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Laurie Garrett
@Laurie_Garrett
Former Sr Fellow
@CFR_org
. Recipient of Pulitzer Prize, Polk (2Xs) and Peabody Awards. Author: IHeard theSirensScream, TheComingPlague, Ebola & BetrayalofTrust.
New York, NYcfr.org/experts/global…Joined May 2011
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Laurie Garrett
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Here's the problem -- House
@SpeakerMcCarthy
had just one aspiration -- to be Speaker. Remember those grueling 15 rounds of voting? youtube.com/watch?v=2DmAqm To win over the
@HouseGOP
ultra-right-wing McCarthy had to promise them more control than any Speaker has ever ceded.… Show more
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President Biden
@POTUS
If America defaults on its debt, our economy would fall into recession and our nation's global reputation would be damaged. MAGA House Republicans should stop playing brinkmanship with the full faith and credit of the United States. It's a manufactured crisis.
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SatWorld
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⚠️🔴🔥🇨🇦This wide #GOES16 12-hrs animation shows the huge smoke plume spreading across #Canada and beyond,while #Alberta & #britishcolumbia have almost 40k people evacuated for the violent progression of multiple #wildfires #BCWildfires #ClimateEmergency
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🔴⚠️🔥🇨🇦Tremendous conditions for #albertawildfire today also involve #britishcolumbia with #wildfires fuelled by winds & record heat.With housands people evacuated, huge massive smoke is engulfing #Canada and moves eastwards in the latest 12hrs #GOES16 view #ClimateEmergency
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@Laurie_Garrett
First female -- EVER! Congrats Dr. Uhlenbeck! "Renowned for her work in geometric partial differential equations, gauge theory, and integrable systems...helped pioneer a field known as geometric analysis, & among her most famous contributions were her theories of predictive… Show more
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Amazing Physics
@amazing_physics
A Woman Has Won the ‘Nobel Prize of Math’ for the First Time Ever. sciencenatures.com/2021/08/a-woma
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Hillary Clinton
@HillaryClinton
If MAGA Republicans force a default, the catastrophe consequences for our economy could include: 🚨6 million jobs lost 🚨The unemployment rate surging to over 7% 🚨Plummeting stock prices, threatening millions of Americans' retirement savings
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The #SARSCoV2 virus is still evolving, and its ultimate trajectory is unknown. This brilliant review lays out how the #COVID19 virus has evolved to date, what selection pressures is responding to, & some clues to the future.
nature.com
The evolution of SARS-CoV-2
Nature Reviews Microbiology - In this Review, Markov, Katzourakis and colleagues explore the evolution of SARS-CoV-2 at different scales, the phases of the COVID-19 pandemic, factors that drive the...
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@Laurie_Garrett
ICYMI yesterday several #Republicans admitted that they have "lost" the alleged informant and whistleblowers who supposedly had the goods on #Biden family misdeeds. They simply vanished. Yup -- POOF! -- they're gone. Looking under rocks all over, but no sign of 'em. Shrug.
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Congressman Jared Moskowitz
@RepMoskowitz
Chairman Comer has asked me to help track down the missing informant. Please let us know if you’ve seen the person below: twitter.com/rawstory/statu…
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@Laurie_Garrett
"Heat, exacerbated by #climate change, has become one of the deadliest weather hazards in the nation, accounting for more deaths in a typical year than hurricanes, floods or tornadoes. newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/most- "And across the nation, Americans are ramping up for a scorching… Show more
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Most major U.S. cities are underprepared for rising temperatures
While many municipal climate plans cite extreme heat as a threat, few propose any comprehensive strategy to address it, a UCLA-led analysis shows.
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Josh Rogin
@joshrogin
Translation: China will keep sending Fentanyl precursor chemicals to Mexico knowing they end up killing Americans, no matter what the U.S. government says about it.
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Spokesperson发言人办公室
@MFA_China
The US has itself to blame for its domestic drug abuse. China supports Mexico in defending independence and sovereignty and opposing foreign interference. We’re ready to work with Mexico and the rest of the world to counter cross-border drug crime. mexicodailypost.com/2023/05/12/mar
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A Warming #Siberia, Wracked by Wildfires, Nears a Crucial Threshold "Nearly 23 million acres burned from 1982 - 2020. But almost 1/2 of that occurred in 2019 & 2020, and the region may be near a threshold beyond which extreme fires become more common."
nytimes.com
A Warming Siberia, Wracked by Wildfires, Nears a Crucial Threshold
Nearly 23 million acres burned from 1982 to 2020. But almost half of that occurred in 2019 and 2020, and the region may be near a threshold beyond which extreme fires become more common.
