hi kids! it's me, your favorite sexagenarian here to tell you that when I was a kid we taxed the shit out of the wealthy and not only did we have money to build bridges and schools and moon rockets, rich people still had plenty of money left over to spend on rich people bullshit

In my life I have never seen a more brutal evisceration of an American president than what The Economist said about Trump and his tariffs. IF YOU failed to spot America being “looted, pillaged, raped and plundered by nations near and far” or it being cruelly denied a “turn to

Hint for Americans: He wasn't a great businessman, it was just a TV show, he wasn't worth billions, he lied about his worth, he is not a great deal maker, a ghost writer wrote the book, he inherited 400 million and lost it all, he bankrupted 6 businesses, he cheated stockholders

Lew was in town visiting family. He is frustrated with the current political situation. He is mad at Trump. And he's mad at Congress for not being better prepared to deal with Trump. So, he wanted to send lawmakers a message. 2/

Obama: Imagine if I had done any of this. Imagine if I had pulled Fox News’ credentials from the White House press corps. Imagine if I had said to law firms that were representing parties that were upset with policies my administration had initiated, that you will not be allowed

Acyn Obama’s right! The double standard in this country is staggering. If he had silenced Fox News media, blacklisted law firms, or targeted student protesters, there would’ve been nonstop outrage. But the silence now isn’t just hypocrisy, it’s a warning about how fragile our

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You cannot grow coffee and vanilla in the U.S. Vanilla takes 3 years to flower, 9 months per pod, needs hand pollination. Coffee needs 3–4 years to yield beans. Both demand tropical heat and humidity. Not hype - just ag reality.

Before vaccines, babies got breastmilk, sunshine and love. And 1 in 5 of them didn't live to see their first birthday

Our team has two incredible, full-time professionals—Mary and Ebonie—dedicated to dealing with insurance. They advocate for our patients, so our patients can focus on healing. This week? They’ve been on repeat calls with the same insurer, trying to add procedure codes so

Elisabeth Potter MD Jmo Payers use call log systems. 1. Operator ID and time stamp is immediately available to start the call so ask first. If refused, ask for policy or escalate. 2. Ensure operator lists the electronically sent prior auth in the call log record if linked. 3. Calls have to be

In 1945, six women pulled off a computing miracle. They programmed the world’s first computer—with no manuals, no training. Then, a SINGLE assumption erased them from tech history for decades. The story of how ONE photo nearly deleted computing’s female founders: 🧵

Could psychiatrists tell if someone was actually insane? Stanford psychologist David Rosenhan wanted to find the answer... In 1973, he sent 8 perfectly normal people to mental hospitals across the US. What he found next exposed the secret side of psychology…🧵

Travis Matthew The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith

More details coming soon, but mark your calendars ... Breakout meeting for Society of Systematic Biologists The Society of Systematic Biologists - will be Jan 9-11, 2026 in Baton Rouge! Topic is 'The Importance of Natural History Collections' Jeremy Brown is primary organizer ssb2026.github.io

"Human lives and economies are at great risk, and the need for rapid and accurate taxonomic identification of vectors and hosts is immense" #pandemicpreparedness #naturalsciencecollections #graphicillustration #SciArt

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How I Would Learn Bioinformatics From Scratch 12 Years Later: A Roadmap. If I were starting over, these FREE resources would be my go-to. 🧵👇 divingintogeneticsandgenomics.com/post/bioinfo-r…