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Larry Lynam @scopedbylarry.bsky.social · 4h

Six Surgeon Generals from both parties warnings us us about Kennedy seems worth listening to:

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Video Former surgeons general warn US about RFK Jr.

Six former surgeons general issued a warning in an op-ed about health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., saying he is “endangering the nation” with his policies.

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Larry Lynam @scopedbylarry.bsky.social · 5h

Just when I thought we couldn’t possibly become more disgusting, here comes the Mobile a county sheriff and his wife. I’m so sick of cruel bigots. His MAGA wife seems to think it is okay that she gets labeled the cruel bigot so he keeps his salary paid by the people they are mocking.

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote a thing about how this split the MMR up into monovalents is bullshit that Andrew Wakefield cooked up. It will be used to strip access to the MMR.

The MAHA movement continues to destroy public health.

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The Monovalent Mirage

A pretend alternative to the MMR exists, just ask Andrew Wakefield

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Ed Rybicki 🇿🇲🇿🇦🍷🚀 @edrybicki.bsky.social · 1d

First serological evidence of equine coronavirus and severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 in horses in North Africa

Viral diseases cause significant economic losses within the equine population. Horses are susceptible to equine coronavirus (ECoV) and severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), although only ECoV has been associated to clinical disease.

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𝘐𝘴𝘢𝘢𝘤 𝘗𝘪𝘨𝘰𝘵𝘵 @ikepigott.com · 2d

Kristi, it’s simple.

“We can’t let a bunch of child-molesting trans monsters sneak into restrooms dressed as federal officers — who knows how many kids they could victimize!”

PortiaMcGonagal @portiamcgonagal.bsky.social · 3d

The way these people think they're entitled to whatever they want. This is what happens when you raise children who are never told no. 1/

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'Very difficult situation': Kristi Noem whines locals not letting ICE agents use restrooms

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem complained that her agents were not being permitted to use restrooms in Chicago because of opposition from residents.During a Sunday interview on ...

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Expatina @thelongblonde.bsky.social · 2d

The moron Trump is now threatening to "deport "Bad Bunny to Puerto Rico. This would be a criminal act on his behalf because it is not legal.

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Judy Stone @drjudystone.bsky.social · 2d

Nice clip on #LongCovid on PBS w comments from @michaelpelusomd.bsky.social and @meighanstone.bsky.social www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

What to know about RFK Jr.’s efforts to address long COVID research and treatments

More than two years after the pandemic ended, millions of Americans are still living with long COVID. Symptoms vary from person to person, but range from mild to severe to physically debilitating. Rec...

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Microbes.Info @microbesinfo.bsky.social · 2d

Study of 86 chikungunya outbreaks reveals unpredictability in size and severity

The symptoms come on quickly—acute fever, followed by debilitating joint pain that can last for months. Though rarely fatal, the chikungunya virus, a mosquito-borne illness, can be particularly…

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Expatina @thelongblonde.bsky.social · 2d

What's next? Digging up a certain golf course grave would for sure get better ratings than Geraldo and Al Capone's vault.
#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles

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Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) 🦠🤧🧬📑🦟🧀 @mackayim.bsky.social · 2d

I'm pretty sure Ukraine seeks a swift end to the Russian invasion as well.
Could you direct that lecture at Russia and ask them to leave the Ukrainian lands they illegally invaded and stop killing Ukrainians and destroying Ukraine?
That would go a long way to rapidly stopping the invasion.

The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 2d

⚡️Slovak PM Fico calls for end to Ukraine war and 'Slavs killing each other,' rejects focus on defeating Russia.

Slovakia seeks a swift end to the war in Ukraine rather than Russia’s defeat, Prime Minister Robert Fico said during a televised debate on Slovak public broadcaster STVR on Oct. 5.

Slovak PM Fico calls for end to Ukraine war and 'Slavs killing each other,' rejects focus on defeating Russia

Slovakia seeks a swift end to the war in Ukraine rather than Russia’s defeat, Prime Minister Robert Fico said during a televised debate on Slovak public broadcaster STVR on Oct. 5.

