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Americans abroad need US-approved vaccines in countries where #COVID19 is worsening. Excellent reporting from @VOANews @W7VOA #Thailand @HelenBranswell @Laurie_Garrett
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I spoke with Haley Stevens yesterday.
Feeling a bit absurd in pointing out the obvious and being far kinder than I should have been, I reminded her that the outcome of this senate race will be viewed in the light of a future Supreme Court vacancy, and I expressed a hope that all of us understand the stakes.
She assured me she's supporting Dr. El-Sayed, sent me a video of a recent speech she gave blasting Mike Rogers and said this: "Still stands. I promise."
She also said she's been sending this video to other folks to make it clear where she stands on this race.
Again: that was yesterday.
I have known Haley Stevens for years. I have counted her as a friend and an ally. We've had many thoughtful conversations about this country, and she has never failed to remind me that her mother is a fan of my writing.
Whatever other political differences we have, she has always made it clear to me she would stand with LGBTQ people. It was a red line she refused to cross.
Instead, she has made the inexplicable decision to endorse a man who views LGBTQ Americans as second-class citizens unworthy of full equality.
I can't help but wonder what her mother must be thinking right now.
I have no idea what has happened to the person I thought I knew, but clearly, she has completely taken leave of her senses in endorsing a Republican who is little more than a Trump sycophant -- less than 24 hours after promising me that she has not wavered from the bigger picture.
I am disgusted with her cynicism and cowardice in this moment. God forgive me for trusting her.
If you're a Michigan voter and as disgusted as I am, get to your polling place and vote for Dr. El-Sayed.
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Woody Harrelson has done an ad for Exxon.
New Exxon El Nino Commercial
Written by Adam McKay @mr.ghostpanther
Voiced by Woody Harrelson @woodyharrelson
Produced by Yellow Dot Studios
Edited by Max Koepke of @lostplanetpost
Stock Footage licensing by Stalkr
Music licensing APM
Oh right, was that after Russia invaded Crimea in February 2014 and Donetsk and Luhansk in April 2014?
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Paul Risley retweeted
I lost my Dad on 9/11. I don’t get a lot of reach on here. But I just wanted to share a picture. He was 39. I thought he was old. I’m now in my mid 30s and I still feel like a kid.
He was a great trader. He loved markets. He loved to find a stock no one was talking about.
The first trade I ever placed was on his work computer, where he let me click the button to buy AMAT. I loved going to the office with him. It was electric.
He was the best dad. We spent hours out in the street after dinner where he’d throw “pop flys” for me to catch. Eye on the ball.
He loved watching Sponge Bob and eating cereal, wrestling with us in the living room. He just loved being around his kids so much, and we knew it. I’m so grateful I got a dad like that.
Love you, Pops.
The 80baht TumYum soup with bamee noodles and everything bowl at #RungRueng pork noodles on Sukhumvit Soi 26 #Bangkok
How the 'Yellowstone effect' transformed one rugged western American city bbc.com/news/articles/ckg92d…
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Congratulations on your wedding @DonaldJTrumpJr. Sorry for distracting your Dad with this important work.
A police visit on a claimed domestic assault in the family home in January 2026 would have been a good time to remove any weapons in the home. This was a murder first. @profwschiller washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/…
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I join with President Trump in extending the joyous spirit of rebirth and renewal that is Easter to you and yours. Have a wonderful day!
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⚡️‼️🚨🇺🇸BREAKING: The loss of an E-3 surveillance craft is fake news.
The craft has already been restored to service.
Iran is seething.
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To commemorate my father’s 95th birthday, I want to remind Spock fans that dad’s parents were Ukrainian immigrants which shaped my father in many ways. Four years of Putin’s war has brought death and destruction to our people, our homeland. LLAP. #standwithukraine #ukraine
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Welcome news more than half a century too late. We need, however, to reinsert the drive for white supremacy back into the context. The BBC story implies that the principal motivation for Belgium and other Western powers conspiring to kill Patrice Lumumba were Cold War suspicions of his ties with Moscow. This is untrue. The real reason was that many in Brussels, London, Washington did not want to see the emergence of a powerful and united Africa and wanted to maintain white supremacy over at least the southern half of the continent (1/3)
A Belgian court has ruled that a former diplomat can stand trial in connection with the killing in 1961 of Patrice Lumumba, Congo's first prime minister.
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Paul Risley retweeted
I don’t mind that Europeans frame the post-WW2 era as a “rules-based” “global order” that’s now seemingly crashing down. But it’s irritating that many don’t even see that this is a parochially European perspective - like the “Cold War” - and that for the vast majority of the world the much bigger story of the last eight decades has been the transition from a centuries-old age of (largely Atlantic) empires and the ability (or inability) of the “West”, often racially identified, to come to terms with even a slightly diminished place in the world.
At the Munich Security Conference, European leaders are not holding back in assessing that the post-World War II global order is kaput—and they blame Trump. foreignpolicy.com/2026/02/13…
Paul Risley retweeted
I have been laid off today from the @washingtonpost, along with most of the International staff and so many other wonderful colleagues. I’m heartbroken for our newsroom and especially for the peerless journalists who served the Post internationally — editors and correspondents who have been my friends and collaborators for almost 12 years. It’s been an honor to work with them.
I launched the WorldView column in January 2017 to help readers better understand the world and America’s place in it and I’m grateful for the half a million loyal subscribers who tuned into the column several times a week over the years.
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Let's get back to when politics made sense.
January 7, 2009. What a transition looks like. #GeorgeWBush organized a lunch for incoming President-elect #Obama.
