister of Canada, Mark Carney, acknowledged that “new information” has come to light regarding the health incidents known as the Havana Syndrome and stated that he will await a detailed report before deciding what response his government will take. No other info.

U.S. State Dept. considers opening passport records to verify voter citizenship
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Ahead of midterm elections, the United States Department of State (DOS) is “assessing” how to share passport information with state and local governments, as well as non-profit groups, in an effort to establish citizenship checks for voters.

The Best They’ve Got II

Yesterday, I posted the first part of my critical review of Jason Rosenhouse’s 2022 book Failures of Mathematical Anti-Evolutionism, published by Cambridge University Press, in which I demonstrated how he badly misrepresented significant elements of the 1966 Wistar Symposium and how he falsely claimed that the biologists there had adequately answered the challenges posed to […]

https://voxday.net/2026/10/06/the-best-theyve-got-ii/

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Another lying researcher who actually fabricated details about conference proceedings to buffalo the average reader.

While this doesn't concern Vox's efforts, per his statements, this article and some of the links within are worth reading to get further information about this shady Rosenhouse character who some of the EvoBio/Atheists cling to for support.

https://billdembski.com/intelligent-design/jason-rosenhouses-whoppers/

"Don’t be fooled: The states that these networks produce are not truly quantum; they’re only “quantumlike.” They arise when many interacting, oscillating parts add up to a collective whole whose behavior obeys the same mathematics that makes predictions about the quantum world."
https://www.quantamagazine.org/biology-might-not-be-quantum-but-its-math-is-quantumlike-20260923/

And if anyone is interested, here is the monograph from the Wistar Institute for the 1966 conference.