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Top FDA official demands removal of YouTube videos in which he criticized Covid vaccines Channel was an attempt to ‘preserve’ what officials in current Trump administration said during the pandemic

The FDA's top vaccine regulator demanded the removal of YouTube videos published by a physician who has been critical of medical misinformation and Trump administration public health officials.

As Measles Exploded, Texas Officials Looked to CDC. Under Trump, No One Answered. Delayed response led to a multi-state crisis

As measles surged in Texas early this year, the Trump administration's actions sowed fear and confusion among CDC scientists that kept them from performing the agency's most critical function -- emergency response -- when it mattered most

#EpsteinList ? JUST ask the survivors...

This is the Way 🇲🇽

Karol Nawrocki unexpectedly won the 2025 Poland’s presidential election after running a campaign under a Trumpesque slogan of “Poland first, Poles first”.
They are match made in Heaven - with Trump's paying sex-workers and Nawrocki's episode of pimping women...

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Easy, do not worry America, Kremlin officials have denied any formal conspiracy among the three leaders against the U.S....

Extrajudicial Killing? Trump Crosses the Line When did executions replace justice in America?

What’s to stop this power from being used on us?
➡️ Once the boundary is gone, no one is untouchable.
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Pain in the Aisle While baloney is in ample supply at the White House

Anyone who has bought groceries recently knows prices are up, in some cases way up. The cost of everything from milk to beef to lettuce has increased since Trump took office.
The very issue that ushered him back into the WH is now a big trouble for him, though he is happy to tell you otherwise.

From the archive: Japan signs the terms of surrender –  3 September 1945 3 September 1945: With the signing on the USS Missouri, the second world war is now officially over. Full occupation of Japan is about to begin

From the archive, 1945: Japan signs the terms of surrender

3 September 1945: With the signing on the USS Missouri, the second world war is now officially over. Full occupation of Japan is about to begin

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Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez: "The reason the “90-year-old hippie” women are the ones out in the street with signs is that they remember what it was like to live in the kind of world MAGA is dragging us back into. They fought like hell once before to get us out

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European Commission President’s Jet Hit by Suspected Russian Navigation Jamming - AVweb A plane carrying European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen experienced satellite navigation jamming during a flight over Bulgaria.

The BBC noted that Bulgaria’s air traffic authority has recorded a “noticeable increase” in jamming incidents since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, echoing warnings by European regulators that such situations pose “significant challenges to aviation safety.”

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Opinion | It's About to Get Even Harder to Find a Doctor in Rural America Federal legislation and executive orders will further disrupt already fragile systems

Members of the Senate and House of Representatives are back in their states and districts for the August recess. Here's what their constituents should ask them: do you care about rural healthcare?

If they voted for the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), they cannot claim they do.

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China's Xi pushes a new global order, flanked by leaders of Russia and India Chinese President Xi Jinping pressed his vision for a new global security and economic order that prioritises the "Global South", in a direct challenge to the United States, during a summit that included the leaders of Russia and India.

"“The Art of the Real Deal”…

History will note that MAGA and Trump effectively ended the period of American supremacy in the world, and allowed the world to reorganize and shift the centers of influence.

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A divided three-judge panel of the New Orleans-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit granted a preliminary injunction barring deportations under the 1798 Alien Enemies Act.

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RFK Jr: From Brain Worms to Dead Bears — Here's a Brief History of America’s Anti-Science Health Secretary Kennedy is one of America's most prominent anti-science whackos, which is why Trump placing him at the head of America's top government health agency is a five-alarm fire.

The pandemic gave Kennedy his biggest platform yet for conspiracy-mongering. He falsely claimed that Covid-19 was “ethnically targeted” to spare Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese people, drawing condemnation from the American Jewish Committee.

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Trump is now speaking ​from the Oval Office, his first public event since last week’s Cabinet meeting on Tuesday, and viral gossips online.
He is announcing plans to move the headquarters of the U.S. Space Command from Colorado to Alabama.
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Opinion | The Evisceration of CDC Is a Disaster for All of Us If you're not worried, you should be

If you've ever worked in a nation without a functioning public health system, it's unforgettable. In 2001, I spent some time working at the Hôpital Albert Schweitzer in Deschapelles, a small town tucked into a rural corner of Haiti, where the public health infrastructure was virtually nonexistent

Emphasis on overwhelming.

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Xi hosts ‘old friend’ Putin, Kim ahead of military parade in challenge to West China's President Xi Jinping convened his Russian and North Korean counterparts in Beijing for the first time on Tuesday, a show of solidarity with countries shunned by the West over their role in Europe's worst war in 80 years.

Xi, Putin and Kim are set to take centre stage at a massive military parade on Wednesday, where the Chinese president will flaunt his vision for a new global order as U.S. President Donald Trump's "America First" policies strain Western alliances.

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The Case for Preserving Culture What the turbulent history of Shakespeare tells us about our pressing need to preserve culture

In 1642, the British Parliament, under the leadership of the up-and-coming Puritans, did what we today would consider the unthinkable — they banned all the plays of William Shakespeare for their “lascivious mirth and levity.” Skip forward to 2023, when Florida Governor Ron DeSantis made it...

Trump will honor Rudy Giuliani for staging a press conference at Four Seasons Total Landscaping on Nov. 7, 2020.

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Gavin Newsom Drops New Trolling Video Mocking Trump Where It Hurts Most — His Golf Skills and ‘Perfect’ Health Trump’s bruised hands and questionable golf skills get mocked by Newsom in his latest video uploaded to social media.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom isn’t letting up on his favorite pastime — taking swings at President Trump by utilizing one of his favorite weapons, social media. This weekend, the governor went after Trump’s health in a new round of trolling.

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A very good article explaining why sex is not gender is the one from the National Institutes of Health - belib.org/jfI3O93

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