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Die Linke, the leftist party in Germany, was at 3% and surged to 9% and 60 seats in parliament last night because they PIVOTED TO A PRO IMMIGRATION PLATFORM

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America is in the middle of a coup d'etat for the information and technology era

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Science saved me. When I was pregnant my water broke but I never had contractions. I was induced and had a healthy baby. If I'd been born 100 years earlier I'd be dead. Good medicine and good science prevents suffering and saves lives. #whosciencesaves #medsky

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A national security threat is now Director of National Intelligence

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Shipping containers filled with food grown on American soil rotting at ports. Medical research involving people volunteering their bodies ended abruptly. The AP shut out of WH press conference. This government is shut down

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We need to talk about this

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Israel’s forcible shutdown of the UN’s humanitarian work in Gaza and the occupied West Bank would put the ongoing ceasefire between Israel and Hamas at risk, warns the UN Palestinian relief agency (UNRWA) aje.io/7u5jv2

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People stocking up on tvs and big ticket items before Chinese tariffs hit. Don't forget to get necessary vaccines before RFK Jr takes effect.

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I got chickenpox when I was 15yo and have horrible memories of it. In times of high stress, I've had an autoimmune response and gotten idiopathic urticaria. I am not yet 50 yo, so even tho I have to pay out of pocket, I decided to "treat myself" to a shingles vaccine. 1/

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You can't say Free Tibet on Rednote and, since Trump took office, you can't say Free Palestine on Tiktok. The media is the message.

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I spoke to a talented junior scientist who just got a good faculty job offer in the US and they told me “well I wouldn’t move to 1930s Germany either” so that’s how that’s going

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www.nytimes.com/2024/12/18/o...

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My 76-year-old mother just informed me that she is going to her first "sex party" and doesn't know what to bring. After some awkward questions, I said, "Gender reveal. You're going to a gender reveal."

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The world as it is versus The world as it should be

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Dreams . . . About what I thought democracy would look like in America when Jack Smith was still part of the DOJ

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Just finished reading Fledgling by Octavia Butler and am stunned that it's considered her lesser work. She was truly ahead of her time, not just in predicting the fires in LA, but about how we organize ourselves as humans in relationship with each other.

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I'm interested in learning more about this . . .

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Don't forget the whiskey

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Get thee to a nunnery ✝️

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“We all know that the shock & awe campaign is going to start the minute the new administration is installed. They want us to be overwhelmed. They want us to lose hope quickly. They want us to throw our arms up & check out. We are not going to do that.+

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What episode of the twilight zone is this

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So we're in the 1980s era of this new political season? God grant us schadenfreude before we see rhetoric of the 1890s make a comeback

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Thank you, ancestors activists

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congratulations to meta platforms for creating the nation’s first sundown social media platforms

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Hollywood High School will serve as an evacuation site for the Sunset fire in Hollywood, KTLA reported. The school is at 1521 Highland Ave. www.latimes.com/california/s...

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Here is an ongoing list of LA restaurants that are offering shelter, food, and support to first responders and evacuees: bit.ly/LAaid

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These teenagers and young men — 95% of whom are Black, Latinx, or Filipino — earn between $2.20 and $4 per hour, plus an additional $1 an hour when they’re actively fighting fires, according to the DJJ. ⤵️

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Planet Fitness locations in Los Angeles are “offering anyone impacted by the fires—first responders and residents—free access to shower, recharge, and relax” No membership is required to take advantage of locker rooms, WiFi, charging stations at any LA County location not impacted by the fires.

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Pro tip for filtering news acounts: search for "tibet earthquake" and any headline that refers to the area as "China" or "Xizang" can be juxtaposed with accounts that refer to the area as Tibet or Tibetan Autonomous Region.

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Gaaaaah, climate related incidents have me stressed but certain location pierce deeper and have my hair turning gray like news from Cali and Tibet and Nepal with fires and earthquakes.

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"He's not capitulating to pressure; he's aligning himself with power. There's a difference."

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Today's newsletter is about Zuckerberg and Trump: www.readtpa.com/p/mark-zucke...

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ALL OF IT

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Boeing 🤝 OpenAI abc7news.com/post/suchir-...

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Happy Public Domain Day!

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A top Senate Democrat accused conservative Supreme Court justices of violating federal disclosure laws in a lengthy report that caps a monthslong investigation by the Senate Judiciary Committee and comes weeks before Republicans take control of the chamber: cnn.it/4gPJ7TD

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Looking back on it, a core premise of the Kamala campaign was that in the end enough white women would do the right thing which lol, LOL lmao lmfao lol dahaha haha lulz

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“Being a good geologist, I hit the whole thing with my hammer,” Lovelace says to Defector. www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a...

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Sitting at a dunkin donuts with amazing vibes- all the employees seem to be friends, como la flor is on the playlist, and then they celebrated someone and sang a song in Spanish in unison with laughter and joy all around

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Mass murder and targeted murder are VERY different things that evoke very different conversations.

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Oak Park residents can pick-up free Covid tests which are “intended for people currently experiencing symptoms, not for long-term storage.” www.oak-park.us/newsletters/...

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i’m not going to pretend like i haven’t occasionally had a rough go of it on this or other online platforms but one thing you’ll never see me do is write an essay about people being mean to me on the internet. why? because i’m an adult who understands that there are real problems in the world.

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I've spent the past year interviewing Hannah Byrne, a former Counterterrorism policy manager at Meta who quit the company after coming to believe she helping build a racial profiling censorship machine. She shares her story today for the first time. theintercept.com/2024/12/04/m...

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Free Healthcare and Education . . .bedrock of democracy or communism?

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Great comments on the H5N1 study from my colleagues at @scripps.edu showing that a single change at HA 226 plays a key role in host receptor switching. Worth pointing out that we have already seen this mutation in "the wild" - the human case in BC as Dr. Hensley explained: bsky.app/profile/scot...

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Snack review: I got these at Patel Brothers on Devon in Chicago. Deceptively spicy considering the presentation on the bag. Texture like a Funyun and more spicy than flaming hots. Absolutely will buy again.

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Imagine picking up a pizza and it's only half cooked bc you didn't pay for enough oven time

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Normalize Leon Muskrat

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