President Trump testing new grounds for pharmaceutical deals
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President Trump testing new grounds for pharmaceutical deals
It's just, objectively, inarguably, absolutely clearly better that if we're all required to put something into our bodies it's the thing that is vastly more likely to help us, not the thing that is documented only to cause us harm.
The thing about living in a human society is you either decide that everyone (except those for whom it would be medically dangerous) has to take VACCINES into their bodies or everyone (with no exceptions at all) has to take VIRULENT PATHOGENS in from those around them and, look, the first is better.
My observation is that a major driver of white males saying fucking dumb things is their relentless occupation of positions of power.
Caaaarefully stepping around the Catholic Irish on their way to the continent. They probably mean the Dutch and, I don't know, the Huguenots?
This from the good news section of a Black newspaper (1914) really puts things in perspective
Wikipedia editors trying to fend off the onslaught of AI crap have crowdsourced some telltale signs of LLM-generated writing; it might be handy for editors and proofreaders generally. Thanks to @ellenrykers.com for pointing me to it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
" ... he called '9/11!' "
Imagine the complicated and precious genius of the girl who made this embroidery sampler in 1811 The Solar System, sampler, unknown maker, 1811, England. Museum no. T.92-1939. Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
And Johnson's the one pulling the strings.
Wow are the Epstein Files at John Bolton’s house? open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
"Whatever his other qualities" sounds very close to "I can't think of anything to recommend him but he has his fans."
Taps the "Bubonic plague is easy treated with antibiotics" sign.
Enough that I don't have to worry about covering rent and food, forever.
His future includes looking like he's 50 when he's 35 and eventually conceding to his therapist that his definition of "success" is messed up.
In the service you must always choose the lesser of two weevils.
They were the first to land safely and reliably, however.
Historian suggests fighting a wildfire with a back burn.
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Eyeopening walkthrough of DC by this creator. If you aren’t in DC, worth a watch all the way to the end—
Every murder victim was going to die anyways, so they shouldn't be counted.
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Magenta Floyd
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As a member of GenX I believe it's in the national interest to skip GenX.
What if I told you this was one of the top seven issues among certain voting blocs across the midwest, what would you say then?
holy shit this is a helluva ad from the Democrat running against Joni Ernst in Iowa. worth every second
A collection of short stories by Roald Dahl called "Kiss Kiss", which I read when I was 10. Roald Dahl! Charlie and the Chocolate Factory! Come on, how age-inappropriate could it be?
The truth is, those were not very bright guys and things got out of hand.
@gralefrit.bsky.social You have to see these! A friend of mine has been collating a series of images entitled "Things my students have written turned into Philomena Cunk quotes" and they're just glorious.
I was kinda hoping you'd smash the bottle on your desk and lunge at him across the desk wielding the broken neck.
"Please ... my children ... please help me reset my password ..." [thud]
"... with what many have described as a face like an Easter ham..."
Paint stores can scan a sample (like a sample of drywall) and match it. I-- uh, a friend did this when he, or she, made a change to his apartment and didn't want the landlord to notice.
An air fryer and a thing that cuts potatoes into french fries is a wonderful combination.
Absolutely a garage-sale purchase. So many people get them as gifts and never use them.
It may be viral and bacterial if they leave it out much longer.
UK property is ~2000x more expensive now? So that £650 could buy £1.3m today.
You literally employed one of the accepted usages.
It's a tax on cheap imports, which is an unexpected direction for the GOP to go.
I agree! And what's more-- Just a sec, someone's pounding on my door brb
Also, planning is for cowards.
Hello, I am leading my team through a major crisis in an action film and/or television show. My most effective management tool is shouting at my underlings.
South Park made a pretty convincing plus-sized president just this week.
There comes a point in every life where we come to understand that we are not the audience and that's ok.
Nice picture. Who's the skinny guy supposed to be?
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Just to reiterate, the FDA director claimed to *personally* know of *multiple* people who died from mRNA COVID vaccines, and nobody has asked him anything else about that. These cases have never been reported in neither the medical and scientific records, nor literal death records.
