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“participants who took the combination drug saw enhanced recovery and faster viral load reductions, they noted, which points to both clinical efficacy and antiviral activity.” www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...

Blue moon..

Today, our #SCIMaP team released an impact analysis of the White House proposed FY 2027 NIH and NSF budgets. Bottom-line: if enacted, cuts to science and medical research would lead to $35B in economic losses and 150,000 lost jobs in communities all across the US. scienceimpacts.org 🧵

Depressing, especially on Earth Day. I fondly remember driving through central Florida with the windows down and the sweetest scent of the orange groves.

🚨NEWS🚨 Rep. Massie and I just introduced a bipartisan amendment to strip the pesticide liability shield from the Farm Bill. If a company’s product makes people sick, it should be held accountable. If states and communities want to create stronger protections, they should have every right to do so.

New York Times article about the slow pace on NIH grant making as well as enforcement of political constraints. [Gift Link] www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/s... 1/4

We lost another... www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...

“Don’t it always seem to go that you don’t know what you got till it’s gone…” -Joni Mitchell #EarthDay2026 @guywebsterphotography

A little early from Yoko Ono. The highline 2017 NYC

A little early from Yoko Ono. The highline 2017 NYC

It Very Much is, but I Blame Corporations More….

Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet. This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.

For the first time in decades, consensus broke at the UN Commission on the Status of Women. The United States cast the lone “no” vote on a document aimed at improving justice systems for women and girls worldwide. Misogyny is the official policy of the US under Trump.

how am I only just learning this stunningly apt word

It's telling that the entire premise of the shadow docket is that lower courts are incompetent. Not wrong, not the normal judges-can-disagree stuff. SCOTUS is certain the Appellate and District courts are all so truly incompetent that they cannot properly decide injunctions, forcing SCOTUS to act.🙄

Heartbreaking description of the pointless, thoughtless damage being done to the Kennedy Center. It was such an important part of life in Washington, and is now being destroyed for no reason www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

actually it is good to take a break from this site

Fuchsia (after Leonhart Fuchs; say “FOOK-see-ah”) in the Americas are hummingbird pollinated. In New Zealand, the native species attract nectar-feeding birds (but they’re rare→pollination is rare). This is F. x colensoi (F. excorticata × F. perscandens), a natural hybrid. #Onagraceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱

There will be hundreds of driverless 18-wheelers on US highways by the end of this year, and next year thousands.

As I have repeatedly posted about my iPad issues on BlueSky, I would like to share this “Thank you for your patience, I understand how frustrating this has been. iPad optimization is on our radar. Our team is currently working on improving the iPad compatibility with the app and fixing the issues.”

Good idea! but trump may have already invited them to the USA

Fixing the broken, anti-democratic institutions must be the platform. Right way. Ready to go. In January 2029:

Yes please!!!

For years, but especially in the last few months, I have been trying hard to imagine what it will feel like seeing Orban decisively defeated. I just couldn't. And yet here we are: it is truly and well over. I have more reservations about Peter Magyar than I could say in 300 characters or a thread...

Do y'all know "Magyar" means Hungarian? It's actually the only Hungarian word I know. My dad spoke Hungarian but we never learned. Anyway, I think it's fitting that the new leader of Hungary is named Magyar. #Hungary

For the crucial Hungarian election, friends don’t let friends follow fake-experts. Follow these real experts instead: @gabrielagreilinger.com @danielhegedus.bsky.social @veghzsuzsanna.bsky.social @szabolcspanyi.bsky.social @zecsaky.bsky.social @rdanielkelemen.bsky.social @eublogo.bsky.social

LOL, trying to stay offline and do my work, and friends are sending me "LOOK AT THIS NEW PIC!" texts .... This one is worth it. First PoC and first woman to go around another world. Don't stop talking about this point. It's important. #ArtemisII

Kennedy canceled $500 million in mRNA research and announced no new mRNA projects will ever be initiated—killing the technology that produced the fastest vaccine rollout in human history.

Trump did this.

Sasse's signature legislation was the "Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act," a nonsense bill designed to gratify a conservative conspiracy theory. He wasted his whole life on culture war lying.

The current state of American politics: Sexual assault allegations are made against a Democrat and in minutes other Dems demand his resignation. Trump is found liable of sexual assault by a jury and Republicans propel him into the presidency.

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Those of us in public health don't just have to become better storytellers, we need go out into our communities and co-create a better future for all of us. The story of public health in the 21st century should be one embedded in communities that need us most. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Iran War Live Updates: Israeli Strikes in Lebanon Threaten Shaky U.S.-Iran Cease-Fire | NY Times 🎁 article www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04...

We're on the brink of global nuclear war and these are the topics of choice of America's "top" papers of record: •NY Times: Did Wokeness Leave Us Worse Off? •WSJ: Pope Leo Goes to War Rather than holding power accountable, they're demonizing marginalized communities and decidedly anti-war Pope. smh

I truly believe the best possible compliment you could ever receive is a compliment to your character.

Netanyahu is bombing Lebanon because his political career (and therefore avoidance of prosecution) depends on constant war. How many more people must die for the sake of one man's standing?

Broke: legitimizing crypto will help solidify the dollar’s status as reserve currency. Woke: legitimizing crypto will help facilitate money laundering and sanctions evasion. Bespoke: legitimizing crypto will help displace petrodollars.

Putting aside Sam Altman just continuing to emit huge lies constantly, this is an amazing example of what I mean when I talk about how GenAI is replacing *extremely low energy* digital tasks with *WAY WAY HIGHER ENERGY* replacements that *do not even work* Why TF is anyone using ChatGPT as a timer!

called it.

I think it may be a first, correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe Trump is the first President of the United States who is mentally ill.

Two weeks to remove him. Now.

Treason

While we're focused on the war crime of blowing up the power plants in Iran... We aren't talking enough about how we have literally deprived a country of electricity for three months without a single missile fired. Cuba.

not getting much of their press apnews.com/article/news...

In another piece about the tweet specifically they quote the whole thing.

If I were in Trump's Cabinet, I would spend Easter calling constitutional lawyers about the 25th Amendment. This is completely, utterly unhinged. He's already killed thousands. He's going to kill thousands more.

Has anyone studied the psychic toll of years spent waking up to the unhinged rantings of a vicious madman who could kill us all — and then going about one’s day per usual?