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I'm exhausted. 🍉
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I’ve been warning for years that virologists are sounding the alarm on pandemics, urging the US to stay vigilant and invest in surveillance-yet here we are, still ignoring the warnings until it’s almost too late.

It’s like watching a slow-motion disaster unfold while pretending we’re immune.
Enhancing the response to avian influenza in the US and globally
The recent emergence of highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza virus infections in dairy cows and humans in the U.S. has raised alarms regarding the p…
www.sciencedirect.com
April 30, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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Medicare for All would give every American the healthcare they deserve-no bankruptcies, no insurance nightmares.

But don’t hold your breath; the current admin prefers keeping people sick and stressed as long as billionaires profit.

A healthy, happy nation? Too much to ask when money rules.
It’s time for the US to guarantee healthcare to all | Bernie Sanders
We spend almost twice as much per capita on healthcare as any other country on Earth. It’s time to change that
www.theguardian.com
April 29, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Speaking to NPR in his first media interview since his detention, lawful permanent U.S. resident Mohsen Mahdawi finds peace in meditation and hopes "America will fulfill its promise."
Detained on verge of U.S. citizenship, Mohsen Mahdawi speaks from Vermont prison
Speaking to NPR in his first media interview since his detention, lawful permanent U.S. resident Mohsen Mahdawi finds peace in meditation and hopes "America will fulfill its promise."
www.npr.org
April 29, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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Osama al-Ruqab is one of many children in Gaza now suffering from Stage 5 malnutrition, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. He’s starving, ill, and has no access to milk or medicine. Aid trucks remain stalled at the crossings as Israel blocks their entry for the 56th day.
April 23, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Who’s side is the FDA on—letting us eat mystery lettuce or just keeping the salad party exclusive? 🥬🤔
A deadly E. coli outbreak hit 15 states, but the FDA chose not to make the details public
The outbreak linked to romaine lettuce killed one person and sickened at least 88 more, including a 9-year-old boy who nearly died of kidney failure.
www-nbcnews-com.cdn.ampproject.org
April 17, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.
April 18, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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“In 2012, in Arizona v United States, the highest court in the land ruled that “as a general rule, it is not a crime for a removable alien to remain in the United States”.

Got that? Not. A. Crime.”

From my new Guardian op-ed:
There is no such thing as an ‘illegal immigrant’ | Mehdi Hasan
It is a factually inaccurate and totally, utterly wrong to say that undocumented people are ‘illegal’ and are ‘criminals’
www.theguardian.com
April 4, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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People are taking things into their own hands
March 28, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Yep
March 28, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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March 28, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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McCormick and Fetterman canceled their Pittsburgh book event.

Rumor has it that Fetterman dropped out once he realized that he might have to talk to his constituents.
March 28, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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The ADL’s priority during authoritarianism: Urgent mobilization to get anti-genocide activists doxxed and deported:
The Anti-Defamation League is making a big last-minute push for an anti-masking law in New York under the woefully and historically misguided belief that the law will fight antisemitism. This email went out to the organization's mailing list this afternoon.
March 27, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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March 28, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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One genocidal Nazi, Benjamin Netanyahu gives another genocidal Nazi, John Fetterman, a beeper to commemorate the massive war crime that killed so many civilians, women, and children. Birds of a feather.
March 19, 2025 at 10:12 PM
"In the toilet" seems bad.

"Taxi drivers around Germany are reporting growing resistance among customers to accept a trip in a Tesla, the electric car brand owned by Mr Musk. Meanwhile surveys indicate that Tesla sales and brand loyalty are in the toilet..." 🚽

www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...
March 20, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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Can’t stop.
Won’t stop.
Ending mass incarceration includes addressing how we treat people when they are detained.
🫶🏾 @wesa.fm
March 19, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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It's March 2025 and the monstrous @schumer.senate.gov is *still* spewing the "human shields" lie on behalf of a military whose headquarters sits near hospitals and museums and whose soldiers have been caught on video repeatedly using Palestinians as human shields.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/m...
March 16, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Find a Tesla protest near you, don’t see one? Create one.

www.teslatakedown.com

#3E #EndOligarchy #TeslaTakeDown
March 12, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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@johnfetterman.com proving to be the biggest disgrace Pennsylania politics.

Big Hoodie™️ worked to get student Mahmoud Khalil deported.
March 11, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Help fund primaries for the Anti-Democracy Ten, who not only refuse to hear our voices, but punished Al Green for being our collective voice.

They only hear monied interests. So, since money is power, let's become powerful together, shall we? 🥂

Link below.
March 7, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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"We call our legislation 'Stop The Steal,'" a grinning Chuck Schumer says of bill to prevent unlawful meddling in the Treasury Department.

Got 'em!!!!
February 4, 2025 at 8:58 PM
It took 3-seconds to learn that the ICE hotline claim is a lie.
January 31, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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The government is still refusing to answer our questions about its definition of genocide, the legal advice it has received, and the use of RAF Akrotiri.

What does the government have to hide?
January 30, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Sorry you can't afford to own a home, we had to beat China in the race to develop a better plagiarism app
January 28, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Israel raises an eyebrow, then laughs like a comic book villain.
January 9, 2025 at 9:57 PM