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A somewhat evolved ape curiously studying anthropology.
Interesting maybe to US Democrats - one of the two majority parties (SPD) looks like they barely scratched 5% following a time of being spectacularly useless as opposition to the other majority party (CDU)
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Dare Obasanjo
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The Anthropic versus Pentagon conflict is at least three questions which the media skipped asking 1. Should a computer be able to kill people? 2. Whatâs an acceptable error rate for that computer given LLMs 5% hallucination rate? 3. Can the government force you to sell them your tech to kill?
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Just saw Cirque du Soleil's "Echo" in Marymoor park, and it was astounding. I thought I had seen my share of shows, but this one defied every expectation and continuously subverted expectations in the best possible way. Outstanding performance.
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Chise
4 days ago
GOOD NEWS! Researchers at Stanford University have developed a UNIVERSAL vaccine known as GLA-3M-052-LS+OVA, that protects against a wide range of respiratory viruses, bacteria AND even allergens. The vaccine is delivered intranasally AND provides broad protection in the lungs for several MONTHS.
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Max Kennerly
4 days ago
Congrats to everyone who voted for Trump and a Republican Congress "for the economy." This is what you get, a sputtering job creation engine that can't make progress like before and keeps rolling backwards.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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lowtax speedrun enjoyer
4 days ago
have noted this before but want to again emphasize that us Tattoo Havers can tell you only certain shops would have totenkopfs and they are going to be surrounded by other nazi symbols that you will in fact easily recognize
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The Fighting Liberal TexanđđđđŠCongress Switchboard 202-224-3121
4 days ago
ICE arrested an Oregon shop owner who had her green card in her pocket: âThey didnât careâ Juanita Avila later helped expose ICEâs âarrest first, justify laterâ tactics in a lawsuit that won a major victory for immigrantsâ rights ...
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ICE arrested an Oregon shop owner who had her green card in her pocket: âThey didnât careâ
Juanita Avila later helped expose ICEâs âarrest first, justify laterâ tactics in a lawsuit that won a major victory for immigrantsâ rights
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/06/ice-arrest-oregon-shop-owner
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Fascist Dem Tracker
5 days ago
157 Democratic members of the House just voted yea for a resolution that confirms they agree with the Trump administration's reasoning for starting with a war with Iran. It passes 372-53-2
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Andy Craig
5 days ago
Congress could, and should, ban this. Impose the same rule nationwide as some states already have: if an incumbent doesn't file for reelection by the deadline, the window to file gets extended a week or two.
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Jon Cooper
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Seth Abramson
5 days ago
There's no reason for Iran to attack NATO nation Turkeyâbut a drone did. Iran denies sending it. There's no reason for Iran to attack a UK base in Cyprusâbut a drone did. Iran denies sending it. Now Azerbaijan has been attacked. Iran denies involvement. I think this is Israel.
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Governor Tim Walz
5 days ago
Kristi Noem has done a stunning amount of damage and itâs good sheâs gone. But this doesnât change the fact that we need a complete overhaul of DHS, impartial investigations into the killings of two American citizens, and information on children that were taken from Minnesota.
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Carl Quintanilla
5 days ago
This piece by Admiral Stavridis is a sobering read: â.. Iran .. has been planning a Strait of Hormuz closure operation for decades and probably has more than 5,000 mines; just one hit can severely damage a thin-skinned tanker.â
@opinion.bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
6 days ago
WHOA. Camp East Montana in El Paso opened in August and quickly became the deadliest ICE facility, with infamously terrible conditions. Now ICE is closing it, just as they plan to open up a detention camp nearly three times larger in a converted warehouse just outside El Paso.
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N.S. Dolkart, Purim spiel author
6 days ago
The perversion of reversing the constitutional order such that it takes a supermajority in Congress to NOT go to war.
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IMHO this is why it's beyond important to vote in every primary - we're seeing how the GOP gets their Trojan donkeys into the Democratic party.
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Angry
6 days ago
Itâs looking increasingly likely that Kristi Noem and Lewandowski funneled almost 200 million in government money to a company that is run by her friend and that nobody can give an address for. Oh, and it was 8 days old when it was awarded the contract.
