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RT @ScottGottliebMD: The U.S. has reached its highest annual measles case tally in 33 years, and the virus - once largely extinguished - ma….

RT @GazanRiviera: @dilanesper "Paul Yura, the warning coordination meteorologist at the National Weather Service Austin/San Antonio office,….

RT @dlavine: That office’s warning coordination meteorologist left on April 30, after taking the early retirement package the Trump adminis….

RT @kenvogel: If you meet someone on an app & they spend your 1st date asking leading questions about your job in government or media, they….

Also I have spelling issues! *Liu. (Sorry!).

Perhaps. We’ll see. Local politics has its own dynamics and politicians adapt. I expect the Bronx Science grad who got endorsed by Liu while explicitly saying no changes to the test to maybe form committees to study the topic and focus on issues he actually campaigned on?.

New York is a big but it’s a city. It has local, complicated politics and fairly unusual features when it comes to rent, schools, governance etc. Few successful local NYC politicians make it nationally for a reason. Bluesky has issues but so does this app. Worse in some ways.

Politics via this stupefying app: NY Post propaganda goes viral while prominent local Asian-American politician who chairs the NYC education committee and is a fierce defender of NY specialized schools endorsed him during which Mamdani said “he has no plans to change the test”.

I’d take the opposite side of that bet — he seems quite unlikely to do so and the local voters can tell. I mean, *John Lui* endorsed him. Right? . As far as I can tell, much of this is just an illusion created by New York Post and the usual brain-killing features of this app.

RT @jakescottMD: BREAKING: @SecKennedy just cut U.S. funding to @gavi, the alliance that has vaccinated over 1 billion children and prevent….

RT @Chris_arnade: I’ll take the opposite side of every one of those bets!

RT @El_Gendy_95: For the @washingtonpost, I wrote about Laila Soueif—not only the grieving mother starving for her son’s release, but the t….

RT @alisonannyoung: “A few minutes later, she was riding with Hudson in the back of an ambulance on the way to Lubbock, 45 minutes away. Ca….

RT @WSJ: The State Department will review the social-media accounts of foreign student visa applicants, and all profiles must be set to "pu….

RT @MikeIsaac: five months in

RT @JReinerMD: This has the potential to be one of the greatest medical breakthroughs in history.

RT @SMHWebEditor: Great opportunity to work with exceptional academics.

RT @newlinesmag: NEW: Must Laila Soueif die for Egypt to prove its decisions can’t be overturned? After more than 250 days on hunger strike….

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