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RFK Jr. spouted dangerous vaccine falsehoods on national TV. As a parent and infectious diseases doctor, I couldn't stay silent. Here's what the data actually shows. 🧵

submitted 17 hours ago • 26 comments

I have counted 34,943 Russian combatant deaths over the past 289 days since I began tracking. This number will increase, as I have not finished error-checking, and we typically undercount during the first pass through the data.

submitted 14 hours ago • 11 comments

They'll keep doing this until they're stopped, it's their entire thing, they want democracy to collapse so they can rebuild America to be more white, more Christian, and more miserable for anyone who gets in their way.

submitted 1 day ago • 29 comments

the image from the pandemic that I will never get out of my head is seeing a mother fall to her knees while we explained what was happening as we tried in vain to resuscitate her child have you ever heard the sound a parent makes in that moment? I still have nightmares

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

We have lost all contact with our UNRWA colleagues in Gaza, communications have been cut off. This morning, for the first time in months, we did not receive their morning messages to say, "good morning" and "we are fine/alive". We anxiously await to hear from our colleagues.

submitted 1 day ago • 29 comments

So the deal is basically what was going on before Liberation Day, which was also announced in the handshake deal last month with China -- but now Trump is saying Chinese students can go to school here, which was always the case until just recently when Trump said he would be banning them.

submitted 2 days ago • 88 comments

Not true. I see you're a luxury watch dealer. I'm also interested in watches. Let me show you how free and easy migration has allowed you to earn a living. 🧵

submitted 2 days ago • 313 comments

What’s unfolding in LA isn’t just about violence on the streets. It’s about violence in the information space. Manufactured crisis. Coordinated narrative control. And a full-spectrum propaganda push — domestic and foreign. Here’s how to see it. 🧵

submitted 4 days ago • 20 comments

I will be damned if I allow a bunch of Confederate-waving January 6th apologists give the American people a lecture on flag waving. There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later. They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.

submitted 2 days ago • 1462 comments

Would be extremely stupid of Russia to "test" NATO. So stupid one would find it hard to believe Russia would ever do it. However, I also thought the full scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 was so stupid it would never happen. But as it turns out Russia is more stupid than one could imagine.

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments

The conditions that have led to what’s happening in the US today exist in democracies around the world. They are an inevitable outcome of our collective failure to adapt to fundamental changes in the information ecosystem on which our democracies were originally built.

submitted 6 days ago • 171 comments

What happens to women when they are denied an abortion? Short run: their risk of death rises. A full 15 years later, they experience: more health issues, lower attainment, reduced labor-force participation, higher single motherhood, higher poverty, + greater government assistance

submitted 10 days ago • 7 comments

Cycling isn’t just good for your health – It’s good for the planet, our cities, and the economy. ✔️ Over 92,000 km of EuroVelo cycling routes across Europe ✔️ Nearly 10 million bicycles produced yearly in the EU ✔️ 1.35 million jobs supported by the EU cycling sector

submitted 10 days ago • 4 comments

You'd think news outlets would stop taking as true the every utterance of people who do nothing but lie, and stop writing headlines, stories, op eds based on the premise that this time they're acting in good faith, but nope here goes Charlie Brown kicking the football again.

submitted 13 days ago • 24 comments

Our total count of visually documented Russian tank losses (destroyed + damaged + abandoned + captured) during their 2022 invasion of Ukraine has just exceeded 4000! What an epic failure from a self-proclaimed military superpower. full list: oryxspioenkop.com/2022/02/atta...

submitted 15 days ago • 7 comments

THREAD 🧵 Internal State Department records show that months of warnings have become a reality: The Trump administration’s sudden withdrawal of foreign humanitarian aid has brought about death, violence and unrest. 1/

submitted 15 days ago • 91 comments

Elon Musk has a favorite phrase when making bold promises: “Next year.” From Full Self Driving and Hyperloop to robotaxis and literal robot armies, we traced his timeline of big talk and missed marks—because in Elon’s world, hype usually outruns reality.

submitted 17 days ago • 101 comments

You might have seen a clip or two of Trump's West Point commencement speech, which was nearly an hour long. But the whole thing was insane and barely coherent. I mean, he really said, "The United States of America is hotter now than we've ever seen it and, a year ago, it was as cold as it gets."

submitted 19 days ago • 30 comments

Vetinari stirred his cocktail. Death watched, shaking the timer again. The last grain still refused to fall. "You must have seen the worst of us, as a species." The ex-Patrician said. BUT ALSO THE HEIGHTS TO WHICH YOU CAN SOAR Vetinari angled his head. "Really? Such as?" BUTTERED TOAST /1

submitted 20 days ago • 5 comments

The amazing detail in this story is this lad's neighbour frantically whistling to try and draw the ship's attention to the dangerous local hazard known as [checks notes] Norway. If it hadn't noticed houses are generally stand on vessels a bit of whistling probably ain't going to do it, fella.

