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<h1 data-aos="fade-down" id="daily-dose">Daily-Dose</h1>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" data-aos-anchor-placement="top-bottom" id="contents">Contents</h1>
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<li><a href="#from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-vox">From Vox</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-sports">From The Hindu: Sports</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-national-news">From The Hindu: National News</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-bbc-europe">From BBC: Europe</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-ars-technica">From Ars Technica</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-jokes-subreddit">From Jokes Subreddit</a></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</h1>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Extremely Muddled G.O.P. Logic Behind Moore v. Harper</strong> - In the oral arguments, anyway, it looked like the Four Seasons Total Landscaping of legal cases. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-extremely-muddled-gop-logic-behind-moore-v-harper">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Kyrsten Sinema and the Fantasy of the Political Lone Wolf</strong> - Surely there’s some electoral calculation behind the Arizona senator’s decision to leave the Democratic Party, but the timing is especially confusing. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-political-scene/the-political-mystery-of-kyrsten-sinema">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Whom Do Credit-Card-Rewards Programs Really Reward?</strong> - The Durbin-Marshall bill targets a system of inflated fees that swell the profits of the country’s biggest banks. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/whom-do-credit-card-rewards-programs-really-reward">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Pressure Increases on Sam Bankman-Fried</strong> - The government claims that his company was engaged in fraud from the start. If that’s correct, was he dishonest or deluded, or both? - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-pressure-increases-on-sam-bankman-fried">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>How the Families of American Hostages Created Bipartisan Support for Prisoner Swaps</strong> - A political agreement between Republicans and Democrats is at risk of unravelling as some G.O.P. members attack the exchange that freed the W.N.B.A. star Brittney Griner. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/how-the-families-of-american-hostages-created-bipartisan-support-for-prisoner-swaps">link</a></p></li>
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<li><strong>How an obscure Christian right activist became one of the most powerful men in America</strong> -
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Trump-appointed Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk at his Senate confirmation hearing in 2019. | Courtesy of Senate Judiciary Committee
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A rule governing federal courts in Texas turned a former lawyer for the religious right into one of the most powerful people in the United States.
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On Thursday evening, a Trump-appointed judge named Matthew Kacsmaryk effectively ordered the Biden administration to <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txnd.346680/gov.uscourts.txnd.346680.178.0.pdf">reinstate a harsh, Trump-era border policy</a> known as “Remain in Mexico,” which requires many immigrants seeking asylum in the United States to remain on the Mexican side of the border while their case is being processed. It’s the second time that Kacsmaryk has pulled this stunt — he <a href="https://www.vox.com/2021/8/17/22627107/trump-judge-remain-in-mexico-matthew-kacsmaryk-immigration-asylum-joe-biden-donald-trump">did the same thing in 2021</a>, and the Supreme Court <a href="https://www.vox.com/2022/6/30/23189965/supreme-court-biden-texas-remain-in-mexico-john-roberts">overturned his decision last June</a>.
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It’s a significant decision in its own right, and will only prolong uncertainty at America’s southern border. But Kacsmaryk’s order in this case, <em>Texas v. Biden</em>, was merely the capstone of an unusually busy week for this judge. His busy week, and months of earlier actions, show the havoc one rogue federal judge can create, especially in today’s judiciary.
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The previous Thursday, Kacsmaryk became the first federal judge since the Supreme Court eliminated the constitutional right to an abortion to <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2022/12/13/23505459/supreme-court-birth-control-contraception-constitution-matthew-kacsmaryk-deanda-becerra">attack the right to contraception</a>.
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Kacsmaryk’s decision in <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txnd.330752/gov.uscourts.txnd.330752.63.0_2.pdf"><em>Deanda v. Becerra</em></a> targets Title X, a federal program that provides grants to health providers to fund family planning and contraceptive care. He claimed that the program is unlawful because it doesn’t require grant recipients to get parental permission before treating teenage patients. Lest there be any doubt, his opinion is riddled with obvious legal errors. Kacsmaryk <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2022/12/13/23505459/supreme-court-birth-control-contraception-constitution-matthew-kacsmaryk-deanda-becerra">didn’t even have jurisdiction to hear the <em>Deanda </em>case</a> in the first place.
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Meanwhile, in mid-November, Kacsmaryk handed down another decision in <a href="https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=7839839992396060577&hl=en&as_sdt=6&as_vis=1&oi=scholarr"><em>Neese v. Becerra</em></a>, which held that a federal law prohibiting certain forms of discrimination by health providers does not protect against anti-LGBTQ discrimination. His opinion cannot be squared with the Supreme Court’s decision in <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/19pdf/17-1618_hfci.pdf"><em>Bostock v. Clayton County</em></a> (2020), which established that statutes prohibiting “sex” discrimination also ban discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity, because “it is impossible to discriminate against a person for being homosexual or transgender without discriminating against that individual based on sex.”
