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Facebook Memories: 12 Jun 2024
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1. Facebook Memories Summary (12 Jun)
2, 3. My favourite Y&R Jill
4. ‘One Kitties, Two Kitties, Three Kitties, Pretty Kitties’
5, 11. ‘Tank Man’
6, 13. Raw Story: True Believers
7, 8. Dominique Rem’mie Fells
9. On the anniversary of Pulse, no less
10. Karen Ulane
12. NowThis Impact: Everything wrong with Fox News in one video
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(https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=3133549923612518&id=100008726227817)
(https://www.facebook.com/100008726227817/posts/3133549923612518/)
(https://www.facebook.com/share/p/dyvuf7yZDTJLbEhe/?mibextid=oFDknk)
Sharon Nichols
12 Jun 2023
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(https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=3133549923612518&id=100008726227817)
(https://www.facebook.com/100008726227817/posts/3133549923612518/)
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Facebook Memories: 12 Jun 2023
1 of 12:
Jill Foster
(https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2876344515999728&id=100008726227817)
(https://www.facebook.com/100008726227817/posts/2876344515999728/)
Sharon Nichols
12 Jun 2022
2 of 12:
Jill Foster
(https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2876342312666615&id=100008726227817)
(https://www.facebook.com/100008726227817/posts/2876342312666615/)
Sharon Nichols
12 Jun 2022
(https://www.facebook.com/100008726227817/posts/2628385614128954/)
12 Jun 2021
3 of 12:
One kitties, two kitties, three kitties, pretty kitties
(https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2629366620697520&id=100008726227817)
(https://www.facebook.com/100008726227817/posts/2629366620697520/)
Sharon Nichols
12 Jun 2021
1 Comment
4 of 12:
Crooked Drumpf praises China’s dictatorship for attacking the Democracy Protest
(https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2365491393751712&id=100008726227817)
(https://www.facebook.com/100008726227817/posts/2365491393751712/)
Sharon Nichols
12 Jun 2020
5 of 12:
Crooked Drumpf plays Western god
(https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2365477670419751&id=100008726227817)
(https://www.facebook.com/100008726227817/posts/2365477670419751/)
Sharon Nichols
12 Jun 2020
3 Shares
(https://www.facebook.com/100008726227817/posts/2631101533857362/)
15 Jun 2021
(https://www.facebook.com/100008726227817/posts/2630281500606032/)
14 Jun 2021
(https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2365477670419751&id=100008726227817)
12 Jun 2020
(https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1854117081555815&id=100008726227817)
12 Jun 2018
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(https://www.facebook.com/20324257234/posts/10156552957877235/)
Raw Story
12 Jun 2018
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The Trump movement has created an epidemic of fanatically self-righteous cheaters, liars and grifters
Jeremy Sherman, AlterNet
June 12, 2018, 1:43 PM ET
6 of 12:
Dominique ‘Rem’mie’ Fells
(https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=3560214270655248&id=100000001294374)
(https://www.facebook.com/100000001294374/posts/3560214270655248/)
Marie Bobo-Smith
12 Jun 2020
Thank you for this information Sharon.
3 Comments
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(https://www.facebook.com/100008726227817/posts/2630283727272476/)
(https://www.facebook.com/100008726227817/posts/2630285703938945/)
14 Jun 2021
7 of 12:
Dominique ‘Rem’mie’ Fells
(https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2365460107088174&id=100008726227817)
(https://www.facebook.com/100008726227817/posts/2365460107088174/)
Sharon Nichols
12 Jun 2020
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(https://www.facebook.com/100008726227817/posts/2630285703938945/)
14 Jun 2021
(https://www.facebook.com/25517195/posts/10107096857742246/)
Jenji Learn
13 Jun 2020
8 of 12:
Crooked Drumpf legal extermination against Trans Community – on the anniversary of Pulse
(https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2365371997096985&id=100008726227817)
(https://www.facebook.com/100008726227817/posts/2365371997096985/)
Sharon Nichols
12 Jun 2020
3 Shares
(https://www.facebook.com/100008726227817/posts/2630290490605133/)
14 Jun 2021
(https://www.facebook.com/100000438486030/posts/3453232044701378/)
Marjorie Hammer
12 Jun 2020
(https://www.facebook.com/100022490776003/posts/743928409700178/)
Luna Bell
14 Jun 2020
9 of 12:
Karen Ulane, Pioneer
(https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2085130845121103&id=100008726227817)
(https://www.facebook.com/100008726227817/posts/2085130845121103/)
Sharon Nichols
12 Jun 2019
2 Comments
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(https://www.facebook.com/100008726227817/posts/2630293297271519/)
14 Jun 2021
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12 Jun 2020
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Tank Man
(https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1854388724861984&id=100008726227817)
(https://www.facebook.com/100008726227817/posts/1854388724861984/)
Sharon Nichols
12 Jun 2018
11 of 12:
Fox proves that they are Faux
(https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1854225134878343&id=100008726227817)
Sharon Nichols
12 Jun 2018
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(https://www.facebook.com/NowThisPolitics/videos/1964232273608253/)
(https://fb.watch/l72R9NoHVP/)
NowThis Politics
15 Mar 2018
Everything wrong with Fox News in one video
(https://fb.watch/l72Sq0jEbx/)
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Crooked Drumpf plays Western god
(https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1854117081555815&id=100008726227817)
(https://www.facebook.com/100008726227817/posts/1854117081555815/)
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12 Jun 2018
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(https://www.facebook.com/100008726227817/posts/2630301097270739/)
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Raw Story
12 Jun 2018
Welcome to Trump’s America.
