Frank D’Elia

I spent the better part of my professional career as a US Sailor and Soldier. I served the People and Constitution of The US until my health would no longer permit me to do so. My service during Gulf War I is likely, but not officially, the root cause of my disabilities. (1 of 2)

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Darkest Hour | Churchill's Triumphant Speech: "We Shall Never Surrender!"youtu.be With Nazi Germany pushing its way through France, Winston Churchill (Gary Oldman) is poised to give the most momentous speech of his life: "We shall go on to...

Matt Rowan

Or if you want to see Gary Oldman act it out to perfection in Darkest Hour here you go: youtu.be/CXIrnU7Y_RU?...

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Professional Left Podcast Episode 820: Western Pennsylvania And The Invisible Gorilladriftglass.blogspot.com "Junk is the ideal product... the ultimate merchandise. No sales talk necessary. The client will crawl through a sewer and beg to buy...

John McLaughlin deserves a mention.

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Biden set to announce support for major Supreme Court changeswww.washingtonpost.com The president has discussed the plans with constitutional scholars and members of Congress in recent weeks.

Breaking news: President Biden is finalizing plans to endorse major changes to the Supreme Court in the coming weeks, including proposals for legislation to establish term limits for the justices and an enforceable ethics code, according to two people briefed on the plans.

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Really good news here from Biden. Kudos to everyone who has been working at all levels to call for court reform. It’s making a difference. We shouldn’t forget the politics and PR steps. The Senate can still investigate and hold hearings.

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post malone ergo propter malone

Vance is, you guessed it, an adult Catholic convert

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The US political media is truly too stupid to realize that a Trump reign of terror is not going to be nearly as fun for them as they assume.

There should have been a lot more wondering about what Putin is getting in exchange for holding an American reporter hostage at Trump’s behest. We don’t need to wonder anymore.

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JD Vance is Trump’s gift to Putini-know-how-much-you-care.ghost.io The GOP nominee may have picked the one American his second-biggest donor prefers over him. 0:00 /0:26 1× The pick of JD Vance, who outperformed Ohio’s last...

There should have been a lot more wondering about what Putin is getting in exchange for holding an American reporter hostage at Trump’s behest. We don’t need to wonder anymore.

QUID PRO VANCE JD Vance is Trump’s gift to Putin for all the help in this and the last two elections.

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Larry Glickman

What does it mean to refer to Vance’s “expertise as a MAGA spokesman,” which, apparently, “even his most ardent critics” grant. What is the nature of this “expertise”? Bender doesn’t say. /4

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J.D. Vance’s Chancewww.nytimes.com Why Donald Trump tapped Vance to be his successor.

A thread on today’s “ remarkably one-sided “The Morning” newsletter by Michael C. Bender. /1 www.nytimes.com/2024/07/16/b...

First, a genuine question: did the Times refer to Kamala Harris as Biden’s “successor”? I get that Bender thinks Trump believes that Vance can succeed him in leading the MAGA movement, but this strikes me as loaded language./2

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Larry Glickman

Perhaps realizing Vance has dissembled about being from Appalachia, Bender claims that his book is about “white, working-class people in Middle America.” I just searched the book on Amazon and the word “Appalachia” appears 14 times; “Appalachian” appears 22 times; “Middle America” is not used once/5

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Larry Glickman

The claim that Trump “ushered in economic populism” & “downgraded the importance of country-club Republicans while prioritizing blue collar workers,” not only reads like an RNC press release, but is belied by Trump’s record (tax cuts for the rich, an anti-labor NLRB, support for wage theft, etc.)/3

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Akiko Iwasaki on what causes long COVID, brain fog, the Yale Paxlovid study and long COVID treatmentswww.ama-assn.org The AMA Update covers a range of health care topics affecting the lives of physicians and patients. Learn more about the causes of Long COVID, treatments and more.

Here's my longer thread. TLDR Ryan Cooper has long misled his followers about Covid's long term harm to the body. I'm glad he is now admitting that Covid can and does damage many people's immune systems (among many other harms) bsky.app/profile/tayl...

