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Cat mom. Ghent, Belgium. LGBTQ 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️. 😷💉.
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Buffy’s health hasn’t been great recovering from colopexy surgery, but she still has her playful moments! #cats #catsofbluesky
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After Trump got his Covid shot, he chose to fire the scientists protecting the rest of us from diseases.
October 11, 2025 at 4:05 PM
After Trump got his Covid shot, he chose to fire the scientists protecting the rest of us from diseases.
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Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...
Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.
apnews.com
October 8, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...
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Keeping Up Appearances actor Patricia Routledge dies aged 96
Keeping Up Appearances actor Patricia Routledge dies aged 96
The actor was best known for her role as the pretentious housewife Hyacinth Bucket, and for the series Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
Patricia Routledge, the stage and screen actor best known for starring as Hyacinth Bucket in the BBC sitcom Keeping Up Appearances and Henrietta “Hetty” Wainthropp in the television series Hetty Wainthropp Investigates, has died at the age of 96.
Routledge was born in Birkenhead, Cheshire, in 1929 and attended the University of Liverpool and the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. She began her career in theatre and musical theatre in 1952, later making her Broadway debut in 1966 in How’s the World Treating You. Routledge would go on to win a Tony award and an Olivier for her stage work, and was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company for several years, appearing in productions including Richard III, alongside Antony Sher. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 3, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Keeping Up Appearances actor Patricia Routledge dies aged 96
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Artemis update:
It's been a tough time. He is still in the hospital, not eating.
A few folks have asked how they can help, so I've set up a GoFundMe to help with costs.
If you've ever loved Artemis, his gravity experiments and feel moved to help him, here's the link.
gofund.me/252b7473c
It's been a tough time. He is still in the hospital, not eating.
A few folks have asked how they can help, so I've set up a GoFundMe to help with costs.
If you've ever loved Artemis, his gravity experiments and feel moved to help him, here's the link.
gofund.me/252b7473c
September 26, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Artemis update:
It's been a tough time. He is still in the hospital, not eating.
A few folks have asked how they can help, so I've set up a GoFundMe to help with costs.
If you've ever loved Artemis, his gravity experiments and feel moved to help him, here's the link.
gofund.me/252b7473c
It's been a tough time. He is still in the hospital, not eating.
A few folks have asked how they can help, so I've set up a GoFundMe to help with costs.
If you've ever loved Artemis, his gravity experiments and feel moved to help him, here's the link.
gofund.me/252b7473c
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If we truly cared about children, we would
- ensure they had easy access to lifesaving vaccines
- enact policies to control guns
- protect them in conflicts and wars
- tackle climate change which jeopardizes their future
Adults are failing on all the above
- ensure they had easy access to lifesaving vaccines
- enact policies to control guns
- protect them in conflicts and wars
- tackle climate change which jeopardizes their future
Adults are failing on all the above
September 16, 2025 at 11:11 PM
If we truly cared about children, we would
- ensure they had easy access to lifesaving vaccines
- enact policies to control guns
- protect them in conflicts and wars
- tackle climate change which jeopardizes their future
Adults are failing on all the above
- ensure they had easy access to lifesaving vaccines
- enact policies to control guns
- protect them in conflicts and wars
- tackle climate change which jeopardizes their future
Adults are failing on all the above
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i have said this before but when “getting rid of race in admissions” for the administration means “you can’t even try to reach out to underrepresented communities and encourage them to apply and if you do it is illegal discrimination against white people” then the actual goal here is segregation
Harvard Ends Undergraduate Minority Recruitment Program as Trump Targets Race in Admissions | News | The Harvard Crimson
By ending the minority recruitment program in May, Harvard shuttered a more than 50-year-old initiative to encourage minority high school students to apply.
www.thecrimson.com
September 15, 2025 at 12:16 PM
i have said this before but when “getting rid of race in admissions” for the administration means “you can’t even try to reach out to underrepresented communities and encourage them to apply and if you do it is illegal discrimination against white people” then the actual goal here is segregation
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New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!
August 31, 2025 at 5:04 PM
New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!
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The United States, just months before its 250th birthday as the world’s leading democracy, has tipped over the edge into authoritarianism and fascism.
Slouching into fascism
Are we already past the tipping point?
www.motherjones.com
August 30, 2025 at 11:00 PM
The United States, just months before its 250th birthday as the world’s leading democracy, has tipped over the edge into authoritarianism and fascism.
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Even as disinformation spreaders and quacks are destroying trust in vaccines, let’s spread the truth about how vaccines have saved millions of lives 👇🏾
Vaccines Cause Adults!
www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-...
