Patrick Brennan
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Health/law/policy fan. Rooting for @LaticsOfficial to come back on American TV. Tweets no longer from a BlackBerry but still on a phone keyboard.
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In the year since net neutrality was repealed, the U.S. has gone from 12th in the world for Internet speed to 7th.
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DC police casually having to alert my neighborhood that a judge has released a person onto the streets who attacked someone with a machete on H Street on Sunday.
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WATCH: President Trump OWNS Candace Owens with facts and logic.
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All Christians devote their lives to building the Kingdom of God. (This kind of cheap, ignorant misinterpretation of Barrett saying she believes what Catholics believe -- here, just that we must effect justice and peace in this world -- is a preview of things to come.)
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Uh Claudine Gay appears to have copied a couple phrases in her dissertation dedication from someone else's dedication? This takes... effort.
SCOOP: Harvard today received a complaint outlining over 40 allegations of plagiarism against its embattled president, Claudine Gay.
The document (available online) suggests a pattern of misconduct more extensive than has been previously reported. 🧵
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Many people are saying one line here is significantly higher than the others.
Inflation has picked up in many countries as the global economy restarts after the pandemic. 9/
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A perfect encapsulation of how broken American rail and transpotation planning is: former chair of the CA high-speed rail project saying... rapidly connecting two super-cities is "not in the public interest". Goal is instead some quixotic transformation of the whole state.
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Virgil: Dido has died, impaled on your sword.
Aeneas: She just died? Wow. I didn't know that...She led an amazing life. What else can you say? She was an amazing woman, whether you agree or not. She was an amazing woman who led an amazing life. I'm actually sad to hear that.
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[Narrator voice] "That's not what real freedom means."
You should be able to be lazy and have fun and experiment with stuff and make mistakes. Real freedom means being able to choose to do that stuff, or not do it, without having to be rich.
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Precision medicine is absolutely wild: a 10-year-old boy was dying of a lymphatic disorder doctors suspected was genetic. They put the suspected mutation into 10 sets of zebrafish, and tried different drugs on each. One of the drugs worked -- on the zebrafish, and then the boy.
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A responsible, public-spirited way for the media to present this is "Treasury sent checks to 1 million people that it didn't know were dead because it was the fastest way to get desperately needed checks to 150+ million alive people." That's the actual story.
Wow: Treasury sent $1.4 BILLION in coronavirus stimulus payments to a million dead people, congressional watchdog finds. By
@ericawerner
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Incredible journalism by PolitiFact here: "We asked [LCPS official] if the county has spent funds on critical race theory beyond the $34,167 for the seminars. "No, that’s about it," he said."
Well then, nothing more to look into!
.
@PolitiFact
is calling out
@WinsomeSears
for “falsely claiming” that LCPS paid “about $300,000” for critical race theory-inspired training.
Well, your humble Poynter alumni is here with receipts. And LCPS DID pay upwards of $300k for such training
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@andrewjbernie
@guypbenson
Yeah I think the thing is, there haven't been so many similar genocides. That's kind of the thing about the Holocaust.
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I am curious what percentage of vulnerable Americans who test positive are aware that there's a drug that reduces their odds of being hospitalized/dying by 90 percent -- a drug they need to find about about start taking within the next several days.
Pfizer's (PFE) Paxlovid Covid Pill Is Easier to Get as Omicron Fades Away
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Does this mean that, on January 14, a video reporting claims of person-to-person spread would have been removed?
“Anything that goes against W.H.O will be removed from YouTube”
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki
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This is a bizarrely common and wrong take. It might be right or wrong for FDA to authorize AstraZeneca. But the crucial decision is FDA's: AZ hasn't applied because FDA has told them what they expect and AZ doesn't have it yet. The debate is about that standard FDA has given AZ.
Gotta love all of these “stupid FDA, who do they think they are, why are they refusing to authorize AstraZeneca?” takes from dudes with opinions.
AstraZeneca has not yet submitted an application for EUA to the FDA.
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Meanwhile the CDC's mask guidance still says don't use N95s because they need to be reserved for healthcare workers.
@michaelmina_lab
On March 1st, the American Mask Manufacturers Association wrote to the White House that their members had 233 million N95 respirators ready to ship and could produce 298 million more per month. And with $75 million in funding scale to 3 billion per month.
