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So sorry to hear about your mom. Just lots of love to you.

The ‘Worst Test in Medicine’ is Driving America’s High C-Section Rate

“We may be the only specialty that continues to do major abdominal surgery without a shred of evidence of benefit,” said Dr. Steven L. Clark, an obstetrician at Baylor College of Medicine in Texas who has extensively studied electronic monitoring. “We just plow blithely on.” #Bioethics #PHEthics

This + ibuprofen = lunch of champions

“Oh no the girls are rapping about pleasurable sexual experiences and gucci bags”

The boys are rapping about serial killing and the lack of mental health services

Frankly i don’t care what the girls rapping about cause they doing a better job rapping about it

Jane Austen's 250th birthday is coming up in December and I hope you'll celebrate by taking a turn about the room, acquiring a passion for dead leaves & closet shelves, and taking a fancy to the last person you could ever be prevailed upon to marry.

It's Diwali proper, so I'm going to use this opportunity to port over one of my favorite threads from the Other Place to tell the story of why this holiday matters so much and why i get choked up every time.

Proud papa moment: my son J published a letter in the @nytimes.com today (in print tomorrow) on the need to think our definitions of autism.

Issa Cover Reveal

Sometimes love makes you… speechless.

Jackie & Antonio
Struck Speechless
4.28.26 #BookSky #BlackBookSky z

Pope dunking on you from the Popemobile while he's blessing and waving to the rest of the crowd means you have to convert to Lutheranism it's in the Bible

Your everyday 8-6-2 double play

If any child in your life has an IEP or 504 plan:

Trump fired (we think) all of the employees in the office at the US Department of Education that disburses special education funds from the federal government that school districts use to pay for those plans.

this is a Donors Choose for books at a school in Rogers Park (most of the videos you saw of ICE today were in this Chicago neighborhood), it's only about $400 until it's fully funded.

Autism $peaks is the largest and most popular Autism organization (among allistics), who continues to be 100% in support of ABA. They have lobbyists who push ABA as the “gold standard Autism treatment.” It utilizes same practices as “conversion therapy,” which is currently banned in 28 countries.

Or they’ll realize they had (unrecognized) autistic childhoods themselves.

Truly the experts in Absolute Units.

IT'S RELEASE DAY!!!!
Romance? ✅
He falls first?✅
Adorable cat character?✅
Two characters conning together at a wedding convention? ✅✅✅
I mean I really tried to include everything in this book—plus all the swoony bits and banter.

Please help me spread the word by sharing this post. 🥰
#romancelandia

Books

More books.

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RSV vaccines offer vital protection for the most vulnerable, study confirms A review of 14 clinical trials involving more than 100,000 participants supports widespread RSV vaccination to reduce severe illness and hospitalisations.

A new Cochrane review pooled >100,000 participants across 14 trials of RSV vaccines:
- In older adults,RSV vaccines ⬇️ RSV-related lower resp illness by ~70%.
- In pregnant people, vaccination halved the risk of infants needing medical care for RSV & ⬇️severe dz by ~74%.
www.gavi.org/vaccineswork...

The Virgin & The Rogue by Sophie Jordan - delicious fun, as I recall. She drinks a tonic from her herbalist sister. Shenanigans ensue.

A wild finish to clinch during a roller coaster run.

Certainly with their assembly instructions.

To be clear, there are no data that provide a link between short-term use of Tylenol during pregnancy and autism. In fact, one of the best prospective studies w/ sibling controls, if anything, pointed to a protective effect for use less than 7 days
acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Good Night, and Good Luck

if you want to understand tailoring, you only need to watch mid-century movies, when actors were dressed by tailors, not brands. in the 1944 film cover girl, gene kelly's suit drapes beautifully, moving with him, not against him. collar stays on his neck, even as he dances.

Anthony Hamilton can't keep getting away with this 😭😭😭😭😭

I want our young people to know that there is a path forward, that a better world is possible. I don't want them to give up, to become cynical. They deserve to be young and full of optimism. They are owed a world that supports and sustains optimism.

~40% of Hepatitis B infections are caught in childhood. It is contagious enough that it can be spread just from sharing common household objects.

The chance of chronic infection (ie does not clear, and is associated with high rates of liver failure and cancer) ranges from 50%-90% in this age group.

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