Oof! I wish this club did not exist. May you find relief soon.

Aha! A mystery solved! Paper: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41671482/

Well done!

[i with circle around it] this user is physically and emotionally exhausted mybodyistryingtokillme.com

Journalists who attend the White House Correspondents' Dinner to party with Trump, Hegseth, Carr etc. are telling the regime that it's perfectly OK if they sic the FBI on them for doing their jobs.

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@beewatch

Support & solidarity.

Full week of medical stuff here. Fell asleep on the couch by 7PM tonight. 3rd? migraine of the week so far...

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Phelan is out

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Camouflage

C.D.C. Cancels Publication of Study Showing Benefits of Covid Vaccines

The acting head of the CDC has canceled the publication of a study that found that the Covid vaccine sharply cut the odds of hospitalizations and emergency visits last winter

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/u...

a map showing a Mississippi where all 82 counties are shades of red

A map showing Mississippi's 82 counties, many shaded red and pink, many shaded blue and purple.

Left: How people think Mississippi votes

Right: How Mississippi actually votes

I started out as an accredited representative before I went to law school. I shouldn't be surprised that this administration's war on immigrants includes gutting a program that provided representation for some of the most deserving cases. But it's still enraging.

@thetweedy.bsky.social

"This action could be classified as drug-seeking behaviour"

DAMN RIGHT I'M SEEKING DRUGS BECAUSE YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO RENEW MY PRESCRIPTION TWO WEEKS AGO

Thrilled to announce that I was selected as a National Press Foundation fellow. I plan to report a story on how workplace accommodations can be helpful for people with Long Covid as they deal with grief in changing with functioning. If this is you, please reach out at jmetraux@motherjones.com

A key point: the admin has made things worse & less efficient.

"American scientists already spend some 40 percent of their time on grant-related administrative tasks. Now they are being deluged by ever more paperwork, said Dr. Michael Lauer, who led external grantmaking at [NIH] until last year."

Koala

Sleep well. Hope hubs' bite isn't too bad, relatively speaking.

Block and move on. Not worth the energy.

Excellent!

IANAL, but the liability is on the dog owner.

Because some comments make me think people missed the PSAs I do semi-regularly: if you were born before 1987, you should get a MMR booster now. The second childhood dose of MMR wasn't added until 1989, and folks who were older than 2 (the age for the 2nd) may not have gotten it.

America's response to the 1918 influenza epidemic Every year, world leaders gather in poppy fields and cemeteries across Europe to commemorate the outbreak of World War 1. They lay wreathes in memory of the 17 million military and civilian victims of...

For anyone else reading, "The Flu Epidemic of 1918":

"25% of the US Army personnel and 40% of US Navy personnel are thought to have contracted flu. About 43 000 died from influenza and pneumonia, compared with 50 280 battle deaths in the war"

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

the.chronic.rebel ChronicPainThreads 42m Chronic illness things that sound fake until they happen to you: Needing to lie down after a shower. Sometimes on the bathroom floor Getting irrationally angry because the lights are too bright Canceling because the idea of having to find parking already took too much out of you Being too tired to sleep because your body is buzzing and your anxious about how much the lack of sleep will hurt tomorrow

@the.chronic.rebel

My story about how 924 sailors died of influenza over the course of a month at Great Lakes Naval Training Station.

chicagoreader.com/city-life/th...

🧵 The comments are gold:

"restoring freedom to our joint force" because that's definitely what being a member of the military is: individual freedom from being required to follow restrictive orders

"we're deliberately making ourselves more vulnerable to biological warfare, and we're announcing this publicly. Because of woke"

Ugh! Why are people?