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The Trump movement has created an epidemic of fanatically self-righteous cheaters, liars and grifters
Jeremy Sherman, AlterNet
June 12, 2018, 1:43 PM ET
Here in the US, we’re suffering an epidemic of dishonest fake belief, promoted by the people who took over the conservative party. Just call yourself a Christian, a patriot, a True American and you can get away with anything. All the perks, none of the costs of actually behaving in accord with any kind of disciplined lifestyle – license to indulge from the moral high ground. Trump takes it to a new level.
Trump plays classic Western god – self-obsessed, petty, petulant, disappointed, vengeful, cliquish, devoted solely to building his fan club, chronically bitter about being under-appreciated. And most of his followers are typical dishonest fake believers. They love him because they want to be like him. Trump teaches that earning respect by being honest isn’t the only way. Fellow liars will respect you if you lie and always get away with it.
With dishonest false belief you get to swagger like the moral police without living by your proclaimed moral standards. You can claim the piety even as you cheat, lie and steal.
It’s a win-win for the false believer. Your supreme piety rationalizes acting like a pig. You’re free to cheat because you’re fighting on the side of the righteous. You feel both righteous and clever, saintly and sneaky. Smart because you embrace true virtue; smart because you know how to fight dirtier than your dumb opponents.
It’s more tawdry even than the 9-11 fundamentalists drinking and whoring before they suicide bombed the Twin Towers. As Susan Sontag dared to comment right after the bombing, it’s no good calling suicide bombers cowards. They made sacrifices. That’s a costly signal one can’t fake. Dishonest false belief is a better bargain than that.
In sum, three categories for fanatics:
True believers who really try to live by their principles.
Dishonest false believers who don’t try to live by their principles but pretend that they do.
Honest false believers who don’t try to live by their principles and admit it, not taking their beliefs seriously, while still going through the motions for ritualistic sake.
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Dawn Farnham.
Another flip of political parties.
The Democratic Dixiecrats continued the ideology of the Confederacy – White supremacy – as presented by their foundation documents:
– Declaration of Independence of the Confederate States of Amerika
– Cornerstone Document
– Constitution of the Confederate States of Amerika.
These platforms are now the Republi-con Party ideology while the Democratic Party represents Freedom and Equality, fights against discrimination and bigotry, supports Voting Rights, Civil Rights, Constitutional Rights, Human Rights.
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Jenji Learn
what is this Sharon Nichols?
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This is a Summary listing my Facebook Memories on this date at prior years.
I copy these Memories Posts to my SlimandMe web-site.
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Sharon Nichols
12 Jun 2020
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A Facebook ‘Memories’ from two years ago.
The more things don’t change, the more they stay the same.
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(https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1854117081555815&id=100008726227817)
Sharon Nichols
(12 Jun 2018):
This is you:
Republi-cons,
Drumpfians,
Deplorables:
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‘Trump plays classic Western god – self-obsessed, petty, petulant, disappointed, vengeful, cliquish, devoted solely to building his fan club, chronically bitter about being under-appreciated.
And most of his followers are typical dishonest fake believers. They love him because they want to be like him.
Trump teaches that earning respect by being honest isn’t the only way. Fellow liars will respect you if you lie and always get away with it.’
