Oh shit, has The Adjuster got got?

https://wjactv.com/news/local/reports-altoona-man-held-questioning-killing-unitedhealthcare-ceo-nypd-pennsylvania-new-york-brian-thompson

My poorly thought out conspiracy take on the election:

In 2019, Farage and the Brexit Party did not contest Tory seats, which protected the right wing vote and helped retain a Tory majority.

In this year’s election, Farage emerged late in the race and ran, bringing huge attention to Reform and destroying the Tory vote, thus leading to a Labour landslide. Curiously, Labour pulled their candidate in Clacton (Farage’s constituency) after he started to gain traction against Farage. In hindsight, did Keith make a deal with Farage to run for Reform in exchange for not directly contesting him? Getting fascists elected seems like a very on-brand thing for him to do.

Edit: the candidate that was running in Clacton doesn’t even seem to be a Corbyn guy, he’s following the Starmerite line on a “changed Labour Party”.

WASHINGTON, July 2 (Reuters) - One in three Democrats think U.S. President Joe Biden should end his reelection bid following last week's debate against Republican Donald Trump, but no prominent elected Democrat does any better than Biden in a hypothetical matchup against Trump, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll that closed on Tuesday.

The two-day poll found that both Trump, 78, and Biden, 81, maintain the support of 40% of registered voters, suggesting that Biden has not lost ground since the debate. Election Day is Nov. 5.

Among the names of top Democrats put before respondents, only Michelle Obama, wife of former Democratic President Barack Obama, outperformed Biden and led Trump 50% to 39% in a hypothetical matchup. Michelle Obama, author of the best-selling 2018 memoir "Becoming," has said repeatedly she does not intend to run for president.

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Biden has vowed to stay in the race. But should he exit, the Democrats whose names emerge as possible replacements perform only as well or worse than Biden against Trump in hypothetical matchups, according to the poll. Vice President Kamala Harris, for example, trailed Trump by one percentage point, 42% to 43%, a difference that was well within the poll's 3.5 percentage point margin of error, making Harris' showing statistically just as strong as Biden's.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/one-three-democrats-think-biden-should-quit-race-reutersipsos-poll-finds-2024-07-02/

enjoy my $2000 check man, don’t spend it all at once

Mossad rigging Eurovision in the belief that it will change public opinion on an active genocide is the most Israeli thing ever

Four more years. Pause.

Bird flu virus found in pasteurized milk, though officials maintain supply is safe

It’s “fragments”, which gives me hope. Then again, reactionaries from the wellness set (both liberal and fascist) who drink raw milk are going to be some fun little vectors

Somehow I missed that Sam Altman of OpenAI is attempting to con the UAE out of $7 trillion dollars. Absolutely incredible levels of astronomical grift.

Paxlovid does not prevent Long Covid

Multivariable logistic regression models controlled for age, sex, race/ethnicity, chronic conditions, and COVID-19 vaccination status. We found that participants who took nirmatrelvir/ritonavir were no less likely to develop long COVID symptoms, compared to those who did not take the medication (44% vs. 49.6%, p = 0.21). Taking nirmatrelvir/ritonavir was associated with a lower odds of two of the eleven long COVID symptoms, brain fog (OR 0.58, 95% CI 0.38–0.88) and chest pain/tightness (OR 0.51, 95% CI 0.28–0.91). Our finding that treatment with nirmatrelvir/ritonavir was not associated with a lower risk of developing long COVID is different from prior studies that obtained data only from electronic medical records.

Macklemore says Free Palestine

(In the second tweet in this thread)

aoc saying today that she’d vote to fund iron dome if it came up again

Scottish First Minister states Israel is going too far.

His mother in law is trapped in Gaza. I fully expect MI5 to intervene in his political career because of this.