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Homeless workers now have to submit proof of employment to be allowed to sleep in their cars in one of the richest counties in the U.S. Welcome to America: people shivering overnight in subzero temperatures, steps from luxury ski resorts, for the privilege of keeping the local economy booming.

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In South Korea, 3174 adolescents got NVX-CoV2373 and 6253 got BNT162b2. NVX-CoV2373 offered greater protection against medically attended COVID-19 over 6 months, with a 43% lower risk after a third dose compared to BNT162b2. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

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As I’ve said, yes, this was their aim all along. That’s why they didn’t just send these people to Gitmo. This is an attempt to find a step beyond Gitmo where the court says, “Well, our hands are tied.” It’s an awful, lawless gambit that must fail, but that is what they want it to be.

submitted 10 hours ago • 51 comments

Keep talking about the Signal security lapse at the Pentagon. The media may have forgotten about it, but the voters have not.

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The Syrian Arabic word for a hamster is أبو جراب (abu jrab), where jrab refers to a pouch/saddlebag/tote. And abu often means “father of,” but can also function as a general honorific (like “mister”). So it’s not too big a stretch to say the Syrian Arabic word for a hamster means “Mister Saddlebags”

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There has never been and never will be a birthrate induced shortage of human beings on this planet. There are many reasons one might want children, as I do. It is simply not the case that anyone in particular has a responsibility to consider having children to perpetuate the existence of humanity.

submitted 19 hours ago • 120 comments

Resplendent Quetzal #CostaRica #birds #nature 🌿

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This part

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I'm not saying journalists should never interview admitted propagandists. There are journalistic reasons to do so. But if we do, we must be prepared to -- in fact it is our duty to -- challenge vociferously all unsubstantiated claims. Otherwise, we ourselves become propagandists.

submitted 16 hours ago • 169 comments

NIH institutes are mandated Congressionally. Under no previous understanding of any of this legislation would anyone have imagined this meant total political control of funding priorities within a broader idea of health and research

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Anti-vaxxers are blaming hospitals for medical errors, rather than attributing the deaths to measles itself. And RFK Jr. is also doubling down on the long-discredited link between vaccines and autism — thus contributing to rising rates of vaccine hesitancy. notadoctor.news/2025/04/11/t...

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Doctors blamed hospitals/doctors with Covid too. Full circle. sciencebasedmedicine.org/newagain/

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Louisiana state public health dept abdicating its duty to the public, enacting a ban on promoting lifesaving vaccines. No events, presentations, social media, clinic signs, etc. False claims & disinfo spread by those charged with protecting the public's health, and nothing's in place to stop them.

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I'll start with the Dad Joke: "My mood ring is broken, and I don't know how I feel about that." Maybe you've got an aquarium or forehead thermometer that works the same way. How do thermochromic films like this work? The answer is liquid crystals, but what the heck is a liquid crystal?

submitted 18 hours ago • 3 comments

Making the first batch of home made ice tea for the season this morning. These are herbs/flowers dried from my garden. I add in a little loose leaf black tea for oomph. I make it a gallon at a time and we go through it in a day or two. 🌱

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Last night, at 2am, this pile of brown paper packing material morphed into a monster. Thank goodness our Yodeling Guard Doge was paying attention or we might have all been mauled with paper cuts.

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Replanted the red raspberry bed. Last year's drought - and owner forgetfulness - killed off almost all the plants. So, four new Raspberry Brandywines + some of the everbearing red starts that popped up around the bed from what grew before and I have a refreshed fruit bed.🌱

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Someone peeled off the red one I saw last week. The person who put it up, came back with a white one.

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Half a career spent doing HIV lab research. To be privileged to witness a deadly disease turned into a manageable one, witness the advances made in the era of PrEP, and see near-perfect prevention in sight (potential eradication!), only to see it all dismantled so thoroughly, hurts my heart. 💔

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Boston area folks: just learned about this ICE Hotline to report ICE activity in the area: 🚨617-370-5023 - 5am-9pm every day - English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Haitian Creole, more soon - operated by Luce Mass. more info: www.lucemass.org

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It’s so odd... In nearly 14 years as an attending anesthesiologist, I haven't had a single patient request “alternative medicine” for their general anesthetic

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Dr Peter Marks, "Vaccines have been studied very extensively for being potentially associated with autism" "That theory has been debunked" "One study in Denmark, over 600,000 children. It shows that if anything, children had a lower rate of autism than unvaccinated children"

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The message China is sending to the US is “we don’t need you and we don’t care, we have survived for 5,000 years (for most of which the US didn’t exist) and we’ll survive for another 5,000” It’s not looking good for the USA.

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For those who thought Omicron was the "off ramp" to reopen schools and go back to work. Kids and cardiac sequelae. Over a million in the study. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Called my congressman who voted for the SAVE act. Me: What documents will I need to vote if this passes? Staffer: a DL and birth certificate. Me: The documents don’t match Staffer: Then a marriage certificate. Me: Will my husband need the marriage certificate too? Staffer: No Me: See the problem?

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CC @pedinska.bsky.social ends midnight tonight

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"There is no reason to think that these tactics will be limited to North Carolina."

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talked to someone at one of the top italian tailoring firms. they plan on moving manufacturing to the US. said that generations of italian tailoring skill and culture can probably be transported to boise, idaho. expect flawless transition by monday.

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The day is coming and I mean very soon where any speech deemed “a threat to national security” by any citizen will be subject to censure and prosecution. That anti terrorism loophole is going to be everyone’s downfall. Everyone.

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It isn't just measles rising. Other vaccine-preventable diseases are too. Whooping cough has killed 5 kids this year. So far. www.propublica.org/article/whoo...

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good morning to everyone especially cities where we are fixing flooding issues

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

There is nothing better than hard work done in the service of the Public Good

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Thursday was the third time in less than four weeks that Gibson County, Indiana, was hit by a tornado. - March 15 (early AM long track EF2) - April 2 (end of an EF1) - April 10 (EF1 in Princeton)

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Teachers so reliably spend their own money on your children that it is hardwired into our tax code. This is not a heartwarming success story.

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Just reminding folks that there are some very wealthy people out there who are happy with this stormy economy, and have all the tools they need to swoop in as the markets are listing and plunder what's left of our livelihoods. Leaving us with nothing. This isn't just capitalism: it's piracy.

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The dollar crashing is great news for all of us Brits who've found the US unaffordable since Brexit, except when we try to visit we're going to be turned away at the border because we liked a tweet saying slavery was bad

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