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And now, my favorite Easter tradition.

Not swallowing.

The 40-something single dad shaping liberal media from his laptop Acyn Torabi dominates social media with fast-cut clips of political mayhem. Are they news, or something else?

WaPo doing my friend Acyn a solid on the open market with the ladies by noting that this single 40-something watches TV 18 hours a day. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Honestly, me too.

At every turn they're removing all the safeguards -- *all* of them. Disease, cybersecurity, financial and banking protections, housing, disability, inequity, social security, environmental, alliances with other nations, all of this and everything else. A willful and cruel dismantling of government.

I wish more people understood this:

Yum! These might make me think life is okay for a little bit.

YouTube video by CNN Watch Trudeau speak directly to Trump during blistering speech

You can’t overstate the historic importance of today’s speech to both American and Canadian citizens by Canada’s Prime Minister.

Please watch it and share it wherever you live, but especially if you’re in the United States. You need to know what Trump is doing, and why. youtu.be/wz_42pckM7w

Yesterday, a lead spokesperson for HHS abruptly quit after 2 weeks because of a disagreement with RFK Jr. over messaging related to the measles outbreak. Today, RFK Jr. refused to promote vaccination in the media and instead made comments undermining the safety and effectiveness of MMR vaccine.

At tonight’s State of the Union, Trump will have one goal: to distract.

His policies are wreaking havoc on the economy and upending American lives, and he will lie, blame, and distract to avoid any bit of responsibility. Don’t fall for it.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg: “I’m sometimes asked when will there be enough [women on the Supreme Court] And I say when there are nine, people are shocked. But there’d been nine men, and nobody’s ever raised a question about that.”

"We are asking all Members of the House Democratic Caucus to join us on the East Capitol Steps at 12:00 noon on Tuesday. At that time, we will make sure that the country can hear from everyday Americans whose lives will be devastated by the Republican budget scheme."

All of the House Democrats are meeting tomorrow at the East Capitol Steps at noon to share the stories of everyday Americans who will be devastated by the oligarchic GOP budget scheme.
#holdtheline

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin: the woman who found hydrogen in the stars – Physics World Sidney Perkowitz on Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, from her stellar astronomical findings to her struggle with bias against women in the early 20th century

Every high school student knows that Isaac Newton discovered gravity, that Charles Darwin discovered evolution, and that Albert Einstein discovered the relativity of time.

How a Canadian scientist and a venomous lizard helped pave the way for Ozempic - National | Globalnews.ca In 1984, Dr. Daniel Drucker, an endocrinologist from the University of Toronto, discovered a hormone that helped pave the way for popular diabetes drugs such as Ozempic.

This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen.

Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !”

globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

How Should Health Care and Public Health Respond to the New US Administration? This Viewpoint discusses scientific, medical, and public health actions, including withdrawing from the World Health Organization, taken so far during the first week of the Trump administration.

A must read.

“In the end, politicians and the public are free to ignore medical advice and pursue policies that compromise health and safety, and they likely will, but this does not relieve the profession of its responsibility to make the dangers clear.”

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Everything is terrible so here are some adorable fox kits.

Thank you for posting this. I’m happy to find you here.

Are the next 4 years really going to be logging on everyday to sentences like "a 19 year old doge intern called Big Balls has your social security number" because I'm already at capacity for this sort of thing

Our United Airlines pilot made sure to emphasize *Mexico* when he said we'd be flying over the Gulf of *Mexico* today.

It's the little things. Microdose hope.

Pathogenesis of influenza and SARS-CoV-2 co-infection at the extremes of age: decipher the ominous tales of immune vulnerability - Advanced Biotechnology The co-circulation of influenza and SARS-CoV-2 has led to co-infection events, primarily affecting children and older adults, who are at higher risk for severe disease. Although co-infection prevalenc...

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A family of grey Mycena semivestipes mushrooms grow from the rotted punk of a mossy log. Gossamer bug threads crisscross their caps All photos by me

Here are some nice mushrooms

Dynamic effects of bilingualism on brain structure map onto general principles of experience-based neuroplasticity - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Dynamic effects of bilingualism on brain structure map onto general principles of experience-based neuroplasticity

Bilingualism is associated with a bigger brain. Similar to other cognitively demanding skills, it leads to dynamic subcortical structural adaptations which can be nonlinear, in line with expansion-renormalisation models of experience-dependent neuroplasticity. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

You have no control over how others perceive you here. Then you realize it doesn’t matter. You know your own worth. You know the good and the not so good. You know you executed a perfect moonwalk in front of Strawberries Records & Tapes, Hanover Mall, February the 12th, 1987

Egg prices are soaring again. Here’s why and what to expect Bird flu has killed millions of hens in recent weeks, shrinking the supply of eggs and hiking up prices at grocery stores.

The price of eggs in the US is spiking, mostly due to #H5N1 bird flu. Solving the problem requires urgent, important communications from the CDC & FDA* and rapid development of research by the NIH**

* Currently paused by Executive Order
** Grant reviews now all canceled
www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...

If everything else seems dark, look around… you may be the light -Rumi

Erasing the up to 2% of people who are intersex, as Trump’s executive order on sex and gender does, is anything but “biologically true”