Donna McGill

Screenshot of New York Times headline reading: DOGE Put Critical Social Security Data at Risk, Whistle-Blower Says DOGE team members uploaded a database with the personal information of hundreds of millions of Americans to a vulnerable cloud server, according to the agency’s chief data officer.

The Trump administration and DOGE exposed the Social Security numbers of hundreds of millions of Americans. Now millions are at risk of identity theft. Get DOGE out of our personal data.

This map shows a correlation for each of the 26 states that have enough people in all of the six levels of urbanization so I could calculate a correlation between level of urbanization and death rates within the state. Notice that all the correlations are positive and larger than .50. In other words, for all the states that we have data for the more rural the area the higher the death rate. I can think for two possible explanations but I haven't figured out how to put data together to figure out which is right. The first possible explanation I can think of is that the high level of specialization of health care means that areas with out very large populations they do not have reasonable access to health care that can treat all their illnesses. The second is the Southern Baptist/Evangelical effect of substituting prayer and other religious activities for health care kills people earlier. The estimated excess deaths I produced the same data for the total United States and calculated an estimated number of excess deaths by applying the large central city death rate to the populations in the five other levels of data for the total United States and produced the following table: actual deaths 3,464,231 if all at big CC 2,954,854 saved at big CC 509,377 Percent saved if 14.7 Note that this is only one year of data and I haven't looked how long this effect has existed, which I guess I should.

After more than half a century of working and playing with statistics, this is the first time I had actual data produce an r of 1.00. See the discussion under ALT to understand this rather complex map substitution for a graph. 🧪💡☠️ #Sociology #Population

History repeats.

In late February 1921, 2 weeks before taking office as POTUS, Warren Harding writes a letter to the richest man in America, William Randolph Hearst, thanking him for helping him win the presidency with favorable coverage in major newspapers he owned & begging for his advice.

I put the electric blanket on. There's bound to be a good 4, maybe 5 days of winter between now and March.

You know when you're hit with the flu and you're pretty sure life can get no worse? But then, after the fever breaks, you feel achy and just miserable for a few days? Prepare for that achy feeling for quite some time.

Trump's Pick For Education Secretary Is Dealing With Her Own Sexual Abuse Scandal Educators are sounding the alarm about Donald Trump’s choice to put the former WWE chief executive at the helm of public education.

At this point, it's going to be easier to name the Trump picks who aren't sex offenders. This is vulgar and keeps getting worse. www.huffpost.com/entry/linda-...

Wonder how much Trump paid for this one?

Here is a photo of the most corrupt President in American history and Richard Nixon

Screenshot of Apple Podcasts page showing “The Man Who Calculated Death”

Holy crap!!

The podcast I produced just got featured on Apple Podcasts main page!!!

It’s called “The Man Who Calculated Death”

It’s the true story of a journalist who has to investigate her own grandfather’s work building a secret super weapon for Adolf Hitler.

This story is bonkers

No kidding?! Hell, I'm headed there now! Good stuff!

Since 2018, Hallmark has made these movies:

Time for Me to Come Home for Christmas

Time for You to Come Home for Christmas

Time for Us to Come Home for Christmas

Time for Them to Come Home for Christmas

Time for Him to Come Home for Christmas

Time for Her to Come Home For Christmas

(1/2)

I'm down! Let's do it!

I love how they let her be strong. That wasn't always the case in many of her roles.

#ChristmasInConnecticut
#IllBeSeeingYou
#TheShopAroundTheCorner
#LittleWomen (1949 and 1933 versions)
#ItsAWonderfulLife

Nothing better than going back to a time that feels more like home than current day. These #ClassicChristmasMovies are on rotation in my house through Christmas:
#MiracleOn34thSt
#TheApartment
#BachelorMother
#DeskSet
#RememberTheNight
#TheBishopsWife
#TheManWhoCameToDinner
#HolidayAffair

Empathy and compassion are free.

I'd forgotten this one! She's such a rock star!

The real threat is that there are at least 7 walking around with his DNA and a devious willingness to populate the world.

Tonight in 1961 — Barbara Harris made her TV debut on ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS.

Barbara Steele, Severn Darden, and Joel Crothers (DARK SHADOWS, EDGE OF NIGHT) co-star as college kids who pull a prank on their drunk friend.

The twist is so chilling it still pops into my head from time to time.

I see women trying to
protect other women with what they’re doing. Any male led organizations have plans to protect women?

How about one man who owns all 3 branches of government?

Ain't nothing he can do that's going to be worse than the next 4 years.

The best of the Paul Newman & Joanne Woodward films.

Graph of posts and likes per day over the past 11 days showing growth from 2.2M posts per day to 6.5M posts per day and 11.7M likes per day to 37.5M likes per day.

Graph of follows per day and unique users following someone per day over the past 11 days showing growth from 2.1M follows per day and 417k people following someone to 41.5M follows per day and 2.9M people following someone. The growth is clearly exponential.

Bluesky by the Numbers today:

1.3M people Posted 6.5M posts
2.3M people Liked 37.5M posts
2.9M people Followed 41.5M people (!!!!!)

Over 1,000,000 people joined the network!!!!!!

We broke all-time traffic records by over 30% today across the board.

Follows are up 20x from 2 weeks ago!

Holy Moly

That should clear up any Thanksgiving family brawls...or maybe not.

Why doesn't the attorney and victim release their evidence and witnesses? That might be the best they can expect. And that pisses me off too.

🇺🇦 Zelensky:
"We aren't ready to give our freedom to this fucking terrorist Putin". 💯💯👏👏

He just didn't appreciate her womanly efforts.

😭💀

Elon Musk tweet

There it is.

Elon’s fake “Department” (that’s really a federal advisory committee) is actually just a propaganda effort to delegitimize any government spending.

With super dumb troll acronym.