Ray Mernagh

Proteins for punks

Your School House Rock moment...🤔

Autism is not a disease and these kids are not damaged, despite what HHS Secretary Kennedy says.

Watch a major campaign being born.

20,000 in ruby red Utah on their feet, in community, and ready to organize for a better world.

A better world is possible.

Goodnight from Skinnerville, where Big Leany & The Baked Potato wouldn’t use an unsecured app to discuss their upcoming nap plans because they are actually good at their job. And not meme-eating children in bad suits.

By far the most important part of this story

But her emails!!!

Everyone saying Mick Cronin sounds miserable: Have you also considered that he is fucking hilarious

This

John Calipari Tastes Sweetest Victory in Leading Arkansas Past Against Bitter Rival Rick Pitino The two coaches’ long history broke somewhere along the way and the Razorbacks’ upset of No. 2 seed Red Storm is latest chapter in Cal getting the upper hand.

Column: Cal beats Rick, again. Diving deep into the never-ending story of the John Calipari-Rick Pitino rivalry. It tilts further toward Cal, as Arkansas upsets St John’s. bit.ly/4itcKLN

AOC and Bernie in front of the rally crowd in Denver

Zoomed out crowd shot of 34,000 people in downtown Denver with Colorado mountains in the background

Tonight an unbelievable **34,000 people** gathered for our Denver rally to take on billionaires and win our country back.

This was the largest political gathering in Denver since Obama in 2008.

Also bigger than the 2024 DNC.

And the largest ever rally in Bernie’s career (and obviously, mine too).

Matt Yglesias, August 2024: Kamala Harris is running a great campaign on my favorite centrist themes like patriotism, unwavering support for Israel & personal responsibility which I like "so much."
Matt Ygelesias, March 2025: Leftists are lying when they say Harris ran a centrist campaign.

KVCC (kalamazoo valley) in juco d2 final 4. That's wild. Grew up going to their games (my brother played there) and camps.

Still very good 😊

YOU WILL WATCH MIDDLING POWER CONFERENCE TEAMS AND YOU WILL LIKE IT

Dusty May and Pat Kelsey proving that you should move on from your mediocre coach.

Purdue drawing a better seed than Michigan is ... something.

Only in America could a Ketamine-infused South African oligarch call a navy captain, astronaut and sitting US senator "a traitor" for supporting our allies and standing up to Russia...

Cool so what happens if GOP attach a national abortion ban to a CR? You'll vote for that too?

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Elsewhere ... Iowa is the Anti-Vanderbilt for its league, lying in wait until March before knocking teams out of the postseason.

First denying Nebraska a Big Ten tournament berth. Now dispatching Ohio State to leave the Buckeyes at 17-15.

Iowa was 0-14 in Quad 1 before Sunday, 2-0 since.

Perfect way for this season to end

Sending all my love to Pittsburgh today as my best friend continues to find a way through the bullshit.

OF THE EMPIRE We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity for the few and cared little for the penury of the many. We will be known as a culture that taught and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke little if at all about the quality of life for people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All the world, in our eyes, they will say, was a commodity. And they will say that this structure was held together politically, which it was, and they will say also that our politics was no more than an apparatus to accommodate the feelings of the heart, and that the heart, in those days, was small, and hard, and full of meanness.

From a poetry collection by Mary Oliver, where after a hundred poems showcasing gentle observations on nature and animals, she hits you with this

From @horizonleague.bsky.social:

All member schools will be opting into the House settlement.

In his GQ magazine, he spoke out against his former classmate Matt Gaetz. Ritchson and the politician attended school together after the actor’s family moved from Illinois to Niceville, Fla. “That motherfucker. We are adversaries,” Ritchson said. “It’s shocking to me that the panhandle of Florida continues to vote for somebody—knowing everything we know about him and the promises that he’s made behind closed doors about pardoning certain criminals—he’s just not a good dude! There’s part of me that wants to get into politics to outdo somebody like him for good, and there’s part of me that’s like, I’m not duplicitous enough to succeed in politics.

Reacher is a fucking prince.

Holy smokes…the older Anne Tyler and I get, the funnier she gets. I loved this short novel (165 pgs.) Made me smile so big…and then ending…ooof! Read it!

I know the buyout is huge, but Pitt hoops simply can’t accept to be stuck in mediocrity.

Where is Pennsylvania?

Our eds, meds and biotech economy is absolutely screwed if this illegal looting of health research funding proceeds.

Whose side is PA OAG on?