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Recall Alert: Celsius Energy Drinks Found To Contain High Noon Vodka Seltzer The FDA announced a recall of High Noon variety packs that contain cans of Celsius Astro Vibe Energy Drink filled with the alcoholic vodka seltzer. High Noon advises anyone with cans of Celsius Astro ...

OMG! This isn't from the Onion.

Researchers say moms and babies are ‘going to get hurt’ by federal pregnancy data team cuts • Michigan Advance In the remote villages of Alaska where social worker Laura Norton-Cruz works to improve maternal and infant health, there are no hospitals. Pregnant patients, almost all of whom are Alaska Native, oft...

Researchers say moms and babies are ‘going to get hurt’ by federal pregnancy data team cuts michiganadvance.com/2025/04/24/r...

UChicago Giving Day

Give a damn, give a dollar! UChicago Giving Day! #UChiGivingDay

Michigan legislator says she underwent sterilization to avoid pregnancy during Trump presidency • Michigan Advance Michigan state Rep. Laurie Pohutsky (D-Livonia) said Wednesday that she underwent surgery earlier this year to become voluntarily sterile out of fear for the future of reproductive health care access ...

“If you know people who are questioning how serious this is, I’m going to repeat myself: A sitting government official opted for voluntary sterilization because she was uncertain she would be able to access contraception in the future.”

How a Monument to Women Finally Won a Place on the National Mall The Women’s Suffrage National Monument, which will be the Mall’s first dedicated to women’s history, overcame congressional and other roadblocks.

Three cheers!

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Pasadena Teenager Starts Donation Drive to Help Girls Affected by California Wildfires (Gift Article) An eighth grader started a donation drive for teenagers whose homes burned in Los Angeles. Ariana Grande, Prince Harry, Meghan and others have chipped in.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/s...

Richard Hays, 76, Dies; Theologian Who Had Stunning Change of Heart (Gift Article) He released a thunderclap into the evangelical world by asserting that a deeper reading of the Bible revealed that same-sex relationships are not sinful.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/12/u...

What does it say about us and our country that we chose a person whom we knew would be the first convicted felon to be sworn in as president?
#losers

Wendy Freedman awarded National Medal of Science UChicago cosmologist honored for pioneering research on Hubble constant

Three cheers!

Opinion | The Trump Administration May Find It Can’t Do Without Diversity (Gift Article) Diversity was a virtue in the Biden administration. The Trump administration may discover the same thing.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/04/o...

I hate to give the NYT any credit with their recent antics, but this is an excellent article, if only because it includes very little commentary and mostly just shares the data.

Most interesting to me is the fact that adverse childhood home conditions appear to affect boys worse than girls.

Thank you!

U.S. women are outpacing men in college completion, including in every major racial and ethnic group Today, 47% of U.S. women ages 25 to 34 have a bachelor’s degree, compared with 37% of men.

U.S. women are outpacing men in college completion, including in every major racial and ethnic group, according to Pew

Every storm runs out of rain.

—unknown

Haiku for you:

Woods in November
Deep crunches, long leaf-piled path
That scent of slow death