Would like to note that many of us who are virologists, microbiologists m, immunologists and ID specialists have had this fear since the beginning of just given the nature of corona viruses Personally, imo there is enough evidence to state it is. Why do I believe that?

"Russia has the right to create a buffer zone in Ukraine for the sake of its security," German politician Alice Weidel said in an interview with Die Welt. In the next breath, she spews another russian propaganda point: "The Russians have always stated that their national

1/ No previous US president has ever created criminal offences by executive order, as that's exclusively reserved to Congress. However, it *is* literally a hallmark of fascism, and it always starts with criminalising dissent. ⬇️

🧵 So we’re going to talk about what can happen to women who are denied female-only medical care while vulnerable. On 29 Dec 2018, a patient at Hacienda Health Care shocked staff by going into labor. She was 29, severely disabled, and they’d had no idea that she was pregnant. 1/

A brief guide to dismantling ideological doublespeak: - Trans woman = man who claims to be a woman - Trans man = woman who claims to be a man - Trans kid = abuse victims - "Deadname" = birth name - "Misgendering" = correctly sexing - "Trans rights" = special privileges -

Money well spent.

Peter Hague The main players outside China; ULA, JAXA, and ESA, basically pretended it wasn't real for too long. Blue has moved too slowly. What SpaceX has done is just really, really difficult and it will take competitors awhile even with a clear roadmap available.

If you abandon your principles just because others are unprincipled, you were never principled in the first place.

Are they really this clueless about how rocket development works, or do they hate SpaceX because of Elon? As so often happens, it's hard to distinguish incompetence from politics.

Ukraine and Muscovy exchanged long-range strikes. Ukraine wiped out Russia’s two biggest oil refineries. Muscovy “retaliated” by leveling a kindergarten and an apartment block in Kyiv. That’s the whole difference: Ukraine hits war infrastructure, russia wages war on children.

it’s barely discussed any more, but it’s shocking to me how common some variation of the belief that humans are an invasive species/cancer on earth is, especially amongst the youngest generation.

You would have to be either staggeringly incompetent —or monstrously shameless — to stand before the press, without blinking, and draw a moral equivalence between Ukrainian strikes on Russian oil depots, strategic bombers, ammunition depots, and military factories (which, by the

Only when the Moscow invaders are utterly defeated and all occupied territories are liberated can the war end. Only when the Moscow empire is utterly destroyed and dozens of nation-states emerge from the ruins can there be peace.

NEW: Progressives have a birth rate problem For all the talk of a general fall in births, the drop is overwhelmingly driven by people on the left having fewer kids. By ceding the topic of family and children to the right, progressives risk ushering in a more conservative world.

1/5 Ukraine’s military casualties are far fewer than russia’s. But civilian deaths? Way higher. russia: under 5,000. Ukraine: 50,000–100,000. Why? Ukraine targets military assets. russia targets civilians

The French PM, Francois Bayrou, is the first European politician of his cohort, as far as I can tell, to successfully frame the debate about fiscal sustainability as a matter of intergenerational equity. The generation that has had a great run leaving a huge bill for their

This just means that Europe has a greater incentive to move farming indoors. The Netherlands already produce a great deal of food from greenhouses.

Very, very wrong First, if you want to build a coalition, you must work with people with like, totally different views & perspectives. If you insist on everyone sharing 100% of your optics, you will never ever build any coalition at all

Second, any working solution for the Palestinians will by necessity include a working solution for the Israeli (and for the broader Jewish community abroad). Saying the latter is not your concern is either stupidity or dishonesty because it of course is

Here's someone that needs to read Hobbs.