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Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:
Researchers identify mechanism behind brain fog in long COVID
Politics:
Russia-linked smear campaign against Hunter Biden began earlier than previously thought
A thumb drive handed by a foreign national to an aide traveling with then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in 2019 suggests that efforts by Russia-linked actors to influence the 2020 US presidential election with Hunter Biden disinformation began earlier and were broader in scope than has previously been reported.
‘There’s No Question This Is Dead’: Biden Impeachment Inquiry Falls Apart
Fox News co-host ‘surprised’ by GOP’s ‘threshold for humiliation’ in Biden probe
Fox News co-host Jessica Tarlov mocked House Republicans on Wednesday for their pursuit of impeachment charges against President Biden.
“This is the path that they’ve chosen to take, and honestly I’m surprised that they have this high of a threshold for humiliation,” Tarlov said during an appearance on the network. “Every witness they have called has decimated their argument.”
https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1760773638079267198
Biden calls congressional Republicans “worse” than Strom Thurmond
Abortion Shield Laws: A New War Between the States
Doctors in six states where abortion is legal are using new laws to send abortion pills to tens of thousands of women in states where it is illegal.
https://twitter.com/VABVOX/status/1760616228798730726
New Matt Schlapp Subpoenas Target Document-Shredding at CPAC
https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1760712406454435968
GOP Star Witness: My Stories Came From The Kremlin
”We’re going to have very powerful crime.”
The Hunter Biden story has done a total 180 but the MSM is in denial
https://twitter.com/YourAnonNews/status/1760727800410198320
How U.S. Pressure Helped Save Brazil’s Democracy
Mounting evidence suggests Biden kept pro-Bolsonaro generals from executing a coup…
Not only was Brazil’s democracy closer to the brink than initially understood, but targeted U.S. pressure on key Brazilian officials was likely decisive in guaranteeing the eventual outcome: a largely peaceful transition of power in the country after its October 2022 presidential election.
https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1760500832964165837
‘Not losing’ is not enough: it’s time for Europe to finally get serious about a Ukrainian victory
U.S. Probed Cartel Ties to Allies of Mexico’s President
American law enforcement officials spent years looking into allegations that allies of Mexico’s president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, met with and took millions of dollars from drug cartels after he took office.
The inquiry, which has not been previously reported, uncovered information pointing to potential links between powerful cartel operatives and Mexican advisers and officials close to the president while he governed the country.
https://twitter.com/MarkJacob16/status/1760828319879004370
The Democrat-Republican Suicide Pact
In my book about the evils of political consulting, Politics Lost, I described one of the great descents in the history of negative advertising. The mad genius Pat Caddell was running Senator Alan Cranston’s 1986 re-election campaign in California. There was a problem: Focus groups showed that Californians didn’t like anything about Alan Cranston. Not a thing. Zilch. What to do? Cranston was running against a moderate Republican tech executive Ed Zschau. Little was known about the guy. He was a blank canvas and Caddell painted it black. All negative, all the time. Cranston the unloved won that race. And a slimy tactic was born.
We’ve seen many such races since. And we are likely to see another in 2024. Only this time the bar has been set even lower.
Serendipity:
Are Evidence-Based Medicine and Public Health Incompatible?
Behind many pandemic-era debates are deep divisions between two schools of thought in the world of health care.
Eating bananas ‘is more effective at reducing blood pressure’ than cutting down on salt
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