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Measles high infection rate is the reason we have not yet been able to eradicate it. That rate means you need a very high vaccination rate to prevent outbreaks. It is possible, but not with current levels of institutional distrust.

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NY City Council speaker Adrienne Adams: "With the resignation of deputy mayors, it has become clear that Mayor Adams has now lost the confidence and trust of his own staff, his colleagues in government, and New Yorkers. He now must prioritize New York City and New Yorkers, step aside and resign."

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let me strongly recommend the flu shot to whoever hasn't gotten one for this season. i just had a terrible bout with the flu that almost certainly would have been WAY worse had i not been vaccinated

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Breaking News: Gov. Kathy Hochul, who could remove Mayor Eric Adams, said the resignation of 4 aides raised concerns about his “long-term future” at City Hall.

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Prius at 0:16 doing the ope let me sneak by you real quick

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Maybe I wasn’t clear about this. I wanted more egg and no plane crash, not many plane crash and no egg.

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The Federal Aviation Administration fired fewer than 400 employees out of its workforce of 45,000, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said, as questions rise around air traffic safety amid a spate of recent plane accidents reut.rs/41nNS1W

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The IRS is preparing to give a team member working with Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency access to sensitive taxpayer data. IRS data is tied to millions of Americans, including their tax returns, Social Security numbers, addresses, banking details, and employment information.

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I support a worldwide ban on pesticides.

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China condemned the US for removing a reference to the status of Taiwan from the State Department website, urging Washington to "correct its mistakes". In full: https://hongkongfp.com/?p=504557

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This is why you fight these cowards. The moment you stand up to them, they crumble. Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights. He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.

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General Strike 2/28/25 and 3/15/25 #shutdown315

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heck yes

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Michelle King, the acting commissioner of the Social Security Administration, left her job this weekend after a clash with billionaire Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service over its attempts to access sensitive government records, people familiar with her departure said.

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Southwest Airlines plans to cut 15% of its work force —about 1,750 jobs, mostly focused on corporate positions — in the first round of broad layoffs in the airline’s 53-year history, the company said on Monday.

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The Education Department has warned U.S. schools that they risked losing federal funding if they continued to take race into account when making scholarship or hiring decisions — or so much as nodded to race in “all other aspects of student, academic and campus life.”

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Trump keeps his tax returns secret but wants to give your IRS info to Elon Musk. What could go wrong with that?

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Russia has freed a US citizen arrested earlier this month on drug smuggling charges, according to Russian media reports and a US official.

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As the US retreats, Europe must look out for itself – so is Macron’s nuclear offer the answer? | Simon Tisdall

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EXCLUSIVE: There are a limited number of US visas up for grabs each year for high-skilled workers. Former staffers say India’s biggest outsourcing firm TCS made repeated use of manager-level visas to get around H-1B rules and game the system. Read The Big Take ⤵

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Sorry but this is plainly a lie as anyone with eyes to see can tell. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

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Not a bad turnout considering it was @ -5°f. The rally ended @ 1:15pm

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European leaders meeting in Paris for emergency talks called for higher spending to ramp up the continent's defense capabilities but remained split on the idea of deploying peacekeepers to Ukraine to back up any peace deal reut.rs/41iqhQ4

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Several Department of Education employees told ProPublica they were directed not to contact students and schools about their pending civil rights cases. “We’ve been essentially muzzled,” an attorney said. By @jsmithrichards.bsky.social and @jodiscohen.bsky.social

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‘This is a coup’: Trump and Musk’s purge is cutting more than costs, say experts

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‘It’s Trump’s world’: European leaders divided on how to navigate ‘cacophony’

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Issa Rae said that she was canceling an upcoming appearance at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts because of an “infringement” on its values. Renée Fleming, Ben Folds and Shonda Rhimes all left posts there.

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The US government began firing hundreds of people at multiple agencies as President Donald Trump and Elon Musk accelerate their purge of America's federal bureaucracy, union sources and employees familiar with the moves told Reuters reut.rs/40WjVVc

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Morning-after pill ban proposed by Republicans

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Do Russians believe Donald Trump can stop the war in Ukraine?

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Six senior Justice Department officials, including Manhattan's top federal prosecutor, resigned rather than comply with an order to dismiss corruption charges against New York City's mayor Eric Adams reut.rs/4k18rbM

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Commentary: If the Department of Education's primary objective was to improve education outcomes, it has failed spectacularly.

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Trotz des geglückten Erstflugs der Schwerlastrakete New Glenn hat Blue-Origin-Chef Dave Limp Massenentlassungen angekündigt. #Raumfahrt

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Three dairy veterinarians, including one who worked only in states with no known bird flu outbreaks in cows, had recent, undetected bird flu infections, according to a new study from the CDC.

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"The allegations are extremely concerning and serious, but I cannot, as the governor of this state, have a knee-jerk, politically motivated reaction."

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President Donald Trump has ordered his administration to propose new levies on a country-by-country basis in an effort to rebalance trade relations — a sweeping process that could take weeks or months to complete.

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www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/o...

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Two accidents, including a pile-up, at the Sha Tin Racecourse on the same day have left a horse dead and four jockeys injured. In full: https://buff.ly/3Qb3teA

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Cook Islands’ ‘strategic’ deal with China angers New Zealand https://www.ft.com/content/c74fb66e-b9e7-4063-91d3-d4795a6d6187

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EU watchdog warns of resistance to Brussels’ bid to slash red tape https://www.ft.com/content/e9af68f2-2981-47a2-808d-49edf46e2db0

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The courts stand between Musk and a Treasury takeover | Opinion https://www.ft.com/content/f89aa067-0988-4b12-a66a-a1b192e0b207

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Trump predicts ‘billions’ of dollars of Pentagon fraud in Fox News interview

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Ecuador presidential election projected to go to April run-off https://www.ft.com/content/616f9f08-3ac4-4e98-82fc-95df1035bea1

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Ukraine war briefing: Trump plan to end war must include security guarantees, Zelenskyy says

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Französische Bürgerrechtler und Gewerkschaften haben sich vor dem Pariser KI-Gipfel verbündet, um gegen die Unterwerfung unter die Technik mobil zu machen. #Künstliche Intelligenz

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CCRC chief spent public funds on luxury hotels for business courses in France

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Dismay as UK poised to cut funding for global vaccination group Gavi

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Ecuador's presidential race will go to an April 13 runoff if current trends in the count persist, Diana Atamaint, the head of the national electoral council said, as incumbent Daniel Noboa led leftist Luisa Gonzalez by less than 1% reut.rs/3QhArdb

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A federal judge in New Mexico granted a preemptive restraining order to block the US government from sending three Venezuelan men detained in the state from being sent to a military base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba reut.rs/3CxuNkh

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