The Man in Black fled across the desert…

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Repost this if you agree President Biden deserves credit for the Hamas cease fire deal.

[Jon Cooper 🇺🇸 @joncoopertweets]

I’m so tired of him as well.

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@maxfawcett There’s the door. He’s welcome to walk through it at any time. Bye bye

[Kashif Pirzada, MD @KashPrime]

It seems a lot of American can't conceive why Canadians are not so eager to join the union.

I'll give you a few reasons:

- We love our country, just you like you love yours. Things can always be better, but this will always be our home and native land.
- The climate sucks, but we're used to it, and it can be quite beautiful at times. We have warm homes with warm people, winter sports, and lots of sunshine.
- None of my kids have had to do active shooter drills, unlike their cousins across the border. Our cities are the safest big cities in North America.
- There is no role for religion in politics. No one cares.
- We never have to worry about health insurance. Granted the system can be improved, but there are no co-pays, no monthly contributions, few worries.
- There's no corporate donations in politics, it was banned 20 years ago. Billionaires can't own the political system.
- The media (what's left of it) is not allowed to broadcast false or misleading news.
- There's no corrupt geriatric supreme court that can ruin your life. Here judges have mandatory retirement, and few Canadians can name even one of them.
- Abortion has been permitted for 35 years and is a non-issue politically
- There's no senate or electoral college that can keep unpopular parties in power.
- Higher education is good, cheap and accessible. Few are crushed by student debt like in America.

There's a million small things too, but overall, this will never stop being the most beautiful place in the world to me:

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@morgfair Jesse Watters is more likely to invade his fridge than he will Canada. I think the guy just likes the sound of his own voice.

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@TheSource25 @CalltoActivism Then the American people need to refuse to go along with this nonsense. I cannot believe they’d sit back and let Drumpf suspend the Constitution. Or maybe they will?

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@MacRumors Tim Apple has turned out to be quite the douchebag.

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@its_The_Dr If you need a safety bar just to stand up it’s time to retire.

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@broadwaybabyto One the bodies start piling up, some of them may start to cooperate. Some won’t.

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@Emme0703 @MmisterNobody Morons can’t help but be stupider than a brick. Wow.

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@CFIB Uni Uni is looking pretty good right now as a replacement for Canada Post if you’re a small business needing to ship.

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Update on unidentified illness in Congo:

Today, Congo's Health Ministry held a press conference about an unidentified illness in a remote area of Kwango province. Here's a detailed summary written by our team.

• The outbreak is taking place in very remote area with poor road access, especially now during the rainy season, which makes the investigation more difficult. Communication is also limited.

• There are high levels of malnutrition in this region and healthcare services are limited. This means the population is more vulnerable when they become sick.

• On Friday night, the health ministry received an alert from local health officials about an unidentified illness. A meeting was held on Saturday morning. The first team was sent the next day and had to travel more than 400 kilometers (250 miles). They arrived on early Tuesday after a 2-day trip.

• Based on the initial report from the team, there are currently 382 suspected cases, including 71 deaths. Of those, 27 died at healthcare centers and 44 died at home. The current number of active cases is unclear.

• The illness is characterized by fever, cough, runny nose, headache and body aches. In more severe cases, patients are also suffering from difficulty breathing. "So it really resembles flu symptoms," the health minister said.

• Out of 382 suspected cases, 198 are in children below the age of 5 and 113 are 25 or older. Among the 27 people who died at healthcare centers, 21 are younger than 10.

• Of those who died at healthcare centers, 17 died due to respiratory distress and the other 10 died due to lack of treatment. Those 10 were suffering from severe anemia but blood transfusions were not available.

Health minister: "We don't know if the anemia is caused by the disease or if the disease is occurring in addition to an anemia condition (such as malnutrition), but in any case, 10 of the 27 needed transfusions and they passed away."

• As mentioned, 44 people died at home. "It has not been confirmed by doctors. It's when a family says: 'We lost someone. They also had the same symptoms.' We count that as a case," the official said.

• Health minister: "The team that has arrived is now mapping out the symptoms to better characterize what is happening. They have also taken samples, which need to be taken to the lab in Kikwit. It's a very remote area, so it takes time to get the results and potentially identify the cause."

• Health minister: "We are fairly certain that it is respiratory, because people are dying from respiratory distress. Respiratory distress with an initial presentation that, as I mentioned, resembles flu symptoms."

• The earliest suspected case dates back to later October, which is also the start of the flu season. "Could it be a severe seasonal flu affecting a fragile population with malnutrition, anemia, and other diseases? Or could it be another pathogen? We will know once the results are in," the health minister said.

• Could it be COVID? "The mortality rate, which is around 7.5 to 8 percent (based on deaths at healthcare centers), makes us think it might not be COVID, because COVID doesn't have this level of mortality. However, this is a very fragile population, so it’s also possible that it could be a virus of that type affecting vulnerable people."

• What's the level of concern? "The alert level — I would say we're on maximum alert. This means we consider it a type of epidemic that must be monitored as closely as possible," the minister said.

"Can we expect a large-scale epidemic? I can't answer that question because I don't have a crystal ball to predict what will happen. ... It depends on the diagnosis."

"I can't say yet whether it's waterborne, a bacterial infection, or transmitted through coughing. We need to identify the pathogen first before determining how it spreads."

• Results are expected on Friday or Saturday.

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@tslaway No one is willingly leaving their phone behind. Cmon…

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🚨NEW: Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes has announced she is opening an investigation into Donald Trump for his comments inciting violence against Liz Cheney.

RETWEET to thank @KrisMayes for holding Trump accountable!

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@welliver_titus One of the greats. His Doc Savage was epic!

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@foxyjewishmama Dating for procrastinators. I think you’re on to something !

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@aintscarylarry He has a nice rack. I just got hard.

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@JoshMalina Seems like the border is doing a pretty, pretty, pretty good job.

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@RpsAgainstTrump Rabbits? Really? Show us the evidence!

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@YoniFreedhoff She’s NEVER EVER gotten it right. She doesn’t understand COVID, she doesn’t understand aerosol spread, she’s completely misinformed. But she’s always been. And people died because of it.