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[Jason @Jasoni_22]

@HartoJohan @CathyYoung63 Sadly there really are people out there who don't believe viruses exist.

[Jason @Jasoni_22]

@nguyenhdi Oh man, I remember watching that in 9th grade World Geography class.

[Jason @Jasoni_22]

@ScottGreenfield Here on Germany, the speed cameras also get a photo of the driver and include it with your notice, so the "you can't prove it was me" defense doesn't work.

[Jason @Jasoni_22]

@AndrewCFollett @NRO Ah yes, because we all know how good Trump is when it comes to appointing people renowned for their scientific excellence. 🙄

[Jason @Jasoni_22]

@LundaHunda @vicvaiana She also had the best dance parties.

[Jason @Jasoni_22]

@SketchesbyBoze Don't be such a pre-Madonna.

[Jason @Jasoni_22]

@gooddoctorX @IanCopeland5 Rotavirus is the leading cause of diarrheal illness in children worldwide. It causes ~150,000 deaths each year, mostly in the developing world. Before vaccination, in the US, it caused about 2.7 million cases of severe gastroenteritis, 60k hospitalizations, & 37 deaths each year.

[Jason @Jasoni_22]

@OneeghaCarol @BadMedicalTakes Ultrasounds do deposit energy in the tissues, which is measured by the thermal index (TI) and mechanical index (MI). Part of conducting a safe fetal US exam is keeping those below a certain threshold, which is why color/spectral Doppler use during them is kept to a minimum.

[Jason @Jasoni_22]

@CathyYoung63 That's absolutely par for the course for Paxton.

[Jason @Jasoni_22]

@ScottGreenfield They'll forgive anything as long as he keeps "owning the libs" and Making America White Again.

[Jason @Jasoni_22]

@CathyYoung63 As an aside, I like Javert because he's by far the most complex character in Les Mis.

[Jason @Jasoni_22]

@HistoryBoomer That's a great scene for sure. Other scenes that still get me in my feels, no matter how many times I watch them:
- The Death Star trench run
- Apollo 13 reentering the atmosphere
- Simba ascending Pride Rock after defeating Scar

[Carl @HistoryBoomer]

"Immigrants are going to replace our culture!"

What culture is that, exactly?

Is it the Iowa State Fair? Seeing the Hawkeyes play the Cyclones on Saturday night? Eating pork chops on a stick? Church choirs volunteering to help rebuild homes after a tornado?
Is it barbacoa on Sunday morning before mass and your little girl's quinceañera? Or accordion-driven Tejano music playing from a pickup truck?
Is it moms dropping their kids off for Calabasas ballet in Range Rovers and Teslas? Lululemon and Vuori? Angry meetings about fence heights at the HOA?
Is it salsa coming through open windows on hot days? Folding chairs gathered around a domino game? Puerto Rican and American flags everywhere to honor Marines coming home?
Is it Southern comfort food at Mary Mac's Tea Room? Morehouse and Spelman grads meeting to network? Southern rap blasting at Magic City?

People afraid of being "replaced" have too narrow a view of what America is about. And yes, America can include a statue of the Hindu god Hanuman in Houston. (Because, c'mon, what is more over-the-top Texan than a 90-foot golden statue of a dude wielding a huge bad-ass club?)

My American culture doesn't discriminate based on ethnic background. My American culture is one that can deal with immigrants because it embraces their myriad varieties. My American culture holds dear democracy, freedom, and independence.

My America believes in self-governance, from jury rooms, where 12 strangers gather to decide a fellow citizen's fate, to town halls, to local elections, to national campaigns. It's watching locals grill an annoyed city council about a new park or too much crime downtown.

My America believes in free speech so much that we put it at the top of the Bill of Rights. I get to call my leaders idiots and feel no fear of prison or punishment. I believe in allowing marches and protests, from the good ones (Selma and Stonewall) to the ones I dislike (Proud Boys or Antifa).

