Lea Teagarden aka @tencentdress

CONCLUSIONS In our sample of 650,173 COVID cases among active-duty military personnel, a total of 278,278 were identified as having post-COVID-19 syndrome (42.8%). Of these, 273,405 reported post-COVID symptoms in at least two visits (42.1%). Our findings showed that the top three symptoms of post-COVID-19 syndrome in military personnel are related to pulmonary, neurological, and fatigue issues. Mild to moderate cases of this syndrome could leave military personnel with long-term deficits in their overall fitness and readiness. This readiness is a critical aspect of military effectiveness, ensuring that personnel can respond rapidly and decisively to threats. Thus, continued assessment and potential treatments are needed to assist active-duty military personnel to improve their overall health outcomes.

Oh look, the 🇺🇸 military concludes over 40% of COVID infections lead to Long COVID, among a population sample that is all adults, & on average in better physical condition & younger than the national/global population.
www.amjmedsci.org/article/S000...

This same argument can be extended to excluding black characters, to excluding women characters from certain roles, to any form of bigotry you can imagine.

It is explicitly agreeing to reproduce the existing system of oppression and bragging about it in the newspaper

Transpose this 1970 campaign speech by antisemitic white supremacist Asa Carter into the voice of JD Vance or Elon Musk or Matt Walsh and tell me if you could tell the difference.

Unmasking the Klansman Unmasking the Klansman may read like a work of fiction but is actually a biography of Asa Carter, one of the South's most notorious white supremacists (and s...

I’m finally reading the great Dan Carter’s excellent, albeit deeply disturbing, 2023 biography of Asa Carter, and one thing that stands out (among many) is the centrality of antisemitism to Asa Carter’s hateful politics, and to his compatriots on the far right.
www.ugapress.org/978158838548...

You Do Not Hate Daylight Saving Time. You Hate Standard Time. If you don’t want the sun to set earlier, then Daylight Saving Time is your true ally.

#TeamDaylightSavingTime

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PASS THE SAVE AMERICA ACT, NOW. It’s all people care about !!!

Trump’s Mideast war is killing people by the hundreds and putting American soldiers in peril, yet he says his combo voter-suppression and trans-tormenting bill is “all people care about.”

Wisconsin specific PSA: deadline to register to vote in the Supreme Court race is coming up mid-March.

1. Even if you think you’re registered, verify.

2. If you plan to register by mail: the deadline is 3/18 but *MAKE SURE TO DO IT DAYS EARLY* because new USPS rules: boltsmag.org/usps-postmar...

update:

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So let me get this straight ...

1. US bombs Iran
2. Oil price goes up a bit, benefitting Russia's petrostate
3. Russia gives Iran targeting info
4. Oil price shoots WAY up
5. US unsanctions Russian oil

Even they know how disrespectful the baseball cap was.

The Illegals: The Americans Rewatch Podcast | TRAILER (New Episodes Thursdays) YouTube video by The Mayday Network

Excited to add cultural commentary to my CV 💅🏻

I’m watching one of my favorite shows with @julieroginsky.bsky.social @michellekinney.com @jeffjarvis.bsky.social @olgalautman.bsky.social and the gang

Coming soon to your favorite podcast app 🎧 📺

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TAPPER: Do you think Stephen Miller should go?

TILLIS: Of course I do. He's a big problem in this administration and has been since the beginning

Not for nothing, when Musk bragged that he spent a weekend "feeding USAID into the wood chipper" it was just taking uppers and vibe coding about DEI. One of the true losers of our age.

One thing Bill Whitaker is gonna do on @60minutes.bsky.social is report the truth. Whoever’s in charge.

Especially coming on the heels of Justice Thomas’ recent remarks about “incivility,” this report on the uniquely vicious and menacing attacks on lower federal court judges is important.

And that’s not just me taking sides. Mace is DEMONSTRABLY coming apart at the seams. She needs to be under care and possibly even an authoritative care overseen by an officer of the court or a Power of Attorney.

