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Una nuova flottiglia di dieci navi salpa per rompere il blocco di Gaza
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Il Comitato Internazionale per Rompere l’Assedio di Gaza ha annunciato sabato 27 settembre il lancio di una nuova ondata di imbarcazioni verso Gaza. La flottiglia comprende dieci imbarcazioni civili in partenza dal porto di San Giovanni li Coti a Catania.…
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Serie D, la capolista Tau va a Foligno. Seravezza a caccia del riscatto
La squadra di Masitto "Buon Riposo" riceve l'Orvietana. Il Camaiore è ospite del forte Grosseto, il Ghiviborgo se la vede fra le mura amiche con il Poggibonsi.

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New film photos are in the pipeline!

Finally, I have been well enough to get out and about and take some film photos! I spent a week in Guájar-Faragüit and a week in Capileira taking photos with my #Mamiya C220 and #Pentax #Spotmatic. I am now back, developing and scanning the films.

I am taking this opportunity to review my workflows and websites, so there are a lot of changes. Further updates soon...

#believeinfilm #FilmPhotography #vintagecameras



New comic strip found:
Crabgrass by Tauhid Bondia
Crabgrass - 2025-09-27 gocomics.com/crabgrass/2025/09…

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boston, massachusetts
june 1958

traffic policeman

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part of an archival project, featuring the photographs of nick dewolf

© the Nick DeWolf Foundation
Image-use requests are welcome via nickdewolfphotoarchive [at] gmail [dot] com

#photography #film #blackandwhite #bw #streetphotography #boston #massachusetts #police #policeman #metropolitan #trafficpoliceman #directingtraffic #1950s





boston, massachusetts
june 1958

traffic policeman

flickr.com/photos/dboo/5230597…
flickr.com/photos/dboo/1737000…

part of an archival project, featuring the photographs of nick dewolf

© the Nick DeWolf Foundation
Image-use requests are welcome via nickdewolfphotoarchive [at] gmail [dot] com

#photography #film #blackandwhite #bw #streetphotography #boston #massachusetts #police #policeman #metropolitan #trafficpoliceman #directingtraffic #1950s



Staffetta 10x1 Ora, la corsa solidale a Lucca. Foto e classifica
La gara, che ricorda Marino Nelli, prevede squadre di dieci atleti che corrono un’ora ciascuno. Le foto di Regalami un sorriso

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SECURITY AFFAIRS #MALWARE NEWSLETTER ROUND 64
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#securityaffairs #hacking




Why America Is Seen as a Superpower


America is recognized as a superpower for its economy, military, and culture. Here’s why and what the US plans next.

The United States is widely known as a global superpower, a position it has held for decades. This reputation comes not only from its economic might but also from its unmatched military strength, technological leadership, and cultural influence. The image of America as a dominant power has been shaped by history, diplomacy, and a consistent ability to set the tone of global affairs.

For much of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the United States has been central to the design of the international system. From its leadership in the aftermath of World War II to its role in shaping digital globalization today, America has combined hard power and soft power to remain at the top. While challenges from China, Russia, and other regional powers continue to rise, the United States is determined to adapt its strategies to maintain its influence.

Economic Power as the Foundation


America’s economic dominance has been one of its strongest pillars. With one of the world’s largest GDPs and the dollar serving as the primary global reserve currency, the United States has unparalleled leverage in international markets.

The Role of the Dollar in Global Trade


The dollar’s position as the world’s leading reserve currency gives Washington extraordinary influence. Nations across Asia, Europe, and Africa use the US dollar for trade settlements, debt, and reserves. This dominance allows the United States to shape global trade rules and even enforce sanctions that ripple across economies. For example, American sanctions on Iran and Russia highlight how economic tools are deployed as instruments of geopolitical control.

Economists note that this system has created both benefits and vulnerabilities. On the one hand, it ensures global demand for dollars, strengthening the US economy. On the other hand, it pushes rival states such as China and Russia to explore alternatives, including digital currencies and bilateral trade arrangements outside the dollar system.

