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We're David Skroob Pumpkins
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We're David Skroob Pumpkins @pseudonymble.bsky.social · Aug 8
Not only have we not attained endemicity for SARS-CoV-2, we have destroyed endemicity for many other viral and bacterial infections like tuberculosis, polio, & staph-A. It's just not the case specifically because of immune system damage from covid. libguides.mskcc.org/CovidImpacts...
MSK Library Guides: COVID Impacts: Immune
Detailed information and resources on the long-term health consequences of COVID-19 infection and the broad social impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic
libguides.mskcc.org
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We're David Skroob Pumpkins @pseudonymble.bsky.social · 5h
"In American law, corporations are not born; they are built. Corporations are creatures of statute, not of nature. And for more than two centuries, the power to build them—to define their form, limits, and privileges—has belonged to the states and only to the states."
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 11h
More details at these links

www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...

transparentelection.org
The Corporate Power Reset That Makes Citizens United Irrelevant
By using their authority to define what corporations are—and what powers they hold—states can end the era of corporate and dark money in U.S. politics.
www.americanprogress.org
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We're David Skroob Pumpkins @pseudonymble.bsky.social · 6h
Explicitly an American Dream as I recall it.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 13h
Remember we're already in a world of Kavanaugh stops based solely on ethnicity. If you are from a targeted group, this can happen to you no matter what your citizenship status is. What if you forget your wallet at home? You could end up in detention for days or worse.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 14h
Do you want to live in a "papers, please" country?
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We're David Skroob Pumpkins @pseudonymble.bsky.social · 6h
They weren't ready yet
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Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 8h
If you need a go-to Wikipedia page this is a great one

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
List of inventors killed by their own invention - Wikipedia
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 10h
Canada does not have a President.

If you don’t even know what the leaders of your allies are called … are you really fit to be in charge?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h
Trump: "You have Canada. That's so great to have, in fact. The president called and he wanted to know if it's worth -- well he knew exactly what it is. He knew the importance. Where's Canada, by the way? Where are you? He knew the importance of this."
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We're David Skroob Pumpkins @pseudonymble.bsky.social · 6h
What is Trump's response at the end? I thought I heard:
"At least I didn't say acetomifim."
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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 6h
The illustration is so good, look at the dude’s hat flying off
Ball lightning
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We're David Skroob Pumpkins @pseudonymble.bsky.social · 6h
Sounds like the definition of generational to me 😁
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We're David Skroob Pumpkins @pseudonymble.bsky.social · 6h
Streets forgot Jamal Anderson already?
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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 7h
Bijan’s just always going a few yards further that you think he should
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 8h
gene kelly is antifa
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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 16h
Some express skepticism that this is the case but here is former Democratic Congressman Ted Deutch saying this more or less, that Israel will be able to regain its image and that the Democratic Party can maintain its stalwart pro-Israel stance so long as the GCC bails Israel out.
Eventually, an end to the war should mean an end to the worldwide focus on Israel’s conduct of it, said Ted Deutch, president of the American Jewish Committee. He said he eagerly awaited a point at which “the humanitarian situation gets better and the hostages are released, and Arab countries are investing in the future of Gaza.” Then, he said, “the conversation can be about what’s next, about what the region can look like, what Gaza can look like.”
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We're David Skroob Pumpkins @pseudonymble.bsky.social · 8h
I tried to tell people Michael Penix Jr. was the best QB to pick in that class in no small part due to his relatively long college career and Atlanta built right to be ready to support a young QB with weapons all over the place, decent line and a decent defense. They're just starting to click.
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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 12h
Two separate internal reports at State and USAID found that Israel violated Section 620i of the Foreign Assistance Act and that at least 800m in military assistance to Israel should have been immediately suspended. That is the law.
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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 13h
Why does no one read the law
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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 13h
Arms Export Act and Foreign Assistance Acts both have provisions which explicitly state that the president has an obligation to suspend military assistance to a country impeding the delivery of humanitarian aid. The way the administration avoided this was by finding that Israel wasn't doing that.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16h
yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket
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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 18h
Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.

