Yash Rana with a computer screen that has the typed words: "To be a Good Egg: Mitochondria Transport and Female Fertility"; ticking clock in the corner

Applied physics PhD candidate Yash Rana uncovers a hidden culprit of fertility decline: dysfunction of mitochondria, the cell's powerhouse.

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🗽A well informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny. Throughout history, Americans have faced corruption, injustice, and authoritarian overreach. And every time, we fought back.

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An unintended byproduct of ICE rounding up migrant workers: ALL of the fruit and vegetables we bought recently has gone -rapidly moldy- in under a week &1/2. If all our food sources are compromised by shows of force, & our food is compromised by rot and bacteria, what does that mean for us?

YouTube video by Robert Reich The Trump-Putin Axis of A**holes | The Coffee Klatch with Robert Reich

The Trump-Zelenskyy Oval Office clash.

Musk's Cabinet meeting.

The GOP's reverse Robin Hood budget.

@rbreich.bsky.social and Heather Lofthouse break down this week's biggest stories on today's Coffee Klatch.

The Trump-Vance-Musk regime is not only undermining democracy in the US.

It is laying the foundation for undermining democracies around the world.

The emerging battle will be global democracy vs. a global oligarchy.

The US is emerging on the side of global oligarchy.

Thousands of years of facing assault, servitude, rape, forced marriage, Childs marriage, being owned, ordered, dying from childbirth, our work, art, intellect being constantly stolen &/or dismissed….

Exactly! And to them, equality feels like a disadvantage. They feel "oppressed" by simply being treated as an equal and being expected to treat those different from them as equals.

That’s why they’re fighting so hard to preserve their privilege. They are losing their majority and they know it.

Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde exemplifies extraordinary courage and audacity—speaking truth to power, standing firm in justice, and embodying the light of integrity in shadowed times. Her voice reminds us that moral leadership matters. May her example inspire us all.
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“Gay, lesbian, & transgender CHILDREN” she said, not “people”-making it clear that she’s specifically talking about how the right is targeting these youth for elimination & devastating mental health outcomes

This point is important; she didn’t gloss over the fact these youth exist, because THEY DO!

Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde to Trump: "I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian, and transgender people in Democratic, Republican, and independent families, some who fear for their lives ... and the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals"

I am wondering why the local media is not covering this event

If you Google "inauguration day," you're greeted with an animation of fireworks forming the shape of the American flag. Google has never done something like this for the inauguration, sources told me, out of fear of appearing partisan. But that's changed now, with Sergey and Sundar attending.

RFK Jr. attacks "red state people" in recently unearthed footage: "Red state people are more likely to murder you, to impregnate your teenage daughter, to commit a violent crime against you..."