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#TWiV 1216: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin May 10, 2025 In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin with Vincent Racaniello bemoan the attack on science within the US, salt water controls for vaccines, return to 1938 technology for flu vaccines, mRNA vaccines as “bioweapons”, rise in […]

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Indian strike on Pakistan just now... #AureFreePress #News #press #headline #India #pakistan #Breaking #BreakingNews

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I’ve got four things I want to say about David Souter. #DavidSouter First, my spouse and I officially became a couple while protesting his nomination. Second, I argued twice before him (SCOTUS once, once as Senior Circuit judge). At SCOTUS he was totally practical and got it and gave me a […]

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What have I been saying? Keep an eye on Vought.. and Miller. and, also... EXCUSE ME??! Via Ron Filipkowski: Stephen Miller says they are “actively looking at” suspending the writ of habeas corpus, which is only allowed when the US has been invaded or during an insurrection, which would not […]

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Have any #Republicans disavowed #StephenMiller's suggestion of suspending #HabeasCorpus? Asking for a country.

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BANFF! what a spectacular fuckin place... i fought thru tough arthritis flares for this incredible view and a few amazing days of hiking and biking. #Canada #Banff #nature #photography

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President Trump fires all three Democrats on the bipartisan, independent Consumer Product Safety Commission. https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/05/09/trump-fires-three-democrats-cpsc/83537936007/

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I just wrote a rather lengthy thread attempting to alert folks to the strange yet dangerous opinion handed down today by one of the federal district courts hearing habeas petition efforts from Venezuelans detained per Trump’s Alien Enemies Act. Because I inadvertently broke the thread a couple […]

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Oh my God oh my God Has anyone seen Rudy Giuliani? Has someone been feeding him? I haven’t seen him for months Oh Jeez we’re gonna find him in his condo and he’s eaten his own fingers or something aren’t we

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Keep ‘em coming “A federal judge is halting the #Trump administration from carrying out, under a February executive order, mass firings or major reorganizations of multiple agencies going forward” […]

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OK, I’m told the feds released Mayor Barka rather than holding him over the weekend on the pretext they couldn’t get him before a judge. I am pleasantly surprised, through I suspect the decision was made on a lower level and that the people who made it may suffer.

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Writing the "venture capitalist gets eaten by ants" part of the story today so I'm having a pretty good time. He sort of brings it all on himself, poor guy. And for the record, the ants don't kill him. Natural language programming is to blame. The ants are just recycling and being responsible.

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Ai and crypto. Pfffft!

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Unmarked, masked government agents who don’t show ID when grabbing someone, and Stand Your Ground laws that say it’s legal to shoot someone if you feel threatened, seem on a collision course. I’m a little surprised no one’s shot at ICE agents already, and worry what happens after someone does.

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A Decade-Long Search for a Battery That Can End the Gasoline Era https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/business/mercedes-factorial-solid-state-battery.html?unlocked_article_code=1.F08.R_9_.EIM6HA0FEiT3&smid=nytcore-android-share

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LOL Latin on a hot dog shop in Chicago. "CANES NOSTROS IPSE COMEDIT" (according to Google Translate, that is: "He ate our dogs himself.") #pope #chicago #chicagopope #hotdogs https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/08/pope-leo-chicago-home-town

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The extinction-level threat to US federal biomedical and public health policy that I predicted is here, and each week seems to bring new evidence that, if anything, my first prediction five months ago -- when RFK Jr. first suspended his independent Presidential campaign and bent the knee to […]

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“The Society of Professional Journalists is alarmed by the proposal to replace Voice of America news feeds from its own journalists and other internationally respected news organizations with One America News.” […] [Original post on journa.host]

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“Of course they don’t explain… The crowd chants "Don't take the mother!" over and over again…” A harrowing account of this horrific scene in Worcester, as ICE grabbed a woman without telling anyone why over the screams over her family: www.welcometohellworld.com/they-dont-ne...

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Not too many details, but interesting reports of the damage one law firm seems to have to to itself by capitulating to Trump. https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/new-york-law-firm-cadwalader-wickersham-taft-trump-10a87928

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Just to be clear, despite the political tone around the nationality of the new pope... Pope Leo XIV is Peruvian, he was a Peruvian bishop, and was in Rome as a Peruvian Cardinal. He is a Peruvian Pope. He has a US passport as well as a Peruvian one, but to call him American without reference […]

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Trump administration to garnish wages of 5.3 million defaulted student loan borrowers this summer Source: CNBC https://search.app/Eb47J

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Another one for @heardislandgov.bsky.social From: @ai6yr https://m.ai6yr.org/@ai6yr/114474954069998731

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I thought this was old news, but no, this is the THIRD F/A-18 they've lost. Military.com: "The USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier lost another F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet on Tuesday -- the third since it deployed to the Middle East " […]

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Bill Gates ratcheted up his feud with Elon Musk, accusing the world’s richest man of “killing the world’s poorest children” through what he said were misguided cuts to US development assistance. Gates, who is announcing a plan to accelerate his philanthropic giving over the next 20 years and […]

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The new pontiff's maternal grandparents lived in New Orleans and in the 1900 census were described as Black. https://www.nola.com/news/first-american-pope-roots-new-orleans/article_3c7bfdf1-8f69-452e-af01-90aa012366df.html

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Finally some concrete action to phase out reliance on Russia. https://energy.ec.europa.eu/strategy/repowereu-roadmap_en

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Ok, I might stop after this one: The new Pope has a degree in mathematics from Villanova University. This guy doesn’t just understand sin. He understands cos.

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