Everett Maroon, MPH

Reminds of when they ran ABBEY.

That’s a terrible lie from the Heritage Foundation. I saw them laughed off the stage one time at a major convention, for utter lack of rigorous thinking. Bye now.

As you know, conversion therapy isn’t therapy at all, but is abuse to try to stop someone from being queer or trans. Gender affirming care is normal health care. Don’t be disingenuous.

Supreme Court seems skeptical about state bans on 'conversion therapy' for LBGTQ+ kids A majority of Supreme Court justices seem to be leaning in favor of a Christian counselor who is challenging bans on LGBTQ+ “conversion therapy” for kids as a violation of her First Amendment rights.

“States can’t ban conversion therapy but they can ban gender-affirming care. They can’t regulate ‘crisis pregnancy centers’ but they can ban abortion. This is required by the Constitution. If you say we’re just doing politics you’re responsible for political violence.”
—The U.S. Supreme Court

By the tiniest of measures, my eyes somehow remained in my head after reading that.

We are just trying to help marginalized and stigmatized people find their own way. We have hit countless roadblocks, artificial obstructions of policy, and false scarcity, and stigma. I have a stack of hate mail on my desk.

Why?

Because a few rich people want even more for themselves.

For shame.

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This was the best storyline.

Not the people’s house anymore.

Sometimes I think LinkedIn runs a bit too much like Classmates. com did.

Man, I hate losing a big grant application.

Getting ready to launch a capital campaign next month. Butterfly stomach sensations abound! Will I find organizations and people to help us stand up a free clinic for people with substance use and mental health challenges? I say yes!!

Finally! Go get ‘em!

Please sue, media outlets. Profits aren’t worth this.

Spent my morning in a mediation. That’s all I’m going to say.

This was the second thing I thought about when I heard the news, after thinking about the extreme diplomatic failure of the rhetoric.

We are being set up again for the midterm elections to be contested. It’s exhausting, but we need to fight for our democracy.

8AM, or 8:05AM? IYKYK.

It finally happened! My trusty starter word got her day in the sun. Wordle 1,535 1/6

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I miss the days when government web sites were just boring and informative.

A photo of ten people wearing silly garb because we all like each other.

You have to have fun with your staff, because it is so rough out there.

Cohn dropped into an important role fresh out of college and has been bluffing his way through ever since.

GO SCOTLAND! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

The Machine Stops The neurologist Oliver Sacks on steam engines, smartphones, and fearing the future.

The neurologist Oliver Sacks found that the social-media era resembles a neurological catastrophe on a gigantic scale.

He what now? They know we need the moon for the tides, right?

I was shocked when I read his piece. The number of people who can’t hear themselves right now is horrifying.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Puts 490,000 High-Res Images Online & Makes Them Free to Use Update: The Metropolitan Museum of Art has put online 492,000 high-resolution images of artistic works. Even better, the museum has placed the vast majority of these images into the public domain, mea...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Puts 490,000 High-Res Images Online & Makes Them Free to Use

Hope dies in misprints.

My latest for the local paper: www.union-bulletin.com/opinion/opin...

The time frame is actually not a lie. Intelligence officers have put Tehran at this timeframe for a workable weapon for a while now. A good friend of mine is Dr Shampa Biswas whose area is nuclear proliferation. I asked her earlier this year how far Iran was and she also put it at weeks.