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We have let Black people down, more than any other group of non-whites – historically and currently. We took their lives away from them as slaves in our country.
BLACK LIVES MATTER
BLACK LIVES MATTER
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It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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December 21, 2025 at 2:51 AM
It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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Excellent. I think I get it now.
Love this short opinion piece on “mechanical bypass” in analogy to “spiritual bypass”.
The “machinal bypass” and how we’re using AI to avoid ourselves | PNAS
The “machinal bypass” and how we’re using AI to avoid ourselves
www.pnas.org
December 21, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Excellent. I think I get it now.
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I fell off a ladder in August. The bill for the 1.7 mile ambulance ride is $4387.31.
Our $4500 per MONTH Cigna insurance won’t pay more than $600, because the ambulance is out of network.
There are no in-network ambulances in our county, and I was unconscious when it was called.
Our $4500 per MONTH Cigna insurance won’t pay more than $600, because the ambulance is out of network.
There are no in-network ambulances in our county, and I was unconscious when it was called.
December 20, 2025 at 6:00 PM
I fell off a ladder in August. The bill for the 1.7 mile ambulance ride is $4387.31.
Our $4500 per MONTH Cigna insurance won’t pay more than $600, because the ambulance is out of network.
There are no in-network ambulances in our county, and I was unconscious when it was called.
Our $4500 per MONTH Cigna insurance won’t pay more than $600, because the ambulance is out of network.
There are no in-network ambulances in our county, and I was unconscious when it was called.
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Elegant orange sunburst #lichen, Rusavskia elegans. This photo was taken at around -40C/F…amazing how they thrive in pretty extreme environments. Northwest Territories, Canada. #fungi #fungifriends.
December 19, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Elegant orange sunburst #lichen, Rusavskia elegans. This photo was taken at around -40C/F…amazing how they thrive in pretty extreme environments. Northwest Territories, Canada. #fungi #fungifriends.
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If you approach current events through a Eurocentric lens, you're not going to be ready for what's coming next, and you won't understand how to survive it.
One of many reasons that white antifascists need to study Black thinkers. The Plantation was the original Camp. The original gulag.
One of many reasons that white antifascists need to study Black thinkers. The Plantation was the original Camp. The original gulag.
December 19, 2025 at 9:00 AM
If you approach current events through a Eurocentric lens, you're not going to be ready for what's coming next, and you won't understand how to survive it.
One of many reasons that white antifascists need to study Black thinkers. The Plantation was the original Camp. The original gulag.
One of many reasons that white antifascists need to study Black thinkers. The Plantation was the original Camp. The original gulag.
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>>1,450,000 military members will receive a "warrior dividend" of $1776 before Christmas<<
and Christmas Carol crumbs for the rest of us
and Christmas Carol crumbs for the rest of us
December 18, 2025 at 2:39 AM
>>1,450,000 military members will receive a "warrior dividend" of $1776 before Christmas<<
and Christmas Carol crumbs for the rest of us
and Christmas Carol crumbs for the rest of us
>>1,450,000 military members will receive a "warrior dividend" of $1776 before Christmas<<
and Christmas Carol crumbs for the rest of us
and Christmas Carol crumbs for the rest of us
December 18, 2025 at 2:39 AM
>>1,450,000 military members will receive a "warrior dividend" of $1776 before Christmas<<
and Christmas Carol crumbs for the rest of us
and Christmas Carol crumbs for the rest of us
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After the picturesque, mood was the most important watchword of the Hague School, and this early work (1907) by Piet Mondrian complies with both. Its title, 'Haystacks, Dusk,' suggests a mood, the idyllic mood of the departing day.
December 17, 2025 at 11:08 PM
After the picturesque, mood was the most important watchword of the Hague School, and this early work (1907) by Piet Mondrian complies with both. Its title, 'Haystacks, Dusk,' suggests a mood, the idyllic mood of the departing day.
Big problem.
Coons (DE), Durbin (IL), Fetterman (PA), Gallego (AZ), Hassan (NH), Heinrich (NM), Hirono (HI), Kaine (VA), Kelly (AZ), King (ME), Klobuchar (MN), Peters (MI), Reed (RI), Rosen (NV), Schiff (CA), Shaheen (NH), Welch (VT), and Whitehouse (RI)
Coons (DE), Durbin (IL), Fetterman (PA), Gallego (AZ), Hassan (NH), Heinrich (NM), Hirono (HI), Kaine (VA), Kelly (AZ), King (ME), Klobuchar (MN), Peters (MI), Reed (RI), Rosen (NV), Schiff (CA), Shaheen (NH), Welch (VT), and Whitehouse (RI)
This is a judicial emergency.
