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Just a heads up that 23andMe filed for bankruptcy, and the recommendation is to delete your account. It is unclear who will take over the company next.

TOMORROW: A rare opportunity to hear from a billionaire who isn’t a total loser. Don’t miss @mcuban.bsky.social on the LP Podcast and subscribe to our YouTube here: www.youtube.com/@TheLincolnP...

Dr. Oz: How His Millions Collide With Medicare The TV celebrity and Trump nominee has pledged to divest from most of his financial interests. But they touch nearly every corner of health care, from insurance to blood pressure cuffs and vitamins, l...

When it comes to the head of Medicare and Medicaid (who controls a $1.5 trillion budget!), Americans deserve someone who will make health care decisions in their best interest — not so he and his network can profit.

The Democrats to yell at:

Bennet (CO)
Blumenthal (CT)
Cortez Masto (NV)
Durbin (IL)
Fetterman (PA)
Gallego (AZ)
Hassan (NH)
Heinrich (NM)
Hickenlooper (CO)
Kelly (AZ)
Klobuchar (MN)
Peters (MI)
Reed (RI)
Rosen (NV)
Shaheen (NH)
Warner (VA)

** turns up Taylor Swift **

Not fucking with this bullshit today

The Hot Shower as Uncommon Prayer One of the paradoxes of being alive is that it is often through the extremes of sensation, through the shock of having a body, that we come most proximate to the subtleties of the soul. Walt Whitma…

Because the sacred is often in the simple mirth of the body: the hot shower as a prayer

Soooo... apparently the app is already available BUT before you get it please be advised that this is a version that is a few days old.
I planned on releasing the app tomorrow and wanted to push one last large update tonight. Apparently, Apple just released it based on the pre-sale date 🤯

Elon Musk renewed his threat to fire federal workers who do not comply with his demand to justify their jobs, even after the Trump administration said workers did not have to respond reut.rs/3EQzMNz

Google Maps has officially changed the name of the Gulf of Mexico to "Gulf of America" after Trump's executive order. And a new Republican bill would let Trump rename Greenland "Red, White and Blueland." Still no word on lowering the cost of groceries, however.

Trump wants to dismantle the agency that provides weather forecasts. It will make your life worse The Trump administration and Elon Musk are reportedly taking aim at NOAA, the agency responsible for the National Weather Service and many other crucial functions.

Utter nightmare with the dismantling of NOAA.

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Samuel L. Jackson makes an appearance during Kendrick Lamar's halftime show 👀

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Saul Bellow’s Spectacular Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech on How Art and Literature Ennoble the Human Spirit “It may be more difficult to reach the whirling mind of a modern reader but it is possible to cut through the noise and reach the quiet zone. In the quiet zone we may find that he is devoutly…

"Only art penetrates... the seeming realities of this world. There is another reality, the genuine one, which we lose sight of. This other reality is always sending us hints, which without art, we can’t receive."

This is such a wonderful read:

Drake can never recover from the whole Super Bowl crowd cheering for not like us

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The visuals… #SuperBowl

Drake lost that beef worse than the Chiefs lost the first half

Having your biggest hater call you a pedophile at the Super Bowl halftime show has got to be pretty depressing.

someone check on Drake rn lol wow #KendrickLamar 🔥

LeBron James is the 2nd player in NBA history to score 40+ PTS at age 40 🤯

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 02/06/25 NCAA Reverses Course Thanks to President Trump's Bold Action A day after President Donald J. Trump signed an executive order protecting fairness and dignity in women's sports, the NCAA — the largest college sports organization in North America - announced it will "limit competition in women's sports to student-athletes assigned female at birth only." Promises made, promises kept.

Great fucking job, @ncaa.bsky.social. You're now a part of Donald Trump's anti-trans hate machine seeking to push trans people out of public life and make their lives as difficult as possible. Charlie Baker, this is on you.

Re-upping this. We need experts in media literacy & stewards of the freedom to read now more than ever.

C.D.C. Posts, Then Deletes, Data on Bird Flu Spread Between Cats and People The data, which appeared fleetingly online on Wednesday, confirmed transmission in two households. Scientists called on the agency to release the full report.

Wow. So not only were several bird flu studies left out of today’s CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, some data on bird flu briefly appeared in the online report and then was quickly removed.

If you found your way here through the TechCrunch article—welcome, and thanks for your interest in Flashes!

The TestFlight beta is currently paused due to technical issues (Apple’s words—I’m in contact with them) but will be back soon.

Stay tuned!

Oppressors try to erase history so that they can repeat it.

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Elon Musk’s DOGE is feeding sensitive federal data into AI to target cuts U.S. DOGE Service workers embedded in the Education Department have been processing sensitive agency data using artificial intelligence.

"Representatives from Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service have fed sensitive data from across the Education Department into artificial intelligence software to probe the agency’s programs and spending, according to two people with knowledge of the DOGE team’s actions." www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

5 Calls Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.

Call your Senators and Congresspeople and tell them to vote a flat “no” on any assistance or cooperation with the Trump administration until the criminal conduct stops.

This site makes it super easy. 5calls.org

Department of Defense cancels National Native American Heritage Month American Indians and Alaska Natives serve in the military at the highest rates per capita of any group but celebrations of their contributions are being erased by the Trump administration.

Native people serve in the military at a higher rate than any other racial or ethnic group.

The Defense Department will not celebrate Native American Heritage month this year.

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The Lost Words: An Illustrated Dictionary of Poetic Spells Reclaiming the Language of Nature From acorn to wren, a vibrant encyclopedia of enchantments reweaving our broken web of belonging with the rest of nature.

When the Oxford children's dictionary discarded dozens of nature-words—"dandelion," "fern," "starling"—as irrelevant to children's imagination and replaced them with words like "broadband" and "cut-and-paste," this inspired act of resistance was born: https://www.themarginalian.org/2019/06/17/the-l…

The world’s richest man appears to be dismantling the government with an eye toward consolidating power and punishing his political enemies, Charlie Warzel writes. Will it work? theatln.tc/1hEuswrF