With the beginning of Valentine's Week💕, we wanted to share this visual!
"Beat Heart" by Margo Stutts Toombs
About the artwork: “This is from a series of photos used to create a stop-motion animation about the pacemaker inserted into my chest two years ago.”
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@americanair.bsky.social I hope my 4th flight trying to get home isnt cancelled. Have been trying to get MIA to PHX yesterday. My original flight cancelled. 2nd flight diverted from LAX to ONT and then the crew timed out. 1st rebooked flight cancelled and the 2nd is delayed from 1255 to 823 pm.
"It’s not just the meteorologists I talk to who are in full support for a new 'National Weather Safety Board.' Members of Congress on both sides of the aisle are excited about this approach."
Three years after the Supreme Court opened the door to state abortion bans, most U.S. adults say abortion should be legal — views that look similar to before the landmark ruling.
"Treating homelessness with a police force and curtailing strategies that work—all while slashing funding for the social safety net—is the sort of cruel, red-meat performative politics that juices up the MAGA base but does nothing to address the problem."
I'm so glad the documentary on Epstein and what he did came out on Netflix. It gives context to the last 10 years.
Trump is now posting private mortgage documents from Adam Schiff, and I URGE people who have less self-control than Pavlov's dogs to EMPHASIZE that it is likely a crime for him to have accessed these docs, if you do post them.
Soft serve chocolate vanilla swirl ice cream in a red and white cup.
Eating my feelings with a controlled size of soft serve ice cream. It's one of those days.
I'm not just sorry to see this story, I am scared about what it will mean for '60 Minutes" as a news program. www.npr.org/2025/04/22/n...
When courts are defied, powers usurped, and legal residents disappeared, we’re not approaching crisis—we’re already there. Jen Rubin on how to start marshaling the will to end it.
It’s getting pretty Orbánny out there.
www.idsnews.com/article/2025...
The University of Minnesota, where a graduate student was detained and stripped of his student visa late last month, is the country's only university actively contracted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, having leased its gun range to the agency since 2022 according to public federal spending data.
So the University of Minnesota is the only university in the country to have a contract with ICE. We also produce more ammunition for them than any other state, and we are only behind Texas in terms of leasing gun ranges to them. From the @minnesotareformer.com minnesotareformer.com/2025/04/18/w...
In an executive order, Trump targeted the Smithsonian and the National Museum of African American History & Culture suggesting that it is “divisive” and pedaling “improper ideology.”
So, I took a trip back to the museum, and what I saw was a place trying to tell the unvarnished truth about America.
Need to get rid of medications you no longer take or that are expired? The spring DEA National Take Back Day is Saturday, April 26, 2025. Need to find a collection location - check out the link to find locations --> www.dea.gov/takebackday#...
The Trump administration has quietly doubled down on its decision to stop sending emergency food to children starving in Bangladesh, Somalia, and other countries. Without urgent intervention, these children might die within months, @hana-kiros.bsky.social reports. https://theatln.tc/kQAZFJJw
There is no autism epidemic, just a public health threat named RFK Jr.
open.substack.com/pub/immunolo...
An important listen:
Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
#democracy #courage
An essential read about a system that should have more checks and balances. NYT article "Organ Transplant System 'in Chaos' as Waiting Lists are Ignored.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
What happens when we gut federal science funding?
open.substack.com/pub/noahpini...
Interested in providing input on AI?
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
Hi, ASL interpreter of 30 yrs & a person w/ Deaf family here.
In response to the anti-ASL horseshit going around:
ASL and English are not the same language.
ASL has no written form.
Reading English subs is not = to seeing ASL & many Deaf ppl need sign to fully understand info.
How do LLMs really perform in diagnosis? There are claims of superhuman AI performance on clinical vignettes, which have much of the relevant information included. That's not how medicine works. That’s why @rajpurkar.bsky.social and I worked on CRAFT-MD: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
In late November, when Adam Lambert talked to me, very thoughtfully, about playing the Emcee in “Cabaret,” he spoke about trying to guide the audience through “If You Could See Her.” He also mentioned that the audience’s drinking is a factor in their response.
Here’s a chunk I left out, for space.
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if you're hysterical about tiktok, but never make a peep about the massive, odious and largely unregulated international data broker surveillance economy, I'm gonna have a hard time taking you seriously on privacy