Every Trump judicial nominee in 2025 refused to acknowledge the 2020 election or January 6. And 18 Senate Democrats confirmed them anyway.
When courts bend to authoritarian demands, justice collapses. Fight back now: www.qasimrashid.com/p/democrats-...
Every Trump judicial nominee in 2025 refused to acknowledge the 2020 election or January 6. And 18 Senate Democrats confirmed them anyway.
When courts bend to authoritarian demands, justice collapses. Fight back now: www.qasimrashid.com/p/democrats-...
Democrats Are Confirming Trump’s Crony Judges — And It’s an Indefensible Failure
Here's what you need to know, and the key call to action I need you to take to fight back
www.qasimrashid.com
December 17, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Big problem.
Coons (DE), Durbin (IL), Fetterman (PA), Gallego (AZ), Hassan (NH), Heinrich (NM), Hirono (HI), Kaine (VA), Kelly (AZ), King (ME), Klobuchar (MN), Peters (MI), Reed (RI), Rosen (NV), Schiff (CA), Shaheen (NH), Welch (VT), and Whitehouse (RI)
Coons (DE), Durbin (IL), Fetterman (PA), Gallego (AZ), Hassan (NH), Heinrich (NM), Hirono (HI), Kaine (VA), Kelly (AZ), King (ME), Klobuchar (MN), Peters (MI), Reed (RI), Rosen (NV), Schiff (CA), Shaheen (NH), Welch (VT), and Whitehouse (RI)
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Harvard student press is really worth engaging with. This article in particular...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Harvard’s Moral Bankruptcy | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson
If our administration cannot find the conviction to enforce its own standards — if it cannot hold even its most notorious faculty accountable — then the institution’s rot has spread to the top.
www.thecrimson.com
December 17, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Harvard student press is really worth engaging with. This article in particular...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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We have let Black people down, more than any other group of non-whites – historically and currently. We took their lives away from them as slaves in our country.
BLACK LIVES MATTER
BLACK LIVES MATTER
December 17, 2025 at 2:31 PM
We have let Black people down, more than any other group of non-whites – historically and currently. We took their lives away from them as slaves in our country.
BLACK LIVES MATTER
BLACK LIVES MATTER
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In my case, this painstaking labor in the process through which the science gets done. Science isn't measuring stuff in a lab. It's thinking deeply, extracting the heart of idea from the soup of thoughts running through my mind, molding it, and finding a way to communicate that idea to others.
December 16, 2025 at 11:46 PM
In my case, this painstaking labor in the process through which the science gets done. Science isn't measuring stuff in a lab. It's thinking deeply, extracting the heart of idea from the soup of thoughts running through my mind, molding it, and finding a way to communicate that idea to others.
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Another privileged millionaire who accumulated wealth by scam & fraud and escaped doing any jail time. Instead he sits in the Senate blocking affordable healthcare for the poor and middle class. His time is coming.
"I love that Rick Scott is on CNN talking about all the waste and deception in the health care/insurance business. He really is an expert since his company paid a record $1.7 billion in fines for Medicare fraud."
December 17, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Another privileged millionaire who accumulated wealth by scam & fraud and escaped doing any jail time. Instead he sits in the Senate blocking affordable healthcare for the poor and middle class. His time is coming.
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We gave Jay Bhattacharya an opportunity to clarify his vaccine stance: does he REALLY believe that the vaccine is worse than the disease? Instead, he launched into a defense of MAHA as the future of scientific inquiry, and never really gave us a straight answer...
@repauchincloss.bsky.social
@repauchincloss.bsky.social
December 16, 2025 at 2:55 PM
We gave Jay Bhattacharya an opportunity to clarify his vaccine stance: does he REALLY believe that the vaccine is worse than the disease? Instead, he launched into a defense of MAHA as the future of scientific inquiry, and never really gave us a straight answer...
@repauchincloss.bsky.social
@repauchincloss.bsky.social
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Well, this is an utter disaster for science.
This gutting of peer review is very likely driven by Project 2025/OMB/Vought, very likely is about funding junk science, and very likely is coming for #NIH and biomedical research next.
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This gutting of peer review is very likely driven by Project 2025/OMB/Vought, very likely is about funding junk science, and very likely is coming for #NIH and biomedical research next.
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December 16, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Well, this is an utter disaster for science.