Innovation and Global Companies


Silicon Valley has become synonymous with technological innovation. Companies like Apple, Microsoft, Google, and Tesla have shaped industries worldwide, from smartphones and cloud computing to electric vehicles and artificial intelligence. The US government supports these sectors with research funding and tax incentives, ensuring that innovation remains at the core of its economic strategy.

At the same time, American companies have built cultural empires. Streaming platforms, social media giants, and Hollywood productions export American values, lifestyles, and trends to billions of people. This intersection of economic power and cultural influence gives the United States a unique advantage in shaping perceptions globally.

Military Dominance and Strategic Alliances


Another cornerstone of American superpower status is its military strength. The United States consistently spends more on defense than the next several nations combined, maintaining a vast network of alliances and overseas bases.

Global Military Footprint


With military bases in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa, the United States maintains a presence that ensures rapid deployment capabilities. NATO remains one of its strongest tools, providing a collective defense network across the Atlantic. In Asia, partnerships with Japan, South Korea, Australia, and the Philippines are central to America’s strategy of countering China’s influence in the Indo-Pacific.

American military power is not only about numbers but also about technology. Advanced missile defense systems, stealth aircraft, nuclear submarines, and space capabilities ensure that the United States remains far ahead in deterrence. The recent establishment of the US Space Force highlights Washington’s recognition of space as the next frontier of defense.

Use of Force and Diplomacy


Military interventions in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya illustrate the United States’ willingness to project power when necessary. Critics argue that such interventions have sometimes weakened America’s credibility, but supporters maintain that they demonstrate Washington’s unmatched capacity to act decisively.

Alongside military strength, diplomacy remains a critical tool. The United States often combines the threat of force with negotiation, using its position at the United Nations Security Council and influence in institutions such as the IMF and World Bank to shape outcomes favorable to its interests.

The Road Ahead: America’s Global Strategy


Looking forward, the United States faces both opportunities and challenges in sustaining its role as a superpower. Domestic divisions, rising debt, and shifting global dynamics test Washington’s capacity to lead. Nevertheless, its strategies are clear.

Competing with China and Russia


The rivalry with China defines much of America’s foreign policy. From trade disputes to technological competition, Washington is determined to limit Beijing’s global influence. Efforts include securing semiconductor supply chains through the CHIPS and Science Act and strengthening alliances in the Indo-Pacific.

Russia remains another major concern. The war in Ukraine has intensified tensions, with the United States providing military and financial support to Kyiv. Analysts argue that this conflict is not only about territorial sovereignty but also about the future of European security and the credibility of Western alliances.

Transition to Green Energy and Technology


Domestically, the Biden administration has emphasized a shift toward clean energy, electric vehicles, and digital infrastructure. By investing in renewable technologies, the United States hopes to lead the global transition to a sustainable future. This strategy is also geopolitical: controlling supply chains for critical minerals such as lithium and cobalt will determine who dominates the energy economy of the future.

Artificial intelligence is another battlefield. Washington is accelerating regulations and funding for AI development to ensure that American companies remain leaders in this domain. The goal is to prevent rivals from controlling the technologies that will shape the global economy in the next decades.

The United States continues to be seen as a superpower because of its unmatched combination of economic scale, military power, technological leadership, and cultural influence. Its ability to project both hard and soft power remains a unique feature that few nations can replicate.

While challenges are mounting, America shows no signs of stepping back. Instead, it is adapting its strategies to face a multipolar world. Whether through economic tools, military alliances, or innovation in technology and energy, the United States aims to secure its role at the center of global affairs.

For readers who want to explore more about global politics and shifting power dynamics, continue reading related coverage on Olam News.



