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Recovering latchkey kid. Unabashed Xanadu fan. Waiting for the prophesied return of a limited-time menu item from Taco Bell.
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The measles outbreak in South Carolina is “accelerating” with no end in sight following Thanksgiving and other large gatherings, state health officials say.
South Carolina measles outbreak is 'accelerating,' driving hundreds into quarantine
Some students who remain unvaccinated are now in a second 21-day quarantine since the beginning of the school year.
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December 10, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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Uncontrolled measles outbreak in South Carolina is “accelerating” with no end in sight following Thanksgiving gatherings and low vaccination rates. Some unvaccinated kids sick and in isolation / quarantine for a second 21-day period. Preventable. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
South Carolina measles outbreak is 'accelerating,' driving hundreds into quarantine
Some students who remain unvaccinated are now in a second 21-day quarantine since the beginning of the school year.
www.nbcnews.com
December 10, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Uncontrolled measles outbreak in South Carolina is “accelerating” with no end in sight following Thanksgiving gatherings and low vaccination rates. Some unvaccinated kids sick and in isolation / quarantine for a second 21-day period. Preventable. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
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The risks of getting the data wrong can be extraordinary.
“The rapid nature of this is you get put in the back of a van, you might be four states away in a couple of hours and put in a facility where the records aren't even updated online,” McClain says.
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“The rapid nature of this is you get put in the back of a van, you might be four states away in a couple of hours and put in a facility where the records aren't even updated online,” McClain says.
Read more:
The DHS Data Grab Is Putting US Citizens at Risk
As the US government rapidly merges data from across agencies in service of draconian immigration policies, citizens increasingly risk being caught up as well.
www.wired.com
December 10, 2025 at 11:24 PM
The risks of getting the data wrong can be extraordinary.
“The rapid nature of this is you get put in the back of a van, you might be four states away in a couple of hours and put in a facility where the records aren't even updated online,” McClain says.
Read more:
“The rapid nature of this is you get put in the back of a van, you might be four states away in a couple of hours and put in a facility where the records aren't even updated online,” McClain says.
Read more:
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Some say it is best to live without regrets, but sometimes regrets are necessary to uncover honor within yourself. We learn kindness from the example of others, but also from reflecting on times when we were unkind, regretting those moments, and vowing to do better.
December 10, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Some say it is best to live without regrets, but sometimes regrets are necessary to uncover honor within yourself. We learn kindness from the example of others, but also from reflecting on times when we were unkind, regretting those moments, and vowing to do better.
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As someone who covered the restaurant beat for years and knows these chefs, so many of them suck ass to a T. Bad bosses, bad people. I'm never gonna write a book, but if I did it would be about the odious celebrity chef culture machine
Celebrity chefs told Californians that PFAS-coated pans were “safe,” and successfully lobbied Gavin Newsom to veto a bill phasing them out
They didn’t mention they all sell PFAS-coated pans.
New joint investigation with @mirandagreen.bsky.social and @atmosmag.bsky.social is out:
They didn’t mention they all sell PFAS-coated pans.
New joint investigation with @mirandagreen.bsky.social and @atmosmag.bsky.social is out:
Why are famous chefs fighting PFAS bans?
The answer, in retrospect, is obvious—and it’s part of a larger campaign to stop bans on Teflon cookware nationwide.
heated.world
December 10, 2025 at 10:17 PM
As someone who covered the restaurant beat for years and knows these chefs, so many of them suck ass to a T. Bad bosses, bad people. I'm never gonna write a book, but if I did it would be about the odious celebrity chef culture machine
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good luck to the farmers who were holding out for china’s (alleged) promise to buy a billions of soybeans by the end of the year. er, end of the growing season. just another example about how the scheming viziers can’t help but step on each other’s dicks.
December 10, 2025 at 8:51 PM
good luck to the farmers who were holding out for china’s (alleged) promise to buy a billions of soybeans by the end of the year. er, end of the growing season. just another example about how the scheming viziers can’t help but step on each other’s dicks.
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AYFKM.
The draft I-140G form suggests that applicants can pay their $1 million "gift" in crypto, a policy that I am sure will not entail any negative consequences whatsoever omb.report/icr/202504-1...
December 10, 2025 at 9:15 PM
AYFKM.
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ICE detain U.S. citizen for looking Somali—use illegal chokehold to tackle him to ground.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
December 10, 2025 at 7:36 PM
ICE detain U.S. citizen for looking Somali—use illegal chokehold to tackle him to ground.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
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GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a cancer vaccine that has shown STUNNING results, PREVENTING up to 88% of MULTIPLE aggressive cancers by harnessing dual-pathway nanoparticles that train the immune system to recognize and destroy tumor cells. In some cases, it COMPLETELY prevented metastasis.
December 9, 2025 at 5:00 PM
GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a cancer vaccine that has shown STUNNING results, PREVENTING up to 88% of MULTIPLE aggressive cancers by harnessing dual-pathway nanoparticles that train the immune system to recognize and destroy tumor cells. In some cases, it COMPLETELY prevented metastasis.
Criticism of Great Leader is an attack on the whole country 🙄. NYTimes helped elect him, so they deserve this.
Trump: “I actually believe it’s seditious, perhaps even treasonous, for The New York Times, and others, to consistently do FAKE reports in order to libel and demean “THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.” They are true Enemies of the People, and we should do something about it."
December 10, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Criticism of Great Leader is an attack on the whole country 🙄. NYTimes helped elect him, so they deserve this.
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Are they all trying to out-awful each other ffs?
December 10, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Are they all trying to out-awful each other ffs?
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I do not recommend anyone visiting the US.
