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A biomarker you might want to know about
This is of course terrible, but do they really think putting CPB first, with the logo generations of parents and kids have associated with Sesame Street and Mr Rogers, is going to impress median voters?
These 52 people could have stopped a national and a world catastrophe any time they chose to. They confirmed Noem, Bondi, Hegseth, et al, okayed DOGE and tariffs, and green lighted Trump’s military attacks. The country and the world reels. Fifty-two people.
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Caritas did not respond to a request for comment. On social media, the organization announced that its offices, along with its community kitchen and downtown pantry, would be closed March 12-13 and March 16-17 because of South by Southwest road closures.
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I considered it at once as the knell of the Union. It is hushed indeed for the moment, but this is a reprieve only, not a final sentence.” /2
Tempers rose high enough that Thomas Jefferson wrote to Massachusetts—and later Maine—senator John Holmes that he had for a long time been content with the direction of the country, but that the Missouri question “like a fire bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror. /1
This is a MAJOR strategic failure.
Ukraine offered battle-proven technology to combat the EXACT Iranian drones we’re now fighting in the Middle East. The Trump Administration rejected that help.
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Simple information about what the SAVE Act would actually do to American voters. Tens of millions would lose their right to vote unless they spend lots of $$$ and jump through bureaucratic hoops before November.
Travis County Republican Party is officially sponsoring this griftfest during SXSW. Agentic AI! Sovereign infrastructure! Confidential compute! Crypto! Opportunity! A sauna, cold plunge, pool, and hot tub!
Well, perhaps he has retired to Bono, Texas. For all I know he might now reside in the Bono cemetary but I don't want to be responsible for starting another death hoax.
Today's Letters from an American details how Putin is profiting from the First Felon's whimsy. To that I want to add that Iran will let their tankers through the Strait of Hormuz if the oil is paid for with yuan, not dollars. Yet another attack on the US economy unforeseen due to no planning at all.
![Comic.[A gantry straddles the intersection of two tectonic plates, one under water and the other on a mountain. A tether connected to a winch on the gantry making a “click click click” sound is connected to the oceanic crust and is pulling it up, causing it to fold. Two people are standing on the fold next to the hook, looking down toward the space between the subducted crust where a shining object sits.] [caption] PSA: Please stay out of the Pacific Ocean today. Someone lost their wedding ring in a subduction zone and USGS is pulling the plate back up to retrieve it.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreie67d6xwt22jlu4svhviwf6xz4dxrhcyumr46lqeum3g7dddlav3e)
Subduction Retrieval
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Quick takes: Public health cuts in blue states blocked, new #polio cases, Global Fund shortfall
An Illinois judge stopped the Trump administration from rescinding $600 million in public health funds from California, Colorado, Illinois, and Minnesota.
Mrs. Jim Halbert, wife of the sheriff, washing turnip greens in her kitchen sink in San Augustine, 1943. A stunning image! Razor sharp.
Taken by John Vachon.
Iran is basically the Harlem Globetrotters in this game.
FDA vaccine advisers recommend adding subclade K to fall shots
Although the US officially left the WHO in January, US scientists continue to collaborate with international researchers to track the evolution of flu viruses.
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If there ever was a strategy behind Donald Trump's decision to blow up the Middle East — and increasingly few believe there ever was — it is lying in tatters as the second week of the Iran war draws to a close.
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... Joining a health system takes away the autonomy doctors need to make the best clinical decisions for their patients, Carlan said. It also siphons off income into the larger hospital system.
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And how high would that price have to be? It would have to be high enough to persuade drivers to stop driving, trucks to stop trucking, airlines to stop flying.
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Republicans are sounding the alarm about the ballooning debt and suggesting the only way to address it is to cut more programs that benefit the American people. But that raises fundamental questions about the purpose of the U.S. government. What should it do? Whom should it benefit, and why?
For Salam Rashidi, who has come from Germany to fight, the goal of the Peshmerga is simple.
“Our goal is to end the occupation of Kurdistan by the Iranian regime, the occupation they have imposed on the Kurdish people,” Mr Rashidi said. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...
Estonia has already banned hundreds of Russian soldiers who invaded Ukraine from ever entering the country, and has been pressing the EU to do the same for the Schengen area, a passport-free zone covering most of its member states.
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But it’s unclear how events will be assessed for credibility or how and if claims will be verified in the context of real-time reporting.
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5/ Untreated fever during pregnancy is linked to miscarriage, birth defects, and premature birth. Withholding acetaminophen based on an unsupported claim can put patients at serious risk.
8/ 3️⃣ The risk signals you’re hearing about are small, inconsistent, and likely explained by confounding factors. The risks of untreated high fever in pregnancy are clear
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Traces of Texas reader Gary Wood was nice enough to forward this amazing photo of 14 month old Jean Ann Evans napping on the saddle horn of a horse with her mother Billie Anne Evans on the set of the film "Giant" in Marfa. It was taken in July, 1955.
Thank you, Gary. Awesome shot!
The City of Austin once envisioned holding its elected officials and employees to a high standard by requiring written records be kept concerning their interactions with lobbyists paid to influence their decisions.
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This is a billionaire’s war, waged at everyone else’s expense.
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