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1/ Since 1903, 55 known incidents of major biocontainment breaches in laboratories. This is the reassurance offered up by defenders of research on enhanced pandemic potential pathogens (ePPP). SARS1 has leaked from labs 6 times! Once in Singapore & Taiwan
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Hegseth is too dumb to realize that the line he paraphrases (from Plutarch’s Life of Pompey) has since become a shorthand warning about how republics decline when powerful men stop feeling bound by law.
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Lutnick Pushed to Weaken Chip Rules That Overlap With His Family Business
The commerce secretary has been writing new rules that would affect Southeast Asian data centers, some of which are clients of Cantor Fitzgerald, his former firm
nytimes.com/2026/11/15/us/po… via @NYTimes
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The speech/debate clause exists to prevent the executive from using its exclusive prosecutorial power to intimidate/coerce Congress. Safe to say no prosecution could ever be brought that centers on committee chairs investigating too aggressively in the eyes of a U.S. attorney.
@SenWarren is on the warpath to wield her committee gavel like a tomahawk, seeking the scalps of those who associate “too closely” with President Trump.
Congressional investigations can’t be used to punish Americans for exercising their 1A rights.
My first arrow shot:
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You know a blue wave has hit when a man who spoke at the 2016, 2020, and 2024 Republican National Conventions, and even held a joint press conference with Trump, now describes himself as apolitical.
Fox News: Dana White says he’s not political and doesn’t want to be involved with politics
“You’ll never see me involved in politics. I want nothing to do with politics.”
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Dana White has spoken at the 2016, 2020 and 2024 Republican National Conventions.
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“Cantor Fitzgerald has served as a financing or placement agent for several companies that are involved in developing or operating data centers in Southeast Asia… “which could be hurt by tougher U.S. limits on chip sales to the region.”
This means that the firm run by Lutnick’s sons has a financial interest in looser chip restrictions that Lutnick himself was in charge of implementing. That’s the clearest conflict of interest I’ve ever seen.
nytimes.com/2026/11/12/us/po…
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Georgia did this (a 100% hand count) in 2020, and people STILL DON'T BELIEVE the results.
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You don’t say.
NATO nations withdrawing from *their own* borders is a preposterous demand by Russia. Putin has proved once again that he’s not serious about a negotiated peace. Further talks are a farce at this point. Putin will only agree to stop the war when he knows he can’t win. We need to help Ukraine prove that point. nytimes.com/2026/11/13/us/po…
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EXCLUSIVE: The U.S. has lost its measles elimination status.
with @JenCalfas - free link: wsj.com/health/u-s-loses-mea…
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NATO nations withdrawing from *their own* borders is a preposterous demand by Russia. Putin has proved once again that he’s not serious about a negotiated peace. Further talks are a farce at this point. Putin will only agree to stop the war when he knows he can’t win. We need to help Ukraine prove that point. nytimes.com/2026/11/13/us/po…
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Breaking - All flights nationwide have beengrounded - the #FAA is facing a computer outage.
Yet another major blow to incompetent Transportation Sect Mayor Pete and people who get important jobs with no experience to check some identity politics boxes.
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BREAKING: October PPI Inflation rises to 6.5%, its highest level since November 2022.
Core PPI Inflation was 5.0%, in-line with expectations of 5.0%.
CPI, PPI, and PCE inflation continue to push higher in the US.
All signs point toward a December rate hike.
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As did the Soviets, Russia commits atrocities and wages aggression, and then kindly offers to commit slightly fewer atrocities and temporarily scale back its aggression in exchange for concessions that make its next attacks more likely to succeed. Russia must be defeated.
Russia demands Finland leave NATO and the alliance abandon bases in the Baltic states
These “conditions” were put forward by the Russian delegation during recent trilateral talks in Abu Dhabi, BILD reports.
Moscow proposes keeping occupied Ukrainian territories and taking all of Donbas, including Kyiv-controlled parts of Donetsk and Luhansk.
The plan also requires NATO to drop military bases in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, and Finland to leave the military alliance.
Ukraine would get non-aligned status and renounce NATO membership, though EU membership is not ruled out. Odesa and Mykolaiv ports would be demilitarized. Agreements on free navigation in the Black and Baltic Seas are also envisaged.
Russia also wants Moldova turned into a federal republic including Moldova, Gagauzia and Transnistria. If Moldova joins the EU, Transnistria and Gagauzia could hold independence referendums.
In exchange, Moscow offers to withdraw nuclear weapons from Belarus, abandon intermediate-range missiles there, and pull troops from Transnistria.
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BREAKING: The US Treasury posted a -$404 billion budget deficit in October, the largest October deficit in history.
This marks a +$120 billion YoY increase and a +$337 billion surge from October 2024.
This comes as government outlays jumped +$84 billion YoY, to $773 billion, their largest for any October on record.
Defense spending was a major driver, surging +$29 billion YoY, to $129 billion, the largest monthly reading in history.
At the same time, government receipts dropped -$35 billion YoY, to $369 billion.
The US deficit crisis is accelerating.
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BREAKING: Banned Nvidia chips ended up in a Shanghai AI data center linked to Alice Huang, per Bloomberg
A company Huang founded, now majority-owned by her sister, listed 52 Super Micro units with Nvidia H100 or H200 chips, which can’t be sold to China without US approval. Separately, a Singapore Nvidia cloud partner bought 22 Dell servers with Nvidia H800 chips. The chips went to a Shanghai facility run by Huang’s husband, Kang Wei.
US officials suspect Alice Huang was recruited by Chinese intelligence to target Jensen Huang, who resigned as Nvidia CEO this week.
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It has now been 500 days since @SecKennedy told the nation he has evidence that the government hid research proving vaccines cause autism.
July 1, 2025.
He still hasn't released this evidence.
He's a liar and doesn't really care about the health and well being of children.
Release the kraken! 🐙
@SecKennedy told HHS staff after the election that he’s done being held back by career employees resistant to change.
The senate no longer has leverage over Secretary Kennedy and it is time to get the job done!
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Trump deserves this. He's allowing America to look weaker than it has in decades because he's stupid enough to believe Putin is a honest bargainer.
Russia demands Finland leave NATO and the alliance abandon bases in the Baltic states
These “conditions” were put forward by the Russian delegation during recent trilateral talks in Abu Dhabi, BILD reports.
Moscow proposes keeping occupied Ukrainian territories and taking all of Donbas, including Kyiv-controlled parts of Donetsk and Luhansk.
The plan also requires NATO to drop military bases in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, and Finland to leave the military alliance.
Ukraine would get non-aligned status and renounce NATO membership, though EU membership is not ruled out. Odesa and Mykolaiv ports would be demilitarized. Agreements on free navigation in the Black and Baltic Seas are also envisaged.
Russia also wants Moldova turned into a federal republic including Moldova, Gagauzia and Transnistria. If Moldova joins the EU, Transnistria and Gagauzia could hold independence referendums.
In exchange, Moscow offers to withdraw nuclear weapons from Belarus, abandon intermediate-range missiles there, and pull troops from Transnistria.
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Trump is dogshit and has driven the GOP into the ground
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Recent reports raise serious concerns about our national security and the protection of sensitive U.S. technology.
I am requesting that NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick testify before the Senate Banking Committee.
The American people deserve answers.
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Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut said Thursday he received a letter from a U.S. attorney informing him he's being investigated for conducting a congressional inquiry. to.pbs.org/4sXuiFO
