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Recovering Breatharian | n = 1 | clinical AI for a living | @squishy middle part of ‘merica | i stop for good words and art | i know I should light more candles, yet always tempted to throw bombs | music addict lately 70s-80s hardcore
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Trump signs executive order to influence college accreditation process - CBS News

I Should Have Seen This Coming - The Atlantic

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Ditto, for my hot dog stand down the street. Enough of the guy stealing $3 from me Each. Week.

Appreciate insightful coverage @keawilson.bsky.social @usa.streetsblog.org on our collaboration (@annalivia.bsky.social & Frechette) on walkability & inherent problems of Walk Score as tied to inequitable, racialized investment flows fueling destination proximity usa.streetsblog.org/2025/04/07/i...

The money shot: “the richest man in the world was secretly paying talented PoE 2 gamers to build up highly-leveled characters that made it look like he was proficient at the RPG — a bizarre scheme *Musk later admitted to.*”

Ominous New Report Just Lists Places To Hide theonion.com/ominous...

Capitulate or resist? Trump threats spur different responses, and alarm for democracy - Los Angeles Times | => 120 / 200 Law School Deans refusing to sign position statement about retribution vs law firms, is yet another canary in the coal mine.

Hot new stock pick 😭

This thread by a senator suggests that Trump is up to something different than what many assume—he is effectively taking the US/global economy hostage

Marc Thiessen has possibly the worst take/excuse for this bit of inexcusable incompetence and obvious attempt to avoid accountability, which is no surprise to anyone who is familiar with the inexcusable incompetence of Marc Thiessen.

Used car lots gonna be HUGE

PSA: Since ‘embarrassing’ and its other forms ‘embarrassed’ and ‘embarrassment’ are my early nom for the 2025 Word of the Year Award, please take care to spell it correctly: two r’s, two esses. Thank you

As the administration continues to shutter vaccine sites and lay off cancer researchers, Trump has spent $40 million to hold migrants at Gitmo for the last month. Currently, there are more than 1,000 military personnel there — and 85 migrants. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/u...

So if you’re a mostly self-sufficient island economy that buys a few things from the US but sells 10x that trade value to the US in coconuts, the little island now has to pay a ~90% tariff on the coconuts because it was somehow “stealing” from the US? #tariffmath

Well, i guess that’s one way to make US goods cheaper to trading partners

22 weeks apart.

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Fun fact: the Boston Tea Party was a protest against a tariff.

What to wear, what to wear…

Would be cool if anyone could point to any facts, documentary evidence, selfies, anything but hyperbole, related to the “large amounts of Fentanyl” coming through Canada border.

Just going on the record to predict that the Adminstration’s great leap into the unknown…via the launch of an omnifront trade war (aka “Liberation Day”) will have horrible known first-order consequences to Americans, & horrible second-order consequences to us (known unknowns). I hope I am wrong.

Goodnight. The Cloud Ships on a Windy Night, 1891, St. Nicholas Vol. 18: An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks.

You won’t see this on teevee… www.latintimes.com/11-year-old-...

This says it all

GA Rep Buddy Carter (D) ushers the Idiocracy into Phase II… "America is back and will soon be bigger than ever with the addition of Red, White, and Blueland," said Rep. Buddy Carter. www.newsweek.com/republican-p...

Adding to the list www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/22/c...

reichest man in the world I'm just asking for ONE frontpage typo tomorrow. ONE.

Latest in Dr. Richard Horowitz 's series. Rates of this tick-borne parasite have been steadily rising. Here's what you need to know. MEDICAL DETECTIVE #6: All about Babesia, aka "American malaria" www.lymedisease.org/babesia-the-...

One thing before tomorrow: Use your local libraries. Get your card. Borrow books, manga, films, audios, ebooks. Recommend titles for purchase (usually online). Attend promoted activities. Fill out those "How are we doing?" questionnaires. Tell your kids that libraries are good. They are. 📚

Crazy to think that just 4 years ago Amanda Gorman read The Hill We Climb

Please buy books and read them. It will matter moving forward.

America

Take it from someone who’s done Drytober, Sobervember, and Drycember, this here NA brew is the 💣 #Alesmith #DryJanuary

Pro Tip: If you or someone you know has had challenges with providers diagnosing their health symptoms AND you live in a place with Lyme-carrying ticks, I urge you to ask your provider to test for Lyme, STAT. images.app.goo.gl/vRDiVy8bhS1n...

Trump’s tariffs—the biggest US policy blunder since the Iraq Invasion??? stocks.apple.com/AxKw74unbSvK...

Illinois’ offensive (left) and defensive (right) shot chart through two games is a shot quality dream. Take dunks and threes, force the opponent into mid range jumpers. Shot maps via cbbanalytics.com/stats/38409/...

www.nytimes.com/2023/09/08/m...

What I wrote to my daughter, who just voted in Utah, in her first election, when she asked me who I think will win: 🧵1/4 I am not sure, dude. My first election I voted for DUKAKIS vs GW Bush Sr. and it was a different country then. Yes, there was racism and sexism and bigotry, but elections were-