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@ZaidJilani
@AlecMacGillis
Yeah, quite a chart, but it also shows that the rate of car thefts seems to be about twice now what it was pre-2020, excluding Kias and Hyundais.
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Always enjoy when people left of center raise this dynamic, which is in fact just complaining about means-tested human services programs, but here we have the nice added twist that he's also complaining about the existence of Social Security.
@GovRonDeSantis
New York *sends $23 billion more* to US government than we get back (
#1
donor state)
Florida *gets $51 billion more* from US governement than it gives (
#3
welfare state)
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Actual quotes here, unreal:
"I was measured, I didn't rush to judgment."
"But you said that [Shifa hospital] building had been flattened."
"Oh yeah, well, I got that wrong."
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I love how this video is just like different angle shots of the same 10 or so skyscrapers that are equivalent to like, the Philly skyline. That's your greatest city: a Philly competitor.
Moscow makes a more pleasant impression than any city in the USA - Tucker Carlson during his speech at the World Government Summit in Dubai.
“It came as a shock to me that Moscow, where I had never been before, the largest European city with 13 million people, is much nicer than
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CDC's chart here is confusing if you're not attentive enough to comprehend the footnote.
But I know Sean is, since he blocked me when I pointed it out.
He was just hoping you wouldn't notice he's applying workaday political hackery to a once-in-a-lifetime health crisis.
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@Indian_Bronson
I have little doubt some would want to try this in a man at some point but this was for a woman with a malformed womb.
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Broad-based sanctions against Venezuela were imposed in 2018/19. Meawhile, level of encounters with Venezuelan migrants at the southern border was up 73 percent from 2021 to 2022. Timeline's a bit off here!
AOC: In this specific instance, sanctions that were originally authored by Marco Rubio took a large part in the driving of populations to our southern border, shortly after those sanctions were enacted, we started seeing dramatic increases
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"Walensky largely crafted the new guidance with ... a small circle of top advisers, eschewing the traditional process of rigorous scientific vetting by experts at the CDC who would in turn also consult with outside public health partners and experts."
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People in D.C. are chaining themselves to bulldozers to prevent a water filtration plant and a closed park no one can use from being turned into housing and actual park space.
Demolition of
@SaveMcMillan
site has been stopped by bold activists locking themselves to dozers right now.
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@aaronsibarium
The Missouri bill was potentially unclearly drafted, but definitely carelessly reported on, and in any case has been revised: There is no effort to legally restrict treatments for ectopic pregnancies; this is d*s*nformation by pro-choicers.
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Interestingly, nowhere in this piece is there evidence cited of how variants are breaking through vaccines. It could happen -- but this framing suggests it *is*, which it's not.
“The virus is changing too quickly, new variants are spreading too easily and vaccination is proceeding too slowly for herd immunity to be within reach anytime soon.”
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If there were no electoral college, campaigns (and voters!) would have been doing entirely different things for the last four years and producing completely different results.
If there were no electoral college, we would be having a completely different conversation right now, and drawing completely different political conclusions. It's amazing how much voting systems matter.
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@timgill924
@bayareahausfrau
@AnnieLowrey
Genuine question: What new FDA rules to raise food quality are you talking about?
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While other countries that imposed southern Africa travel bans have lifted theirs, ours remains in place because apparently the U.S. government must move at the pace of a sloth even when it comes to stroke-of-the-pen executive proclamations.
The travel ban on South Africa didn’t work, and didn’t even buy us time. But it reordered geopolitical cooperation when it comes to public health. Hopefully an instructive lesson for future on how we treat nations that do the right thing, identifying new pathogens, alerting world
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@nytdavidbrooks
@AlecMacGillis
You have actually inadvertently hit on a policy issue, just a rather narrower one, which is that airports allegedly have anti-price gouging clauses in their vendor contracts but they are not really enforced, especially in the NY area.
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@raagagrawal
@dylanmatt
Yes, I agree with Dylan's complaint but a productive outlet for this frustration would be follow-up Voxposting on why FDA has not actually implemented the 2014 Sunscreen Innovation Act.
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I apologize to my fans for misspelling "transportation" in the first tweet but it seems worse that the former head of CA HSR misspelled "choo choo" in the course of saying the point of his job was not fast choo choos.
