Did you know that over 1.3M active duty service members and veterans rely on SNAP benefits to feed themselves and their families? Now you know.

A study in Nature Neuroscience pinpoints a leptin-sensitive circuit in the lateral hypothalamus to enable an animal to overcome anxiety in threatening situations. go.nature.com/4nlU3v6 #neuroskyence 🧪

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May life treat you exactly the same way you treat servers, store clerks, senior citizens, children, and animals.

Time to sparkle the dark up 🔥✨🔥

Older adults aren’t just recovering from COVID they’re facing a second battle. A review shows that advanced age is a significant risk factor for developing #longCOVID with nervous, cardiovascular and respiratory system impact. More on: longcovidjourney.com/2025/10/23/t... #healthdata#aging

Went to a prayer service tonight at St. Mary of the Lake, where they have cardboard cutouts throughout the church representing parishioners afraid to come to Mass because of ICE.

Military loyalty, via payments, has been both a historical means of regime consolidation and occasional societal collapse. Unpredictability around military pay should be seen as one more flashing siren of democratic risk that Americans never used to have to think about.

Democracy requires decency. Our democracy is devolving because we neglected to demand common decency of the most powerful individual in our country; the President.

The problem is not that most people lack information regarding the extreme danger of Covid-19, because information is available. The problem is that most people do not care, and do not want to know. The problem is that most people are willing to accept mass illness and excess mortality. #COVID19

"The evidence that this may largely be due to the immunological effects of COVID-19 infections is accumulating" - #ŠpelaŠalamon #ArneauxKruger @dalupton.bsky.social @resiapretorius.bsky.social @andrewewing11.bsky.social @yaneerbaryam.bsky.social

The average age of U.S. homebuyers is now 56, up from 49 last year. In 1981, the year trickledown economics began, it was 31.

The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.

Such a mind fuck how Covid conscious folks are accused of not "moving on" when really we're the only ones who've evolved our behavior to fit the science, while others cling to some 2019 glittery dream world indefinitely

PsyPost: 'Scientists observe altered brain metabolism and connectivity in COVID-19 patients' 'The persistence of neurological and psychiatric symptoms after a COVID-19 infection, often called long COVID, has become a significant public health concern.' www.psypost.org/scientists-o...

Still plenty of leaves after some much needed rain.

Fool Me Once, Shame On You: Why Ignorance of Covid is a Dogshit Excuse guinesspig.ghost.io/fool-me-once/

You know it’s bad when the Dept of Labor says immigration raids are “threatening the stability of domestic food production and prices for US consumers.” @opinion.bloomberg.com #CPI www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

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New developments in my 3 year Epstein investigation, this time regarding JP Morgan Chase and its CEO, Jamie Dimon. This is a long thread, but worth sticking around for.

If you are confident that a boat near Venezuela is carrying drugs, you stop it and board it. That way, you have evidence. If you don't really care if a boat near Venezuela is carrying drugs, but you just want to kill people, you blow the boat up. That way, the irrelevant evidence is gone.

Not to be THAT dictionary, but… It’s ‘per se,’ not ‘per say.’ It’s ‘dog-eat-dog world,’ not ‘doggy-dog world.’ It’s ‘hunger pangs,’ not ‘hunger pains.’ It’s ‘one and the same,’ not ‘one in the same.’ It's 'buck naked,' not 'butt naked.'

Got buried in the news this weekend, but President Jesus said the F word on CNN at like 2pm in the afternoon. The next day he posted a poop-filled scat video, but tell Me more about the dignity of the office of the presidency.

With 3rd case of locally acquired clade 1 #mpox in California, officials warn of community spread The 3 recent cases are unrelated, but the fact that all 3 people had not traveled internationally indicates that local person-to-person spread is likely www.cidrap.umn.edu/m...

Why did the Marine Corps decide to fire live artillery shells across California’s major interstate freeway on Saturday? https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-other-demonstration-on-saturday

Yes. Yes kids should be wearing masks in schools and being given cleaner air. Those masks should be comfy and cheap. Why? Because kids are getting sick with a disease that we know very little about, and what we do know, is looking problematic.

This is the best political news I’ve seen in a very long time — so please pass it on👇 Each state can limit Citizens United in their own state & they don’t have to wait for other states to do it. Our new @rollingstone.com piece based on our new book MASTER PLAN. Get the book at LeverNews.com/book

I had that dream again

"Here’s what I found: Once fascists win power democratically, they have never been removed democratically. Not once. Ever." Meaning, you’ll never elect them out, meaning you better lace em up and mask up! medium.com/@carmitage/i...

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

“.. They describe the legions of masked immigration officers operating in near-total anonymity on the orders of the president as the crossing of a line that had long set the United States apart from the world’s most repressive regimes.” @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Amazing that “No kings and no Nazis” is suddenly a controversial slogan and up for debate in 2025. These are the two most basic creeds of American history.

"When we are self-indulgent and uncritical, when we confuse hopes and facts, we slide into pseudoscience and superstition." -Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

#nokings rally I went to in Extremely Normie Chicago suburb was easily triple the size of earlier one. TRIPLE. & that was much bigger than I thought it would be. Previous one, occasionally cars would beep, this time every single car was leaning on the horn the whole time. Encouraging cacophony. 👊🏻💚

April 2021, PBS: "These patients tested negative for coronavirus, but still have long COVID symptoms" 'Experts don’t yet know what causes long covid or why some people have persistent symptoms while others recover in weeks or even days' www.pbs.org/newshour/hea...

April 2021, The Times: "The race to cure long Covid, the world’s next health crisis" 'Millions of people worldwide are suffering from an array of symptoms months after contracting Covid-19. Andrew Gregory reports' www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...

Covid doesn’t end after acute symptoms abate it leaves people with ongoing health problems. Long covid is covid. And it ruins lives.

Crazy to think that 5 years in, some people still think “asymptomatic = not contagious.” It’s been known since early 2020 that people without symptoms can spread COVID very efficiently.🦠😷 #COVIDisNotOVER #CleanAir #MaskUp #AsymptomaticSpread

#ResistanceRoots Today in history, 1992: Japanese exchange student Yoshihiro Hattori is shot and killed in Baton Rouge, La., after going to the wrong house while looking for a Halloween party. The killing and acquittal of the homeowner played a significant role in the passage of the Brady Bill. /1

New: In a backsliding democracy, ‘public mobilization is the guardrail’ open.substack.com/pub/diplomat...

Extraordinary NEW story: We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. @nicolefoy.bsky.social w/ photos by @sbmaneyphoto.bsky.social

Long Covid Is Real — And It’s Changing an Entire Generation Hundreds of thousands of kids in America are struggling with an illness that many doctors and schools refuse to recognize.e Feature: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

someone with a billion dollars no longer experiences the world as 99% of humanity would recognize it, and so any “analysis” or critique of society they offer is fatally, irrevocably flawed. dracula complaining about the price of groceries