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Scientists studied thousands of children born March 2020-May 2021.
Out of 800+ mothers diagnosed with COVID-19, 16.3% of their babies received a neurodevelopmental diagnosis by 3 years old, compared with 9.7% who weren’t exposed to COVID-19 in utero.
Out of 800+ mothers diagnosed with COVID-19, 16.3% of their babies received a neurodevelopmental diagnosis by 3 years old, compared with 9.7% who weren’t exposed to COVID-19 in utero.
Amid Confusing CDC Guidance About Vaccines, Study Highlights New Risk of COVID-19 During Pregnancy
A Harvard study found that the children of women who contracted COVID-19 while pregnant may be at an increased risk for autism and other diagnoses, raising new concerns about the CDC’s decision to sto...
www.propublica.org
November 30, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Scientists studied thousands of children born March 2020-May 2021.
Out of 800+ mothers diagnosed with COVID-19, 16.3% of their babies received a neurodevelopmental diagnosis by 3 years old, compared with 9.7% who weren’t exposed to COVID-19 in utero.
Out of 800+ mothers diagnosed with COVID-19, 16.3% of their babies received a neurodevelopmental diagnosis by 3 years old, compared with 9.7% who weren’t exposed to COVID-19 in utero.
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Laughable AI nonsense aside, the guys running this "independent" effort are Republican operatives??
December 1, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Laughable AI nonsense aside, the guys running this "independent" effort are Republican operatives??
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I missed last night's #beavermoon, but 96% of it is still a beautiful sight. The moonrise was sped up about eight times. #moon
November 7, 2025 at 12:10 AM
I missed last night's #beavermoon, but 96% of it is still a beautiful sight. The moonrise was sped up about eight times. #moon
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Lol, Zillow tried to rate the climate risks facing individual properties. The real estate industry *hated* it, precisely because it worked -- it made selling risky properties more difficult. So they rebelled & Zillow caved.
Don't look up!
Don't look up!
Zillow Removes Climate Risk Scores From Home Listings
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Lol, Zillow tried to rate the climate risks facing individual properties. The real estate industry *hated* it, precisely because it worked -- it made selling risky properties more difficult. So they rebelled & Zillow caved.
Don't look up!
Don't look up!
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At some point you can actually become so out of touch or delusional about the world around you it is impossible to actually be placated by anything approaching rational politics
December 1, 2025 at 1:28 AM
At some point you can actually become so out of touch or delusional about the world around you it is impossible to actually be placated by anything approaching rational politics
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Fondly remembering a half built clinic in rural Texas that took a bunch of grant money, built a slab, put up a few beams, and then stopped construction because the owner pocketed the money. They kept voting GOP there btw.
December 1, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Fondly remembering a half built clinic in rural Texas that took a bunch of grant money, built a slab, put up a few beams, and then stopped construction because the owner pocketed the money. They kept voting GOP there btw.
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the linked article about a rural community's medical clinic closing ends with a coffee shop owner proposing that the solution is to find a doctor to make house calls.
this is where the stuff about "engaging Trump voters" runs into the reality that a ton of these people are completely delusional.
this is where the stuff about "engaging Trump voters" runs into the reality that a ton of these people are completely delusional.
Something notable in this article is how much the life long locals don’t seem to give a shit. Which was an entirely predictable outcome if you've spent any amount of time among people like this
How life changed in a rural town in Virginia that lost its sole health clinic after the passage of Trump’s megabill. The residents voted overwhelmingly for Trump in 2024, and now they’re suffering for it.
December 1, 2025 at 1:02 AM
the linked article about a rural community's medical clinic closing ends with a coffee shop owner proposing that the solution is to find a doctor to make house calls.
this is where the stuff about "engaging Trump voters" runs into the reality that a ton of these people are completely delusional.
this is where the stuff about "engaging Trump voters" runs into the reality that a ton of these people are completely delusional.
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Data centers in Oregon might be helping to drive an increase in cancer and miscarriages
Data centers in Oregon might be helping to drive an increase in cancer and miscarriages
Amazon data centers might be adding to a public health crisis in Morrow County, Oregon.
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November 30, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Data centers in Oregon might be helping to drive an increase in cancer and miscarriages
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I am realistic enough to understand the demand-side issues, but I am also old skool about stuff like this and I really wonder how you can have a fully-realized university if you are just continually dropping coverage of significant areas of knowledge like this
More bad news a liberal arts college... "[A]fter a review of 'student enrollment data and student interest'... Cornell College will halt its [majors in] more than 10 areas, including classical studies, French and Francophone studies, German studies, religion..."
