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He is spot on. This IS absolutely a test. Well, the US is already a few tests into the fascist semester. This test, however, carries a lot of weight towards the final grade. Human rights apply to ALL. Not just those you like. #HandsOff #SayNoToFascism

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Measles is usually the first childhood disease to come raging back when vaccination rates fall, because it’s massively contagious. Whooping cough, or pertussis, is usually second. It kills newborns whose airways can quickly swell shut.

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Can we finally acknowledge the threat: Palantir, now placing white supremacist recruiting ads at US colleges, is the data-surveillance company founded by Peter Thiel, who groomed much of the US alt-right. Our VP is Thiel's obedient protege. Thiel's lieutenants hold IT spots across the government. 1/

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You don’t have to be particularly sharp to decipher the code here. But if you need someone to say it, this is a major technology company and a sizable defense and intelligence contractor publicly declaring, with only the thinnest patina of deniability, that its cause is white nationalism.

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there’s been a lot going on, so just in case you forgot that the DOGEing of USAID had consequences, this estimate puts resulting global deaths to date at ~190k and counting. it’s been less than three months

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💥 Whopper scoop from @andybounds.bsky.social: Brussels is issuing burner phones & basic laptops to commissioners & senior officials travelling to the US for IMF/World Bank spring meetings next week to avoid risk of espionage — a measure traditionally reserved for China. www.ft.com/content/20d0...

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By Anthony J Leonardi, MBBS, PhD "The Proof of Immune Harm Is In The Pudding." "As obvious as gravity." Source: archive.md/87Hv6

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Tesla Cybertruck sales are declining rapidly, the company won't accept them as trade-ins, 46,000 have been recalled, and the used price of the vehicle has plunged 55% year over year.

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One of the country's leading Alzheimer's projects is in jeopardy A pause to NIH funding has researchers scrambling for contingency plans at the University of Washington’s Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center @evanbush.bsky.social reports at @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

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I now have a US border story from my own family. My cousin's husband's son is the Canadian head of distribution for Amazon apparently. He was going to a senior meeting in Texas last week.

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Again: it is supposed to be commonly accepted non partisan morality that “id rather let a hundred guilty men go free than imprison one who was innocent” but this administration and its party are gleefully inverting that premise and then some

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Please, everybody... if you need something light & funny… If you need a romcom… If you need a feel-good… Please pull up NORTH OF NORTH on Netflix and rate it highly. Inuit deserve so much more of this.

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As I’ve been saying - the Shopify bunch and their Build Canada group want to control politics and #DOGE the federal government. That should scare everyone. They have no business around anything government. And government isn’t a business. #cdnpoli #Canada #CanadaSky

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Basically: I don’t think people understand that 36 hours from now it’s possible that America will have a formalized system for abducting enemies of the regime and stashing them in foreign gulags, indefinitely. www.thebulwark.com/p/bukele-abr...

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Remember Fiona Hill? She’s now sounding the alarm again: “We’re definitely on a path toward full-on state repression. There’s no question about it. I’ve thought about this for an extraordinarily long time.” When Fiona speaks, we should all listen.

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Conservatives complain about the "revolving door" of justice, but are mighty silent about how their provincial counterparts allowed this major human rights abuse to occur, which is resulting in a LOT of reduced sentences.

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I am not the first guy to notice or say this but these slimeballs accidentally invented doing the Cultural Revolution again without knowing who Mao is

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3 million child deaths were linked to rising antimicrobial resistance. Africa & Asia are the most impacted regions. The growing threat of AMR is one of most consequential threats to global public health. Another reason to invest & not defund research. www-bbc-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc....

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It's time we talked honestly about #childbirth and its dangers.Meghan Markle’s experience with post-partum #preeclampsia should encourage long-needed discussion, by Suzanne Westover ottawacitizen.com/opinion/hone... via @ottawacitizen.com

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The Salish Sea is exploding with life right now! Neoturris breviconis off the dock on San Juan Island. #invertebrates #zooplankton

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The ripple effects of Trump's actions targeting specific law firms already are being felt beyond boardrooms, in declining interest in pro bono work for causes that are unpopular with the president.

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Some images from yesterday’s #TeslaTakedown in #Ottawa, #Canada. More creative política art from a local artist. The tiny hands take this one over the top for me. Much better weather and a small but dedicated group. We’d love more of you to join us. #BoycottTesla #ElbowsUp

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Read this, which aligns with what I’ve been calling “Rapture Politics” for a long time now.

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“In one video… a voice claiming to be Zuckerberg says that “it’s normal to feel uncomfortable or even violated as we forcefully insert AI into every facet of your conscious experience. And I just want to assure you, you don’t need to worry because there’s absolutely nothing you can do to stop it.””

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This is an incredibly important story that needs a legal strategy. This is very bad news for Americans.

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The principle at stake here is so fundamental it predates even Magna Carta in English law, and before that stretching all the way back to Rome, and has its similarly ancient equivalents in every legal system in the world, because it's the inherent bedrock foundation of what courts and laws are for.

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I pray you’ll read my latest. We are being challenged as a nation and this is a test we must pass. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

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