First Amendment and Boobs

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First Amendment and Boobs

@xman592

Progressive leftist. Armchair scientist. Hand hygiene, ventilation, HEPA, N95s for vulnerable. Non-N95 masks and SD placebo against aerosol. #Marianne2024

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First Amendment and Boobs@xman592·15 Kas

I'm a so-called "covid centrist". Here are my views: - Vaccines work tremendously well to prevent severe disease and death, and boosters work to prevent it in ages 60 and over - Non-N95 masks are only marginally effective in reducing spread, N95s much better to protect wearer

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First Amendment and Boobs@xman592·11 May

@j_g_allen I don't necessarily agree with the idea of "mildly PCR positive" being an idiotic concept. That's the problem with raw PCR results-it doesn't distinguish between high and low viral loads. Additionally, "mild PCR positive" is a real concept-it means "high cycle count".

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Joseph Allen@j_g_allen·11 May

“mildly” PCR positive 🤦‍♂️

HHS@HHSGov

HHS through @ASPRgov and @CDCgov is supporting @StateDept in the repatriation of 17 American citizens from the MV Hondius cruise ship affected by the Andes variant of hantavirus. All 17 are currently en route via @StateDept airlift to the United States, with two of the passengers travelling in the plane's biocontainment units out of an abundance of caution. One passenger currently has mild symptoms and another passenger tested mildly PCR positive for the Andes virus. As of now, the airlift will transport passengers to the ASPR Regional Emerging Special Pathogen Treatment Center (RESPTC) at the University of Nebraska Medical Center/Nebraska Medicine in Omaha, Nebraska before taking the passenger with mild symptoms to a second RESPTC at its final destination. Upon arrival at each facility, each individual will undergo clinical assessment and receive appropriate care and support based on their condition.

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Bernie Sanders@BernieSanders·10 May

In the United States we need hundreds of new hospitals and health clinics. We need thousands of new child care centers. We need millions of new units of affordable housing. We do NOT need to spend another $500 billion on the military for endless wars.

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David Sirota@davidsirota·10 May

He was a sundowning octogenarian who was physically incapable of communicating or selling those policies — writing that out of the story & pretending his unpopularity was because of a subset of popular policies not his personal shortcomings is deliberately dishonest & pathetic. I’m hardly a Biden defender — but attributing his political failures to the handful of majoritarian economic policies that he never communicated is just really deceptive — and you know it’s deceptive, which makes it worse. Just stop.

James Surowiecki@JamesSurowiecki

Joe Biden was the most worker-friendly president of the postwar era. His economic policies quickly got the economy back to full employment. He appointed Lina Khan to run antitrust policy. He saved the NLRB from what Trump had done to it. And he was incredibly unpopular.

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Jason Hickel@jasonhickel·10 May

New data shows *extremely* strong opposition to US foreign military bases. The vast majority of people around the world are opposed to the US having military bases in their country. From the Democracy Perception Index 2026.

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First Amendment and Boobs@xman592·10 May

@mattduss The thing is, Hegseth is actually correct that Iran didn't give up its nuclear ambitions after Midnight Hammer. They gave them up in 2003, 22 years BEFORE Midnight Hammer.

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Matt Duss@mattduss·1 May

It feels insane to have to keep repeating this: The 2007 NIE assessed that Iran ended nuclear weapons-related work in 2003. That assessment has not changed. The claim that this war was necessary to prevent an Iranian nuke is just complete bullshit.

Haley Britzky@halbritz

Hegseth says today Iran "had not given up" their nuclear ambitions after Operation Midnight Hammer last year. Last June, he said Iran's nuclear ambitions "have been obliterated." war.gov/News/Transcrip… In July, Pentagon spox Sean Parnell also said the operation led to "the total obliteration of Iran's nuclear ambitions." war.gov/News/Transcrip…

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Bernie Sanders@BernieSanders·9 May

The function of a rational healthcare system is NOT to provide huge profits to insurance companies. It is to guarantee healthcare to all as a human right. We must no longer be the only major country without universal healthcare. We must pass Medicare for All.

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Aaron Regunberg@AaronRegunberg·9 May

They’re saying the country elected a strongman who promised to tear down our institutions because a critical mass of Americans no longer believed in our institutions. Obama bailing out banks and letting corporations run half his admin probably contributed to that loss of faith.

Natalie Wynn@ContraPoints

It’s become a standard leftist view that Trumpism was a backlash to Obama not being socialist enough and I… don’t think that’s what happened lol

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Ian Copeland, PhD@IanCopeland5·8 May

But that is not likely to happen. Viruses with high mortality rates and low transmissibility—like hantavirus—typically do not cause pandemics. There is a reason we all aren't dying from Ebola right now...

𝕷𝖚𝖈𝖎𝖋𝖊𝖗@LucifersTweetz

Fun fact: If hantavirus ever spread globally like COVID, its 35-40% death rate would be catastrophic. COVID was under 1% and still killed over 7 million people worldwide.

