Sassy Bellitude

Cyber charter school fights PA law on student wellness checks Facing a wrongful death suit, Commonwealth Charter Academy says it’s “unreasonable” to expect its staff to see and hear from all 30K students weekly.

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"When the Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE) requested documentation of the newly required checks from CCA, an attorney for the school said it had a different interpretation of the law and would not be performing them..."
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"Alligator Auschwitz" is also gross. Why do you need a cutesy name? Why is it funny to you? I think it trivializes the Holocaust and the 1.1 million people who died at Auschwitz. Please just think about it.

Drawing of a tentacle made with graphite pencils on paper.

That time i drew a tentacle

Graphite and acrylic on paper
5x7

#art #nature #sciart

Tomateyes
watercolor, colored pencil, and digital animation.

Just got off a call with Dem leadership in the House
1. There are over 20 republicans that are soft on the Budget Monstrosity
2. They will get a ton of pressure to vote for it
3. We can create even more pressure to vote against it, but it will take all of us
4. We only need 4 flips.

I keep thinking about how Trump, during his first term, talked about building an alligator-filled moat to use against immigrants, and few really took him seriously, and now he talks about sending Americans to CECOT and it gets brushed off the same way

Gotta love press releases sometimes.

Mia is not down with driving through a thunderstorm.

This is our corgi, Mia, traveling with us through 3 states today to see one of my specialists. She's giving the side-eye because we were driving through a thunderstorm.

And just a few months earlier

Dachau in July 1933... reported in the New York Times

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Overfishing Social Fish Social learning is common among vertebrates, including fish. Learning from others reduces the risk and costs of adaptation. In some longer-lived species, social learning can lead to the formation of ...

Fascinating paper on something I never thought of: When we remove big old animals from wild populations (like fish) we might be losing important cultural transmission in species that learn from elders - Essentially culling transmission of collective knowledge onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

BUZZ BUZZ BITCHESSSSSS

USAID cuts could lead to 14 million deaths over the next five years, researchers say An analysis published Monday in the medical journal The Lancet projects that cuts to the agency will lead to more deaths from diseases like AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis.

A new study estimates that USAID saved 92 million lives from 2001 to 2021, and that its demolition could kill 14 million people in only five years through 2030.

That would make the end of USAID by far the most impactful action Trump has taken this year. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

USAID (inception-2025, daily): Here's another press release on the amazing work we're doing!!!
Media: Bor-ring.
Media: American readers don't care.
Media: Ok fine page "world news" page 23 below the fold.
DOGE: USAID is dead
Media: Is that's bad?
USAID dude: It's our fault, somehow?
Media: print it

Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a...

A new paper in The Lancet, one of the world’s foremost peer reviewed medical journals, estimates that USAID prevented 91 million deaths across 133 countries over 20 years.

The paper estimates that Elon Musk’s DOGE funding cuts to USAID will lead to 14 million deaths by 2030 (4.5 million children).

USAID *did* communicate well, explaining how they simultaneously benefited people around the world and advanced US interests, which is why bipartisan majorities kept re-upping it. Good point.

USAID wasn’t a campaign topic, and Trump/Musk bad faith attacks weren’t a USAID public messaging failure.

a woman drinking from a cup with a straw and the word schitts creek on the bottom right Alt: a woman drinking from a cup with a straw and the word schitts creek on the bottom right

Noooo, not the juice, ewww
(Even if it's dill, the best of the pickles)

I would pay good money for an app that I can use in the car to tell me What Is This Goddamn Guy’s Problem?

Orange graphic with images of Dave McCormick, and PA’s GOP Congressional delegation with text that reads “One big bullshit bill- hurt 400,000 Pennsylvanians’ access to SNAP, shut down senior care centers across PA, cut 1 in 4 Pennsylvanians from medicaid, shutter access to care for kids and pregnant women, cost PA 49,000 jobs.”

Dave McCormick just cast the deciding vote for this BS bill that raises costs of health care, food and utilities, and leaves Pennsylvanians to die.

The bill now goes to the House where PA’s GOP delegation will decide its fate. Call and let them know how you feel at 202-224-3121.

It looks a little like a dolphin head too

And UPenn said,"Hold my beer"

What the what??!

I have genuine questions about this. Florida's proposal on this topic (which I'm confessing I should have read back in May) suggests the DOD would activate 10 FLNG JAGs under Title 10 (which part?) and then... somehow assign them to EOIR to be immigration judges? Which... how? Under which authority?

as Republicans are poised to pass legislation stripping healthcare from more than 10 million Americans, all three major cable news networks are covering ... the Diddy trial

My statement on Donald Trump's threat to deport me and his praise for Eric Adams, who the President "helped out" of legal accountability.

According to this article, Penn also agreed to ban trans women from competing in women's sports programs at all, and from using women's locker rooms. Just shameful.

Absolutely horrifically cruel and every Penn alum should be screaming at them

THIS