Tylenol use is safe in pregnancy, lowest effective dose. Don’t listen to the utter nonsense emanating from the highest office in the land today. Speak to your medical provider.

My boys bidding me “ah haer haer haer” as they left for school today because they listened to ZZ Top was just one thing not on my bingo card…

NPR to trim $5 million as some public radio stations struggle to pay bills My story for NPR NPR cuts $5 million as public radio stations struggle to pay bills www.npr.org/2025/09/17/n...

About sums it up.

This may explain why there’s an aggressive response to people who merely post Kirk’s own words. It threatens the existence of the alternate Kirk - the motivational speaker that had been marketed to young kids and white Christian groups through selective quotation & clips.

"You aren't in a free country if you can't feel safe to express your views, whether they be far right or far left or in the middle or pro-Trump or anti-Trump." @timmiller.bsky.social and @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/were-in-a-...

Doctors, pharmacies and state health departments are scrambling to adapt to the confusion over the coronavirus vaccine that is no longer broadly recommended. Here are some tips on getting your shot — and navigating the uncertainty:

Maybe the WH cage match is between Pulte and Bessett?

Monday was week 3. So 21 + 4. 25 million for just the National Guard. www.cnn.com/2025/08/28/p... National Guard deployment: Experts estimate deployment in DC is costing roughly $1 million a day | CNN Politics

🚨Border Patrol arrested two firefighters who were actively fighting a wildfire at the time. When the other members of the crew asked for a chance to say goodbye, a Border Patrol agent told the crew member “you need to get the f*ck out of here. I’m going to make you leave.”

$6000 for this banner. Did the money come from donors or from the Labor Department’s budget?

OH GREAT NOW THE SWAMP IS WOKE www.iflscience.com/deep-in-virg...

Dayson v Tyson (Tyson hit Dayson on the wrist btw and Dayson went off the field wincing and on ice)

Markwayne Mullin: "I'm not joking when I say this. I drive around Washington DC in my Jeep - yes, I drive myself - & I don't buckle up. The reason I don't buckle up - people can say whatever they want - is because of carjacking. I don't want to be stuck in my vehicle when I need to exit in a hurry."

What a sentence: “Lies could be told with such liberating ease - they tasted better on the tongue than hard facts.”

Exclusive: The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History removed references to President Trump’s two impeachments from an exhibit — an apparent change to its plans to update its collection of artifacts about the historic U.S. proceedings.

In the past few months the Trump administration moved to strip DACA recipients of healthcare & launched investigations into colleges providing financial aid for them Now DHS is urging participants to “self deport” marking weakening protections. My latest: www.npr.org/2025/07/29/n...

This is the best book I’ve read this year. Hilarious, stunning, poignant. Set in modern day Lebanon, a portrait of a teacher - incredibly funny, smart gay and traumatized - and his fierce little mother. I keep maybe 2 books a year - this one goes in my library. Sept 1st pub date. #books #booksky

#books #booksky There was a young woman who lived in a shoe… really a boot! This debut novel is a dark & light delight. Put it on your radar! It comes out in 2 weeks!

What may inform ill-formed, truncated and twisted minds. www.theatlantic.com/books/archiv...

Untreated, CVI leads to painful calf and foot cramps, especially at night, and leg ulcers. It is a lifestyle change. And finding appropriate and comfortable compression wear can be a challenge. I prefer thigh highs. I have a pair in flamingo pink. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/u...

The Senate voted to approve a $9 billion rescission package aimed at clawing back money already allocated for public radio and television — a major step toward winding down nearly six decades of federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. https://n.pr/44QnXjT

BEHOLD Pumpkin Spice Season is heeeeeeerrrrreeeeer!!!!!!

Breaking news: Federal immigration officers may deport immigrants with as little as six hours’ notice to countries other than their own, even without assurances that the arrivals will be safe from persecution or torture, a top official said.

Our staff is on the ground supporting families. Many workers-including US citizens, were held by federal authorities at the farm for 8 hours or more. US citizen workers report only being released after they were forced to delete photos and videos of the raid from their phones. 4/

NPR has compiled a timeline of when local, state and federal officials posted warnings on social media as well as the timeline of events as presented by local officials.

Swimming at community rec centers and showering in the locker rooms with the “dgaf” water aerobics ladies will also help you recalibrate the effects of diet culture!

Well! Let me tell Miss Manners something: When my mom passed, I had a crap-ton of unexpected expenses. A dear friend sent a $100 VISA gift card & a note saying - use this to treat yourself or the boys. I loved the gesture. Because the flowers? They rot. www.washingtonpost.com/advice/2025/...

Pull up a chair and learn!

It is so frustrating to read a book that could have been a really good book, but wears out its welcome by 2/3 in. I look a lot of new books, and so many of them should have had a more engaged editor willing to hurt some feelings. #books #booksky

If you want to up your laundry game, tune for my story today on Weekend Edition. How one minor league team strikes stains OUT! www.npr.org/2025/06/22/n...

#books #booksky www.npr.org/2025/06/25/n...

NEW: Here's what the latest satellite imagery from Maxar and others tell us about Operation Midnight Hammer. www.npr.org/2025/06/22/n...

A question I honestly have - what of today’s objects, well made, delightful, chic - will possibly attract thrifters in 2-3 decades?

Racket?!?

A new documentary on PBS shows what it's like to care for adult family members and recounts the history of caregiving policy in the U.S. revealing why those caring for family are often on their own.

Trustees of the Social Security trust fund predict the fund will be exhausted in eight years. Unless Congress acts, Social Security payments will automatically drop by 23% at that time.

Book #26 for the year. I did not know how much I needed a good satire. #books #booksky

Today, I’d like to take a moment to consider balls, or the use of “balls” as a synonym for courage… 🧵

WASHINGTON (AP) — Pentagon says deploying Marines and National Guard to protests in Los Angeles will cost $134 million.

Today’s “I did not know that” - a woman invented duct tape. open.substack.com/pub/bethcoll...

www.wsj.com/politics/pol... “Some of those tasks will be kind of orange-like tasks…And by orange, I mean the fruit orange, but they might be tangerines, they might be blood oranges, it might just be a little bit grapefruity, all those will go in one bin.”

NEWS: NPR and three Colorado public radio stations sue Trump White House over effort to ban federal funding for NPR & PBS The lawsuit calls Trump's executive order "textbook retaliation" for protected free speech - threatening public radio My story: www.npr.org/2025/05/27/n...