– Raw Story
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‘Republicans elected a president who promised to take on D.C. — instead, Trump has presided over an extraordinary auction of access and influence.
– Remember when Trump told you that he would release his tax returns and then never did?
– Remember when he said that if he won the election he would put his business interests aside?
“Ever since Trump and his family arrived in Washington they have essentially hung a for-sale sign on the White House by refusing to meaningfully separate themselves from their own business interests,” Bloomberg’s Tim O’Brien notes. “That’s certainly not lost on the companies that do business in or with Washington. They know that in Trump’s swamp, you pay to play.”’
– The Atlantic (11 May 18)
The Trump movement has created an epidemic of fanatically self-righteous cheaters, liars and grifters
(https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/05/trumps-washington/560105/)
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‘It’s a continuation of the same tired, misogynistic, bot-fueled, fake news fantasy-land, 2016 narrative, declaring that Donald Trump:
– with his p*ssy-grabbing bravado,
– xenophobic tirades,
– truth allergies,
– intellectual ignorance,
– verbal diarrhea,
– public bullying,
– multiple bankruptcies, multiple wives, and multiple affairs
was somehow ever the “lesser of two evils”.’
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See also:
(https://www.alternet.org/why-are-poor-people-america-so-patriotic-one-man-went-odyssey-find-out)
(https://crooksandliars.com/2018/06/there-really-any-doubt-trump-collaborating)
(https://www.facebook.com/17108852506/posts/10155658916812507/)
AlterNet
12 Jun 2018
The Trump movement has created an epidemic of fanatically self-righteous cheaters, liars and grift
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Raw Story
(12 Jun 2018)
The Trump movement has created an epidemic of fanatically self-righteous cheaters, liars and grifters
Jeremy Sherman, AlterNet
June 12, 2018 1:43PM ET
Supporters of Donald Trump at rally (Photo: Joseph Sohm / Shutterstock
“The True Believers” is a psychology classic, a study undertaken by Eric Hoffer, a longshoreman moonlighting as a psycho-philosopher shortly after WWII. It profiles the characteristics of authoritarian fanatics, the kind we see falling for ISIS and here at home, for Trumpism or Evangelicalism.
To lump all such believers together as “true” seems a mistake. For starters, there are true and false believers. False believers think that declaring their commitment is enough. They don’t have to actually follow the beliefs or change how they act. They’re members in good standing simply because they declare themselves to be.
Authoritarian movements thrive on growth so they often make accommodations to false believers to fatten out their ranks. They don’t demand what anthropologist Bill Iron called “costly signals,” a term originating in evolutionary biology for hard-to-fake sacrifices, for example, giving up bacon to be a Muslim or Jew. No diet restrictions, no commitment to prayer every day and above all no moral restraint. Fake believers are afforded all of the benefits of membership at a trivial cost.
Authoritarian movements thrive on boldness, so they often welcome the rash and uncontrolled into their movements, for example, storm troopers or anti-communists in Indonesia, hoodlums who cared more for the fun of breaking eggs than for the movement making the omelet utopia it promises. False belief is great for that: Come for the cause, stay for the freedom to be your indulgent self, above the law because you have such a high calling.
The protestant movement started as a revolt against the Catholic Church’s accommodations to false believers, what Martin Luther disparaged as “frequent communion” going to church on Sunday and being a normal everyday slob the rest of the week.
And Protestantism slid into its own accommodations to false believers, for example Born Again baptism being all it takes to be a full-fledged member, all of your sins atoned for, except if you doubt your membership. Existentialist philosopher Soren Kierkegaard railed against Christian false belief. He thought you weren’t really a Christian if you didn’t sweat blood trying to work out your existential status.
Most authoritarian movements start with some disdain for false believers just going through the motions, but end up allowing, inviting and encouraging it.
I would further distinguish honest from dishonest false believers. Honest false believers know and admit that they’re just going through the motions, claiming to be members but no different from other people.
I have great admiration for honest false believers. They join the club in name only, sort of like fans of a professional sports. They rally around the flag ritualistically. They know better than to believe that it makes them better than other people. It’s just a game, cosplay not taken very seriously by the cosplayers.