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Katie Drummond
6 days ago
One surprising side effect of the US war in Iran: American farmers are staring down soaring fertilizer prices at the worst possible time. From
@mollytaft.com
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Trumpâs War on Iran Could Screw Over US Farmers
The Middle East supplies a huge amount of the worldâs fertilizer. Conflict in the region has sent prices soaring ahead of the critical spring planting season.
https://www.wired.com/story/trumps-war-on-iran-could-screw-over-us-farmers/
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southpaw
6 days ago
A US submarine sinking a lonely, dinky Iranian surface ship an ocean away from the theater of the main conflictâand 9000 miles from North Americaâmakes it pretty clear the US is fighting a general war, without the declaration required by the Constitution.
www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
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U.S. sub sinks Iranian warship off Sri Lanka, killing 87 and expanding war zone
A U.S. submarine sank an Iranian warship off the southern coast of Sri Lanka, killing dozens of sailors and dramatically widening Washington's pursuit of the Iranian navy.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/sri-lanka-rescues-30-people-board-distressed-iranian-ship-foreign-minister-says-2026-03-04/
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Amber Woods @Amber Speaks Up
6 days ago
A cartoon from the 1950âs thatâs more relevant than ever đ
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Eliza Orlins
7 days ago
What just happened in Dallas County is one of the most blatant voter suppression operations I've ever seenâand it happened in a *primary*. In March. Imagine November. I broke it down here:
open.substack.com/pub/objectio...
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Objection: What Happened in Dallas County Was Not a Glitch
What happened in Dallas County tonight should scare the hell out of you.
https://open.substack.com/pub/objectioneverything/p/objection-what-happened-in-dallas?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
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The Tennessee Holler
7 days ago
Watch this. 19 minutes and $12 to get meds at a public Chinese hospital. Without insurance. As we slash Medicaid to start unnecessary wars and cut taxes for the rich. đșđž We should all be so much angrier than we are. It doesnât have to be this way.
#MedicareForAllNOW
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Mueller, She Wrote
7 days ago
BREAKING: The Texas Secretary of State DID NOT UPDATE the precinct maps on their website last December. MY GOD
@msnowreports.bsky.social
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Steve Vladeck
7 days ago
1/9: In the New York redistricting case, Justice Alito's justification for why
#SCOTUS
even had *jurisdiction* to issue a stay is based upon a remarkably misleading portrayal of the state court proceedings. I realize this is technical, but I wanted to write a short thread to explain the shadiness:
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Jonathan Larsen
8 days ago
EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war. The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been âinundatedâ with more than 110 complaints. One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of JesusâŠ
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U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for âArmageddon,â Return of Jesus
Advocacy group reports commanders giving similar messages at more than 30 installations in every branch of the military
https://jonathanlarsen.substack.com/p/us-troops-were-told-iran-war-is-for
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin
9 days ago
This is a hard read, in part because the feds dropped the ball over and over again when victims tried to seek justice, going as far back as 1996. Had Epstein been stopped when the first complaint came in, this nation and the world would be a VERY different place.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/01/u...
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Why the Epstein Investigations Took So Long and Did So Little
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/01/us/epstein-justice-department-investigations.html?unlocked_article_code=1.P1A.5Yfq.W4nRgbedILyU&smid=url-share
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Rhys Davies
9 days ago
That is substantially the model governments of all stripes have run for 25 years. Even achieving citizenship does cure the insecurities and uncertainties immigrants experience. So high immigration, when economically significant, is, by nature, creating a less integrated and more insecure class.
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Josh Chafetz
10 days ago
FWIW, this is sec. 2(c) of the War Powers Resolution:
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Andrew Lawrence
10 days ago
things every single republican president of your lifetime has done - started a war in the middle east - completely destroyed the economy
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Thorne đž
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One of the most American things you can do is to tell tyrants to pound sand Thatâs why this country exists in the first place
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD
11 days ago
Bear with me if you can as I attempt to use HPV vaccines to demonstrate why many canât see the danger of RFK Jr. TLDR: Disease prevention takes time and discipline. Not discipline of an individual, but the ability to invest in public health when the benefits may not be immediately clear.
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IMHO there is no getting ahead. This year and in '28, we should all return ballots at the ballot box instead of mailing them, and even that might not be enough (Oops, it turns out those ballots were never delivered...)
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Rob Reiner Fan
15 days ago
The next time Democrats have to do a filibuster they should read selected portions of the Epstein files.
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MrMirth
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Katiesaurus
15 days ago
"All adults and some children on ICE flights are shackled at the wrists and ankles attached to a chain around their waists for the duration of the flight. Shackling for more than a few hours can cause fatal blood clots, permanent nerve damage, bruising, chafing, swelling and excruciating pain"
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It's really fascinating - as a culture, we've been aware of the dangers of stated intention vs action and of miscommunication for thousands of years. As social beings, we project our values onto matrix multiplying text predictors and interact with them as if they were people.
