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Elections cancelled. Unqualified, Russian backed stooge appointed. EU succession talks cancelled. This pot is definitely going to boil over.

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100%

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Dec 13, 2024 (observation): Leaving X for @bsky.app is like sneaking away to the den to catch up with your cool cousins while your drunk uncle is embarrassing himself in the living room.

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…another 2-timer.

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29 House Republicans don’t think you should be able to file your taxes for free. They think an automated form filing process is “government overreach” and that you should continue to pay a 3rd party provider like TurboTax to do this. www.businessinsider.com/republicans-...

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A GI surgeon pal of mine asserts that bowel cancer is essentially curable if all screening starts at age 45. It took years and the ACA to drag insurers kicking and screaming to cover colon cancer screenings this early in life.

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Kroger bought local NC grocer Harris Teeter 10 years ago. Kroger claims they’ve lowered prices, but weekly shopping for staples has shown that Harris Teeter prices are routinely higher than the local Walmart. The only thing that keeps them in check is competition from Publix/Wegmans/Aldi/Lidl.

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Dec 11, 2024: (labor): On Point host Meghna Chakrabarti is literally my all time favorite interviewer. I swear I grow new brain matter every time I listen to her show (lots of room there). Case in point, today’s episode with @sohrabahmari.bsky.social. www.wbur.org/onpoint/2024...

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Dec 11, 2024 (political): Once the Israeli corruption courts soften him up, let the ICC have a go at this miserable wretch. apnews.com/article/isra...

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One of those ballots Griffin would have see tossed was my US Citizen, lifelong NC raised son and registered voter who just happened to vote absentee while he is working abroad. This is personal…

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“The upper class keeps all of the money, pays none of the taxes. The middle class pays all of the taxes, does all of the work. The poor are there just to scare the shit out of the middle class… keep on showing up at those jobs.” — George Carlin

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Dec 11, 2024 (personal): Flu shot in the left shoulder and Covid shot in the right. Feeling the achey heat. Rackmonster is calling…

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Dec 11, 2024 (medicine): The geographic variation in kidney cancer cannot be fully explained by known risk factors. To understand global differences in the incidence of kidney cancer, researchers have conducted the largest survey of kidney cancer DNA mutations to date. www.cancer.gov/news-events/...

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One of those conversations I was compelled to finish listening to in the parking lot. I was a little late to my doctor’s appointment but they were understanding.

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The Krug is back (short retirement dude) - @paulkrugman9.bsky.social resuscitating a substack to give us all little history lesson on performative fraud waste and abuse commissions. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-fraudu...

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I was waiting for a cogent analysis of Russia’s options in Syria after the fall of Assad. @cfr.org has provided some early insight. www.cfr.org/expert-brief...

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I figured @frontlinepbs.bsky.social would have the real depth and breadth on this unprecedented moment in history…

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While New Jersey Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy signed a law Monday to prohibit public and school libraries from banning books in the state, over in Utah we have this bullshit going on…

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Dec 10, 2024 (Technology): “As a first demonstration of Willow’s power, the researchers showed that it could perform, in roughly 5 minutes, a task that would take the world’s largest supercomputer an estimated 10^25 years…” www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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A species of fungus has shown a sort of consciousness and intelligence, possessing memory and decision-making abilities despite not having a central nervous system. to.pbs.org/4fAfs0z

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Dec 8, 2024 (junk science?): This CNN Health depiction of a conference poster showed up in my FB feed today. Pilot study of n=32 (expanded to 80). If this ever gets published, I’d love to read how the authors are going to explain away all the lean people with Alzheimer’s. www.cnn.com/2024/12/02/h...

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I wonder if Assad is flying to Austin, Texas to go stay with Tulsi Gabbard? www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Dec 7, 2024 (data science): @pkrugman.bsky.social turned me on to @ourworldindata.org. If you are looking to have your preconceived notions about the world radically challenged (or in some cases completely upended), spend an hour or two here noodling around. ourworldindata.org

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Dec 6, 2024 (science): Wondering why milk is now being tested for bird flu? Looks like we are one mutation away from human to human transmission. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Dec 6, 2024 (politics): Tim Miller and Sam Harris are having the conversation that many of us are having, only I think they do it a little better. youtu.be/ULVYHwRMSjA

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Just listened to this segment on @scifri.bsky.social. Results of 10 years of research. Larger implication is we may be socializing both positive and negative health effects through these microbiome transfers.

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Dec 6, 2024 (history, architecture): Macron pledged 5 years. The naysayers predicted 20 or more. The restoration of Notre Dame cathedral in Paris appears to be an unprecedented success. www.lemonde.fr/en/france/ar...

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Listen to the opinion, but ALWAYS follow the money! $20k a week!! That’s some serious influence buying.

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Dec 6, 2024 (medicine): Example of tradeoffs everyone needs to process as new “wonderdrugs” are developed. Immune checkpoint inhibitors are heralded as potent new weapons in the war on cancer, but their application comes at a cost for some - advanced atherosclerosis. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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Dec 6, 2024 (international): @amnesty.org’s True North has never been stronger, being very intentional differentiating between a just war on Hamas and an unjust war on the Palestinians. The WSJ editorial board has never been so morally adrift as it is today. www.wsj.com/opinion/amne...

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Dec 6, 2024 (medicine): A deeper understanding of how COVID-19 kills some of us in the acute stages of the infection, and why those that were taking blood thinners for arrhythmia or clotting disorders during the pandemic were faring better as an overall patient class. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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