@JamieMetzl If the US succeeds in Iran, then Trump has plans for Canada, Greenland, Cuba, and Venezuela. Trump's vision of Greater North America isn't a foreign policy I can support.
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Kevin Crawford
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I am a Democrat and a lifelong human rights advocate. I very much hope America is as successful as possible in our war with Iran and that the Iranian regime will be neutered. I fully support our troops. Any Americans who think otherwise should be condemned.
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@itsmarkmoran Hey Mark, you compare yourself to Patrick Henry. How have you put your life on the line for a principle?
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Today, I am putting Virginia & America First, to announce that I am running as an Independent for U.S. Senate.
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@dkupiecki @hkakeya DKup is a boob. He's one of the extremists who believes there is zero evidence that the virus was manipulated. As if Baltimore softening his phrasing means the furin site has no evidentiary value.
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This occurred while he was an active virologist. As I said, what matters is not character, but whether one is retired. He could say the CGG-CGG codon in the FCS is the smoking gun of a lab leak because he was free from COI. Even Angela Rasmussen might be honest once she retires.
orion77@orion7710
@hkakeya I'm not sure David Baltimore was a model of honesty, even though the 1986 journal "Cell" contained fabricated data generated by his colleague, Thereza Imanishi-Kari, I always wondered if she was under the instructions to do so by Baltimore himself.
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@ydeigin @mattwridley @angie_rasmussen I find it amusing that Rasmussen continues to defend her paper and the importance of the Huanan market in the origin of sars2, especially since she doesn't fully understand the methodology behind the claims. I would like to know how she contributed to the paper.
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I think @angie_rasmussen and I had a pretty civil exchange here — and I appreciate that. COVID origins is one of the most polarized and vicious topics out there, and it doesn’t have to be.
It’s totally fine to disagree and weigh the same set of facts differently — that’s how science works. What matters is engaging with the actual arguments rather than dismissing the people making them.
I think if we had these debates in person rather than on Twitter, we’d all be nicer to each other. Online debating tends to bring out the worst in us. For my part, I’m making a conscious effort to be respectful to people I disagree with. They’re not enemies, just opponents — i.e. just people with opposing views, many of whom deserve respect.
I mean, outside of Covid origins, some of my strongest disagreements (e.g. programmed vs. non-programmed aging) are with people I actually like and cherish. I’m looking at you, @afedintsev 🙂
Yuri Deigin@ydeigin
Thanks for featuring my post and my face so prominently on the cover of your video. I just wish you’d actually addressed it (the post, not the face) in the video. Instead, you frame the lab leak case as “it happened in the same city as a coronavirus lab.” But that’s a caricature strawman of my argument. My point is that it’s not just the location, it’s the timing. This is the very lab that proposed to hunt for SARS-like CoVs with spikes 10-25% divergent from SARS1 and engineer furin cleavage sites into them just a year before the outbreak. That’s a very different argument from “there’s a lab in Wuhan.” I’d welcome you actually engaging with it.
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@angie_rasmussen I would have found this more persuasive if she had screamed the entire post and used more profanity.
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Maybe you heard somewhere that the COVID-19 pandemic started with a lab leak? NO! That is NOT what the evidence shows. It was not a goddamn lab leak.
I’ve had enough. Here is what the evidence shows: it was zoonotic spillover at the market
rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/five-reasons…
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@angie_rasmussen Rasmussen is using an insignificant Republican Party proposal from Texas as clickbait. Does anyone care if the Mills County, Texas, Republican Party proposes a ban on mRNA research? She has missed the spotlight since covid and is looking for her next fix.
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This so called “central dogma of molecular biology” no longer dominates heritability, gene expression, and protein synthesis in Mills County, Texas. No transcription allowed!
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@arenella1 You don't even use the simple terms "most" and "any" correctly. Spare me the scolding and piss off, cunt.
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Most Americans have never traveled outside the US with exception of Caribbean vacations. Unlike Europeans who visit other countries frequently, Americans lack any understanding of how significantly cultural and social norms differ from one country to another. I spent a month in
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@angie_rasmussen Those same people suggesting you shouldn't use your scientific credentials to further your political advocacy would also discourage drunken strawman arguments.
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It gets continually floated that scientists should not be political.
I fucking disagree
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@DerekPederson3 Okay, now I get it- you're just a troll with 💩 for 🧠.
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There was no one more Based than me. But then they called me Woke for doubting the Lab Leak Theory. I have no choice but to become a Woke Dem now. #HowTheRightLostMe
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@DerekPederson3 @Kawasaki_Mom07 Ah, the gutzy truth-teller trope. This guy is so beta that he hasn't found a way to profit from his lies. He freely and proudly advertises his ignorance.