My America is proud to see rows of new citizens lined up at city hall, with many different skin tones but the same expression of hope and anticipation. Because my America is Ronald Reagan's America, "still a beacon, still a magnet for all who must have freedom, for all the pilgrims from all the lost places who are hurtling through the darkness, toward home."

So it's ok if some people march in a St Patrick's Day parade while others celebrate the Vietnamese (Tet) New Year, as long as they are all committed to freedom, democracy, the Constitution, and this amazing thing called "America."

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[Tim Hirschel-Burns @TimH_B]

A year ago Elon Musk tweeted that he had fed USAID "into the wood chipper."

It was an act that killed people. We don't know most of their names, but we know the 27 below.

Much like with Renee Good + Alex Pretti, we should remember these lives taken by the cruel men who lead us

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨BREAKING: ICE/Border Patrol agents pulled guns on a car full of legal observers, saying they needed to “ID” them TODAY, because agents claim they had guns YESTERDAY.

Read that again.

Agents openly admit this stop had nothing to do with anything happening now, but with something they claim happened the day before.

That sounds a lot like U.S. citizens being stopped and detained for exercising their First Amendment rights, while agents catalog people they believe exercise their Second Amendment rights, into their database.

A database that, allegedly, included Alex Pretti.

In the video, agents surround a car of U.S. citizens who were legally observing law enforcement activity this morning in Minneapolis.

Multiple agents have their weapons drawn… guns turned sideways… pointed directly at a car full of U.S. citizens, ordering everyone out of the vehicle.

Not just the driver.

Every single person in the car, including people in the back seat.

This was a full-vehicle detention of legal observers, at gunpoint, with no immediate threat, and no lawful basis.

That alone is an excessive and illegal use of force.

The agents then demand that the people filming produce press credentials, further confirming that agents are illegally denying people their First Amendment rights to observe and record law enforcement activity…

Because press credentials are not required to film police.

They never have been.

And then, at the very end of the video, the justification for the illegal detainment finally slips out.

An agent admits the stop happened because YESTERDAY they claim these same people “threatened” agents with handguns.

Then the agent’s story changes…

The agent says, “they pulled them out, trying to engage us.”

A member of the press asks, “Pulling out literal guns?”

Then agent’s story changes AGAIN…

“No. Assuming that we were going to do something.”

So, no guns were actually pulled, and no threats were actually made.

The “threat” was that people disclosed they were armed… which is exactly what concealed carry holders are trained to do when law enforcement engages with you.

And then the agent finally admits what this stop is really about.

Saying, “That’s why they are being IDed right now.”

So TODAY, agents illegally stopped a car full of legal observers, at gunpoint, to illegally identify and catalog U.S. citizens…

Because YESTERDAY, those citizens lawfully exercised their Second Amendment rights.

If this doesn’t set off blaring alarm bells for the NRA and anyone who claims to be “pro–Second Amendment,” nothing should.

ICE/Border Patrol agents just used guns, intimidation, and an illegal detention to punish U.S. citizens, after the fact, for lawful gun ownership.

That is government retaliation.

And it’s exactly what the Second Amendment was supposed to protect people from.

[Jason @Jasoni_22]

@dasanil Agree, except for characters where their race/ethnicity is an integral part of the story.

[Jason @Jasoni_22]

@aiyannabanana @ShannonSel83221 @505Cali2 Absolutely false. Mortality down more than 40% over the last ~50 years.

[Jason @Jasoni_22]

@BylerCat @ShannonSel83221 @505Cali2 No, men can get mammograms too.

[Jason @Jasoni_22]

@simon_schama @nytimes You don't have to look that deep, it's the lead story on their website right now.
https://t.co/06ZQhIMFOg

[Jason @Jasoni_22]

@johnfournier77 @T_RUTHR @thehealthb0t https://t.co/Evw8owM31P

A vitamin K injection was given to women shortly before birth. The vitamin K levels in the cord plasma were less than 0.3% of the levels in the mother after injection. That's pretty strong evidence that vitamin K doesn't cross the placenta.