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Mayday May Day

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Nesting

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Bluebird day

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“Jaw-dropping” corruption: HBO movie director says Ohio is “rigged against the popular will” Ohio's HB6 scandal was chosen for documentary because it was "so bold" in revealing how special interests and dark money have corrupted state's political system www.cleveland.com/news/2025/04...

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A bad sign, not just because of what it recalls historically, but for what it promises about the future. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Breaking

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Light

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My education looks like history

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Soul of a machine

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44% of Americans now believe they will be WORSE OFF financially in a year (due mainly to Trump's tariffs) We've never seen anything like this before. Not even in the Great Recession or stagflation era (31% thought they would be worse off in 1 yr in early 1980) via Uof Michigan Survey of Consumers

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Makers of our food and home essentials, including Pepsi and Procter & Gamble, are cutting their financial forecasts for the year and predicting lower sales or profits than before.

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Perfection

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How old are you compared to the rest of the world?

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Looking for the light

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Portals everywhere

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Pope Francis’s "Urbi et Orbi" Easter speech: “How much contempt is stirred up at times towards the vulnerable, the marginalized and migrants...I appeal to all those in positions of political responsibility in our world not to yield to the logic of fear which only leads to isolation from others.”

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I thought I saw a bunny wabbit.

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Flashback for April 19, 2025 28 points 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Play here: www.nytimes.com/interactive/... It happens

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Standing guard since 1506

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Back door views

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Friendly reminder. In the United States, criminals are entitled to due process. Even if you pay hush money rig an election, steal top secret documents, or incite a mob to overthrow the government; no matter how egregious your crimes, you’re entitled to due process.

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The whiteboard (this one explaining how the SAVE Act would upend the voter registration process) makes its local news debut: VIDEO:

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A method for examining RNAs in blood samples offers a clinical tool to detect and monitor cancer and to assess immune responses to vaccination https://go.nature.com/42B2sSS

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Flashback for April 12, 2025 25 points 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟥 Play here: www.nytimes.com/interactive/... There’s always one. This time it’s circa 700.

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I took a walk

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The vaccine against Shingles helps protect against dementia, results of a natural experiment, adding to prior evidence "implications are profound" New @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41... nature.com/articles/s41...

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Ultraviolet light from a galaxy observed when the Universe was just 330 million years old has intriguing implications for understanding how the first generations of stars and black holes were formed https://go.nature.com/3FJ1Vqk

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Flashback for March 29, 2025 25 points 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟥🟩🟩 Play here: www.nytimes.com/interactive/... My X-ray vision was a little off.

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How does exercise and fitness promote healthy brain aging? An outstanding, comprehensive review @thelancet.bsky.social reduced neuroinflammmation, preserves blood-brain-barrier, neurogenesis, role of exerkines, and much more www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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The U.S. Passenger Rail Network 1962 vs. 2005

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Taking the long view

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Another time another empire

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Looking up

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Hippo love

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MRI scans show that the brains of infants and toddlers can encode memories, even if we don’t remember them as adults. https://go.nature.com/4l1Twi3

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On the prowl

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They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

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Thinking

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Places to go

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And I have the app😭

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Identifying the genomic loci associated with brain aging and repurposing drugs targeted to their pathways science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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For the first time ever, recorded atmospheric CO₂ has exceeded 430ppm! The last time CO₂ consistently reached today’s human-driven levels was ∼14 Million years ago, with shorter periods of similar levels around 3-5 Million years ago. 1/3

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At SXSW, Signal President Meredith Whittaker warned about the 'profound' security risks to user privacy posed by agentic AI.

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I just like the graphic. Hello chickie.

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