Cornell College to cut programs after review of enrollment, student interest • Iowa Capital Dispatch
Cornell College will halt "major courses of study" in different languages, music studies and more in the next academic year.
iowacapitaldispatch.com
November 30, 2025 at 11:20 PM
I am realistic enough to understand the demand-side issues, but I am also old skool about stuff like this and I really wonder how you can have a fully-realized university if you are just continually dropping coverage of significant areas of knowledge like this
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A Rare Smile Captured in a 19th Century Photograph
A Rare Smile Captured in a 19th Century Photograph
Just look at this photo. Just look at this young girl’s smile. We know her name: O-o-be', according to the Smithsonian. And we know that she was a member of the Kiowa tribe in the Oklahoma Territory. ...
www.openculture.com
November 30, 2025 at 11:04 PM
A Rare Smile Captured in a 19th Century Photograph
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“Is it frivolous to worry about art when the world is on fire? The Franklin D. Roosevelt administration didn’t think so. In the midst of the Great Depression, the worst economic calamity in the country’s history, FDR’s New Deal invested in culture as essential to a more “abundant life” for…citizens”
Trump admin selling off historic public art to the highest bidder
Painted figures haunt an empty building. A boy leaning on a pair of crutches. A father and son wandering a barren railroad track. A nuclear family at a picnic table. These poignant scenes were painted...
www.alternet.org
November 30, 2025 at 6:37 PM
“Is it frivolous to worry about art when the world is on fire? The Franklin D. Roosevelt administration didn’t think so. In the midst of the Great Depression, the worst economic calamity in the country’s history, FDR’s New Deal invested in culture as essential to a more “abundant life” for…citizens”
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Immigration=good was a principle understood by Frederick the Great! If you want to “retvrn to tradition” then the argument starts and ends with population=power. The idea of homogeneity as a virtue is an innovation of the Romantic period. The liberal idea is more traditional.
Lincoln was re-elected on a party platform saying "That foreign immigration, which in the past has added so much to the wealth, development of resources and increase of power to this nation, the asylum of the oppressed of all nations, should be fostered and encouraged by a liberal and just policy."
They're not hiding it, folks—straight up neo-Nazi advertising, from the font to the language to the 11 stars for the Confederacy. Then you have the DHS openly using white nationalist language of "remigrate", which means ethnic cleansing.
This is who MAGA is now.
This is who MAGA is now.
November 30, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Immigration=good was a principle understood by Frederick the Great! If you want to “retvrn to tradition” then the argument starts and ends with population=power. The idea of homogeneity as a virtue is an innovation of the Romantic period. The liberal idea is more traditional.
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Netanyahu "asks" the Israeli president Herzog to cancel his trial.
This is not a pardon request, in any meaningful sense. Netanyahu has not accepted any wrongdoing, and is not planning to step down.
There's a good chance Herzog accepts the request. Netanyahu made him president for this role.
This is not a pardon request, in any meaningful sense. Netanyahu has not accepted any wrongdoing, and is not planning to step down.
There's a good chance Herzog accepts the request. Netanyahu made him president for this role.
November 30, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Netanyahu "asks" the Israeli president Herzog to cancel his trial.
This is not a pardon request, in any meaningful sense. Netanyahu has not accepted any wrongdoing, and is not planning to step down.
There's a good chance Herzog accepts the request. Netanyahu made him president for this role.
This is not a pardon request, in any meaningful sense. Netanyahu has not accepted any wrongdoing, and is not planning to step down.
There's a good chance Herzog accepts the request. Netanyahu made him president for this role.
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VAERS is a database of self-reported diagnosis. Anyone can submit to it, as many times as they want, and nothing is verified. Anyone who has taken a Statistics 101 class can tell you that this creates a heavily biased (and scientifically unreliable) dataset.
Pretty much ANY statistic you see cited to frighten you about vaccines comes from the VAERS database. (Including the recent evidence-free missive from Vinay Prasad). Here's why VAERS can NEVER be a proper source for population-level vaccine risk estimates.
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November 30, 2025 at 3:51 AM
VAERS is a database of self-reported diagnosis. Anyone can submit to it, as many times as they want, and nothing is verified. Anyone who has taken a Statistics 101 class can tell you that this creates a heavily biased (and scientifically unreliable) dataset.
