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Mark Chadbourn

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Empowering people with news and information about a dangerous and confusing world. Everything is Connected. Journalist, novelist, screenwriter. Always looking for stories. LDN, NYC, LA https://substack.com/@chadbourn Buy Me A Coffee: coff.ee/chadbourn

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · Dec 21

The theme for this feed is Everything is Connected.

The posts cover news and politics from all over the world, things that I think it’s worth paying attention to but which may not always get priority in other media.

Even if it happens 5000 miles away it can still roll up on your doorstep.

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Most likely.

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Absolutely.

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I like it.

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New York health officials have confirmed the first locally transmitted case of the chikungunya virus which causes high fever, joint pain and fatigue.

It’s usually a tropical virus, but there are now infected mosquitoes spreading in New York. (NYT)

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 57m

NHS for pets, please.

Vets should be made to publish prices, competition watchdog says

Vet prices have risen at nearly twice the rate of inflation, the Competition and Markets Authority found.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1h

Morning Bluesky.

A glass cylinder of green goo. Not good!

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 11h

The next generation.

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 11h

Time to start using some literacy tests on MAGA voters then.

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Tomorrow the US Supreme Court will hear a Republican-led challenge to the Voting Rights Act which was enacted 60 years ago to prevent racial discrimination in voting, Reuters Legal reports.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 12h

Keep digging.

Donald J. Trump 0 1 @realDonaldTrump
I believe that China purposefully not buying our Soybeans, and causing difficulty for our Soybean Farmers, is an Economically Hostile Act. We are considering terminating business with China having to do with Cooking Oil, and other elements of Trade, as retribution. As an example, we can easily produce Cooking Oil ourselves, we don't need to purchase it from China.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 14h

Books up quick!

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Trump on his UN speech: “They killed my teleprompter. They did not let the man who operated it in.”

This is a lie.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 14h

Trump: “Everybody is dropping out of BRICS. They don't even talk about BRICS anymore.”

This is a lie.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 14h

Trump: “If Milei loses, we will not be generous with Argentina.”

His view: South America belongs to the US.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 15h

Trump blows up six more civilians.

Trump Administration Strikes Another Boat It Says Was Trafficking Drugs — The Wall Street Journal

President says that six are killed in latest military action off the coast of Venezuela

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 15h

I know.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 16h

Rare weekday office visit.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 18h

The Affordable Care Act has proven a big success with the public, according to a new CNN poll. It’s gained 40 points in net favourability since 2014 and now stands at +30 points net favourable.

More Republicans than Democrats now use the ACA marketplace.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 18h

You can make a 1984-style propaganda video, but it doesn’t mean people have to see it.

Airports refuse to show DHS Sec. Kristi Noem video blaming Democrats for government shutdown

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which operates three major airports, said, its "policies prevent airing of politically partisan messages."

www.cnbc.com

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 19h

Prescribed by the vet.

Also *three-quarters* of a tablet which is headache-inducing on its own.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 19h

Thank you.

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I don’t know?

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Bloody hard work, dogs!

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NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte: “If China were to move against Taiwan, it's likely China would force its junior partner in that relationship, being Russia, under Vladimir Putin, to move against NATO to keep us busy.”

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