Flu antivirals don't kill the virus—they stop it from replicating. That's why the "take within 48 hours" guidance isn't arbitrary: every hour you wait means more virus for your body to deal with. Here's how to test at home and get treatment fast ⤵ www.patreon.com/posts/146890...

Sen. Hoffman is seeking a fifth term in the Minnesota Senate.

MTG tells the Times that when she threatened to expose the men who abused Epstein’s victims, Trump called to scream at her. “My friends will get hurt,” he said. This shouldn’t surprise anyone, but it’s still shocking to read. Maybe don’t be friends with pedos, just saying

Fire-breathing brontosaurus isn't part of the canonical gingerbread lineup, but heck, anything is possible in the year 2025.

Republicans could regain Iowa Senate supermajority in Tuesday special election

I shouldn’t have to say this, but don’t buy animals with medically significant venom because you saw one in a cartoon.

🧵 An alternate historical novel was written by Philip Roth, THE PLOT AGAINST AMERICA. Limited series by David Simon. Stephen Miller should watch it. @audacityofdespair.bsky.social

Jerry Seinfeld was having dinner with friends at a restaurant in Durham NC. We passed by the restaurant window while doing our evening walk with our beagle, and she growled at him through the window 😂

Trump administration land-management changes in eight western states worry some conservationists concerned about the declining greater sage grouse population. via @southdakotasearchlight.com

The liminal space between Christmas and New Year’s is the ideal time for solar charging #dogsofbluesky #dogs #nap #snooze

What a quote.

Research led by a University of Iowa student is opening new doors to potential uterine cancer treatments that could allow patients to retain their ability to have children, the university reported. Story by Brooklyn Draisey via Report for America.

Twelve baby ferrets were born this summer, descended from clones made from cells frozen nearly four decades ago, representing a milestone in a decades-long effort to revive one of North America’s most endangered mammals.

Hardly new or surprising at this point, but it's still so crazy how the US president goes to bat for Russia, aping the Russian government's propaganda, lying to the world on a Russian dictator's behalf, and trying to help Russian military aggression succeed against a US-partnered European democracy.

youngkin ending his term as virginia’s worst governor of the 21st century thus far, with a political career that has gone down the toilet

The presiding judge can be expected to allow Taibbi’s suit to proceed, citing the precedent of Shits v. Giggles

As a result of this devastating post I have suffered from intense psychological, gastrointestinal and metaphysical distress

An exceptionally stupid and contingent set of circumstances made Stephen Miller the most influential ideologue in the US. There is no future for the left or liberalism that does not take as a core mission ensuring he is punished for his crimes & no one as hateful as him is ever close to power again.

Expectant mothers were left so hungry after the U.S. cut foreign food aid that one woman ate clay and charcoal. Her baby struggled to gain weight after being born prematurely. By @annamaria.bsky.social, photos by @storitellah.com & illustrations by Phoebe Ouma

The shorter version of every Miller post is "I'm not just a White Nationalist. I'm also an idiot."

while i have branched out a bit into slim and wider but tapered pants fits you will never take a skinny pant from me but this isn't about that. generations move on. but they do not have to move on to Crimes

Hell of a lede, @lawrencehurley.bsky.social www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

I used to manage wine programs for movie theaters and I am in the extremely unique position to say with professional certainty that the answer here is a crisp Albariño.

anti-big men's pant radicals like me hooting and hollering, a powerful new weapon in the fight

somehow mc hammer pants came back

BRB starting a company called Tertiary Syphilis.

That's enough LinkedIn for the rest of my life.

The death of any child is tragic. We always think it will not be my child, they are healthy. Severe influenza can be unpredictable & deadly. Getting vaccinated considerably reduces dz severity and deaths. Please make sure you are vaccinated & your children are too. people.com/alabama-boy-...

So if you're a family evicted from your apartment, or a mother fleeing domestic violence with her children, or someone unhoused trying to get off the street or out of their car for a night... you're not allowed to stay at these Asheville hotels. Just unabashed discrimination.

A Hampton Inn in Asheville just canceled my family's reservation because our address (incorrectly) showed Asheville—and the hotel bars locals within 50 miles. When I asked why, they said, "because of our homeless population," adding that most hotels here have similar policies. This is outrageous.

In retrospect, the Kid Rock/J6 Choir version of “Porgy and Bess” might have been a mismatch with the traditional Kennedy Center audience

Issa Rae has canceled her sold out performance at the Kennedy Center. Pulitzer Prize winner Rhiannon Giddens, Peter Wolf, Low Cut Connie, and the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, D.C., have also canceled. Lin-Manuel Miranda has canceled the entire Kennedy Center run of Hamilton.

At least they plow the roads 😭 Iowa has straight up given up on plowing anything lol

@degette.house.gov Let me second Colette's suggestion. Waiting for RFK, Jr. to respond, writing strongly worded letters, furrowing brows, won't help. Impeachment action is a next step if you are serious about American public health. FYI. I directed an NIH institute from 2003-2011.

It was reprehensible when people mocked condom usage at the height of the AIDS pandemic. It is just as depraved to mock those wearing masks to reduce the spread of airborne viruses today. Whenever someone takes any kind of step to protect public health, they should be applauded, not mocked.

On this day, 179 years ago, Iowa officially became the 29th state admitted to the union.

Chief Justice John Roberts has been working to neuter the Voting Rights Act since the beginning of his career—and he may soon achieve his goal, David Daley argues.

Attention to news in 2025. What we noticed and what we ignored. open.substack.com/pub/charlesa...

Brigitte Bardot, French screen legend, dies aged 91

Here’s to 2026

Every Trump appointee if they were honest

In like 2022 I wrote about how climate change would make landslides worse

“Woman Enjoying Career Literally Made Possible by Feminism Declares Feminism a Failure”

Sick with some crud picked up from a preschooler… so made some green curry broth

we did it bobby

Revised National Parks Webpage Describes Harriet Tubman As Human Trafficker https://theonion.com/revised-national-parks-webpage-describes-harriet-tubman-as-human-trafficker/

This is an ensemble that has fun woven into its very fibres. It is polka dots and puff ball skirts and scarlet wraps and black bows and calls for music and dancing and laughing. Or you can just enjoy it from your sofa, like me. Arnold Scaasi, 1961 @metmuseum.org #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Sometimes I recall that my great grandpa was an egg-candler. Held eggs in front of candles to check yolks Brought double yolks to his family And I’m a college professor And I think: the US, land of immigrants, land of hope It takes a nanosecond to see how out of step this regime is w/that truth

It looks like Kanopy has The Lion in Winter for free if you create an account with your library card. So if you want to join in a viewing this evening -- say 8 p.m. Eastern? -- let me know. We can use #TheLionInWinter as a hashtag. #TCMParty