Lab worker ‘possibly’ dies of plague in Siberia, prompting quarantine measures

 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/05/russia-lab-worker-possibly-dies-of-plague-siberia-quarantine-measures-irkutsk.

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Social Democracy Won the Century and Lost the Future

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Why conflicting public health messages jeopardize public safety - CDC vs. Pennsylvania: Why conflicting public health messages jeopardize public safety

https://theconversation.com/cdc-vs-pennsylvania-why-conflicting-public-health-messages-jeopardize-public-safety-291239

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What China has been doing with open-source models these past few years comes closer to the phrase “keep humans in the loop” than any alignment manifesto does. and how to keep everyone in the loop.

https://asiatimes.com/2026/09/we-must-not-be-scared-by-silicon-valleys-ai-slowdown-theory/
What China has been doing with open-source models these past few years comes closer to the phrase “keep humans in the loop” than any alignment manifesto does.
and
how to keep everyone in the loop.
https://asiatimes.com/2026/09/why-south-korea-is-giving-51-million-people-unlimited-ai/

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Bad Food It’s not hard to follow the money Joyce Vance Aug 22

 https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication_id=607357&post_id=211616078&utm_source=post-email-title&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=rovhk&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo0NjUxMDE4NCwicG9zdF9pZCI6MjExNjE2MDc4LCJpYXQiOjE3ODc0NDc1MjYsImV4cCI6MTc5MDAzOTUyNiwiaXNzIjoicHViLTYwNzM1NyIsInN1YiI6InBvc3QtcmVhY3Rpb24ifQ.0T3W8na9NCJVZnl9-G3usxmwOMEZQ8FopVvlsVa9oG0

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How Chinese Politics Works: By Deng’s Former Translator

 https://thedissidentvoice.org/2026/07/how-chinese-politics-works-by-dengs-former-translator/#more-168794

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Collapse of the California Apple Industry and Replacement with Toxin Doused Strawberries

 https://whowhatwhy.us9.list-manage.com/track/click

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Utilities Are Shutting Off Power to a Growing Number of Households

 https://whowhatwhy.org/science/environment/utilities-are-shutting-off-power-to-a-growing-number-of-households/

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How the Fight to Ban Trans Fat Was Won

https://nutritionfacts.org/blog/how-the-fight-to-ban-trans-fat-was-won/

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We Need a Socialism After Capitalism

 https://jacobin.com/2026/04/socialism-democracy-capitalism-market-economy

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Spanberger, "Centrist" Democrat Utter Betrayal of the Working Class

 https://newrepublic.com/article/210812/zohran-mamdani-abigail-spanberger-first-term-accomplishments

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We Could End Every Blue State’s Budget Deficit With One Policy. Even a Five-Year-Old Could Explain It. If we can convince a five-year-old, we can convince our state and city representatives. Christopher Armitage May 10

 https://cmarmitage.substack.com/p/we-could-end-every-blue-states-budget

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Trump Says US Can't Pay for Childcare Because It's 'Fighting Wars' Instead

 https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-daycare

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A closer look at Poland Spring’s water withdrawals during Maine’s drought

 https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/money/business/poland-spring-bottling-drought-report/97-7a930949-e6c0-4a5a-a766-de4cf871ac27

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The Fascist Offensive Grows in Virulence: Featuring Enhanced Attacks Against Women, Attempts to Distract People, Following a Variety of Increasing Socioeconomic Problems and Election Defeats for Far-Right Candidates.

1). “Stop Turning Women’s Bodies Into Crime Scenes”, Dec 4, 2025, Jessica Valenti & Kylie Cheung, Abortion, Every Day, at < https://jessica.substack.com/p/pregnancy-decriminalization-bill >.

2). “The Most Unpopular Laws in America: Nobody wants abortion bans—not even deep red states”, Dec 3, 2025, Jessica Valenti, Abortion, Every Day, at < https://jessica.substack.com/p/abortion-bans-unpopular >.

3). “ ‘Never seen anything like this’: alarm at memo from top US vaccine official: Vinay Prasad memo said at least 10 children had died from Covid vaccination – but offered scant evidence for claim”, Dec 4, 2025, Melody Schreiber, The Guardian, at < https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/04/us-vaccines-vinay-prasad-memo >.

4). “Pediatricians fill vaccine messaging void left by CDC amid bad flu season: Doctors step up after US health department suspended its flu vaccine campaign following Trump’s election”, Nov 11, 2025, Melody Schreiber, The Guardian, at < https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/11/pediatricians-vaccines-flu-season >.

5). “Rightwingers are trying to destroy women’s right to vote: Calls for disenfranchisement rest on a single assumption: that women’s citizenship is partial and conditional”, Dec 4, 2025, Moira Donegan, The Guardian, at < https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/04/women-right-to-vote-disenfranchisement >.

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Letters from an American Heather Cox Richardson Nov 26, 2025

  https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-25-2025?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=20533&post_id=179998935&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=16jbk&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

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A State Just Made Child Care Free. Here’s Why it Matters

 https://wordinblack.com/2025/11/a-state-just-made-child-care-free-heres-why-it-matters/

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The Republican Brain Doesn’t Want To Understand Health Care

 https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication_id=277517&post_id=178780806&utm_source=post-email-title&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=rovhk&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo0NjUxMDE4NCwicG9zdF9pZCI6MTc4NzgwODA2LCJpYXQiOjE3NjMwMzM3MjEsImV4cCI6MTc2NTYyNTcyMSwiaXNzIjoicHViLTI3NzUxNyIsInN1YiI6InBvc3QtcmVhY3Rpb24ifQ.6SuQuwxwiTn-ZLkNmrmbp50xoASq4yeJllCvonym77w

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Op-ed: SNAP Is a Lifeline. I Know Firsthand.

https://civileats.com/2025/11/11/op-ed-snap-is-a-lifeline-i-know-firsthand/

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Inside Calgary’s Fight Over Fluoride in the Water

 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/world/canada/canada-calgary-fluoride-water.html

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