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New research paper hot off the press finds ~ no evi- dence (not a single study) that shows 46 XY DSD athletes such as Caster Semenya possess any physical attribute relevant to athletic performance that is neither attainable nor present in 46,XX women. rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/why-we-do-...

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"Immigration rights activists have banded together to conduct patrols throughout Los Angeles, and in a few instances, have stopped raids as they were happening. Community Self-Defense Coalition [said] they’ve busted two raids so far..." www.msn.com/en-us/public...

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Breaking News: Scientists from the University of the Basque Country have discovered a groundbreaking molecule, WIN55.212-2, that reverses early cognitive damage caused by Alzheimer’s disease.

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Helping Trump voters avoid the pain and consequences of their vote might be an expression of human empathy, but it also prolongs everyone’s suffering because they won’t care about what they’ve done until it hurts them personally.

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NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. https://propub.li/43487Tj

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JUST IN: USDA confirms first H5N1 bird flu detections in rats.

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Watching a state self-destruct from the inside - and seeing the needless human suffering and inefficiency that results - is not pretty.

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RFK Jr. thinks that a clinical trial should be done for the entire childhood vaccine schedule. Here’s why that will never happen. 1. You can’t do a randomized trial of something that we already know is safe and effective. There would have to be a placebo group that didn’t get vaxxed. Unethical.

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“The U.S. Department of Agriculture said Tuesday that, over the weekend, it accidentally fired "several" agency employees who are working on the federal government's response to the H5N1 avian flu outbreak. The agency said it is now trying to quickly reverse the firings.”

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A thing I wish I could teach people is that the vast majority of very rich people are deeply stupid. They did not get where they are because of ingenuity or talent. They got there because of compound interest on hereditary wealth and being tax cheats.

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People who write about "this is the wrong fight to pick," never ever actually fight for anything. Feel free to ignore them.

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everytime you break solidarity, solidarity becomes harder. everytime you keep solidarity, solidarity becomes more possible. we are all in the prisoners dilemma, now. let’s win it.

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Trudeau: "There's not a snowball's chance in hell that Canada will ever be the 51st state"

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And there it is. Republicans have proposed a $4 trillion debt limit increase. Four trillion dollars.

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Quick update: @charles_gaba has completed uploading the archives of the full FDA site! Enjoy the easy of navigation. Next up, we're converting the CDC archive to this more convenient drop-down menu format. And after that, more archiving from more agencies. acasignups.net/fda-website

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Primary Every Democrat

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Democrat cycle of outrage 1. “How can the Republicans do this?” 2. “We need time to figure out what to do” 3. Hand-wringing and confused looks 4. Dem voters get frustrated and threaten to replace them 5. Dems announce a good plan 6. “We asked nicely and the Republicans said no” Back to 1

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If you think of the Democrats as being intentionally feckless they make more sense.

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It breaks my heart to know that no matter what happens I’ll not see an America I respect or feel proud of in the few decades I have left.

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Two hundred UK companies are moving to a permanent four-day work week. The decision comes after a trial where businesses tested the model. Workers were happier and more productive, and the quality and quantity of work was unaffected or even improved. future4days.com/two-hundred-uk

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If there is a police search based on what a police officer thinks he smells, all evidence of that search should be thrown out if what he thought he smelled wasn’t found.

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The party of “real masculinity” has moved the inauguration indoors cause it’s too cold.

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Hawaiʻi had a constitutional monarchy where the next ruler was elected if they had not designated a successor. Queen Liliʻuokalani was overthrown by American businessnen who objected to her improving and strengthening the voting rights of citizens of her realm.

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Just FYI, administrative warrants (like the ones used by ICE) are not judicial warrants (used by cops, signed by a judge). You do NOT legally have to open the door for an ICE officer with an administrative warrant no matter what the ICE officer says.

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What happens when you run schools like a business: "By the time a cohort of charter schools has reached the five year mark, one in four have closed. By year 10, four in 10 charters have closed. At the end of 15 years, nearly half of charter schools have closed." #CharterSchoolFail bit.ly/4hgQMuh

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I don’t want to make a fuckin account to use my toaster. I don’t want to fuckin subscribe to software. I don’t want to create a fuckin profile to watch TV. I don’t want to fuckin register my whatever to unlock whatever. I don’t want to download a fuckin app to access anything. Death to new logins

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The right stayed a steady and consistent course for over 40 years to get to this point. One thing the left has to let go of is the romanticized idea of how change happens.

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physics of climate impacts 101: - Stuff gets hot (worse heatwaves) - Hot air holds more water vapor (heavier rainfall) - Hot air is thirstier air (higher drought risk) - Warm water is hurricane food (stronger storms) - Hot water expands and hot ice melts (sea level rise)

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This is why there’s not a song called Fuck the Fire Fighters #ACAB

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"California paid in a lot more [to the federal government] than it got back — $83 billion in total. So did Washington state and much of the Northeast. Most red states were in the reverse position, getting much more from DC than they paid in return."

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What's the point of being rich if you can't afford to do the right thing.

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They’re banning TikTok not because it harvests data, the same way US social media does, but because they can’t influence it’s algorithm with congressional hearings or government contracts the way they do every other tech giant. That’s it.

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I don't know if this is an autistic-brain thing, but one of the thing that really freaks me out about the current reality is that I really deeply and fundamentally don't understand why anyone would ever choose cruelty over problem-solving.

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We should have some unprecedented events that are good for once

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It feels like society is cracking open and we’re going to be asked to make serious, meaningful changes by our circumstances and we will have a leadership class actively trained for decades to avoid the topic altogether

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Paris does love being liberated from Nazis

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THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at Stanford Medicine have devised an influenza vaccine that prompts immunity to ALL four major flu subtypes AND shows potential against bird flu, indicating a significant advancement in flu prevention and a potential increase in vaccine efficacy. Let’s talk about that! 🧪🧵⬇️

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The California grid ran on 100% renewables with no blackouts or cost rises for parts of a record 98 out of 116 days (and 132 days all year) in 2024 electrek.co/2024/12/31/c... @electrek.co @michelledlewis.bsky.social Here's the paper: web.stanford.edu/group/efmh/j...

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In Georgia, a mom facing eviction reached out to DFCS for help. They offered her nothing. Soon the agency took her kids away because of "inadequate housing." The state then paid $6,200 a month to house her kids in foster care. One of the most important and infuriating stories I read this year:

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I forgot until just now that Reagan worked back channels to ensure that the hostages being held by Iran did not get released during the campaign against Carter. What a disgusting human being. And yet people still laud him.

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Homelessness is caused by high rents. Far more than mental health or drug use or even poverty. Mississippi has the lowest homeless rate. While we need more social work support, building more housing is our strongest tool to make to the biggest difference. youtube.com/shorts/IxOGT...

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The thing is, you can replace “cruel” in this sentence with funny, artistic, thoughtful, thoughtless, compassionate, greedy, kinky, creative, or any of 1000 other adjectives. Why are so many of us only able to see us as exceptional in our faults?

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"The 80-acre site is home to a camp that has served kids living with or affected by HIV/AIDS for more than 30 years. But the number of babies contracting the virus through their mothers has declined to the point where such a camp no longer needs to exist." www.startribune.com/closure-of-n...

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