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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis

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What's the opposite of apocalypse? Trying to chronicle that.


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Tens of thousands of unnecessary deaths because they wanted to own China.

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Reupping "“We weren’t looking at this from a public health perspective,” said a senior military officer involved in the program. “We were looking at how we could drag China through the mud.”

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If you follow me a little bit you know that I went to Grenada last December to learn how to sail. I have been texting with the boat captain who taught me how to sail (he's from Saint Vincent but works in Grenada they have a freedom of movement agreement) and he shared this gofundme

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OMG

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I don't have any answers this isn't my reporting.

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Yeah the piece notes that if there's returning gunfire though it can sound like many regular.

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Timothy noted that btw. It makes sense they're trying to follow NYT in diversifying from just news (Food, games, their broadcasting deals with TV and radio)

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www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

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I believe that.

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I'm worried about the quality of care that will precede that

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Sorry if this seems a bit like a data dump. This is what my brain looks like when I'm trying to clear stuff out before the holiday.

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Well, this is not concerning at all

www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

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"Each year, nearly 20,000 deaths among youths ages 0 to 19 years would not have occurred had U.S. youths experienced the median mortality rates of 16 comparison countries. More than half of these deaths involved infants, reflecting disproportionately high U.S. infant mortality rates."

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Ooop

www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

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oh. another story that journalism actually does make enough money but not in the right way so it looks like its losing money. WaPo edition.

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It's early, if concerning, research. If the drugs weren't being used aggressively off label (and if people weren't buying semaglutide dupes that they mix themselves) I wouldn't have shared it.

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omg

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The environmental toxicants are things like arsenic and formaldehyde not, if you get tiktok "wellness influencers" carbs. Carbs make you happy.

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huh

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The study if you're curious and to be clear it does not make a causal link- it's retrospective and there are significant caveats. But it's the kind of study whose conclusions should encourage future studies that are better constructed

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oh

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mhhhh

www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

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gothamist.com/news/was-tha...

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I recommend taking five to ten minutes to put your US rep, US senators, and state and local elected officials into your phone contacts so you can instantly call them whenever you get mad, which will be every day from now until we die.

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Nasal vaccine: Researchers are enrolling volunteers for a Phase I clinical trial of a #Covid nasal vax. Adult volunteers are being sought for study sites nationwide. The candidate vax is expected to have enhanced protection against a range of emerging #SARSCoV2 variants www.nih.gov/news-events/...

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muting cause I said what I said.

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And the reality is that there's more attention focused on Biden's age than the plan to completely eliminate US democracy as we know it. Kind of feels like more people should know the stakes.

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This is not a defense of Biden, the Democrats or anyone else. It is a critique of the media (which is kind of what I do a lot of) that outside of kind of the fringes is treating everything as normal instead of plainly detailing the risks the US are facing.

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And this is the reality of the context we are facing right now. If wishes were horses we'd all get to ride but we aren't. And it is beyond wild to me that people aren't looking at things as they are and not as they wish it would be.

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And yet there's more ink spilled on his age and his competency than on fascism.

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That is a conversation they should've had last year not four months before the election where rules make him difficult to replace and where the GOP is openly stating that if they replace him they're going to legally contest the replacement candidates inclusion on swing state ballots.

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That goes for both candidates.

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IDK kind of feels like we should be paying more attention to a prominent conservative think tank saying we're in the midst of a second american revolution that will remain bloodless as long as long as the left lets it be, then whether or not Biden should step down.

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BREAKING: Israel has approved the largest seizure of land in the occupied West Bank in over three decades, anti-settlement watchdog says.

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Someone remind me, in JKR's Harry Potter universe when a child who cannot perform magic is born to parents who can perform magic, what happens to them. Oh right, the term for them was 'Squibs' and they were treated with pity and disdain and largely excluded or even shunned from their society.

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I grew up eating goat (Haitian American). I dont eat it anymore but not out of revulsion I just never liked it. It's a very darkly flavored meat. It's very common to eat in parts of Africa, the carribean. Way more than lamb.

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No I wanted to make it clear that I wasn't running around eating a vulnerable bird for funsies and realized I should have made this clearer that it was before the news of the puffin collapse was known. I wouldn't eat them now.

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The puffin was before their collapse! I'm not a monster (and their collapse was caused by climate change not heavy puffin harvesting). The issue is that the fish they need to feed baby puffins has migrated further from where they are

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I've eaten whale wont do it again (I dont need to it's not subsistence for me) Also reindeer and puffin. Still wont eat horse or rabbit. But I grew up eating tripe.

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It's likely why he's denying it, and why it's getting more oxygen than the SA allegations. SA among politicians is sadly common

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There's another layer too which idk how to express this because I havent and dont wanna see the photo. But you can be fine with other cultures eating dog and be uneasy rfk did at the same time. It's a signal to borrow from Kendrick that "he's not like us" since the cultural prohibition is so strong

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And you see this broadly across cultures. Strange to us meats weird us out in a way say strange to us fruits don't. There's no logical reason I refused to eat horse on France but was willing to give musk ox a try in Greenland except us culture says horse isn't food

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I haven't fact checked this but cultural aversions to meat are some of the most deep seated according to a prof I had in college. It's why even when a person quits a religion say Islam with an aversion to pork they might still avoid it even if they say drink alcohol

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I can't find the tiktok I don't use it in my phone but in my search I learned there's another version with the dude in the hard hat and apparently that's not it

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" Sued for defamation by the state’s former governor — a top subject of their reporting — they have been hit with a court order requiring them to turn over internal files including the names of confidential sources."

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"But just over a year after she secured journalism’s top award for exposing how $77 million in federal welfare funds went to athletes, cronies and pet projects, she and her editor, Adam Ganucheau, are contemplating what to pack for an extended stay behind bars. "

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She won a Pulitzer for exposing how the country's poorest state spent federal welfare money. Now she might go to jail. "The rabbit's got the gun now," said a lawyer for former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant, who is trying to force reporter Anna Wolfe to reveal her sources.

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In Vermont we'd periodically lose power if the storm was bad enough because of the weight of the snow would put tension on the lines. It'd always be less than 12 hours, usually overnight. The state is rural and low density so burying lines would be $$$$

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It's not "normal" it's roughly 5% of households and the reason is e have more extreme weather than y'all. Yes there's issues with the grid- more Californians are getting it because of fire related power shutoffs but the people most likely to have home generators live in hurricane zones

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