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Arturo Portnoy

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Professor of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez / The pandemic ends when infections end, not when your attention span ends.

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REPORTER: Yesterday you told us Israel was going to strike Iran and that's why we needed to get involved. But today the president said Iran--

RUBIO: No. Were you there yesterday?

REPORTER: Yes. I asked the question

03.03.2026 20:27 — 👍 8207    🔁 2008    💬 551    📌 357

YIIIIIHHHHHAAAWWWW!!!!

04.03.2026 13:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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IRGC Destroys Second US THAAD System in Gulf, Wipes Out UAE Radar and $1.1 Billion Qatar Early Warning Shield — Iran Declares Missile Dominance - Defence Security Asia IRGC precision strikes reportedly destroy a second US THAAD system, its UAE radar, and Qatar’s $1.1 billion early warning system, exposing fractures in America’s Gulf missile defence architecture and ...

so Iran has apparently knocked out and destroyed / disabled to some extent two U.S. THAAD batteries

This is a massive deal. Aside from the expense, this is not a weapon system we just have a ton of lying around. You don't replace these easily.

defencesecurityasia.com/en/irgc-dest...

04.03.2026 04:26 — 👍 3749    🔁 1207    💬 199    📌 235
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🔻🇲🇷 MADIBA.🇪🇭🇩🇿🇵🇸🇲🇽🇿🇦 on X: "Los soldados estadounidenses se filmaron huyendo de la zona entre gritos de ": Dios mío!". En el momentos en que lrán destruyó la flota de la Marina de Comando Central EEUU para toda la región, sede en Bahréin. Ojalá no sean llamados a un tribinal militar por subir el vídeo. https://t.co/tmOVOA3z3H" / X Los soldados estadounidenses se filmaron huyendo de la zona entre gritos de ": Dios mío!". En el momentos en que lrán destruyó la flota de la Marina de Comando Central EEUU para toda la región, sede en Bahréin. Ojalá no sean llamados a un tribinal militar por subir el vídeo. https://t.co/tmOVOA3z3H

x.com/MADIBA115027...

04.03.2026 12:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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03.03.2026 23:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Hell. Hell is where you go.

02.03.2026 05:01 — 👍 18770    🔁 3378    💬 1032    📌 230

The entire Middle East is popping off. Not to mention Pakistan. A major clusterfuck.

02.03.2026 07:15 — 👍 189    🔁 28    💬 5    📌 4
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More Americans Under 55 Are Dying of Severe Heart Attacks The proportion of adults ages 18 to 54 who died of a severe first heart attack rose 57% between 2011 and 2022, a new study finds.

More Americans Under 55 Are Dying of Severe Heart Attacks

It's a mystery... 🤡
www.wsj.com/health/welln...

01.03.2026 00:14 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Nine months ago, the United States "completely and totally obliterated" Iran's nuclear program.

Tonight, we're attacking Iran to disrupt their nuclear program.

A sizable percentage of this country thinks that's normal.

28.02.2026 07:38 — 👍 13814    🔁 3188    💬 509    📌 138

We had a deal with Iran to ensure limits on its nuclear capacities. Trump ended that deal. Now he says that sending our young people off to fight and potentially lose their lives for this country is just a ‘cost of war.’ This is the cost of his broken promises. No war with Iran.

28.02.2026 12:43 — 👍 1532    🔁 495    💬 86    📌 20

The US and Israel are bombing Iran. Anyone reporting it as “preventive” is engaging in propaganda, by definition. There is no interpretation of what’s happening as anything else than a crime.

You don’t have to like the Iranian regime to understand why this is bad.

28.02.2026 07:18 — 👍 4331    🔁 1570    💬 2    📌 40
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It Can Now Be Plainly Said: Trump Is Planning a November Coup d’État During the campaign, it was kind of hard to picture the specifics of how Trump might pull such a thing off. Alas, it’s getting less hypothetical by the week.

newrepublic.com/post/207138/...

28.02.2026 10:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This is heartbreaking because it was completely unnecessary.

Innocent lives will be lost.

Countless more will be disabled.

War is an always a mass disabling event.

Trump & his family are safe.

Millions of families around the world can’t say the same tonight.