Vaccines Cause Adults!
www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-...
See How Many Lives Vaccines Have Saved around the World
Vaccines are the first step toward health equity in many parts of the world
www.scientificamerican.com
August 30, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Even as disinformation spreaders and quacks are destroying trust in vaccines, let’s spread the truth about how vaccines have saved millions of lives 👇🏾
Vaccines Cause Adults!
www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-...
Vaccines Cause Adults!
www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-...
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there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
RFK Jr.’s damage to the CDC is ‘past the point of no return,’ Dr. Demetre Daskalakis warns
“The CDC you knew is over,” the infectious diseases doctor told The Advocate. “Unless someone takes radical action, there is nothing there that can be salvaged.”
www.advocate.com
August 29, 2025 at 8:53 PM
there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
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I was shocked when I first saw these results from standard climate models used in IPCC reports: for high emissions, the Atlantic overturning circulation #AMOC shuts down in all 9 models that ran past 2100, and is well on the way to shutdown by 2100.
Our paper on that is out today.🧵
Our paper on that is out today.🧵
August 28, 2025 at 3:55 PM
I was shocked when I first saw these results from standard climate models used in IPCC reports: for high emissions, the Atlantic overturning circulation #AMOC shuts down in all 9 models that ran past 2100, and is well on the way to shutdown by 2100.
Our paper on that is out today.🧵
Our paper on that is out today.🧵
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Ich forsche seit 35 Jahren zur Instabilität der Atlantikströmung. Bis vor kurzem haben wir deren Versiegen als Risiko mit massiven Folgen aber geringer Eintrittswahrscheinlichkeit betrachtet. Letzteres jetzt nicht mehr.
www.tagesschau.de/klimawandel-...
www.tagesschau.de/klimawandel-...
Klimawandel: Weniger Wärme für Nordwesteuropa
Eine neue Studie hält es für sehr wahrscheinlich, dass die Meereszirkulation schwächer wird, die südliche Wärme nach Norden transportiert. Für Europa hätte das schwerwiegende Folgen. Von Sven Kästner.
www.tagesschau.de
August 29, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Ich forsche seit 35 Jahren zur Instabilität der Atlantikströmung. Bis vor kurzem haben wir deren Versiegen als Risiko mit massiven Folgen aber geringer Eintrittswahrscheinlichkeit betrachtet. Letzteres jetzt nicht mehr.
www.tagesschau.de/klimawandel-...
www.tagesschau.de/klimawandel-...
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“Kennedy would be less hazardous if he decided to do cardiac surgery. Then he would kill people only one at a time rather than his current ability to kill by the thousands. Why is it that killing a single person is seen as murder but killing masses is excused if you are a politician?”
Dr Bill Foege
Dr Bill Foege
August 28, 2025 at 5:20 PM
“Kennedy would be less hazardous if he decided to do cardiac surgery. Then he would kill people only one at a time rather than his current ability to kill by the thousands. Why is it that killing a single person is seen as murder but killing masses is excused if you are a politician?”
Dr Bill Foege
Dr Bill Foege
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When a top CDC scientist resigns citing eugenicist rhetoric from federal health agencies, everyone should absolutely be paying attention.
August 28, 2025 at 4:45 PM
When a top CDC scientist resigns citing eugenicist rhetoric from federal health agencies, everyone should absolutely be paying attention.
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kind of just endlessly and irrevocably furious at anyone and everyone who euphemized rfk jr’s malign conspiracism as “skepticism” or co-signed the idea that “he makes some valid points” or “is asking the right questions”
August 27, 2025 at 10:52 PM
kind of just endlessly and irrevocably furious at anyone and everyone who euphemized rfk jr’s malign conspiracism as “skepticism” or co-signed the idea that “he makes some valid points” or “is asking the right questions”
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Enough is enough. The health of the country is in danger. Read our resignation letters: insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...
Breaking News: Read three top CDC officials' resignation emails.
The end of an era.
insidemedicine.substack.com
August 28, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Enough is enough. The health of the country is in danger. Read our resignation letters: insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...
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I debated writing this. It can feel tempting, upon encountering yet another instance of this administration’s racism, to let it be. How many ways can you say the same thing over and over again? And yet we have to write it down, if for nothing else, so those who come after us know we were against it.