Wir müssen reden, Andy #Grote. Bereits 10 getötete Radfahrer:innen in #Hamburg in 2025. Das Töten muss endlich aufhören! Mehr Sicherheit und Platz für ungeschützte Verkehrsteilnehmer:innen jetzt

Jetzt Start Ride of Silence vor der Innenbehörde
#stopkillingcyclists #hhrad #fahrrad #radverkehr #visionzero




I posted this on LinkedIn a couple of years ago, but some recent posts made me think it was worth reposting on a platform that people actually read.

No, you don't need to hire more women

You can't solve any problem until you understand the problem that you're trying to solve and diversity and inclusion (D&I) is no different. I was Director of Studies for Computer Science at Murray Edwards (an all-women Cambridge college), have been Chair of the Microsoft Cambridge D&I Committee and sat on the D&I Council for Microsoft Research (worldwide), so this is a topic that I find myself discussing a lot.

A lot of the D&I-related conversations that I've had over the last few years have begun with someone telling me that their group needs to hire more women (or members of some other under-represented group - feel free to mentally substitute any other such group as you read this post) and asking me how to do it.

The number of women in an organisation is very rarely the underlying problem. It is a trailing indicator of an underlying problem, a spot health check, not an optimisation goal. If hiring more women is really the most important requirement, it's easy to solve: walk into any unemployment office and you'll find around half of the people there are women looking for jobs. Of course, most won't have the skills that you need (that, after all, is why you have a hiring process involving CVs, interviews, and so on) and hopefully that gives you a hint that just hiring people because they are women isn't actually the right solution.

It's very easy to set up metrics about number of women in each organisation and drive evaluation of culture based on that. This can often make inclusion worse for your company. Imagine being a woman in an all-hands meeting when someone in a leadership position puts up a graph of the number of women in the org and congratulates the leadership on the fact that it's going up. Your first thought will probably be something along the lines of 'was I hired just to meet some quota?' Your second (more worrying) thought may be 'do all of my co-workers think I was hired to meet some quota?' Now, you're immediately second-guessing your own competence and expecting other people to think you're underqualified.

So why should a company care about the number of women in a group? If just hiring more women doesn't solve the problem, that suggests that what we really want to do is hire and retain the most qualified people; if a particular group is underrepresented, that may be because your hiring and retention favours or disadvantages some people for reasons other than competence. If the best candidates are self-deselecting before you even get them to interview, that's a problem. If the best candidates are being filtered out because HR doesn't really understand the job, or because your hiring process magnifies implicit biases, that's a problem. If the best people are leaving because of your team culture, that's a problem.

When I've talked about D&I, I've often been approached by people afterwards saying that D&I is great, that helping disadvantaged people is nice, but that they need to focus first on business impact. This misses the point. Companies don't engage in D&I activities to be nice or to help people. Companies engage in D&I activities because hiring and retaining the best people has a greater business impact then hiring and retaining the best out of an arbitrary subset of the candidate pool. It's important to keep that in mind with diverse hiring: you are not doing diverse candidates a favour by hiring them, they are doing you a favour by allowing you to benefit from their skills and unique perspectives.

Various studies have shown that teams with diverse perspectives do better. It's easy to focus on a single dimension here but a team of male, rich, white, Eton-educated, Oxford PPE graduates will not get much benefit if they start hiring female, rich, white, Eton-educated, Oxford PPE graduates. Diversity of viewpoints comes from a large number of axes, including education, interests, gender, ethnicity, and so on. Optimising for a single dimension will not give you the desired results.

Even though the root problem for your company is not the number of women that you employ, that statistic is still an easy metric to give us a quick culture health check. In the last few years, the number of women graduating from computer science degrees in the UK has remained at around 20%, so at first glance you should expect an organisation that hires computer science graduates to be about 20% female.

That high-level stat doesn't tell the whole story though. As a middle-class white boy, there are a lot of conversations I never had. No one told me I shouldn't be interested in computers because they're a girl's thing. No one called me a race traitor for being interested in mathematics because it's not a white thing. No one told me 'boys can't code'. No one ignored me as a possible candidate for extra classes in a STEM subject because I was a boy. In my time at Murray Edwards, I heard stories like these from countless (female) STEM students about their time at school.

