I mean, you do you, but I'd rather have the minor inconvenience of breathing through a mask and save myself an illness than take a 1 in 4 chance of having impaired lung function a year later.
“At 1 year of follow-up, 25% of the 349 participants had impaired lung function, including 11%, 22%, and 48% of those with mild, moderate, or severe/critical COVID-19, respectively.”
If you've heard #COVID19 is just like the flu, you were misinformed. Be a bit safer, please.
Supreme Court likely to rule soon on whether Alabama must have second Black majority district - al.com https://www.al.com/news/2023/09/supreme-court-likely-to-rule-soon-on-whether-alabama-must-have-second-black-majority-district.html
An #Alabama senator doing the right thing?
Katie Britt co-sponsoring bill to end government shutdowns over ‘budgetary political brinksmanship’ - al.com https://www.al.com/news/2023/09/katie-britt-co-sponsoring-bill-to-end-government-shutdowns-over-budgetary-political-brinksmanship.html
New legal analysis: Jack Smith invoked the threat of political violence in asking a judge to gag Trump from publicly attacking witnesses, jurors, prosecutors & the judge herself in the J6 case. That raises a First Amendment problem with little precedent.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/22/us/politics/trump-gag-order-free-speech.html
Heja Sverige! 🇺🇦♥️🇸🇪
The first 10 Swedish Leopard 2 tanks have arrived in Ukraine!
Imagine being a Russian tank driver in a shaking, old T-72 knowing that these modern tanks are coming to hunt you down — not a good feeling.
Source (in Swedish):
https://www.forsvarsmakten.se/sv/aktuellt/2023/09/stridsvagn-122-pa-plats-i-ukraina/
@charlotteclymer
This seems like a good opportunity to post this...☠️ "Taliban USA"
https://youtu.be/kG-GbgKA19I?si=Gt2QEo3ViGQQoLAS
Will Republicans Abandon This Medical Triumph? https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/20/opinion/republicans-pepfar-aids.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
PEPFAR has saved 25M lives and prevented countless children from becoming orphans. It does not fund abortions. Conservative organizations are attempting to link it to abortions & "lifestyle" choices. Not prolife. Refund PEPFAR.
He skated on the first set of charges on basically a technicality.
Resign.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/robert-menendez-indicted_n_650d98c2e4b04db03fdc1805
Florida's voucher program - Of the roughly 2,300 private schools accepting vouchers in Florida, 69 percent are unaccredited. https://reflectionsinedblogblog.wordpress.com/2023/09/22/floridas-voucher-program/ #privatization
On Sep 22, 1906: White Mobs Terrorize African Americans in Atlanta, Killing Dozens http://calendar.eji.org/racial-injustice/sep/22
https://www.rawstory.com/james-comer-2665714059/ Rep. James Comer was given unrestricted access to a batch of Biden's emails from his time as VP, but noted that "the new emails do not provide any evidence that Joe Biden personally benefited from his son’s business dealings.""The revelation is a major loss for the #MAGAextremists leading the committee, who have long sought the emails in question from the National Archives & suggested they might provide the smoking gun required to impeach
https://www.rawstory.com/james-comer-2665714059/
Unlike Nancy Pelosi and the 117th congress who passed major legislation, McCarthy & House Republicans falter on funding plans, as shutdown inches closer. They went home to take days off. VOTE THESE LOSERS OUT. THEY HAVE NOT PASSED ONE PIECE OF LEGISLATION & ARE UNABLE TO GOVERN #GovernmentShutDown
#MAGArepublicanExtremists #MAGArepublicanClownShow #RepublicanDeathParty
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/09/21/house-republicans-spending/
https://youtube.com/watch?v=yZ5rX38jBsM&si=cU23K3Mw3YmP7FOX
⚡️🇬🇧AFU armoured vehicles appear to have broken through Russia’s main defensive line (The Telegraph News VIDEO) #Ukraine #Press #News #Russia #RussiaUkraineWar #9yrInvasionofUkraine #WantedDeadOrAlive
#SanctionChinaNow
#NoEUPrezForHungary
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