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TAPPER: Hepatitis A, whooping cough, & chickenpox cases are rising in Florida. Before you made this decision to lift vaccine mandates, did your dept do any analysis of how many new cases there will be? LADAPO: Absolutely not T: You didn't even do a projection? L: It's an issue of right & wrong
RFK Jr. rolled out that old chestnut again about how healthy Americans were in the 60’s, so here’s a fact check. In 1965: -42% of American adults smoked; it’s 11% now. -The infant morality rate was 24.7/1000; it’s 5.6/1000 now. -Overall life expectancy was 70 years; it's about 77 years now.
Not today, Satan‼️ Got this garbage in the mail a few days ago. Republicans trying to trick California voters into voting NO on Prop 50. Suddenly they care about “democracy”? Please. Vote YES on Prop 50. Don’t let the cheaters write the rules.
Aww, what did Natty Bo do to anyone?
FLORIDA! You have special elections in Senate D15 and House D40! Use your voice! Get out and vote!
We have a bubbly treat in our fridge waiting for that day.
We have people on anti depressants in Canada. We have mentally ill people. People play video games in Canada. We have single parent homes here. What other excuses do you give people with access to assault type weapons with multiple loads of ammunition in each magazine? ITS THE GUNS
Everyday a new tantrum
This is why private schools wanted tax dollars. They want to indoctrinate our children and create a tiered system of education instead of education for all! This is unconstitutional! www.thestate.com/news/politic...
holy shit this is a helluva ad from the Democrat running against Joni Ernst in Iowa. worth every second
Can anyone list the 6 wars he thinks he ended? Delusional? His own team's internal propaganda?
Certainly no earlier than 9. It can be hot by 10...
Agree. #sistersinlaw is it within Home Depot's rights to keep ICE out of their private parking lots and could the company sue for harassing their customers? @kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social @jillwine-banks.bsky.social @barbmcquade.bsky.social @joycewhitevance.bsky.social
To my critics who say that my position urging Democratic governors to redrawing maps is simply a race to the bottom, I say this: The only thing Donald Trump understand is overwhelming force. We shouldn't bring knives to a gun fight, we should be missiles. Unilateral disarmament is not an option.
Disgusting
My toes hurt just looking at those flayed chair legs
The Senate Republican budget policy: Tax breaks for billionaires are FREE! But health care costs money, so CUT! It’s magic math — and cruel hypocrisy.
That fire felt apocalyptic at the time, flames visible at night just over the mountain peaks. Living in South Boulder, it felt like it was right on top of us. Worse fires and disasters since, but I can remember the dread feeling.
Indeed... I hadn't realized I was in that camp. Maybe that's why it feels so outrageous for the rights to be taken away - we've always had them.
If I said every hour of every day for the next year that Joni Ernst can go fuck herself, it wouldn’t be often enough.
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I just flashed back to witnessing rounds meetings about my 70-ish mom, over 3.5 weeks in the ICU. Some days were tentative, but the procedural approach was comforting. She pulled through. Such amazing attending physicians, residents, nurses, and specialists. ♥️♥️♥️
Multiple AI models working "together!?" had varying success, the BEST performer accomplishing only 34% of assigned tasks. Humans arguments sometimes end with someone's declaration I'm "technically right" - bots' creative work-arounds were self-deceptions fitting that. futurism.com/professors-c...
My dear health equity peers, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is doubling down on their DEI efforts. 💪🏽 Here’s a grant opportunity tinyurl.com/3pnxhy2d with a rapid response option those whose “health equity research projects have lost federal funding.” ⭐️ Please share ⭐️
What is the possible goal here? Or is it just ignorance
Trump’s Science Cuts Will Be Felt for Generations It is not about cutting costs, finding fraud, or making America great. It is a personal vendetta disguised as cost-cutting. It's the arbitrary labeling of stuff and people you don't like as fraud. open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
Tyrants view educated citizens as their greatest enemy. Slaveowners stopped slaves from learning how to read. Nazis burned books. Dictators censor media. That's why he's attacking education, science, museums and the arts. Fascism 101.
Such an important statement from Michael Lewis: "The government is the place all the problems the private sector won't solve go." Absolutely! Important things with returns that aren't immediate - projects that take years, money towards the future (education, lifting children out of poverty), etc...
Thanks, Kim!
Question on EOs for @jillwine-banks.bsky.social @kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social @joycewhitevance.bsky.social @barbmcquade.bsky.social
United States Disappeared Tracker: 1214 and growing. public.tableau.com/app/profile/...
Last time he told you not "not to worry" half a million Americans died of Covid.
#sistersinlaw I am wondering what legal weight executive orders have. I heard it's likely many of The recent EOs are pushing the limits and therefore what holds anyone to compliance with an executive order? Specifically, the overreach into public schools which are under the jurisdiction of states.
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Missing the cup of frozen peas, but otherwise sounds great
WHAT THE ACTUAL F
So glad to hear you'll still be supporting Boulder! We love you - congratulations!
Trump take keg www.inside.beer/news/detail/...
This is art.
Democratic senators will hold the Senate floor all night long in opposition to the nomination of Russ Vought, an organizer of Project 2025, to head the OMB.
Absolutely brutal scroll on Fox.
