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Republicans tried to raise our national debt ceiling limit tonight in preparation for the tax cuts to corporations and billionaires they want to pass next year but Democrats blocked them.

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I wasn't going to post this study because, duh, vaccines work. Then an idiot posted how Long #COVID19 was caused by the vaccine and not infection, so...

STUDY: Vaccinated individuals had a lower rate of all-cause death during 2021-2023 in Norway. In all age groups, the rate of death was lowest among those that were fully vaccinated and highest among those that were unvaccinated.

medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/20…

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With the polio vaccine in the news, I want to tell some of my mom's story:

My mom got polio when she was a kid living in southern California, pre-vaccine. She survived it, but it put her in a wheelchair for a while, then leg braces. She was actually a literal poster child for the Polio vaccine: they used her picture on some March of Dimes posters.

But this was not a thing that just affected her for a while, and then she was better. As a result of having Polio, her right leg is slightly shorter than her left. For her entire life, she's had to have special lifts put into her right shoe. When she drives, she uses her left foot for the brake pedal because she's concerned that her right leg might not be strong enough to stomp on the brake hard if needed. She has always been limited in how long and far she can walk: I remember many times on family vacations where the rest of us would go off to do something and she'd have to sit it out because she knew she just couldn't do that much walking.

Now that she's elderly, a lifetime of this is catching up: her bones, joints, ligaments, tendons are all messed up from having a weak leg and an unbalanced gait. Her mobility is declining much faster than it should be, even for someone of her age. She had to have her ankle fused because of the constant pain it was causing.

Polio didn't ruin her life, but it has stolen it in slices. Times she couldn't keep up with her kids, times she was just too tired to be able to stay on her feet, chronic pain, losing the ability to climb stairs in her own house as she ages.

Vaccination is the greatest public health success humanity has ever produced, and we forget this only at our own peril.


in reply to Stephen Wuebker

@stephen and there are a whole bunch of people who believe that Kentucky Fried chicken changed their name to KFC because stupid Americans were scared by the word “fried”. They believe this because they know their fellow Americans are that dumb.

But also because they don’t like to talk about the real reason was because those poor chickens are so genetically modified and altered they can’t be called chickens anymore. I won’t get into details because I can’t think about it without crying. I remember when the change took place it had nothing to do with the negative connotations of the word fried.

in reply to Maggie Maybe

@maggiejk @stephen Not to defend KFC, but the “mutant chickens” claim is also an urban legend: snopes.com/fact-check/kfc-muta…

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RFK, Jr. has been talking about putting an end to the US standard of adding fluoride to drinking water, because he thinks it's dangerous. But it's not! Let's talk about why ppl don't realize fluoridation is safe and helpful skepchick.org/2024/12/why-rfk-…

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Under #Trump, #EPA scientists say managers encouraged them to delete evidence of chemicals’ harms, including #cancer, miscarriage and neurological problems, from their reports. And in some cases, they said, their managers deleted the information themselves.

#News #Science #Environment #Health #Government

(Published Sept. 2024) propub.li/3Zx4ljp

in reply to ProPublica

This doesn't sound right. Aamof I think its democratic party propaganda. Just look at who trump picked. Anti vaxx/technocratic science rfkjr.

He's NOT ONE to ignore CHEMICAL harms.

in reply to ProPublica

Can confirm this. Part of my work is on contaminants for the OSPAR Commission (cooperation among European governments on environment, see ospar.org), and there was quite a bit of work to replace links to EPA reports at EPA with links to the same reports in European and Canadian websites.

This was completely scientific reports, you expose species X to different concentrations of substance Y and measure for instance survival. Just facts, no politics.


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10 INCREDIBLE ways to BOOST your immune system:

The Measles vaccine
The Mumps vaccine
The Rubella vaccine
The Tetanus vaccine
The Diphtheria vaccine
The Polio vaccine
The HPV vaccine
The Pneumonia vaccine
The Hepatitis B vaccine
The Covid-19 vaccine

in reply to Dr. Lucky Tran

11. The Smallpox vaccine.

Oh, wait, the world somehow managed to mount a successful vaccination campaign and there hasn't been a case of Smallpox in decades. WHO declared its eradication in 1980.

Why can't we do that anymore?

(Rhetorical question.)


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You know those "trad wife" influencers who live on farms and post about their perfect lives? A new study is out suggesting their lives are actually miserable skepchick.org/2024/11/trad-wif…
in reply to Rebecca Watson

That's because tradwifery is a form of kink falling under the masochism umbrella.
in reply to Riley S. Faelan

@riley This is the best and most succinct explanation I've ever seen for this, thank you!
in reply to Riley S. Faelan

@riley I can't say that I'm shocked.

At best it's fetishistic nostalgia for an Americana that never existed.

At worst it's forced dominance and submission through cultural and religious conformity.

I once saw someone describe the TradWife movement as "Dom/Sub lifestyle for the polite Christian."

