It's also peculiar how AstraZeneca was taken off the market ...

1. Aside from clinical trials, the AstraZeneca was never on the US "market". AstraZeneca never applied for US Emergency Use Authorization.

2. The Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine was taken off the market in countries where it was authorized/approved in 2024, when demand for Covid vaccines had substantially declined and the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine had been less well accepted than Pfizer's and Moderna's vaccine.

As for "... the mRNA shots, which are even worse ...", my response in my signature is still apt and true.

Israeli tanks push deeper into Rafah, battles rage in northern Gaza

- Israeli tanks pushed deeper into eastern Rafah on Tuesday, reaching some residential districts of the southern Gazan border city where more than a million people had been sheltering and stoking fears of further civilian casualties.
Israel's international allies and aid groups have repeatedly warned against a ground incursion into refugee-packed Rafah, where Israel says four Hamas battalions are holed up. Israel says the operation is needed to root out the remaining fighters.
Fighting has intensified elsewhere across the Gaza Strip in recent days, including in the north, with the Israeli military heading back into areas where it had claimed to have dismantled Hamas months ago.
Fierce gun battles were continuing late on Tuesday in northern Gaza's Jabalia, a sprawling refugee camp built for displaced Palestinians 75 years ago.
"Many people are being trapped in their houses. We lost contact with some relatives after they were warned by the army in phone calls to leave and they refused," Nasser, 57, a father of six, told Reuters, using an international phone card.
In Rafah, which borders Egypt, Palestinian residents on Tuesday afternoon said they could see smoke billowing above eastern districts of the city and heard explosions after Israel bombarded a cluster of houses.
Hamas' armed wing, the Qassam Brigades, said it had destroyed an Israeli troop carrier with an Al-Yassin 105 missile in the eastern Al-Salam district, killing some crew members and wounding others.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) declined to comment on the report.
In a round-up of its activities, the IDF said its forces had eliminated "several armed terrorist" cells in close-quarter fighting on the Gazan side of the Rafah border crossing with Egypt. In the east of the city, it said it had also destroyed militant cells and a launch post from where missiles were being fired at IDF troops.....................

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-tanks-push-into-gazas-rafah-displaced-civilians-flee-again-2024-05-14/

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Jurors focus on Cohen as he defends anti-Trump merch: 'Send him to the big house, not the White House!'

After admitting that 'sure' he would like to see Trump convicted, Cohen is forced to confront anti-Trump items for sale on the web site for his podcast.

That includes a t-shirt that depicts Trump in an orange jump suit behind bars that Cohen was asked about.

It's part of an effort by defense lawyers to paint him as biased.

'Sure,' Cohen responded, with two jurors immedaitely turning their heads to catch his answer.

'If you go to the section that says mea culpa this shirt is available for sale. That’s one item,' Cohen said, getting in a plug with his answer.

'You actually wore that t-shirt last week on your ticktoc didn’t you on Wednesday night" Blanche asked trying to land a blow with the question.

'I did,' Cohen said, admitting to information that was widely available.

'Actually encouraging peole to go buy it right?' Blanche asked.

'Yes. It’s part of the merch store,' was Cohen's dry response.

Joe is an evil azzhole!

Texas National Guard pepper sprays 'migrants' trying to cut through fence at border: Reuters video

In March, a mob of illegal aliens broke through a border fence — and through Texas National Guard members.

Reuters on Tuesday posted a video on X that it said shows the Texas National Guard pepper spraying migrants who were trying to cut through a fence at the U.S.-Mexico border.

The clip — recorded Monday at Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, which is across the border from El Paso — shows five people at a heavily barbed-wired fence, a couple of whom use wire cutters to clip it. But they soon make their way down a hill away from the fence once they see authorities arriving, after which the video says guard members use pepper spray to disperse the migrants.

Last week El Paso County Judge Ruben Morales dismissed riot participation charges against 211 illegal aliens caught on video in March rushing the southern border and shoving Texas National Guardsmen.

Morales said he was forced to drop the charges because the state failed to provide a transfer order to move the cases from district to county court and that his "hands [are] tied."...............

https://www.theblaze.com/news/texas-national-guard-pepper-sprays-migrants-trying-to-cut-through-fence-at-border-reuters-video