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But the three-member panel also upheld his ongoing imprisonment, arguing it could not ‘modify’ his sentence., But the three-member panel also upheld his ongoing imprisonment, arguing it could not ‘modify’ his sentence. The defence team for former Ecuadorian Vice President Jorge Glas has hailed a decision declaring his arrest insideContinue Reading

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Elon Musk, the right-wing anti-union billionaire owner of Twitter (recently rebranded as X), has cast his defiance of a Brazilian judicial ruling as a free speech crusade against censorship. Such framing is, of course, bullshit. It is instead a political campaign by a capitalist to use social media to reshape global politics inContinue Reading

the-truth-behind pfizer’s paxlovid™

Editor’s note: The following story is co-published with Matt Bivens’ Substack newsletter, The 100 Days. Here are some things we know about Pfizer’s brand-name antiviral elixir Paxlovid: It makes everything taste terrible. “Paxlovid mouth” is discussed from Reddit feeds to scholarly journals. (“Dysgeusia” is the fancy medical term for this persistent foulContinue Reading