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Around the year 1900,
18% of American children died before the age of 5.
Plus, their premature deaths haunted their families.
Vaccination knocked that death rate below 1%.
💉 Science saves children and families.
#USDemocracy #MomSky
18% of American children died before the age of 5.
Plus, their premature deaths haunted their families.
Vaccination knocked that death rate below 1%.
💉 Science saves children and families.
#USDemocracy #MomSky
What was childhood like before vaccines?
The anti-vax movement has gone mainstream, but before these shots, grief and loss marked the lives of children.
www.vox.com
December 14, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Around the year 1900,
18% of American children died before the age of 5.
Plus, their premature deaths haunted their families.
Vaccination knocked that death rate below 1%.
💉 Science saves children and families.
#USDemocracy #MomSky
18% of American children died before the age of 5.
Plus, their premature deaths haunted their families.
Vaccination knocked that death rate below 1%.
💉 Science saves children and families.
#USDemocracy #MomSky
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Two victims of previous school shootings — Mia Tretta, who was shot in the stomach in 2019 at Saugus High School, and Zoe Weissman, who survived the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School — are now at Brown. Gun violence is out of control in this country.
December 14, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Two victims of previous school shootings — Mia Tretta, who was shot in the stomach in 2019 at Saugus High School, and Zoe Weissman, who survived the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School — are now at Brown. Gun violence is out of control in this country.
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Just sent out my free weekend update. Was quite a week in the land war, started with great doom for Ukraine and ended with the Ukrainians pushing the Russians away from Kupyansk and advancing in a week twice as much as the Russians advanced in 4 months. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
Weekend Update #163: Ukraine Goes From Collapsing to Liberating Kupyansk
The Two Negotiations; Stirrings in Europe
open.substack.com
December 14, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Just sent out my free weekend update. Was quite a week in the land war, started with great doom for Ukraine and ended with the Ukrainians pushing the Russians away from Kupyansk and advancing in a week twice as much as the Russians advanced in 4 months. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
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Releasing the Epstein files and holding those on that list accountable is indeed a start. Keeping those in power accountable and abolishing all intersecting oppression is how we can end having to "start" over and over again. Epstein was a symptom, not the cause. Let's get the cause
December 13, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Releasing the Epstein files and holding those on that list accountable is indeed a start. Keeping those in power accountable and abolishing all intersecting oppression is how we can end having to "start" over and over again. Epstein was a symptom, not the cause. Let's get the cause
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A year after touting the “historic realignment” of minority voters that powered him to a second term, President Trump’s multiracial coalition is slipping away. https://wapo.st/4aNcshz
December 14, 2025 at 10:00 AM
A year after touting the “historic realignment” of minority voters that powered him to a second term, President Trump’s multiracial coalition is slipping away. https://wapo.st/4aNcshz
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Tyson is shutting down its Lexington, Nebraska plant in January 2026. That’s 3,200 workers gone in one shot, the largest plant shutdown in company history.
Blame Trump’s tariff chaos and the lowest cattle inventories in decades. Tariffs jack up costs. Supply shrinks. Plants close. Towns hollow out.
Blame Trump’s tariff chaos and the lowest cattle inventories in decades. Tariffs jack up costs. Supply shrinks. Plants close. Towns hollow out.
December 13, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Tyson is shutting down its Lexington, Nebraska plant in January 2026. That’s 3,200 workers gone in one shot, the largest plant shutdown in company history.
Blame Trump’s tariff chaos and the lowest cattle inventories in decades. Tariffs jack up costs. Supply shrinks. Plants close. Towns hollow out.
Blame Trump’s tariff chaos and the lowest cattle inventories in decades. Tariffs jack up costs. Supply shrinks. Plants close. Towns hollow out.
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Pro Russian Ukrainian oligarch, Dmitry Firtash, long identified as an RIS asset, wanted in the US on FCPA charges has won his case in Austria, not to be extradited to the US because US prosecutors failed to meet a deadline on submitting an appeal.
Ukraine Tycoon Wins US Extradition Fight After €125 Million Bail
An Austrian court has definitively blocked a US extradition request against former gas tycoon Dmitry Firtash after more than a decade of court hearings that included a record €125 million ($145 millio...
www.bloomberg.com
December 14, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Pro Russian Ukrainian oligarch, Dmitry Firtash, long identified as an RIS asset, wanted in the US on FCPA charges has won his case in Austria, not to be extradited to the US because US prosecutors failed to meet a deadline on submitting an appeal.
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How Russia’s National Guard may stymie the latest Ukraine plan
Anyone would think making peace was complex... A quick piece for the @thespectator1828.bsky.social blog
www.spectator.co.uk/article/how-...
Anyone would think making peace was complex... A quick piece for the @thespectator1828.bsky.social blog
www.spectator.co.uk/article/how-...
