Laura McLain, DVM, WDP

“AMERICA IS A GUN” by Brian Bilston England is a cup of tea. France, a wheel of ripened brie. Greece, a short, squat olive tree. America is a gun. Brazil is football on the sand. Argentina, Maradona’s hand. Germany, an oompah band. America is a gun. Holland is a wooden shoe. Hungary, a goulash stew. Australia, a kangaroo. America is a gun. Japan is a thermal spring. Scotland is a highland fling. Oh, better to be anything than America as a gun.

I have long covid and it’s like a lesson in applied anatomy. Like, oh there’s my vagus nerve firing, or oh so that’s what it feels like when your fibula hurts.

Pic of President Obama

Always my President!
Obama 2028

Statue of Liberty

“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free”

We are all immigrants!

I have saved 10 billion lives.

Secretary Kennedy and his policies are a danger to the public’s health The recent massive reductions in staff at key health agencies including the CDC, FDA and HRSA, among others, along with acknowledgement since that many of these people shouldn’t have been fired, is th...

RFKJR is a threat to American lives.
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not pity or dismissal.

To every autistic person who heard those words and felt erased: you matter. You are not a burden. You are a vital part of our communities, our movements, and our future.

We see you. We stand with you. And we will not let this kind of rhetoric go unchallenged.

Watching the season finale of Daredevil. Do right-wingers watch TV or movies? Whose side are they on? Daredevil vs Kingpin, Luke vs the Emperor, Indiana Jones vs the Nazis? I don’t get it. Don’t they see that Trump is just a dumber version of Kingpin? Be the hero, not the villain.

There were some painfully horrible AI-generated images in some of the talks today. Please, I beg you, before you put an AI image in a presentation or publication, ask a smart friend to look at the image first!

And people still voluntarily came to the US for this conference despite this country’s new, exciting random threats of extraordinary rendition. Because this matters. K9s save human lives and that matters.

I am at the Joint Symposium for Working K9s. Awesome conference bringing together trainers, handlers, researchers, veterinarians for all disciplines of K9s (law enforcement, medical detection, explosives detection, search and rescue, etc). People are still working despite federal uncertainty.

How does thousands of embryos fit with the right wing ideology?

Vet med also!

Photo of a cedar waxwing bird in a pear tree with unopened flower buds.

Photo of a cedar waxwing bird in a pear tree with unopened flower buds.

Photo of a cedar waxwing bird in a pear tree with unopened flower buds.

Photo of a cedar waxwing bird in a pear tree with unopened flower buds.

I love cedar waxwings!
#photography

Maybe electing an idiot wasn’t a good idea?

Thank you Wisconsin!
Now we finish the next part!

I am a cheesehead and I approve this message.

I just donated. Thank you @booker.senate.gov!

This is what Democrats need to do. Filibuster EVERYTHING and veto EVERYTHING. Stop playing nice.

Interesting story: when I took ornithology ages ago, some of my classmates couldn’t distinguish purple finch from house finch—they both looked purple to them. To me the house finch almost looks orange. Different ways different people see colors, I guess.

Babies dying of preventable diseases is not “pro-life.”

vance exists to be eventually fed to a rancor, basically

The same day, Utah also banned pride flags. This state is stupid.

Utah has made national news for being idiots. Thanks, Gov. Cox!

Ugh, the stupidity hurts. Here in Utah we believe in small government! People have a right to choose if they get cavities in their teeth! Oh, but if someone has hurt feelings about seeing a rainbow, then we believe in big government.
#utah

Yay, good job, Utah. What do those dentists know anyway?
This is the stupidest state in the stupidest country in the stupidest timeline.

Do you have any book events scheduled in SLC?

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Negligently disclosing national defense information is illegal — and it doesn't have to be classified The Espionage Act, the law that often has been used in criminal cases involving leaks or mishandling of classified information, contains a provision making it

NBC News: The Espionage Act contains a provision making it crime to disclose national defense secrets "through gross negligence."
 
The law does not require info be classified, because it was written before the classification system existed. The law refers simply to "national defense information."

Either you invited a journalist to an unsecured group chat, in which case you’re incompetent, or you were using an unsecured group chat which a journalist was able to hack, in which case you’re incompetent.