Any woman who even made it into the first year of an undergraduate computer science programme overcame far more obstacles than someone like me. By the age of 18, they've already shown a passion for the subject that let them push through these barriers. The fact that many will have left the field in spite of their aptitude is a separate problem that schools need to solve. As an employer, are you more interested in the candidates who care deeply about the subject, or the ones that coasted through looking for a well-paid job? If it's the former, then you should probably expect more than 20% of your candidate pool to be women. A lot of under-represented groups are far less under-represented in the top 10% of a field than in the field as a whole. That still doesn't mean that's the metric that you should optimise for, just a suggestion of where your ballpark culture health check should be.

So why is your group less than 20% female? It might be simply a small group. For a team of five people, assuming that 20% of the qualified candidate pool is female and that you hire at random from that pool, you have around a 33% chance of being an all-male team. If you're hiring for a particularly rare skill set, there's a good chance that this will be higher: you're relying on candidates being available on the job market at the same time that you're hiring. The same probabilities work with respect to the available candidate pool: if there are only three qualified candidates on the job market at any given time, there's a >50% chance that they'll all be male. Groups that can hire speculatively (bring in competent people as they become available, rather than needing to hire someone this month) have a big advantage here, by being able to hire the most competent people when they're available.

Does your hiring process favour a particular group? I'm not going to go into detail here because there's a staggeringly large amount of research on this topic. Whoever designs your company's hiring process needs to read a decent selection of this research and consciously design the process to minimise implicit bias. If no one has done this for your company then there's a very good chance that implicit bias is the dominant factor in hiring outcomes. This isn't limited to decisions made by humans. Amazon famously tried to use machine learning for hiring based on their current employee profiles and it learned that being male correlated strongly with being a good hire, so used that as the key metric.

Do your culture or your HR policies favour retention of a particular group? The biggest single improvement that you can make for retaining women is, somewhat counter-intuitively, to improve paternity leave. If you offer six months maternity leave and six weeks paternity leave, then a mother in your team will be four and a half months behind a father. Worse, every manager of a team will have a higher expectation that women on their team may disappear with short notice for longer than men. There are lots of other subtle ways that team culture can favour groups, such as promoting people who speak a lot in meetings and so on.

Gender breakdown isn't the only misleading metric. A lot of gender pay-gap reporting is nonsense because it shows that men and women of the same grade are paid the same, but doesn't account for promotional velocity or the relative expertise of people at a particular grade. If you're using any such metric then you need to be very careful that you treat it as a diagnostic indicator, not as an optimisation goal.

Having a particular group under-represented in your workforce is almost certainly a symptom of an underlying problem but if you try to treat the symptom without treating the cause then you will fail.

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Seychelles to hold rerun presidential election after no outright winner
https://www.africanews.com/2025/09/28/seychelles-to-hold-rerun-presidential-election-after-no-outright-winner/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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[#TRADESHOW] C-TOUCH & DISPLAY SHENZHEN 2025 will be held from October 28 to 30, 2025, at the #Shenzhen #World #Exhibition & #Convention #Center, #China. As #Asia’s premier #trade #fair for #smart #touch and #display #technology, this #flagship #B2B #expo #event is at the #forefront of #innovation across touch #screens, display #panels, #semiconductors, optical #films, #ePaper, and next-gen #materials. cnbusinessforum.com/event/c-to…


「私たちがここでしているのは、人間性がまだ残っていること、そしてすべての手段が尽きたときにも立ち上がろうとする人々がまだいると示すこと」

「ですが、これは最後の手段です。本来、この任務は存在しなくてもよいはずなのです」

「ガザに近づくほど事態がエスカレートし、攻撃が増える危険性が高まります。ここ数週間、私たちの任務に対する攻撃が激化し、複数の船が損壊しました。

ドローンを使って爆発物や化学物質、正体不明の物体を船やその周辺に投下するという、私たちを脅し、パレスチナと連帯する人々を沈黙させて怖がらせ、さらにパレスチナ人を非人間化しようとする必死の試みが続いています」

