Paige
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quilter | angel city fan | adhd | professional korok hunter | still taking covid seriously
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This resolution, and the one filed against RFK Jr. yesterday, are reflections of the Dem base's hunger for a more aggressive, confrontational Democratic Party.
The way we get a more aggressive, confrontational Democratic Party is via politicians playing to the base.
The way we get a more aggressive, confrontational Democratic Party is via politicians playing to the base.
December 10, 2025 at 3:28 PM
This resolution, and the one filed against RFK Jr. yesterday, are reflections of the Dem base's hunger for a more aggressive, confrontational Democratic Party.
The way we get a more aggressive, confrontational Democratic Party is via politicians playing to the base.
The way we get a more aggressive, confrontational Democratic Party is via politicians playing to the base.
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Shocking twist, there is actually some debate about whether the testosterone dose was too high. Overall the kid seems to be doing better with it than without it.
There is literally no story here other than "Father Objects To Son's Happiness."
www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/u...
There is literally no story here other than "Father Objects To Son's Happiness."
www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/u...
December 10, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Shocking twist, there is actually some debate about whether the testosterone dose was too high. Overall the kid seems to be doing better with it than without it.
There is literally no story here other than "Father Objects To Son's Happiness."
www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/u...
There is literally no story here other than "Father Objects To Son's Happiness."
www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/u...
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I think in thirty years when the full story about what’s going on with Trump and his health and who actually is in charge and how they’re hiding everything and what is happening behind the scenes comes out it is going to be so, so, so, so much worse then we are imagining.
December 10, 2025 at 10:06 PM
I think in thirty years when the full story about what’s going on with Trump and his health and who actually is in charge and how they’re hiding everything and what is happening behind the scenes comes out it is going to be so, so, so, so much worse then we are imagining.
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I love adding this one data point to economic charts. It works every time.
April 29, 2025 at 4:41 PM
I love adding this one data point to economic charts. It works every time.
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They are eugenicists who equate virtue, health, and "good genes." They have no fear of their own loved ones dying because they think the people who matter have all three and are therefore bulletproof to infectious disease. They are malicious fools.
They are not “skeptics,” they are extremist science deniers who think that some children deserve to die
US health regulators informed senior executives at Merck, Sanofi and AstraZeneca last week that their approved protective RSV treatments for infants would face fresh safety scrutiny following concerns raised by vaccine skeptics, multiple sources familiar with the situation told Reuters.
December 10, 2025 at 2:43 PM
They are eugenicists who equate virtue, health, and "good genes." They have no fear of their own loved ones dying because they think the people who matter have all three and are therefore bulletproof to infectious disease. They are malicious fools.
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287 kids died last flu season. not too late to get everyone their flu shots!
6/ Pediatric flu vaccination continues to fall, now at 35.8%, a 23% drop since 2019. Adult rates remain steady, but still below national goals of 70%. After a year of federal chaos, shifting CDC messaging, and low perceived risk, urgency has evaporated, which is unsurprising.
December 10, 2025 at 4:45 AM
287 kids died last flu season. not too late to get everyone their flu shots!
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Making “podcasts” an award category would be like if the golden globes combined the nominees for best comedy and musical
December 10, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Making “podcasts” an award category would be like if the golden globes combined the nominees for best comedy and musical
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🚨 Today, I formally introduced articles of impeachment against Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
RFK Jr. has turned his back on science and the safety of the American people. Michiganders cannot take another day of his chaos.
RFK Jr. has turned his back on science and the safety of the American people. Michiganders cannot take another day of his chaos.
December 10, 2025 at 1:10 PM
🚨 Today, I formally introduced articles of impeachment against Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
RFK Jr. has turned his back on science and the safety of the American people. Michiganders cannot take another day of his chaos.
RFK Jr. has turned his back on science and the safety of the American people. Michiganders cannot take another day of his chaos.
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That's what gets me. I know nothing about fonts and care little about them, but this is so dickish. "We made this change to help people, so we've decided to reverse it because helping people is bad."
December 10, 2025 at 3:26 PM
That's what gets me. I know nothing about fonts and care little about them, but this is so dickish. "We made this change to help people, so we've decided to reverse it because helping people is bad."
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I can’t say too often: we know how this plays out because we’ve seen it before.
Anti-vax wins equal dead kids and grownups (but especially kids).
Yes, do everything you can to protect yourself and those you love. But this is a society problem, not one individuals can ”win” on their own.
Anti-vax wins equal dead kids and grownups (but especially kids).
Yes, do everything you can to protect yourself and those you love. But this is a society problem, not one individuals can ”win” on their own.
