Maryland health officials warn providers about an upsurge in mumps cases Maryland health officials are warning about an uptick in cases of mumps.

Measles is a bellwether. Because it’s the most contagious vaccine-preventable disease, when vaccination rates drop, it’s the first to start spreading.

Now we’ve got mumps rolling up.

Expect more.

This is just the beginning of RFK Jr.’s successful infectious disease reintroduction plan.

The greatest threat Russia presents right now is that it gains more at the negotiation table than it has achieved on the battlefield.

Russia’s maximalist demands cannot be met with a minimalist response.

Extract of my speech at Munich Security Conference ↓

This is some serial killer shit.

Ma olen roosalilla liberast ja esitan nüüd väga vastuolulise väite, et inimene, kes kahetseb, et ta holokaustist osa võtta ei saanud, aga samas arvab, et küll ta aeg tuleb, ei peaks linnavolikogus olema. Ma tean, ma tean, väga ootamatu ja ebatavaline värk.

Kristi Noem: "When it gets to Election Day, we've been proactive to make sure we have the right people voting, electing the right leaders to lead this country."

Africa leads growth in solar energy as demand spreads beyond traditional markets, report says A report shows that Africa has emerged as the world's fastest-growing solar market even as global growth slowed last year, driven by a 60% surge in imports of solar panels from China.

Solar exploded across Africa in 2025:

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I dont know about my new bookshelf... Not my idea to bring this home.. And i cant fit my books in it.. Ahh.. 🤔

Exclusive: Key US infectious-diseases centre to drop pandemic preparation Staff members have been instructed to scrub this topic and ‘biodefense’ from the agency’s website.

“Maybe a better way to look at this is ‘people preparedness’. One way for people to be prepared (for the next pandemic) is to be healthier, eat better and exercise, so you’re less likely to get sick or have a poor outcome,” Powers added.

Right. This will protect you from a novel pathogen.🤦‍♂️

OTD in 1921 Soviet invasion of Georgia began. Less than a year before we signed a treaty with them promising we'd never invade.

Lying we won't & then invading anyway is a tradition I maintain to this day.

Tartu volikogu liige Kris Kärner on Isamaale hea meeldetuletus iibeprobleemi tegelike põhjuste kohta. Miks Eesti naised ei leia endale sobivat partnerit ja laste isa? Miks Isamaa arvas, et enne valimisi oleks hea püksi k**ta? Korraks oli soe, aga nüüd külmal talvel on asi läinud üpris ebameeldivaks.

In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud — 'The mud should sound perfectly awful, but it doesn't,' notes the experiment creator

Great, now the price of wet mud is gonna go up

More than 60 children infected in north London measles outbreak Cases reported in seven schools and a nursery in Enfield amid concern over low levels of MMR vaccination in capital

"Temporary vaccination clinics are being held in schools and throughout Enfield. ... A government campaign promoting childhood vaccination is expected to be launched next week."
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Aitäh, antivakserid, nunnutame teid edasi ja hoiame maksumaksja palgal, et saaksite pilastada laste õigust olla terve.

meie suusatajad on järgmise sajandi koguse juba ette ära kasutanud nagunii.

miks ta peaks kui saab selle asemel olla minimaalselt isamaa nr 2 tartu linnas?

ok, aga usb-serial kaabel ja mingi suvaline terminali programm? või mul mingi detail jääb praegu kahe silma vahele?

Checks out.

Juhan Habicht, kes tõlkis väga palju head kirjandust eesti keelde, on surnud.

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NASA is loading liquid hydrogen aboard its Space Launch System moon rocket at the Kennedy Space Center on Thursday for an unpublicized but crucial test of the repairs made to a leaky umbilical that derailed a countdown rehearsal on Feb. 2. spaceflightnow.com/2026/02/12/n...

First Ariane 64 leaving the launch pad at Europe Spaceport in French Guiana.

This is Ariane 6’s most powerful version yet 🔥

The four-booster version of Ariane 6 took 32 Amazon Leo satellites to low-Earth orbit. Liftoff occurred at 16:45 GMT/17:45 CET from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, with separation of the last satellites occurring after 114 minutes.

🤝 @cnes.fr

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Awww, poor cystless hound that must wear a cone.

For the world? No. It will however make many US industries irrelevant and uncompetitive over the next 3 years and have a longeer running impact. It will also have huge impacts on people indide the US.

oh appi, see on küll halb :(

Aga paraku ka meie oleme need, kes on sisuliste reformide vastased.

"Sir, the sign says no entrants over the age of 1000!"

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Happy book birthday to Pretenders To The Throne Of by @aptshadow.bsky.social! Can't wait to start this 😁

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The Call Check out The Call - The magical Sídhe have been expelled from their home and forced into the Grey Land - a place under the earth; a place of darkness and death. But now they've returned to take back ...

There's a new edition of @thecallya.bsky.social 's The Call out today. If you don't know it, this is an incredible read - a modern horror where Ireland has been isolated from the world by the sidhe, uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Olympic athletes retiring at 28 while a slippery shower is a direct threat to 1/3 of the U.S. legislative body.

Among the cases are that of a man described by law enforcement as having ties to a known drug trafficking organization. Investigators in a criminal complaint said they identified him as a suspect after intercepting a package addressed to his apartment that contained 9.1 pounds of cocaine in September 2025. An assistant U.S. Attorney asked to toss the case in a brief motion filed Jan. 23, saying in a one-sentence memo that a dismissal is “in the interests of justice,” pursuant to federal law. The U.S. Attorney’s Office also asked to dismiss the case against another man whom federal agents accused of having a kilogram of meth and more than 200 grams of fentanyl in his Minneapolis apartment. The U.S. Attorney’s Office cited the same reasoning in its request.

Pam Bondi is now freeing accused drug dealers bc her demand that AUSAs do unethical things got all the prosecutors to quit.

www.startribune.com/case-dismiss...