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Meanwhile, abortion rights advocates are holding their breath waiting for Kacsmaryk to decide <a href="https://adfmedialegalfiles.blob.core.windows.net/files/AllianceForHippocraticMedicineComplaint.pdf"><em>Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA</em></a>, a case asking him to force the FDA to withdraw its approval of mifepristone, a drug used to induce an <a href="https://www.guttmacher.org/article/2022/02/medication-abortion-now-accounts-more-half-all-us-abortions">enormous percentage of all abortions in the United States</a>. Given Kacsmaryk’s record, it would be shocking if he does not issue such an order — regardless of whether he has any plausible legal basis for doing so.
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Kacsmaryk is one of many Trump appointees to the federal bench who appears to have been chosen <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/senate-confirms-trump-judicial-nominee-who-called-homosexuality-disordered/2019/06/19/a56526c4-92d2-11e9-b570-6416efdc0803_story.html">largely due to his unusually conservative political views</a>. A former lawyer at a <a href="https://www.vox.com/2021/8/17/22627107/trump-judge-remain-in-mexico-matthew-kacsmaryk-immigration-asylum-joe-biden-donald-trump">law firm affiliated with the religious right</a>, he’s claimed that being transgender is a “mental disorder,” and that gay people are “disordered.” As Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said during his confirmation fight, “Mr. Kacsmaryk has <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/senate-confirms-trump-judicial-nominee-who-called-homosexuality-disordered/2019/06/19/a56526c4-92d2-11e9-b570-6416efdc0803_story.html">demonstrated a hostility to the LGBTQ bordering on paranoia</a>.”
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And Kacsmaryk is just as fixated on what straight people are doing in their bedrooms. In a <a href="https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2015/09/15612/">2015 article</a>, Kacsmaryk denounced a so-called “Sexual Revolution” that began in the 1960s and 1970s, and which “sought public affirmation of the lie that the human person is an autonomous blob of Silly Putty unconstrained by nature or biology, and that marriage, sexuality, gender identity, and even the unborn child must yield to the erotic desires of liberated adults.”
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Yet, thanks to an obscure rule governing which federal judges are assigned to hear cases in Texas federal courts — 95 percent of civil cases filed in Amarillo, Texas’s federal courthouse are <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/22/22A17/230032/20220713161446965_22A17%20tsac%20Stephen%20I.%20Vladeck.pdf">automatically assigned to Kacsmaryk</a> — this prurient man is now one of the most powerful public officials in the United States. Any conservative interest group can find a federal policy they do not like, file a legal complaint in the Amarillo federal courthouse challenging that policy, and nearly guarantee that their case will be heard by Kacsmaryk.
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Kacsmaryk’s opinions are embarrassingly poorly reasoned — including his latest Remain in Mexico one
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Many of Kacsmaryk’s decisions are so poorly reasoned that they can be rebutted in just a couple of sentences.
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His opinion in <em>Neese</em>, for example, concludes that a statute prohibiting discrimination “<a href="https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=7839839992396060577&hl=en&as_sdt=6&as_vis=1&oi=scholarr">on the basis of sex</a>” does not prohibit LGBTQ discrimination. But, again, the holding of <em>Bostock</em> was that “it is impossible to discriminate against a person for being homosexual or transgender without discriminating against that individual based on sex.”
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Similarly, one of the many problems with Kacsmaryk’s <em>Deanda</em> decision is that it violates the constitutional requirement that federal courts may only hear a challenge to a federal policy if the person bringing a lawsuit <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2022/12/13/23505459/supreme-court-birth-control-contraception-constitution-matthew-kacsmaryk-deanda-becerra">has been injured in some way by that policy</a>. The plaintiff challenging Title X in <em>Deanda</em> is a father who does not claim that he has ever sought Title X-funded care, does not allege that his daughters have ever sought Title X-funded care, and who doesn’t even claim that they intend to seek such care in the future.
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Often, Kacsmaryk’s opinions suggest not only that he knows he is defying the law, but also that he revels in doing so. His opinion in <em>Neese</em>, for example, <a href="https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=7839839992396060577&hl=en&as_sdt=6&as_vis=1&oi=scholarr">opens with a quote from Justice Samuel Alito’s dissenting opinion in <em>Bostock</em></a>. A dissent, by definition, is not the law. Indeed, it is often the opposite of the law, because dissenting opinions state arguments that a majority of the Court rejected.
