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Allan Lee Harrelson
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Cardiology Doctor, Teacher, Scientist, Democrat.
Graduated from Reed College, The Rockefeller University, AT Still University.
Internal Medicine Residency at the University of Iowa.
Cardiology Fellowship at the University of Cincinatti.
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bloomberg.com
China’s legislature approved revisions to the country’s foreign trade law, incorporating provisions to safeguard national sovereignty, security and development interests
China Revises Foreign Trade Law to Safeguard National Interests
China’s legislature approved revisions to the country’s foreign trade law, incorporating provisions to safeguard national sovereignty, security and development interests, state-run Xinhua News Agency reported Saturday.
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December 27, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
This message hits hard.
Graphic with a blue background and large white text reading “DEAR AMERICAN FRIENDS.” Below is a screenshot of a post explaining that Canada does not have CBS, that a “60 Minutes” episode aired normally in Canada, and stating that Canadian networks are not subject to U.S. government interference. The post ends with “We’re not under a dictatorship. You are.”
December 27, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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December 27, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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swin24.bsky.social
I like many of you have met, including in alleged intellectual contexts, people who say we owe everything we have to imperialism and when I say why don’t u say the same about slavery, I have yet to hear anyone who has a real answer
December 27, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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daveweigel.bsky.social
Fifty of my most interesting 2025 reads - fiction on left, nonfiction on right.
December 27, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
The right, along the Roberts Court, is trying to nullify the Reconstruction amendments guaranteeing equality under the law, in order to restore the Antebellum Constitution, which envisions “liberty” as an eternal aristocracy of race and class (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
When the 18th-century writer Samuel Johnson asked why “we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes,” he was identifying no mere contradiction, but liberty as it was imagined by men who owned other human beings as property. Slaveholders such as John Calhoun saw slavery as inseparable from their own freedom, and they worried that the false doctrine of abolitionism would eliminate that freedom away. “Already it has taken possession of the pulpit, of the schools, and, to a considerable extent, of the press; those great instruments by which the mind of the rising generation will be formed,” Calhoun said. (It seems the “woke mind virus” was telling lies about the great and benevolent institution of American slavery as far back as two centuries ago.) Defending slavery, however, required invasive uses of power, such as banning antislavery literature and returning escaped Black people to bondage. Many white Americans in the 19th century began to understand that the “Slave Power” curtailed their freedoms as well. And this is what many people forget: Systems of domination rarely spread their blessings widely. The Redemption-era revocation of Black freedoms didn’t result in prosperity for white people writ large, but a Gilded Age in which the upper classes gained unfathomable wealth and economic crises left millions destitute. The nation may have held on to white supremacy, but it also got low wages, a threadbare welfare state, and a society dominated by the rich. Everyone else was too divided by race and class to challenge them.
December 22, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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crooksandliars.bsky.social
There Is Stupid And Then There Is Howard Lutnick
Cherry-picking a few items from the economic basket isn't helping Trump's cause: his approval ratings, tariff poll numbers, and economic "approval" are in the toilet.
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December 27, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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nicholasgrossman.bsky.social
In 2025, the US launched strikes on the Houthis in Yemen, al-Shabab in Somalia, ISIS in Syria, alleged drug traffickers in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific, plus Iran’s nuclear program. Now some into Nigeria.

All killed people and damaged things, but none appear to have achieved anything lasting.
Opinion | The logic isn't apparent in Trump's strikes in Nigeria
Nicholas Grossman: Add Nigeria to the list of countries Trump has bombed this year
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December 27, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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coachfinstock.bsky.social
Imagine it being easier to just pay the 8 billion dollars and it won't affect you in the slightest. Man what have we done lol
December 28, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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tengrain.bsky.social
Guys, I wrote a thing! You should go read it!
H/T @bluegal.bsky.social @karoli.bsky.social
December 28, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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reuning.bsky.social
Update. The ICE supervisor, who is 47, was arrested for domestic violence against his non-citizen partner who he started a relationship when she was 18 and he was 40.

www.fox19.com/2025/12/22/i...
December 25, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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tessahill.bsky.social
One of the difficult things about the conditions we find ourselves facing now is that they were incredibly predictable… and predicted.
rahmstorf.bsky.social Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 2d
Perpetual reminder: extreme rainfall events increase due to #globalheating. Weather station data show what has been predicted for over 30 years by climate scientists. These extremes are now far outside the historical climate.
Study: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
December 26, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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charles.littlegreenfootballs.com
Conservatives are upset that this new breed of TPUSA weirdos don’t have the sense to keep the antisemitism hidden any more.
December 26, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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jamellebouie.net
vance is a genuine lunatic
militaryanalyst.bsky.social The Analyst @militaryanalyst.bsky.social · 3d
JD VANCE THINKS BRITAIN & FRANCE ARE AMERICAS LIKELY ENEMIES.
The world is getting bizarrely screwed with this kind of bull being spewed out.
December 26, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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radleybalko.bsky.social
Sinatra hated racists and would have punched Miller in the mouth.