BREAKING: The Trump administration plans to require all foreign tourists to provide their social media histories from the last five years to enter the country, per NBC
December 10, 2025 at 4:16 PM
I do not recommend anyone visiting the US.
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This Border Patrol agent raped sex workers and robbed them and almosr certainly threatened them with deportation.
O'Hare-based Border Protection officer sexually abused, robbed women at gunpoint, indictment claims
UPDATED @chicago.suntimes.com story: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
UPDATED @chicago.suntimes.com story: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
O'Hare-based Border Protection officer sexually abused, robbed women at gunpoint, indictment claims
The 11-count indictment handed up against Luis Uribe alleges violent sexual assaults against four victims between Feb. 5, 2022, and Oct. 9, 2022, in Schaumburg and Naperville.
chicago.suntimes.com
December 10, 2025 at 7:10 AM
This Border Patrol agent raped sex workers and robbed them and almosr certainly threatened them with deportation.
I feel like this 24 hours a day now . . . .
December 10, 2025 at 1:30 AM
I feel like this 24 hours a day now . . . .
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*cocks non-binary gun* youve they'd your last them bucko
December 9, 2025 at 7:37 PM
*cocks non-binary gun* youve they'd your last them bucko
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The Dems deliberately sold the entire country out to actual fascists in broad daylight ostensibly for just the promise of a vote, which now they’re not getting.
They knew what they were doing. Everyone in Congress is a traitor. Everyone.
They knew what they were doing. Everyone in Congress is a traitor. Everyone.
John Thune says Republicans have decided to vote on the Crapo-Cassidy health care bill as an alternative to Democrats’ bill to extend ACA funds.
He criticizes the expiring ACA funds as “Biden Covid bonuses.”
He criticizes the expiring ACA funds as “Biden Covid bonuses.”
December 9, 2025 at 7:41 PM
The Dems deliberately sold the entire country out to actual fascists in broad daylight ostensibly for just the promise of a vote, which now they’re not getting.
They knew what they were doing. Everyone in Congress is a traitor. Everyone.
They knew what they were doing. Everyone in Congress is a traitor. Everyone.
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Imagine the outrage if fully-armed Venezuelan MiG-29s were patrolling the Chesapeake Bay looking for American boats to blow up
Anyway, the United States Navy is actively threatening Venezuelan sovereignty over “drug trafficking”
December 9, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Imagine the outrage if fully-armed Venezuelan MiG-29s were patrolling the Chesapeake Bay looking for American boats to blow up
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It took 75 years to go from "The buck stops here" to "I don't get involved in that. That's up to them."
POLITICO: Do you believe the second strike was necessary?
TRUMP: Uhhhh. Well it looked like they were trying to turn back over the boat. But I don't get involved in that. That's up to them.
TRUMP: Uhhhh. Well it looked like they were trying to turn back over the boat. But I don't get involved in that. That's up to them.
December 9, 2025 at 3:08 PM
It took 75 years to go from "The buck stops here" to "I don't get involved in that. That's up to them."
This is just fucking ridiculous. The President of the United States blatantly, and ridiculously, lying but new networks won't call him on it because it would affect their profits/mergers/stock. Then they play a rosey commercial about how THEY are your 'trusted news source'. NOPE!
Trump: We have $18 trillion coming into our country because of tariffs.
My Internal Monologue: [Please please please ask where that $18 trillion comes from]
Reporter: So would you rule out reducing tariffs on any more goods?
My Internal Monologue: [ARRRGHHHH]
My Internal Monologue: [Please please please ask where that $18 trillion comes from]
Reporter: So would you rule out reducing tariffs on any more goods?
My Internal Monologue: [ARRRGHHHH]
Trump says he's going to increase tariffs on some goods
December 9, 2025 at 3:40 PM
This is just fucking ridiculous. The President of the United States blatantly, and ridiculously, lying but new networks won't call him on it because it would affect their profits/mergers/stock. Then they play a rosey commercial about how THEY are your 'trusted news source'. NOPE!
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i begrudgingly installed a ring doorbell because a new subletter keeps harassing my neighbor across the hall (for being able to hear their tv at normal times of day). figured it might deter him or at least capture him bugging them.
that has since escalated to harassing half the building, incl. me.
that has since escalated to harassing half the building, incl. me.
December 9, 2025 at 2:19 PM
i begrudgingly installed a ring doorbell because a new subletter keeps harassing my neighbor across the hall (for being able to hear their tv at normal times of day). figured it might deter him or at least capture him bugging them.
that has since escalated to harassing half the building, incl. me.
that has since escalated to harassing half the building, incl. me.
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this perfectly captures this entire administration’s “the emperor has no clothes” energy
we are all expected to pretend this man is the King of Health, and he himself believes it, which is why he confidently in front of witnesses attempted a thing he cannot do, knowing they will all say that he did
we are all expected to pretend this man is the King of Health, and he himself believes it, which is why he confidently in front of witnesses attempted a thing he cannot do, knowing they will all say that he did
December 9, 2025 at 10:22 AM
this perfectly captures this entire administration’s “the emperor has no clothes” energy
we are all expected to pretend this man is the King of Health, and he himself believes it, which is why he confidently in front of witnesses attempted a thing he cannot do, knowing they will all say that he did
we are all expected to pretend this man is the King of Health, and he himself believes it, which is why he confidently in front of witnesses attempted a thing he cannot do, knowing they will all say that he did
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RIP Humphrey's Executor www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Supreme Court Appears Ready to Give President More Power to Fire Government Officials
A key justice, however, expressed concern about compromising the independence of Federal Reserve governors.
www.wsj.com
December 8, 2025 at 10:27 PM
RIP Humphrey's Executor www.wsj.com/politics/pol...