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Or consider his two decisions in the <em>Texas</em> case. The first time the Remain in Mexico program was before Kacsmaryk, he claimed that a federal law known as Section 1225 <a href="https://www.vox.com/2021/8/17/22627107/trump-judge-remain-in-mexico-matthew-kacsmaryk-immigration-asylum-joe-biden-donald-trump">only gives “the government two options vis-à-vis aliens seeking asylum</a>: 1) mandatory detention; or 2) return to a contiguous territory.”
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The Supreme Court identified multiple problems with this reasoning. Among other things, Kacsmaryk ignored that federal law explicitly gives the government more than two options, including the option to “<a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1182">parole into the United States</a>” an immigrant seeking admission to this country “for urgent humanitarian reasons or significant public benefit.” According to the Supreme Court, Kacsmaryk also engaged in “unwarranted judicial interference in the conduct of foreign policy,” because his opinion effectively forced the United States government to bargain with Mexico in order to reinstate the Remain in Mexico policy.
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Kacsmaryk’s second <em>Texas</em> decision interferes with US foreign policy no less than the first, because it effectively requires the Biden administration to go back to Mexico and seek its permission to reinstate a program that cannot operate without the Mexican government’s permission.
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Similarly, Kacsmaryk’s latest decision puts a fair amount of weight on the fact that the Supreme Court assumed, without deciding, that “the dissent’s interpretation of [section 1225] is correct” with respect to one provision that both Alito’<em>s Texas</em> dissent and Kacsmaryk’s first <em>Texas </em>decision read to mandate that certain immigrants must be detained. But the reason why the Court made this assumption is to emphasize that, even if Kacsmaryk had read this provision of the statute correctly, that still did not justify reinstating Remain in Mexico. Indeed, the Supreme Court labeled the dissent’s interpretation of section 1225 as a whole “practically self-refuting.”
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Kacsmaryk also spends much of his opinion faulting the government for not providing a fuller explanation of why the Biden administration decided to end the Remain in Mexico program in an <a href="https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/2022-01/21_1029_mpp-termination-justification-memo-508.pdf">October 29, 2021 memo</a>. Although this memo spends three pages discussing “<a href="https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/2022-01/21_1029_mpp-termination-justification-memo-508.pdf">the concerns of states and border communities</a>,” for example, Kacsmaryk claims that the administration failed “to adequately consider costs to States and their reliance interests.”
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It is true that, in <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/19pdf/18-587_5ifl.pdf"><em>Department of Homeland Security v. Regents</em></a> (2020), the Supreme Court held that the federal government must explain the “reasoned decisionmaking” it used to justify changing one of its policies. But the Court also emphasized that judges should apply a “narrow standard of review” when assessing if a memorandum explaining a new policy is adequate, and should “assess only whether the decision was ‘based on a consideration of the relevant factors and whether there has been a clear error of judgment.’”
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Instead, Kacsmaryk nitpicks the October memo, faulting it for things like failing to perform a “cost-benefit analysis,” or for not giving enough weight to the degree to which the Remain in Mexico program might deter asylum seekers from arriving at the border.
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But if <em>Regents</em> permits this kind of granular judicial criticism of a new policy’s justification, then no federal policy can ever be changed. There will always be some study that the federal government could have conducted, but didn’t, before announcing a shift in its approach. And there will always be some argument for maintaining the status quo that the government either didn’t mention in its memo justifying the new policy, or did not discuss at as much length as it could have.
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Kacsmaryk has gotten away with this behavior because his judicial superiors let him
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Kacsmaryk is able to behave this way in no small part because his decisions appeal to the US Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, a <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2022/10/20/23414311/cfpb-unconstitutional-fifth-circuit-supreme-court-trump-community-financial">reactionary court dominated by Republican appointees</a>, many of whom share his flexible approach to judicial decision-making.
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But he also gets away with his behavior because the Supreme Court provides only the most cursory supervision of Kacsmaryk, even when a majority of the justices determine that the Trump judge mangled the law.
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Shortly after Kacsmaryk issued his first decision ordering the administration to reinstate Remain in Mexico, the Supreme Court <a href="https://www.vox.com/2021/8/24/22640424/supreme-court-remain-in-mexico-trump-biden-samuel-alito-immigration">rejected the government’s request to temporarily block the decision</a> while the case was being litigated. It then left Kacsmaryk’s ruling in place for 10 months, before ultimately ruling that he had misread the law.