December 10, 2025 at 1:02 AM
I can’t say too often: we know how this plays out because we’ve seen it before.
Anti-vax wins equal dead kids and grownups (but especially kids).
Yes, do everything you can to protect yourself and those you love. But this is a society problem, not one individuals can ”win” on their own.
Anti-vax wins equal dead kids and grownups (but especially kids).
Yes, do everything you can to protect yourself and those you love. But this is a society problem, not one individuals can ”win” on their own.
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this but pervasively throughout culture. dyi ethos never more vital
the motion smoothing ethos
December 9, 2025 at 7:29 PM
this but pervasively throughout culture. dyi ethos never more vital
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"Our analysis shows that in the aftermath of extreme weather events, lower-income neighbourhoods are less likely to rebuild and do not return to their pre-disaster state, whereas higher-income areas rebuild and tend to improve...highlighting increasing disparities in their built environments."
Nature research paper: Built environment disparities are amplified during extreme weather recovery
go.nature.com/3YcD2ZS
go.nature.com/3YcD2ZS
Built environment disparities are amplified during extreme weather recovery - Nature
Higher-income neighbourhoods rebuild and improve after disasters while lower-income areas do not return to pre-disaster conditions.
go.nature.com
December 8, 2025 at 12:00 PM
"Our analysis shows that in the aftermath of extreme weather events, lower-income neighbourhoods are less likely to rebuild and do not return to their pre-disaster state, whereas higher-income areas rebuild and tend to improve...highlighting increasing disparities in their built environments."
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Good morning! I’m currently at Beaverton High School in OR where a mass student walk out has just started to demand a proactive ICE protocol for their school and district.
Students say that similar walkouts were planned at multiple other high schools, including Aloha, Sunset, Southridge & more.
Students say that similar walkouts were planned at multiple other high schools, including Aloha, Sunset, Southridge & more.
December 8, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Good morning! I’m currently at Beaverton High School in OR where a mass student walk out has just started to demand a proactive ICE protocol for their school and district.
Students say that similar walkouts were planned at multiple other high schools, including Aloha, Sunset, Southridge & more.
Students say that similar walkouts were planned at multiple other high schools, including Aloha, Sunset, Southridge & more.
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One of the most disturbing things about the U.S. government getting themselves into the anti-vaccine game is that it is a time-release poison pill.
It will take a few years before the worst of the harm is visible to enough people that they will truly understand what has been done to them.
It will take a few years before the worst of the harm is visible to enough people that they will truly understand what has been done to them.
December 8, 2025 at 9:43 PM
One of the most disturbing things about the U.S. government getting themselves into the anti-vaccine game is that it is a time-release poison pill.
It will take a few years before the worst of the harm is visible to enough people that they will truly understand what has been done to them.
It will take a few years before the worst of the harm is visible to enough people that they will truly understand what has been done to them.
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We actually should not have empathy for people who subjugate children to their own torturous personal beliefs. These children suffered just as much pain and permanent disability as if they had been severely physically abused. This is not an innocent mistake. A functioning society cannot allow this.
December 9, 2025 at 3:12 AM
We actually should not have empathy for people who subjugate children to their own torturous personal beliefs. These children suffered just as much pain and permanent disability as if they had been severely physically abused. This is not an innocent mistake. A functioning society cannot allow this.
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This whole so-called “parents rights” movement the right has taken up and the left is supposed to kowtow to for votes is so obviously anti-child it really bothers me to see it presented as anything other than justification for abusive “parenting” and disregard for actual science on child development
December 9, 2025 at 3:16 AM
This whole so-called “parents rights” movement the right has taken up and the left is supposed to kowtow to for votes is so obviously anti-child it really bothers me to see it presented as anything other than justification for abusive “parenting” and disregard for actual science on child development
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One time the local Staples (office supply store) went out of business and had a liquidation sale and my sister’s boyfriend and a couple of his friends went and bought about a thousand boxes of post it notes for 10 bucks total and six months later they did this to my dads office
December 8, 2025 at 5:36 PM
One time the local Staples (office supply store) went out of business and had a liquidation sale and my sister’s boyfriend and a couple of his friends went and bought about a thousand boxes of post it notes for 10 bucks total and six months later they did this to my dads office
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It's the same problem as "childcare is insanely expensive and childcare providers are woefully underpaid" and the solutions on both counts are systemic not individual
not sure how to square ‘no one person can be reasonably expected to pay for every media subscription’ with ‘sorely underpaid writers need to make a living’ but my inclination is not to locate that problem with any of the broke ass people on either end of the complaint
December 8, 2025 at 5:36 PM
It's the same problem as "childcare is insanely expensive and childcare providers are woefully underpaid" and the solutions on both counts are systemic not individual
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We're half a decade into studies finding that improving airflow in classrooms will reduce disease transmission enormously, and that bleaching surfaces etc. does very little. And yet nothing changes. Waves of flu and colds wash over schools, and the schools pretend it's an act of God.
