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Sometimes when a really bad study goes viral, I do answer the Bat Signal. This is one of those instances. A new Inside Medicine will be live Sunday morning: open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

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70 years ago today Dr. Jonas Salk's inactivated polio vaccine was announced with 3 words: Safe, potent, effective. It remains one of the most remarkable achievments in medical history. gavi.org/vaccineswork...

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Sanders: We’ve got a president of the United States who— Crowd: Boooo Sanders: I agree

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"Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough." - FDR

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Imagine how annoying you’d have to be for the world’s most annoying people to find you annoying

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"[D]ynasty trusts are typically designed to avoid estate and other transfer taxes for ultrarich families."

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i do not think the mainstream press is equipped or capable of covering ideological white nationalists and eugenicists as such, or even capable of noting that this is what they are. it is related to the wide belief that racism is simply a matter of manners.

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new york times article a year from now, probably

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you'll never be rid of him

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NEW: Donald Trump has long railed against everything from low-flow showerheads to LED lightbulbs. After failed attempts to undo appliance regulations in his first term, he may have found a new end-run to achieve his goal — but for now confusion reigns. By @peterelkind.bsky.social

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The chickens haven't really come home to roost yet (everything is about to double in price, tourists will no longer come to the U.S., much worse unintended consequences we don't have the imagination to conceive of) and people fucking hate this shit, generally loathe what's going on. Go on offense.

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This judge is mad. I would not want to be a DOJ lawyer right now.

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Here's something you can do right now. Let's all become members of the National Museum of African American History and Culture! support.si.edu/site/Donatio...

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If and when we make it through this we’re gonna need like a dozen constitutional amendments I’m gonna call “The Warren Amendments” for now when we codify everything good the Warren court held into specific amendments rather than just interpretations of the 14th amendment.

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I don’t have the time or patience to weigh in on the NYTimes’s latest softball platforming of Chris Rufo. But let’s just say that the first person Rufo hired (who still works for him) when he made it big in 2021 was the groyper who wrote this tweet that got his college republican chapter in trouble.

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Mike Johnson is such a despicable little man. youtube.com/shorts/EjPX3...

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the desire to use “AI” for things is a desire to avoid living so many of the “AI” pushers — the individuals, even — want to avoid every good thing about being alive

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Even more to the point, Treasuries usually rally even when the United States is the source of the downturn - see also: the financial crisis. That they’re not now is really bad

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“They were careless people…they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness…and let other people clean up the mess they had made…” -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (April 10, 1925).

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