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Baking, book club, & hockey. I wish I could say this equates to hours of distraction, but at least it brought some smiles.

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The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

submitted 7 days ago • 410 comments

@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social Bergen County, NJ measles alert

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submitted 15 days ago • 476 comments

PM of Canada tells business group, overheard on hot mic: Trump is dead serious about wanting to annex Canada. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

submitted 15 days ago • 12 comments

A measles outbreak is growing in a Texas county with dangerously low vaccination rates. Public health practitioners warn such outbreaks will become more common because of scores of laws around the U.S. — pending and passed — that ultimately lower vaccine rates. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

submitted 15 days ago • 20 comments

NEW — DOGE now has full access to HHS Payment Management System, I’ve learned. The system distributes almost $1 trillion per year in grants (largest in the govt) and supports all of NIH, CDC + many other public health initiatives. Musk guy Luke Farritor is actively delaying payments to recipients.

submitted 17 days ago • 288 comments

Any four Republican Senators could stop this at any time simply by threatening to block all action (or even caucus with the Democrats) if Trump doesn't make certain concessions. They won't, but that should be a much bigger story than whether the Democrats are doing everything that *they* can.

submitted 18 days ago • 199 comments

Conservative budget wonks (Manhattan Instiutte, Tax Foundation) confirming that this is a consittutional crisis. Not liberal hysteria. Happening right now.

submitted 19 days ago • 144 comments

Maryland’s AG is building a million-dollar litigation team to battle Trump

submitted 21 days ago • 5 comments

We, and only we, are the People. “There’s zero you can do about that.” No one is even pretending (“heal the nation” etc.) anymore.

submitted 22 days ago • 46 comments

@vanhollen.senate.gov @kaine.senate.gov @markwarner.bsky.social

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

BREAKING: Aircraft crash reported near National Airport

submitted 24 days ago • 8 comments

SCAM ALERT: You might have heard that the IRS will make automatic $1,400 payments to about 1 million people who did not receive their COVID stimulus payments. Today I got this scam text trying to lure victims based on the premise they have to apply for the IRS payments. You don’t.

submitted 29 days ago • 6 comments

Regardless of the platform, today’s news is an ongoing version of is or isn’t it an Onion headline

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

Took long enough. Hey strangers.

submitted 464 days ago • 1 comment