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So, so, so proud of Temple Beth Emeth for honoring Out Loud Chorus as charity of choice for Pride Shabbat!

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Last month I managed to catch a stray cat lurking around the house. We dubbed her Yeti, and got her set up with a local rescue group. She was pregnant. Baby daddy was likely the asshole tomcat I can’t catch. Today- 6 tiny miracles

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Free Leslie Feinberg comic? That's something @gailsimone.bsky.social 's fans might want to know about if there were any queer or trans ones. But I can't imagine anyone LGBT liking bears.

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New York City (and state) have both expressed interest in mask bans. These discriminatory ugly laws put lives at risk. They exclude disabled people from public spaces while increasing police harassment of marginalized individuals. Everyone deserves the legal right to mask up!

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Seemingly lost in all of the NYT coverage is that what the Supreme Court did was effectively lower the evidentiary bar that state's have to meet to justify their bans. The lower courts that applied heightened scrutiny universally blocked the bans.

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This framing is beneath contempt. The Christian right and MAGA launched an unprecedented assault on the civil rights of a tiny minority and successfully weaponized the pseudoliberal establishment - led by the NYT - to provide it with a medical controversy pretext that doesn’t actually exist.

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Sharing this update provided to me directly about the state of NLM and the future of NNLM, traveling exhibits, and, somehow, MedlinePlus. I am so worried for friends and colleagues, and I'm stuck on that, but it is hard to not want to scream WTF about a MedlinePlus with no new material. #medlibs

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Today is the 160th anniversary of the official ending of the practice of slavery in the United States. Happy Juneteenth!

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Reporter: Five fellow mayoral candidates came here within 90 minutes of you being arrested and called for your release. What does that say about the tenor of the mayor's race? Lander: Was one of them Andrew Cuomo? Reporter: It was not. Lander: Imagine that!

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So Starship Ship 36 just detonated before the static fire test - fueled and waiting for the test. Looks like the top tank lets go and sets off the whole stack. It would be bad enough if it let go during the static fire test, but it just blew up. And it's cooking off the fuel tanks on the pad.

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Out Loud Chorus is one of the largest mixed-voice LGBTQIA choirs in the world. We've been very grateful for past federal funding. Now we are going to our community. Help build safe spaces, and Queer Community Through Music. Donate, if you can. www.zeffy.com/en-US/donati...

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The same people demanding you present a photo ID to vote are perfectly fine with letting you be arrested, handcuffed & thrown into a van by armed men wearing plain clothes, face masks & presenting no identification of any sort.

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Wild how the Fed chair saying that entire regions of the United States won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event

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Take the masks off. Show your badges. This is America.

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Research funding has unexpected benefits. A lizard study led to Ozempic STAT's @alexhogan.bsky.social explains: www.statnews.com/2025/06/18/n...

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One month apart.

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@pfanderson.bsky.social @drspacejunk.bsky.social @gennerveevy.bsky.social Scary if true. www.reddit.com/r/interestin...

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An incredibly interesting half-hour video from the Second Story about why there "hasn't been another Tolkien". The answer is... not what you think.

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FOX: The Committee for a Responsible Budget came out today and said it will add $15 trillion to the debt THUNE: This will reduce the deficit, not increase it

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"So a Hobbit and an Elf get into a gondola..."

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Here are some nice mushrooms

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“A superb officer and leader by every measure,” one commander wrote of her in a 2011 performance review. “Without a doubt a future tactical battalion commander,” another wrote 4 years later. There was “no limit” to her potential in the Army, a third supervisor added when she was promoted to major.”

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"People had bought Elvis memorabilia for years & it was collecting huge prices. Then all of a sudden prices started to collapse. What happened is the people who collected Elvis memorabilia started to die.... But all of the people who were buyers were also dying." nautil.us/how-well-for...

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Ancient miasma theory may help explain Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s vaccine moves www.npr.org/sections/sho...

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A prayer for the hostages: אַחֵינוּ כָּל בֵּית יִשְׂרָאֵל הַנְּתוּנִים בַּצָּרָה וּבַשִּׁבְיָה עוֹמְדִים בֵּין בַּיָּם וּבֵין בַּיַּבָּשָׁה הַמָּקוֹם יְרַחֵם עֲלֵיהֶם וְיוֹצִיאֵם מִצָּרָה לִרְוָחָה וּמֵאֲפֵלָה לְאוֹרָה מִשִּׁעְבּוּד לִגְאֻלָּה הָשָׁתָא בַּעֲגָלָא וּבִזְמַן קָרִיב וְנֹאמַר אָמֵן #ParshaChat

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Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. apparently embraces the outdated "miasma theory" of disease instead of the widely accept "germ theory" of disease, which may help explain some of the actions he's been taking.

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