China has agreed to purchase at least $17 billion of US agricultural products annually through 2028, per the White House
https://x.com/unusual_whales/status/2056094718396879332
https://finance.yahoo.com/economy/policy/articles/china-buy-least-17-billion-173148370.html
Fun Fact of the Day: These Four Republicans Byron Donalds (FL-19), Wesley Hunt (TX-38), John James (MI-10), and Burgess Owens (UT-4) represent majority white congressional districts, and NOT one of them was allowed to join the Black Congressional Caucus.
Are they not black enough? 🤔
I’m starting to think the democrats are being very disingenuous about all this talk of black people being unable to be elected or represented, the black vote being repressed, and the “Jim Crow 2.0” bullshit. 🤨
https://x.com/LuckyMcGee/status/2056024022740037971
NEW - Sweden's PM acknowledges "80,000+ Indian diaspora," that make a "significant contribution" to Sweden's economy and society, bringing "much-needed skills in high-tech sectors," adding that EU, Sweden, and India recognize the "immense potential in deepening our partnership."
https://x.com/disclosetv/status/2056074296187879439
how tf is india pulling this shit off worldwide?
would pin in 17 secs
'Extremely rare' 2,000-year-old bread loaf unearthed at Roman legionary camp
https://x.com/nypost/status/2056107156248609045
Thomas Massie received glowing endorsements from:
Code Pink
Ro Khanna
The New York Times
Hasan Piker
Mother Jones
AOC
Rashida Tlaib
Ilhan Omar
Summer Lee
Marjorie Taylor Greene
Candace Owens
Tucker Carlson
If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck…
https://x.com/HanShawnity/status/2056042489773977997
BREAKING: Shelter-in-place order issued across Austin, Texas, as police search for a shooter who opened fire at nine different locations, leaving multiple people injured.
https://x.com/Breaking911/status/2056116176279712062
C.S. Lewis was right about scientists
https://x.com/AuronMacintyre/status/2056075262454886516
A peer-reviewed paper published last year in the journal Bioethics by two professors at Western Michigan University School of Medicine argues that it is "morally obligatory" to genetically engineer ticks to spread alpha-gal syndrome, a permanent condition that makes you violently allergic to red meat.
The paper is called "Beneficial Bloodsucking."
Their argument: if eating meat is morally wrong, then preventing the spread of a disease that forces people to stop eating meat is also morally wrong. Scientists should gene-edit lone star ticks to enhance their ability to carry alpha-gal syndrome and expand their range into urban environments to infect more people.
They call this a "moral bioenhancer." They frame releasing genetically modified disease-carrying ticks as a "vaccination" that only "infringes" on your bodily autonomy rather than "violating" it. The distinction, apparently, is that a tick bit you instead of a government official holding you down.
Alpha-gal syndrome is not mild. The CDC estimates up to 450,000 Americans are already affected. Cases have surged 100-fold in the last decade. Symptoms include anaphylaxis. There is no cure.
Alpha-gal cases are exploding across the United States. The lone star tick's range is expanding far beyond its historical territory. And two academics at a medical school published a paper arguing this is a good thing that should be accelerated.
At what point do we stop treating papers like this as fringe academic exercises and start asking whether anyone is already acting on them?
https://x.com/TFTC21/status/2054584735012401339