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we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

Renee Macklin Good’s wife says she ‘nurtured kindness’ On Wednesday, Renee Macklin Good was fatally shot by a federal ICE agent. Becca Good, her wife, shared the following statement with MPR News.

On Wednesday, Renee Macklin Good was fatally shot by a federal ICE agent. Becca Good, her wife, shared the following statement with MPR News.

It's supposed to be payday for many federal workers. Instead, they're getting nothing Roughly 1.4 million federal workers are going without pay due to the government shutdown. About half of them are furloughed, while the other half has been deemed essential and is working without pay.

Roughly 1.4 million federal workers are going without pay due to the government shutdown. About half of them are furloughed, while the other half has been deemed essential and is working without pay.

My husband is a bird biologist & says it’s likely a bird (maybe an owl) trying to perch on top of the camera. If there’s a light nearby the bird may be trying to perch & grab insects attracted to the light. A young, inexperienced bird is likely.

Senate is back in session today.

1/ So a quick 🧵on where things are at on the shutdown.

You get a lot of propaganda and spin thrown at you, so I want to give you the real, behind-the-scenes tea.

Republicans don’t need a single democratic vote to fund their regime. Here’s why. Please share widely.

Hi, immunologist here:

(a scientist who studies immune & inflammatory processes)

RFK Jr is talking absolute bullshit when he says he can “see in kids faces that they have inflammation”

That’s NOT how immunology works.

He is an anti-science profiteer.
Start calling him such.

YouTube video by Aaron Parnas Jeffrey Epstein Survivor Jess Michaels Speaks Out. Share Her Story.

Jess Michaels is a victim of Jeffrey Epstein's. Today, she spoke out.

This is a story that should be on every newspaper's front page.

Please share it. Spread the word. Hear her voice. youtu.be/ED0G5fTvF4I

Trump vs. Birds: Proposed Budget Eliminates Critical Research Programs • The Revelator Experts say there’s “no substitute” for the Bird Banding Laboratory or the Breeding Bird Survey, which help reveal the health and status of avian populations across the country.

The new federal budget wants to eliminate bird banding funding, the one thing that allows scientists to track the health and population of birds across the country.

Birders, rise up! By @rheisman.bsky.social therevelator.org/trump-vs-bir...

“The biggest crybaby in the history of American politics now feels ‘like a warrior.’”

@lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com

Puberty blockers and hormones for cis kids: fine

Mastectomies for cis boys: fine

Puberty blockers for trans kids: ILLEGAL

Mastectomies for trans boys: ILLEGAL

HUGELY Important.

You can avoid it as much as you want. But this is at the root.

If you don’t understand biomedical research, the claim that “fetal tissue” is in vaccines may sound scary.

But it’s a lie.
The reality?

ALL biological research uses cell lines.

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The Trump-Supreme Court battle is not really the crisis.

The crisis is here now. Trump is enacting an insidious coordinated attack on our institutions of democratic accountability, designed to crater democracy before next fall.

1/ A long 🧵to explain the plan & how we stop it.

April 13, 2025 This evening, lawyers for the Department of Justice told a federal court that the administration does not believe it has a legal obligation to return Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia to the United States,...

April 13, 2025

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

As the mom of girl athletes, I know why they attack trans athletes: It’s a way to further marginalize trans girls.

If the issue truly was about girl’s sports, they would first make facilities equally available to girls and fund their uniforms and coaches and buses the same as boys. They don’t.

🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave.

Tell them:
1. Vote NO on Cloture
AND
2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill.

Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it.

TODAY is the showdown.
🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121

@smith.senate.gov @klobuchar.senate.gov
As a constituent, I ask you to vote NO on Cloture AND
NO on the Republican spending bill.

FWS update from multiple sources:

Planning scenario due tomorrow for 10%, 20%, and 40% reductions.

All programs (hatcheries, ecological services, refuges, migratory birds) are expected to be impacted, although maybe at differing levels.

Fire and law enforcement seem to be excluded. (Who knows?)

A friend from the VA just sent this and asked me to share. PMDB is Prevention and Management of Disruptive Behavior in the workplace. THIS is the real war against women: being forced to say there are only 2 genders but not being allowed to mention 96% of violence is perpetrated by men.

One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!

Glad to be away, however brief, from the madness going on in the USA.

To The People I Know Who Voted for Him, To the people I know who voted for him,

To the people I know who voted for him,

You know how I feel about him.

There’s nothing I could say about him that you don’t already know.

But as this next chapter of our nation begins, I just want you to know:

I am going to hold you responsible.

johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/to-the-peo...

A chemical is not the sum of its parts.

Sodium is a metal at room temperature that explodes in water.
Chlorine is gas at room temperature, toxic if inhaled at 400 ppm for 30 min.

Together? They make sodium chloride, a chemical that dissolves in water & is essential for biological processes.

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This is absolutely chilling.

He truly is a sociopath.

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