Terri Jones

Summary of recent HHS departures:

-Unqualified weirdo Jim O’Neill out as CDC Director

-“Measles outbreaks are the cost of doing business” Ralph Abraham out as his Dumbass Deputy

-Venomous podcaster Vinay Prasad out at FDA.

Yet human cassowary and denim enthusiast RFK Jr. remains.

They say lightning never strikes the same place twice. They’re liars. Earth is a place and it’s been hit by lightning at least eleven times, maybe even more, I have to check.

Everyone talking about what is and isn't obsolete, meanwhile modern-day spies be like:

"Sir, I've discovered that the enemy is planning to attack-"
"Yes I know, they bragged about it on Twitter."

Science!

I got a South African cricketer drinking whisky with me in the parking lot of his hotel till 4 AM the night before a game and then during the match he lasted 3 balls and blamed "headache" later and I was like

We stunned Harlan Ellison speechless by taking him to a Chucky Cheese. We tried to describe it, he didn't believe us...

dogs are hilarious dorks. i love them.

cats have boundaries and enforce them. i love them.

the first time I ever got drunk was in this building, at a Thanksgiving celebration, where a monk kept refilling my glass with a wine named after me

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Do you know the hear attack symptoms for women?
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It’s clear to me that the argument is actually about what you think the point of doing research is. If it’s papers, AI will be faster. But I don’t think it’s papers I think it’s the process and I want to do that process

One of the first things I did this morning was block 65 people who liked a skeet I found intolerable. My finger actually hurt afterwards.

And I’d do it all again.

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States Move to Limit Access to H.I.V. Treatment

"H.I.V. medications suppress the virus to undetectable levels, eliminating the chance of spreading the virus to others, so interrupting treatment may lead to an increase in new infections."

I know it's by design but the amount of hoops you have to jump through for government assistance is near impossible if you aren't neurotypical able-bodied. Like I am lucky I have developed systems to do things but fuck.

DOJ's recent 6th Circuit filing misspelled:

Voters as “Votors”
Emergency as "Emeregency"
United States as "United Staes"

And, it included a non-party in the caption.

These are the people who want access to your sensitive voting records and who my team fights in court every day.

A rising percentage of U.S. teens aren’t getting enough sleep Teens need eight to 10 hours of sleep each night. A large majority get less than that, according to a national survey of U.S. high school students.

With puberty, the timing of melatonin secretion changes, meaning that adolescents can have a hard time falling asleep before 11 p.m. or waking up before 8 a.m.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/teens-sleep-deprived-us-high-school

🚨 The City of Lynchburg v. Koski et al Learn more here.

🚨BREAKING: Virginia court rejects latest GOP effort to stall redistricting ballot effort that would redraw congressional map. Court ruled that special election preparations for the redistricting referendum must move forward. www.democracydocket.com/cases/virgin...

Treating fetuses with stem cells proves safe, finds a new milestone spina bifida trial.

The study is now scaling up to do more in utero procedures and evaluate effects on disability as children grow.

This is a great idea!

And at 6 degrees Kelvin above absolute zero, helium becomes a superfluid and literally crawls up the walls of its container, defying gravity through quantum mechanical effects.
#sciencefact
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My law firm is currently litigating 86 voting and election cases in 41 states. I expect several more to be filed this week. Here are the states where we are currently most active:

Georgia 8
Arizona 6
Florida 6
California 4
Virginia 4
Wisconsin 4

my new resolution is to normalise threads to just celebrate people I love because I saw a friend and colleague post about how another friend and colleague was this great person and my immediate thought was fuck no no no how can they have died because the only tributes you ever see anymore are obits

Amazing how much shit happens because people just refuse to hold their hands up and say 'okay, my bad' occasionally.

jack dorsey

Jack Dorsey’s Block Inc. is set to cut more than 4,000 positions, saying AI allows fewer people to do the same work.

Just last September, the company reportedly spent $68M on a single party.

Measles outbreaks are costing the U.S. millions of dollars. The true losses can't be counted. As vaccination rates decline, the economic consequences will increase, research suggests.

The first concern with measles is, of course, the devastating health impact.

But this article does a great job of explaining the economic costs.

X Is Drowning in Disinformation Following US and Israeli Attack on Iran WIRED has reviewed hundreds of posts on X that promote misleading claims about the locations and scale of the attack.

Twitter is a propaganda operation.

That is its sole purpose.

Never vote for a Republican for any office, ever.

Simultaneously, always push Democrats to do better.

ALWAYS.