A very detailed explanation of how FBI bamboozled a magistrate into authorizing a raid on Fulton County’s election offices by omitting critical information that would have totally undermined any probable cause claim. Pretty clear-cut case of calculated deception of the courts.

FDA reverses course, agrees to review Moderna’s flu vaccine The FDA reversed course and told Moderna it would review its application for a new flu vaccine, the company announced Wednesday.

Just a reminder that we are experiencing the worst flu season in two decades partly caused by drops in flu uptake and they tried to thwart the review of flu vaccine developed using the mRNA platform.
Glad to see this proceed but this is far from over.
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Air pollution may directly contribute to Alzheimer’s disease – new study A major US study links air pollution to Alzheimer’s risk in older adults. With fine particles far exceeding safe limits globally, the findings carry urgent implications.

A major US study links air pollution to Alzheimer’s risk in older adults. With fine particles far exceeding safe limits globally, the findings carry urgent implications.

More than 70,000 voters will stay on North Carolina voter rolls after settlement Republicans had filed a lawsuit alleging that a quarter million voters in the battleground state had been improperly registered.

73,000 North Carolinians will remain registered to vote after Republicans settled their lawsuit seeking to remove them.

Republicans had claimed in 2024 that a quarter million voters were unlawfully registered, one of the claims behind their failed attempt to steal the 2024 NC Supreme Court election

Susan Collins says she's in favor of the SAVE Act, which is the Trump push to overhaul how elections are administered. wgme.com/news/local/c...

The bill would impose voter ID requirements... which Mainers literally just rejected in a referendum in November. boltsmag.org/five-ways-20...

YouTube video by Katie Phang Trump’s SHADY Law Firm Deals BLOW UP IN HIS FACE!!

Last year, multiple mega law firms pledged almost $1 BILLION in “pro bono” legal services to Convicted Felon Trump & his Regime.

I am demanding these firms actually show their work as I don't think they’re benefiting society, but merely helping Trump line his own pockets.

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I’m with you except I do think e-textbooks would still be a good thing. Most of my engineering class had shoulder or back pain from lugging textbooks back and forth each day.

But I can’t learn or remember if I don’t have to write things down so I’m all for “taking notes” by hand.

A graphic in pink, blue, and green that illustrates how recent many Black History events are to the current day -- ranging from 1619 to 2024.

I'm sure we've all seen the graphic that lays out the United States ' relationship with slavery. It's good, but I never thought it was quite impactful enough. So I made my own.

I've used a few key events, including my birth, to highlight how recent these events are in history.

1 square = 1 year.

I’m shocked, shocked.

Wait till the impact of making a ton of their lower income users broke becomes obvious.

Because gambling so often ends that way.

A friend tried to tell me that right now 1 in 5 Londoners gets mugged on a regular basis.

My jaw dropped. “What the heck news sources are you on these days?” I said.

I told her that in the face of renewed interest in the EU the forces of evil are back in operation in the Uk.

The rich that is.

These are warehouses. Where are the water supplies going to come from? Where will the human waste products be handled and treated?

Warehouses are built to support maybe a few dozen people using water and waste.

If the local people don’t raise a stink there will soon be a stink.

Since their so-called customer support has been spectacularly useless any time we needed it in the past, I don’t imagine most users will even notice when AI starts botching things.

Better tell the employers who fired almost everyone I know over the age of 55 through “redundancies” and “right-sizing” over the past 30-40 years.

My Dad’s generation and mine.

People forget that Rubella (once called German Measles) causes birth defects when pregnant women catch it.

Because that hasn’t happened to people in NA for a long time.

It’s part of the MMR vaccination.

We are in crazy times.

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.

Voting: A Right, Not A Privilege, For Now Republicans want to change that with the SAVE Act

First, read this and learn about the SAVE Act. Then call your senators. We can’t afford to let them impose a poll tax on our right to vote. joycevance.substack.com/p/voting-a-r...

The $38.3 billion they are going to spend for interment camps could fund the annual budget of NASA, the EPA, and all clean energy R&D at the Department of Energy—combined.

Will Fox be updating their story on this and giving it the same amount of airtime as they did initial arrest?

People who blithely state “we should get rid of X regulation” should be invited to spend a month in a country (or even a US state) where that regulation does not exist or is not enforced.

Live where the people there actually live.

That might learn something very uncomfortable.

This move will end up affecting all of the items I mention over time. That is their goal.

I am thinking he didn’t understand the question. At all.

I mean, saying it’s okay if you breathe poisoned air, or eat poisoned food, or drink poisoned water, because you will be able to pay the doctors, assuming you survive the poison, is some kind of answer.

That’s, like, almost all of it. 😔

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Every year the BLS does a benchmark revision which incorporates new and more detailed information. This year's revision suggests that 2025 was a far worse year than earlier estimates suggested, and total job growth was less than half that suggested by the initial estimates.

ok this dude seems awesome

HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW: “.. In our in-progress research, we discovered that AI tools didn’t reduce work, they consistently intensified it.”

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Millions? Did he say they have removed “millions”?

Hinkley Point C plan could save 90% of fish being sucked into pipes, study finds Scientists find £700m underwater acoustic project, likened to a ‘fish disco’, could save 44 tonnes a year Scientists have found that plans to use a “fish disco” to deter migratory marine life from the nearby Hinkley Point C nuclear reactor could help save 90% of fish from the power plant’s water intake pipes – but the solution is set to cost its developer £700m. EDF Energy, which is building the Hinkley Point C nuclear plant in Somerset, said research it commissioned from scientists at Swansea University had found that using an acoustic deterrent system helped to ward off the “vast majority” of fish it tagged for the experiment. Continue reading...

Hinkley Point C plan could save 90% of fish being sucked into pipes, study finds

There is no way that the food, water and waste infrastructure exists in these facilities for what is intended.

Local communities should be outraged at what is happening inside, but also what will be happening outside, if these are indeed all converted to prisons.

Gonna be bad. For certain