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RFK Jr. spent years stoking fear and mistrust of vaccines. Here's who gets hurt by Kennedy's work (apnews.com)

Deep in their grief a few months later, Gina and Padrig Fahey received news that shocked them to their core: A favorite photo of their beloved son was plastered on the cover of a book that falsely argues COVID-19 vaccines caused a spike of sudden deaths among healthy young people....

Law firm rescinds job offers to Harvard students who signed Israel letters (www.nbcnews.com)

Top U.S. law firm Davis Polk announced in an internal email that it had rescinded letters of employment for three law students at Harvard and Columbia universities who signed on to organizational statements about Israel, one of the latest responses to open letters from university groups about the Israel-Hamas conflict that have...

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Institutions of higher learning are only allowed to pump out cogs for the Machine, not educated people who can look at facts and decide how to act.

Fuck Davis Polk for doing this shit.

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I’m old so remember a time when a general arts degree was a great way to be able to get a good job in a field that one enjoyed.

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In war there is no “moral clarity” when both sides are committing massive atrocities.

Pluralistic: Leaving Twitter had no effect on NPR’s traffic (14 Oct 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow (pluralistic.net)

Enshittification is the process by which a platform lures in and then captures end users (stage one), who serve as bait for business customers, who are also captured (stage two), whereupon the platform rug-pulls both groups and allocates all the value they generate and exchange to itself (stage three):...

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No he isn’t. I guess you didn’t scroll far enough.

Maybe verify what you think before stating it as fact.

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Still not scrolling far enough I see.

Ah well. You do you I guess.

Breakingviews - Jamie Dimon makes anxiety a feature not a bug (www.reuters.com)

In defiance of external ructions, JPMorgan reported a 22% yearly increase in earnings for the three months ended Sept. 30, including a 40% return on equity in its giant consumer bank. Its future is also rosy. Despite sharp rate hikes and softening household finances, the lender raised its interest-income forecast for 2023, while...

Amid international crises, US Congress handcuffed by Republican feud (www.reuters.com)

The House of Representatives has drifted leaderless for 12 days since eight of its 221 Republicans ousted Speaker Kevin McCarthy. That has held up any legislative action, from debating further aid to Ukraine as it battles a Russian invasion to a statement of support for ally Israel in its war with Hamas....

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If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck.

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… a relatively junior congressman and reliable flame-thrower …

hahahahahaha!!!

Best description of Gaetz ever!

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I have always admired the BBC for this.

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Lots of MSM corps don’t have that same self-control tho.

Actually neither do politicians.

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It seems to clearly say that the IOC will decide on Russian/Belarusian involvement in 2024 at a later date.

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Forcing people is always the best way to get good results. 🙄

*** EDIT - Too many here seem to have forgotten that asylums were shut down in the 70’s and mental health patients shunted onto the streets to live without support networks in place.

Stop trying to recreate those monstrosities.

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I have lived on the streets, lived in rooming houses and been a social worker. I have seen the worst, and most often that’s happened when people are forced into compliance … ie: jump through these 20 hoops to be “free”.

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Given your experience what do you believe would be a good starting point towards caring for these individuals?

Housing first, then a guaranteed income. Right along side of those you have mental health workers and health workers visiting daily to assess the individual’s wants and needs. People have to be involved in their own lives, not just told what to do to “cure” themselves.

What issues and solutions do you see that aren’t addressed?

As a society we must stop condemning those who who are different, who don’t operate under the same rules as the gen pop. We have to start understanding that not everyone starts off with the same abilities and benefits, ie: an intact family structure, enough wealth to eat 3 times a day or go on a holiday.

We have to see everyone as valuable simply because they are a human being, and entitled to our respect and care for the same reason.

And we MUST immediately stop believing that money is in any way, shape or form more important than any person’s basic fundamental needs. Money is a tool to be used. People are not.

An Oklahoma judge could be removed from office for sending more than 500 texts during a murder trial (apnews.com)

The chief justice of the Oklahoma Supreme Court recommended the removal of Lincoln County District Judge Traci Soderstrom in a court filing Tuesday following an investigation by the state’s Council on Judicial Complaints....

A company cancels its plans to recover more Titanic artifacts. Its renowned expert died on the Titan (apnews.com)

The decision could impact a looming court battle between the company and the U.S. government, which has been trying to stop the 2024 mission. U.S. attorneys have said the firm’s original plans to enter the ship’s hull would violate a federal law that treats the wreck as a gravesite....

An Oklahoma man used pandemic relief funds to have his name cleared of murder (apnews.com)

It’s a jarring change from where he was just several months ago, locked in a cell serving a life prison sentence at Oklahoma’s Joseph Harp Correctional Center in a killing he said he didn’t commit. After more than two decades behind bars, Dority had no chance at being released — until he used his pandemic relief funds to...

CIA publicly acknowledges 1953 coup it backed in Iran was undemocratic as it revisits 'Argo' rescue (apnews.com)

While revealing new details about one of the most famed CIA operations of all times — the spiriting out of six American diplomats who escaped the 1979 U.S. Embassy seizure in Iran — the intelligence agency for the first time has acknowledged something else as well....

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Yup. El Nino just started, so by next summer we’ll be right in the middle of it.

:(

Research Shows Strong Link Between ADHD and Car Crashes in Older Adult Drivers (www.publichealth.columbia.edu)

In a study on the prevalence of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and its association with crash risk among older adult drivers, researchers at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health found that older adult drivers with ADHD are at a significantly elevated crash risk compared with their counterparts...

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More like hyper focusing on time contraints or a grocery list. ADHD can narrow attention very well.

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It’s too bad states didn’t pay attention to this stuff years ago instead of waiting until drought conditions are so bad.

No foreign nation should be pumping water without restriction.

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Federal officials did not accuse the state of breaking the law but said they were concerned about a a pattern of inaction and neglect regarding the risks of raw sewage for residents. The agreement is the result of the department’s first environmental justice investigation under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Jayzuz. The feds haven’t done anything to hold Hellabama to account for 60 gd years!

Tesla sued by US agency over alleged harassment of Black factory workers (www.reuters.com)

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) said in the lawsuit filed in federal court in California that from 2015 to the present, Black workers at the Tesla plant have routinely been subjected to racist slurs and graffiti, including swastikas and nooses....

A key US government surveillance tool should face new limits, a divided privacy oversight board says (apnews.com)

The recommendation came in a report from a three-member Democratic majority of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Board, an independent agency within the executive branch, and was made despite the opposition of Biden administration officials who warn that such a requirement could snarl fast-moving terrorism and espionage...

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Just because there are worse places in no way means that America is not a shithole as well … specifically because it promises hope and freedom and but gives murdering cops and killer capitalism instead.

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You do you man.

girlfreddy ,
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My guess is many of them had high hopes for Mars, either with Branson or Musk.

Thing is this last summer showed scientists we’re 20-30 yrs ahead of their climate predictions so Mars plans won’t be ready on time.

Betcha they’re scared now tho.

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Seeing as over 33% of women have been sexually assaulted by men, the only sexism here is that you’re complaining about women wanting to feel safe.

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I’m waiting patiently for the first man to actually get this to court.

gets LOTS of popcorn ready.

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