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Thank you so much! Going to try gastrochrom and going to test for mastocytosis just in case. I’ll keep reading your blog, it’s very helpful. I’m not used to having these types of reactions to the things I have eaten for so long. Something switched “on” for me.

I am reading your blog. Thank you so much for sharing your journey. I am for the first time in my life realizing that my newly found HaT gene has affected me and it’s really flaring right now. My allergist doesn’t buy into the MCAS diagnosis so I will be investigating more.

I don’t think that’s the line, either. It’s worse. And perhaps there is no line.

What can we expect? This is frightening.

I see you.

Pure projection.

And legalize heroine. Perf.

You better damn bet he and his offspring will get them though.

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Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me? Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

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Defense Department will stop providing crucial satellite weather data Hurricane forecasters and scientists rely on weather data collected and processed by Department of Defense satellites. The Navy has decided to stop sharing the data.

Hurricane forecasters and scientists rely on weather data collected and processed by Department of Defense satellites. The Navy has decided to stop sharing the data.

Opinion | This Is What Autocracy Looks Like

“If you saw all this in any other country — soldiers sent to crush dissent, union leaders arrested, opposition politicians threatened — it would be clear that autocracy had arrived. The question, now, is whether Americans who hate tyranny can be roused to respond.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/o...

I am on the other side of the world from Los Angeles and I just heard a news grab on our national radio station of Maxine Waters telling a cop "Are you gonna shoot an elected representative? If you shoot me, you better shoot straight" and she remains one of the best to ever do it

𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗞 𝗥𝗢𝗧𝗛𝗞𝗢, Untitled, 1968
Acrylic on wove paper
📸 @erkitekt (on Instagram) @ngadc.bsky.social
59 13/16 × 42 3/8 in. (151.9 × 107.6 cm)
Gift of The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc.,
© 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Terrifying stuff. Sharp decline in insect numbers tied to global heating. They are at the base of ecosystems and their decline will reverberate upwards. The fact that this is probably going to happen in my life time.

We really need to stop burning fossil fuels today!

Earth is likely to cross a key climate threshold in two years A new World Meteorological Organization report spells the end of the world’s most famous climate goal.

Earth will warm 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels in just two years, new data shows. Irreversible tipping points — like the melting of Arctic ice sheets or the collapse of coral reefs — are closer at hand than previously believed.

THE DEATH OF A PRESIDENT - with the necessity for the sudden transfer of his enormous powers-is in many ways a supreme test for a democratic government. For what if the transfer did not go smoothly? What if policies were changed-foreign policies: what if a détente was ended, new orders given; what if, along a border, the border between East and West Berlin, perhaps, tensions rose; what if tanks began to rumble forward, troops began to march; what if, in the harbors of naval bases, anchor chains began to rattle aboard so that fleets could sail? Or domestic policies: what if interest rates set by a government agency of which people had previously been only vaguely aware suddenly began to be raised, and raised too high-what if, as a result of that change, businesses that had planned to borrow money to expand suddenly found the cost of money too high, and had to contract instead, laying off employees? What if the rates were lowered-and lowered too far-and, as a result, inflation rose, and rose too far; what if currencies crumbled, life savings were eaten away, elderly couples suddenly facing impoverished old age? What if tax policies, or depreciation allowances, were changed, so that corporations abruptly found that expansions planned under the old policies would now be unfeasible, so they could no longer afford to add employees? What if previously announced government appropriations were suddenly rescinded or the schedule of their payments stretched out so that schools, hospitals, clinics, day-care centers, suddenly had bad news for students and patients; what if decisions were made not to build dams or roads on which people had been counting for employment? What if naval yards, aircraft factories were closed, their thousands of employees thrown out of work? What if adjustments were made in government health-care policies, so that families that had been struck by illness but had believed that at least their medical expenses were covered found all at once that in fact t…

Just read this passage by Robert Caro about the immediate aftermath of the Kennedy assassination and realized that this is exactly the nightmare scenario we are currently living through

Here it comes.

The Coming Economic Nightmare Trump’s tariffs could cause stagflation for the first time in decades. It may go on for a long, long time.

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Devastated for all who worked to make Journeys the incredible force it has been, the fierce cohorts of those who came through it in the past, and those who won’t get to benefit from it now. But it’ll be back. Thank you @sbmitche.bsky.social @jlpweeks.bsky.social and everyone at Journeys.

Emergence and interstate spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N1) in dairy cattle in the United States Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) viruses cross species barriers and have the potential to cause pandemics. In North America, HPAI A(H5N1) viruses related to the goose/Guangdong 2.3.4.4b hemagg...

Historically, hygiene and health are reasons to have effective government. Without it, people senselessly die. Demolishing the federal government will have terrible costs.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Programs for Children and Families Eliminated ACF Affordable Housing and Supportive Services Demo ACF Head Start ACF Preschool Development Grant ACF Primary Prevention Youth Homelessness ACL ACL University Centers for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities Developmental Disabilities Projects of National Significance ACL Lifespan Respite Care ACL Long-term Care Ombudsman ACL Preventive Health Services ACL Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Developmental Disabilities (Investigate group home abuse) ACL State Councils on Developmental Disabilities CDC Adolescent and School Health CDC Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES) CDC Asthma CDC Childhood Lead Poisoning CDC Firearm Injury & Mortality Prevention Research CDC Newborn Screening and Molecular Biology CDC Oral Health CDC Reproductive Health CDC Smoking and Health CDC Youth Violence Prevention CMS Medicaid and CHIP Budget of $129.6 million? Is this a joke? GDM Children's Interagency Coordination Council GDM Discretionary Sexual Risk Avoidance Programs GDM Still Birth Taskforce GDM Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program HRSA EMS for Children HRSA Family Planning HRSA Healthy Start HRSA Universal Newborn Hearing Screening IHS Preventive Health OASH Office of Population Affairs SAMSHA Childhood Mental Health SAMSHA Children and Family Programs SAMSHA Consumer and Family Network Grants SAMSHA Health Transitions Infant and Early SAMSHA Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health SAMSHA SAMSHA Interagency Task Force on Trauma Informed Care Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness (PAIMI) SAMSHA STOP Act Pregnant and Postpartum Women SAMSHA Youth Prevention and Recovery Initiative

Here is a list of critical federal health programs for families that they want to cut.

Without these programs families will have fewer resources to care for loved ones, young and old. Those on the edge will fall into poverty.

Call your reps.

Federal officials arrived, denied entry at L.A. schools amid immigration enforcement fears L.A. schools Supt. Alberto Carvalho said the agents said they were there to check on the wellbeing of five undocumented students, and that the agents lied when they told school officials that their fa...

At elementary schools?

"According to schools Supt. Alberto Carvalho, the agents professed that they were there to check on the students’ well-being and lied when they told school officials that their families had given permission for the contact."

www.latimes.com/california/s...

The top five egg producers own roughly half of all U.S. laying hens.

The biggest of those corporations is Cal-Maine, which just announced quarterly profits of $509 million — more than 3x what it made a year ago.

Corporate concentration + bird flu = a price-hiking free for all.

Graphic: As many as 69 million American women lack access to valid birth certificates

Are you a woman who changed your name when you got married?

Congress is considering a bill that could make it much harder for you to vote.

Call your rep—this is not a drill. indivisible.org/resource/cal...

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