Nutmegsmom
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Encourager, traveler, partner, reader, parent, still trying to make the world a little brighter than I found it.
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RFK Jr. ordered the NIH’s Integrated Research Facility in Frederick to stop all research on serious infectious diseases yesterday at 5:00 PM.
They study pathogens like Ebola there. You may be familiar with it from The Hot Zone.
www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni...
They study pathogens like Ebola there. You may be familiar with it from The Hot Zone.
www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni...
RFK Jr.'s HHS Orders Lab Studying Deadly Infectious Diseases to Stop Research
NIAID's Integrated Research Facility is one of the few federal facilities charged with studying Ebola. Tuesday afternoon, all of its work was put on indefinite pause by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s departm...
www.wired.com
April 30, 2025 at 10:45 PM
RFK Jr. ordered the NIH’s Integrated Research Facility in Frederick to stop all research on serious infectious diseases yesterday at 5:00 PM.
They study pathogens like Ebola there. You may be familiar with it from The Hot Zone.
www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni...
They study pathogens like Ebola there. You may be familiar with it from The Hot Zone.
www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni...
"Where do you draw the line on arresting undocumented people? I'd like to know. Because now apparently it doesn't matter if a family is undocumented or American citizens. They can be terrorized with impudence. Do you support this unfettered use of police tactics?"
Letter to my congressional reps
Letter to my congressional reps
May 1, 2025 at 2:53 AM
"Where do you draw the line on arresting undocumented people? I'd like to know. Because now apparently it doesn't matter if a family is undocumented or American citizens. They can be terrorized with impudence. Do you support this unfettered use of police tactics?"
Letter to my congressional reps
Letter to my congressional reps
I'm thinking this August 14, 1978 papal "job description " is still apt.
April 26, 2025 at 12:38 AM
I'm thinking this August 14, 1978 papal "job description " is still apt.
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Mack Schroeder, the young man referred to as a “clown” by Jim Banks, worked for the Administration for Community Living. The ACL provides services such as Meals On Wheels and helps older people and those with disabilities participate fully in their communities. THAT is what Jim Banks called “woke”
April 4, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Mack Schroeder, the young man referred to as a “clown” by Jim Banks, worked for the Administration for Community Living. The ACL provides services such as Meals On Wheels and helps older people and those with disabilities participate fully in their communities. THAT is what Jim Banks called “woke”
Fort Wayne showed up in droves yesterday!
April 6, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Fort Wayne showed up in droves yesterday!
You may think of empathy as a virtue. Good on you! But understand that in some circles it become seen as trait to be ridden of.
www.npr.org/2025/03/22/n...
www.npr.org/2025/03/22/n...
How empathy came to be seen as a weakness in conservative circles
There's a growing movement, among some conservatives, pushing back against traditional notions of empathy. What's behind it, and what might it mean, especially for Christian conservatives?
www.npr.org
March 23, 2025 at 9:57 PM
You may think of empathy as a virtue. Good on you! But understand that in some circles it become seen as trait to be ridden of.
www.npr.org/2025/03/22/n...
www.npr.org/2025/03/22/n...
Freedom isn't free
open.substack.com/pub/steveins...
open.substack.com/pub/steveins...
Freedom isn't free
Lessons from a black-tie dinner and a riverside bar.
open.substack.com
March 9, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Freedom isn't free
open.substack.com/pub/steveins...
open.substack.com/pub/steveins...
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Todd Rokita has decided people who use special education services should lose their rights to that education. www.forbes.com/sites/peterg...
17 States Sue To End Protections For Students With Special Needs
The suit challenges a Biden administration decision that considered "gender dysphoria" a disability and goes even farther in questioning assistance for students.
www.forbes.com
February 15, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Todd Rokita has decided people who use special education services should lose their rights to that education. www.forbes.com/sites/peterg...
I was looking at the Birmingham Civil Rights National Monument page. It mentions a podcast about civil rights and the National Park Service. When you click there is nothing. This is whitewashing history in real time.
February 15, 2025 at 3:18 AM
I was looking at the Birmingham Civil Rights National Monument page. It mentions a podcast about civil rights and the National Park Service. When you click there is nothing. This is whitewashing history in real time.
I'll just let this sit here.
February 11, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I'll just let this sit here.
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"Storytelling is how we survive, when there's no feed, the story feeds something, it feeds the spirit, the imagination. I can't imagine life without stories, stories from my parents, my culture. Stories from other people's parents, their culture.”
Alice Walker, born on this day in 1944
Alice Walker, born on this day in 1944
February 10, 2025 at 12:38 AM
"Storytelling is how we survive, when there's no feed, the story feeds something, it feeds the spirit, the imagination. I can't imagine life without stories, stories from my parents, my culture. Stories from other people's parents, their culture.”
Alice Walker, born on this day in 1944
Alice Walker, born on this day in 1944
February 9, 2025 at 3:55 AM
The Canadians don't appear to be ready to kowtow. Team Canada as their prime minister called them.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Here are all the ways Canada is striking back against Trump's tariffs | CBC News
U.S. President Donald Trump has declared a trade war on Canada, prompting the federal government, provinces and territories to launch their own countermeasures to hit back at the American economy.
www.cbc.ca
February 3, 2025 at 5:14 PM
The Canadians don't appear to be ready to kowtow. Team Canada as their prime minister called them.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Intimate spaces? Trust me I have zero interest in being intimate in a public restroom. No need to defend me. www.npr.org/2025/01/31/g...
Some federal web pages still down as agencies implement order 'defending women'
After the president signed an executive order "defending women against gender ideology extremism," several federal government websites on gender and sexual health disappeared.
www.npr.org
February 2, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Intimate spaces? Trust me I have zero interest in being intimate in a public restroom. No need to defend me. www.npr.org/2025/01/31/g...
The stable genius has been wallowing in the manure again.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/u...
January 30, 2025 at 6:52 PM
The stable genius has been wallowing in the manure again.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/u...
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"On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."
H. L. Mencken, who died on this day in 1956
H. L. Mencken, who died on this day in 1956
January 29, 2025 at 11:40 AM
"On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."
H. L. Mencken, who died on this day in 1956
H. L. Mencken, who died on this day in 1956