Fuck Columbus.
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We're David Skroob Pumpkins @pseudonymble.bsky.social · 9h
Can confirm. 5 shorthairs and 5 longhairs. Just got up to get a drink and found an exhibit.
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Calvinboo Congress @emericanjezebel.bsky.social · 12h
Bringing back this post from last week for no reason at all
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We're David Skroob Pumpkins @pseudonymble.bsky.social · 9h
We've gone from vibe coding to vibe scaling.
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A Doll In Every Pot @tobellz.bsky.social · 13h
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The financing tool is, you go to Broadcom and you put your arm around their shoulder and you gesture sweepingly in the distance and whisper "omniscient robots" and they whisper "yesssss" and you say "we'll need a few hundred billions dollars of chips and equipment from you" and they say "of course" and you say "good" and they say "do you have hundreds of billions of dollars" and you whisper "omniscient robots" again and they are enlightened. And then you announce the deal and Broadcom's stock adds $150 billion of market capitalization and you're like "see" and they're like "yes" and you're like "omniscient robots" and they're like "I know right." That is the financing tool! In some loose postmodern sense, OpenAI has borrowed hundreds of billions of dollars from Broadcom. You can buy hundreds of billions of dollars of equipment to build the robots to sell for money to pay for the equipment, because you've gotten everyone to believe.
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samuel @quilombo.bsky.social · 12h
This shameful Israeli propaganda will be repeated ad nauseam.
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Trita Parsi @tparsi.bsky.social · 15h
This is why those banking on the Israeli "opposition" convince very few...

Yair Lapid, head of Israel's opposition:

"Those who demonstrated against Israel in London, Rome, Paris... were deceived by propaganda... The truth is, there was no genocide, no intentional starvation."
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ILuvPolitix @iluvpolitix.bsky.social · 16h
So masks *do* work to protect you from getting Covid?
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LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 16h
ICE refuses to take off mask and identify himself—"I don't want to get Covid."

Agent then threatens to arrest U.S citizen driving car—pulls out gun and points at neighbors asking questions.

Directly violates Chicago Mayor's executive order requiring agents to not conceal their identities.
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Josh Johnson @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social · 11h
This goes live in 1 hour Friends
SOTS NYC: Josh Johnson, Jordan Jensen, Jeff Ross, Michael Kosta, Maddy Smith & J Watkins | Ep 83
YouTube video by Stand-Up On The Spot
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 13h
Screenshot of a message conversation where Zohan Mamdani, an Assemblymember from Queens, discusses the NYC taxi drivers’ crisis, his support at City Hall protests, and offers to share more details about the situation.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 13h
I thought this was lovely.
"A few years ago I received a DM from Zohran Kwame Mamdani. Only recently did I discover its existence. It was a very unusual DM—especially coming from a local assemblyman who would soon be running for higher office. He had very little name recognition at the time, and could have benefited from publicity. But unlike the thousands of messages I’ve received from people with something to promote, Zohran did not ask to be featured on Humans of New York. Instead he asked if he could introduce me to taxi drivers that were struggling beneath the burden of debt. Coming from a man with political ambitions, this self-denying request was so strange as to be almost singular. I don’t endorse politicians on Humans of New York. But I’ll endorse a good man. And it was a good man who cleared 30 minutes from his schedule yesterday to swing by Grand Central and visit Dear New York’s Vanderbilt Hall Exhibition. Nearly fifty-student artists were visiting that day with their families, and I thought a surprise visit from this widely-loved future mayor would be a special memory for all of them. Before Zohran’s arrival I was convinced I’d made a terrible mistake. The exhibit was filled to capacity with adult visitors. Dear New York is self-funded so there was very little staff and security for crowd control. In the crush of people I was almost certain this special day for the kids would devolve into thirty minutes of selfie requests. But everyone rose to the occasion." black text on white background "Hundreds of adults quickly cleared the room and stood outside the exhibit. Eleven very notable adult photographers are also featured in the show, but even they took a step back, so that these students could briefly have the stage to themselves. Each child stood by their work and Zohran was able to meet all of them, one at a time, and honor their contributions to the most-visited art show in New York City. Thanks to everyone who ceded the stage yesterday to make this moment possible. Thank you Zohran for literally sitting down on the floor so that these young artists could feel so tall. Thanks for continually centering other people in your life and work. And thank you, for being such an important part of Dear New York." A large group of children and adults pose together indoors in front of a sign reading "DEAR." A man in a suit sits cross-legged in front, surrounded by smiling kids. The background features an ornate architectural detail.
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