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Mike the Mad Biologist and Tsar of All the Antifas @mikethemadbiol.bsky.social · 2d

I think some people need to be reminded that a good goal is to NOT be the Main Character of the Day.

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K.T. Elliott @ktelliottmicro.bsky.social · 2d

Make America Abide by the Constitution and Rule of Law Again

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Larry Lynam @scopedbylarry.bsky.social · 2d

I am just surrendering to despair now.

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K.T. Elliott @ktelliottmicro.bsky.social · 2d

Do you know when I was growing up I never imagined "I believe in science and the Bill of Rights" might be controversial statements. Silly me

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It’s “Mrs. Powers” during my day job @mrspowersdayjob.bsky.social · 2d

If you’re not already following Gov Pritzker, today’s a good day to do so.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 4d

This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.

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Bluegal Fran Langum #NoKings @bluegal.bsky.social · 2d

Ikr

Humannoyed 📎 @humannoyed.bsky.social · 2d

We’re supposed to hold out for November 2026 to even slow this monster’s roll??

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Brian Lyman @brianlyman.bsky.social · 2d

My column this week. The cases of Alireza Doroudi and Giovanna Hernandez-Martinez -- two Alabama immigrants harming no one who were effectively coerced into leaving the country -- show the Orwellian nature of our immigration system, which does little more than force good people outside the law.

Immigrating legally shouldn't be hard. Harassing immigrants shouldn't be easy. | Alabama Reflector

You can't immigrate to the United States "the right way" when the system makes it effectively impossible to come to the country legally.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 6d

I've been saying prospect.org/politics/202...

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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 2d

“One of the people who marched past my house on July 8, 2000, was a woman I didn’t know about then, but who had done more than I could’ve understood, at just a decade into life, to shape the America I grew up in: Mamie Till-Mobley, the mother of Emmett Till,” MFP News Editor Ashton Pittman writes.

Editor’s Note | Mississippi’s Evil Past Still Haunts Us

News Editor Ashton Pittman writes about how the response to college student Trey Reed’s death illustrates how Mississippi’s past haunts its present.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 2d

who could forget when TFP published a totally dishonest hatchet job on a youth gender clinic from a bilious transphobe that (again) turned out to be bullshit, and she refused to take that down too prospect.org/blogs-and-ne...

The Useful Idiots Fueling the Right-Wing Transphobia Panic

Today on TAP: Prominent center-left journalists were swindled by obvious nonsense about a St. Louis gender clinic.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 2d

gonna go to my grave muttering about how this charlatan unironically cited an "Official Antifa" Twitter account in the NYT bsky.app/profile/jame...

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

perhaps the biggest story TFPever ran was a catastrophically shoddy argument that George Floyd ackshully died of an overdose. When confronted with irrefutable evidence that the piece was simply wrong, Weiss didn’t take it down, she asked her critic, @radleybalko.bsky.social, to come on a podcast.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 2d

David Ellison’s note to staff on Paramount’s acquisition of the Free Press

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 2d

I'm half convinced they don't know why they axed the Obamacare subsidies, or don't even understand what it is they did bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

SHERMAN: Who will own the political impact if health insurance does go up 200 percent?

MIKE JOHNSON: That's putting the cart like a mile in front of the horse.

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Larry Lynam @scopedbylarry.bsky.social · 2d

Man, I hate getting a bad taste in my mouth this early in the morning but when I read this obituary in @aldotcom referring to “Gulf of Mexico” as “Gulf of America”, I immediately formed an opinion about this family. And it wasn’t a kind one. How sad to be them.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 3d

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Opinion: Why we resigned from our jobs as journalists after an Alaska elected official made threats over coverage

The duty of a community newspaper is to provide coverage of local elected officials and government. The ability of journalists at the Homer News and Peninsula Clarion to do this was undermined by our ...

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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 3d

A baby in Mississippi has died of whooping cough for the first time since 2012.

The infant was less than two months old and was not old enough to receive the pertussis vaccine.

Mississippi Baby Dies of Whooping Cough Amid Rising Cases

A baby in Mississippi has died of whooping cough for the first time since 2012. The baby was less than two months old—too young for vaccination.

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