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If you're wondering why there's been so much insistence lately that COVID-19 was a lab leak, here's why: it is going to be an example for why all biomedical research & public health work should be defunded. No evidence supports a lab leak, but it's used to justify cutting NIH's budget by 40%.

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This headline tracks: * WHITE HOUSE BUDGET PROPOSAL: WOULD CUT FUNDS FOR USAID, NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION, ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE, PRESCHOOL GRANTS, MINORITY BUSINESS AGENCY @reuters.com

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McDonalds saying consumers are cutting back on breakfast is not an encouraging signal — because that daypart has historically been seen as a proxy for employment. $MCD

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This should be the top story in Axios’s morning read. But it isn’t. It’s the FIFTH top story. @axios.com www.axios.com/2025/04/23/t...

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👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

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One of the clearest signs of our Orbanization. The executive producer of “60 Minutes” said he will resign because he had lost his journalistic independence. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/b... [Gift link]

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Not sure how this will help American working families....

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There is no thesis.

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Your regular reminder that almost everything Trump is getting away with is not because of presidential strength, but because of congressional weakness and judicial deference. The constitutional tools are already there to fix this, but those who can fix it are refusing to do so.

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Oh look. Another bribery and extortion scheme.

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MUST-READ @tracyalloway.bsky.social does an autopsy of last week's basis trade blowout, and finds the causes more ominous than mere overleverage or illiquidity in the system. Sub to the Odd Lots newsletter here: www.bloomberg.com/account/news...

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Two weeks ago I did a thread on how the Founding Fathers declared independence from the crown for behaving literally the same way as the Trump administration. It's getting worse and Americans need to connect today's events to this founding document.

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@ramoncphoto.bsky.social Next Models.

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This is quite literally a plot point in The Handmaid’s Tale, when the authoritarian government invalidates women’s IDs, denying them access to their bank accounts and property.

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I’m old enough to remember when it was considered patriotic to hold elected officials accountable for their words and deeds and one’s civic duty to protest injustices. When it was noble to reach for an objective and unbiased understanding of the past. When freedom of expression was celebrated.

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I've said many times they would legalize slavery if they thought they could get away with it. And here we are.

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How did the KGB Cultivate Trump as an Asset? The latest in the Trump Russia Timeline tells how the KGB orchestrated Trump's first trip to the Soviet Union. open.substack.com/pub/craigung...

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Renaissance Macro Securities’ Neil Dutta, in his latest note: “When markets rise 10% in a day, it is not a sign things are healthy.”

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Trump bears the bulk of the blame for the unprecedented global economic crisis now unfolding. But let’s not ignore the role played by the hideously bad judgment of the business and financial leaders who supported Trump and didn’t realize this was an inevitable outcome.

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This is literally how the Holocaust started, and honestly I'm tired of saying so

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Yet another reason why the overwhelming majority of us voted for VP Harris. Donald Trump is abhorrently antisemitic. www.yahoo.com/news/trump-c...

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This guy is in one of the worst prisons in the world with no way out and may spend the rest of his life there because, it appears, he has an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his little brother. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Meet Evan Anzoo, a five-year-old boy in South Sudan who died when Elon Musk shut down USAID and the boy lost access to his HIV meds. Musk says no one has died because of the aid shutdown, but that's because he didn't look. RIP, Evan, you deserved better. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Be the threat that the authoritarians think you are.

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Migration from IG

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It’s common to have respect, or at least appreciation, for someone whose tongue is up your ass.

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UPDATE: Yale just confirmed that State terminated the contract in a statement to me: "Researchers at the Humanitarian Research Lab were notified recently that government funding for their work on the war in Ukraine has been discontinued." Yale notes the Lab's work defending "Ukrainian children."

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Moving over from IG.

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It's not hard. This is unacceptable. They won't stop at him.

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The detention of Mahmoud Khalil puts all Americans fundamental rights at risk. And if you can’t see that because you oppose his politics, well that’s exactly the reaction Trump and his cronies are counting on. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Trump Amplifies “No LGBTQ” Symbol Using Nazi-Era Imagery in Military Ad Post Trump’s Truth Social post has a pink triangle overlayed with a prohibition symbol

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The disappearing of Mahmoud Khalil, a person with permanent legal status in the US, should be a red line that everyone should recognize. They knocked on his door and vanished him into an authoritarian system without a trace. Your door could be next. jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/so-it-begi...

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Share please.

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What in the actual F?!?! Exclusive: Trump plans to revoke legal status of Ukrainians who fled to US - www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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Excellent piece by @snellarthur.bsky.social on the evidence and nature of Trump’s longtime relationship with Moscow. open.substack.com/pub/arthursn...

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All Americans should be ashamed and disgusted about this. What an absolute disgrace. God save Ukraine. 🇺🇦🙏🏼

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Moving to Flashes from IG. Next Models.

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Hi Flashes. Let the migration from IG commence. ❤️

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This seems to align with reporting from @craigunger.bsky.social

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Any politician, analyst, or journalist who's surprised by the speed and scale of the Trump administration's alignment with Russia against Ukraine, shouldn't be - it's always been obvious that this would be the outcome.

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