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Brandon Whitcher
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Statistician, craft beer fanatic, medical image analysis, early-phase drug development, data scientist, R/Python programmer
@[email protected]

Economics 30%
Biology 17%

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Don’t ask Trump why we need Greenland, we just do
After viewing the clip of the event which took place in Minneapolis, Minnesota- he then proceeds to lie about EVERYTHING in it, aside from the fact that it is, indeed, "a horrible thing to watch."

#25thAmendmentNOW

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American families are getting flattened under sky-high costs for just about everything — groceries, rent, health care.

Meanwhile, Donald Trump's focused on making his gold-encrusted ballroom even taller.
Trump plans to make his ballroom addition as tall as the White House itself
The president’s architect disclosed the change as federal review panels begin a fast-track review of the $400 million project.
www.washingtonpost.com
DHS Warns Any Action By Americans Will Be Treated As Domestic Terrorism https://theonion.com/dhs-warns-any-action-by-americans-will-be-treated-as-domestic-terrorism/
Don't let this Jan 6th point get lost:

Jack Smith testified to Congress he had "proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 election."

In other words, he could prove in court that Trump attempted a coup.

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This chart shows the total number of Stack Overflow questions asked each month. As you can see, AI summaries in Google and AI coding tools have nearly killed the site. It is only a matter of time before the site shuts down completely. The golden age of independent web is over.
Since 1975, $79 trillion in wealth has been redistributed from the bottom 90% to the top 1% — a 1% that now owns more wealth than the bottom 93%.

We can respect innovation & entrepreneurship, but we cannot respect the extraordinary greed that now exists.

We need a wealth tax.

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US capitalism casts millions of citizens aside, yet Badenoch and Farage still laud it | Phillip Inman
US capitalism casts millions of citizens aside, yet Badenoch and Farage still laud it | Phillip Inman
Rightwing parties want to follow in US’s footsteps of minimal government intervention, but at what cost?
www.theguardian.com
South Park called it, and it’s hilarious.

One of the creators purchased the Trump Kennedy Center URL address before the name was even changed because they know Trump’s narcissism is in the driver’s seat.

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NPR @npr.org · 16d
Dave Willat was just 11 years old when he showed up for what he thought would be a routine church choir practice in 1965. He and his fellow singers ended up making history.
We caught up with one of the kids who sang on 'A Charlie Brown Christmas.' He's 72 now
Dave Willat was just 11 years old when he showed up for what he thought would be a routine church choir practice in 1965. He and his fellow singers ended up making history.
n.pr

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Articles on net zero used to always explain the scientific background. But not anymore.
We analysed 73,000 articles and found the UK media is divorcing ‘climate change’ from net zero
Articles on net zero used to always explain the scientific background. But not anymore.
tcnv.link

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Big tech companies like Amazon and Meta may be passing the costs of building and operating their data centers on to YOU.

That’s right. You could be bankrolling the electricity costs of trillion-dollar tech companies.

I'm launching an investigation.

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The new Lily Allen album: decoded.

Private Eye tried to get to the bottom of the biggest mystery in popular music.... Who is Lily Allen making references to?
Trump Still Polling Well With Working-Class American Pedophiles 
theonion.com/trump-still-...
We are spending $1 trillion every year on the military. That's more than the next NINE nations combined.

Meanwhile, millions lack health care & we have the highest childhood and senior poverty rate of almost any major country.

Congress needs to get its priorities straight.

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The Trump Admin wants to turn the clock back to 2008 and let Wall Street run wild.

We all know how that ended – with taxpayers bailing out Wall Street while millions lost their homes and got fired from their jobs.

Donald Trump could be setting the stage for the next crash.
Bessent: "These 2008, 2009, 2010 financial rules were too tight. They hamstrung the American financial system. It was time for a change ... we have to take the financial system out of this straitjacket ... the regulated system is too constrained."

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Give the gift of The Onion. https://membership.theonion.com/gifts

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By now the broad story of USAID’s ruin has been widely told: The decree handed down by President Donald Trump; Elon Musk and Russell Vought to scuttle the agency and undo decades of humanitarian work in the name of austerity. 1/x

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Trump says it's an A++++ economy. He's right. His billionaire friends have never had it better.

If you're a working class person:
👉60% live paycheck to paycheck
👉Grocery prices at record highs
👉Premiums to double for 20+ million

The economy must work for all, not just the 1%

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American Classmates Having Difficulty Understanding Better Educated Foreign Exchange Student https://theonion.com/american-classmates-having-difficulty-understanding-bet-1828551698/
Remember: RFK Jr. fired his last CDC director because she refused to ram through his anti-vax agenda.

Yesterday, RFK Jr.’s handpicked vaccine skeptics threw out DECADES of settled science — and Donald Trump gave a thumbs-up.

This will hurt American kids and families.
CDC advisory panel rolls back universal hepatitis B vaccine recommendation
The change upends decades of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance and goes against widespread public health consensus.
www.nbcnews.com
The most misleading thing about Rachel Reeves’s budget? Who it was really for | Aditya Chakrabortty
The most misleading thing about Rachel Reeves’s budget? Who it was really for | Aditya Chakrabortty
Labour backbenchers have been cheering it as a win for the most vulnerable in socety. In fact it was aimed at the bond markets, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
www.theguardian.com
Every year since 1988, the United States has recognized World AIDS Day — until now.

Why not? Maybe because the Trump administration doesn’t want to acknowledge that its foreign aid cuts led to nearly 150,000 deaths from AIDS, according to Boston University researchers.

Shameful.
Trump Administration Will No Longer Commemorate World AIDS Day
www.nytimes.com

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Local Man Hates Self, Family, Others
Not enough people are talking about this:

Even before Trump cut off SNAP funding, he and Republicans in Congress made the biggest cuts to food assistance in U.S. history.

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Election Day enthusiasm had Gen Z-ers fired up and glitching out
RFK Jr's response to someone collapsing nearby him was to haul ass out of the room as quickly as possible

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Mr. "I Don't Take Responsibility At All" thinks the MASSIVE BLUE WAVE was because he wasn't on the ballot, not
a Major Referendum on his 2nd Term.

Turns out folks prefer feeding the hungry over building expen$ive, tacky Ballrooms.

Looking forward to the midterms... 🌊

#AccountabilityIsComing

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President Trump claimed the National Guard was needed in "war-ravaged" Portland. But a @propublica.org review of protests in the months leading up to his claims -- including more than 700 (!!) videos -- show a different reality.

via @robwdavis.bsky.social and Steve Suo
What Really Happened in Portland Before Trump Deployed the National Guard
In the two months before Trump’s decision, criminal charges were announced against only three people. On nights when physical conflict did erupt, it often came from police firing on, shoving, pepper-s...
www.propublica.org