Hillary Clinton: "I had meetings in some of Saddam Hussein's palaces. It is reminiscent of what we are seeing at the White House. It's insane." /reggieb
Do one good thing
@cats-wink.bsky.social
Retired educator. Pro-science, pro-vaccination, pro-kids/grandkids, pro-America. People are predictable but we underestimate other variables. Born before 332 ppm - now at 432 Emily Carr fan. The artwork is hers. War Canoes, Alert Bay, 1912
What happened The company estimates a refund of around 80 billion yen (about 508 million dollars) for tariffs already paid to U.S.
Sony will recover over 500 million dollars in tariffs, but will not compensate PS5 buyers. - Sinaptica
Sony is set to recover more than 500 million dollars it paid in tariffs to the United States, but it does not plan to return a single cent to the players who bo
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The takeover of Greenland continues. Against the will of the people. Without permission. Elect a rapist and become a rapist country.
Kraig Peck@kraigpeck.bsky.social · 17h ago
This is a bit of a blast from the past but cloth masks were more effective than I realized. Low resistance filters such as cloth masks are better than high resistance K95 due to flow around edges. Cloth masks are better than surgical masks for the same reason. Best of all is the duckbill N95.
SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19)@covid19disease.bsky.social · yesterdayN95 Masks Nearly Perfect at Blocking COVID, UMD Study Shows Researchers Found Even Lower-Performing Masks Were Protective Maskswork today.umd.edu/n95-masks-ne...
This week I found permits and satellite photos suggesting Amazon is backing what could be the largest gas power plant ever built in the US. I just got off the phone with the company and confirmed they're behind it. Full story here: newsletter.cleanview.co/p/scoop-amaz...
Scoop: Amazon Is Behind One of the Largest Planned Gas Power Plants in the US
The company confirmed to Cleanview that it acquired the GW Ranch site in West Texas, where a 7.65 GW gas plant will power its first off-grid AI data center
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Golden State Valkyries forward Gabby Williams: “There’s a lot of discourse around trans athletes and what they can compete in. I would welcome a trans athlete on my team or against my team. Anytime. I don’t think it’s a problem in the world, it’s just another way to kind of attack trans people.”
I have been to Kyiv 3 times since the full scale invasion. I have been supporting Ukraine since 2014. Russia has always been the aggressor. Meanwhile Donald Trump has supported Putin at every damn junction of this hideous war. Deliver a long range sanction to Trump in November.
Have you noticed that Anthony Fauci was treated MUCH HARSHER than Ghislaine Maxwell? And that they had no problem releasing 1000 pages of his private diary while the Epistein files are yet to be released in its entirety?
This one is extremely important. OMG level. Women will die level.
Russ@pappyparki.bsky.social · 2d agoNewly confirmed CDC Director promises that every woman who presents in an emergency room will tracked, care documented for government scrutiny, legality & facts of her private medical care will be subject to government classification. That's fascism newrepublic.com/post/214078/...
Ukrainian Defenders share childhood memories alongside photos from today. 📷: mamatsi_ / lyushenko_ / makedonskiy_bomba / pianist8034 / _soldier_jane_ / anabo_fon / romanticop_ / gansshmid1939 / Threads
The New York Times found dozens of bubbles, tears, and peeling spots in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool just weeks after its $16.4 million renovation. Federal prosecutors say contractors “botched” the project in a rushed push to finish before July 4. Trump blamed vandals,
See Where the Reflecting Pool Renovation Appeared to Fail
A Times analysis found dozens of areas across the pool's new liner that showed tears, bubbles and peeling.
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Breaking News! Code: Bonkers! El Nino continues to spike towards an all-time record high anomaly, with the Nino 3.4 sea surface temperature more than 2.6°C above the 1991-2020 baseline as of August 4th, and more than 1.0C° above the previous August 4th record set in 1997.
The U.S. is undergoing one of the biggest changes to its social safety net in recent history, with huge numbers of people getting dropped from the government’s food assistance program. Nowhere has this been more dramatic than in Arizona. Listen as we explain why and its implications on "The Daily."
Arizona’s Food Stamp Crisis Is Coming for the Rest of the U.S.
The number of people who receive nutrition assistance in Arizona has dropped significantly in a matter of months.
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If your only media was what Trump voters see, you would vote for Trump. Micro-targetting of ads started in 2016. Ai will allow ads to do psychological manipulation on a personal level. You will not know what another person saw unless you talk to them.
Story tellers out there. We need narratives of actual events that can be told using a short-story format. The reflecting pool needs to be told from Hearn’s viewpoint. He was out for his morning bike ride. The reflecting pool had been in the news for having problems, so he took a spin by the pool...
Alongside our entire Congressional delegation—Democrats & Republicans—I'm calling on the President to approve our state's request for an expedited emergency declaration. We need every bit of support we can get to fight the devastating fires we're seeing in Eastern & Central WA.
A case study found a 25-year-old woman developed a rare blood vessel skin condition one month after COVID-19 infection. Researchers say it adds to growing evidence that COVID-19 can damage blood vessels and may trigger unusual vascular conditions after infection. www.cureus.com/articles/521...
Time to revisit this to be reminded what people are capable of. I just learned that McCartney wrote it for the civil rights marchers in the US. In UK a bird is a girl. It is a black girl flying.
BLACKBIRD | The Harvard Opportunes (The Beatles Cover)
YouTube video by The Harvard Opportunes
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Post Fauci witch hunt is a good time to look at some of the research. This study considers mRNA vaccine correlation to deaths over 4 years. In this large French study individuals who were vaccinated had lower death rates from both COVID-19 and other causes. Adults 18 - 59
Massive four-year study finds no increase in deaths linked to COVID-19 mRNA vaccination
Data from 30 million French adults suggests COVID-19 vaccines did not lead to higher death rates. Instead, they reduced them.
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Wasn’t Jared (yes, that Jared) in charge of distributing PPE & ventilators at some point? And Trump favored Red states for them? Let’s get Jared in front of the committee to see if he takes the Fifth. www.npr.org/2020/04/04/8...
Jared Kushner's Role In Coronavirus Response Draws Scrutiny, Criticism
The president's son-in-law and senior adviser has emerged as a key figure in the Trump administration's response to the outbreak.
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Let me be clear, as I didn't write the title. It's not false, just a bit per-emtive globally. That IS explained in this video. I chose this one vs US journalists that are also reporting it, but in a calmer way that isn't realistic. For regular ppl: top 7 repeatedly borrowed from Peter to pay Paul.
The AI bubble just burst
YouTube video by Casey Simpson
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Very excited about this new preprint from @odrake.bsky.social, an incredibly talented MD/PhD student in the lab. 🧵 below, but the TL;DR: we found a rare striatal neuron subtype with unique transcriptional, spatial, and circuit properties that gates opioid reward.
Olivia Drake@odrake.bsky.social · last wk.Our new preprint from @daylab.bsky.social characterizes Chst9-MSNs, a specialized NAc population with high Oprm1 expression and opioid sensitivity that is required for fentanyl reward learning. Excited to share this work! 🧠🧬 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
The lab theory is v hard to reconcile w/evidence: So, two (2 lineages initially) infected WIV researchers didn't infect anyone in their community or around WIV (invisible masks?). They went to the market to pet (?) mammals, left traces of SARS2, coughed on people. Then put invisible? masks back on.
Stephen Nuñez@socio-steve.bsky.social · last wk.I still don't understand the purpose of this conspiracy theory exactly. Why would everyone be trying to cover up that the virus (which was clearly not bioengineered) was loosed through a lab leak as opposed to spread in wet markets?