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Totally baffled by trying to make a political issue out of this. Shrinkflation is just a way companies raise prices. So, uh, he's saying food prices are still rising rapidly?
While you were Super Bowl shopping, did you notice smaller-than-usual products where the price stays the same?
Folks are calling it Shrinkflation and it means companies are giving you less for every dollar you spend.
I’m calling on the big consumer brands to put a stop to it.
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Seeing this go around and it is not correct that
@HHSgov
is going to stop doing daily death counting/reporting. This change relates to HHS Protect, which gathers data from hospitals (and other sources). It is not the main way COVID deaths are reported.
🚨BREAKING🚨
US Government to end daily COVID death reporting
A document issued issued Jan 6 by the US Health and Human Services tells hospitals they are no longer required to report daily COVID-19 deaths to the federal government starting Feb 2.
Story broken by
@DataDrivenMD
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In thinking about who's committing the "war crimes" in the Israel-Hamas context (which is somewhat separate from the question of what's right!),
@DavidAFrench
's writing was very clarifying for me:
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I see that the author of the Washington Post's "How to Read This Chart" finds this -- including the largest one-year homicide increase ever, per CDC -- to be "murky."
No "demonstrated surge" -- just ≈10,000 more murders in the past two years!
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@WFFLES
This isn't even accurate -- e.g., the Surgeon General started recommending flu shots for pregnant women in the 1960s, so that should be on the 1986 graphic.
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@mzivanovic
The point of HSR is not to connect rural areas. Sorry. I think we should help them in lots of ways but a very fast train to connect them is kind of fundamentally not a good way to do it. (While focusing on a very fast train between major cities is a good way to reduce emissions!)
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Tonight Obama will say we're "stopping ISIL's advance," and I assume he will not use this map.
http://t.co/uyXwDtUVTK
http://t.co/NwRmNt8cwn
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@AndrewKerrNC
@gregg_re
And where once its use in the 2010s was considered notable, now it rested in obscurity until the 2020s?
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Good for de Blasio. Amazing how people constantly complained Trump should use the DPA more when he used it plenty, and yet we hear virtually no calls for Biden to use it when he should be (and promised he'd do so more than Trump!).
Mayor de Blasio asks President Biden to invoke the Defense Production Act, says, rightly, that NYC needs more at-home tests, more monoclonal antibody treatments, and fast-tracking of Pfizer’s antiviral pill, Paxlovid.
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Body: "The impact of stricter immigration policy on grocery costs would be 'very small.'"
Headline:
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This explanation of why you couldn't just sly the F-22s out of the way of Hurricane Michael is also an interesting dive into the insane sensitivities of modern fighter aircraft and their maintenance:
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Classic 60 Minutes energy to give new energy to this story after the CIA itself debunked the idea that these are real attacks. Still, airing the theory that someone would put this kind of effort into giving the DHS deputy COS an off day is really a new level of absurdity.
Miles Taylor, the Trump admin’s DHS chief of staff, is also speaking out for the first time about a “strange sound” he heard late at night in his DC home in 2018. He says another incident occurred 5 weeks later, leaving him with “concussion-like symptoms”
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Nah, perfect. RT
@DaraghQuinn
The Irish Times could have phrased the headline a *bit* better tbh
http://t.co/qfW457N8BH
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I love J.D., but military vaccine mandates make sense. The military, of all institutions, needs to prevent its members from getting sick. Yes, 20 year olds have virtually nil chance of bad COVID outcomes, but getting sick is disruptive; they require flu shots for the same reason.
I talked to the dad of a junior Marine officer a couple of days ago. Told me his son got the jab against his wishes because he worries the net effect of the mandates is to turn the military woke. He wanted to stay and fight back.
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Self-community-note: this email was not from
@DCPoliceDept
itself but from a member of our police district's civilian advisory council (suspect it was flagged for them by MPD but who knows).
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Turned on CNN to try to see wat's going on with Russia and they have Anderson Cooper on camera from Newfoundland talking about the submarine, absolutely classic, keep doing you CNN
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Scott's book has the single most devastating brief on China's misleading work around COVID that I've read anywhere. Marshals a lot of damning evidence I hadn't seen about what they obviously knew, and just how early they knew it.
