Derek Sherman

Depolarize and Critically Analyze. RTs and follows are not exclusively endorsements K? M: @[email protected]

[John Pavlovitz Official @johnpavlovitz]

Conservatives who continually sermonize about “protecting women” in college sports don’t seem at all interested in defending them when they step off the field and onto their campuses.

[Annie Jacobsen @AnnieJacobsen]

☣️🦠 UPDATE on pneumonic plague outbreak at the BSL-3 lab in Siberia. 🦠☣️

Russian gov't in TOTAL information control mode.

Baikalsk municipal admin warned residents NOT to travel to the area where the lab accident occurred, then deleted the info ~2 hrs later. Local REN TV deleted 5 posts about the accident. Local journalists who reported on the accident yesterday appear not to have not written any updates since.

Pneumonic plague is 100% fatal if not treated with antibiotics within the first 24 hours of symptoms. The biggest question being suppressed: have there been any more deaths from plague?

The US State Dept lists Russia as having an illegal bioweapons program, one of 2 nations (N. Korea is other). Genetic modifications / bioweapons engineering more likely done at Obolensk and Vector (in a BSL-4 lab), but this is impossible to know for certain.

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

The fact that Western embassies and international missions are openly refusing to give in to the Kremlin’s threats and publicly declaring that they’re staying in Kyiv is a great slap in Putin’s face and a very eloquent middle finger to him. Excellent and thank you.

[anyone_want_chips @anyonewantchips]

We thought Mueller would expose him but Barr lied, or Jack Smith would indict him but Cannon blocked, or Congress would impeach him but McConnell bailed, or the judiciary would hold him accountable but SCOTUS immunized. It’s up to us now to stop him. Vote blue. #BlueWaveIn30Days

[Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom]

He is the embodiment of every negative human trait. Every single one.

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

How can there be fuel shortages? I was assured that the Strait is now open, everything is back to normal, and that we're totally winning.

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

Not to worry, Jared.

All those subpoenas coming your way will provide you an unparalleled opportunity to provide the testimony and documentation that will demonstrate to the nation your exemplary moral and ethical rectitude.

[Mark Cuban @mcuban]

So I went down the rabbit hole of trying to determine what are the economics for someone, who is currently healthy , to go to a HDHP with a 10k plus deductible.

The question I asked is “I dont trust insurance companies. What happens if I have a million dollar emergency and they won’t pay “. All I can say is WTF

If they don’t pay, there are Independent Review Organizations, who are supposed to be independent, and their decision to pay or not is final. I asked for examples of companies. One was ExamWorks. That rang a bell.

These motherfuckers are the same company that issued a ridiculous denial for a patient I was trying to help. So I knew the Too Big To Care, vertically integrated insurance companies hired them to do DENIALS !!! WTF.

The biggest customers of the companies that are the final decision makers for insurance carrier denials, are the biggest insurance companies.

That is beyond fucked up. It’s the definition of conflict of interest. How do state insurance commissioners allow this ?

The high deductible plans that many people say is the solution to fixing how we do insurance, may be effectively compromised

If you are looking at a HDHP, BE CAREFUL

It might just be rigged against you

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

Election Day is 30 days away, and the fight for free and fair elections is here. In some states, early voting has already begun, and nearly every state has sent out mail-in ballots. https://t.co/MeqPSlWxXa

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

CNN and CBS News are now under the control of the Ellison family.

We need independent, pro-democracy media to grow. If you agree, please subscribe to Democracy Docket now. https://t.co/7W0yoPHUfA

[Patrick De Haan @GasBuddyGuy]

buckle up. gas and diesel look set for a spike over the next 48 hours, hardest in parts of the nation's interior. i track this for a living and i'll be sharing real-time updates as it unfolds powered by GasBuddy data, looking at many different angles. ready to share w/ you all.

[Farm Action @FarmActionUS]

Skyrocketing diesel prices are hitting farmers hard, and the effects won’t stop at the farm gate.

“We have to harvest, we have to run the machines, we have to use the diesel.”

“The machine behind me uses 200 gallons a day. So we’ll harvest for about 30 days.”

“So there’s 6,000 gallons.”

And fuel is only one part of the equation. 

Farmers are already facing rising costs for fertilizer, chemicals, and other inputs.

The system leaves farmers with little control over the prices they pay or the prices they receive.

They can absorb those increases for only so long before higher costs ripple through the food supply chain and hit consumers at the grocery store.

Meanwhile, some of the largest corporations controlling essential parts of that system are reporting billions in profits during the same crises driving costs higher.

Farmers and consumers shouldn’t keep getting squeezed while powerful corporations turn every new crisis into another opportunity to expand their margins.

[Pete Buttigieg @PeteButtigieg]

How can they justify leaving right now?

Diesel costs just hit an all-time high. Our nation is at war. The bond market is quivering. The urgency of AI regulation has come to a critical moment.

Congress should be working overtime. Instead Speaker Johnson sent them home. All to dodge one uncomfortable vote - much like his maneuvers last year to hold off the Epstein files.

You don't have to be a Democrat to find that disgraceful.

In less than seven weeks, Americans can change all this. 48 days to go.

[Craig Fuller 🛩🚛🚂⚓️ @FreightAlley]

Many truckers I've spoken with don't realize how quickly container volumes have collapsed.

Starting in May, port freight out of California will be almost eliminated.

Its going to be a bloodbath in dray, followed by intermodal, and then a collapse in I-20 & I-40 trucking.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

HOLY SHIT!! Rep. Kamlager-Dove:

“It is total corruption for an unelected unqualified billionaire like Elon Musk to…take control of our government to have access… of the information we use when we are trying to get a motherfucking tax return.”

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

This lady is brave

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Tick tock. ⏰ Putin's only hope is his sycophants in the West pushing his targets into worthless "negotiations" to give him time to rearm and to reassure his elites he’s still the big boss who will save their fortunes and families living in free world luxury.

[Timothy Ash @tashecon]

I don’t know much about Joe Rogan but as someone who has covered Ukraine for 35 years this is all lies/Russian propaganda. Openly.

[Allen Ivermectin @FanSince09]

If the number of CEOs being shot matched the number of school shootings per year we’d have gun control legislation passed immediately.

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

The actual human world?