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Jerry the mouse crying meme

getting emotional watching the Jonas brothers and Demi sing “this is me” like yes girl you really had a full circle moment

Former TV reporter was using wheelchair when her ‘body started crashing’ with long Covid Joy Reid says her mojo is returning, but her brain’s still not as sharp as it was.

New Zealand former TV reporter Joy Reid says she’s about 90% recovered after a 2½ year battle with long Covid.

Through gradual rehab and brain-body retraining, she’s regained a fulfilling life but can’t yet return to journalism.

www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3607...

The Underrated Pleasures of Eating Dinner Early Late dinner, sexy and recherché, has its acolytes. But, despite its connotations of denture-friendly fare and penny-pinching, early dinner is the most decadent meal there is.

An ode to eating dinner as early as possible.

The Social Validity of Behavioral Interventions: Seeking Input from Autistic Adults - Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders Many in the autistic community have expressed concerns regarding the use of behavioral interventions with autistic children, suggesting that these interventions may not be socially valid. Though behav...

Is it even possible to reform ABA therapy? Still skeptical but this is better than nothing:

"Comparison between naturalistic and structured intervention components additionally showed that autistic participants favored naturalistic strategies."

link.springer.com/article/10.1... #BetterWaysThanABA

By "they" Lee Zeldin of course means "former Republican EPA Heads"
insideclimatenews.org/news/1206201...

Jeanine Pirro: "I'm tired of hearing that crime is down."

Shit about to pop off in DC

Wes Moore on Fox & Friends: "Our National Guards are not trained for this ... we know the missions that they are trained for. Municipal policing is not one of them. If we want to be serious about making people safe, let's actually do the things that make people safe."

Avoiding Ableist Language: Suggestions for Autism Researchers - PubMed <span><b>Why is this topic important?:</b> In the past, autism research has mostly been conducted by nonautistic people, and researchers have described autism as something bad that should be fixed. De...

How can our researchers avoid smacking down the autistic people they write about? Dr. @kbottemabeutel.bsky.social
has evidence-based advice, as, “Despite recent positive changes in how researchers write and speak about autism, ‘ableist’ language is still used.”

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36601265/

Friends,
Whatever our individual opinions and disagreements, we must all hold on to the truth. It is the most important thing of all.
I feel it slipping away.
Do not let the light of truth go out. Not in our time.
Atticus

Revisiting Hitler’s Final Days in the Bunker We find the downfall of a dictator comforting, but the story is not that simple.

The spectacle of a power-hungry narcissist receiving his comeuppance is irresistible—and it has played out innumerable times in history and fiction—but the reality is rarely that simple.

Kids need freedom. Dangerous roads make it hard to grant it. Bigger cars, distracted drivers and worried parents mean fewer kids are roaming freely.

The number of children injured or killed by cars while walking or riding a bike has fallen steadily since the 1970s, but CDC researcher note that this decline is not because streets are safer, but because fewer kids are out and about in the first place.

‘Help me, please!’

Plainclothes “ICE” agents snatch a man outside Los Angeles’ largest courthouse on Wednesday. A tactic that has been repeatedly condemned by the legal community.

Painful to watch. Even more painful knowing there are people who not only accept this, are happy about it.

The movie The Purge, but only super-rich people are allowed to commit crimes and get away with it, and it’s every day… and I’m just describing our country right now… never mind.

Trying to understand how & why state employees are getting laid off… a few months ago, I saw many states were offering fired federal workers to come apply at the state level =(

This former model, with no background in history, has been put in charge of curating what is "appropriate" at the National Museum of African American History.

Instagram has a new(ish) feature where you can see view counts for every post & reel on the grid, which has reaffirmed for me that if you're promoting a thing (or, ahem, running for office), go wild. It'll feel like you're repeating yourself, but most ppl don't see most stuff you put out there.

We’re in the phase where Americans, press included, should be considering all news originating with the government as propaganda first. Its institutional tendency is to evade good-faith dialogue with the public.

New Zealand woman and six-year-old son detained for three weeks by Ice in US enduring ‘terrifying’ ordeal Sarah Shaw, who has a US visa and lives in Washington state, was detained after attempting to re-enter US from Canada

This is appalling. Civilized countries look at us and are rightly horrified that this idiocy and cruelty is sanctioned by--encouraged by--our government.

(I originally wrote "Other civilized countries look at us..." But do we any longer count in their ranks?)

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

After CDC shooting, its employees turn their anger to RFK Jr. and Trump Documents from the shooter’s home showed his discontent with coronavirus vaccines, authorities said. CDC workers want RFK Jr. to denounce vaccine misinformation.

Breaking news: CDC shooter expressed discontent with coronavirus vaccines before firing hundreds of bullets at headquarters Friday, officials say.

This Hollywood composer is bringing people on the autism spectrum together through bluegrass Spectrum Bluegrass is a new group dedicated to connecting neurodiverse people through guitars, banjos and mandolins.

"I’d love to look back in 10 years and go, ‘Hey, you know, there’s this many hundreds or this many thousands of people on the spectrum who had a great time playing bluegrass and just clocked in a lot of beautiful hours of feeling good.”

CN for some patronizing language:

laist.com/news/los-ang...

A Giant Indian Drugmaker Failed to Fix Safety Breaches. The FDA Let It Off the Hook Again and Again. Documents obtained by ProPublica offer a rare glimpse into discussions between the global drugmaker Sun Pharma and the FDA, exposing how the agency tolerated substandard manufacturing for years.

For eight years, FDA inspectors discovered problems again and again at a Sun Pharma factory in India, but the agency did little to warn the public or stop the drugs from coming to the United States.

In writing a detective with autism, a novelist investigated herself Speaking to The Post about her new cozy mystery, “The Dead Come to Stay,” Brandy Schillace explains how her Jo Jones novels helped her come out as autistic.

“I decided to rewrite the character intentionally autistic, and to have her claim her autism. […] in order to do that, I decided I needed to come out as autistic myself first.” @bschillace.brandyschillace.com discusses her fab new novel, The Dead Come to Stay:

www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...

The idea of “lunch and learn” is bullshit. You want my lunch hour dedicated to additional work related items outside of normal work hours. No. I will take my lunch time to tend to personal needs even if that only includes not thinking about work for a fraction on my day.

Even if crime in DC weren't at historic lows, a military occupation is still bad.

Here’s a video from the last trip I took to DC in June. Middle of a Saturday. It was terrifying, they were doing some king of Satanic ritual in DuPont Circle

Automatic detection of persistent physiological changes after COVID infection via wearable devices with potential for long COVID management - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Automatic detection of persistent physiological changes after COVID infection via wearable devices with potential for long COVID management

US study of over 12,000 military personnel found wearable devices detected persistent heart rate and HRV changes in 9.4% of COVID-positive cases, offering an objective way to spot potential Long COVID effects weeks after infection.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

hear me out here, what if none of it is a 'distraction' and they're just doing a lot of horrible shit simultaneously

The Rebranding of MDMA Ecstasy used to be known as Therapy. What kind of a drug is it going to be now?

Many people still think of MDMA as a chemical that makes you feel good when you go out dancing all night long. But what if its greatest power is an ability to inspire empathetic conversations?