The whole thing makes me think that too many Americans are unable to move on from their puritanical origins.

in reply to Viral Obscurity

@viralobscurity @riley it’s 100% manufactured nostalgia. The John Wayne propaganda is deeeeep in the American psyche.
in reply to Noah Bailey

Btw, book suggestion: Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation by Kristin Kobes Du Mez (she/her). A very intriguing thread in the complex tapestry of right-wing propaganda seeping through the American psyche.

:blobcatreading: #bookstodon

@viralobscurity @rebeccawatson

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For people who live in rural America, many of whom are Trump voters, Walmart is critical for essential goods. Either you have a Walmart in thy town or you will have to regularly drive to a town that does.

These people hath so truly perfectly fucked themselves.

But they’ve also fucked everyone else.

Read more: thegodpodcast.com/p/trump-vote…

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My mother’s union just secured a 40% raise and 7 weeks parental leave for its workers after walking off the job (in an illegal strike no less).

Don’t let people tell you unions aren’t worth fighting for

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in reply to Kevin Patrick Doyle 🍅🥫

Or that strikes are "not operating in good faith". Employers are not your friends, use every leverage that you can to get what you need. What you deserve.

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These anti trans bills are huge threats to civil liberties and we should do everything in our power to fight them erininthemorning.com/p/nancy-m…

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Republicans lied to you about Project 2025? Who could have predicted? What else have they been lying about?

nbcnews.com/politics/donald-tr…

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"Don't let politics ruin your relationships"

- I have relationships with women. Your politics are about ruining them.

- I have relationships with trans people. Your politics are about ruining them.

- I have relationships with black and brown folks. Your politics are about ruining them.

- I have relationships with atheists. Your politics are about ruining them.

- I have relationships with jews and muslims. Your politics are about ruining them.

- I have relationships with immigrants. Your politics are about ruining them.

- I have relationships with disabled folk. Your politics are about ruining them.

- I have relationships with liberals. Your politics are about ruining them.

It's not ME that's letting politics ruin relationships. I HAVE relationships. YOU'RE ruining them.

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What makes sandwich fillings woke?! Does the cheese make you a feminist? Try our Black Lives Matter Egg Salad?! You have to get the I'm A Decent Person Cranberry Mustard?!

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Pedophile Matt Gaetz is Trump's Choice for Attorney General

Lawyer Says His Client Testified That She Saw Gaetz Having Sex With Underage Girl

The lawyer told multiple news outlets about the testimony, before the House Ethics Committee, in which the client described witnessing Matt Gaetz having sex with the girl at a party in 2017.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #Breaking #BreakingNews

nytimes.com/2024/11/18/us/poli…

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When QAnon said they wanted to bring pedophiles to justice, I didn't realize that making Matt Gaetz Attorney General is what they meant.

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Forgive me for stating the obvious, but apparently it’s not obvious enough:

The effectiveness of a vaccine—even the effectiveness for you, personally—doesn’t just depend on you taking it. It depends on other people taking it. The more the better.

Epidemics are complex systems, with feedback effects. mas.to/@gleick/113493200280387…

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Reminder: RFK Jr caused a deadly measles outbreak in Samoa that killed 83 people, mostly children.

RFK Jr and his non-profit visited Samoa to lobby the government and spread misinformation that reduced measles vaccination rates.

He may now lead the top US health agency.

in reply to Dr. Lucky Tran

I just hope that mostly republicans will follow his lead and so reduce the number of fascists.
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"When Donald Trump fills his cabinet, he's not sending his best. He's sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with them. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people."

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We should have an entire preliminary election day in September. Like the PSATs. That way all the dumbfucks can cast their preliminary vote, then go google "how tariffs actually work," then read all the new articles about what Donald Trump's actual policies are, and THEN cast their real vote.

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Calgary removed fluoride from water only to discover that over time not only did cavities in kids get a lot worse but serious medical issues requiring serious medical intervention also went up dramatically: calgary.ctvnews.ca/calgary-s-p…


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Trad Wifers: Women will be so much happier if we go back to the traditional ways.

My Sisters In Christ, female suicide was 20% higher before No Fault Divorces.

in reply to Ricki Bowie Knives Tarr

my 2 cents: traditional wifes need traditional men, that provide for the family and secure them. My all time favorite is the delusion of "passport bro" Mark in morocco who was shocked to discover that traditional women in morocco expect! and demand! the husband to providen 100%. No 50/50 budged. The show is called "Match me abroad". Comedy gold all around
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@Pistolenkind True, you want to have a wife or do you want to be alive

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Please, please if you live in the US immediately stop using period and pregnancy trackers.

Don't put in another piece of data. Delete it.

in reply to pinguino

@pinguino ok thank you :)

To be honest, I've been using an app to track my periods and contraception for years now. It helps me to know my cycle and when something is wrong.

However, with the election of Trump, I'm worried that some of this data will become public - and that they'll use it against women. I don't live in the US, but I just want to warn women there just in case.

in reply to Laura Manach

@pinguino The application I use is called ‘clue’.
And according to several comparisons of applications, it seems to me that it's still the safest application in terms of data.
After that, I'm completely open to criticism or other more secure alternatives.