Two years ago today, from the World Health Organization. January, 22, 2020 -- one month after the outbreak in Wuhan was first publicly identified.
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Obviously you do need to correct for generation sizes but I don't see why Millennials having the same amount of wealth as Boomers did at the same age is all that good when the economy is now much, much bigger in real terms.
Interesting. That famous viral graph about boomers having all the money turns out to be false.
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@LHSummers
@Harvard
Right -- if student groups had essentially said "what happened to George Floyd was no big deal," there is no question Harvard administrators would have condemned them. Probably organized day-long coloring book and therapy sessions.
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@AJDelgado13
@kalihollowayftw
"No fucking way should they get to say they are Harvard alumni or have a Harvard degree." Well, the administration decided otherwise by offering Harvard master's degrees through the extension school. Maybe another dumb short-sighted decision they've made, take it up with them!
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@espiers
Well, coincidentally, we are dealing with extremist terrorists here. I don't know what you call putting munitions under a hospital or rockets inside a school besides, uh, using kids as human shields.
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It was Elizabeth Warren and Chuck Grassley who got legislation passed to force FDA to deliver this very meaningful win -- they deserve the credit here. (The Biden admin probably did keep the pressure on FDA to get it done, but it happened because of the Warren/Grassley bill.)
Requiring prescriptions to buy hearing aids is an unnecessary burden and a barrier to entry for new firms, driving up costs.
Today, we’re fixing that. By Oct, people can buy many hearing aids OTC, saving an avg $2,876/pair.
Lower costs. More competition.
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I feel like she built her career off of... being an actress?
Mayim Bialik has built a career off exploiting the anxieties of vulnerable new parents and using her academic credentials to peddle pseudoscience. She should not be the new host of “Jeopardy.”
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Allowing Swedish liquor stores to open on Saturdays "increased total crimes on Saturdays in affected areas by a statistically significant 20.8% among men aged 20 through 49."
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We've quietly taken a seriously dangerous vice, once hard to access, and put it at every American adult's fingertips. We're only starting to know the human cost.
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Probably many more things to say about this study on infant mortality in Texas, but seems like a big one is that the AP never mentions it did not find a statistically significant increase in its counterfactual analysis.
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@MarcACaputo
@rickhasen
@chrislhayes
"Mr. Lopez told the victim he was not allowed to walk on the sidewalk and pass out fliers in his neighborhood"?
Are we to assume the perpetrator would have had the same issue with someone passing out fliers for a pizza place?
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@hunt4change
That chart does not say "nearly a third of men under 30 have not had sex." It says nearly a third of them have not had it in the past year.
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Unreal.
Reading about remote work in the WSJ and can't get over this excerpt.
When the CEO invites you to lunch...I feel like that's a no-brainer...
Thoughts?
(piece by
@callumborchers
in
@WSJ
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@balajis
@DavidSacks
Summers is expressing skepticism of the reliability of forecasters, doesn't say anything about the reliability of BLS.
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@pegobry
@bdomenech
I am completely bewildered by this idea that we would not think the coronavirus is a deadly pandemic if there hadn't been this one paper from ICL.
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The New York Times appears to have discovered roommates.
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Such absolutely rotten nonsense. The data is incredibly clear that the mRNA vaccines very effectively reduce hospitalization and death. Berenson was right, before most admitted it, that effectiveness against infection did wane. But these are just lies.
Alex Berenson tells Fox viewers: "The mRNA COVID vaccines need to be withdrawn from the market. No one should get them. No one should get boosted. No one should get double boosted. They are a dangerous and ineffective product at this point."
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@jbarro
Truly incredible how we have failed to institutionalize any better attitude at all on this stuff; you're seeing it with monkeypox testing and vaccines. It's one thing to worry about paperwork in ordinary times; you *must* have a way to bypass it in emergencies.
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It is actually nothing.
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@chbooksdc
I've patronized your shop plenty of times but I'm not interested in returning for a helping of lame condescension.
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@moetkacik
They're not replacing the historic train hall. That open modern space will replace everything between the historic train hall and the trains. (Which is also kind of a waste of money from a transit perspective but not what those juxtaposed pictures suggest.)
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Yep, we do have the act-like-infants thing down for sure.
