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Found these pretty little puffs in my yard

Agree. Also no reason for people to survive but suffer long-term, devastating effects like muscle weakness, damaged heart, broken bones, or paralysis.

Most people of child-bearing age in the US know little about the devastating effects of vaccine-preventable diseases.

Using AI to repurpose existing drugs for treatment of rare diseases — Harvard Gazette Identifies possible therapies for thousands of diseases, including ones with no current treatments.

Yes!! Those are the most exciting applications of AI. My favorite, actually, is its use to discover medications for rare diseases that people are ignoring because they wouldn’t be profitable.

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A nuclear bomb. I heard from a guy (who also recommends injecting bleach for COVID) that they can stop the hurricane 💣

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Snippet of article quoting Justice Thomas arguing that ideology affected the advice of experts who testified before SCOTUS re treating gender dysphoria

The absurdity of this would be funny if this weren’t all so real.

I exist because of the rapture. Mom’s mom agreed to a wedding date for my folks because she thought the rapture would happen before that date 🤣

French First Lady Brigitte Macron Will Present Court with Photographic and Scientific Evidence That Proves She's a Woman As part of Brigitte and Emmanuel Macron's ongoing lawsuit against right-wing podcaster Candace Owens, the French first lady plans to present evidence in court proving that she is a woman

I look forward to a time when this would be a non-issue because people aren’t obsessed with strangers genitals.

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What's happening with Jimmy Kimmel is about politics and power.

A powerful story of creating the world we want to live in.

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10 Tips For Making The Most Impact When You Call Congress Here are 10 tips for calling Congress, to ensure your message is heard.

The misnamed “Stop Illegal Immigration Act” will not deter migrants fleeing danger. It will only continue the racist scapegoating of brown people and destroy more lives.

Please call your senators to make sure it has no chance of passing!

#democracy #resist

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Everyone can contribute something to the fight, but because certain actions tend to get all the coverage, it can be easy to feel shut out. So here's a thread of ways to help that do NOT include:
Going anywhere
Calling anyone
Writing anything
If you want to help, we want your help. Let's go....

UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital nurses vote to unionize A majority of about 700 nurses at UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital have voted to unionize with SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania, the union announced Sunday. Ballots were counted late Saturday following voting t...

Congratulations to the nurses at UPMC Magee Hospital on their victory. Health care workers across the country are unionizing to fight for better care for all of us.

Magee must respect the results of the election and begin bargaining for a fair contract immediately.

My forest time growing chamomile, and its harvest time. I love the tea but hadn’t seen the tiny flowers before!

Oh Geez. I hope it doesn’t come to that. I still want to believe that the Dems will give us a good candidate 😞

Will definitely be using this. Great way to make an important point 🤣

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

The Enshittification of American Power First Google and Facebook, then the world. Under Trump 2.0, US statecraft is starting to mimic the worst tendencies of Big Tech.

I don’t love what’s happening to my country, but I do love when someone captures it with the perfect sentence:

“Ever since Trump retook office in January, rapid enshittification has become the organizing principle of US statecraft.”

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Not at all a coincidence that this type of clean-energy comms - which presents a positive case in forceful terms rather than trying to dance around the issue - is coming almost exclusively from non-US firms. The comparison tells us a lot about why the IRA failed. More below:

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YouTube video by Side With Love UU Climate Justice Revival Commissioned Song: Part of It

Gonna be listening to this on repeat. I love Lea Morris harmonies 🎶🎤

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When I was a kid, we reached a point where we would say “Dad, in 25 words or less … [fill in with whatever question]” 😁

Decades later, Karen de Boer still remembers a kind gesture from her college hallmate As a college freshman, Karen de Boer was sometimes inconsiderate to her hallmate, Pam. So when Karen missed the bus to her choir performance, she was surprised — and moved — when Pam came to her rescu...

The echoes of kindness ripple through time

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Bethesda Declaration — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE Support NIH Staff Now!

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Why, in the middle of an historic drug abuse and mental health crisis, would we cut funding for drug abuse and mental health services!?

I’d like to hear his response to any and all concerns voiced by NIH scientists in The Bethesda Declaration, especially 1. wasting taxpayer dollars by cutting projects that are nearly complete, and 2. circumventing the peer review process for new projects. Sure seems like both hubris and corruption.

Rescinding the Definition of “Harm” Under the Endangered Species Act The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) (collectively referred to as the Services or we) are proposing to rescind the regulatory definition of "harm" ...

The US FWS wants to remove habitat modification or degradation from the definition of “harm” under the Endangered Species Act. 🤦 There’s one more day for public comment:

#conservation #resist

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Since by far most of the Palestinian people were not old enough to vote the last time an election was held in Gaza 2006, how can to defend killing them for what Hamas is doing? It seems to me the people in Gaza are both being held hostage by Hamas and slaughtered by Israel.

@oregonstate.edu continues to stand by its values of inclusion and academic freedom and defending our ability as a society to continue making scientific progress. So proud to be a Beaver!

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What an incredible book! 📖 I love the way you don’t shy away from the ugliness of the disease or the societal issues that perpetuate it while simultaneously showing that we can fix this, all while keeping me hanging on to learn the next chapter in Henry’s story. Wow!