グレタ・トゥーンベリさん「恐れているのはイスラエルではなく、人間性を失ったように見える世界」
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BREAKING: Chinese leader Xi Jinping is planning to press Trump to formally state that the U.S. “opposes” Taiwan’s independence, per WSJ

#news #finance #economics #stocks #options



credo valga la pena conservare quel podcast, lo trovate anche qui
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ricordatevi: quando trovate qualcosa di interessante sul web, scaricatelo, copiatelo, diffondetelo. e conservatelo a casa, offline.

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Weapons is interesting. I will say I heard Katya's cackle through the entire movie.

Not horror, very thriller.

in reply to @biscuit_pup

I just watched it last night with a buddy and we were cackling as well. Gladys is an absolute riot.





I’m returning to my old friend MyFitnessPal to try and get serious about losing some weight. But is there something better I could be using? I don’t mean ideologically better (open source etc); I’m curious if there’s something better designed and more effective.


Fix some TROMjaro recent issues - forum.tromjaro.com/t/fix-some-…

#linux #tromjaro #arch #manjaro #xfce

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Perfectly explains the shit I get from jerk fedi.

[they claim it's their right to bother others but know they would face repercussions IRL so have staked out that space online where anonymity is possible. what annoys me is how this became intertwined with people with conservative opinions but who aren't assholes. of course wokeism is partly to blame here too]

youtu.be/mRtGg9F5xyA?si=lCPNVD…

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I call these Cotton Swabs. Some Sunday pundit asks a right winger a question, and the right winger gets a 2-minute platform to make wildly unsubstantiated claims. Plus, WHY NOT ASK ABT TRUMP TERM ONE?!?!
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pieces from the era when pixel art finally really clicked for me ✨💜
#pixelart #dinchenix #ドット絵

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Instagram Edits - Die Grundfunktionen kurz erklärt (2025)


Seit wenigen Wochen gibts eine neue Videobearbeitungs APP für Android und iPhone von Instagram / Meta mit dem Name "Instagram Edits"

Heute zeige ich euch wie diese App genau funkioniert und wie man da schnelle in Video für #Instagram #tiktok erstellen kann

chefblogger.me/2025/05/26/inst…

Inhaltsverzeichnis
00:00 - Einleitung
00:40 - App Installieren
01:54 - Projekt anlegen
02:29 - Auflösung
06:04 - Text hinzufügen
08:34 - Voice over
09:29 - Untertitel anlegen
11:14 - Overlay hinzufügen
11:47 - Sound FX / Sound Effekte
12:24 - Cutout / Ausschnitte
12:35 - Sticker
13:18 - Video exportieren
14:01 - Iphone vs Android





Another day, another… “Three people were killed and eight others injured after a person on a boat fired shots at a waterfront bar in the coastal #NorthCarolina city of Southport, a city spokeswoman told ABC News” #GunViolence abcnews.go.com/US/3-dead-8-...

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Igreja Matriz de Mértola - Portugal 🇵🇹

Originally a late 12th Century Mosque was converted into a Church after Christian reconquest of Mértola in 13th Century.

Easterners renovated it late in 15th Century. In 1506, Duarte de Armas painted chapel's minaret and timber roof truss. In mid-16th Century, Pedro Dias and Fernão Pires documented building changes, including replacing minaret with belltower and adding merlons to troofline. Belltower ornamentation is 17th-18th Century.

#archaeohistories





#52WochenFotoChallenge 2025/39 Überbewertet

Ja, so eine Aussicht ist wirklich überbewertet. Statt dessen gibt es grüne Schallschutzwände.

#photography #fotografie





"I'm a wizard, mind you!" 🪄

Seems like I've finally found an approach to watercolours that doesn't feel confusing or overwhelming. It mostly came down to keeping my tools super simple and easy to manage!

