Interesting! Give it a try!
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/o...
This is clearly NOT a healthcare system. It’s some weird kind of business that has little to do with healthcare.
Vermont’s largest health insurer tells you to avoid the state’s largest hospital in new marketing campaign vtdigger.org/2025/12/22/v...
Verge headline: Death is the Policy 2025 Year in review Photo illustration depicts RFK Jr surrounded by disease particles
Since his appointment, RFK Jr. has pursued a brutal vision of American health that several experts liken to a sort of eugenics. Kennedy has made it clear that certain deaths are acceptable or even preferable to a world where every child is vaccinated.
Read more: www.theverge.com/health/66136...
UN World Meditation Day! “…the UN is commemorating this ancient practice, which is proven to help improve personal well-being and mental health.”
Mhttps://news.un.org/en/story/2025/12/1166641#:~:text=What's%20behind%20the%20international%20day,of%20physical%20and%20mental%20health.
"The spectrum of human neurodiversity includes everybody ever, including people who are within the dominant norms," he said. "With neurodivergence, you diverge from something. You differ in some way from some socially constructed norm."
Holy shit, all of this is incredible, and it's short, go read it!!!!
Updated my democracy values list today thanks to reminders from all of you! Thank you! - I was originally inspired to make this handwritten list by @hcrichardson.bsky.social who encouraged us to talk out loud about what democracy means to us.
BTW I'm using blue fountain pen ink 😁💙
Craig Clark, 79, calls himself the "Tech Fairy." Clark spends his time refurbishing old laptops and giving them away for free to people who need them.
Paper wasp nest in tree with bottom broken open.
I think the wasps finally left their nest that has been hanging next to my dock all summer....
October 5-11 is Banned Books Week, an opportunity to resist censorship and celebrate the freedom to read. Tune in to panels with LBYR authors @katherinelocke.bsky.social, @toddparr.bsky.social, and @sassinsf.com for @everylibrary.bsky.social's virtual Banned Books Week Festival. 🧵
Come join @toddparr.bsky.social and me tomorrow to acknowledge the impact banned books have on our community while celebrating love, identity, and the profound importance of inclusive stories.
Better fix that up or your might not be allowed to vote either!
Of the two boys with smallpox, the one who had been vaccinated has very few pox while the other is horribly disfigured.
1901, photograph by Dr. Allan Warner of two 13 year old boys both infected with smallpox on the same day, one vaccinated as an infant and one not.
Congratulations! Can't wait to read it.
My debut picture book, SHABBAT IS ..., releases today 😊
Available where all books are sold. And here: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/a-j-s...
ICE, America's first interior police, are not being built up, at the cost of billions, just to monitor immigration
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/u...
Smart! A Raven doing Raven things.
Happy to see something that made me laugh today. :-)
What have we become???
Some good news at least. 400 million increase instead of a 40% cut to NIH budget.
Some one recently told me she was quoted $800 to replace her dryer vent hose. I couldn't even imaging that you'd call someone to do that! We all need to know how to do basic home maintenance.
I do love this!!!
www.tennis.com/news/article...
And what did this accomplish? Only destroying democratic institutions, trust, and countless families.
Though I only met Joanna Macy once, sometime around 1980, her spirit and her work have been beacons for me as I've navigated life on this planet the past 45 years. 🙏