One impact of the NSF freeze: They fund the small nonprofit, EarthScope, that manages seismic and GPS stations used worldwide to detect and warn of earthquakes and navigate autonomous vehicles. EarthScope can maybe make payroll this week. A prolonged freeze could see stations fail.
Has The Scream arrived on Blue sky yet?
Trump fired the heads of TSA, the Coast Guard and key aviation safety advisors. Trump needs to be held accountable for the DC airplane/helicopter crash. Who here agrees?
Where are the other rational Senator's voices on this and the other effects of the grant freeze?!!
So hearing the word "women" is no longer allowed in government funded science or anything associated with the government (along with 100a of other words), the logical conclusion is we're equal, right!?! Equal pay, we are the same as men?
BLOW THIS UP: There’s no press! “-states that women’s health care should address the needs of men, families, and communities. While focusing on women’s health care, the resolution, does not state, why or how men or families are related to the care of women’s health.” www.ktalnews.com/news/politic...
I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service. “Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.
Sooo, taking a page down doesn't negate the law or requirement to follow the law though, right?
I think the better strategy is to relentlessly hammer the truth: 1) RFK Jr. is going to stop research into lifesaving cures 2) And he has no experience managing massive, complex programs like Medicare & Medicaid that provide the care you/your family rely on
Did your child lose their book collection in the Los Angeles fires? Are you a teacher at a school that lost its library or your classroom library? Whether you need one book or a whole library, we can replace your books. 📚 Everyone else, please boost this post so we can connect with those in need. 🙏
Check your data again Gen X is not the Trumpiest generation www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Please send anything you can to Jordan @indiedynamo.bsky.social, who lost his home, brother, and father to the fires here in Los Angeles. If you can’t donate, please share. www.gofundme.com/f/help-jorda...
Maybe it's my generational perspective on socials, but I lock that $#'t down. FB for me is and was only ever real friends I know (peeps who know my phone number already). I get sketched out sharing photos or real personal deets to ppl I don't know. Always seemed weirdly braggy like "LOOK AT ME!"
Why are there so many? it's like swatting flies, ugh
Today, as I exited DD, I was asked for spare change. In lieu of cash, I gave one of the dozen donuts just purchased. On this cold day, I hope that donut helped a little.
I never said it was wrong... just that I can tell when it's possible to rearrange to fit more in. Dish logistics, you know?
Agree! Great flick!
Is this not?
Don't think too hard about it. Try again in a while. I'm embarrassed to have 100% missed a friend's announcement of her move across the country 2 months ago on a multi-person text thread. Not because I don't care! Love her.
Anyone else witnessing r.cup reusable dishware this holiday season?
Yes. On homemade biscuits at a spot in the middle of nowhere. Hiking fuel
Just a reminder: The Attorney General is not supposed to be the President's lawyer; they're the people's lawyer.
Get to know your peeps posting 10 things you like in no particular order. 1. Family game night 2. Ginger chews 3. Homemade fruit leather 4. Co rec dodgeball 5. Reading 6. Dark night skies 7. Campfires 8. Fresh bleached laundry 9. Owls 10. Rollercoasters
Like when you could find actual free stuff being given away and the silliest giggles from Hamster Dance
Mine says, Why is that dumpster on wheels?
"Anything you regret about January 6th?" 1) they did this and THEY did that, 2) Illegal immigrants do crime!!!, 3) Nancy Pelosi didn't do her job
The attack on Trump is erasing news of Israel’s bombing of the al-Mawasi refugee camp, located in a designated “safe zone, killing at least 90 and wounding 300. Most of the casualties were women or children. An atrocity. www.npr.org/2024/07/13/g...
Third local Colorado event I've been to in a week using r.cup for drinks and plates. Less waste!!!! Love it. rworldreuse.com
we all have PTSD
Thank you for reporting news about wildland fires!
Lol, up in north Boulder more than a dusting! 5-6 inches!
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Search drinks in your camera roll Cheers! Chin chin!
Rough first 36 hours. I was able to get Paxlovid, now improving day by day.
Cheers to that! Soonest available I could schedule was mid-Oct. Then I tested positive last week. 😟Boo Covid.
Also this gorgeous stream somewhere near Hunting Valley, Ohio.
Been to Nelson Ledges? Gorgeous.
Steamed or sauteed broccoli tossed in pesto
Watching the OG Wizard of Oz with my kiddo. First watching (not mine).
At a restaurant with friends, do they know, and give you the pickles off their plates? Totally me.
At one point, my office was across the street from my home. That was amazing.
We've had very little rain since June. Grass is crispy, I'm battling Japanese beetles and a weird grey beetle that eats one specific plant (globe flower?).
I'm here for you - My perennials are crazy overgrown from too much early summer rain and none of the squash plants had enough sun to thrive. But I have 5 varieties of tomatoes!
Ah! Thank you, friend. 😊
I was taking to a friend about anti-homeless laws, and he put it perfectly: “It’s a huge issue in our society - at the individual level and at the community level - that so many people genuinely believe it’s harder to exist near those who are struggling than it is to BE someone who’s struggling.”
DB hatchling!! 😍
EXCLUSIVE: The failed SpaceX launch left acres of damage that had US wildlife officials and biologists in disbelief, documents seen by Bloomberg show
Watched Cocaine Bear... uh that was a wild and gory ride. I don't think it's a movie you watch twice. 😬