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@CharlesFLehman
@jbarro
I am so baffled as to how he said he doesn't want to live past 75 because he won't be able to climb mountains and be an intellectual force, but he's happy to live his remaining years teaching kids in N95s, not dining out.
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@esaagar
But wow: "One user said she would “go down in history as an appalling person.”" Really sick, sick stuff the Washington Post found!
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This is horrifically bad-faith framing by WaPo's religion reporter. Monsignor Pope held Mass four times a weekend, scrupulously in line with D.C. public health protocols. He was putting his life on the line for his flock, and she yanks a theological point out of context.
DC Catholic priest who urged people not to “cower in fear” of the novel coronavirus has contracted covid-19. About 250 staff and parishioners to self-quarantine for two weeks.
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@stuartpstevens
Sorry, what? He's explicitly including our own country in the critique, it's right there in the tweet! And I have no idea why talking about his family's struggles also affects the issue?
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The fact that it would even seem plausible to claim there's a market for cosmetic surgery insurance speaks to how strange our idea of the role of health insurance has become.
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Unreal
Planned Parenthood’s work exemplifies the Catholic social justice tradition.
#100YearsStrong
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This is why CDC needs reform. This is the institution's vaunted journal that, as was obvious but especially well documented here, pumped out a lot of totally half-baked conclusory studies during the pandemic.
UCSF epidemiologists analyze MMWR pubs on mask effectiveness. <15% w/statistically significant results. No studies randomized, but half drew causal conclusions. Level of evidence generated was low. Conclusions drawn most often unsupported by data.
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This is also pathetic because Thomas is likely the thinker *most* distinct from the rest of the Court's conservatives.
This is a disgusting smear by the Washington Post against the great Justice Thomas.
Justice Thomas has a distinguished 30-year record on the Court, but to the Post, he merely "resemble[s] the thinking of White conservatives."
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I'm sorry, "the science" does not tell you that you have to pause vaccinations during a pandemic while investigating a potential ultra-rare side effect.
Attn Twitter skeptics playing the role of health experts today: "I don't think it was pulling the trigger too quickly," Dr. Fauci said of the FDA and DCD decision to implement a pause on the J&J vaccine. "We are ruled by the science and not any other consideration."
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But whatever, this is another very important opportunity for
@JVLast
and
@BulwarkOnline
to attack the pro-life movement.
It sure *looks* like it’s more about control than “life.” New from
@JVLast
:
What Is the Pro-Life Movement’s Reaction to the Rise in Infant Mortality in Texas?
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That awkward pause there was pretty emblematic of how dependent Clinton/Kaine are on just attacking Trump.
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@JohnArnoldFndtn
Perhaps the most ridiculous bit is lamenting that if a course takes 30+ hours a week (which I think is the best indicator that it is still a serious class), the students may not be able to do enough extracurriculars. Insane. It's (supposed to be) a university, not a social club!
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All-time Why It Matters from
@axios
this AM. ("Go deeper: why Nazi victory would have spelled doom for the Roosevelt administration's priorities.")
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@JohnJHarwood
Do you think it matters that he's... telling the truth? Do you think race (really, being not-white) should be given more weight than many serious health conditions in allocating potentially life-saving treatment?
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@evanhill
Your reason to think this claim is misinformation appears to be just... that an Israeli commander said it?
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Jeb's point about the need to fire incompetent VA bureaucrats --
@marcorubio
has already done something about that:
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And folks should read the court record, which shows this was slightly misstated by the email (not by MPD), to be an alleged attack on someone -- he merely is alleged to have pulled a machete, brandished it at people, and threatened to kill them.
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Hate to inform you but most of the comments about the Secret Service recently have not been about women's involvement
Statement regarding recent comments questioning the presence of women in law enforcement:
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Contracts, the new white supremacy. World would be better off without them.
"It's almost like the contract is the new slave chains."
"Athletes are literally the new slaves."
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Pretty fascinating explanation of what might be the actual bottleneck at the Port of LA, and why it can be fixed with some regulatory flexibilities.
Here's a simple plan that
@potus
and
@GavinNewsom
partnered with the private sector, labor, truckers, and everyone else in the chain must implement TODAY to overwhelm the bottleneck and create yard space at the ports so we can operate against
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