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Accessing the Monkeypox treatment requires the physician to fill out 100 pages of forms, and the appointment to initiate the medication takes between 1 and 3 hours. Others were less kind than Yglesias in their takes about the situation.
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Also cool: they were able to capture Saturn's ring, which people often forget.
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In case you're wondering, we're also not seeing anything in excess death stats.
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Planned to move straight to nukes, "No point in planning for prolonged conventional operations since they would not succeed", yikes.
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Here's the joke in full if you've never seen it, but it's pretty straightforward.
Threads
• Thread about the realignment caused by the Russia-Ukraine war, in particular, the massive screw-up of abandoning the Iran nuclear deal, leaving us allied with the Saudis instead.
• If you're interested, a thread about how John Fetterman is experimenting with a laser focused campaign against Mehmet Oz for the Senate in Pennsylvania.