Here's Akiko Iwasaki, a top immunologist, one of Time Magazine's Most Influential People in health and medicine, talking on the American Medical Association podcast talking about various theories about the cause of long covid, all involve immune damage www.ama-assn.org/delivering-c...

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MSK Library Guides: COVID Impacts: Immunelibguides.mskcc.org Detailed information and resources on the long-term health consequences of COVID-19 infection and the broad social impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic

Actually, not linking directly to misinformation is standard practice for journalists. Amplifying articles with false information spreads that false information. Instead, here's a link to a great resource by Memorial Sloan Kettering that debunks your nonsense: libguides.mskcc.org/CovidImpacts...

one propaganda tactic Taylor has copied from her Tiktok misinformation friends is you never, ever link to the source you're criticizing. you provide a screenshot and then lie about what's in it

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There's a general question abt damage to the immune system. Cooper claims "There is no solid evidence that an ordinary case of COVID damages the immune system." He should probably stop doing that & you should prob not defend it.

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Severe COVID-19 may lead to long-term innate immune system changeswww.nih.gov NIH-funded research links alterations to inflammatory protein, underscores vaccine importance.

Kevin Korb

Cooper's evidence? "Reseach shows", without identifying any such research. Give me a break. Try instead the NIH or someone else with actual understanding of the issues.

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Covid-19 increases risk of developing autoimmune disease, but vaccination helps, large study showswww.statnews.com A large study in Japan and South Korea shows that Covid-19 increases risk of developing autoimmune disease, but vaccination helps.

Ryan continues to lie to his followers because most people are deeply uneducated about Covid. It's not even remotely disputed by any doctor who actually treats long covid or any scientific expert who studies it that Covid can and does damage many ppl's immune systems www.statnews.com/2024/03/04/c...

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Liberals joined conservatives to mainstream anti-vax beliefs about viruses and public healthwww.thegauntlet.news Viruses are bad for kids' health. Public health is a collective effort. Liberals no longer believe either.

Also read this excellent @juliadoubleday.bsky.social piece about how liberals and leftists (incl people like Ryan), are boosting false and dangerous ideas about disease that serve as the bedrock of the anti vaxx movement. This is why what he's doing is so bad: www.thegauntlet.news/p/liberals-j...

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COVID-19: Study Suggests Long-term Damage to Immune Systemwww.infectioncontroltoday.com NIH News Release: "...findings suggest that SARS-CoV-2 infection damages the CD8+ T cell response, an effect akin to that observed in earlier studies showing long-term damage to the immune system afte...

For ppl who don't have immune issues, it's easy to tune this stuff out. But for those of us who actually have wonky immune systems, it's crucial to be aware of the harm Covid can do. Stop listening to random political journalists like Ryan about Covid and listen to ACTUAL experts treating long covid

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Akiko Iwasaki: The Immunology of Covid and the Futureerictopol.substack.com Listen now (42 mins) | A leading light in immmunobiology takes us through Long Covid, nasal vaccines, and the next frontier of the field

Here's Yale's Akiko Iwasaki again talking about ways Covid can damage your immune system on this great podcast with Eric Topol, a great doctor and science communicator erictopol.substack.com/p/akiko-iwas...

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No serious person disputes Covid can and does damage many people's immune systems. Unless you think Memorial Sloan Kettering is lying, Merck is lying, and cancer doctors who talk abt and treat these issues constantly are all lying. Ryan has fallen into denialism. libguides.mskcc.org/CovidImpacts....

Avishay Ben-Sasson-Gordis

Didn’t Lindsey G., Little Marco, Cancun Cruz all trash Trump? Shame isn’t something any of them feel.

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Nothing About the Attempted Assassination Redeems Trumpwww.theatlantic.com This crime does not erase what the former president has done, or what he has promised to do.

The attempted assassination of Donald Trump does not erase the crimes that Trump himself has committed against American democracy, or the crimes he would commit if given the chance, and no one is obligated to pretend otherwise www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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