Deborah G Johnson (Deborah J Griest)

Wildfire Fighters, Unmasked in Toxic Smoke, Are Getting Sick and Dying

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/17/u...

“Staggering” Water Loss Driven by Groundwater Mining Poses Global Threat A new study finds that freshwater resources are rapidly disappearing, creating arid “mega” regions and causing sea levels to rise.

I had no idea things were this bad.....take time to read how things have changed just in the last decade!

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Opinion | This Isn’t the Donald Trump America Elected He is making us a corrupted, brittle superpower.

This Isn't the Donald Trump America Elected www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/o...

Millions Will See This Super Bowl Ad. Health Experts (and Two Senators) Aren’t Pleased. (Gift Article) The spot makes lofty claims about weight-loss drugs offered by the telehealth company Hims & Hers, but says little about risks.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. The readers' comments are also enlightening. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/w...

Exclusive | DOGE Aides Search Medicare Agency Payment Systems for Fraud Elon Musk’s allies have been on site at Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services offices this week.

Musk's latest power grab: your Medicare benefits.

Elon - you're looking in the wrong place. Private insurers in Medicare Advantage overcharged taxpayers by at least $83 billion in 2024 alone.

Remember the federal funding freeze that the Trump admin realized was illegal? The one they supposedly rescinded?

Well, Community Health Centers can’t access their funding anyways. @kaine.senate.gov and I are pushing for answers before rural communities lose access to health care.

It’s a huge threat to your privacy and national security to let unvetted DOGE bros paw through government payments and Americans’ bank account numbers.

I’m leading Intel Committee members to press directly on the White House about this absurd overreach.

Opinion | The Courts Must Stop This Judge From Stealing an Election (Gift Article) North Carolinians — all Americans — should be watching closely to ensure that justice is done.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/o...

COVID-19-causing virus linked to coronary plaque progression, risk for MI, death SARS-CoV-2 infection was associated with more rapid coronary plaque progression and significantly increased risk for adverse outcomes related to target lesion failure, such as heart attack and death, ...

We're still learning more about COVID's long-term effects - keep up with your vaccinations. You do NOT want to catch it. www.healio.com/news/cardiol...

Opinion | Musk? Trump? Who Exactly Is Running the Federal Government? (Gift Article) What should be an uncomplicated question yields a complicated answer.

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“Thomas Shedd, a former Tesla engineer who has been tapped to lead a technology team at G.S.A., told some staff members that he hoped to put all federal contracts into a centralized system so they could be analyzed by artificial intelligence”

Read this. But not on a full stomach and not before bed (you won't feel hungry or be able to sleep, anyway).

@insidewithpsaki.msnbc.com Great show today as always - you and your guests give me hope to carry on, trite though that sounds. Rep. Raskin’s interview was reassuring.

If this isn't enough to freak everybody the fuck out, I do not know what else will.

Doctors Whose Licenses Were Revoked, Suspended Named In Pro-RFK Jr. Letter To Senate The letter was meant to lend credibility to Kennedy’s nomination, which has faced strenuous opposition from experts due to his decades of anti-vaccine activism.

"A letter submitted to the Senate sent by 'physicians' in support of Kennedy's nomination includes names of doctors who have had their licenses revoked, suspended or faced other discipline, the AP has found..."

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Dead bird at Lake Julian Park tests positive for avian flu - Asheville's 828 News NOW Preliminary tests show a bird at Lake Julian Park had avian influenza H5N1

Nobody is paying attention to things like this because the CDC no longer communicates. The current occupant of the White House broke government. He broke the ability to keep America safe. This is spreading, and this administration plans to pretend it doesn't exist.
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I’m going to put my rich guy hat on and say I hope that Mexico and Canada issue equal, retaliatory tariffs and stick to them for an extended period.

I apologize to all the people it will cost money and the businesses it will hurt.

But it’s the only way for tariffs to be seen for what they are

Rev. Benjamin Cremer - If your Christianity causes you to be offended by someone asking the most powerful person in the country to be merciful towards the powerless, then you have deeply, deeply misunderstood the teachings of Jesus Christ.

Mika Brzezinski: I knew and admired Cecile Richards. It's time to follow her lead. The news of her death was discouraging to the point of despair. And yet, upon further reflection, I realized quickly that Cecile’s life should guide us.

“Cecile’s struggle with her speech, her difficulty walking, and her perseverance through it all should lift us up through the next four years and beyond.”

@morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social & @knowyourvalue.bsky.social’s Mika Brzezinski honors Cecile Richards.

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