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HTX, knitter, therapist.

Let go or be dragged. (Zen proverb)

#chronicpain #longcovid
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Wow. Tracy Beth Høeg, the FDA's new acting director of the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) just put this slide up during her presentation to ACIP.

We have left reality.
December 5, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Person who actually deserves a trophy is the artist who made the FIFA peace prize trophy look like everyone in the entire world holding their head in their hands out of secondhand embarrassment
December 5, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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TIL that I am qualified to be a business reporter, at least on Fox.

Seriously, bookmark this clip in case you ever feel imposter syndrome. Subchapter vee? AYFKMRN?
Fox Business attempts to do a segment on spiking small business bankruptcies, but one host says "is it chapter V or 5? I don't even know" and another one gets mad about the segment itself (because even discussing rising bankruptcies looks bad for Trump)

But note the voice of reason at the end!
December 5, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Reminder to all the parents out there - Summer is coming
I had a very successful debut as a kid summer camp scheduler last year. The first thing I learned is that summer starts in December.
December 5, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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What is the quintessential Onion headline? The strong contender that just randomly popped in my mind is "Hank Williams Jr. Honored by Institute For Football Preparedness"
May 19, 2024 at 12:26 PM
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I love this one, but there's so many. Tim Duncan has an HOF wing at the Onion
December 4, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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"They never put the news in the news. Have you noticed that? I did. No it's, I'm fine. It's just allergies. Are you a cop? We are democratizing the panopticon. Is Bruno Mars just one guy? God, these are some good allergies."
December 5, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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congrat's to ya'll
December 5, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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excited to award my kids the Burger King Peace Prize this weekend
December 5, 2025 at 6:14 PM
And the USPS should provide low cost banking services! No-fee checking, check cashing, etc. The Postal Savings System used to exist! It can be done!
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
December 5, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
December 5, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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I think it’s bad that leaders of companies are visibly up to their gills in stimulants now. Did nobody tell them that, contrary to how they make you feel, those things make you stupid? This is why everyone needs some fuck up friends growing up, to teach them that there’s no good way to abuse drugs.
The CEO of Palantir.
December 5, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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A reader comments "So the elimination of 30 million girls is now a sad story about how men are lonely?"
December 5, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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It's notable that, even in an article critical of RFK Jr., the reporter hedges, saying "There’s no good evidence of serious, widespread harm from the vaccine" rather than just "vaccines are safe." RFK Jr. has made a career of exploiting the ambiguity of the former.
www.thebulwark.com/p/rfk-anti-v...
RFK’s Anti-Vax Team Readies Its Next Moves
“Their game is, let’s really destabilize trust in the vaccine, and make people really anxious about it.”
www.thebulwark.com
December 5, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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Justice Kagan in her dissent:

“Today’s order disserves the millions of Texans whom the District Court found were assigned to their new districts based on their race.”
BREAKING

The U.S. Supreme Court is allowing the GOP gerrymandered Texas congressional map to stand in a 6-3 decision, with Kagan, Sotomayor, and Brown-Jackson dissenting.
December 4, 2025 at 11:16 PM
December 4, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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Featured story from @liseolsen.bsky.social and @psskow.bsky.social: Oil and gas wells produce prodigious amounts of waste. One horizontal well generates upwards of 8,000 barrels—or 336,000 gallons—of waste during the drilling and completion process.
East Texans Fight Oil Waste Pits Run by an Operator Cited for Dozens of Violations
In bucolic areas near the Louisiana line, residents ask, "Why are Texas taxpayers liable for other states’ toxic waste?"
www.texasobserver.org
November 30, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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The Bathroom Bill goes into effect today across Texas. Not only does it harm transgender people, it subjects all Texans to increased surveillance & harassment.

I stand with transgender Texans today and every day. 🏳️‍⚧️❤️

#txlege #sanantonio #texas
December 4, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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FUCK SCOTUS
December 4, 2025 at 11:05 PM
💀
December 4, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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I wrote a bit for McSweeney's about Isaac Chotiner interviewing Santa Claus. Just a little something for the holiday season. Enjoy!
The New Yorker’s Isaac Chotiner Interviews Santa Claus
For several centuries, Santa Claus has been one of the most prolific mythical gift-givers in the world. Formerly known as Saint Nicholas of Myra, a...
www.mcsweeneys.net
December 4, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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The postal service is not a business, measuring it by revenue is the wrong frame for understanding its worth.
🚨SCOOP: Amazon is preparing to sever ties with USPS and expand its shipping network as a true coast-to-coast rival.

It could cost USPS more than *$6 billion* a year in lost revenue, and lead Amazon to dominate yet another facet of the economy.

USPS posted a *$9 billion* loss in 2025.
Amazon explores cutting ties with USPS, building its own delivery network
Amazon looks into expanding its nationwide delivery network and giving up its longstanding partnership with the U.S. Postal Service.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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She's trying to cast herself as some kind of tragic timeless figure but it just comes off as vapid and self-obsessed. This is the literary version of your most annoying friend on Instagram.
December 4, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Via @19thnews.org: Texas’ massive new abortion law taking effect this week represents the most ambitious effort to halt telehealth abortions. But providers say it won’t work.

“If anything, the implementation of this law makes people more determined to help folks.”

thebarbedwire.com/2025/12/04/t...
Texas’ New Abortion Ban Aims to Stop Doctors From Sending Abortion Pills to the State
Doctors say they won’t stop providing care.
thebarbedwire.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:32 PM