Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

🇫🇷 France: 3 Straight Weeks of Rising COVID Infections.

Emergency visits for COVID spiked in late August, up 20% in under-15s and 12% in ages 15-74.

Brittany and western France were the most affected regions; in Charente-Maritime, 9.5% of ER visits were COVID, 5x more than the previous week.

Source: https://archive.md/gOIPR

So unifying

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/charlie-kirk-enemies-maga-1.7637943

An alternative interpretation: MAGA is fracturing into gang warfare.

Charlie Kirk was murdered by an associate of a rival gang acting as radicalized proxies for moneyed elites competing for leadership in a fascist movement.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/charlie-kirk-and-tyler-robinson-came-from-the-same-warped-online-worlds

Gang warfare shares a lot of features with competitive oligarchic authoritarianism.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/how-trump-brought-competitive-authoritarianism-to-america.html

https://www.politics.utoronto.ca/research-publications/faculty-publications/competitive-authoritarianism-hybrid-regimes-after-cold

@Npars01
Charlie Kirk and Nick Fuentes are opposite ends of the white supremacist pipeline. Nick Fuentes made a career out of attacking Charlie Kirk. His followers have been showing up at Charlie Kirk events to physically intimidate him for years now.

Nick Fuentes reacted the way stochastic terrorists always do. He did the "I condemn this" dance, and as soon as the dust settles, he will select another conservative target to complain about not being extreme enough.

I have submitted a FOIA request to the FBI for all video evidence & documents created in the investigation of Border Czar Tom Homan & his acceptance of $50K in bribes for favorable government contracts. Kash Patel says the case was closed due to no evidence of criminal behavior. Accordingly, he should have no hesitation releasing innocuous footage & docs.

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Booked a Covid shot. PSA: there are new (and stupid) restrictions, but you can get it if your BMI is over 25, which is 3 out of 4 Americans.

US Special Envoy Keith Kellogg revealed in an interview with Lord Ashcroft that he disagrees with Trump on how to end the war in Ukraine. While Trump reportedly wants a full peace deal, Kellogg believes a ceasefire should come first, arguing it’s more realistic than jumping straight to a final agreement.

Are these people alive? In this country? OK, reporters, time to ask DIRECT questions with data to get MORE data....now.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:f7utvjkqbgwfjonqtpfcf5fu/post/3lz74apudtk2z

https://www.thedailybeast.com/jeffrey-epstein-victims-tear-into-kash-patel-over-his-trafficking-claim/

A-friggin-men Brother Eric!

@bespacific if it was possible to hate a guy to death, he'd be in a grave in one of his golf courses. Preferably one of the Scottish ones.