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Thousands of people lined up at the Minnesota Capitol to pay tribute to slain lawmaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark. Between the caskets was an urn containing the ashes of the family’s golden retriever, Gilbert.
Beloved dog joined Minnesota lawmaker, husband as they lay in state
When Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband were fatally shot this month, their golden retriever was grievously wounded and had to be euthanized.
www.washingtonpost.com
June 28, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Thousands of people lined up at the Minnesota Capitol to pay tribute to slain lawmaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark. Between the caskets was an urn containing the ashes of the family’s golden retriever, Gilbert.
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May 26, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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You know how these guys are really into the idea that any disease can be cured with a healthy diet of unprocessed foods?
Doesn’t work so well when the disease is E. coli from lettuce that isn’t reported publicly because FDA isn’t competent to keep food safe.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
Doesn’t work so well when the disease is E. coli from lettuce that isn’t reported publicly because FDA isn’t competent to keep food safe.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
E. coli outbreak sickened more than 80 people, but details didn’t surface
Food safety inspections are being scaled back and the public was not notified after an investigation into E. coli contamination.
www.washingtonpost.com
May 26, 2025 at 7:49 PM
You know how these guys are really into the idea that any disease can be cured with a healthy diet of unprocessed foods?
Doesn’t work so well when the disease is E. coli from lettuce that isn’t reported publicly because FDA isn’t competent to keep food safe.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
Doesn’t work so well when the disease is E. coli from lettuce that isn’t reported publicly because FDA isn’t competent to keep food safe.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
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It pains me to say this, but if you are not a US citizen, you should not attend scientific conferences in the US, visit US institutions, or otherwise travel to our country.
Right now it's not worth the risk.
Hopefully that will change. If it doesn't, science in the US is sunk anyway.
Right now it's not worth the risk.
Hopefully that will change. If it doesn't, science in the US is sunk anyway.
May 26, 2025 at 1:54 AM
It pains me to say this, but if you are not a US citizen, you should not attend scientific conferences in the US, visit US institutions, or otherwise travel to our country.
Right now it's not worth the risk.
Hopefully that will change. If it doesn't, science in the US is sunk anyway.
Right now it's not worth the risk.
Hopefully that will change. If it doesn't, science in the US is sunk anyway.
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I’ll miss Charlie Rangel, a beloved icon and public servant of New York.
He was a proud veteran who loved serving his Harlem constituents. He urged me to run for the Senate and later was an invaluable colleague.
Rest in peace and power, my friend.
He was a proud veteran who loved serving his Harlem constituents. He urged me to run for the Senate and later was an invaluable colleague.
Rest in peace and power, my friend.
May 26, 2025 at 4:58 PM
I’ll miss Charlie Rangel, a beloved icon and public servant of New York.
He was a proud veteran who loved serving his Harlem constituents. He urged me to run for the Senate and later was an invaluable colleague.
Rest in peace and power, my friend.
He was a proud veteran who loved serving his Harlem constituents. He urged me to run for the Senate and later was an invaluable colleague.
Rest in peace and power, my friend.
It would appear the police were stating facts at the presser.
You can’t fight fascism with lynching.
It only sets fire to the Reichstag.
You can’t fight fascism with lynching.
It only sets fire to the Reichstag.
May 22, 2025 at 6:38 AM
It would appear the police were stating facts at the presser.
You can’t fight fascism with lynching.
It only sets fire to the Reichstag.
You can’t fight fascism with lynching.
It only sets fire to the Reichstag.
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Are we just reinventing the monastery? 🤭
May 18, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Are we just reinventing the monastery? 🤭
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The Federal government is defaulting on its legally obligated debts. And anyone wonders why the US credit rating is going down?
Northwestern has not received any NIH funds since March. No written communication about why or what can be done. Thank you Ben Singer for raising awareness at #ATS2025
May 19, 2025 at 11:34 AM
The Federal government is defaulting on its legally obligated debts. And anyone wonders why the US credit rating is going down?
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happy bday Persian poet/polymath Omar Khayyam, b.1048.
“Dead yesterdays and unborn tomorrows, why fret about it, if today be sweet.”
“Beyond the earth,
beyond the farthest skies
I try to find Heaven and Hell.
Then I hear a solemn voice that says:
"Heaven and hell are inside.”
“Dead yesterdays and unborn tomorrows, why fret about it, if today be sweet.”
“Beyond the earth,
beyond the farthest skies
I try to find Heaven and Hell.
Then I hear a solemn voice that says:
"Heaven and hell are inside.”
