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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 6h

The White House Antifa Roundtable is one of the best displays I’ve seen of this-is-how-bad-it’s-gotten — just a sewer of open fascism, dementia, morons and freaks, and incoherent rage.

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Reuters @reuters.com · 5h

Updated COVID shot led to less severe illness, fewer hospitalizations last year, US study finds reut.rs/3KEOvOE

Updated COVID shot led to less severe illness, fewer hospitalizations last year, US study finds

Last year's updated COVID-19 vaccines helped prevent severe outcomes including hospitalizations and deaths, according to data from a large study of U.S. military veterans published on Wednesday.

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The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · 7h

Studies show vaping raises the number of ACE2 receptors: the doorway COVID-19 uses to attack. That means higher risk and slower recovery.

How vaping primes the lungs for COVID-19 damage

Studies show vaping raises the number of ACE2 receptors: the doorway COVID-19 uses to attack. That means higher risk and slower recovery.

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The Economist @economist.com · 7h

For 50 years until her death this week, Dame Jilly Cooper offered Britain fine social distinctions, finer bottoms and the chance to use words like “buttocks” in an often bleak world

Britain mourns its bonkbuster queen

Jilly Cooper, the author who gave the world sex, horses—and joy—has died

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CNN @cnn.com · 7h

Military officials are pushing forward with new restrictions on the Pentagon press corps despite objections from news organizations and watchdog groups.

Pentagon charges ahead with press restrictions ‘designed to stifle a free press,’ media orgs say | CNN Business

Military officials are pushing forward with new restrictions on the Pentagon press corps despite objections from news organizations and watchdog groups.

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Forbes @forbes.com · 7h

Grijalva, who won a special election in Arizona in September, would be the deciding vote for a discharge petition that would force a floor vote on releasing the Epstein files.

Democrat Adelita Grijalva—Likely Key Epstein Files Vote—Still Hasn’t Been Sworn In: Here’s What We Know

Grijalva, who won a special election in Arizona in September, would be the deciding vote for a discharge petition that would force a floor vote on releasing the Epstein files.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 7h

The vote, which passes 178 votes to 169, enshrines into law an embargo that has been in effect since the war began.

Spain’s parliament formally approves Israel arms embargo

The vote, which passes 178 votes to 169, enshrines into law an embargo that has been in effect since the war began.

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Euronews @euronews.com · 7h

Greenland's Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen addressed the European Parliament on Wednesday, calling for closer cooperation with the EU. “We are not going to join another country”, he told journalists

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Greenland not seeking to join EU or be part of US, PM Nielsen says

Greenland's Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen addressed the European Parliament on Wednesday, calling for closer cooperation with the EU. “We are not going to join another country”, he told journalists

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The Economist @economist.com · 7h

The president’s economic team has decamped to Washington, trying desperately to confirm American support

The Argentine peso, and Javier Milei, are in trouble

The president’s economic team has decamped to Washington, trying desperately to confirm American support

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Scubagrl @scubagrl.bsky.social · 11h

AH HA they got it on vid you are so screwed little tiny man I'm 5'3" 105 i'd love to kick your ass so bad you end up lookin like this I'm tiny but mighty. 😼 bsky.app/profile/ntea...

nteagle.bsky.social @nteagle.bsky.social · 2d

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Sarah T Wokey 🌮 @sarahcarls.bsky.social · 11h

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 12h

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[email protected] @2braids.bsky.social · 8h

These dummies are having a fake presser about a fake organization...it's sooo funny. They are leading up to stop elections in 2026 and 2028. This is part of the plan. Ya'll better be aware.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 5d

This tinpot tyrant thinks he can act as judge and jury, handing out anticipatory prison sentences for people who might engage in clearly constitutional behavior (as ruled by the Supreme Court).

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 4d

JD Vance talks to women like a controlling guy who's always hiding his wife's car keys.

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pissed-off-g.bsky.social @pissed-off-g.bsky.social · 17h

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𝗧𝗼𝗺 𝗢𝘀𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗻 PhD, FRSA, etc! @call-me-tomasso.bsky.social · 1d

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rfoust62.bsky.social @rfoust62.bsky.social · 7h

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 8h

"The president has already announced that if a judge does rule against him, he will invoke the Insurrection Act and then continue the military deployments. This is where we’ve been headed since January 6, 2021.”

Emergency Triad: The Chicago Rubicon and What Comes Next

We aren’t at the worst-case scenario yet. But if you squint, you can see it looming out there, just over the horizon.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Pritzker: "He said he was going after the worst of the worst. It's not going after the worst of the worst when you're just literally stopping children who happen to be brown & asking them for papers as if they're gonna have proof they're a citizen. Pull out your phones and film everything you see"

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Pablo @un5toppabl0.bsky.social · 7h

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NEVER TRUMPER @jennyfmtheblock.bsky.social · 8h

Regarding Stephen Miller~

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

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Serena @bibliophile99.bsky.social · 7h

#cdnpoli trump vs carney @joyfulnesstoo.bsky.social @gander22h.bsky.social @lsaclassof2000.bsky.social

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Kim-M 26947 @kimberlymorgan.bsky.social · 12h

And that is just the way they like it.

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