The perfect salad for today

I had a Swiftmas New Year's Eve with my SIL! It's been such a joy to watch her finally embrace a passion for something she loves without caring about what anyone else might think. We celebrated with a Swiftie cocktail bar, Taylor-pun charcuterie, and friendship bracelet skewers.

Letter from CMS (Dr. Oz) to state health departments. RE: 2027 Updates to the Child and Adult Core Health Care Quality Measurement Sets and Mandatory Reporting Guidance Me: Fuck you, make me

Masked agents dragged a teacher from her classroom. They pepper-sprayed a toddler. They shot a father of two, for the crime of trying to go to work. This is Trump’s America—and we need your help to keep exposing it. trib.al/CeYNttK

“oh, i wish there were some kind of punctuation to chain these two sentences together” the humble semicolon:

Besties, what is the best way to display posters and cards in your apartment? I rent so I don’t want to touch my walls with nails or 3M strips but I still have my eras tour posters that I need to frame and artwork from my nephew that I wanna put around in my room coz that would brighten my mood.

Americans brace to start New Year without healthcare www.bbc.com/news/article...

Teen with worsening back pain Sagittal T1 without contrast(above left)+T2(above middle) MRI shows destruction of intervertebral disc space+near-complete collapse of vertebral body at thoracolumbar junction with associated kyphotic deformity #radiology #radiologia #Ortho #Orthopedics #Orthopaedics

“We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/01/n...

Kind of funny that apparently his doctors just keep giving him the cognitive test over and over, they must be shocked that he keeps passing

Finally watching the full speech this morning: www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4aa...

From a few days ago: NIH begins review of thousands of delayed research proposals, funding 135 on first day archive.is/202512310223...

Hi there Blue Sky folks! I'm new here, Here's some Bach Cello Suits in the west of Ireland winter sun. Is what you're into? Would you like to hear more? I'm finding it too upsetting to open up Twitter these days...

A few months ago I got the story of a duck who aspires to curling greatness stuck in my brain and simply couldn't get it out until I did this

This piece by @melodyschreiber.com is a must-read. Most people don't know what CDER is, but it is responsible for the regulation of all the drugs we put in our bodies. Hoeg is unqualified for CDER director. The only reason she was appointed is that she is an anti-vaxxer and a friend of Vinay Prasad.

I have a particularly frustrating chronic condition that I love to transfer to him

Black eyed peas , collard greens , cabbage and other delicious flavors simmering together . Cornbread baking in the oven ! #NewYearsDay #foodsky

🍽️ New Year’s dinner complete! Hoppin’ John and Honey Chipotle Cornbread for wealth, luck, progress, abundance 😊 Couldn’t find black eyed peas, subbed yellow eyed beans. Added kale instead of making collard greens. Delicious! 😋 🍜 🍳 #Ilovecooking #food #foodie #foodsky #cookingsky #cooking #recipes

More recipes from the Middle East! This is “fūl medames”, a fava bean dish that’s popular all across the region. Each country has its own variations and styles, but this one is kinda the basic version. (Recipe below!) #+1ToCooking #food #cooking #homecooking #MiddleEasternFood

Red Beans and Rice with Cornbread for New Year’s Dinner #food #cooking #dinner #newyears

Done 😍🍜🍽️

New Year’s Day black-eyed pea soup

Since I'm not religious...

The only target I probably met in 2025 is that I complained a lot

Devastating. Yesterday, a 5-year-old boy died from the flu. Dr. Oz was spewing advice earlier this week where he downplayed the importance of vaccines and recommended “getting sunlight”. I don’t know whether Micah was vaccinated, but of the kids who died from flu last year, 90% were not.

Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

"She has big plans for her future — including growing up and becoming a scientist with twins and a husband who stays home to take care of them." 🥹

It's cold, and I bet he's really warm in that coat.

Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vt., says he thinks the Senate can pass a "retroactive" Affordable Care Act subsidy extension, but "we need President Trump." n.pr/3MT2e5B

Stable rent. Affordable necessities. Free childcare. Free busses. This is the bare minimum that people deserve and people really act like he has outlandish ideas.

Without a doubt. He will make a good faith effort to enact all his policy ideas. He will succeed on some and fail on others. And that’s fine. That is how change works. Also his promises are all feasible.

Tried the new Thai restaurant down the street, Chada, and I am absolutely infatuated. Gorgeous and flavorful and just stunning food.

AOC: New York City has chosen the ambitious pursuit of universal childcare, affordable rents and housing and clean and dignified public transit for all. We have chosen that over the distractions of bigotry and the barbarism of extreme income inequality

Reiterating that the proposals were likely submitted 2+ years prior to termination (some far earlier). Staff were hired and teams built to execute these projects. Not only is it incredibly disruptive, but how can anyone project if the “new priorities” will hold? How is this “innovation”?

Read this thread if you've been wanting to get into Florence + the Machine and don't know where to start

Started…. Going… Homemade turkey bone broth from Thanksgiving as the liquid base

Setting my out of office message to: “If you are receiving this message, you must avenge me.”

This is the last 150 years of PubMed publications by major Publishing organizations. It started with small University and Nonprofit presses, now becoming an absolute domination by commercial publishers #research #medsky

Mamdani arrives to his mayoral inauguration at City Hall in a motorcade of NYC taxi cabs—workers he went on hunger strike with in 2021.

Katelin Provost is a 37 year old single mom & social worker Because of MAGA/MAHA policies (“Make America Healthy Again”), her monthly premium payment is increasing from $85/month to nearly $750 This is immoral & will sicken & kill people—it’s a huge barrier to care www.wlwt.com/article/aca-...

As I think more about this, I recall that Bhattacharya repeatedly said on podcasts that NIH would not stop funding minority health research… and it did. So it’s possible that what he says on podcasts won’t be the reality.

Not keeping it 💯on the land, the sea, and the sky at all

Trump admits to taking more aspirin than his docs recommend: “They say aspirin is good for thinning out the blood, and I don’t want thick blood pouring through my heart. I want nice, thin blood pouring through my heart. Does that make sense?” What could possibly go wrong! (2/6)

Oh my goodness, this Wall Street Journal piece about Trump's ailing health that includes an interview with him (gift link). There are a number of ridiculous details in it and I'll put a few of them in this thread. (1/6)

If this is to be believed, he’s taking high dose aspirin against his doctors orders. He’s trying very hard to give himself the stroke y’all have been hoping for

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like 75% of dem messaging right now should be “the party led by epsteins best friend is breaking into pre-k childcare centers so they can record your toddlers and put the videos on internet”

7.5 hours after he took office, capitalism still exists: is Mamdani already a failure?

If 2025 didn't stop you nothing will