A 5-month-old baby died, & 3 surviving children, ages 2, 4, & 5, had to be hospitalized with rickets, osteopenia, vitamin D deficiency, & significant developmental delays bc their parents put them on “alkaline diets.” Anyone saying alkalization has health benefits is a murderous liar & a charlatan.

I would love it if high school health classes also included a primer on basics that will affect every single student in their lifetime, like "health insurance", "what are health screenings and why do we do them", in addition to "how not to get Chlamydia" and "don't do drugs"

Six people died from tampered Tylenol and the company pulled 30 million bottles off the market. ChatGPT is accused of urging seven people towards suicide, and OpenAI just assures us they’re still working out the kinks. Billions in investment, zero accountability.

I always find it interesting how the story changes when a lawyer gets to court. They can say anything they want outside of court without accountability but the rules are vastly different in court where you can get seriously penalized for lying.

Priorities.

New ICE recruiting methods have resulted in half of this group of absolute winners failing AN OPEN BOOK TEST

Portland has elevated protesting to an art form.

Update from the war zone in Portland.

Tulane "terminated an academic director this summer after the syllabus she'd helped create for an infectious disease class was rejected by a newly hired instructor because it included an academic article about a polio outbreak in Gaza." #Louisiana #USA #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Healthcare #Genocide

Love is not a thing To be withheld It is not a weapon Nor commodity You will not run out I promise you won't. It must flow That is its nature. If you attempt to hold it in reserve Until you think it is deserved You have either forgotten Or never knew What it was in the first place #poetry

I think one of the better, more subtle tributes to Robert Redford's life is the string of utterly iconic female co-stars who've come forward to eulogize him; each of them take-no-shit types like Fonda and Streisand, and every one of them without a single bad thing to say. A model for male behavior

Demand for human-generated, trust-certified internet content is skyrocketing. There is a major business opportunity, in *every* country, for media firms to meet this rising demand with innovation. Fascinating new experiment by @filipecampante.bsky.social et al.—> filipecampante.org/wp-content/u...

But the disruptions Aren't really disruptions It's ALL this thing, "life". #haiku

I am a speck of dust in a beam of light I am warm I am seen I am free #poetry

My wife shared this with me and I’m tellin you… it’s worth the read.

The trees have seen more And still they choose to grow roots And reach to the sun #haiku

He requested enlightenment It came with the sunrise He never wanted it to set #poetry

United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero - Two years ago, we invited all 100 senators to work in the fields. Only two of them accepted: Alex Padilla and Cory Booker.

Marines and DHS arrest anti-ICE protester after children were spotted in chains at the federal detention center in LA

Herman Melville on moderates, all the way back in 1857:

The people at @smartelections.bsky.social are moving forward with a major lawsuit in NY over this obvious instance of fraud that took place in the 2024 Election... [ Reposted from @realdlhughley.bsky.social on Instagram ]

Neighborhoods with more immigrants are safer. Get your shitty soldiers out of LA

Guys...The Hungry Caterpillar is about the power of healthy eating

Gonna say something obvious to most: real masculinity defends the defenseless, punches up not down, has compassion, and fights only on behalf of others to battle injustice or evil. It doesn’t just lift weights and tweet in all caps and listen to Rogan and grow a beard to feel accepted by other men

If this is even remotely accurate, Elon Musk and Donald Trump have killed more people in several months than the Iraq war killed in a decade

Sprinklers in the rain Oh, how far humans have come Still, weather humbles #haiku

The fog of winter lifts And with it my spirit Sun and sky, return! #haiku

"i have a fancy new doodad that says if your [incredibly complex physiological process] is up or down" no you do not. you have a device that goes "beep" if it detects so many photons in a second, coupled with an irreducible web of assumptions it uses to spit out a number to two significant digits.

Happy Mother's Day No one exists without us So show some respect! #haiku

Good night 😴 War is when the government tells you who the bad guy is. Revolution is when you decide that for yourself. Benjamin Franklin

Signal For New Pope Delayed While Dead Raccoon Dislodged From Sistine Chapel Chimney

Many U S Parents Outsourcing Child Care Overseas

The magnolia Only has one bud this spring A secret, shy scent #haiku

Breast cancer diagnoses rose by over 300% between 1973 and 1992. Was there a breast cancer epidemic?! NO. Mammograms were implemented for screening in 1976. PREVALENCE is a function of being able to correctly diagnose something. This is also about autism.

Kind, decent, and compassionate, Pope Francis was badly out of step with contemporary western culture.

Rain restores my faith Nectar down from the heavens Trickles into roots #haiku

EXACTLY.

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New Mexico made child care free for most families. Believe it or not, the good thing is good. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Medicare covering screening colonoscopies but not diagnostic ones after positive cologuard is stupid

When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king, the palace becomes a circus. -Turkish proverb

Liar Greg Abbott says he has refused to set a special election to fill the seat of recently diseased Democratic Rep. Sylvester Turner because he says Harris County doesn’t do their elections properly.

Connecticut Intelligence Center worried that Luigi Mangione is becoming a "Robin Hood" like figure and that "citizens may see Mangione’s alleged actions as an attack against a system designed to work against them," per report obtained under FOIA: prospect.org/justice/2025...

“makes patient mean” is not an allergy

Tesla Model 3 crushed by an Olmec statue By Mexican sculptor @chavismarmol.bsky.social

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.