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@Laurie_Garrett
2/ #COVID19 infection causes a flood of proinflammatory cytokines & chemokines in the brain. This sets the stage for profound, permanent neuro-damage. The 1918 #influenza #pandemic was also associated with an increased rate of Parkinson’s disease.
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COVID-PARKINSON’S LINK - News Services
A team of scientists, led by researchers from East Carolina University’s Brody School of Medicine, have identified another problem stemming from COVID-19 infections — the potential for greater risk...
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@Laurie_Garrett
In 1921 white residents of Tulsa, OK used fighter planes, torches, machine guns & TNT to attack & destroy the thriving black community of the city. ktul.com/news/local/mot Mother Fletcher was 7 years old when she witnessed the horror, and today, at age 109, she tells the… Show more
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Mother Fletcher, a living survivor of 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, turns 109
Fletcher, one of three of the last known living survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, is celebrating her 109th birthday Wednesday.
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GO GREEN
@ECOWARRIORSS
Bravo A Zambian Activist’s Win Against British Mining Firm Sets Legal Precedent Chilekwa Mumba helped lead a citizen’s suit against Vedanta Resources for pollution from its massive copper mine. Its success is informing similar international initiatives.
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A Zambian Activist’s Win Against British Mining Firm Sets Legal Precedent
Chilekwa Mumba helped lead a citizen’s suit against Vedanta Resources for pollution from its massive copper mine. Its success is informing similar international initiatives.
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The goalposts just moved again on the debt ceiling battle between #Republicans on Capitol Hill &
@WhiteHouse
& #Democrats -- now, Speaker McCarthy wants huge cuts in #SocialSecurity #Medicaid #Medicare & #SNAP benefits to poor families. OR ELSE..... (Hey #Boomers -- think your… Show more
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MeidasTouch
@MeidasTouch
BREAKING: Kevin McCarthy just called to cut Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, SNAP benefits and more — or else he will crash the global economy. 1/
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In Sweden, study: two years after being diagnosed with #LongCOVID 84% of patients "reported persisting problems affecting everyday life." sciencedirect.com/science/articl "Cognitive, sensorimotor, & fatigue symptoms were the most common persisting symptoms at 24 months. No clear… Show more
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Two-year follow-up of patients with post-COVID-19 condition in Sweden: a prospective cohort study
Few studies have reported the long-term health effects of COVID-19. The regional population-based Linköping COVID-19 study (LinCoS) included all patie…
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Dr. Robert Rohde
@RARohde
A few days ago, the warm air mass that has been setting records across Western Canada did something quite unusual. It pushed northeast to the small settlement of Arviat on the still frozen Hudson Bay. There it broke the previous record for this time of year by >10° C (20 °F).
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Laurie Garrett
@Laurie_Garrett
A genuinely bizarre heat map, with records broken across Canada's Pacific and great plains -- along with wildfires. How many records need be broken, all over the world, before the urgency of our fossil fuel crisis mobilizes genuine action?
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Extreme Temperatures Around The World
@extremetemps
Historic day in #Canada Besides the record heat in British Columbia with 36.5C at Lytton and the monthly records with 35.9C at Pemberton and 34.3C at Port Alberni in #Alberta Mts. records are incredible: 30.8C Jasper (1020m) 29.4C Willow Creek (1402m) 28.6C Henderickson (1542m)
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@Laurie_Garrett
A BIG SHAKE-UP IS UNFOLDING
@USAID
UNDER
@PowerUSAID
-- and most of the change is long overdue. It's putting communities in the drivers' seats, and focusing more on #ClimateCrisis and sustainability. economist.com/united-states/ Your tax dollars at work, in the poorest societies on… Show more
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USAID is changing the way it tries to do good in the world
The goal for the agency is to put itself out of business
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Helen Branswell 🇺🇦
@HelenBranswell
Update:
@howardbrownhc
tells me that 20 new mpox cases have been detected in Chicago since April 17. Not sure how many of these people were fully vaccinated. At least 9.
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Helen Branswell 🇺🇦
@HelenBranswell
It's not gone: @CDCgov issues health alert to medical professionals about an upswing in #mpox cases in Chicago, including among men who had received two doses of mpox vaccine. Of 13 new cases, 9 were fully vaccinated. emergency.cdc.gov/han/2023/han00
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Blake Murdoch
@BlakeMMurdoch
Must read: "People who are well... detached themselves from the immorality of their own behavior. 'Return to normal' frames indifference to suffering as a morally neutral position & public health as a matter of personal preference... It is... eugenics."
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I'm immunocompromised. I was cautious about COVID. It was all in vain
Because of the uncontrolled spread of COVID-19, there are few viable treatments left for immunocompromised people like me
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