As #JoeBiden hunkered down in Delaware & Party leaders scrambled to figure out how #Democrats can win the election, I kept thinking of March 31, 1968. On that day the White House put out word of a mysterious speech LBJ would give from the Oval Office.
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In a world without Internet or 24-hour news cycles the buzz in Washington about the event failed to reach the American people until that night. America assumed LBJ’s address would be about the widening war in Vietnam. On live television, a very haggard-looking LBJ began:
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While #Trump claims no direct connection to #Project2025 it's clear han no #Republican in national power has denounced the Heritage Foundation 887-page manifesto. I put a few hours into scrutinizing the Project's plans for @HHSGov & health agencies. (pages 449-502)
🧵unfolds: 2/Health & Human Services @HHSGov must “respect for the sacred rights of conscience” for Federal workers & healthcare workers broadly who object to #Abortions contraception, gender reassignment & other issues.
“Radical actors inside & outside govt are promoting..."
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When a society attacks its toiling scientists, ranking the opinions of quacks, religions & charlatans above those of scientific insight and discovery, it is a sorrowful time.
Scientists who have been persecuted for their work...
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https://twitter.com/DaniBeckman/status/1808682121957101712

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-Muhammad ibn Zakariyā Rāzī or Rhazes of Baghdad (860 - 932 AD) beaten into blindness for introducing medical advances from non-Arab countries
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In 4 earth-shattering decisions this term, #SCOTUS gutted authority from all federal regulatory agencies. These are very radical decisions – essentially overturning all the sentiments of our nation’s founders debated in The Federalist Papers.
In this 🧵I'll lay it out. 2/Today, w/Corner Post v Federal Reserve #SCOTUS decided that anybody can sue a fedl agcy, over anything, w/no statute of limitations.
Dissenting, Justice Jackson: “The majority throws caution to the wind & engages in...misguided reasoning about statutory limitations periods..."
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This utterly reprehensible Pentagon disinfo campaign executed by the #Trump admin to create Asian suspicion of the Chinese #COVID #vaccine is reminiscent of the CIA's use of a fake #polio vax effort in Pakistan to obtain...
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reuters.com/investigates/s… ...DNA samples from children living in the Osama bin Laden compound in 2011. In both cases, geopolitics trumped public health, leading to countless deaths, assaults on health workers and vaccinators and undermining the credibility of #vaccines . This is appalling.
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Trump’s deal to Big Oil [give my campaign $1B & all #Biden climate & green policies will be void] echoes the Teapot Dome Scandal in another #Republican #POTUS race 100 yrs ago. Until now, it was the biggest presidential corruption case in US history.
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In 1920, the US Navy was converting its fleet from coal to oil and wanted oil on federal lands reserved for military needs. Republican Warren Harding was running for POTUS: he told oil execs to back him & he would let them drill those reserves. When he became President...
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Big Oil execs met at #MarAlago and...
"Trump’s response stunned several of the execs: You all are wealthy enough, that you should raise $1 billion to return me to the White House. He vowed to immediately reverse dozens of President #Biden #environmental rules & policies & stop new ones from being enacted."
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"Giving $1 billion would be a 'deal,' #Trump said, because of the taxation & regulation they would avoid thanks to him.
Trump’s remarkably blunt & transactional pitch reveals how the former president is targeting the oil industry to finance his reelection bid."
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Folks @Reuters made clear, graphic evidence of the collapse of US Congress : in both houses it's seen its productivity plummet by more than half in the 21st Century. At the rate they're going, soon, no laws of significance will pass. MORE
reuters.com/graphics/USA-C… Since the Reagan Era Congressional legislation has fallen by 2/3rds -- not to mention its failure to pass a full, on-time budget.
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With so much political news this week -- today's top one being #PakistanElection2024 results! -- I fear I gave short shrift to some key elements of #climate science.
Starting with: New studies suggest that the heating of the #AtlanticOcean is so severe...
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we may being heading into a collapse of AMOC -- the key ocean circulation system.

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If it happened, the movements of deep, cold H20 vs warmer surface H20 across the entire Atlantic wld shift or stop, w/huge impact on Africa, Europe & the Americas.
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"Monday, Monday.
Can't trust that day.
Monday, Monday.
Seems like it just turns out that way."
DC appeals court ruled against #Trump claims of immunity from fedl prosecution for crimes committed while he was #POTUS w/a Monday deadline for him to ask #SCOTUS to put his case on its docket.
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I have so many questions that I fantasize #SCOTUS Justices asking, such as:
1. Is this immunity inviolable? (#Trump lawyers say only impeachment can remove immunity.)
2. Trump is the only federal official to ever have been impeached 2Xs – is that enough to lift his --
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If you've been watching #CliveOwen in "Monsieur Spade" you may have realized it's about a whole lot more than your average murder whodunit. And you may be confused. Except for flashbacks, the story is set in 1961, in a French village. But a lot of it is about #Algeria .
MORE To understand what's going on, and learn about the French/Algerian war, and France's Nazi collaboration legacy, here you go -- can't really follow the Sam Spade saga without:

