8/ Finally, I wanted to share a Halloween safety tip. Remember that traffic accidents, including those involving pedestrians, are the leading Halloween-related harms. Common sense–carrying glow sticks or flashlights, and driving with extra care–is the best way to celebrate safely!

Screenshot of a New York Times article titled “Covid and Flu Can Triple Your Risk of Heart Attack.” The subheading reads, “A new analysis adds to the research about the link between viral infections and heart disease.” Below, a photo shows a person sitting indoors wearing a dark shirt and grey cardigan, clutching their chest with one hand and raising the other toward their mouth, suggesting chest discomfort.

Covid and Flu Can Triple Your Risk of Heart Attack

Heart attack risk triples within weeks after a COVID-19 infection and quadruples within a month after a flu infection, per a large review and analysis published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Heart Association.

Source: archive.li/kbL8w

What would Jesus do? Flipping over tables and chasing people with whips was a possibility

Start breaking some tables, JC. Your groupies obviously don't get the message.
TnT

This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

In Virginia, the governor and attorney general races are especially important. In Pennsylvania, remember to vote YES on the retention of the Supreme Court justices on the ballot. In California, vote YES on Proposition 50.

We need more at-home clinical trials for Long COVID. Here’s how we designed the largest one yet. - The Sick Times We are now recruiting for the Long COVID Treatment Trial-Tirzepatide (LoCITT-T), which participants can complete entirely from bed.

On our #LongCovid clinical trial launched today!
thesicktimes.org/2025/10/30/w... @julialmv.bsky.social @scripps.edu

Brb just writing a screenplay about a struggling inflatable costume factory in a wholesome but dying American small town that unexpectedly helps save democracy, and democracy saves it right back.

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“The Purdue student newspaper owns its own presses” is the sound of engines revving

B&N has dropped their Best Books of 2025 list with 2.5 months left in the year so here's your reminder that "best" is arbitrary, time is a construct, and there are still a ton of good books coming out that shouldn't be ignored just because the credits are rolling early

LAPD wants judge to lift an order restricting use of force against the press The police department filed an emergency order ahead of this Saturday's No Kings protest.

“LAPD wants judge to lift an order restricting use of force against the press” 😭😭😭

“Ahead of this Saturday’s No Kings protests, the Los Angeles Police Department has filed an emergency motion asking a judge to lift an injunction that restricts their use of force against the press.”

If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."

When conservatives say “autism” we have to understand they’re functionally using a different definition from scientists, psychologists, academics and autistic people themselves.

This makes it possible for them to target the most vulnerable autistics while pretending Elon Musk is just eccentric.

Armed Guards and Muscle Milk: Senate Investigation Reveals DOGE Takeover Details A new Senate report claims DOGE put every American's Social Security number at risk—and that officials at federal agencies essentially obstructed an investigation, all but denying DOGE even exists.

A new senate report is full of *shocking* details about DOGE activities inside the federal government. Including, unfortunately, the disturbing access that DOGE affiliates had to our SSNs:

"One whistleblower noted the possibility that the agency may need to re-issue SSNs to all who possess one."

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Frontiers | Upper respiratory tract immunization with Pam2Cys-adjuvanted spike protein vaccine achieves sterilizing protection against SARS-CoV-2 Injected COVID-19 vaccines protect against severe disease, but do not induce robust mucosal immune responses. Nasal vaccines offer the advantage of local imm...

Upper respiratory tract immunization with Pam2Cys-adjuvanted spike protein vaccine achieves sterilizing protection against SARS-CoV-2

Published: 02 September 2025

www.frontiersin.org/journals/imm...

- you clean up that banksy?
- sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked

The professor has been fired and senior administrators removed from their post. No mention of this in the New York Times, The Free Press, The Atlantic or other outlets who drove the campus speech moral panic.

Transmission is High or Very High in 23 states and territories, spreading from the South and West toward other regions.

This image is a data summary of National COVID-19 Estimates in the U.S. from pmc19.com/data. Infections Proportion Actively Infectious: 1 in 56 people (1.8%) New Daily Infections: 876,000 Infections in the Past Week: 6,040,000 Infections in 2025: 153,000,000 Cumulative Infections per Person: 4.57 Long COVID Long COVID Cases from New Daily Infections: 44,000 – 175,000 Long COVID Cases from New Weekly Infections: 302,000 – 1,210,000 Excess Deaths Excess Deaths from New Daily Infections: 250 – 420 Excess Deaths from New Weekly Infections: 1,700 – 2,900 Notes The CDC update indicates the cumulative average infection count has reached 4.57 infections per person nationwide, though with variation across individuals. The U.S. sees about 6 million new infections per week, which are expected to result in over 300,000 new Long COVID cases and more than 1,700 excess deaths weekly.

US Weekly COVID update: Sep 1, 2025

🔸1 in 56 Actively Infectious
🔸876,000 New Daily Infections
🔸6,040,000 Infections In The Past Week
🔸153,000,000 Infections in 2025
🔸302,000 to 1,210,000 Weekly Long COVID Cases
🔸1,700 to 2,900 Weekly Deaths

Source: pmc19.com/data/

Over 1,000 anti-trans articles are published each month by British media, all with the excuse of ‘protecting women & girls’.

Imagine if they covered the systemic violence of cis straight men against women & girls, as much.

They don’t. But then again, the owners of the media are cis straight men.

This is the way

I really hate the term "sideloading". I preferred the original term, which was "installing software on a computer that you own"

On Friday night, a man was actually arrested for leaving chalk footprints at the memorial. A judge later threw out the charges for lack of probable cause, the state is deploying police to prevent grieving communities from drawing rainbows in chalk.

An Image of RFK, Jr. and Nisha Patel, MD, MS - UC San Diego RFK, Jr claims he can see 'mitochondrial challenges' when he walks through airports by simply looking at them. Dr. Patel clarifis that mitochondria are microscopic and cannot be seen by glaring at a child in an airport and insists that the real crises for our kids is gun violence, food insecurity and lack of healthcare..

Gov. Pritzker signs new laws aiming to shield providers of abortion meds, ban ticketing in schools Gov. JB Pritzker signed the final two bills from the spring session Friday, giving his approval to more than 430 bills approved by lawmakers this year.

Gov. Pritzker signed a bill that requires Illinois colleges and universities to provide students access to contraception and abortion medications at campus pharmacies starting this school year. This win deserves an extra shout because the bill was an initiative from University of Illinois students!

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The Handmaid's Tale among more than 200 books to be pulled at Edmonton public schools | CBC News A list confirmed by CBC News shows titles like The Handmaid's Tale and Brave New World are among books to be pulled. The development comes after a policy from Alberta's education minister outlines new...

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