Or as Phil Hartman's impression of Sinatra put it, "I got chunks of guys like you in my stool."
sifill.bsky.social Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 2d
Imagine watching Sinatra, son of Dolly & Antonini born in Genoa & Sicily, respectively, and Martin, son of Gaetano & Angela, born in Montesilvano, Italy & Ohio respectively, (Angela to parents born in Monasterolo, Italy), and crusading against the value of children of immigrants to the U.S.
December 26, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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owillis.bsky.social
Every time billionaires say they’re gonna leave if you raise their taxes, outlets like the Times credulously regurgitate the propaganda. Meanwhile they don’t move cause these guys WANT to live in California and Manhattan and not Podunk and Bumfuck where the taxes are nonexistent.
A Wealth Tax Floated in California Has Billionaires Thinking of Leaving It’s uncertain whether the proposal will reach the statewide ballot in November, but some billionaires like Peter Thiel and Larry Page may be unwilling to take the risk.
December 26, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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glegum.bsky.social
"The woke French left will get nuclear weapons and launch a first strike on the US" is a thought lodged in the vice president's brain.
militaryanalyst.bsky.social The Analyst @militaryanalyst.bsky.social · 3d
JD VANCE THINKS BRITAIN & FRANCE ARE AMERICAS LIKELY ENEMIES.
The world is getting bizarrely screwed with this kind of bull being spewed out.
December 26, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
I somehow missed this www.texasmonthly.com/being-texan/...
Three years after Starr County district attorney Gocha Allen Ramirez’s office filed a murder charge against a woman who terminated her own pregnancy—and then dismissed the charges when he learned that state law forbids such prosecutions—the woman brought a lawsuit against him that included a sworn deposition from another woman, who claimed that years earlier Ramirez paid for an abortion while having extramarital affairs with her and her sister
December 26, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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sifill.bsky.social
Imagine watching Sinatra, son of Dolly & Antonini born in Genoa & Sicily, respectively, and Martin, son of Gaetano & Angela, born in Montesilvano, Italy & Ohio respectively, (Angela to parents born in Monasterolo, Italy), and crusading against the value of children of immigrants to the U.S.
December 26, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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demandside.bsky.social
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

Oligarchs buying elections, government getting razed, tax cuts for billionaires, the Trump Crash looming. It's all of a piece.
December 25, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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demandside.bsky.social
December 25, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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danahoule.bsky.social
Maybe @haleaziz.bsky.social could take a break before producing another CPB recruitment video & throw the weight of the NYT to both right an obvious wrong but also expose what I assume is criminal wrongdoing by ICE (lying about what their agents did & the man they kidnapped) bsky.app/profile/cole...
danahoule.bsky.social Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 3d
Hamed Aleaziz is evidence that going to the NYT makes you a worse journalist. When he was at the LA Times he was solid. But now that he’s gone to the NYT in a matter of a couple of months he did a video about Border Patrol that was essentially a propaganda recruiting video for CBP, & now this.
dburbach.bsky.social David Burbach 🇺🇸🌹 @dburbach.bsky.social · 3d
NYT provides no evidence here, probably because the claim is flatly untrue. See eg recent Pew data, or many posts on the subject from @gelliottmorris.com this year

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...
December 26, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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crooksandliars.bsky.social
Here We Go Again: The Pentagon's EIGHTH Failed Audit
The "Department of War" can fail its eighth audit after Congress gives it 8 BILLION dollars MORE than even Trump's people ASKED for, but there's no money for ACA subsidy extensions.
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December 26, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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colincarlson.bsky.social
Mr. Cuban, I'm a professor at Yale School of Public Health. Here's a paper published by one of my colleagues in the top medical journal evaluating the Medicare for All Act, which would not only get us there, but would save $450B per year. Happy to discuss! www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Improving the prognosis of health care in the USA
Although health care expenditure per capita is higher in the USA than in any other country, more than 37 million Americans do not have health insurance, and 41 million more have inadequate access to c...
www.thelancet.com
December 25, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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bloomberg.com
Virtually all of the world’s biggest oil traders see the market in a state of oversupply in 2026 — the only question is by how much
The World Is Awash With Oil and Prices Are Poised to Keep Falling
There’s a record 1.4 billion barrels of crude currently on the world’s oceans, pushing down benchmark prices and sending gasoline under $3 a gallon at the pump in the US.
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December 25, 2025 at 5:00 AM