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Linsey Marr
15 days ago
Our latest paper shows that most aerosol sampling methods may underestimate infectious virus in air. We observed 100x more infectious flu virus and SARS-CoV-2 if it deposited directly on cells (more realistic) rather than in liquid first and then transferred to cells.
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Loss of Infectivity of Influenza Virus and SARS-CoV-2 during Aerosol Sampling
Our understanding of transmission of influenza virus and other respiratory viruses is limited by the difficulty of detecting infectious viruses in aerosol particles. Most aerosol sampling methods are believed to contribute to virus inactivation, but the magnitude of this sampling artifact is unknown. To investigate this question, we aerosolized influenza A virus (IAV) and SARS-CoV-2 suspended in human saliva into a small chamber (3.7 L). Aerosols settled for 10 min onto either cells or a thin layer of liquid medium that was immediately transferred to cells for plaque assay. Aerosols that deposited directly onto cells led to the formation of 100Ă more plaque forming units (PFU) compared to aerosols that deposited first into liquid medium. Further experiments ruled out uneven aerosol distribution in the chamber or inefficient virus recovery as causes of this discrepancy. These findings indicate that aerosolized IAV and SARS-CoV-2 lost infectivity by approximately 2 log10 PFU within âŒ10 min unless they attached to cells quickly. As natural infection via inhalation occurs by direct deposition of the virus onto cells, we hypothesize that sampling directly onto cells more accurately reflects the potential for exposure to lead to infection.
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.estlett.6c00020
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin
15 days ago
If we had a functioning DOJ, this would be instantly appealed, but we do not.
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
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Judge Cannon permanently blocks release of Jack Smith report
The Trump-appointed judge said releasing the classified docs report now would âcontravene basic notions of fairness and justice.â
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/23/judge-cannon-jack-smith-classifed-docs-report-00792748
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Dare Obasanjo
16 days ago
I sometimes think about the fact that the only consequences Trump faced from Jan 6th were having accounts suspended by banks and social media apps. Which he subsequently has sued or otherwise punished while pardoning all of the insurrectionists. This is how I feel every time I recall that.
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Erin Reed
16 days ago
Still blows my mind that my medication, Emgality, is like $1,000 with insurance but if I print out a special cheat code from the manufacturer's website its $35. And they don't automatically give this cheat code to people so that elderly and sick people end up accidentally paying full price.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD
18 days ago
A lot of people, including me, were wondering how an IRB could ever approve this study. The answer is that no IRB did. The person who âsigned offâ on approval from the only ethics board that reviewed it had resigned three years earlier. His signature was used without his knowledge.
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Andy
17 days ago
This 53 year old man who lived in my neighborhood w/no criminal record & who had been in the US for 30 years, was detained and thrown into a cold cell for days, caught pneumonia and COVID there and deported. He finally died. I am so angry.
www.kptv.com/2026/02/21/n...
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âNo one deserves thisâ: Beaverton father dies after deportation to Mexico
A Beaverton family is grieving after the father, who was detained and deported by ICE, has now died.
https://www.kptv.com/2026/02/21/no-one-deserves-this-beaverton-father-dies-after-deportation-mexico/
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
18 days ago
This is great and I hate being this guy but
@projectsaltbox.bsky.social
noted this last Friday.
projectsaltbox.substack.com/p/nternal-ic...
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Angry
18 days ago
Pritzker demands a $1,700 refund per family for the people of Illinois after Trump's tariffs were ruled unconstitutional. Dems, pay attention. This is your midterms message.
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Josh Marshall
18 days ago
In theory, we know this is true. But "struck down" doesn't quite capture it. These tariffs were obviously and transparently illegal. They were knowingly illegal. It is a stain on the Court that something so obviously illegal was allowed to stand for a year.
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SCOTUS Blocks Trumpâs IEEPA Tariffs in 6-3 Decision
The Supreme Court blocked President Donald Trumpâs signature economic and foreign policy...
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/scotus-blocks-trumps-ieepa-tariffs-in-6-3-decision
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Mike Sacks
18 days ago
SCOTUS says Trump canât impose tariffs under the IEEPA. The breakdownâs a mess, but thatâs the bottom line. Roberts with the liberals, Gorsuch, and BarrettâŠbut the liberals get off the bus when Roberts goes Major Questions Doctrine.
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
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ryan cooper
18 days ago
the glorious constitutional principle of "the president can't fuck with Supreme Court justices' investment portfolios" stands strong
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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal
18 days ago
Last night, I was notified that another person has died in ICE custody. Thatâs 39 people who have died on ICEâs watch during Trumpâs second term. We cannot grow numb to this. There must be immediate oversight and accountability.
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