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Florida voters ousted Judge Jared Smith from office after he refused to let a minor terminate her pregnancy, deeming her too immature to get an abortion.

In response, Ron DeSantis just appointed Smith to an even higher court. https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/elections/2022/08/25/did-anti-abortion-ruling-lead-to-sitting-hillsborough-county-judges-defeat/ https://twitter.com/jimrosicafl/status/1605327849078067204

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/mjs_DC/status/1605338852754829312

Did anti-abortion ruling lead to sitting Hillsborough County judge’s defeat?

“I think it means that abortion is on the ballot,” said the county’s Democratic chairperson.

Tampa Bay Times
This one didn’t wake up the Bay Area, but was felt all along the shore.
No Tsunami reported
Thank you, ⁦@[email protected]⁩.
Wonder if the Santos story would have been reported *before* the election if there were more local news reporters.
20 minutes of votes so far.
Elon has opened a poll for 12 hours.
FWIW I still hope Elon succeeds with Twitter. Why wish failure on anyone? But for me, not letting people post links to their other accounts was just too much.
The irony is that Musk's actions to lock users inside Twitter are going to push many of them out.
When you consider that much of the new data on bivalent booster protection is based on comparison with people who have had multiple shots and boosters, and infections, it's particularly impressive
https://erictopol.substack.com/p/a-quick-update-on-the-bivalent-boosters
A quick update on the bivalent boosters

New CDC data on protection posted today

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This is ludicrous. Are they going to manually review every account now looking for social media links?? http://www.techmeme.com/221218/p5#a221218p5
Twitter will remove accounts made to “promote other social platforms” and content that has links or usernames to Facebook, Mastodon, and others

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