Laura Hercher
@laurahercher.bsky.social
Genetics. It turned out to be more complicated than we thought.
What a pathetic tiny little man
SCOOP: The Trump administration has instructed employees and grantees not to use U.S. funds to commemorate World AIDS Day — because the observance was started by the World Health Organization.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...
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Trump Administration Cancels U.S. Observance of World AIDS Day
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November 26, 2025 at 7:39 PM
What a pathetic tiny little man
How many people are spending this pre-holiday weekend working on their pitch for the Nuzzi-Lizza miniseries?
November 22, 2025 at 3:20 PM
How many people are spending this pre-holiday weekend working on their pitch for the Nuzzi-Lizza miniseries?
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Find you somebody who looks at you like Donald Trump looks at Zohran Mamdani.
November 21, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Find you somebody who looks at you like Donald Trump looks at Zohran Mamdani.
The swastika is “potentially divisive.” Yeah, that about sums it up.
Last month it was the Young Republicans praising Hitler. Last week it was Fuentes & Carlson criticizing "Jewry". This week, they're saying swastikas and nooses aren't hate speech. The rot is party-wide. www.seattletimes.com/nation-world...
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
www.seattletimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:09 PM
The swastika is “potentially divisive.” Yeah, that about sums it up.
Absent clarity in what they can and cannot do, medical providers will restrict care even beyond the scope of restrictive laws. Legal support from their institutions makes a huge difference. We found this in a 2022 study of genetic counselors in TX and other restrictive states.
The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion.
In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose 29%.
(Published May)
In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose 29%.
(Published May)
Why Hospital Policies Matter in States That Ban Abortion
Our first-of-its-kind data analysis found that a seismic split emerged in how medical institutions in Texas' two largest metro areas, Houston and Dallas, treated miscarrying patients — and in their ou...
www.propublica.org
November 18, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Absent clarity in what they can and cannot do, medical providers will restrict care even beyond the scope of restrictive laws. Legal support from their institutions makes a huge difference. We found this in a 2022 study of genetic counselors in TX and other restrictive states.
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Nuzzi's fawning coverage of the sociopathic conspiracy crank she was having an affair with aided his rise to political power, which he is using to perpetrate the worst intentional public health catastrophe of our unnecessarily shortened lifetimes, and THAT is the STORY.
November 15, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Nuzzi's fawning coverage of the sociopathic conspiracy crank she was having an affair with aided his rise to political power, which he is using to perpetrate the worst intentional public health catastrophe of our unnecessarily shortened lifetimes, and THAT is the STORY.
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"Quiet! Quiet, Piggy."
November 18, 2025 at 2:54 AM
"Quiet! Quiet, Piggy."
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40 years ago today the world was introduced to a small boy and his best friend. Happy birthday Calvin & Hobbes.
November 18, 2025 at 6:37 AM
40 years ago today the world was introduced to a small boy and his best friend. Happy birthday Calvin & Hobbes.
Perfect.
"The most important lesson we can learn is that sometimes you shouldn’t try to learn a lesson."
Yeah, He Won, but He Was Up Against a Deeply Flawed Candidate
“I’m skeptical. The odds are that Mamdani’s victory is actually less significant than you think.” — Ross Douthat, New York Times - - -I was as surp...
buff.ly
November 10, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Perfect.
Inshallah
Tuberville: “We just saw what happened in NY. We lost NY. It will be completely Muslim in 3-4 years. That’s what they want. And it’s going to spread throughout the country.”
November 7, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Inshallah
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If sandwich shops don’t start offering a sandwich named “the acquittal” then what are we even doing
November 6, 2025 at 9:27 PM
If sandwich shops don’t start offering a sandwich named “the acquittal” then what are we even doing
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Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.
November 5, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.
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starting to realize how difficult it is to avoid all the nazi discourse
i think it is because of all the nazis
i think it is because of all the nazis
October 24, 2025 at 11:23 PM
starting to realize how difficult it is to avoid all the nazi discourse
i think it is because of all the nazis
i think it is because of all the nazis
Puppy-killer says what?