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Geraldo Rivera to Latino men: ‘A vote for Trump is a vote against self-respect’

thehill.com/homenews/campaign/…

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#WashingtonPost Humor Columnist Has Guts to Endorse #KamalaHarris

“I’m just a humor columnist. I only know what’s happening because our actual journalists are out there reporting…that there’s no one too powerful to report on, that we would never pull a punch out of fear.

That’s what our readers deserve and expect: that we are saying what we really think, reporting what we really see; that if we think #Trump should not return to the White House and Harris would make a fine president, we’re going to be able to say so

That’s why I, the humor columnist, am endorsing Kamala Harris by myself!

Bozo #Bezos
archive.is/rSUWT

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#PoliticalPodcast time

Episode 801: 2000 Mules and One Big Lie, Eve of the Election

sites.libsyn.com/30959/episode…

Skepticrat236 - Votey McVoteface Edition

audioboom.com/posts/8601056-sk…

#podcast #skepticrat #cognativedissonacepodcast #2024election #Kamalaharris #uspolitics #donaldtrump #comedy


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I'm not content warning this, it's just a #woman in her underwear. Also, that would be irony

This is #Tehran’s Islamic Azad University on Nov 2

She was assaulted by #Iran's #morality #police because her #hijab was "improper"

So she just stripped

She was arrested and I don't think it will go well for her. Iran's weak, insecure, moronic hangups over #women's clothing is vicious cruel and violent. They kill women for showing their hair. It's all so fucking stupid

#womensrights #bodilyautonomy

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@rapunzellet very upsetting. I doubt I’ll still be around to see Islam law changed to allow women to dress how they like
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Oh and he also removed almost all of the US troops who would have made the transition orderly.
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The Guardian is now running the story of over 100 hours of tape that show #Trump's close ties to #Epstein. This is based on info from author Michael Wolff, who has been offering the story to American media for weeks--with no takers. The media is #complicit.
in reply to Will

i hate to say it, but there was a powerful window when Wolff could have released it; but now it's such old news, and baked in for voters, the media doesn't think it will get any eyeballs. Which is what happens when a prick like Wolff sits on info to write a book instead of being a true journalist

in reply to Dave Spector

Ahhh yes, the iconic Pashtun tribal dress for women, not really seen outside Pashtun culture, which Westerners are told represents Islam, even though most Muslims consider that extreme.
in reply to Rastal

@Rastal Currently enforced throughout Afghanistan by the Taliban regime, though. who Trump cut a deal with in 2019, forcing the subsequent US withdrawal on Biden by weakening the army presence there so much that keeping the Taliban out became impossible.

Remember, this is what TRUMP wanted for Afghan women.

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Popular Black Conservative Trump "Loves" Got Outed as a White Guy, Then Nuked His Account

youtube.com/watch?v=_0o8dmesgK…

#Donaldtrump #blackinsurrectionist
#jasonpalmer


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reminder: the Luddites were not anti-*technology*. They were anti-*factory owners firing weavers and replacing them with lower-paid loom workers*. They could have retrained the weavers and kept their pay high, but bosses gonna boss. We are all Luddites today.

The name later became a slur because the bosses won, and used propaganda to hide the history, and because smashing looms is a dramatic symbol, and humans like retelling dramatic stories, not depressing facts.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite

in reply to Alex Chaffee

'We are all Luddites today' - not true. this a generalization even when the term 'Luddite' is vindicated by historical assessment. Of course - even now - many people are opposed to their own value and based on reactionary views they, themselves hold. Also, personally, I do not like being labelled a 'Luddite' when the term has inherited a different meaning - essentially 'an ignorant shitkicker'. Interesting post, nevertheless :)

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#ScathingAtheist 611 “Politic of Treat” edition

🔊: audioboom.com/posts/8599331-po…

In this week’s episode, JD Vance defends cringey losers who everyone laughs at,, Chick-fil-A becomes a DISRUPTOR in the homophobic sandwich multimedia sector, and we’ll finally learn our master plan.

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Elon Musk, Who Has Ties to Both Epstein and Diddy, Criticizes People With Ties to Epstein and Diddy

futurism.com/elon-musk-epstein…

#elonmusk #JeffreyEpstein #diddy


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It's been 50 years since the scientist who invented Retin-A was allowed to experiment on humans at Holmesburg Prison in Philadelphia, testing dioxin, LSD, and other harmful substances without informed consent. Those victims are still seeking justice skepchick.org/2024/10/the-evil…

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#top10 #FACTS #EVOLUTIONISTS DON'T WANT YOU TO KNOW (Response)

youtube.com/watch?v=9yJfbxHNow…

Sources:
1 – #Particles popping in and out of existence: bit.ly/1J9rNlX
2 – A #Universe from Nothing lecture: bit.ly/1QDSvW0
3 – Transitional #Fossils playlist: bit.ly/1WtTxec
4 – Mary Schweitzer's paper on #dinosaur soft tissue: 1.usa.gov/1TzlUp0
...and much more

#cosmos #atheist #science #evolution #atheism #species #astronomy #archaeology

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