Elizabeth

Never in the history of the US has any president openly and repeatedly called for the investigation, arrest & prosecution of his political opponents. While many continue to shrug these things off and normalize them, I will never stop pointing out that this is what autocrats do.

Here is a nice fungus! @lukelukeluke.bsky.social

Whenever you hear someone sneer about scientific research that seems useless to them — “they’re studying the spit of lizards?!” — remind them that’s exactly how we got Ozempic.

globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

In our 4 months of existence, @beaconbio.bsky.social has gained active users in 162 countries. Clearly there is a need for a free & open resource that not only raises alarm about new threats but provides context about why it matters. Thank you to all our users!

I just hope I don’t get stuck in Corn Syrup on my way to Urban Housing. 🙃

So, all those Las Vegas weddings are… not blessed? 🙃

… and yet…

YouTube tops the list of the online platforms we asked about in our survey. Nine-in-ten teens report using the site, slightly down from 95% in 2022. TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat remain widely used among teens. Roughly six-in-ten teens say they use TikTok and Instagram, and 55% say the same for Snapchat. Facebook and X use have steeply declined over the past decade. Today, 32% of teens say they use Facebook. This is down from 71% in 2014-15, though the share of teens who use the site has remained stable in recent years. And 17% of teens say they use X (formerly Twitter) – about half the share who said this a decade ago (33%), and down from 23% in 2022. Roughly one-quarter of teens (23%) say they use WhatsApp, up 6 percentage points since 2022. And 14% of teens use Reddit, a share that has remained stable over the past few years. We asked about Threads, launched by parent company Meta in 2023, for the first time this year. Only 6% of teens report using it.

Where the teens are
YouTube 90%
TikTok 63%
Instagram 61%
Snapchat 55%
Facebook 32% (down from 71%)
WhatsApp 23%
X 17% (down from 33%)
Reddit 14%
Threads 6%
report: www.pewresearch.org/internet/202...

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@alsobrooks.senate.gov asks Dr. Monarez what she would say to parents about vaccines to alleviate hesitancy and confusion.

Here is what grandparents say:
Please listen to our own stories about our lived experiences with these awful diseases, then decide.

grandparentsforvaccines.com

Hypocrisy squared

The most wholesome protest I’ve seen in a long time (and I see a lot of actions) and they still got U.S. Capitol Police called on them…

Lee once said: “Democracy is not the objective.” That’s not just a soundbite—it’s his ideology. When you look at his record, it’s clear: Mike Lee wants a government that serves the elite, not the people. #AntiDemocracy #AuthoritarianGOP #MikeLee

Why Are They Hiding Their Faces? If ICE agents' actions are perfectly acceptable, they shouldn't have to mask their identities

We’re watching transparency erode as law enforcement begins to resemble secret police more than public servants. This piece unpacks how we got here, and why it should alarm us all.

Tagging this so I remember to listen to it too!

Few adults (8%) say the false claim that “more people have died from COVID-19 vaccines than have died from the COVID-19 virus” is “definitely true,” but levels of certainty vary widely by partisanship, and an increasing share of Republicans is open to endorsing this false claim. About four in ten adults (43%) recognize this claim as “definitely false,” including one in five Republicans (20%) and more than three times as many Democrats (65%). While most Republicans lean toward this claim being false, four in ten say it is “definitely true” (13%) or “probably true” (27%), an increase from one in four in June 2023, when 7% of Republicans said this was “definitely true” and 18% said it was “probably true.”

40% of Republicans say the COVID-19 vaccine has probably or definitely killed more people than the COVID-19 virus.

I said it would get worse very quickly. By tomorrow we will have completed the most dangerous & frightening 24 hours thus far of Trump 2.0. Just to name a few:
1. Defiance of a court order by sending migrants to Sudan without due process (despite clear DP decision SCOTUS) & Dist. CT. order.

🇺🇲

The state of Georgia is using the body of a brain-dead woman as an incubator. Because she was 9 weeks pregnant when she died, and their abortion ban is from about 6 weeks, they are sustaining her on life support, without input from her family, until 32 weeks of gestation. A true dystopian nightmare.

Uniter
9-year old Teddy

“Recently…RFK Jr. made false comments about autism, like people with autism are broken, that autism caused by vaccines, and that people with autism will never have jobs or families. But that’s not true!

“I have autism & I’m not broken.”
@nj.com, www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjSfAeVL/

Denmark 🇩🇰 sounds nice!

Agency for older adults, people with disabilities to be shuttered under HHS cuts In 2022, the Administration for Community Living provided more than 261 million meals to older adults, assistance such as respite care to more than 1.5 million family caregivers, and independent-livin...

remember what i said about RFK Jr. being a eugenicist first and foremost? www.marketwatch.com/story/agency...

People are taking things into their own hands

Bernie grills Trump’s Social Security commissioner pick about Trump & Elon’s lies about the program that keeps millions of seniors out of poverty. (because they want to privatize it)

WATCH: Project 2025 warned against using apps like SIGNAL to conduct official business👇🏽

Translation: They knew it was illegal and did it anyway - to keep it hidden from records requests.

SIGNAL itself is an underdiscussed part of this scandal. #HegsethGate #WaltzGate

Be like MacKenzie. You know, divorce the jerk, and share with others if you have more than you need.

Over to you @theatlantic.com Offer to publish it since it’s unclassified. See what they say.

For those who celebrate Peeps: this is your reminder to cut open the package so they’ll be nice and stale and crunchy when you’re ready to eat them.