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Even then, however, the Supreme Court’s <em>Texas</em> decision left the question of whether the October 29 memo adequately explained the administration’s reasoning for ending the Remain in Mexico program undecided. And then it <a href="https://www.vox.com/2022/6/30/23189965/supreme-court-biden-texas-remain-in-mexico-john-roberts">sent the case back down to Kacsmaryk to resolve this question</a>. Given Kacsmaryk’s record, the justices who decided the <em>Texas</em> case must have known how he would rule on that question.
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If the Supreme Court follows this same pattern again, it may be 2024 before the justices get around to reversing Kacsmaryk’s second <em>Texas</em> decision. That would mean that, for nearly half of President Joe Biden’s current term in office, Kacsmaryk will have effectively wielded what should have been the Biden administration’s power to decide US border policy.
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The Texas federal courts’ unusual case assignment process, which allows so many litigants to choose Kacsmaryk as their judge, bears much of the blame for the enormous power he wields. Ultimately, however, the best safeguard against rogue judges is an appellate system where higher-ranking judges act in good faith — and in a timely manner — to review lower courts’ decisions and reverse them when necessary.
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That system has now broken down. And that means that Kacsmaryk can act as king almost any time someone files a legal complaint in his Amarillo courthouse.
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<li><strong>One of our best Covid-19 treatments doesn’t work anymore. What now?</strong> -
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<img alt="A doctor and nurse in full protective gear treat patients who recently rested positive for Covid-19." src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/xsPCM67nCO5SR8SM0rx5rBWBDL8=/420x0:3500x2310/1310x983/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/71761158/GettyImages_1239592906.0.jpeg"/>
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There are no longer any monoclonal antibody treatments authorized for the latest variants of Covid-19. | Erin Clark/Boston Globe via Getty Images
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There aren’t any monoclonal antibody drugs that can treat the latest Covid-19 variants.
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Covid-19 is once again trending upward in the United States, with new cases reaching <a href="https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#datatracker-home">more than 450,000</a> and deaths climbing up to 3,000 per week. But hospitals will have to face this year’s winter surge without a valuable tool.
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In late November, the Food and Drug Administration revoked its <a href="https://www.fda.gov/drugs/drug-safety-and-availability/fda-announces-bebtelovimab-not-currently-authorized-any-us-region">emergency use authorization for bebtelovimab</a>, a monoclonal antibody treatment for Covid-19, because it wasn’t effective against the latest variants of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19. Now, there are no monoclonal antibody treatments left that work against BQ.1 and BQ.1.1., the subvariants of the omicron variant that are <a href="https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#variant-proportions">currently causing most new infections</a>.
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Monoclonal antibodies are synthetic versions of immune system proteins that precisely target the virus, preventing it from invading cells and flagging it for destruction by white blood cells.
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They’ve been successfully used to treat severe Covid-19 cases throughout the country. Former President Donald Trump notably was treated with a monoclonal antibody combination developed by <a href="https://www.vox.com/2020/10/2/21499349/donald-trump-covid-19-positive-regeneron-treatment-coronavirus-walter-reed">Regeneron</a> when he was ill with Covid-19. But as the virus has mutated, older antibody therapies lost effectiveness, and new ones had to be developed.
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Adding to the stress is that hospitals are now contending with a spike in other infections, including RSV (respiratory syncytial virus), and the <a href="https://www.vox.com/2022/12/6/23494948/flu-influenza-rsv-covid-vaccine-chart-tripledemic-tridemic">worst influenza season in two decades</a>, further straining their capacity.
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There are still Covid-19 therapies that remain effective, and it’s still possible to prevent infections in the first place. But without monoclonals as a backstop, some of the most vulnerable people will be at greater risk of suffering and dying.
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Monoclonal antibodies have been a key part of the Covid-19 response strategy
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With people gathering indoors and traveling for the holidays, Covid-19 is once again finding ample opportunities to spread. Thankfully, the overall death rate from Covid-19 is far below where it was a year ago, when the <a href="https://www.vox.com/22846696/omicron-covid-19-variant-virology-mutation-vaccine">omicron variant</a> of the virus began to take root. And between vaccinations and prior infection, the vast majority of people in the US now have some degree of protection against the disease.