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Saikat Chakrabarti for Congress@saikatc·10 May

Universal healthcare, universal childcare, ending corp money in politics, banning congressional stock trading, cutting military budget are all popular ideas. But if the current Dem Party wins a trifecta, we still won't get them. That is why we have to change the party.

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Infectious Disease Ethics@ID_ethics·27 Oca

😷🏥What is the effect of stopping hospital mask mandates? "Using a robust quasi-experimental approach, we found no evidence that removal of a staff/visitor mask-wearing policy had a significant effect on the rate of hospital-acquired SARS-CoV-2" journalofhospitalinfection.com/article/S0195-…

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Quincy Institute@QuincyInst·8 May

"Many Americans have reached a stark conclusion: the cost of primacy is no longer sustainable & no longer serves US interests. A strategy that depends on military dominance everywhere, all the time, inevitably means being at war somewhere, all the time." -@tparsi in @RStatecraft

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Stephen Wertheim@stephenwertheim·8 May

Some transatlanticists argued for decades that the United States had to dominate Europen security so that it could project military power in the greater Middle East. Now that chicken is coming home to roost.

Department of State@StateDept

SECRETARY RUBIO: If one of the reasons why we are in NATO is to have the ability for forces to be deployed in Europe so we could project to other contingencies, and that’s no longer the case, then we have a problem.

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Branko Marcetic@BMarchetich·8 May

The existence of this piece - published by one of Israel's most celebrated columnists, in maybe its most well-known liberal paper - will simply not compute for many people, who have been relentlessly told that Zionism is Judaism, and that any criticism of it is inherently bigoted

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Dylan Williams@dylanotes·8 May

This has been the consistent assessment of U.S. and allied intelligence agencies for two decades, but if Fox News wants to gussy it up so it hits harder with its right-leaning audience, have at it.

Fox News Politics@foxnewspolitics

INTEL BOMBSHELL: Ex-counterterrorism chief says US spy agencies agreed Iran wasn't building a nuke before war started foxnews.com/politics/us-in…

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Sam Haselby@samhaselby·8 May

The MSNBC historians got MAGA wrong too. The Resistance Historians took a prominent role "explaining" MAGA. Their theory, racism is its distinguishing feature, is at odds with Tr*mp '24 putting together the most multiracial GOP coalition in at least 60 years.

Jónatham F. Moriche 🇺🇦 🇵🇸@jfmoriche

Este ensayo de @jasonwblakely sobre el fracaso de la politología cuantitivista y la teoría de la elección racional para lidiar con fenómenos políticos contemporáneos como el trumpismo es atronadoramente cierto y oportuno. Debe leerse muchísimo harpers.org/archive/2026/0… vía @Harpers

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David Wallace-Wells@dwallacewells·9 May

Viri Ríos@Viri_Rios

The world hasn’t noticed yet, but Mexico’s recent drop in homicides may be showing that there is an alternative to Bukele’s model. Very happy to share my first piece for @ProSyn project-syndicate.org/commentary/mex…

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Ken Klippenstein@kenklippenstein·9 May

How is Marjorie Taylor Greene less of a sucker than the most powerful Democrat in the country x.com/mtgreenee/stat…

Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸@mtgreenee

I really don’t care about the UFO files. I just don’t. I’m so sick of the “look at the shiny object” propaganda while they wage foreign wars, let rapist and pedophiles run free, and ruin the value of our dollar. Unless they roll out live aliens and test demo UFOs or actually admit what we know this really is then I have way better things to do on this Friday.

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Saikat Chakrabarti for Congress@saikatc·9 May

Labour won in backlash to conservative. And today, Reform is winning in backlash to Labour. If we can't use democracy to improve people's lives, far right parties are going to keep rising. We should heed this lesson in America. If Democrats are not able to make the deep, structural changes necessary to root out the corruption in politics and make an economy that actually improves people's lives, we won't be able to beat authoritarianism in the long run. We may win on the backlash to Trump this cycle, but it's going to come back for us. I'm running because doing the scale of change necessary is going to require major surgery on our entire system. It won't happen with politics as usual. We have a moment in this election to make that happen. We have to seize it.

Politics UK@PolitlcsUK

🚨 NEW: Labour has now lost more than 1,000 council seats ➡️ REF: 1224 (+1222) 🔴 LAB: 764 (-1071) 🟠 LDM: 733 (+90) 🔵 CON: 657 (-474) 🟢 GRN: 386 (+268) ⚪️ OTH: 170 (-32) 111/136 councils 3934/4992 seats

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The Lever@LeverNews·9 May

Graham Platner owns AR-15s. He opposes an assault weapons ban. And he says Democrats are missing the bigger picture on gun violence. “If we really gave a shit about gun deaths… we would be dealing with this in a much more holistic fashion.”