I hope you aren’t drunk and took your staff’s advice, Rashida and I don’t know this man and feel confident he didn’t care about us. Please restrain from drinking too much as you have been warned from your staff and stay off social media when you are drunk. I pray in his holy month you find peace and respect for your self,

uhhh oh my god

Democrats stop making “conceding points” your opening gambit, part infinity

Siding with the Constitution isn't siding with Iran.

I hate how accurate this tweet is.

Middle East crisis live: Kuwait mistakenly shoots down three US fighter planes, as US says Iran’s ‘reckless’ attacks threaten regional stability Israeli military says fighting Iran-backed Hezbollah could take ‘many’ more days; US crew bailed out safely after crash-landing, says Kuwait

www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

From The Guardian: Experts have said the attacks by Israel and the US on Iran are illegal, as they were in violation of the ban on the use of force under the UN charter and international law. Here is an extract from an opinion piece by Kenneth Roth, a Guardian US columnist and former executive director of Human Rights Watch who believes the attacks on Iran were an illegal act of aggression. We shouldn’t beat around the bush: Donald Trump’s and Benjamin Netanyahu’s military attack on Iran is an illegal act of aggression. There is no lawful justification for it. It is no different from Russian president Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine or Rwandan president Paul Kagame’s invasion of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The United Nations charter allows the use of military force in only two circumstances – with authorization of the UN security council, or as self-defense from an actual or imminent armed attack. Neither was present. In his video justification for the war, Trump spoke of Iran’s “imminent threat”, but there is no evidence to support it. He recited a litany of past attacks that he attributed to Iran, but none of them is ongoing or imminent. At best Trump sought to prevent future harm – Netanyahu used the term “pre-emptive” – but prevention is no justification for war because it would open Pandora’s box to countless armed conflicts.

It's an illegal, immoral war.

Put ICE agents on the front lines. They are already in costume.

You cannot talk like this about any other minority in America.

And if it was any other president’s adviser who said something like this about any other minority, it’d be the instant end of their presidency.

Love that Thiessen is trying to pull the same "You're either with us or you're against us" shit that ghouls like him did during the Iraq war.

Judah Friedlander, a silly man in a novelty hat with giant writing on it

Tobin Bell, playing a sickly dying villain who looks like hammered dogshit

Donald Trump, a sickly dying villain who looks like hammered dogshit and is also wearing a novelty hat with giant lettering

The Alt text is priceless. Thank you.

SC budget lawmakers don’t approve ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ tax deductions for tips, overtime or elderly New federal tax deductions typically reduce South Carolina income tax bills, as well, but not for 2025 returns. Lawmakers rejected conformity.

There was very little benefit for average Americans in the BBB, but the tax deductions for OT and people over 65 were the exception. Now SC Republican lawmakers have rejected those deductions. www.postandcourier.com/news/sc-reje...

Add-backs happen when a federal deduction is not recognized by the state. So an older couple could deduct an extra $12,000 from their federally-taxable income for 2025, but would have to add that amount back to the income South Carolina would tax. Republican lawmakers said their plans for income and property tax changes will bring more tax savings than conforming with the federal tax rules, by hundreds of millions of dollars. But the Big Beautiful Bill deductions would have particularly benefitted people who earn tips and overtime, while the new income tax plan for 2026 tilts the financial benefits to higher-income taxpayers. Under the so-called "no tax on tips" federal deduction, a bartender, for example, could potentially reduce their federally-taxable income by $25,000. That deduction could also have reduced their South Carolina income tax bill by as much as $1,500. But now it won't.

South Carolina Republican lawmakers helping their wealthy friends, while screwing over the hardest working people as well as people over 65.
Please tell me why people continue to vote for these clowns.

how do you come up with this😭

I just want to live in a country where the leader can’t enrich themselves with our tax dollars, the government does what the people want, and the wealthy have to follow the laws.

You know, like a democracy.