How Russia’s National Guard may stymie the latest Ukraine plan
The notion of a DMZ may seem an elegant way to square the circle of Putin’s demands and Ukraine’s concerns but it’s more complex than that
www.spectator.co.uk
December 14, 2025 at 7:19 AM
How Russia’s National Guard may stymie the latest Ukraine plan
Anyone would think making peace was complex... A quick piece for the @thespectator1828.bsky.social blog
www.spectator.co.uk/article/how-...
Anyone would think making peace was complex... A quick piece for the @thespectator1828.bsky.social blog
www.spectator.co.uk/article/how-...
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As of December 12, 2025, there have been:
-- 75 school shootings in the United States so far this year
-- 43 were on college campuses, and 32 were at K-12 schools
-- The incidents left at least 31 people dead and more than 100 other victims injured
We are broken as a country and society.
-- 75 school shootings in the United States so far this year
-- 43 were on college campuses, and 32 were at K-12 schools
-- The incidents left at least 31 people dead and more than 100 other victims injured
We are broken as a country and society.
December 14, 2025 at 7:46 AM
As of December 12, 2025, there have been:
-- 75 school shootings in the United States so far this year
-- 43 were on college campuses, and 32 were at K-12 schools
-- The incidents left at least 31 people dead and more than 100 other victims injured
We are broken as a country and society.
-- 75 school shootings in the United States so far this year
-- 43 were on college campuses, and 32 were at K-12 schools
-- The incidents left at least 31 people dead and more than 100 other victims injured
We are broken as a country and society.
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#UkraineWar, Day 1,389: #Zelensky and Europeans to Meet #Trump Envoy #Witkoff
#Ukraine #TrumpRussia
eaworldview.com/2025/12/ukra...
#Ukraine #TrumpRussia
eaworldview.com/2025/12/ukra...
Ukraine War, Day 1,389: Zelensky and Europeans to Meet Trump's Envoy Witkoff - EA WorldView
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky and European partners will meet Donald Trump's envoy and Kremlin collaborator Steve Witkoff in Berlin.
eaworldview.com
December 14, 2025 at 8:02 AM
#UkraineWar, Day 1,389: #Zelensky and Europeans to Meet #Trump Envoy #Witkoff
#Ukraine #TrumpRussia
eaworldview.com/2025/12/ukra...
#Ukraine #TrumpRussia
eaworldview.com/2025/12/ukra...
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Prioritizing corporate interest? Who’d have ever guessed?
“A split is emerging within Trump’s base as health activists accuse Mr. Zeldin of leading the agency to prioritize chemical industry interests over public health.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/c...
“A split is emerging within Trump’s base as health activists accuse Mr. Zeldin of leading the agency to prioritize chemical industry interests over public health.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/c...
MAHA Moms Are Angry at the E.P.A. Lee Zeldin Is Trying to Win Them Back.
www.nytimes.com
December 14, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Prioritizing corporate interest? Who’d have ever guessed?
“A split is emerging within Trump’s base as health activists accuse Mr. Zeldin of leading the agency to prioritize chemical industry interests over public health.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/c...
“A split is emerging within Trump’s base as health activists accuse Mr. Zeldin of leading the agency to prioritize chemical industry interests over public health.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/c...
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Secretary Noem being investigated for contempt for violating court order to turnaround planes headed to El Salvador.
She admitted doing it but played the bullshit "activist judges" card. This won't end well for her.
She admitted doing it but played the bullshit "activist judges" card. This won't end well for her.
Judge expands criminal contempt probe over deportation flights, saying Kristi Noem failed to provide answers | CNN Politics
Days after Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem provided little information about her actions in a high-stakes deportation case, a federal judge on Monday expanded his criminal contempt probe into ...
www.cnn.com
December 14, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Secretary Noem being investigated for contempt for violating court order to turnaround planes headed to El Salvador.
She admitted doing it but played the bullshit "activist judges" card. This won't end well for her.
She admitted doing it but played the bullshit "activist judges" card. This won't end well for her.
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Services work to restore heat and water after Russian strikes leaving hundreds of thousands without power across seven regions, Zelensky said, noting Russia launched over 1,500 drones, 900 glide bombs and 46 missiles this week, with another mass attack on Odesa overnight.
December 14, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Services work to restore heat and water after Russian strikes leaving hundreds of thousands without power across seven regions, Zelensky said, noting Russia launched over 1,500 drones, 900 glide bombs and 46 missiles this week, with another mass attack on Odesa overnight.
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Zoe Weissman survived the Parkland shooting. Now she’s at Brown, and it happened again.
“Honestly, I'm really angry that this is happening to me all over again, and I'm just in shock.”
We’re failing our kids. A gun-sick nation. 🇺🇸 www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
“Honestly, I'm really angry that this is happening to me all over again, and I'm just in shock.”
We’re failing our kids. A gun-sick nation. 🇺🇸 www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
December 14, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Zoe Weissman survived the Parkland shooting. Now she’s at Brown, and it happened again.
“Honestly, I'm really angry that this is happening to me all over again, and I'm just in shock.”