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Yet there are still lots of people who remain vulnerable to severe illness and death from Covid-19. The highest risks fall on those who have not been vaccinated against the virus, about <a href="https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#vaccinations_vacc-people-additional-dose-totalpop">20 percent of the US population</a>. Among the vaccinated, older adults, people with compromised immune systems, and people who live in nursing homes and prisons also face greater rates of harm from the disease. And even among people who only experience a mild course of the illness, many end up with enduring symptoms like difficulty smelling, breathing, and concentrating, a phenomenon known as <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/what-experts-know-about-long-covid-and-who-gets-it/2022/08/02/0c6009d8-124c-11ed-8482-06c1c84ce8f2_story.html">long Covid</a>.
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The good news is that there are <a href="https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/22772612/early-treatment-for-covid-fluvoxamine-molnupiravir-paxlovid">effective treatments for Covid-19</a>. The most common is an antiviral pill called <a href="https://aspr.hhs.gov/COVID-19/Therapeutics/Products/Paxlovid/Pages/default.aspx">Paxlovid</a>, which is often the first line of defense for people at high risk of severe illness. There are other antiviral drugs available as well, like remdesivir and molnupiravir, but they are less effective against Covid-19.
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Since Paxlovid is a pill, patients can pick up the drug at a pharmacy and take it at home. Monoclonal antibodies, on the other hand, are administered as injections or transfusions, making them a more involved, more expensive treatment.
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The problem is that Paxlovid is most effective in the first five days of an infection, and often patients don’t get tested and treated in time. Many doctors don’t even know if the drug is available at any given time. Some are reluctant to give it to patients because of worries about dangerous interactions with other drugs. “Paxlovid is woefully, woefully, underprescribed,” said <a href="https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-people/adalja/">Amesh Adalja</a>, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security.
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It is true that Paxlovid can have <a href="https://www.covid19treatmentguidelines.nih.gov/therapies/antivirals-including-antibody-products/ritonavir-boosted-nirmatrelvir--paxlovid-/paxlovid-drug-drug-interactions/">harmful interactions with other medicines</a>, including common blood pressure drugs, psychiatric drugs, and cancer treatments. But Adalja said that the vast majority of medicines have no bearing on Paxlovid, and of those that do, many can be managed.
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Still, without monoclonal antibodies, there are people who can’t take Paxlovid who now have one less option. “I do think for people for whom the drug-drug interactions are difficult, this is a setback,” Adalja said.
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<img alt="A photo shows a box of Evusheld on a shiny and sterile-looking surface. The background is blurry." src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/u3JMOrCfBpOxUR_GAy9QScEc1ww=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24296723/GettyImages_1238317481.jpeg"/> <cite>Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP via Getty Images</cite>
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Evusheld is a monoclonal antibody therapy used to prevent Covid-19 infection.
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Monoclonal antibodies were also used to prevent Covid-19 in high-risk patients. For instance, the monoclonal antibody regimen <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/clinical-care/pre-exposure-prophylaxis.html">Evusheld</a> was used as a prophylactic to protect people who didn’t respond strongly to vaccines or those who have depleted immune systems, like cancer patients and organ transplant recipients. But Evusheld also lost potency against omicron and its subvariants.
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And for patients in later stages of severe Covid-19, like those who need ventilators, monoclonal antibodies were an important tool for bolstering their immune systems.
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So while monoclonal antibodies were not always the go-to treatment, they were an important layer of protection for people facing greater chances of dangerous cases of Covid-19. Without them, vulnerable people could fare worse. “The risk is that it could potentially lead to more severe complications,” said <a href="https://sph.cuny.edu/about/people/faculty/bruce-y-lee/">Bruce Y. Lee</a>, a professor of health policy and management at the City University of New York.
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More monoclonal antibodies are under development, but it will take time — and the target is moving
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Researchers and pharmaceutical companies are already at work developing more monoclonals to target Covid-19. “There are lots of investigations already underway,” said <a href="https://www.southnassau.org/sn/find-a-doctor/glatt-aaron-e-md-macp-fidsa-fshea-chair-department-26">Aaron Glatt</a>, head of infectious disease at Mount Sinai South Nassau. “I’m hopeful that there will be something that’s forthcoming.”
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The challenge is that antibodies are very picky about where they will attach to the virus. Many antibodies generated by the immune system target the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2, which is what the virus uses to attach to human cells to begin the infection process. But viruses mutate all the time, and the spike protein is one of the fastest-changing parts of the pathogen. New variants can quickly become unrecognizable to older antibodies. That’s why the latest versions of SARS-CoV-2 have a higher likelihood of causing reinfections and breakthrough infections.
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With monoclonals, as the name suggests, scientists pick out one specific type of high-performing antibody and clone it to administer as a treatment. That gives monoclonals a strong, targeted effect against the virus, until the target on the virus changes.
