Abolish Police Nussbaum

Idaho families sue over immigration raid that swept up hundreds, including U.S. citizens — NBC News About 400 people, including children and U.S. citizens, were detained for four hours while they were denied food and water in the raid, according to the lawsuit.

More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...

The worst thing we’ve done in our more liberal modern era is create this notion that every opinion is worthy of respect. That racists should be heard. No. Displaying a Confederate flag with any enthusiasm is not worthy of respect. Many such examples!

'The Precedent Is Flint': How Oregon's Data Center Boom Is Supercharging a Water Crisis Amazon data centers constructed in eastern Oregon's farmland have worsened a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscarriages.

“The people whose rights are being violated don’t have a lot of power, and the people responsible for the pollution are huge mega corporations with a lot of power…And they’ve been getting away with this for decades now.”

That’s rich. The puppy killer who called a protester a domestic terrorist without evidence says we need our leaders to turn down the rhetoric.

Yes, that does say it all.

Want to Stop ICE? Go After Its Corporate Collaborators. ICE can’t function without help from the private sector. So we should force the private sector to stop helping.

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Hit them where it hurts them - boycotts can work

Portland Man Shot By Border Patrol Agent Charged With Assault—FBI Tells Court It Has Found No Video In a court filing, the FBI said it found no body cam footage, social media clips, or any surveillance video of the incident.

In a court filing, the FBI said it found no body cam footage, social media clips, or any surveillance video of the incident.

Educator Fired for Reading ‘I Need a New Butt!’ Must Be Reinstated, Mississippi Court Rules Toby Price, a Mississippi educator who was fired for reading “I Need a New Butt!” to children, must be reinstated, the state appeals court ruled.

Toby Price, a Hinds County assistant principal who was fired in 2022 for reading the children’s book “I Need a New Butt” to second-graders, was wrongfully fired and must be reinstated, the Mississippi Court of Appeals ruled.

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Former Virginia Gov. Youngkin pardoned ex-police sergeant in fatal 2023 shooting of unarmed man Former Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin has pardoned a former police sergeant who shot and killed an unarmed man accused of stealing sunglasses.

(In USA, it is tactily legal for cops to execute black people suspected of shoplifting.)

Days before his term ended, Youngkin pardoned Wesley Shifflett, who was convicted in a fatal shooting murder of unarmed Timothy Johnson, accused of stealing sunglasses at a mall.

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exceptional article, I think this gets at the heart of why Minneapolis is such a target for the Trump admin even above & beyond other liberal American cities

this sounds 💯💯💯💯

The organized astroturfing and financing of these extreme ideologies is one of the key stories of our time

Revisionism in the Wake of Covid A dialogue confronting the premise of revisionist efforts to diminish the pandemic's severity and dismantle public health institutions.

As I have explored in depth, Macedo and Lee misrepresent what happened during the pandemic and are unable to confront Covid's actual toll, presumably because it undermines their premise.

A longer take here w/my colleague Greg Gibson:

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There’s a lesson here about writing in the age of weaponized lies: Always precede false claims with giant red text, ideally wrapped in a <blink> tag, that says “THIS IS A LIE I AM REFUTING!!”

But also, why is a book that makes this kind of lazy, bad-faith argumentation getting any accolades at all?

Now we know which publications coverage of the ongoing pandemic and pain and suffering of long COVID cannot be trusted or respected tho mostly those outlets ignore it. Eventually it will be inescapable.

It is extremely disheartening to see In Covid's Wake getting these end-of-year accolades. I'm not the only journalist who has had book proposals (and even contracts!) on Covid turned down, yet a book with major factual errors and, tbh, weak arguments is heralded? And as a reader, it's disturbing 1/

you can always lie about anything your relatives ask you during the holidays. or whenever honestly. and it’s the only way to get into heaven actually

CBS News tweet promoting an event with Stephen Pinker

Elise Spenner @EliseSpenner X.com NEW: A short video clip in the files released today by the Department of Justice shows convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein talking to a man who appears to be Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker. More TK as @thecrimson parses thousands of new documents from Epstein's estate.

lol

I have caught covid from my downstairs neighbours via central air for the 2nd time in one year.

I am so glad that I mask religiously, because you are contagious before symptoms appear and I just spent 3 days indoors with a dude who has an asthmatic kid. Wearing an N95 protects everyone around you.

Recommended long COVID outcome measures and their implications for clinical trial design, with a focus on post-exertional malaise Long COVID has created a worldwide public health crisis and has no approved treatments or validated biomarkers. We summarize the current challenges an…

Researchers call for urgent changes to Long COVID trials.

With at least 400 million affected and no proven treatments, they highlight the need to track post-exertional malaise, use longitudinal data, and design trials around disease variability.

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Multicentre retrospective detection of nailfold videocapillaroscopy abnormalities in long covid patients Background SARS-CoV-2 induces acute non-specific endothelial/microvascular alterations that have been identified by nailfold videocapillaroscopy (NVC). Details on NVC abnormalities in long covid (LC) ...

Well worth a look 👁👁

Endotheliitis... Up front... And not so friendly ☠️

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my long covid wrapped be like "you took 22,147 pills this year"

Yet another good reason to mask up in public.

Study Examines Performance of Serial COVID Testing - News Center Testing performance of rapid antigen tests for SARS-CoV-2 improved for both asymptomatic and symptomatic patients after testing multiple times in 48-hour intervals, according to findings published in ...

Holiday gathering reminder 🎁

If your guests test w/rapids twice before the event, 48 hours apart, it’ll catch 63% of Covid cases even if they have no symptoms. Testing 3x improves that to 79%!

This is how we curb the annual January surge that gave me Long Covid—thanks for protecting yr community 🤍

So incredibly devastated to see this tragic news.

#RIPMegan 🕊️

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The true long-term burden of COVID-19 will be measured not in cases of Long COVID, but in the excess cases of heart disease, dementia, and diabetes that accumulate in survivors over the coming 20-30 years.