Why the #UnitedStates will never have a woman #President - a woman is elected #PrimeMinister of #Japan, and the "standard bearer of US media" does an entire article about her...handbag 🤦‍♀️

I cannot imagine what could possibly go wrong in trying to court-martial an astronaut and pilot decorated multiple times for valor and exceptional service, who is also a sitting senator, for correctly making the point that service members are obliged not to follow unlawful orders

. @edyong209.bsky.social went independent and I am glad he did, because this fawning piece about a man who will be responsible for millions of excess #deaths would never be written by a proper #health and #science #journalist

Tariffs are taxes. When Trump levies new taxes on Americans without any approval by Congress and then talks about giving some of it back, that's not a "reward" – it's a scam.

These are two grown men. But you want us to wonder about the crisis of men and boys. What examples are you putting before them? Is this manhood?

In the least surprising news ever: "It feels like my contribution is — just because I was not born in this country — less valued," Liu says…defunding scientific research and public health have damaged the U.S.'s reputation…top international talent are no longer interested in coming to America.”

I never understood the turkey over #Thanksgiving thing. I have never eaten a turkey in my life, but seems like most of those who do hate it, so why bother? 🤷🏻‍♀️

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the new demented definition of human rights violations. Abortion and DEI policies are now human rights violations. A ball of cells matters more than an entire human. Women’s lives do not matter. #Pinks www.forbes.com/sites/maryro...

Ope I guess my University of #Michigan #FacultySenate position is in jeopardy now (I’m pretty sure more than 50% of us on SACUA are foreign born)

Even some MAHA supporters were frustrated by the lack of scientists. One woman argued that you need the scientific establishment to enact change from within. “But they’re seen as all corrupt by Kennedy and his inner circle,” she told me, who “want to punish them for their role in COVID”.

A strange mishmash of influencers, anti-ageing entrepreneurs, Big Business leaders (Walmart, Google) and top govt officials gathered at the ritzy Waldorf Astoria in DC. Notably absent were any academic researchers or clinicians. Instead, panelists criticized the medical establishment all day long.

Probably good news because like half the (at least #Democratic) #CapitolHill staffers I met this month are #Michigan grads 😂

He just keeps claiming Biden's accomplishments. Sad little, lying, ignorant man doesn't have any of his own. 💥💯💥🖕🖕🖕🖕

We live in the era of the SuperKicker

Every other game going on right now except for Seahawks-Titans is within a field goal

I'm sorry #Canada, this is dumb and literally shooting the #world in the foot. I know the #US is doing the same thing, but #Carney is smarter and should know better. #InfectiousDisease spreads- what starts in #Africa or #Asia is not contained only there for long

Says the guy who left a red state ( #SouthCarolina) to spend his entire adult life in New Haven, #Connecticut (blue state) and the #Hamptons, #NewYork (blue state), along with London, England 🙄

- Shrink from learning new tech tools ( #AI) - check - constantly checking 401(k) - check - achy knees - check Hey, it sounds like I need to retire this year! Oh wait I’m 40 (granted, 41 in a few weeks). Crap.

DOGE was created for data theft and infrastructure dismantling and it wildly succeeded on both counts within the first few weeks of its existence. It will take a generation to rebuild what it destroyed and the breach of data is unprecedented.

Spot on.

"Since May, the economy has added 174,000 jobs. The healthcare sector added 157,000 jobs, accounting for more than 90 percent of job growth over this period." You know, the sector that they are eliminating any access to with #studentloans

ICYMI Dept of Education will no longer considers these professional degrees: Nursing Public health Social work Physician assistant Occupational therapy Physical therapy Audiology Speech-language pathology Social work Counseling & therapy Health Admin A smaller health workforce makes us all sicker

I think the people wondering how the Nuzzis & the Lizzas of the world get so famous are maybe making more discriminating choices. But fact is, more people prefer such ego bombs than the many, many excellent journalists w/out white mustangs or tell-all bamboo metaphors.

Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

37% of consultant posts in the UK are lying vacant…only 13 resident doctors are in training…our 10-year health plan commits to the creation of 1,000 new speciality training posts with a focus on specialties where there is greatest need” With whom exactly? Since you are demonizing #immigrants?

A few days ago I shared a video of Mercedes Wells, a black woman in labour who had been kicked out of the hospital & gave birth roadside. The doctor and nurse who kicked her out have been fired. Black women have the highest maternal mortality in the country, and misogynoir plays a big role.

#MusicChallenge #1Artist1Album1Song 165/365 CLOVES XIII (2015)

Note to #Indian and other #Asian Trump supporters - we're in that 10%. Not the 91%, as much as you try to deny it. Your terminal degree and bank account value doesn't matter. 🙄

Kavanaugh stop. Smashed the kid’s car windows and arrested him. He told them he was a U.S. citizen. The officer replied “I don’t care.” www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

1) AML is treatable, not "terminal" especially in a very wealthy 35 yo, she almost certainly will be able to get a #bonemarrow transplant 2) that being said, why do all good Kennedys either die young or get bad #medical diagnoses when the worst Kennedy is untouched at 71? Convinced we live in hell

I made the mistake of reading Part 2 of Lizza (please don't do that, especially the RFK Jr. poem, I need my eyes bleached now), and the only person in this saga I feel remotely pity for is Jenny Sanford. I hope she's on a long vacation on a remote island somewhere

Mayor of the 25th largest city in the country Michelle Wu is exactly 3 weeks younger than me. I have failed at life 🥹

Cheerleading is wild. A friend of mine’s daughter was being bullied on her team and her bases let her fall intentionally during a trick. She broke her wrist, but it could have been much worse. I’m not sure we should have uncooked frontal lobes as the safety backstop in any dangerous sport.

University of #Maryland shout out - they still had a campus Dunkin Donuts open so I could get a hot mint #tea after game because I am a granny 😂 I don’t think Umich has any coffeeshops open after evening/night #football games

I feel bad for Zvada, he was probably a third round draft pick last year but unlikely to even make the draft after this year 😬

Ok we have settled in a bit in this game, look better than last week for sure, but this still ain’t gonna beat the #1 team in the country

So, uhm, we are going to be murdered and filleted next week by #OhioState with this defense 😬

Marriage A-la-Mode, Plate V: The Death of the Earl, by Simon François Ravenet, after William Hogarth, 1745, 📸 by @evanvucci

Another #BigTen city and #football stadium down! #Michigan - #Maryland in #CollegePark (I have been to all the #BigTen cities except Penn State and Rutgers and games at 8 of the stadiums so far)

A lot of people with SNAP literally went off got certifications, got a job that pays above minimum wage and still qualify. CNAs at the largest employer in my city make $11/hr 🙃

my job mostly involves googling science things all day, and it's been terrible to see how much worse that's become over the last few years. but not being able to trust government websites for basic science information really takes things to a new low

So apparently when Trump calls someone a “traitor,” the fireworks show doesn’t just stay on Truth Social it spills over into real life. A day after he accused Sen. Elissa Slotkin of “seditious behavior,”

With cutting down my #FTE, I am at the point the amount I am putting into #retirement every month is 96% of my take-home pay 😂 (ie, half of my paycheck is retirement and half comes to me). I can change this whenever, but I'm still dreaming retirement still exists in 20 years 😂

i hope this crappy scenario happens instead of the much worse scenario i've been forecasting (price death spiral leading to total provider-side collapse w/ widespread closures and healthcare shortages, followed by huge losses to average lifespan as we just mostly stop having regular medical care)

Correction: The US healthcare system has already collapsed. We just haven't recognized it yet.

America 2025.

#MusicChallenge #1Artist1Album1Song 164/365 ( #meditative music on last day of my #Congressional orientation) Tracey Chattaway Third Place - EP (2013)