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NParoubek the Earper who biked the arctic
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Here for the Earp, leguminati, plus some unsolicited opinions. Occasionally funny, mostly not

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charloh.online
it's cool how every day there's a news story about the CDC changing vaccine recommendations and it's right next to a news story about how a kid died from a disease that last killed in 1893 but any reporter that tries to connect the two gets fired by a venture capitalist for taking up ad space
December 6, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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gorubenruben.bsky.social
Oralè Resisters
Unf*cking Believable!
FIFA PEACE PRIZE TRUMP!
Big baby, they might as well give him a gold pacifier!
#FIFAPeacePrize #Pacifier #FIFA #USDemocracy
December 5, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
This really is grotesque: they went through years-long citizenship processes and are now being denied simply because if the country they are from. It’s formalized bigotry.
sweetadelinevt.bsky.social Sweetadelinevt @sweetadelinevt.bsky.social · 17h
“She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.”

www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
Immigrants kept from Faneuil Hall citizenship ceremony as feds crackdown nationwide
Trump administration is pausing naturalizations for immigrants from 19 countries.
www.wgbh.org
December 6, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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tizzywoman.bsky.social
@tedlieu.bsky.social has an honorable #CupOfJoe for members of the US military.
“Those of us who served know that part of the code of conduct is to not lie and accept responsibility. Unfortunately, Secretary Hegseth engaged in dishonorable conduct…He must resign.
December 5, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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canaansdad1987.bsky.social
So, basically they are saying it was murder. Plain and simple. Charge everyone!!!

#USDemocracy

www.cnn.com/2025/12/04/p...
Exclusive: Survivors clinging to capsized boat didn’t radio for backup, admiral overseeing double-tap strike tells lawmakers | CNN Politics
The two men killed as they floated holding onto their capsized boat in a secondary strike against a suspected drug vessel in early September did not appear to have radio or other communications device...
www.cnn.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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andystheory.bsky.social
I could not agree more. Thank you Jasmine. 💙
December 5, 2025 at 10:35 AM
nparoubek.bsky.social
Happy #FoundFamilyFriday Earpers 🤠 a good day for happy memories with Earpers, definitely makes me want more #WymonnaEarp
December 5, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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ks1feldt.bsky.social
As a retired geriatric nurse practitioner, I'm seriously concerned about what they will do after he has his next stroke. Prop him up like Weekend at Bernies? Use a double? Clearly he is not capable of keeping up the pace of running the country.
Six poses of Trump dozing in public meetings
November 8, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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lrummel.bsky.social
@gregsargent.bsky.social with the receipts
gregsargent.bsky.social Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d
Hegseth's "fog of war" claim is nonsense, if this account of what video shows is correct: The two men obviously were visible.

Tom Cotton's claims also in doubt: Rep Smith says drugs not visible. The decision that the men were still in the fight looks very shaky:

newrepublic.com/article/2039...
December 4, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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contentwriter.bsky.social
Hakeem cannot meet the moment.

Democrats need to fight like Hell or we won't have a country anymore.
adambonica.bsky.social Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 2d
A corrupt president pardons a corrupt member of Congress for corrupt reasons. With multiple guilty pleas establishing a bribery-laundering scheme, Hakeem Jeffries still called the case “thin” and sought cover in a bribery-plagued Supreme Court.