This gutting of peer review is very likely driven by Project 2025/OMB/Vought, very likely is about funding junk science, and very likely is coming for #NIH and biomedical research next.
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This gutting of peer review is very likely driven by Project 2025/OMB/Vought, very likely is about funding junk science, and very likely is coming for #NIH and biomedical research next.
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My sincere thanks to those who share their kind and generous hearts here on Bluesky.
December 15, 2025 at 9:51 AM
My sincere thanks to those who share their kind and generous hearts here on Bluesky.
I love turtles.
The loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta) can grow to more than 450 kg (1,000 lb) and live for over 65 years
📹Pelagic Ventures Scuba
📹Pelagic Ventures Scuba
December 14, 2025 at 4:57 PM
I love turtles.
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December 13, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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Ahmed (or Ahmad, Ahmet) is an Arabic name meaning "highly praised, " "most commendable," or "one who constantly thanks God," derived from the root word for praise (H-M-D)
And as someone else mentioned... So good they named him it twice!
Righteous naming!
And as someone else mentioned... So good they named him it twice!
Righteous naming!
December 14, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Ahmed (or Ahmad, Ahmet) is an Arabic name meaning "highly praised, " "most commendable," or "one who constantly thanks God," derived from the root word for praise (H-M-D)
And as someone else mentioned... So good they named him it twice!
Righteous naming!
And as someone else mentioned... So good they named him it twice!
Righteous naming!
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Australian news reporting that the hero bystander here is named Ahmed al Ahmed. Muslim, father of two.
December 14, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Australian news reporting that the hero bystander here is named Ahmed al Ahmed. Muslim, father of two.
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Caring is an act of resistance in a system that thrives on indifference.
December 13, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Caring is an act of resistance in a system that thrives on indifference.
VA cuts from WaPo
December 13, 2025 at 9:39 PM
VA cuts from WaPo
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Yesterday, Spc Sarah Becstrom was laid to rest in West Virginia at a VA National Cemetery.
Surprisingly none of the major major news media mention it. No flags were lower to half staff.
Well the Convicted FElon keeps the news focus on him.
www.wvva.com/2025/12/10/s...
Surprisingly none of the major major news media mention it. No flags were lower to half staff.
Well the Convicted FElon keeps the news focus on him.
www.wvva.com/2025/12/10/s...
Spc. Sarah Beckstrom laid to rest with full military honors at W.Va. National Cemetery
Spc. Sarah Beckstrom was laid to rest with full military honors Tuesday in Grafton.
www.wvva.com
December 11, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Yesterday, Spc Sarah Becstrom was laid to rest in West Virginia at a VA National Cemetery.
Surprisingly none of the major major news media mention it. No flags were lower to half staff.
Well the Convicted FElon keeps the news focus on him.
www.wvva.com/2025/12/10/s...
Surprisingly none of the major major news media mention it. No flags were lower to half staff.
Well the Convicted FElon keeps the news focus on him.
www.wvva.com/2025/12/10/s...
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Michigan football, now-former coach Sherrone Moore, & most of all this young woman, Paige Shiver, are all having a terrible, awful, no good, very bad day today. The only one I feel sorry for is her. She made a mistake, a bad one but nevertheless a mistake. What's coming next will be awful for her.
December 11, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Michigan football, now-former coach Sherrone Moore, & most of all this young woman, Paige Shiver, are all having a terrible, awful, no good, very bad day today. The only one I feel sorry for is her. She made a mistake, a bad one but nevertheless a mistake. What's coming next will be awful for her.
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New in the December 11, 2025, issue of NEJM:
High-Dose Influenza Vaccine in Older Adults (DANFLU-2 trial) nej.md/4lPGMtT
High-Dose Influenza Vaccine and Hospitalizations (GALFLU trial) nej.md/46712T2
High-Dose Influenza Vaccine in Older Adults (DANFLU-2 trial) nej.md/4lPGMtT
High-Dose Influenza Vaccine and Hospitalizations (GALFLU trial) nej.md/46712T2
December 11, 2025 at 2:02 PM
New in the December 11, 2025, issue of NEJM:
High-Dose Influenza Vaccine in Older Adults (DANFLU-2 trial) nej.md/4lPGMtT
High-Dose Influenza Vaccine and Hospitalizations (GALFLU trial) nej.md/46712T2
High-Dose Influenza Vaccine in Older Adults (DANFLU-2 trial) nej.md/4lPGMtT
High-Dose Influenza Vaccine and Hospitalizations (GALFLU trial) nej.md/46712T2