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2 HONEY 2 CRISP
November 29, 2025 at 9:29 PM
2 HONEY 2 CRISP
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When a news outlet puts a reckless, undocumented claim by the Trump regime in the main headline and puts medical experts’ pushback in the smaller type, it’s making a choice. And not a good one.
November 29, 2025 at 10:40 PM
When a news outlet puts a reckless, undocumented claim by the Trump regime in the main headline and puts medical experts’ pushback in the smaller type, it’s making a choice. And not a good one.
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“All I would think of was how to survive another day.” Segev Kalfon said he endured physical abuse and mind games during 738 days in the hands of Hamas. Now, he asks why it took so long for Israel to bring him home.
Israeli Hostage Recounts Beatings and Starvation During Hamas Captivity
Segev Kalfon said he endured physical abuse and mind games during 738 days in the hands of Hamas. Now, he asks why it took so long for Israel to bring him home.
nyti.ms
November 29, 2025 at 10:30 PM
“All I would think of was how to survive another day.” Segev Kalfon said he endured physical abuse and mind games during 738 days in the hands of Hamas. Now, he asks why it took so long for Israel to bring him home.
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Next year, Donald Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" will hand $67 BILLION of YOUR taxpayer dollars over to corporations for a single tax break.
Why? To "incentivize" research these companies did years ago.
Let that sink in. YOUR money being used to boost Amazon's profits even more.
Why? To "incentivize" research these companies did years ago.
Let that sink in. YOUR money being used to boost Amazon's profits even more.
November 29, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Next year, Donald Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" will hand $67 BILLION of YOUR taxpayer dollars over to corporations for a single tax break.
Why? To "incentivize" research these companies did years ago.
Let that sink in. YOUR money being used to boost Amazon's profits even more.
Why? To "incentivize" research these companies did years ago.
Let that sink in. YOUR money being used to boost Amazon's profits even more.
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Taiwanese ambassador to Finland performs with his metal band at Taiwan-Finland cultural event! 🤘✊️
That's what I call great ambassador
That's what I call great ambassador
November 28, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Taiwanese ambassador to Finland performs with his metal band at Taiwan-Finland cultural event! 🤘✊️
That's what I call great ambassador
That's what I call great ambassador
Had not heard about this case. It's a miracle that anyone ever works with U.S. forces at all
That guy didn’t shoot at the Fairfax cops. He reached and they beat him to it. The body cam is a real tragedy
At one point he says resignedly “I should have served in the fucking Taliban”.
At one point he says resignedly “I should have served in the fucking Taliban”.
November 29, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Had not heard about this case. It's a miracle that anyone ever works with U.S. forces at all
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Javier Sanchez Mendoza Jr. helped Sofi secure an H-2A visa, promising a job on a Georgia blueberry farm.
When she arrived, she was not sent out to work in the fields like the others.
She was forced to live at his house and sign a marriage license.
By @maxblau.bsky.social
When she arrived, she was not sent out to work in the fields like the others.
She was forced to live at his house and sign a marriage license.
By @maxblau.bsky.social
A Farmworkers Visa Promised Her a Better Life. It Was a Trap.
Sofi left behind her child in Mexico for the promise of providing him a better life. She ended up a victim of an operation that is alleged to have exploited the H-2A visa program — and the workers it ...
projects.propublica.org
November 29, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Javier Sanchez Mendoza Jr. helped Sofi secure an H-2A visa, promising a job on a Georgia blueberry farm.
When she arrived, she was not sent out to work in the fields like the others.
She was forced to live at his house and sign a marriage license.
By @maxblau.bsky.social
When she arrived, she was not sent out to work in the fields like the others.
She was forced to live at his house and sign a marriage license.
By @maxblau.bsky.social
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reading this and the NYT article, this is Prasad in RFK’s FDA using Hoeg’s non public analysis of VAERS death reports and hand waving about “multiple vaccines” to take vaccines away
nothing about this looks based on science or evidence
nothing about this looks based on science or evidence
November 29, 2025 at 3:48 PM
reading this and the NYT article, this is Prasad in RFK’s FDA using Hoeg’s non public analysis of VAERS death reports and hand waving about “multiple vaccines” to take vaccines away
nothing about this looks based on science or evidence
nothing about this looks based on science or evidence
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The great Stoppard is gone. What a life. And a hero of mine, whom I got to interview when his trilogy The Coast of Utopia was on Broadway. www.wnyc.org/story/106931...
November 29, 2025 at 6:08 PM
The great Stoppard is gone. What a life. And a hero of mine, whom I got to interview when his trilogy The Coast of Utopia was on Broadway. www.wnyc.org/story/106931...