A lesson in squandering potential inroads with voters.
December 4, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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lyndab08.bsky.social
“U.S. Border Patrol agents detained multiple people with work permits and American citizenship in the agency's "Catahoula Crunch" immigration sweeps so far, according to immigrant rights groups and attorneys representing one detainee.”
Citizens, permit holders detained in New Orleans immigration sweeps, attorneys and advocates say
"They’re not focusing on particular people, they're focusing on particular traits," said attorney Homero López, a former immigration judge. "Those traits tend to be physical in nature.”
www.nola.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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brandogarcia.bsky.social
Quite insane that the official GOP line now is “if we think without proof that you’re carrying drugs in foreign waters far from our shores we can just kill anyone on that ship in cold blood, and gun down survivors” and our depraved media is going with it.
December 4, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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whstancil.bsky.social
Elon Musk bought Twitter and converted it into a worldwide clearinghouse for unadulterated, out-and-open Nazism. It’s a global crisis, and yet US media and politicians still won’t even acknowledge Musk’s own publicly stated views, much less the poisonous role of his site.
usapolling.bsky.social Polling USA @usapolling.bsky.social · 1d
Among Republicans - " The Holocaust of Jews and Nazi Germany was greatly exaggerated or did not happen as historians describe"

Disagree: 56%
Agree: 37%

Manhattan Institute / Oct 26, 2025
December 4, 2025 at 8:37 PM
nparoubek.bsky.social
Happy #DomIsTheBombThursday Earpers 🤠
getting toward the downside of the week
#WynonnaEarp
December 4, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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jljacobson.bsky.social
This may piss some people off, but I am going to say it.

@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social "you gotta give it to Trump" remind me of "he's really not *that* bad" people who did not believe my father was beating my mother, or who downplayed sexual harassment (me) and rape of friends by people they knew.
December 4, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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jentaub.bsky.social
Disgusting
December 4, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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medievalists.bsky.social
Thousand-Year-Old Medieval Gospel Linked to Women Scribes Heads to Auction www.medievalists.net/2025/12/thou... #medievalmanuscripts #medievalwomen
Thousand-Year-Old Medieval Gospel Linked to Women Scribes Heads to Auction - Medievalists.net
Christie’s will auction a newly identified 10th-century Gospel manuscript, one of the few surviving examples connected to medieval women scribes.
www.medievalists.net
December 4, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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kyledcheney.bsky.social
JUST IN: The NY Times lawsuit names names, saying the Pentagon's new press restrictions violate the First Amendment by forcing out journalists who ask adversarial questions and replacing them with avowed MAGA supporters. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
December 4, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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thegodpodcast.com
Hey America, if you were a Christian nation, you’d be feeding the poor, not yelling at them for using food stamps.
December 4, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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fansparkevents.bsky.social
We couldn't be happier that Dom P-C will be joining us for the first time!

All solo and duo activities will go on sale at 3:30PM EST tomorrow!
Sneak peek: fansparkevents.com/back-to-purg...

#WynonnaEarp #E4L #Earpers #BTP3 #fandom #FanSparkEvents
November 5, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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fansparkevents.bsky.social
#Earpers!

We are so excited to announce #KatBarrell will be joining us Saturday, December 13!

Tickets will go on sale tomorrow at 3:30pm EST.
Sneak peek: fansparkevents.com/back-to-purg...

See you in 45 minutes for our next guest!