The relative contribution of close-proximity contacts, shared classroom exposure and indoor air quality to respiratory virus transmission in schools - Nature Communications
The relative importance of close-proximity interactions, shared space and air quality to the transmission of respiratory viruses is not well understood. Here, the authors investigate this question by ...
www.nature.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:23 AM
We're half a decade into studies finding that improving airflow in classrooms will reduce disease transmission enormously, and that bleaching surfaces etc. does very little. And yet nothing changes. Waves of flu and colds wash over schools, and the schools pretend it's an act of God.
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I want to take a writing workshop or course or join a writing group or something. I've started looking things up, and am having trouble finding anything that looks right (and that I can afford), but I'm still looking!
December 8, 2025 at 4:58 AM
I want to take a writing workshop or course or join a writing group or something. I've started looking things up, and am having trouble finding anything that looks right (and that I can afford), but I'm still looking!
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Yeah. All of the strikes have been just as illegal as if Iran sunk a Disney cruise because it suspected passengers carried weed.
But this one is so blatant—helpless survivors on an already-damaged ship—that it's impossible to fabricate any rationale. It's a crack worth widening.
But this one is so blatant—helpless survivors on an already-damaged ship—that it's impossible to fabricate any rationale. It's a crack worth widening.
I get this but plenty of people had been calling all the strikes murder and it hadn't broken through. This revelation did and put even Republicans on the defensive and willing to do some oversignt. My sense is that any crack the regime's implacability is a foothold.
Once the debate centers on whether the 2nd strike was legal, the first 21 strikes have been accepted as baseline. But the murder of the two survivors doesn’t make the other 21 any more legal. Selective outrage, not silence, is how authoritarianism becomes normalized @tadstoermer.bsky.social
December 6, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Yeah. All of the strikes have been just as illegal as if Iran sunk a Disney cruise because it suspected passengers carried weed.
But this one is so blatant—helpless survivors on an already-damaged ship—that it's impossible to fabricate any rationale. It's a crack worth widening.
But this one is so blatant—helpless survivors on an already-damaged ship—that it's impossible to fabricate any rationale. It's a crack worth widening.
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I don’t want to vote for a Democrat who promises to get Trump’s voters to vote for them. I want a Democrat who wants to put Trump in prison
December 6, 2025 at 9:29 PM
I don’t want to vote for a Democrat who promises to get Trump’s voters to vote for them. I want a Democrat who wants to put Trump in prison
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Glad I saved this by @longwall26.bsky.social
December 7, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Glad I saved this by @longwall26.bsky.social
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So we decided we should protect every baby.
Just like we decided to protect every baby by fortifying the food supply with folic acid, so that they would not have neural tube defects.
Just like we started doing community water fluoridation to protect everyone's teeth from cavities (and in...
Just like we decided to protect every baby by fortifying the food supply with folic acid, so that they would not have neural tube defects.
Just like we started doing community water fluoridation to protect everyone's teeth from cavities (and in...
December 7, 2025 at 9:08 PM
So we decided we should protect every baby.
Just like we decided to protect every baby by fortifying the food supply with folic acid, so that they would not have neural tube defects.
Just like we started doing community water fluoridation to protect everyone's teeth from cavities (and in...
Just like we decided to protect every baby by fortifying the food supply with folic acid, so that they would not have neural tube defects.
Just like we started doing community water fluoridation to protect everyone's teeth from cavities (and in...
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the process may have greatly reduced their risk of many other diseases).
The parts of our genome that vary between individuals are important. But so are the parts of our genome that are shared.
The parts of our environment that vary are important. But so do the parts that are shared.
The parts of our genome that vary between individuals are important. But so are the parts of our genome that are shared.
The parts of our environment that vary are important. But so do the parts that are shared.
December 7, 2025 at 9:08 PM
the process may have greatly reduced their risk of many other diseases).
The parts of our genome that vary between individuals are important. But so are the parts of our genome that are shared.
The parts of our environment that vary are important. But so do the parts that are shared.
The parts of our genome that vary between individuals are important. But so are the parts of our genome that are shared.
The parts of our environment that vary are important. But so do the parts that are shared.