In a study following 23 million people age 18-59 (pretty young) for 4 years…despite the fact that the ones who got the COVID vaccine were overall older and sicker at baseline, they not only had 74% lower risk of dying from COVID than the unvaccinated but 25% lower risk of dying from any other cause!

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

This is extremely me lol

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Mamdani rescinded every executive order issued by Eric Adams after Adams's indictment, but still the "New York Times" is focusing exclusively on two of those orders that had to do with Israel. There is someone singling out Israel here. And it isn't Zohran Mamdani.

How many bets the Trump administration echoes the blunders of early 2000s US strategy by going for Cuba before they have gotten a grip on matters in Venezuela?

Friendly mention for anyone, if you want thoughtfulness and honesty this might be helpful. The wonderful and wise “Read this when things fall apart” edited by @mskellymhayes.bsky.social is meeting the moment

Wer sich neben Venezuela jetzt mit weiteren Regionen beschäftigen möchte, in denen ein politisch-militärisch erzeugtes und weltpolitisch toleriertes oder aktiv unterstütztes Machtvakuum die Lebensumstände der dortigen Menschen nachhaltig beeinträchtigt hat, (...)

This too We get to control where it goes and implement our sanctions and embargoes when we own it. bsky.app/profile/annd...

“It’s weird. We don’t need oil” Who is we. The people? Yeah. The war industry? No. The construction industry? No. Also, any market that is outside of US influence is an opportunity for plunder and profit. An opportunity for a new round of accumulation. Minerals. Tourism. Consumers. Laborers.

It’s a beautiful day to read Lenin and Rosa Luxemburg

Regime change in Afghanistan to remove the Taliban resulted in the return of the Taliban Regime change in Iraq to remove Saddam Hussein resulted in the rise of Daesh (ISIS) Regime change in Libya to remove Ghadaffi resulted in chaos and a decade plus of civil war 1/3

„In other words, no country is actually sovereign. Nations gets to keep their governments only as long as the U.S. says so. Under those circumstances, it’s difficult to see why any country would trust the United States to negotiate with it in good faith, or to honor any agreement it makes.“

Nothing about these guys is subtle, I’ll give them that

For other countries it is unfortunately seriously worth thinking about how in two successive cases in a row the United States seemingly has used negotiations as a feint from the very beginning while preparing devastating and senseless bombing campaigns which they execute no matter what

In some ways it was more noticeable today because most Democrats were actually pretty good today. Schumer and Jeffries are unique in how out of step they are with the party, and this isn't the first time.

there is no constituency that needs you to fall all over yourself to call Maduro illegitimate before you dare criticize Trump. Voters have been down this road before. No one thought Saddam Hussein was a nice guy. Criticism of Maduro at this stage correctly reads as a defense of Trump to most people.

We condemn Trump’s illegal war on Venezuela. Read our full statement: www.dsausa.org/statements/d...

Good thread on the many motives behind Maduro’s kidnapping

Rubio is claiming that they did not need Congress permission because it was a law enforcement mission. The US is behaving as a global police state, extending its own arbitrary legal decisions to the whole world. This is not a problem just for Venezuela.

What JD Vance really means by this is that Maduro is bound by US laws but Trump is not.

Screaming "wtf" and waiting for a spontaneous uprising is going to discourage you. There won't be a spontaneous uprising. That's just not where the people are at. Organize for the long term. Build community. Build resilience. Have a strategy for whatever corner of this thing you're working on.

I think of this a lot. Mostly because my favorite thing to say is that knowing who to be mad at is praxis. But it's also difficult for people to know currently because there's no identifiable leadership on the Lefts to clearly articulate this. The fascists constantly tell people who to be mad at.

Oh God

Days after his third dementia screening in six months the president of the United States, who is an open pedophile, abducts a foreign head of state

Dems are making the exact same mistake with Maduro that they've been making for years on immigration. When you start by granting the legitimacy of the goal (ie. Closed borders or capturing a foreign despot), then the only ground left to fight on is who will pursue the goal with more vigor & passion

Everything is horrifically bad and stupid. The best you can hope for, the highest ambition, is to make a popular post wittily pointing out how bad and stupid things are. People will cite it for years as things continue being horrifically bad and stupid.

babe wake up, they're doing insider trading on war crimes

Washington Post celebrates Trump's lawless, imperial terrorism by swiping at NYC's new mayor.

How it started /// How it’s going on the ‘non-interventionist’ Gen-Z Right

Chicago!

This is a massive massive deal: by decree Milei has authorised the SIDE, Argentina's national intelligence org, to carry out arrests and detentions and allowed it to receive assistance from the armed forces. for those who don't know CELS is a leading human rights org in Argentina

Trump getting away with this without consequences not only will embolden him to take similar actions against countries like Cuba and Greenland but it will almost certainly encourage him to start trying it at home too. What’s *really* stopping him from arresting a sitting mayor or governor?

As with everything, they have no fucking plan at all. They act on impulse and whatever looks “tough” on social media and then just think that by itself will manifest the world they want. That makes them fundamentally weak and incompetent but it also makes them incredibly dangerous.

They were looking at twitter not after, not before, but DURING the airstrikes

Wow. Macron goes full regime change, doesn’t even mention blatantly illegal kidnapping of Maduro or attacks on cities.

climate implications of what's happening now (US controlling venezuela's oil reserves) are unimaginably bad

People who feel compelled to point out that Maduro was a shitty leader before condemning US imperialism are getting it backwards. If he had been better for Venezuela, the US, if anything, would probably have gotten rid of him much sooner.

Jesus Christ unsere Regierung ist sogar zu feige, das Ende der internationalen Ordnung irgendwie noch mit Würde zu beklagen. Wie klein kann man sich eigentlich machen, bevor man komplett verschwindet.

Anita Anand unless you want this to be the response to the annexation of Canada, you might want to rethink your approach. Because you are a primary Trump target. He even reiterated in the press conference that “drugs come from Canada too”

The U.S. attack killed and wounded human beings in #Venezuela. Here's the first report I've seen. @ferrerbreda.bsky.social @garrettepps.bsky.social

People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.

Entering our Too Lazy to Manufacture Consent era

"Cognitive amplifier tools" son it's a Teddy Ruxpin that makes teenagers commit suicide.

One thing I wrote about here is how technology has made buses *way* more convenient while techno-futurists were obsessed with flying taxis and self-driving cars.

This is the "testing the waters" phase of the playbook. The GOP ecosystem targets groups like Somalis, Haitians, and trans people specifically because they've calculated that the average person's passive disapproval won't ever turn into active defense. They're exploiting public apathy.

The AI bubble and why organized labor is the answer youtube.com/watch?v=XEPC...

100 stories about what Israel thinks, none about how MUSLIMS WHO LIVE IN NYC think about having a Muslim Mayor. Nothing to see here.

Here is the editor of Tablet agreeably reposting someone calling nonwhite NYC immigrants "worthless biotrash." It's astonishing how quickly this stuff has escaped containment