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Image is a postcard addressed to President Joe Biden at the White House in Washington DC. Text reads: May 27, 2024 Dear Joe Biden, Sam Altman doesn't belong on any advisory board. He has no business near the people's business. He shouldn't be trusted with the security of a cookie jar given that his company is based on theft. Chloe Humbeet Scranton PA

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Sam Altman shouldn’t even advise on the security of a cookie jar.

2024-05-27

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seatbelts airbags hard hats water filters mosquito nets life jackets fall arrest ropes condoms oven mitts steel toe boots lockout tagout gloves the sharps box respirator masks

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Safety gear is good.

2024-05-27

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Less than optimal organ transplants are preferable to death.

2024-05-20

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Dairy farms avoid fixing problems even if it can be their financial ruin.

2024-05-18

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Posting and reposting sick burns that look like endorsements on social media.

2024-05-17

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Anti-mask was always a dark money campaign. Mar 28th, 2024 wat3rm370n on tumblr Image Alt Text: The disinformation didn’t just happen, it was deliberate. Teams Human. State Government Leadership Foundation openly bragged on social media about an advertising campaign that specifically targeted liberals to persuade them of the lie that masks supposedly do more harm than good.16 There is evidence that mask requirements are beneficial. But the State Government Leadership Foundation appears to have used old school advertising and simple repetition that uses the mere exposure effect, where people come to believe something simply because it seems familiar after hearing it a lot.17 teamshuman.substack.com/p/anti-mask-woke-washing Dark money from big corporations funded a right-wing think tank to do a deliberate advertising propaganda campaign to convince liberal Democrats that masks are bad. ProPublica headline: Buying Your Vote Big Corporations Put Up Seed Funding for Republican Dark Money Group IRS files show that some of the biggest companies in the country provided more than a million dollars a decade ago to launch a Republican dark money group. by Justin Elliott Feb. 14, 2013, 8 a.m. EST Tweet from State Government Leadership Foundation brags about an anti-mask advertising campaign targeting liberals.

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The pandemic era is now, and mask bans are unethical.

2024-05-17

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Conservative pundit influencer Dave Rubin incites fear and possible aggression toward people who wear respirator masks.

2024-05-16

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Farm bill should include regulating the bird flu in cows situation.

2024-05-15

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Scruples?

2024-05-15

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Image starts with a red flag emoji and the text reads: Sabotage works best when it looks like incompetence.

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Let’s not pretend that depressing voter turnout isn’t sabotage.

2024-05-14

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Where a disease is permanently circulating, mitigation must be permanent.

2024-05-14

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FDA VRBPAC covid vaccine public comment, date extended

2024-05-11

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Image is a postcard the text reads: May 10th 2024. Companies that build and operate power plants to supply cryptocurrency “mining” operations should be barred from receiving taxpayer subsidies meant for climate change mitigation. They’re defeating the whole purpose. Chloe Humbert in Scranton PA. Addressed to President Joe Biden at the White House, on a postcard with National Marine Sanctuary stamp with the picture of a tropical fish.

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Taxpayers expected to pay for somebody else’s coal burned cryptocurrency stash.

2024-05-10

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Image is a screenshot of a youtube video called Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson April 7, 2024 — COVID Concerns, the transcript is to the right of the screen and some of the text is highlighted with marker in yellow that says quote “Together, Doctors Vaughn and Kory” and there’s a red marker arrow pointing from their names to two people on the video being interviewed by Attkisson in a room with lights on a boom, and a lamp on an end table lit in the corner. Jordan Vaughn is seated at the left with his hands folded, wearing a sport coat and light color pants and he’s watching Pierre Kory’s face as Kory is speaking. Kory is dressed in a dark black suit jacket with prominent shoulders, and black pants.

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Vaughn, what team is he actually on?

2024-05-08

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Bassist leaves The Pixies under cloud of gossip about supporting an anti-vax covid denier who attended Jan. 6th.

2024-05-07

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the group risky shift. Sometimes a group’s dynamic switches. People start confessing naughty diversion from a core value of the group. It may be about pushing the envelope on the rules, testing boundaries of others in the group, or because they want absolution from their peers on their own change in direction. Or maybe they want someone to pull them back away from the edge. Sometimes people are invited into the group and accepted despite not sharing the original values of the group. teamshuman.substack.com/p/risky-shift-effect

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On Seeking Vacation Absolution.

2024-05-06

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The Trump & Republican Project 2025 agenda is to dismantle public health.

2024-05-06

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Image is a graph chart showing that during the Great Recession from December 2007 to December 2011, the gains were all at the top and the lowest income people lost big, and in the Pandemic from December 2019 to December 2023, the wealthiest gained, but so did the middle and low income. The caption reads Wealth Gains Were Much More Equitable After The Pandemic Than After The Great Recession. Forbes - Wealth Gains Across Income Groups Show A Strong And Equitable Economic Recovery - Christian Weller - Apr 2, 2024

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Mitigating harm is an economic good

2024-05-01

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A Long Hauler Redditor.

2024-04-30

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Accelerationist apocalyptic hopium is a trick

2024-04-30

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If it sounds too good to be true, stop and review.

2024-04-29

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Lauren Boebert is NOT claiming “vaccine injury”.

2024-04-29

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