28.02.2026 09:32 — 👍 138    🔁 35    💬 1    📌 0

Donald, the pedo.

28.02.2026 09:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Earlier today Trump said they can’t allow people who don’t “love America” to vote

Tonight he goes to war with Iran and says “the lives of courageous American heroes may be lost and we may have casualties”

The war may prevent the midterms altogether.

This is how he completes the fascist takeover.

28.02.2026 09:42 — 👍 112    🔁 43    💬 11    📌 3

Trump spent all day on Friday talking about running for a third term and declaring a national emergency to control the midterms. He’s hoping US troops are killed so he can have his photo op and declare his new war powers.

28.02.2026 09:44 — 👍 609    🔁 230    💬 32    📌 9

the united states government's almost pathological framing of their violence as liberation is so ghoulish. illegal, deadly, evil airstrikes, a senseless war announced in the middle of the night, and still the framing is "liberation". it's sickening

28.02.2026 08:45 — 👍 959    🔁 341    💬 2    📌 2
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Levent Kemal
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NEW: Iran's former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's house in Narmak was hit.

POLICE 00:44 / 00:59 Levent Kemal @leventkemaI•14m Follow NEW: Iran's former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's house in Narmak was hit.

The home of Iran's former president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in Tehran was hit.

The house is gone, leaving only burning rubble and burned out cars.

It’s unclear if anyone was killed.

28.02.2026 09:51 — 👍 110    🔁 48    💬 4    📌 11

⚠️ With Possible Iran Strike Looming, U.S. Says Staff Can Leave Israel, Urging Speed

In an email to embassy workers Friday morning, Ambassador Mike Huckabee warned them that if they wanted to leave Israel, they “should do so TODAY.”

27.02.2026 10:31 — 👍 46    🔁 26    💬 3    📌 1

The second you leave this country for even a few days, you realize the place you call home is decaying at an almost exponential pace. The realization that you don't have to live like this is stark, and that nobody in power is taking tangible actions to fix it in your lifetime is even starker.

26.02.2026 17:12 — 👍 13030    🔁 3248    💬 425    📌 244
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Trump, seeking executive power over elections, is urged to declare emergency Activists who say they are in coordination with the White House are circulating a draft executive order that would unlock extraordinary presidential power over voting.

The buck stops here.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

26.02.2026 18:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Cartoon by Nick Anderson

25.02.2026 17:31 — 👍 5637    🔁 1643    💬 109    📌 47

Touché.

26.02.2026 12:37 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Health Identity Mirror

What kind of health identity do you have? 🪞
Movement + airborne awareness + prevention.
Health Identity Mirror shows how they align or compete, plus small experiments to try.
seanmullen.com/health-ident...

Post your pattern + Convergence %.
#HealthIdentity

26.02.2026 01:06 — 👍 16    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 1
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Need for awareness and surveillance of long-term post-COVID neurodegenerative disorders. A position paper from the neuroCOVID‐19 task force of the European Academy of Neurology - Journal of Neurology Background Neuropathological and clinical studies suggest that infection with SARS-CoV-2 may increase the long-term risk of neurodegeneration. Methods We provide a narrative overview of pathological a...

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This

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link.springer.com/article/10.1...

26.02.2026 12:28 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 0
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ICE "should be abolished, but also it should be prosecuted" - Democratic Rep. @sethmoulton.bsky.social, from the centrist wing of the party, tells me he wants his party leadership to go further than just reforming ICE. Doing that is "no longer believable."

Full interview: zeteo.com/p/moulton-ic...

26.02.2026 03:16 — 👍 8536    🔁 2227    💬 231    📌 145

Democracy is dying in America.

ICE is a murderous secret police force. We’re about to bomb Iran for Israel. Your kids are shot at in school daily, and pedophiles run our government. There’s no healthcare, and your food is poisonous.

We need real leaders - not career politicians.

25.02.2026 23:11 — 👍 17060    🔁 4543    💬 576    📌 207

Cutting off Medicaid to Minnesota is social murder.

People will die without healthcare.

People will become disabled without healthcare.

This is a policy choice meant to inflict maximum suffering.

Healthcare is a human right.

26.02.2026 05:57 — 👍 791    🔁 310    💬 28    📌 14