submitted 22 days ago • 58 comments

“Look, here's burial sites all over the place. These are all white farmers that are being buried,” Donald Trump said during today’s White House meeting with South Africa’s president. The image he was holding up, however, is of the Democratic Republic of Congo. www.barrons.com/news/trump-d...

submitted 23 days ago • 242 comments

Post the amazing science things you have done with federal funding.

submitted 136 days ago • 173 comments

RAW MILK TIME I was surprised to find most of the "raw milk cures ___" talking points from the last 20+ years come from one (1) raw milk dairy farmer in California. Let's get to know him!

submitted 25 days ago • 30 comments

Stick Alphabet Part 2! [Comic Thread 1/4]

submitted 25 days ago • 7 comments

The new Neil Halloran documentary on Smallpox has completely changed how I see the RFK Jr. version of the world. Neil (softly) argues that realizing that disease isn't the fault of the sick /or/ the fault of the Gods ushered in a new future where we felt the authority to care for each other.

submitted 27 days ago • 112 comments

Jessica: We have big headlines, getting investment like $8.5 billion out of Qatar, that was already announced in 2023 and 2024. Abu Dhabi, he says $200 billion… announced during the Biden administration… He likes to show up and take credit for things other people did

submitted 28 days ago • 164 comments

🔥 COACH SULLY: “If that’s not a false flag of hate I don’t know what is.” Sully shows how Fox & Republicans regularly focus on trans athletes to distract from the real problems they ignore. 🎯

submitted 28 days ago • 46 comments

We have a govt that’s engaged in human trafficking, that’s openly allowing a gulf petrostate to bribe its leadership, that’s reshaping the refugee program in overtly racist terms, that’s almost ended American foreign aid entirely, that’s doing its level best to crash the economy from the rose garden

submitted 29 days ago • 67 comments

At least 6000 Russian officers have been eliminated in the Russian invasion of Ukraine since 24 February 2022. Milestone update: +31 newly registered. Sources: public Russian obituaries and graves.

submitted 30 days ago • 10 comments

Jamie Raskin on Trump's Qatar plane grift: "We’re talking about corruption at just an epic scale." This is a remarkable description from Raskin of how Trump's various corrupt schemes all interlock with each other: newrepublic.com/article/1951...

submitted 31 days ago • 50 comments

"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."

submitted 35 days ago • 631 comments

Our energy modeling lead, Bryan Murray, studies electrical grid controls…in Spain! He needs to get something off his chest about the #blackout last week: PV & batteries did not cause the Iberian blackout. In fact they will be more crucial for grid stability going forward. Here's why #energysky (1/9)

submitted 35 days ago • 4 comments

It's like living with a violent abuser. Every day, you're just waiting for it. What's going to set him off? Who's he going to lash out at? What abuse is he going to scream at us today? What's he going to break, because every day he breaks something else. I don't even have to say his name.

submitted 38 days ago • 228 comments

How bad is Russia’s war chest? Has the country entered stagflation? Why does it fear falling oil prices, but not a crash? And how is the tariff war hurting Russia? These questions — and more — are explored in a special interview with Russian economist Vladimir Milov. 🧵Thread:

submitted 38 days ago • 11 comments

1/ A detailed inside account of the sinking of the Russian missile cruiser Moskva has been published. It describes how the ship was overwhelmed with fire and smoke, safety systems failed, interior structures collapsed and crewmen jumped out through portholes to save themselves.⬇️

submitted 42 days ago • 12 comments

"You know, as an example, red lead was used to make cheddar... A can of coffee could be coffee, but it could be ground bone, or charred shells, or dirt." Deborah Blum on our bad food past -- and how to avoid it being our future: buttondown.com/theswordandt...

submitted 44 days ago • 72 comments

Trump becomes the first American president to lose a Canadian election

submitted 45 days ago • 87 comments

Okay, UPCOMING GAMES highlight thread! Here's a curse or a blessing for your wishlists, how about a thread of upcoming games I've got an eyeball on, since I always seem to be finding neat and interesting stuff, let's make a little resource for you! Pictured: Labyrinth of the Demon King

submitted 49 days ago • 21 comments

This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic www.crabmuseum.org/visit 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀

submitted 52 days ago • 157 comments

"elder scrolls" is just me looking at my phone

submitted 51 days ago • 59 comments