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John Durant

@2johndurant

MIT science communicator, just opened an all-new MIT Museum! Spot twin "pinnacles" of innovation in 19th/20th centuries in 1 image?

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What an enthusiastic response from young people given the free choose to join the army or pursue their dreams elsewhere! Oh, wait.

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And if the report is established to be true, presumably the pastor also favors public execution of the perpetrator? What's sauce for the goose, as they say, is sauce for the gander. More generally, though: what an idiot.

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In my view, Democrats aren't making nearly enough of the massive fiscal irresponsibility of the GOP platform under Donald J. Trump. If he's elected, the first to suffer will be ordinary folks who depend e.g., on Social Security....

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Trump Campaign Leaves Trail of Unpaid Rally Bills Across the Nation thedailybeast.com/trump-campaign… He was always a grifter, plain and simple.

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"We're withholding our endorsement because our owner is frightened of government retaliation if Donald Trump wins" is a more forceful and eloquent statement than any newspaper editorial ever written.

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"The Commonwealth" has always been a peculiarly British (English, really) conceit. What it was, or why it was, no-one could quite say. The decision to cultivate this conceit may yet come back to bite its makers. bbc.com/news/articles/…

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I never thought I would see the day when Americans might voluntarily elect a racist bigot spewing eugenics and his numbnuts science advisor What a colossal failure to communicate science to the public. yournews.com/2024/10/26/287…

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“Public health researchers are alarmed, especially given Kennedy’s opposition to vaccines. “I can’t imagine anyone who would be more damaging to vaccines and the use of vaccines than RFK,” University of Minnesota epidemiologist Michael Osterholm told CNN” science.org/content/articl…

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Must say I preferred the world when the worst a mad entrepreneur could do was invent a weird little car and give kids an affordable introduction to computers.

Must say I preferred the world when the worst a mad entrepreneur could do was invent a weird little car and give kids an affordable introduction to computers.
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How much better off would Britain be today if none of these people had ever been PM? (Answers, with lots of ...000,000s, on a postcard please.)

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Hello BBC News (UK), A British surgeon presented shocking evidence to a UK parliamentary committee that Israeli drones *target Palestinian children*. * Why is this not headline news? * Why does it not appear under ‘Israel-Gaza war’? * Why have you buried it under ‘local news’?

Hello <a href="/BBCNews/">BBC News (UK)</a>,

A British surgeon presented shocking evidence to a UK parliamentary committee that Israeli drones *target Palestinian children*.

* Why is this not headline news?

* Why does it not appear under ‘Israel-Gaza war’?

* Why have you buried it under ‘local news’?
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This man will live forever as a hero in the annals of British history, as will the post-war Labour Government of which he was part.

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We are experiencing unprecedented levels of censorship on free speech across the west in response to the awful situation in Israel/Palestine. Check out this article: cnn.com/2024/11/14/bus…