Actually, Slavery Was Very Bad
The president’s latest criticism of museums is a thinly veiled attempt to erase Black history.
www.theatlantic.com
August 22, 2025 at 4:20 PM
I debated writing this. It can feel tempting, upon encountering yet another instance of this administration’s racism, to let it be. How many ways can you say the same thing over and over again? And yet we have to write it down, if for nothing else, so those who come after us know we were against it.
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61 years ago today Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer one of the most courageous activists of the Civil Rights Movement posed the question that echoes today with every migrant round-up by masked officers, as federal troops converge on D.C.,as institutions are threatened:
“IS THIS AMERICA?”
youtu.be/DFC1nc3IXBM
“IS THIS AMERICA?”
youtu.be/DFC1nc3IXBM
Fannie Lou Hamer's Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party Speech
YouTube video by Northwest African American Museum
youtu.be
August 22, 2025 at 4:21 PM
61 years ago today Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer one of the most courageous activists of the Civil Rights Movement posed the question that echoes today with every migrant round-up by masked officers, as federal troops converge on D.C.,as institutions are threatened:
“IS THIS AMERICA?”
youtu.be/DFC1nc3IXBM
“IS THIS AMERICA?”
youtu.be/DFC1nc3IXBM
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“They did not die from COVID , they had preexisting conditions.”
“They did not die from starvation, they had other health problems.”
This is what eugenics sounds like.
“They did not die from starvation, they had other health problems.”
This is what eugenics sounds like.
August 19, 2025 at 4:59 PM
“They did not die from COVID , they had preexisting conditions.”
“They did not die from starvation, they had other health problems.”
This is what eugenics sounds like.
“They did not die from starvation, they had other health problems.”
This is what eugenics sounds like.
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If anyone is curious about the current list of search terms being used by right wing activist organizations to harass university professors, here's a public records request I received today from Mike Howell of the Heritage Foundation. Not intimidating or meant to curtail by my speech at all, right?
August 6, 2025 at 10:03 PM
If anyone is curious about the current list of search terms being used by right wing activist organizations to harass university professors, here's a public records request I received today from Mike Howell of the Heritage Foundation. Not intimidating or meant to curtail by my speech at all, right?
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No, it's not only the US who will suffer from RFK Jr cancelling vaccine research.
1️⃣ You can't just instantly teleport research projects. Cancelling US projects slows global progress.
2️⃣ Preventing pandemics will always be a group project. The US is letting the team down & putting the world at risk.
1️⃣ You can't just instantly teleport research projects. Cancelling US projects slows global progress.
2️⃣ Preventing pandemics will always be a group project. The US is letting the team down & putting the world at risk.
August 6, 2025 at 5:13 PM
No, it's not only the US who will suffer from RFK Jr cancelling vaccine research.
1️⃣ You can't just instantly teleport research projects. Cancelling US projects slows global progress.
2️⃣ Preventing pandemics will always be a group project. The US is letting the team down & putting the world at risk.
1️⃣ You can't just instantly teleport research projects. Cancelling US projects slows global progress.
2️⃣ Preventing pandemics will always be a group project. The US is letting the team down & putting the world at risk.
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It is not “deal-making.” It is extortion built on Christopher Rufo’s idea of “taking down” one or more elite university.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/u...
Trump’s Deal-Making With Other Elite Schools Scrambles Harvard Negotiations
www.nytimes.com
August 5, 2025 at 10:37 AM
It is not “deal-making.” It is extortion built on Christopher Rufo’s idea of “taking down” one or more elite university.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/u...
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This is a very clear historical and current summary, and utterly damning. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
The mathematics of starvation: how Israel caused a famine in Gaza
Israel controls the flow of food into Gaza. It has calculated how many calories Palestinians need to stay alive. Its data shows only a fraction has been allowed in
www.theguardian.com
August 1, 2025 at 6:24 AM
This is a very clear historical and current summary, and utterly damning. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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Watch our colleague Mohammed Abu Mughaisib, Deputy Medical Coordinator, explain how starvation destroys the body.
Health workers in #Gaza are starving alongside their patients as Israeli authorities use hunger as a weapon.
Learn more: www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/palestine-ms...
Health workers in #Gaza are starving alongside their patients as Israeli authorities use hunger as a weapon.
Learn more: www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/palestine-ms...
July 30, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Watch our colleague Mohammed Abu Mughaisib, Deputy Medical Coordinator, explain how starvation destroys the body.
Health workers in #Gaza are starving alongside their patients as Israeli authorities use hunger as a weapon.
Learn more: www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/palestine-ms...
Health workers in #Gaza are starving alongside their patients as Israeli authorities use hunger as a weapon.
Learn more: www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/palestine-ms...