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What the U.S. Government Is Dismissing That Could Seed a Bird Flu Pandemic Egg producers suspect bird flu is traveling through the air. After a disastrous Midwestern outbreak early this year, we tested that theory and found that where the wind blew, the virus followed. Vacci...

15/ And the "severely ill" patient in Washington State confirmed to be infected with bird flu last week highlights the threat of a virus that has the potential to spark a pandemic.

Read more about this deep-dive into the Ohio/Indiana outbreak here: www.propublica.org/article/bird...

A photo of three romance books sitting on the floor, they are "Love is an Open Book" by Chandra Blumberg, "The Crush" by Ren Browne, and "Adversity" by Ren Browne, all three are signed by the author.

A photo of 4 books sitting on the floor. They are, "The Phoebe Variations" by Jane Hamilton, "The Book of Lost Hours" by Hayley Gelfuso, "The Edge of Yesterday" by Rita Woods, and "The Devil Three Times" by Rickey Fayne. All four are signed by the authors.

A photo of 4 books sitting on the floor. They are, "The Graceview Patient" by Caitlin Starling, "Cold Eternity" by S.A. Barnes, "King Sorrow" by Joe Hill, and "The Place Where They Buried Your Heart" by Christina Henry. All four are signed by the authors.

A photo of 3 books sitting on the floor. They are, "The Net Beneath Us" by Carol Dunbar, "The Last Dreamwalker" by Rita Woods, and "The Mesmerist" by Caroline Woods. All three are signed by the authors.

Signed books make the best gifts!

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Mount Pleasant’s sidewalk astronomer might have to leave his home But Gael Gomez wants people to keep looking up — at the sky and in life.

Gael Gomez and his family are all but certain to leave the country this week, upending the lives they’ve built in D.C.

But Mount Pleasant's 19-year-old sidewalk astronomer wants people to keep looking up — at the sky and in life.

@samdelgado.bsky.social reports:

Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash., Fri., Oct. 29, 1982 page 25. Headline reads ‘Far Side’ cartoon sparks cow controversy. An image shows a cow standing on its hind legs behind a table which has strange, misshapen objects lying on it. One vaguely resembles a saw. Underneath the cartoon are the words: ‘Cow tools’ was the caption on this cartoon, which taxed the imaginations of “Far Side” fans across the nation Thursday.

Happy 43rd anniversary of Gary Larson’s Cow Tools Apology – or at least it’s 43 years since The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, printed this:

That's right! THE POTENCY OF UNGOVERNABLE IMPULSES, latest and so far longest of the Mossa & Pleiti Investigations, is on ebook sale across platforms! If you've been waiting to catch up on the latest Jovian mystery, or wanted to get your own copy, now is a great time to do it!!

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

BREAKING from PP

We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens*

The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied:

Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer

More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado

www.propublica.org/article/immi...

by @nicolefoy.bsky.social

‘TrumpRx’ Is Another Pretend Solution for High Drug Prices The proposed government website will just refer people to the drug companies, which use direct-to-consumer pricing to distract from continued high profits.

If you saw "Trump Rx" and immediately thought "Trump Steaks" and other grifts, well, you're right. You will not even be able to buy anything on Trump Rx; it's just a funnel to existing corporate patient assistance sites that don't touch the structural factors that keep drug prices high. From me:

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Excited to introduce Vibes from Meta. Eat your slop, piggies!

Farm worker stepped away from the vineyard to take a break after helping with pesticide spraying. He is wearing the protective suit.

It was 1pm and 92° in Lamont CA when this farm worker stepped away from the vineyard to take a break after helping with pesticide spraying. The protective suit and mask shield him from the chemicals, but they trapped in the heat on hot days like this. #WeFeedYou

Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down. The FBI and Justice officials closed the investigation, which a Justice Department appointee had called a “deep state” probe in early 2025.

This is the Trump thug who wants to deny due process rights to everyone else. Turns out he was being investigated for taking $50k cash in an illegal scheme, but Trump’s DOJ dropped it.

This double standard and corruption is infecting our justice system.

TikTok will be co-owned by China and Trump allies, Paramount was sold to a pro-Trump billionaire who's also set to buy Warner Bros, X is owned by an apartheid-bred fascist, WaPo and Meta are owned by Trump-cowering billionaires, and Murdoch owns the Fox empire. Here's why media has a liberal bias.

my wife and her whole team lost their jobs earlier this year at a Seattle nonprofit hospital due to Trump medicaid cuts

Republican policy is literally killing people by making already shaky health care MUCH worse

dems should follow my Senator's lead and hammer this subject every single day

A lot of this stuff doesn’t make it into the news because it’s considered irrelevant but it really paints a portrait of how much this administration is built on unashamed trolling

Motherfucking wind farms…

School Vouchers Were Supposed to Save Taxpayer Money. Instead They Blew a Massive Hole in Arizona’s Budget. Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, has spent so much money paying private schoolers’ tuition that it’s now facing hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state program...

Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, spent so much money paying private schoolers’ tuition that it faced hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state programs and projects last year.

(Published July 2024)

The Federal Farm Policy Trap: Why Some Farmers Are Stuck Raising Crops That No Longer Thrive Some farmers keep growing in flood- and drought-prone fields because subsidies soften the losses, while federal programs meant to help them change course have been underfunded and mired in bureaucracy...

Really important story. The Federal Farm Policy Trap: Why Some Farmers Are Stuck Raising Crops That No Longer Thrive, with @capitolnewsil.bsky.social

Alaska Vowed to Resolve Murders of Indigenous People. Now It Refuses to Provide Their Names. When the nonprofit Data for Indigenous Justice filed public records requests with the Alaska Department of Public Safety concerning cases it had investigated, the state rejected them.

Alaska vowed to resolve the murders of Indigenous people.

But when one nonprofit asked state law enforcement officials for a fundamental piece of data — a list of Indigenous murders they’d investigated — the state said no.

By @kylehopkinsak.bsky.social, w/ @adn.com

Platner draws a distinction between the Trump voters who might still be convinced to rise up against the real elites, and the Trump enablers who've grown rich and powerful by backing him. "I'm not going to go down to Washington, have some conversations in a back room with somebody, and convince them that being a corrupt corporate scumbag is bad," he says at the house party. It is his third campaign event ever and has about 50 people in attendance. To him, persuasion is a dead end if the people you're trying to sway have already torched the rulebook. Power, as he sees it, is the ability to ignore the referee and keep scoring. His goal isn't to negotiate-it's to demonstrate what a candidate backed by a real movement can do. "It's not about getting me elected. It's not about getting anybody elected in many ways. It's about using all of this as a mechanism of building working class power.”

I spent two days with Platner and, as you’ll read, was as impressed by his theory of power as I was by his policies. I think it’s FAR more important than the “how do you talk to Trump voters” question.

Trump's DC Occupation Costs 4 Times More Than It Would Take to House City's Entire Homeless Population | Common Dreams Trump's deployment of the National Guard to Washington, DC costs more than 4 times as much as it would cost to simply house every homeless person in the city, according to researcher Hanna Homestead.

Finally something the two parties can agree on: not housing people

www.commondreams.org/news/trump-n...

Health Insurance Claim Denied? See What Insurers Said Behind the Scenes Learn how to request your health insurance claim file, which can include details about what your insurer is saying about you and your case.

When an insurance company is deciding whether to pay for your medical treatment, it generates a file, which should contain all records associated with your case, including documents explaining why the claim was denied.

You have a right to see this file.

(Published May 2023)

the reason this discourse will never end is because it is completely untethered from any kind of evidentiary standard. as long as there is a 19-year-old barista somewhere saying “cultural appropriation,” guys like nichols will complain that “democrats” use alienating language.

Honestly, this may be one of the most important media graphs I've ever seen.

The claim: Democrats keep using annoying words.
The data: Republicans CLAIMS Democrats use them, which then becomes the narratives.

Then centrists attack DEMS for things GOPer CLAIM they say, not GOP for making stuff up.

Like all the people who said Democrats need to stop talking about trans people when in actuality, Democrats rarely ever mention trans people and republicans mention trans people constantly.

La. regulators approve Entergy power plants for Meta’s AI data center Louisiana Public Service Commissioners voted four to one to approve Entergy’s three new gas plants to power Meta’s largest-ever data center.

Louisiana has to build three new natural gas power plants to accommodate the "AI" data center that Meta just crammed through because said center will use *Three Times* as much electricity (and, thus, attendant resources) as the *Entire City Of New Orleans*, every year.

Y'all this isn't sustainable.

okay here we go DRAW A BIRD CHALLENGE y'all! right now, with your own hands, no fukken "A.i." it's fine if it's bad! bad is good because you did it on your own and had fun and learned something and made something literally only you could have!

#DrawABird

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👋 medical toxicologist here and I am begging people to not take this gas station “wellness” drink

want to know why?? 🧵

NYC Mass Shooting Was Nearly Impossible to Prevent, Experts Say

Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.