I just got back from three weeks working in Mainland China. I was impressed by the honest false belief in communism over there. Students dutifully take classes in Marxism and many people belong to the communist party, but from what I can tell, nobody takes it seriously nor needs to pretend that they do. They can’t attack communism in the press but they didn’t seem uncomfortable talking about how little relevance Marx has to social and economic life in China. You see pictures of Mao, Marx, the hammer and sickle too but that’s not where people live. There’s an admirable resigned realism in Chinese culture these days, borne perhaps of its very different cultural history.
Chinese philosophy and religion started 3000 years ago with deference to the “mandate of heaven,” never personified as a authoritarian god. The mandate of heaven was the Tao, the way things are, reality, not some vain and vengeful daddy deity who could grant you excuses for cutting corners on reality in his dutiful service.
Reverence for reality, reality worship – that’s great philosophical and religious prep for science. It’s the recognition that you can’t God-talk your way out from under reality’s constraints. Reality always wins in the end. China has its rituals and customs, of course, but they don’t seem as prone to fall for delusions and denial as we do in the West.
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Sharon Nichols
12 Jun 2018
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The Raw Story
12 Jun 2018
Welcome to Trump’s America.
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The Trump movement has created an epidemic of fanatically self-righteous cheaters, liars and grifters
Jeremy Sherman, AlterNet
June 12, 2018 1:43PM ET
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The Trump movement has created an epidemic of fanatically self-righteous cheaters, liars and grifters
Supporters of Donald Trump at rally (Photo: Joseph Sohm / Shutterstock)
“The True Believers” is a psychology classic, a study undertaken by Eric Hoffer, a longshoreman moonlighting as a psycho-philosopher shortly after WWII. It profiles the characteristics of authoritarian fanatics, the kind we see falling for ISIS and here at home, for Trumpism or Evangelicalism.
To lump all such believers together as “true” seems a mistake. For starters, there are true and false believers. False believers think that declaring their commitment is enough. They don’t have to actually follow the beliefs or change how they act. They’re members in good standing simply because they declare themselves to be.
Authoritarian movements thrive on growth so they often make accommodations to false believers to fatten out their ranks. They don’t demand what anthropologist Bill Iron called “costly signals,” a term originating in evolutionary biology for hard-to-fake sacrifices, for example, giving up bacon to be a Muslim or Jew. No diet restrictions, no commitment to prayer every day and above all no moral restraint. Fake believers are afforded all of the benefits of membership at a trivial cost.
Authoritarian movements thrive on boldness, so they often welcome the rash and uncontrolled into their movements, for example, storm troopers or anti-communists in Indonesia, hoodlums who cared more for the fun of breaking eggs than for the movement making the omelet utopia it promises. False belief is great for that: Come for the cause, stay for the freedom to be your indulgent self, above the law because you have such a high calling.
The protestant movement started as a revolt against the Catholic Church’s accommodations to false believers, what Martin Luther disparaged as “frequent communion” going to church on Sunday and being a normal everyday slob the rest of the week.
And Protestantism slid into its own accommodations to false believers, for example Born Again baptism being all it takes to be a full-fledged member, all of your sins atoned for, except if you doubt your membership. Existentialist philosopher Soren Kierkegaard railed against Christian false belief. He thought you weren’t really a Christian if you didn’t sweat blood trying to work out your existential status.
Most authoritarian movements start with some disdain for false believers just going through the motions, but end up allowing, inviting and encouraging it.
I would further distinguish honest from dishonest false believers. Honest false believers know and admit that they’re just going through the motions, claiming to be members but no different from other people.
I have great admiration for honest false believers. They join the club in name only, sort of like fans of a professional sports. They rally around the flag ritualistically. They know better than to believe that it makes them better than other people. It’s just a game, cosplay not taken very seriously by the cosplayers.
I just got back from three weeks working in Mainland China. I was impressed by the honest false belief in communism over there. Students dutifully take classes in Marxism and many people belong to the communist party, but from what I can tell, nobody takes it seriously nor needs to pretend that they do. They can’t attack communism in the press but they didn’t seem uncomfortable talking about how little relevance Marx has to social and economic life in China. You see pictures of Mao, Marx, the hammer and sickle too but that’s not where people live. There’s an admirable resigned realism in Chinese culture these days, borne perhaps of its very different cultural history.
Chinese philosophy and religion started 3000 years ago with deference to the “mandate of heaven,” never personified as a authoritarian god. The mandate of heaven was the Tao, the way things are, reality, not some vain and vengeful daddy deity who could grant you excuses for cutting corners on reality in his dutiful service.