#WynonnaEarp #E4L #BTP3 #fandom #FanSparkEvents
November 5, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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mluckovich.bsky.social
December 3, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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kenwhite.bsky.social
If after we blow your boat up you still float, you are a witch, so we can kill you. If you drown you are not a witch.
December 4, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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joshuajfriedman.com
"The net effect would be to disadvantage the people the FDA exists to protect. ... The proposed new directives are not small adjustments or coherent policy updates. ... These arguments misrepresent both the science and the regulatory record." —former FDA commissioners writing in NEJM
The NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL of MEDICINE Perspective A Threat to Evidence-Based Vaccine Policy and Public Health Security at the FDA As former commissioners of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) — who collectively guided the agency’s oversight for more than 35 years, through myriad public health crises — we are committed to medical product safety and identifying new medical evidence with the speed, rigor, and openness that the public should expect. We are deeply concerned by sweeping new FDA assertions about vaccine safety and proposals that would undermine a regulatory model designed to ensure that vaccines are safe, effective, and available when the public needs them most. The existing regulatory model builds public trust by encouraging open information exchange and rigorous, transparent scientific debate. Yet a memo sent last week to FDA staff will upend core policies governing vaccine development and updates.1 These measures, and the unilateral way they are being imposed, undermine the public interest. They are the latest in a series of troubling changes at the FDA, including substantial departures of FDA staff, that could diminish both the FDA’s strength and Americans’ health and safety. The memo (available at https://www-biocentury-com.ezproxy.cul.columbia.edu/article/657740) was written by Vinay Prasad, director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER), who also serves as the agency’s chief scientific officer, chief medical officer, and acting head of CBER’s office of biostatistics, as well as overseeing the division responsible for vaccine review and approval. His memo characterizes the actions of FDA scientists who express concerns about agency processes or decisions to outside parties as “unethical” and “illegal.” It calls for scientific debates to be kept within the agency “until they are ready to be made public,” and instructs staff members who disagree with the new framework to “submit your resignation letters.” The proposed guidelines would dramatically change vaccine regulation on the basis of a reinterpretation of selective evidence and by a process that breaks sharply with the norms that have anchored the FDA’s globally respected scientific integrity. If enacted, the framework would impede the ability to update vaccines to keep up with the natural evolution of respiratory viruses or changes in the prevalence of bacterial serotypes; it would also suppress innovation and competition. The net effect would be to disadvantage the people the FDA exists to protect, including millions of Americans at high risk from serious infections. The new framework rejects the agency’s long-standing reliance on “immunobridging” studies for well-understood vaccines with extensive safety data. Using this approach, once a reliable correlation with effectiveness has been established, a vaccine’s ability to stimulate the immune system to produce protective antibodies can serve as a surrogate for its efficacy in helping patients avoid infections and complications from rapidly evolving viruses such as SARS-CoV-2 and influenza. Because these viruses change frequently, repeating large-scale efficacy trials for every new seasonal strain is not feasible within the time needed to update the vaccines. Bridging studies have also been used to broaden vaccine protection to additional serotypes of bacteria.2 The FDA continually updates the correlate strains used for immunobridging studies to ensure that vaccines remain safe and effective as threats evolve. Immunobridging studies have also been used for some new products, including the human papillomavirus vaccine that could largely eliminate cervical cancer. The proposed new directives are not small adjustments or coherent policy updates. They represent a major shift in the FDA’s understanding of its job. The memo states that “no amount of cell or humoral mediated immune surrogates” can justify approval of new or updated vaccines — logic that Prasad claims is implied by the lack of a full biosimilar pathway for vaccines. These arguments misrepresent both the science and the regulatory record, especially in the case of vaccines that target well-understood pathogens through an established mechanism of action. Abandoning the existing methods won’t “elevate vaccine science,” as the memo asserts. It will subject vaccines to a substantially higher and more subjective approval bar. The proposed measures will slow the replacement of older products with better ones and will create potentially prohibitive expenses for new market entrants, especially small biotechnology companies. It’s true that vaccines can generate substantial profits and that their complexity thwarts true generic competition, as the memo observes. But the proposed policy response would reduce competition and raise prices by demanding premarketing randomized clinical trials “for most new products.”1,3 Moreover, insisting on long, expensive outcomes studies for every updated formulation would delay the arrival of better-matched vaccines when new outbreaks emerge or when additional groups of patients could benefit. It is important to create a clear, science-driven, and well-reasoned pathway to approval; otherwise, innovators will have no reliable way to design their development programs. The people most affected by the FDA’s proposed framework will include older Americans and those with weakened immune systems who rely most on the protection that timely and updated vaccines can offer. The new approach would also evade public transparency, including long-standing statutory and regulatory mechanisms that enable disagreements about benefit–risk balance, clinical tria…
December 4, 2025 at 2:05 AM
nparoubek.bsky.social
Throw back to riding the Erie canal bike trail because it's snowing here and why not think of biking 🤠
December 3, 2025 at 6:51 PM