Shirley Luckhart

Live updates: Federal vaccine advisors say not all babies need a hepatitis B shot at birth A federal vaccine advisory committee voted Friday to end a longstanding recommendation that all U.S. babies get the hepatitis B vaccine on the day they’re born.

This is being reported as matter of fact, ho hum news, parents rights uber alles. But this anti-science propaganda is extremely alarming and dangerous, and flies in the face of literally hundreds of studies that have shown both safety and efficacy of this vaccine. The result? Needless deaths.

BREAKING: WELL, WELL, WELL! Newly unearthed footage shows Pete Hegseth saying EXACTLY what the six Democrats said in their video that prompted Trump and Hegseth to hysterically smear them as traitors!
You must refuse illegal orders.

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He knows the best chips.

Lane Kiffin is a money-grubbing asshole. But then again, we’ve known this for a long time. If you think he won’t do this to you, LSU, you’re deluding yourself.

I didn't think that was possible but here we are...

We went from a country that defended others from being invaded for their natural resources, to a country that is now threatening to invade others for their natural resources.

Systems of governance are only as good as the people you elect to uphold them.

Nope.

Depressing late Friday holiday news dump: Northwestern agrees to pay $75 million to the federal government.

The faculty vote against doing this, @heidikitrosser.bsky.social points out, was 595-4.

That's the kind of margin where going the other way reflects a major failure of university governance.

'Uh oh': Market crash fears grow as pro-Trump billionaire dumps major stock Venture capitalist and supporter of President Donald Trump Peter Thiel became the latest billionaire to sell off all of his stock in the tech company Nvidia, according to new reporting Monday, sparkin...

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“Fears that the U.S. market could be entirely dependent on an AI bubble have increased in recent months…. Those fears only increased after reporting revealed that AI investment now makes up about a third of the value of the entire stock market….”

Yes.

We didn’t have dirt bikes per se. Only old beat up, hand me down Schwinns 🤣

Sounds like a dream.

We built forts out of anything we could find. We dared each other to do crazy stunts on playground equipment. It was the best. The only rule was “be home before dinner.”

The front page of today’s @nydailynews.com.

Idaho bought this one. Lock, stock, and barrel.

This is really good to see: Miki Sherrill just put out a statement sharply criticizing the Senate Dems' pending cave in the government shutdown, ripping it as "malpractice" and a betrayal of the people who are "counting on us to fight for them." Sherrill knows what drove her victory. Wake up, Dems.

The cruelty isn’t “part” of the policy, it IS the policy. So are fear and chaos. This is all designed to suppress dissent and consolidate power.

Prove to us you are not guilty...I dare you...

Virome profiling of Culex tarsalis through small RNA-seq: A challenge of suboptimal samples Author summary Mosquitoes are capable of transmitting pathogenic viruses to humans and other vertebrate hosts during feeding. However, they can also carry viruses that infect only mosquitoes, which ar...

New work published today from the RasgonLab! The first thesis chapter from @zureishon.bsky.social!

Project highlights some of the difficulties we had with sample collection during the early days of COVID

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Yep, STFU you obsequious idiot.

From the Florida Phoenix. Yes, really.

“…DeSantis also created a state-level DOGE to audit state universities and local govts to search for waste, fraud, and abuse. That torch has been taken up by the CFO, who’s unofficially renamed the task force the Florida Agency for Fiscal Oversight, or FAFO.”

You don’t have to work to deserve to eat.
You don’t have to be a citizen to deserve to eat.
You don’t have to have a qualifying medical condition to deserve to eat.

You deserve to eat because you’re a human being deserving of care, compassion, and dignity.

Of course they do.

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 85th day out of the last 97.

12 days of work in over 3 months.

With full pay and benefits.

The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.

It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

A tweet from the Anonymous account says, “Make sure the dude in the frog costume in Portland knows he's an icon.” The image is a stylized poster of a frog wearing a stars-and-stripes scarf with the word “HOP” below, in the style of the Obama “HOPE” poster.

You gotta give ‘em hop.

Trump says he's open to health care deal but government must reopen first President Donald Trump cracked the door slightly to negotiations with Democrats on the health care subsidies they’ve made central to the shutdown fight, then abruptly closed it Monday, leaving the two...

It’s working. DON’T BACK DOWN.

Dear campus bookstores, No one looks good in the thin, all poly shirts and they stink when you sweat. The no-care benefit does not outweigh these things. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

A mss review due Fri that opened to “expired link,” I happily assumed they had enough reviews. I review a good bit, so I replied to the editor I’d be out of the office. Multiple auto emails to update my login (which is fine). AI is another reason why publishing and reviewing are just so hard now.

This whole thing feels to me like retribution from the people who were so deep into D&D, their dorm rooms looked like black holes, and they were shunned.