With Sam Spade as a foil, the show is diving into France's ugliest saga.
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Biden @NIH today :
"You can have the exact same drug made by the exact same company in the United States, and you buy it in America for one price. You go to Toronto, Paris, Berlin, or any other major capital in the world, you’ll find they’re paying 2 to 3 times less..."
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"...than the American is paying at an American drugstore. Folks, it’s wrong. The results? Seniors are skipping doses, cutting pills in half, foregoing prescriptions entirely because they simply can’t afford their prescription drugs."
Announced 48 more drugs on new...
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Last night #JoeBiden gave a speech in Denver: a few quotes:
-This month in local elections, "The American people voted to protect the fundamental freedoms, like the right to choose. They voted to protect democracy. They voted against the extremism of our opponents."
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-"Democrats up & down the ticket ran on our record. They're proud of that Biden-Harris agenda...each of the people who won this off-year election cited the record they ran on. And it's a winning election."
-"the only reason there's a ban on #abortion --"
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Nearly all the major U.S. Ambassador seats in the Middle East remain unfilled, due to #Republican refusals to approve #Biden nominees. It's no big deal, of course -- we're only dealing with a potentially catastrophic war in the region. No biggie.
MORE foreignpolicy.com/2023/10/09/the… 2/ "Nominees have languished in limbo for months or even yrs due to the 'new normal' practice of #Republican senators placing sweeping holds on all nominees for different agencies over policy disputes with the administration. On the Pentagon side, hundreds of senior..."
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Howdy, World.
Greetings from America.🇺🇸
Here's a thread on how we're doing today:
1.) In 44 dys we may shut down our govt. Or maybe not. We have no idea, actually. But please continue buying into our T-bills, debt purchases & products. We’re sure things will work out. Honest. 2.) While we’re on the topic of our budget, uh, well, good morning Kyiv. Gosh, we sure admire you guys. We’re behind you all the way. Honest. But, well, it’s possible we’ll sop sending you arms, ammo & cash soon. Or maybe not. Hang in there – we’re sure everything will work out.

OK, Folks, here's some details from Justice Arthur Engoron's NY Supreme Court ruling today in the case against the #Trump family & companies, filed by NY Atty Gen #LetitiaJames
1.) Trump claims that NY didn't have standing is "pure sophistry" & "it is not disputed" that...
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James is empowered to sue for violations of Executive Law.
2.) Trump claimed NY AG couldn't sue bcuz she wasn't operating in the public interest. Judge calls that "erroneous" & says govt has the onus, "guaranteeing a marketplace that adheres to standards of fairness."
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So many questions about this, and few answers. When they cluster, are the #WHALES communicating? Are they "deciding" something? Why do they all head to the beach at once -- is this a sort of mass suicide?
Marine mammals are exhibiting strange new behaviors.
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https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1684579411876786181

A sea otter has taken to attacking surfers in Santa Cruz, CA.
A sea lion attacked a swimmer in Hawaii. https://t.co/ovDZI9i9TS
Orcas attack boats off southern European waters.
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Kerry Kennedy condemned her brother, #RFKJr , claims that #SARSCoV2 was "designed" as an ethnic weapon, sparing Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese. His supporters claim RFK was properly citing @NIH-funded studies. So let's look at those studies.
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https://twitter.com/KerryKennedyRFK/status/1680998094413115393

2/ In this study researchers noted that hypertension -- which is regulated/dysregulated via the ACE2 receptor and its interactions with angiotensin, among other things -- has long been linked to poorer outcomes in #COVID19 patients. They asked -
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This is not science fiction. This is not "by 2030 or 2040" future-casting. This is NOW, and it is unfolding with astonishing speed.
#ClimateCatastrophe
What should we do about it? Feel helpless? Here:
- Make sure NONE of your retirement money is in any fossil fuel company
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- Ask your politicians -- local to federal -- what they are doing about #ClimateCatastrophe & if they hem and haw, never vote for them
- Pressure renewable energy companies to design technology suitable for use by renters & people who live in dense urban settings
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The intelligence rept ordered by @WhiteHouse on the origins of #SARSCoV2 is out.
Regarding 3 #Wuhan scientists said to be sick w/#COVID in 2019?
"We have no indications that any of these researchers were hospitalized because of the symptoms consistent with #COVID19 ."
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"While several WIV researchers fell mildly ill in Fall 2019, they experienced a range of symptoms consistent w/colds or allergies w/symptoms typically not associated w/COVID-19, & some of them were confirmed to have been sick with other illnesses unrelated to #COVID19 ."
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So, #Trump is being indicted on 31 counts.
31.
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second batch of #TrumpIndictment charges -- more to come