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Christopher Stone retweeted
Georgia might be the most overlooked country on Earth. Wine older than Rome. Mountains that rival the Alps. Monasteries carved into cliffs. Yet most travelers still skip it. These 14 places will make you wonder how Georgia stayed a secret for this long.....🧵
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Replying to @gothamhiphop
Paraguay arent the greatest but my god this is actually the best ive ever seen a US team play
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Surely Canada barring an actual player from Ghana will spark the same amount of outrage from sports media that the US denying entry to the Somalian referee did, right?
Thomas Partey will play no part in Ghana’s first World Cup game in Toronto as he has been denied entry to Canada, sources have told The Athletic. Ghana are set to open their tournament at Toronto’s BMO Field against Panama on Wednesday, June 17 but sources familiar with the process, who are not authorised to discuss it publicly, have told The Athletic that Partey cannot travel to Canada and therefore will not be able to feature. The Canadian government website outlines that, “if you have committed or been convicted of a crime, you may not be allowed into Canada.” Partey has been charged, but is awaiting trial and has not been convicted. He denies the charges. More from @Dan_Sheldon_ 🔗 nyti.ms/49Vx4TE
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Christopher Stone retweeted
It’s been 4 years of Europeans saying “stadium will be empty”, “Americans don’t care about soccer”, “Americans can’t play soccer”… I’m proud of this tonight
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Christopher Stone retweeted
Jeff Flake, former GOP Senator from Arizona and Biden’s ambassador to Turkey, writes in Washington Post op-ed that Maine Democrats should support Susan Collins. Flake: “Democrats are not wrong to want a stronger legislative check on the Trump administration. They are just wrong to think that these things matter more than character.”
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Christopher Stone retweeted
I don't think Graham Platner actually "is a Nazi" - i.e., someone who supports the goals of the German NSDAP political party. I think he is a former alcoholic mercenary, who got one of the most famous Nazi symbols as a tattoo to show he is a "killer," and is currently struggling with giant infidelity and woman-abuse scandals. Watching lib-fem type friends passionately support him is thus, still, very funny.
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Quite a few empty seats visible in Gudaajara
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RT @vali_nasr: Kallas has done more damage than good and EU’s diplomatic service has become disconnected from both reality and many Europea…
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Christopher Stone retweeted
Sepsis kills more people in American hospitals than heart attacks. 350,000 deaths a year, and the reason is brutally simple: the early warning signs are almost invisible. A slightly elevated heart rate. A small temperature shift. A lab value drifting in the wrong direction. Each one looks like noise on a busy ward. By the time the pattern is obvious to a human, the patient is hours into a cascade toward organ failure, and every hour of delayed antibiotics raises mortality. Tampa General built a system on Palantir's Foundry that watches roughly 1,000 inpatients continuously. Vitals, labs, medication records, clinician notes, all scanned in real time for the pattern no single nurse can see across 12 beds at 3am. When risk crosses a threshold, a rapid response team gets paged. Humans still make every treatment decision. The software just compresses detection from hours to minutes. The results since 2022: overall sepsis mortality cut in half, 48-hour deaths down 68%, length of stay down 30%, roughly 900 lives saved. At one hospital. Now run the national math. There are about 6,100 hospitals in the US. If even the 500 largest matched these numbers, you'd be looking at tens of thousands of lives a year from a single use case. The treatment for sepsis hasn't changed. Antibiotics and fluids, same as decades ago. The entire gain comes from starting them earlier. The hardest problem in medicine was never the cure. It was noticing in time.
JUST IN: Florida hospital reveals Palantir software has cut sepsis deaths by more than half since it was installed.
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RT @JessicaBRiedl: A perk of being politically tribeless is being able to declare that Donald Trump, Ken Paxton, and Graham Platner are all…
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Christopher Stone retweeted
The @FIFAWorldCup kicks off in Philly in just FOUR days — and we’re ready to welcome visitors from around the world here to PA. Over the next 39 days, 500,000 people will be eating at our restaurants, shopping in our stores, and staying in our hotels. That’s $770 MILLION in projected revenue for Pennsylvania, and a whole lot of economic opportunity for our communities.
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Christopher Stone retweeted
Really stunned by how bad the reporting about the Somalian referee has been. He didn’t “suddenly have trouble” at the border, wasn’t “previously cleared.” He had visa issues from the get-go and was (somewhat improperly) given a diplomatic passport to try to circumvent them. /1
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Christopher Stone retweeted
Exciting day: brand new @pewresearch political typology report! I’ll have more to say later, but just want to highlight these two charts showing the immense amount of ideological diversity in each party—and how ideologues constitute a minority of each coalition.
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Replying to @cwebbonline
Pulling Trump into this is retarded. You may be surprised, but they don't call DJT & he is not doing the rounds at airports 🤣 This guy presented a diplomatic passport, not being a diplomat and BBC & NYP report on his suspected ties to Al-Shabaab. CBP made the correct decision.
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The biggest unforced error of US and western diplomacy in the last decade has been to force Russia, China and North Korea to form a strategic military and economic alliance. This has been the work of Trump and Biden administrations, and Europeans partners who can't think for themselves. You can fight China, or you can fight Russia, but you cannot fight both of them at the same time. eurointelligence.com

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BREAKING: The Somali FIFA World Cup referee who was denied entry into the U.S. by CBP was flagged with “derogatory” information, including “association with suspected members of terror organizations”, making him inadmissible for entry into the U.S., a Trump admin official tells @FoxNews. Statement to FOX: "This individual was seeking admission to the United States. Upon further inspection by CBP, derogatory information, including association with suspected members of terror organizations, was discovered making the traveler ineligible for admission to the United States under the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). The traveler was refused admission and given immigration forms that provide the section of law used to complete an expedited removal under 8235 of the INA. President Trump's administration will not allow any security threat to enter our country - full stop.”
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Reporter: Are you concerned, Mr. President, about the latest inflation number which came out this morning? Trump: No, I love it. I love the inflation.
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Christopher Stone retweeted
A Somali Soccer Referee was denied entry to the US to officiate in the World Cup. The left screams "racism" and blames America. Let's examine the facts over the fiction and emotion: As reported, the referee attempted to enter on a Diplomatic passport. He's not a diplomat. 1/
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