A vintage 1946 Camel cigarette advertisement shows a smiling older white man in a doctor’s coat holding a cigarette. The slogan claims “More Doctors Smoke Camels Than Any Other Cigarette.” Above the ad, bold yellow text reads “COVID Isn’t a Cold. It’s Cigarettes All Over Again,” drawing a parallel between COVID risks and the tobacco industry’s history of downplaying harm.
COVID Isn’t a Cold. It’s Cigarettes All Over Again.
5 years into this experiment: we let COVID rip and pretended it was fine. Damage piled up—unlike smoking’s slow toll, we’re seeing it in real time. Every infection leaves a mark; even “mild.” The bill comes due. We chose denial
archive.md/Jyi7k
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Exactly 💯🎯🎯🎯
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😍
02.10.2025 06:26 — 👍 23 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 1
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was looking a few days ago and couldn’t find them!
02.10.2025 07:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Слава Україні та її воїнам ❤️🇺🇦❤️
Смерть ворогам🔥
Glory to Ukraine and its warriors ❤️🇺🇦❤️
Death to the enemies 🔥
18.08.2025 20:09 — 👍 82 🔁 9 💬 6 📌 0
🤬Kremenchuk, Poltava region in smoke
Residents advised to keep windows closed after strike on the city
Everything was flying there: shaheds, ballistic & cruise missiles
Poltava Administration reports local energy sector facilities hit
Gas storage sites in Poltava region also targeted
19.08.2025 05:58 — 👍 37 🔁 11 💬 4 📌 0
First missiles fired from TU-95 are already in the airspace of Ukraine
Direction - Poltava region😡😡😡
19.08.2025 02:19 — 👍 35 🔁 10 💬 3 📌 0
There is a threat of combat sorties by TU bombers tonight, according to monitors (this means a massive missile strike)
russia has also launched drones Shaheds
There're now about 50 of them in our airspace
This is putin’s readiness for negotiations.
18.08.2025 20:26 — 👍 129 🔁 37 💬 13 📌 2
US Hospitals should cut Health Insurance out.
Health Insurance is now taking more than 50% of the money spent on 'Healthcare'.
The hospitals should just offer much cheaper prices and skip the ripoff middle man taking most of the money and doing absolutely nothing.
18.08.2025 23:01 — 👍 51 🔁 17 💬 3 📌 0
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In Kharkiv 6 people are already dead after russia’s terrorist strike on residential buildings this night, including a small child
Trump applauding putin just a few days ago looks even more cynical, showing the full horror and cynicism of this situation
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18.08.2025 09:17 — 👍 34 🔁 12 💬 5 📌 2
In Zaporizhzhia, 3 dead and 18 injured
Many wounded are in serious condition
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18.08.2025 10:06 — 👍 26 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
Trump budget law will trigger over $500 billion in automatic Medicare cuts: CBO
A report released on Friday confirmed what many Democratic lawmakers have long been warning about: Republicans' massive budget law will trigger significant cuts to Medicare.
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its analysis of the GOP's budget package and acknowledged that it would be required to issue a sequestration, which is essentially a cancellation of budgetary resources.
The sequestration is required under the rules set out by the Statutory Pay‑As‑You‑Go Act of 2010 that requires spending cuts that are equal to a piece of legislation's negative impact on the budget deficit.
The only way to avoid these cuts, said the CBO, would be for Congress to pass "subsequent legislation that would offset the deficit increase, waive the recordation of the bill's effects on the scorecard, or otherwise mitigate or eliminate the statutory requirements."
The CBO said that these cuts could take as much as $45 billion out of Medicare for fiscal year 2026. What's more, the amount cut from Medicare would increase in every subsequent year, resulting in total cuts of as much as $536 billion between 2026 and 2034.
Rep. Brendan Boyle (D-Penn.), the ranking member of the House Budget Committee, excoriated his Republican colleagues for passing a budget that will result in cuts to Medicare, a program that US President Donald Trump repeatedly pledged not to touch during the 2024 presidential campaign.
"For months now, I have been sounding the alarm on the devastating Medicare cuts caused by Trump's Big Ugly Law," he said. "Republicans knew their tax breaks for billionaires would force over half a trillion dollars in Medicare cuts—and they did it anyway. American families simply cannot afford Donald Trump's attacks on Medicare, Medicaid, and Obamacare."
The Republicans' budget package also took a major ax to Medicaid, as it cut spending on the program by an estimated $1 trillion over the next decade. The CBO has already projected that millions of people will lose coverage.
Medicaid cuts are already having a negative impact. Several states have said that they are slashing rates paid to medical providers, which experts have said could result in several hospitals in these states going bankrupt given that many of them were in bad financial shape even before the GOP's budget law passed last month.
16.08.2025 01:21 — 👍 54 🔁 42 💬 3 📌 2
🗣️ @pattismithh.bsky.social @choirchoirchoir.bsky.social deliver an energizing, powerful #CupOfJoe.
“PEOPLE HAVE THE POWER!” Don’t forget it. USE YOUR VOICE!
15.08.2025 12:43 — 👍 364 🔁 173 💬 17 📌 13
You think there will be a working Congress by labor Day?
06.08.2025 23:33 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Complete stupidity and destruction
07.08.2025 00:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
HHS scraps further work on life-saving mRNA vaccine platform
NEW: @mtosterholm.bsky.social, PhD, MPH, and director of @cidrap.bsky.social, calls RFK's decision one of the worst decisions he's seen in 50 years of public health preparedness work. "mRNA technology could save us in the next pandemic," he said.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/hhs...
#vaccines #mRNA
06.08.2025 23:48 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Life is wicked good neighb!
06.08.2025 21:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.
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06.08.2025 10:48 — 👍 18 🔁 14 💬 0 📌 1
Netanyahu eyes full re-occupation of Gaza.
Civilians are starving. Protesting. Dying.
And now, even UN clinics are being bombed.
This isn’t peacekeeping. It’s escalation.
🔗 www.citizenofeurope.com/netanyahu-ey...
#Gaza #Occupation #Israel #Ceasefire #Famine #HumanRights #WarCrimes #Netanyahu
06.08.2025 10:50 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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