We’re failing our kids. A gun-sick nation. 🇺🇸 www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
“Honestly, I'm really angry that this is happening to me all over again, and I'm just in shock.”
We’re failing our kids. A gun-sick nation. 🇺🇸 www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
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There’s been a mass shooting at Bondi Beach.
It was the first in Australia in 29 years.
There’s been a mass shooting at Brown University.
It was the first in the United States in far fewer than 29 days.
Our policies are deadly every week and our mentality is a deadly export.
#BondiBeach #Brown
It was the first in Australia in 29 years.
There’s been a mass shooting at Brown University.
It was the first in the United States in far fewer than 29 days.
Our policies are deadly every week and our mentality is a deadly export.
#BondiBeach #Brown
December 14, 2025 at 9:23 AM
There’s been a mass shooting at Bondi Beach.
It was the first in Australia in 29 years.
There’s been a mass shooting at Brown University.
It was the first in the United States in far fewer than 29 days.
Our policies are deadly every week and our mentality is a deadly export.
#BondiBeach #Brown
It was the first in Australia in 29 years.
There’s been a mass shooting at Brown University.
It was the first in the United States in far fewer than 29 days.
Our policies are deadly every week and our mentality is a deadly export.
#BondiBeach #Brown
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Did Trump just release the contents of his bowels into his diaper on national TV? That's the question everyone's asking.
I don't know the answer, but PROOF *did* publish the most exhaustive, fully sourced journalistic analysis ever on Trump and his diapers.
It is long.
I don't know the answer, but PROOF *did* publish the most exhaustive, fully sourced journalistic analysis ever on Trump and his diapers.
It is long.
Will Americans Vote for a Man Who Is Now Widely Reported to Exude a Rancid Odor?
The one thing Donald Trump can’t bear people saying of him is something many near him confirm is true—he smells terrible. What will voters do with this intelligence? This report unpacks that question.
open.substack.com
December 13, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Did Trump just release the contents of his bowels into his diaper on national TV? That's the question everyone's asking.
I don't know the answer, but PROOF *did* publish the most exhaustive, fully sourced journalistic analysis ever on Trump and his diapers.
It is long.
I don't know the answer, but PROOF *did* publish the most exhaustive, fully sourced journalistic analysis ever on Trump and his diapers.
It is long.
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Suspect still at large in the Brown University shooting. Suspects in the Stockton shooting are still at large too, and that was weeks ago. This is what happens when experienced FBI agents are fired. Thousands were reassigned to pursue law-abiding undocumented immigrants.
December 14, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Suspect still at large in the Brown University shooting. Suspects in the Stockton shooting are still at large too, and that was weeks ago. This is what happens when experienced FBI agents are fired. Thousands were reassigned to pursue law-abiding undocumented immigrants.
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With this latest mass shooting at Brown University, this might be a good time to mention that Bill Clinton’s assault weapons ban reduced mass shooting deaths by 43% - but after George W Bush & Republicans let it expire, mass shooting deaths spiked by 239%.
It's the guns!!! :(
It's the guns!!! :(
December 14, 2025 at 6:17 AM
With this latest mass shooting at Brown University, this might be a good time to mention that Bill Clinton’s assault weapons ban reduced mass shooting deaths by 43% - but after George W Bush & Republicans let it expire, mass shooting deaths spiked by 239%.
It's the guns!!! :(
It's the guns!!! :(
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All the lessons of history in four sentences:
Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power.
The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small.
The bee fertilizes the flower it robs.
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
— Charles A. Beard
Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power.
The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small.
The bee fertilizes the flower it robs.
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
— Charles A. Beard
November 15, 2024 at 7:11 PM
All the lessons of history in four sentences:
Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power.
The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small.
The bee fertilizes the flower it robs.
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
— Charles A. Beard
Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power.
The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small.
The bee fertilizes the flower it robs.
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
— Charles A. Beard
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JD Vance’s Old Epstein Tweets Come Back To Bite Him
www.huffpost.com
JD Vance Tweet About Jeffrey Epstein Scandal Resurfaces 4 Years Later ... And, Boy, It's Awkward
twp.ai
November 13, 2025 at 8:35 AM
JD Vance’s Old Epstein Tweets Come Back To Bite Him
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🔥"It is estimated that more than 400 women and girls were abused and exploited within Mohamed Al Fayed’s Harrods enterprise. I am one of them."
A survivor's account of the structural failure of British justice when confronted with money and power.
A survivor's account of the structural failure of British justice when confronted with money and power.
When power is untouchable: the legal abyss facing Harrods survivors
Survivors of abuse connected to Mohamed Al Fayed’s Harrods empire are discovering what “no one is above the law” really means
sussexbylines.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 9:04 PM
🔥"It is estimated that more than 400 women and girls were abused and exploited within Mohamed Al Fayed’s Harrods enterprise. I am one of them."
A survivor's account of the structural failure of British justice when confronted with money and power.
A survivor's account of the structural failure of British justice when confronted with money and power.