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Marburg virus disease WHO fact sheet on Marburg haemorrhagic fever provides information on transmission, signs and symptoms, diagnosis, prevention and WHO response.

To be fair, this wouldn't have been the first outbreak of a disease from infected lab monkeys in Germany:

www.who.int/news-room/fa....

28.10.2025 22:59 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It would still give Trump a headache if he can no longer travel to Europe…

26.10.2025 23:01 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Can anyone confirm that this is real?

06.10.2025 22:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is happening in the US.
Other western countries are available.

03.10.2025 05:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Or joked about murdering Venezuelan fisherman. Then he could be vice president.

18.09.2025 03:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Two words: Wall Street.

His donors want what Trump is doing. He will sell us all down the river to maintain the lifestyle and power to which he is accustomed, and that's all predicated on being able to swing the Wall Street purse with the DSCC.

He's a collaborator, in effect if not willfully.

15.09.2025 21:04 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"If you read this, you are gay."
Trans ideology right there.

/s

12.09.2025 17:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You are not an algorithm.

Don't forget that copyright laws were only created after the invention of the printing press. While it was fine for humans to laboriously reproduce stuff by hand with little oversight, it's a problem when machines do it at industrial rates.

11.09.2025 16:58 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Exactly, he supported voting for no-one in the *primary*… when Kamala Harris wasn't even running for president.

10.09.2025 22:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Do you have any reference for that?
Because I've been unable to find any – only that he supported not voting for Biden in the Democratic primary.

10.09.2025 21:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Lauren πŸͺ·βœ¨ (@thelaurenelyse) on Threads WAIT. Did Mamdani say not to vote for Kamala in 2024?????? I keep seeing people saying this but can’t find a source for it anywhere.

I already checked, and he never said it.

(Source: this thread has a whole lot of people failing to produce any evidence for it:
www.threads.com/@thelaurenel...

10.09.2025 18:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

When did Mamdani ever suggest not voting for Kamala Harris?

10.09.2025 17:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

"Not being Trump" is actually a huge reason to vote for someone.

Seriously, I'd have voted for John Bolton over Trump.

10.09.2025 17:39 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Drug smuggling is not punishable by death even *with* due process (under US law at least).

03.09.2025 21:04 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him

03.09.2025 16:39 β€” πŸ‘ 21276    πŸ” 6867    πŸ’¬ 1321    πŸ“Œ 1418

Only Biden was held to any standards at all...

02.09.2025 19:01 β€” πŸ‘ 38    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I think you would still need the placebo arm.
But in a controlled setting, you could get good data with dozens, not thousands, of volunteers.

02.09.2025 17:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I see, your suggestion is to knowingly give a group of (informed, consenting) people covid in a controlled setting, with half having received a trial vaccine.

Given how many people were in any case catching covid in an uncontrolled manner, I wholeheartedly agree!

02.09.2025 17:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

"Hard lockdowns" weren't always necessary.
Taiwan and South Korea (and perhaps a few other countries) achieved zero covid without lockdowns.

02.09.2025 17:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I might have misunderstood the hype at the time, but I thought they basically did that with the first Covid vaccines?

02.09.2025 17:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Is it possible to "self declare" that you have a medical reason for getting the vaccine?
This is my my plan if at all possible.

27.08.2025 21:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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@kyleplatts Β· KYLE PLATTS Kyle Platts is a freelance illustrator and artist from Sheffield, who now resides in London. platts.kyle@gmail.com SHOP TWITTERINSTAGRAMWEBSITE Buy my comic book Copyright Β© Kyle Platts 2012. All Righ...

What makes you think the image is AI-generated?
The credited author's Tumblr feed has plenty of hand-drawn images in a similar style, many even from before generative AI could do this.

www.tumblr.com/kyleplatts

27.08.2025 04:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

In the case of Germany in WW2, the negotiation was pretty much "either your brains or your signature will be on this instrument of unconditional surrender".

26.08.2025 17:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Because unlike in China, in Taiwan people can freely protest about this kind of thing to the government, and sometimes the government listens.

26.08.2025 17:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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South Korean President Lee Jae Myung: β€œI look forward to your meeting with the chairman Kim Jong-un and construction of a Trump Tower in North Korea and playing golf at that place.”

25.08.2025 18:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1630    πŸ” 443    πŸ’¬ 280    πŸ“Œ 187
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Really awkward to see this in the DoD website.

25.08.2025 16:19 β€” πŸ‘ 255    πŸ” 26    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

"America's best-known billionnaire"

Back in the 90s, surely that would have been Bill Gates by quite a wide margin?

23.08.2025 02:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"nothing about the Future"

Aren't *most* museums more focused on the past than stuff that hasn't happened yet?

19.08.2025 21:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event Three years in, one of AI’s enduring impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it.

Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it

18.08.2025 21:21 β€” πŸ‘ 4451    πŸ” 1431    πŸ’¬ 152    πŸ“Œ 307
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Putin Signs Law Allowing Voting By Mail And Internet Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed into law a new measure that allows elections at all levels and referendums to be conducted by mail and via the Internet, according to the Kremlin's website.

Putin never said it.

www.rferl.org/a/putin-sign...

16.08.2025 02:56 β€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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