DeterminedOwl

Strong supporter of Ukraine and Democracy.
Proud American.

No DMs please.

[DeterminedOwl @Owl5000Rogue]

@TrueFactsStated 2028

[Eerik N Kross 🇪🇪🇺🇦🇮🇱🇪🇺 @EerikNKross]

Estonia’s spy chief: ‘Russia is in a very bad place – revolution could come overnight’ https://t.co/VbiIdpbTWC

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

A woman one month into a new job at the FDA was handed an application to approve a sleeping pill. It looked routine. They gave it to her because she was new and it seemed like an easy one to start on.

She read the file and something was missing. No evidence at all that the drug was safe in pregnancy, and it was being sold as a remedy for morning sickness. The drug was thalidomide, and West Germany was getting through a million doses a day.

Frances Kelsey asked for more data. The company sent representatives to her office, then telephoned her at all hours, then went over her head to her supervisors. Between them they contacted her and her boss around fifty separate times. She later said most of what they called her could not be printed. Ten million tablets were already sitting in warehouses waiting for her signature.

She said no six times. And while she held the line, doctors in Germany and Australia were piecing together what was happening to babies whose mothers had taken it. Limbs that had never formed, hands and feet attached directly at the shoulder and hip, in at least 4,000 children across Europe. The company withdrew its American application in 1962.

Seventeen cases turned up in the United States, all from free samples doctors had handed out before any approval. Without her it would have been thousands.

Congress passed a new law that same year requiring companies to prove a drug is both safe and effective, and requiring informed consent from anyone in a trial. Those rules are now used worldwide. Kennedy gave her the highest civilian award in the country and she was the second woman ever to receive it. She stayed at the FDA another 45 years and died in 2015 at 101.

Every American woman handed a pill in pregnancy is downstream of one woman refusing to sign a form six times while men shouted at her.

https://t.co/Xx4rbkh2gH

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

My latest about the real risk that Trump is wiling to take down the entire vote by mail system and cause a failed midterm election. https://t.co/P16KJpkZOi

[DeterminedOwl @Owl5000Rogue]

@Phoenix2A_1980s She's not wrong

[Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @NotHoodlum]

Now that ICE has detained Milo, I hope they practice using their electric gloves on him.

[MP Arizona☀️🏳️‍🌈💙🌵🐕🐕‍🦺🫂💦🏜🐟🌴🎙🌎🌻♍️🌊 @AzPetrich]

Those people who didn't STFU about harassing Tim Walz over "Somalian fraud" sure are REAL FUCKING QUIET about Ron DeSantis stealing 10,000,000 from poor kids to defeat the vote to legalize weed.

[DeterminedOwl @Owl5000Rogue]

@Logically_JC

[DeterminedOwl @Owl5000Rogue]

@JayinKyiv WTAF Europe?!

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

I am grateful to Argentina, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Council of Europe, Czechia, Ecuador, European Union, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Korea, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Thailand, Türkiye, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, and Vietnam for keeping Ukraine in the focus of global attention. Every gesture of support matters. We appreciate that on the 35th anniversary of the restoration of our country’s independence, you were thinking of Ukraine and Ukrainians.

[NY AG James @NewYorkStateAG]

We just won a court order blocking the Trump administration's new rule that would have allowed the USPS to interfere with mail-in voting.

States are responsible for processing our elections, and the USPS does not have the authority to decide who can and cannot vote by mail.

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

BREAKING:

A Russian influence operation trying to influence ChatGPT has been revealed.

The Russians were promoting a fictitious Israeli “research institute” called the International Burke Institute (IBI).

The influence campaign was built around a website containing copied academic work, a ‘sovereignty index’ that presented Russia in a positive light, and efforts to conceal the Russian origin of the activity.

The influence campaign was uncovered after OpenAI identified a cluster of ChatGPT accounts whose operator wrote prompts in Russian to generate posts and comments on Substack, Telegram, X, Facebook and LinkedIn.

Most of the comments were in English, and the operator asked to conceal linguistic signs of a Russian origin.

The influence operation targeted the U.S., EU, Germany, France, Poland and Turkey.

[Ronan Farrow @RonanFarrow]

Georgia audited its own data center tax breaks and found that the state gave up $474 million in sales taxes in one year—and got back just $41 million from the industry. At least 38 states have deals like this. (It's not clear whether all that money the state waived was needed to attract the construction: in Georgia's case, by the state's own estimate, 70% of the data center construction would have happened anyway.)

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

Donald Trump is trying to make it harder for Americans to vote by mail ahead of the midterms.

California is taking him to court.

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

🚨BREAKING: Democrats renewed their bid Tuesday to block President Donald Trump’s anti-mail voting executive order.

I am proud to be representing the DNC, DSCC, DCCC, DGA, and Leaders Schumer and Jeffries in the critical fight for voting rights. https://t.co/8t7Uo9Hvou

[Americans For Tax Fairness @4TaxFairness]

Corporations are laying off thousands of workers & replacing them with AI.

Workers' share of income is at its LOWEST level since 1947.

Yet our tax code still tilts in favor of capital over paychecks.

Even tech bros say this makes no sense.

Tax AI. Invest in working people.

[Mike Drucker @MikeDrucker]

I know this sounds corny and cringey and naive and whatever, but Dolly Parton felt like America when it was trying to be the place it promised to be.

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

For the first time in history, an autonomous AI drone killed civilians.

A Russian Molniya with Nvidia electronics picked its own target in Zaporizhzhia and killed three people, NYT.

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[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

I'd like to suggest that promoting child marriage, stoning, halal animal torture, wife beating, sharia courts, and other behaviour contrary to British values, should now be referred to as Anglophobia

[UNITED24 Media @United24media]

While Nazism was judged at Nuremberg, Stalinist crimes have never faced equal international justice.

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