#watercolor #dnd #doodle #art #mastoArt #creativeToots #traditionalArt



voller worte: ach nee, oder? voller-worte.de/ach-nee-oder/

#Blog

#blog


Iran recalls envoys from Germany, France and UK as snapback sanctions loom thecradle.co/articles-id/33390



Even iets moois, zomaar, tijdens een wandelingetje op een steenworp van huis.
#evenietsmoois #photography #blackandwhitephotography
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なぜXが殺伐としていて、マストドンが相対的に落ち着けるかと言えば、あっちは「いかにうまいこと言うか」に勝負がかかっている場所だが、こっちはそういう圧がなく、切れ味悪くてもっさりしたことを遠慮なくもじょもじょと言えるからだと思う。
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EireneFest Unisa. L’Università degli Studi di Salerno dedica quattro giorni intensi alla cultura della nonviolenza
pressenza.com/it/2025/09/eiren…
Inizia lunedì 29 settembre 2025 e prosegue fino al tardo pomeriggio di giovedì 2 ottobre, Giornata Internazionale della Nonviolenza, EireneFest Unisa (eirenefest.it/universita-di-sa…), la prima edizione locale di



Interferență digitală. Un influencer pro-rus din România a produs un video viral în care spune că Germania a colonizat Chișinăul


Un video lansat de H.D. Hartmann, un influencer pro-Kremlin a generat 3 milioane de vizualizări cu ajutorul rețelei rusești REST, afiliată reţelei de propagandă militară a Kremlinului. Clipul a fost propagat în preajma campaniei electorale pentru alegerile


Non è più solo questione di gusto. Dietro ogni sorso di vino o birra si nascondono meccanismi biologici precisi: tannini che chiudono i canali dell’acqua nella tua bocca, RNA del lievito che crea torbidità su richiesta, solfiti che alterano il tuo microbiota intestinale, e ora persino un test rapido che rivela se quella birra “senza glutine” lo è davvero. La scienza non brinda più in silenzio: osserva, misura, svela. E ci chiede di bere con un po’ più di consapevolezza.

futuroprossimo.it/2025/09/nuov…

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#Epstein , Epstein, Epstein. My daily reminder. Quid pro quo. Club Fed. "They were predators together, they molested kids together." -Prosecutor. Leniency implies GUILT! #Politics


here’s how putin is saving russian-ukraine citizens from the kiev regime:

2014–2021 (8 years of “protection”): ~13–14k dead (~1.5–2k/year)
2022–2025 (3 years of “special operation”): hundreds of thousands dead

so yeah, clearly all about saving people

#Politics #Russia #RussiaUkraineWar #ukraine #Putin



Un onore
Facebook mi chiede di indicare come amici i professori Federico Perotti e Giulio Ballio che ho avuto l'onore di avere come docenti di Dinamica delle Strutture e Strutture in Acciaio. Lo ritengo un onore immeritato!
monodes.com/predaelli/2025/09/…
#Mood
#mood



Clearing out old stuff from the kids’ rooms:

Me - I read this book to you every night, you loved it. I could recite it from memory.

Them - I’ve never seen that book before in my life.

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I mean it’s not *impossible* that I took the wrong kid home from soft play five years ago and no-one noticed.
in reply to Nick

If you’re not happy for your child to be a goblin changeling, don’t have kids imo.


i have just done my monthly taxes. since mid august (when i had to stop sales to the US*), my income has plummeted and i'm now making around 1/6 (if that) of what i was making before. we cannot survive on this.

if what la poste says is correct, i'll find out tomorrow whether i can realistically resume shipping to the US anytime in the foreseeable future. if i can't ... ...
i don't even know.

*as a result of trump's tariffs and the removal of the de minimis exemption. my work is technically exempt, but unless i can find a feasible/affordable shipping option, and one that allows for the exemption (not all do), i'm doomed.

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Wild that our president and secretary of health and human services stood before the country last week and lied about autism.

Every America should be outraged by this assault on science and common sense.

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