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“As the virus mutates, it will be constantly changing the need for monoclonal antibodies,” Glatt said.
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<img alt="A photo of a sign reading “monoclonal antibody treatment site” with an arrow pointing don the road to a building." src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/PrrKrhmtU3B_aBGNMH2SCUZKIJk=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24297216/GettyImages_1235619674.jpeg"/> <cite>Eve Edelheit/The Washington Post via Getty Images</cite>
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<figcaption>
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Monoclonal antibodies have to be transfused or injected under medical supervision.
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Researchers have worked to speed up the development cycle for these drugs, and as with vaccines, regulators have also streamlined approvals. “We’ve been able to speed up the review process and cut down on some of the time restrictions, without compromising the quality of the studies needed to show that it’s effective and safe,” Glatt said.
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</p>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="ssR8Qx">
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But drug development is always playing catch-up to a virus that continues to confuse and frustrate our tools. Containing Covid-19 still demands a multilayered strategy that includes treatments as well as public health measures, Lee explained.
|
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“One of the things we’ve seen during the pandemic is too much of a focus on one thing at a time,” he said. “For all this, it’s been lost that you really need to have all these things layered on top of each other.”
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="MZGmgC">
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While Covid-19 is nowhere near as dangerous as it once was, it’s not something we can take lightly. Maintaining a tool chest of treatments for all the stages of the infection will help keep Covid-19 death rates in check. And controlling its spread with face masks, social distancing, good hygiene, and indoor ventilation remains critical for preventing infections and limiting newer variants.
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<li><strong>Elon Musk’s Twitter journalist purge has begun</strong> -
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<img alt="Elon Musk and Twitter" src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/OJUczjlEu_39OZ2q35CmtaqJyzI=/0x0:4572x3429/1310x983/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/71756320/1243763385.0.jpg"/>
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|
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Twitter CEO and owner Elon Musk
|
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The move is connected to a debate over an account that tracked the whereabouts of Elon Musk’s jet.
|
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="LTozmO">
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Twitter suspended the accounts of several high-profile journalists on Thursday night, many of whom have been reporting on Elon Musk’s controversial takeover of the company.
|
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While the journalists were given no initial explanation for their suspension, Musk argued soon after that journalists he suspended were “doxxing” him — or revealing his personal information online — by linking to a website called <a href="https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-shadowban-elonjet-private-jet-twitter-1849882446">ElonJet that tracked</a> the whereabouts of Musk’s plane using publicly available flight data.
|
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The journalists who have been suspended include Donie O’Sullivan from CNN, Drew Harwell of the Washington Post, Ryan Mac of the New York Times, Matt Binder of Mashable, and Micah Lee of The Intercept. The sudden purging seems to contradict Musk’s stated commitment to <a href="https://www.vox.com/recode/2022/11/16/23461217/elon-musk-twitter-fired-employees-free-speech-contradictions-joke">protecting freedom of speech</a> on Twitter, and sparked concern that Musk could be using his power at Twitter to silence reporters who write critically about the company. On Friday, Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/jsrailton?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor">also suspended the account of Linette Lopez</a>, a journalist for Business Insider who has written investigative reports about Tesla.
|
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</p>
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“I was very baffled. I thought people were trolling,” said independent journalist and former Vox reporter Aaron Rupar, recounting when he started getting messages from other journalists telling him he’d been suspended. Overnight, Rupar lost access to his 790,000 followers. He said he received no warning before being booted. “You basically have to comply with the whims that change day by day of the owner of the platform, that seems pretty unsustainable. It almost seems kind of spiteful.”
|
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Several of the journalists who have been suspended, including Rupar, had recently posted <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/14/technology/twitter-private-jet-accounts-suspended.html">about the debate over <span class="citation" data-cites="ElonJet">@ElonJet</span></a> — a Twitter account that tracked the whereabouts of Musk’s private aircraft using publicly available flight data. Musk has argued that the account was jeopardizing his physical safety and changed Twitter’s rules to ban the sharing of “live location information” in order to suspend the account. Musk tweeted that the accounts posted his “exact real-time location, basically assassination coordinates.” <span class="citation" data-cites="ElonJet">@ElonJet</span>’s 20-year-old account owner, Jack Sweeney, has argued that the information about Elon Musk’s jets is already public. “If someone wanted to do something, they could do it without me,” <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/14/technology/twitter-private-jet-accounts-suspended.html">he told the New York Times</a>. Some journalists, such as Rupar, had recently tweeted out links to <span class="citation" data-cites="ElonJet">@ElonJet</span>’s alternate Facebook account.