FOX: Pritzker has asked you specifically to pause immigration enforcement operations in Chicago so kids can safety celebrate Halloween. Do you have any plans to alter activity tomorrow?
NOEM: No. We're gonna be out on the streets in full force and increase our activities to make sure kids are safe.
NOEM: No. We're gonna be out on the streets in full force and increase our activities to make sure kids are safe.
October 31, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Puppy-killer says what?
decent point
centrists will tell you to your face that we all need to abandon identity issues, and focus on kitchen table issues instead and yet when a leftist candidate runs a generational campaign based on kitchen table issues, it's the centrists weaponizing identity politics to smear the leftist.
October 29, 2025 at 8:10 PM
decent point
Says more about you than him, doesn’t it?
October 28, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Says more about you than him, doesn’t it?
As if you didn’t have enough reasons to vote for Mamdani….
My closing pitch to voters? “I will only live in this awful place if I rule over it”
October 28, 2025 at 12:36 AM
As if you didn’t have enough reasons to vote for Mamdani….
No one’s gonna tell him?
Trump: AOC is low IQ. If you give her an IQ test, have her pass like the exams that I decided to take when I was at Walter Reed. Those are very hard…
The first couple of questions are easy. A tiger, an elephant, a giraffe..
The first couple of questions are easy. A tiger, an elephant, a giraffe..
October 27, 2025 at 11:57 AM
No one’s gonna tell him?
Good news everybody it's Friday
And it’s not even Friday.
Over the past week, the president said the DOJ should pay him a quarter billion dollars, bulldozed half the White House to build himself a gaudy ballroom, bragged about murdering civilians in international waters, pardoned some more criminals, directed federal prosecutors to indict his opponents ...
October 24, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Good news everybody it's Friday
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Chris Murphy: "There's a lot of history that has taken place in the East Wing & it was just destroyed without any conversation in the public, without any consent of Congress. It's absolutely illegal. That visual is powerful b/c you're watching destruction of the rule of law as those walls come down"
October 22, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Chris Murphy: "There's a lot of history that has taken place in the East Wing & it was just destroyed without any conversation in the public, without any consent of Congress. It's absolutely illegal. That visual is powerful b/c you're watching destruction of the rule of law as those walls come down"
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ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase.
The President is building an army to attack his own country.
The President is building an army to attack his own country.
October 21, 2025 at 2:45 PM
ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase.
The President is building an army to attack his own country.
The President is building an army to attack his own country.
You were guilty. They found you guilty.
Breaking News: President Trump wants $230 million from the Justice Department for investigating him, people familiar with the matter say. Any settlement might ultimately be approved by senior department officials who defended him or those in his orbit. nyti.ms/4hmIi5X
October 21, 2025 at 10:20 PM
You were guilty. They found you guilty.
When I was ten I went to the head of Little League in my town and asked him to show me in the rules where it said a girl couldn't play bsaeball... and he did. So forgive me if I'm sniffling a little bit. Allergies.
October 21, 2025 at 10:19 PM
When I was ten I went to the head of Little League in my town and asked him to show me in the rules where it said a girl couldn't play bsaeball... and he did. So forgive me if I'm sniffling a little bit. Allergies.
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So thrilled that my friend and genetic counseling colleague @laurahercher.bsky.social is opening this mornings events at #WCPG2025
She’s speaking about polygenic embryo editing and the ethics associated with it on the context of our current political moment
She’s speaking about polygenic embryo editing and the ethics associated with it on the context of our current political moment
October 21, 2025 at 1:44 PM
So thrilled that my friend and genetic counseling colleague @laurahercher.bsky.social is opening this mornings events at #WCPG2025
She’s speaking about polygenic embryo editing and the ethics associated with it on the context of our current political moment
She’s speaking about polygenic embryo editing and the ethics associated with it on the context of our current political moment
Stop calling us nazis! Only nazis can use the words nazis.
October 21, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Stop calling us nazis! Only nazis can use the words nazis.