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Quick little health-related thread: There are measles outbreaks happening in the US & Canada because of pockets of very low vaccination rates. I wondered if maybe I might need an update to my vaccines. I got them in the usual way as a kid, but sometimes immunity doesn’t last. So I asked my doctor.

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As a friend with connections put it to me yesterday, Europe takes a long time - often too long - to change direction. But when it shifts, it shifts.

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Uh... is this a good use of Chicago police resources? Musk is openly applauding it, even as he applauds the pardoning of hundreds of violent criminals who attacked police officers on January 6th and repeatedly claims that police officers are failing to stop violent crimes in big cities like Chicago.

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Finally got around to reading the tremendous 'Failed State' by @samfr.bsky.social & devoured it in just one day! Plenty of takeaways, with two points especially pertinent to school leadership jumping out to me, which I'll write more about this week! If you haven't read it yet, it's a must read!

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The attention economy is devouring politics. Social scientists need to understand how. As do we all. www.programmablemutter.com/p/the-attent...

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New from @sheencr.bsky.social We need to talk about measles vaccine - again urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...

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how right she is: open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

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"Everything is fine and the Iraqi army is fully in control!"

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Says the man behind the biggest Medicare fraud $1.7B.

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@juliangough.bsky.social Seen this Julian? Not sure if it supports your hypothesis? www.mpg.de/24060014/res...

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@judah-grunstein.bsky.social @samfr.bsky.social @himself.bsky.social @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social @gideonrachman.bsky.social “In the breaking of bridges Is treason and doom… In the breaking of bridges Is the end of the world.” GK Chesterson

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The principle of Trump's Razor: 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙩𝙪𝙥𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙨𝙩 𝙚𝙭𝙥𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙞𝙨 𝙢𝙤𝙨𝙩 𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚𝙡𝙮 𝙩𝙤 𝙗𝙚 𝙘𝙤𝙧𝙧𝙚𝙘𝙩

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www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/o...

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Breaking News! Code UFB!!! The daily CO2 number from Mauna Loa exceeded 430 ppm yesterday. This is the first reading above 430 ever recorded. CO2 levels have not been this high since the Pliocene epoch, 3 to 5 million years ago.

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Chef's kiss.

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Greek Chocolate Cake (Σοκολατόπιτα) www.cooksinstinct.com/p/greek-choc... @janekohara.bsky.social Yum

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I was once seated at a dinner beside Fulbright's widow, and told her that I'd met my American wife thanks to my Fulbright fellowship. She said he had told her that that kind of thing was the reason he'd set up the program - unanticipated relationships that would knit the world together better.

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juxtaposed in the sortes blueskyianae

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From Bernard Levy writing in @wsj.com A wonderful description of Zelensky

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Via @wsj.com An inefficient federal worker speaks out.

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Trump just admitted to reporters that his explicit policy is to allow Russia to kill more Ukrainians to force Zelenskyy to come to the negotiating table. America is going through a huge experiment right now: what if a psychopath got to run the most powerful nation on earth.

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We, we??

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Also, true story

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🚀 Just 5 days since publication, our paper is already the #1 trending article on @natureportfolio.nature.com npj Digital Medicine! 🥳 🤖 Check out how we induced anxiety in Chat-GPT using traumatic narratives - then calmed it down with mindfulness & meditation: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 📝

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I oppose the Canschluss.

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I suppose that’s one way of dealing with reality

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of course

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😂😅

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I humbly put this forward as a possible campaign for the new electric VW

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this this this

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At a time when Trump is gutting the US govt and possibly the US constitution, a small Irish county council stands up to him @samfr.bsky.social @himself.bsky.social @gideonrachman.bsky.social

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Via @economist.com @carlhorsley.bsky.social

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It occurs to me that rather than the USA going MAGA, it may be going Mao. This hero worship, intimidation, reckless destruction and anti intellectualism is similar to the Chinese Cultural Revolution @markhamillofficial.bsky.social @edwardluce.bsky.social @himself.bsky.social

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Not one...😉😅

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“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, but only if they pay me 5 million dollars for my instant-citizenship Gold Card.💰” -Comrade Krasnov #GrifterInChief

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This is an old joke from the Bush era...somehow feels very appropriate now!

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“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of monsters” Antonio Gramsci @carlhorsley.bsky.social @himself.bsky.social

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you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

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When vaccination rates fall....... www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

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@edwardluce.bsky.social @gideonrachman.bsky.social HT from twitter Monday - Roll back tariffs Tuesday - Reinstate tariffs Wednesday - Roll back tariffs Thursday - Reinstate tariffs Friday - Roll back tariffs Saturday - Golf - threaten tariffs Sunday - Golf - pump crypto

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