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I often wonder what the Kershaw family would say. www.findagrave.com/memorial/232...

“If we stop looking for diseases, they will go away”

#QuackMeans
#BuyMyBook

Top German soccer team cancels trip to Minneapolis, citing Trump immigration crackdown Werder Bremen, one of the founding members of the Bundesliga, said playing in the city “does not fit with our values” in light of two federal law enforcement shootings last month.

How's that World Cup looking?

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Already finished it; you won't be disappointed!

Roald Amundsen has entered the chat.

Join us for the real State of the Union event — DEFIANCE.org Opposition figures, current & former elected officials, celebrities, and other leaders will gather to tell the TRUTH and to counter Donald Trump’s lies. They’ll lay out how Trump’s historic abuses of ...

Marianne Williamson is apparently speaking at this event in five days.
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I wonder if this mother will regret her decision if her child suffers brain damage or dies. I also wonder whether her marriage, and her relationships with her surviving children, will survive a negative outcome.

I pay a lot more than that for meds now, despite insurance. I sincerely doubt med prices will drop precipitously if they go OTC; anything the Republicans propose only benefits oligarchs and corporations, and shifts costs to ordinary folk. And the US isn't like other countries or we'd have UHC.

But over the counter drugs are not covered by insurance. Can you afford to pay out of pocket for medically necessary drugs in the US? I can't!

Spouse is currently selling, donating or discarding the contents of a friend's NINE storage units. Consider yourself fortunate that your father had only one!

Watched a double feature of Chu Chin Chow (1934) and Mr. Cinders (1935) at an art house cinema. The latter was a charming comedy, the former a boring stinker.

This Is How a Child Dies of Measles When your family becomes a data point in an outbreak

I admit it, this got to me.

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Pre-release:
The Black Cauldron (1985)
Went to a theater to see another film, found a huge line for an unnamed "sneak peek." The audience went wild when the title appeared; I hated Gurgi.

Also saw Return to Oz (1985) when it opened; freaky film that died at the box office, became a cult classic.

Maybe they hoarded ivermectin during the pandemic and are now desperately trying to "prove" it's a cure for any scourge other than parasites?

Steven Cheung looks like a Sontaran, the evil, warmongering, potato-headed alien clones from Doctor Who.

Your objection must have been noted; I just checked the NYT and the offending sentence has been removed, and the entire article restructured to emphasize the racism inherent in this trope.

I remember Lorraine Day, aka Dr. Doom, who suspected aerosol transmission of HIV and donned a "space suit" for orthopedic surgery.
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How I Lost My Daughter to Measles Measles has a terrible side effect most people don’t know about.

Sure, if you don't count children that develop hearing loss, pneumonia, acute encephalitis, or sub acute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) which inevitably leads to a miserable death.
www.voicesforvaccines.org/how-i-lost-m...

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An unidentified man dressed in a Batman costume angrily confronted Santa Clara city officials during a joint meeting of the City Council, city authorities, and the Santa Clara Stadium Authority on Monday, using his public comment to condemn the city’s stance on cooperation with ICE.

Listened to ep. 1 on the Pocket Cast app: solid info, engaging presentation, but completely unedited. The 1 hour spoken portion included outtakes & was followed by 2 hours of silence. Did someone accidentally load the raw audiofile? Guessing a steep podcast learning curve, will continue to listen!

Go, Caped Crusader!
'Batman' blasts Bay Area city council over ICE's involvement in Super Bowl.
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Beautifully stated.

"Firearms for me and mine, but not for thee and thine." Hypocrites, the lot of them.
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Couldn't happen to a more deserving guy. Betrayed us all just to get stabbed in the back.

The article appears to be partly paywalled and I would encourage anyone who can afford it to subscribe, Slate's got a hell of a sale going right now and subscriptions are how they can afford to pay freelancers for articles like this one

For my fellow brokies, though:

The People headline is clickbait. The actual article smacks of hagiography until the last five paragraphs. The author buried the lede; if she is being doxed and attacked, it's for the wrong reasons.

The People headline reads more like clickbait; the actual article smacks of hagiography until the final five paragraphs. Looks more like reluctance to speak the truth about the dead, and a hope that few will bother to read the entire article.