May 18, 2025 at 12:17 PM
happy bday Persian poet/polymath Omar Khayyam, b.1048.
“Dead yesterdays and unborn tomorrows, why fret about it, if today be sweet.”
“Beyond the earth,
beyond the farthest skies
I try to find Heaven and Hell.
Then I hear a solemn voice that says:
"Heaven and hell are inside.”
“Dead yesterdays and unborn tomorrows, why fret about it, if today be sweet.”
“Beyond the earth,
beyond the farthest skies
I try to find Heaven and Hell.
Then I hear a solemn voice that says:
"Heaven and hell are inside.”
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May 18, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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Advance Financial’s Flex Loan charges 279.5% interest, trapping thousands of borrowers in debts that end up in court, where the company has won over $200 million in judgments since 2015.
By @friedmanadam5.bsky.social, w/ @tennesseelookout.com
By @friedmanadam5.bsky.social, w/ @tennesseelookout.com
This Lender Said Its Loans Would Help Tennesseans. It Has Sued More Than 110,000 of Them.
The Flex Loan, a type of payday loan pioneered by Advance Financial, has burdened low-income borrowers while generating huge profits for lenders. Tennessee lawmakers declined to rein in the lending bu...
www.propublica.org
May 11, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Advance Financial’s Flex Loan charges 279.5% interest, trapping thousands of borrowers in debts that end up in court, where the company has won over $200 million in judgments since 2015.
By @friedmanadam5.bsky.social, w/ @tennesseelookout.com
By @friedmanadam5.bsky.social, w/ @tennesseelookout.com
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Update: the owlet is now on the ground, doing Owl Stuff
May 11, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Update: the owlet is now on the ground, doing Owl Stuff
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Article I, Section 9, Clause 8:
“no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.”
“no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.”
May 11, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Article I, Section 9, Clause 8:
“no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.”
“no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.”
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No wonder he wants to get rid of PBS and Children’s Television Workshop.
May 7, 2025 at 12:26 AM
No wonder he wants to get rid of PBS and Children’s Television Workshop.
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Signalgate is truly the gift that keeps on giving as Michael Waltz is gone but the fallout of his disastrously short reign continues apace
www.wired.com/story/signal...
www.wired.com/story/signal...
Signal Clone Used by Mike Waltz Pauses Service After Reports It Got Hacked
The communications app TeleMessage, which was spotted on former US national security adviser Mike Waltz's phone, has suspended “all services” as it investigates reports of at least one breach.
www.wired.com
May 6, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Signalgate is truly the gift that keeps on giving as Michael Waltz is gone but the fallout of his disastrously short reign continues apace
www.wired.com/story/signal...
www.wired.com/story/signal...
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If anyone is wondering about the status of my NSF grant appeal… me too. I can’t actually do anything myself. All I can do is wait for my university to decide whether they’ll even let me try.
May 6, 2025 at 2:07 AM
If anyone is wondering about the status of my NSF grant appeal… me too. I can’t actually do anything myself. All I can do is wait for my university to decide whether they’ll even let me try.
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Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns
May 6, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns
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Weather and climate research funds are being “chainsawed” from NOAA's budget. Last I checked, Louisiana & Florida, which are maximally susceptible to Hurricanes, voted Red in the last General Election.
Wondering if residents there knew in advance this would happen.
Wondering if residents there knew in advance this would happen.
May 6, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Weather and climate research funds are being “chainsawed” from NOAA's budget. Last I checked, Louisiana & Florida, which are maximally susceptible to Hurricanes, voted Red in the last General Election.
Wondering if residents there knew in advance this would happen.
Wondering if residents there knew in advance this would happen.
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Ume the tapir calf is now three months old! Check out her first taste of curly willow. 🌿
📹: Keeper Katie
📹: Keeper Katie
May 6, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Ume the tapir calf is now three months old! Check out her first taste of curly willow. 🌿
📹: Keeper Katie
📹: Keeper Katie
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Significant and persistent warmth continued across large portions of the midlatitude ocean basins in April 2025. One of the more intense marine heatwaves remains over the central North Pacific. Neutral ENSO conditions were observed too.
Data via NOAA OISSTv2.1 (www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/opt...).
Data via NOAA OISSTv2.1 (www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/opt...).
May 6, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Significant and persistent warmth continued across large portions of the midlatitude ocean basins in April 2025. One of the more intense marine heatwaves remains over the central North Pacific. Neutral ENSO conditions were observed too.
Data via NOAA OISSTv2.1 (www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/opt...).
Data via NOAA OISSTv2.1 (www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/opt...).