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Brian Charles Rooney
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Grammy nominated Broadway Harlequin, lover of critical thinking. Duke University Alum! Co-Host of “Each Sold Separately: Collect Them All!” 💛🤍💜🖤🏳️‍🌈
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Governor Walz is back on the scene and he’s not pulling any punches. ✊🏼
Good to see you Coach!!
March 13, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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In fiscal year 2024, the report found, NIH awarded more than $36.9 billion to researchers, supporting more than 408,000 jobs and generating over $94.5 billion in new economic activity nationwide.

news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
NIH funding delivers exponential economic returns — Harvard Gazette
Report finds all 50 states reap gains in patient health, job creation, research resources, business development.
news.harvard.edu
March 12, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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Walz: "I keep saying this -- what is the goal at the end of the day? There's not a single economist who backs tariffs. Linda McMahon -- I bet she's never been in a public school. What is she is gonna do to improve our students' outcomes and lives? There's a vacuum for us to fill."
March 13, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Thunder… Thunder… Thunder… Thundercats, HO!!!!!! #catslair #thundercats #thundercatsultimates #super7 @officialsuper7.bsky.social
January 28, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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Instead of watching Orange Hitler's coronation, everyone should read this today.

The most important news story the corporate media has been hiding from you:

How Putin stole the 2024 election.
How Putin is stealing the 2024 election.
Trump isn't the only Nazi on Putin's payroll. Putin is financing Nazi parties in every democracy, and nobody is doing anything to stop him. Soon it will be too late.
worldwar3.substack.com
January 20, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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Also,
This:
January 20, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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Huge anti-Trump protests in Washington DC today.

Where’s the corporate media coverage?
January 20, 2025 at 5:27 AM
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"Thank God we can’t tell the future. We’d never get out of bed." - August: Osage County
January 20, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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In April 2024, Trump asked Big Oil execs for a $1 billion donation in exchange for deregulation and tax cuts.

Who helped broker Trump's dealings with Big Oil?

Doug Burgum — who testified today before the Senate to be Trump's secretary of the interior.

See how this works?
Trump Picks Burgum for Interior Secretary
The North Dakota governor helped strengthen ties between the oil industry and President-elect Donald J. Trump.
www.nytimes.com
January 16, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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"We deserve to experience love fully, equally, without shame and without compromise."

-Elliot Page

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November 15, 2024 at 3:24 PM
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Yes.
"We deserve to experience love fully, equally, without shame and without compromise."

-Elliot Page

❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤍🩷🩵🤎🖤
January 8, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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The professor mentioned above is Peter Feaver, who opposed Trump and still does, and thinks of Trump’s foreign policy as nihilistic transactionalism easily manipulated by chaos agents. Which sounds right to me. Here’s his analysis about what’s going to happen: www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
How Trump Will Change the World
The contours and consequences of a second-term foreign policy.
www.foreignaffairs.com
January 7, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Just from a business perspective i don’t understand how these guys think allowing offensive bigoted crap on their platforms will be productive for them. Do they think there’s a larger market for people who want to alienate women and minorities than everybody else?
January 8, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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AI data centers are multiplying across the U.S. and sucking up huge amounts of power.

New evidence shows they may also be distorting the normal flow of electricity for millions of Americans
AI Needs So Much Power, It’s Making Yours Worse
There’s a strong link between proximity to AI data centers and higher levels of distorted power in residential areas
www.bloomberg.com
December 27, 2024 at 8:30 PM
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Obligatory reminder that we had an effective vaccine for Lyme disease a quarter century ago, anti-vaxxers sued it out of circulation for humans, but since medicine for dogs is only lightly regulated our pooches have continued to enjoy protection denied to their owners.
I missed that Luigi the CEO killer had struggled with Lyme Disease

I can tell you from experience that U.S. healthcare is overtly hostile to anybody who isn't 100% cured by the recommended 14 day course of doxycycline

post infectious issues are common but Lyme gets treated differently
December 12, 2024 at 10:41 PM
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Harris got the 3rd highest popular vote count in history. trump simply got more, given the global anti-incumbent sentiment globally.

When democrats lose elections they are told to change. When republicans lose election, they are never told to moderate. It's always about going to the right.
"The soul-searching that is before the Democrats will require liberals to engage with views they find discomfiting, and to reckon with the fact that their social values are out of keeping with the working-class majorities they profess to represent"

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Is This How Democrats Win Back the Working Class?
Embracing populism could help the party build a lasting political coalition—if the Republicans don’t do it first.
www.theatlantic.com
December 12, 2024 at 6:46 PM
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We have a peculiar historical event shaping up where the oligarch billionaire class is about to fleece this country while most of their supporters are working people who are convinced that they are on their side because they hate migrants & trans people.
December 12, 2024 at 11:38 PM
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While Hegseth complains about the “Left” smearing him with “fake, anonymous sources & BS stories,” remember that the abuse allegations against him came from his own mother.
December 4, 2024 at 4:06 PM
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Tammy Duckworth on Tulsi Gabbard: "I think she's compromised ... Russian controlled media called her a Russian asset."
November 24, 2024 at 2:29 PM
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November 20, 2024 at 4:57 PM
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Ladies & Gentlemen,

Trump’s picks to destroy America.

This is a must watch!
November 21, 2024 at 5:07 AM
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November 19, 2024 at 12:46 AM