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@Kawasaki_Mom07 I don't have any money to think about. What I have instead are GUTS to tell the truth even when it's unpopular.
The Emperor Has No Clothes.
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The lab leak theory is genuinely just one of the most delusional consensuses in history.
It’s substantially more improbable than the theory that Trump legitimately won the 2020 election and yet it is treated by everyone other than a select few as plausible or even likely.
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@yashar @marklevinshow @marcthiessen Trump will show them how you treat little girls- hit them and hit them hard.
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To give you some sense of where President Trump’s head is right now.
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@JoJoFromJerz @crushtheracists He's an entrance short of a grand entrance.
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This ballroom bullshit is Donald Trump in a nutshell. It’s about the spectacle not the substance.
Sam Stein@samstein
The New York Times takes an architectural look at the coming White House ballroom and finds there is a lot of ornamental stairs to no where and faux windows with bathroom stalls behind them
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@angie_rasmussen Rasmussen discussing the mountain of zoonotic covid evidence published in top journals sounds remarkably like Trump's bid for a Nobel Prize for all the wars he's ended. Trump can't be ignored, but Rasmussen's self-promotion and doubling down can and should be; she's a sunk loss.
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Really interested in seeing how the supposedly smartest people rationalize ignoring a mountain of evidence that we’ve been talking about and publishing in top journals on for years
Derek Pederson 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇻🇪@DerekPederson3
The lab leak theory is genuinely just one of the most delusional consensuses in history. It’s substantially more improbable than the theory that Trump legitimately won the 2020 election and yet it is treated by everyone other than a select few as plausible or even likely.
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@ellenjdasilva @gtconway3d Or you could do math and get the exact answer instead of an approximate.
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Extremely specific life advice: you can convert Fahrenheit to Celsius with the stops on the 6 train.
33 St =0°
42 St=5°
51 St=10°
59 St=15°
Works to 96th St!
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@HQNewsNow Strangely, RFK Jr. failed to recognize the clear nepotism and the necessity for secrecy.
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RFK Jr.: I welcome my friend Linda McMahon, she has become a very close friend. My niece recently signed a contract with WWE, which Linda had a lot to do with
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The sheep has been here since the Neolithic.
It built the wool trade that built medieval Britain.
It funded the abbeys and the cathedrals.
It preserved history on its skin.
It clothed the world.
It maintained the habitats we now spend millions trying to restore.
It provided medicine, cosmetics, and material science from a hillside on grass.
It got into the founding myths, the bedtime rituals, and the language.
It sits, symbolically, under the Lord Chancellor in Parliament.
It changed what a cell could become and gave its name to a country music legend in the process.
In return, we've given it a reputation for being slow, a bit stupid, and not particularly interesting.
The sheep has responded to this assessment by continuing, without comment, to do everything it has always done.
On the same hills.
In the same rain.
Maintaining the same turf.
Passing the knowledge of the land to the next generation in a way no fence or map can replicate.
The sheep does not require your acknowledgment.
It would be nice if it got some.
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.@realDonaldTrump looks and sounds absolutely depleted today. He would hate if you shared these photos taken earlier with your followers.
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@yvessirae 8. People who believe this list is nonsense have crucial thinking skills.
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PSYCHOLOGY FACTS
1. People who shake their legs while sitting?
- Their brain is always running faster than their body.
2. If you talk to your pet like they understand everything...
- Congrats, you have the softest heart ever.
3. Messy room = Mind full of creative ideas
you haven't sorted yet.
4. People who talk to themselves a lot?
- They don't need anyone else to hype them up, their mind is their best friend.
5. The quiet one in the group?
- They notice everything and speak only when it's worth it.
6. If dark humor makes you laugh,
- Your brain is built different - high IQ + zero filter combo.
7. Overthinkers may stress a lot,
- But they're also the ones who feel deeply, care deeply, and create beautifully.
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@AdamKinzinger I wonder what Richard Grenell's colleagues think of him. Probably that he has 💩for🧠 since he thinks we can't see through this construct.
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I would have thought Richard was too busy running the Kennedy Center but then again when the performers all tell you to F off I guess you have time on your hands.
Richard Grenell@RichardGrenell
Abigail Spanberger was known by her colleagues in the IC as a failure because she was unable to grasp the focus of the CIA without partisanship. She was frustrated by the mission of the CIA and the demand to keep politics out of the job - ultimately she left to be an open Democrat activist. Her colleagues complained about her attempts to politicize intel at every turn.
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@AdamKinzinger Ah, the "not a true Scottsman" fallacy. At least he didn't include a dick pic.
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