|
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|
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|
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Musk recently <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/12/15/elon-musk-shares-video-of-crazy-stalker-who-climbed-vehicle-carrying-moguls-son/">tweeted that a “crazy stalker”</a> followed a car carrying his young child, X, and jumped onto its hood. Musk said he is taking legal action against the owner of the ElonJet account for allegedly jeopardizing his family’s safety. The Los Angeles Police Department <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/twitter-suspends-journalists-covering-elon-musk-company-rcna62032">told press on Thursday</a> that no police reports had been filed yet about the alleged incident.
|
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|
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|
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A few hours after reporters were suspended, several of them joined a live audio conversation using Twitter’s Spaces feature to discuss what was happening. At its peak, more than 30,000 people listened in as Musk briefly joined the conversation. In the Spaces, Musk debated with journalists, arguing that posting a link to the flight tracking website was the same as directly posting his address, and he considers it doxxing.
|
||
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|
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="V1qnJ0">
|
||
“There’s not going to be any distinction in the future between so-called journalists and regular people,” Musk said. “You doxx, you get suspended. End of story.”
|
||
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|
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|
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“I never posted your address,” the Washington Post’s Harwell told Musk.
|
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|
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Musk interjected, “You posted a link to my address.”
|
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|
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Harwell replied, “We posted a link — in the course of reporting about ElonJet, we posted links to ElonJet which are now not online and now banned on Twitter.”
|
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|
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Soon after the exchange, Musk left the Spaces, and Twitter suspended the Spaces feature altogether, <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/twitter-suspends-journalists-covering-elon-musk-company-rcna62032">reportedly cutting off the journalists’ chat</a>. Musk later <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1603649264290123778">tweeted</a>, “We’re fixing a Legacy bug. Should be working tomorrow.”
|
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</p>
|
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While some of the deplatformed journalists were initially told that their suspension was permanent, Musk later said that suspensions for doxxing would be temporary — a 7-day automatic suspension for anyone who doxxes. Musk also <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1603600001057185792">ran a poll on his Twitter account </a>asking how long he should wait before reinstating the journalists, When a majority of people voted to reinstate the journalists immediately, Musk <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1603609466301059073">ran another poll with fewer options</a>. The poll is ongoing.
|
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|
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|
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Many journalists on Thursday night expressed concern about Twitter’s decisions. The move could prompt more reporters or the media outlets they work for to leave Twitter and try using alternate platforms, such as Mastodon, Discord, and Post.
|
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</p>
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“It’s very shady,” said Washington Post tech columnist Taylor Lorenz, who said her account hasn’t been suspended in this wave, despite worries from some of her followers that it might have been. “I don’t understand how news organizations are going to continue to use this platform if they are censoring journalists.”
|
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</p>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="5ys3kf">
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CNN and the New York Times both sent statements to Recode condemning Twitter’s suspension of their reporters’ accounts and said they are asking the company for an explanation.
|
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</p>
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“The impulsive and unjustified suspension of a number of reporters, including CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan, is concerning but not surprising,” said a spokesperson from CNN in an emailed statement. “Twitter’s increasing instability and volatility should be of incredible concern for everyone who uses Twitter. We have asked Twitter for an explanation, and we will reevaluate our relationship based on that response.”
|
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</p>
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“Tonight’s suspension of the Twitter accounts of a number of prominent journalists, including The New York Times’s Ryan Mac, is questionable and unfortunate. Neither The Times nor Ryan have received any explanation about why this occurred,” said a spokesperson for the New York Times in a written statement. “We hope that all of the journalists’ accounts are reinstated and that Twitter provides a satisfying explanation for this action.”
|
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</p>
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The move angered politicians, too. Rep. Lori Trahan (D-MA) tweeted that Twitter staff promised her earlier on Thursday morning that the the company wouldn’t retaliate against journalists or academics who criticize the company. “Less than 12 hours later, multiple technology reporters have been suspended. What’s the deal, <span class="citation" data-cites="elonmusk">@elonmusk</span>?” the lawmaker wrote.