I debated 20 far-far-far-right conservatives (racists? fascists?) on Jubilee's 'Surrounded.' Here are some of the highlights of them unable to answer my basic questions or rebut the simplest of points. Not sure whether to laugh or cry. Here's the full 'debate': www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S-W...
I think about this John Mulaney bit way too often youtu.be/EyS8uDoFedc?...
Donate every last one of them and treat yourself to a big box of identical socks. Free yourself from endless matching.
And, AND, socks are so cheap you should buy four dozen of the same socks so that you never need to match them up!
Megadosing only results in very expensive pee.
Gosh, how I miss Bret Stephens's wisdom and insight since I canceled my NYT subscription.
Wait, D'Souza is on the list too?
How are searches for the Streisand Effect going?
Got damn
super cool to realize that the capacity for shame was a load-bearing part of our system of government and that the MAGA movement's total rejection of that is an insanely powerful cheat code
And service in an American hospital is better?
In Canada there's a 13% sales tax on everything - which makes my American friends gasp, until I tell them they get health insurance with that. Do you know how much stuff I would need to buy for 13% to add up to $260? each and every week?
As a former Canadian, current American, I would add that yes, taxes are higher in Canada to pay for this, and that's a much better solution than private health insurance. I pay $260 *per week* for my health insurance.
"Biblical grounds" = "you'll agree when you find out"
I think a bunch of people are getting calls from reporters looking for comments before they publish.
It also has a whiff of "care to comment?" late-stage reporting to it.
That's like putting your WHOLE MOUTH right in the dip!
Roses are red, Violets are blue, Both are great, Either will do.
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Hale was also presided over the trial and execution of two women who were accused of being witches in 1662 at Lowestoft.
Noticing patterns.
And access, doled out like a little treat for being good.
One week a year! Socialism has gone too far!
I think those days are over. If there's a conflict between what helps their readers and what helps the NYT, they will always choose the NYT.
It's always had a conservative, pro-institution slant, I think, but there was also a good amount of reporting where the interests of its readers were placed higher than the interests of the NYT (Pentagon papers, Watergate, CIA interrogations, warrantless wiretapping). ...
The difference between a million and a billion is approximately a billion, which many people just don't get.
It kind of broke my heart to cancel my subscription of the NYT in 2024 after being a faithful reader for decades. Each month that has passed since then has confirmed that was the right decision.
No just fries but cheese and fries. The pictures are examples of the saddest attempts at cheese and fries you're ever likely to see. These are viable commercial offerings. It makes me want to cry.
Everything Trump Touches Becomes a Pyramid Scheme (ETTBAPS)
“It is the madness of folly, to expect mercy from those who have refused to do justice; and even mercy, where conquest is the object, is only a trick of war; the cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf, and we ought to guard equally against both.”
Well this is very literally the end of journalism.
Same. Always "you ordering food or what?"
Not to mention the number of people who going to suffer and die for stupid, entirely preventable reasons.
15 years ago a Vermont border crossing was able to detect the residual radioactivity in me 20 days after a medical treatment, while I sat in a car with the windows up, 100' from the border. It may be easy to move but it may also be difficult to hide.
Cannon's only motive was to get shortlisted for the Supreme Court. She might tell people around her something different, maybe even believes it herself, but this was her only purpose. It's not complicated.
I think the behavior exhibited by Judge Aileen Cannon demonstrates that the purpose of power is power. They don't have any higher calling or deeper philosophical stance beyond the accumulation of more power for themselves.
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That combination is inspired.
SCOTUS being imperial in matters of law, heaven forfend.
Yes, but do they have American flags with gold fringes in their offices? Because I've read...
The tale of Trump and “his” justices — you need to understand this to understand what went down at the Supreme Court. The commonly understood story is wrong. So here we go 🧵
Funnily enough, I recently got a job offer for a position that is basically coding in part because of an anecdote I told learned from my liberal arts education.
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Worth it.
Nice! but every third letter would be more accurate.
Fascism is like a vampire. It arrives looking and sounding strangely like something you recognise. It tries very hard to convince you it’s a trustworthy friend. It reflects on things in the past that you supposedly shared. And it wants, more than anything else, to be invited inside the house.