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Derek

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At the age of 22, when I was diagnosed with HIV, I was told that I would probably not live to see my 30th birthday. That was 40 years ago. Today I turn 62! Happy birthday to me! Believe in science.


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The African Union should send election observers and peacekeepers to this unstable democracy 😉

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Ballot drop box in Washington, USA was set on fire with hundreds of ballots inside at the time. Police said explosive devices were placed inside the box early Monday morning.



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PARENTS: please check your kid's candy this halloween - i just found a 12-month enterprise salesforce contract for 15 seats with auto-renewal and a $50,000 early breakup fee inside this snickers bar

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Florida is recovering from one hurricane while another is on the way. -The Republican Governor is refusing to talk with the President to coordinate hurricane relief -All Florida Republicans in Congress voted against supplemental disaster relief money for FEMA -82 House…


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This you?

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I HAVE PEOPLE THAT HAVE DIED IN MY COUNTY AND FEMA GAVE FUNDING TO ILLEGALS!



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Amazing how "terrorist attack" becomes an "explosion at supermarket" when Israel does it

Video appears to show pager explosion at Lebanon supermarket bbc.in/4ennoky



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this is reads like a satire article what the hell

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Haitian motorist making illegal turn in Springfield, Ohio, smashes into mom driving with autistic daughter trib.al/Nd9Xcgs

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ni en latinoamerica fue tanta la corrupción

‘Fortnight’ by Taylor Swift feat. Post Malone wins the #VMAs award for Song of Summer.

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Also this is the most affirming moment of my decade of research on these issues. Please pay attention. It’s coming for you next.

NEW: We put 7 Uber & Lyft drivers in one room and had them open their apps. We found Uber paying different drivers different amounts for the same ride. Lyft too. It’s proof corporations are using secret algorithms to pay workers less. And all of our jobs could be next.



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MIT went from having a 13% Black undergraduate incoming population to 5% today Wow

MIT sees drop in Black enrollment after Supreme Court struck down race in admissions trib.al/3qEsMbg



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BAN ISRAEL FROM THE OLYMPICS

Israeli airstrikes have killed the young Palestinian runner Wasem Ayman Abu Deeb, member of the Palestinian National Athletics team. The occupation forces bombed his family home in Khan Younis last night.

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The White House is not following the CDC’s COVID isolation guidance. They are actually going way beyond and telling people to stay home if they have tested positive within 10 days (ie. following what the science tells us). Very indicative.

Israeli airstrikes have killed the young Palestinian runner Wasem Ayman Abu Deeb, member of the Palestinian National Athletics team. The occupation forces bombed his family home in Khan Younis last night.

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50 daily flights between NYC and Boston (190 mi) travel along the country’s only “high” speed rail corridor. What a damn policy failure.

NEW: Spirit Airlines will launch a new route from Boston (BOS) to Newark (EWR). Flights begin May 8 with twice-daily service. If you count Newark as a New York City Area airport, there’s around 50 daily flights between Boston and New York City (JFK/LGA/EWR). Spirit’s the only…

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one really notable thing about this story is it only took a single billion to do it. that's how much a billion dollars is

Albert Einstein College of Medicine Announces Free Tuition in Perpetuity for All Medical School Students. Learn more at bit.ly/49xYywn. #MedicalSchool #MedEd #giving

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The most blow-your-brains-out American moment of this interview is when this ex-official surmises that more State Dept. officials would speak up if there were universal healthcare and government employees felt that they could afford to lose their jobs.

State Department Official Resigns, Says Israel Is Using U.S. Arms to Massacre Civilians in Gaza democracynow.org/2023/11/3/josh…



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Read that again: Hundreds of Palestinian workers were abducted and held hostage You didn’t hear a single word about them in the US press. Palestinians are non-entities

Starting on Oct 7, hundreds of Palestinian workers from Gaza (who carried Israeli work permits) were abducted by Israeli occupation forces and held hostage. Many of them were released today on what seems to be a whim. Here are their testimonies.



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The oldest university in Gaza has just been destroyed. I look forward to all the statements of condemnation from European counterparts

The Islamic University of Gaza, #Gaza's top university and Palestine's third ranking, has been bombed to smithereens



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Beyoncé announces brand partnership with air purifier brand Levoit, and says she’ll also launch a grant program for clean air and public health research, ahead of the release of “RENAISSANCE: A FILM BY BEYONCÉ.” “I want to lead by example,” she told the AP. “We keep us safe.”

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I can’t believe we’re drinking out of paper straws just so 3 ppl can fly private on commercial planes and make it pointless

Neymar flying from Paris to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on a private Boeing 747



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