Reverence for reality, reality worship – that’s great philosophical and religious prep for science. It’s the recognition that you can’t God-talk your way out from under reality’s constraints. Reality always wins in the end. China has its rituals and customs, of course, but they don’t seem as prone to fall for delusions and denial as we do in the West.
Here in the US, we’re suffering an epidemic of dishonest fake belief, promoted by the people who took over the conservative party. Just call yourself a Christian, a patriot, a True American and you can get away with anything. All the perks, none of the costs of actually behaving in accord with any kind of disciplined lifestyle – license to indulge from the moral high ground. Trump takes it to a new level.
Trump plays classic Western god – self-obsessed, petty, petulant, disappointed, vengeful, cliquish, devoted solely to building his fan club, chronically bitter about being under-appreciated. And most of his followers are typical dishonest fake believers. They love him because they want to be like him. Trump teaches that earning respect by being honest isn’t the only way. Fellow liars will respect you if you lie and always get away with it.
With dishonest false belief you get to swagger like the moral police without living by your proclaimed moral standards. You can claim the piety even as you cheat, lie and steal.
It’s a win-win for the false believer. Your supreme piety rationalizes acting like a pig. You’re free to cheat because you’re fighting on the side of the righteous. You feel both righteous and clever, saintly and sneaky. Smart because you embrace true virtue; smart because you know how to fight dirtier than your dumb opponents.
It’s more tawdry even than the 9-11 fundamentalists drinking and whoring before they suicide bombed the Twin Towers. As Susan Sontag dared to comment right after the bombing, it’s no good calling suicide bombers cowards. They made sacrifices. That’s a costly signal one can’t fake. Dishonest false belief is a better bargain than that.
In sum, three categories for fanatics:
True believers who really try to live by their principles.
Dishonest false believers who don’t try to live by their principles but pretend that they do.
Honest false believers who don’t try to live by their principles and admit it, not taking their beliefs seriously, while still going through the motions for ritualistic sake.
Honest false believers have a peculiar kind of integrity that I admire. If you need to belong to some cultural tribe, and many people do, it’s healthy to admit that it doesn’t really elevate you above others. It’s your thing but it’s not a big thing.
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Crooked Drumpf skimmed from the ‘9 / 11’ relief fund.
‘Pure Evil’: Report On Trump Administration Draining Fund For FDNY’s 9/11 Responders Draws Outrage
Lisette Voytko
Forbes Staff
Senior Entertainment Reporter
Sep 11, 2020, 08:53am EDT
Updated Sep 12, 2020, 12:00pm EDT
TOPLINE A New York Daily News scoop published Thursday revealed that the Trump administration has siphoned around $4 million from the New York City Fire Department’s fund for its September 11 first responders, drawing outrage on the 19th anniversary of the attacks, but the U.S. Treasury says the money was diverted because of “delinquent debt” owed by New York City to the federal government.
Attacks World Trade Center
Firefighters work beneath the destroyed mullions, [+]
AP PHOTO/MARK LENNIHAN
KEY FACTS
The funds are part of the FDNY World Trade Center Health Program, which was established by the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act of 2010, a bill passed by Congress that provides healthcare to first responders who have suffered a range of illnesses from exposure to dust and smoke at Ground Zero.
“TRUMP DOESN’T ONLY HATE VETERANS, HE HATES FIRST RESPONDER HEROES,” tweeted actress Debra Messing in reaction to the Daily News report.
Fred Guttenberg, father of Parkland school shooting victim Jamie Guttenberg, said he was “F—KING P—-ED” about the report, because his brother died of cancer from 9/11.
“From the administration whose identity is built on claims of honoring first responders,” Julie Cohen, director of the RBG documentary, wrote on Twitter.
“This doesn’t surprise me at all,” Army veteran and advocate Paul Rieckoff wrote on Twitter. “Trump did NOTHING to push for the extension of #Zadroga last year.”
“We are also working with Congressman King and others to examine any potential authorities to provide relief in this case to support our nation’s 9/11 heroes,” the Treasury spokesperson. told Forbes, but could not provide any examples of how they would do it, and did not have a timeline.
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“Here we have sick World Trade Center-exposed firefighters and EMS workers, at a time when the city is having difficult financial circumstances due to COVID-19, and we’re not getting the money we need to be able to treat these heroes,” FDNY Chief Medical Officer David Prezant told the Daily News.
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“Pure evil,” tweeted Dr. Dena Grayson, a medical expert who specializes in ebola and other viruses.
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