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In Europe, EU commissioner Vera Jourova said that Musk’s suspension violated the EU’s Digital Services Act and its Media Freedom Act. “There are red lines. And sanctions, soon,” she <a href="https://twitter.com/VeraJourova/status/1603689440710369281?campaign_id=4&emc=edit_dk_20221216&instance_id=80342&nl=dealbook&regi_id=38985151&s=20&segment_id=120018&t=dUR9L5132TApMsXHmrkMQQ&te=1&user_id=38a8b5cfe01cccc2087279fc3af4528e">tweeted Friday morning</a>.
|
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Meanwhile, the journalists who were suspended are still waiting for news about exactly when their accounts might be reactivated.
|
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Rupar said he tried to appeal his Twitter suspension using the platform’s automated system for doing so, but the link was broken.
|
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“I think it is a cautionary lesson here for outlets and individual journalists. It’s good to diversify to other platforms,” he said. The Twitter purge “will have a chilling effect on anyone criticizing Elon.”
|
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<em>Peter Kafka contributed reporting to this story.</em>
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<em><strong>Update, December 16, 2:25 pm ET: </strong></em><em>This story, originally published on December 15, has been updated with another reporter suspension, outside reactions, and more context from Musk.</em>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Shivamogga police conduct special drive against drunk driving</strong> -</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Ukraine war: Russia could launch more heavy strikes, Zelensky warns</strong> - Work is continuing to restore electricity following a ninth wave of heavy Russian air strikes on Friday.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Lyon fire: Ten dead, including five children</strong> - Four people are in a critical condition after the fire in an apartment block near Lyon.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Berlin’s giant AquaDom hotel aquarium containing 1,500 fish explodes</strong> - Two people are injured as the Berlin aquarium, containing a million litres of water, bursts open.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Leo Varadkar to become taoiseach as Micheál Martin steps down</strong> - Fine Gael’s Leo Varadkar will become leader again under a deal with government partners Fianna Fáil.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Wagner Group: Burkina Faso anger over Russian mercenary link</strong> - Ghana’s president says the presence of Wagner fighters in its neighbour is distressing.</p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Once a VR true believer, a “wearied” John Carmack leaves Meta</strong> - Departing CTO rails against “inefficiency” and “self-sabotage” in the Meta ranks. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1905415">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Corsair says bug, not keylogger, behind some K100 keyboards’ creepy behavior</strong> - An error with the macro recording feature may be to blame. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1905144">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Riffusion’s AI generates music from text using visual sonograms</strong> - Stable Diffusion-powered music generator processes sound in the visual space. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1905167">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Twitter stiffs software vendor with $8 million left on contract, lawsuit says</strong> - Lawsuit: Twitter has refused to make required payments since Musk took over. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1905345">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Forget The Witcher and Superman: Henry Cavill to lead Warhammer 40K dream project</strong> - Amazon acquired the rights to potentially create its own cinematic universe. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1905293">link</a></p></li>
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“How tall is a Penguin, this tall?”
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“No, they’re much shorter than that”, he answers.
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He looks to the man at his left- “How tall is a penguin, this tall?”
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“Nowhere near that tall!”, says the other man.
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The man puts his head in his hands.
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The bartender, witnessing all of this asks the man “Everything okay, Sir?”
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The man responds “No, I just ran over a Nun”.
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/sirreginaldfeatherb3"> /u/sirreginaldfeatherb3 </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/znpiv6/a_man_takes_a_stool_at_the_bar_and_orders_a_drink/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/znpiv6/a_man_takes_a_stool_at_the_bar_and_orders_a_drink/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
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Animal taxidermist
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Fishfuckerthethird"> /u/Fishfuckerthethird </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/znrryy/whats_the_worst_profession_to_sleep_with_your/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/znrryy/whats_the_worst_profession_to_sleep_with_your/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
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Anyone wanting to say goodbye to the virus should visit the hospital tonight.
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/albene"> /u/albene </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/znwjik/chuck_norris_caught_covid19_and_the_prognosis_is/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/znwjik/chuck_norris_caught_covid19_and_the_prognosis_is/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
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A cop is patrolling at night and sees a car parked in lover’s lane.
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He knocks on the window, when it’s rolled down he sees a guy in the front seat playing on his phone and a girl in the back seat reading a magazine.
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The cop says “What’s going on here?” The guy says, “nothing at all officer.”
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Cop says “Let’s see some ID, how old are you?”The guy hands the cop his license and says he’s 27.
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The cop says, “And her, how old is she?”
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The guy looks at his watch and says “She will be 18 in exactly 9 minutes.”
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/whaddayagondo"> /u/whaddayagondo </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/zngzon/cop_on_patrol/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/zngzon/cop_on_patrol/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
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Jesus: The what?
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Judas: I meant the supper. Are you coming to the supper?
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/MudakMudakov"> /u/MudakMudakov </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/zntcd9/judas_hey_jesus_are_you_coming_to_the_last_supper/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/zntcd9/judas_hey_jesus_are_you_coming_to_the_last_supper/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
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