70 Minnesota children.
Delta Air Lines, who likely flew nearly all of these kiddos out of MSP, could publicly condemn this and end the practice tomorrow, as the airlines did in 2018 with family separation, but it’s easier to stay silent.
A golden retriever has both paws up at a bank teller’s window.
“Are you the branch manager?”
“Yes I am, how can I help you?”
“I would like two branches, please.”
“How would you like that?”
“Two big sticks, four little sticks.”
The Supreme Court found that a school acknowledging the existence of LGBTQ people was such a violation of freedom of religion that they had to allow opt outs but now the 5th circuit says kids being exposed to the ten commandments isn't. The law is such a joke.
RFK Jr. told the House E&C Committee today that the way to bring down healthcare costs is to "clean up the risk pool" — remove the people who cost too much. He said the $4.3 trillion we spend on chronic disease is the emergency. He said most of Minnesota's autism services funding was stolen. 🧵
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In honor of Tim Cook's stepping down, here is the story of how I emailed him, not once but twice, with open email tracking enabled, only to discover that, not once but twice, my emails to the CEO of Apple were opened on a computer running Windows.
Two Mourning Doves at a bird feeder with a built-in camera. One dove is in profile, very close to the camera, and appears to be looking at it, and the other dove is further back, but also looks like it’s staring straight into the lens.
These two Mourning Doves at my feeder cam look like they just rang my doorbell because Tony Soprano sent them to collect a debt I owe.
You guys. A goose is nesting under the Spoon Bridge and Cherry. This is our Romulus and Remus moment. We already became ungovernable. Now we become myth. #Minneapolis.
Figure showing number of competitive grants mentioning women from 2015-2025. The number was rising until recently, with a precipitous drop in the last year.
At the end of 2024, the National Academies put out a report concluding the NIH has woefully underfunded women’s health research, and they suggested $15 B should be invested over the next 5 years.
Here’s what’s happened instead. Hard to study women’s health if you can’t say “women.”
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Everyone needs to read Matthew's latest post, because this is what's in store for all of us at some point--being harmed by HCWs whose inadequate training & supervision are policy choices--unless we mobilize to reverse MAHA's cuts to Medicaid & Medicare
Forest floor covered in bluebells in the middle morning sun
Here, have some whimsy. We all need a bit more whimsy. Love to you all x
Yes, please!
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Part of my annoyance with the Niemoller poem being such a touchstone without most anyone recognizing they’d already done the “said nothing” part regarding disfavored groups.
The goal of the religious right seems to be to have religious orgs take over fundamental aspects of daily life such as schools, healthcare facilities, health insurance, etc. and then use "religious freedom" as a cudgel to force everyone to adopt their beliefs.
If I was rich, I would be building free pools and cooling/recreation centers everywhere. Rockefeller library that shit. Free community centers, free bikes (and bike clubs), free community lunches, playgrounds, nature areas.
Trains, man.
If we tax the rich, we can do it ourselves.
Go, Sarah! Go! You got this!
My orange kitten Teddy half laying on a cat tree platform while his back legs dangle off. My sister’s black cat Celly is also on the platform and looks like he just took my boy out
There has been a murder
Two painted life restorations of Cretaceous birds posed diagramatically, walking. Top is Pengornis, an enantiornithine with teeth. Bottom is Vegavis, a long-necked and -legged bird. There are vector insets of their snout/beak, wing, sternum, and tail bones. Text: Top - Losers: Pengornis and other archaic birds whose lineages were wiped out by the asteroid had teeth in their jaws, large claws on their hands, a long, bony tail and a small breastbone. Bottom - Winners: Vegavis, an early member of the duck and chicken family, had several traits that scientists suspect were key to the success of modern bird lineages: small body size, a beak instead of teeth, large wings, powerful chest muscles, and a shorter tail that served as an aerodynamic rudder.
Here's the art I did for the new SciAm article on why birds were the only dinosaurs to survive the K-Pg event! Read it here www.scientificamerican.com/article/an-a... 🪶🎨🐡
I Confess - Allison Luterman I stalked her in the grocery store: her crown of snowy braids held in place by a great silver clip, her erect bearing, radiating tenderness, watching the way she placed yogurt and avocados in her basket, beaming peace like the North Star. I wanted to ask, "What aisle did you find your serenity in, do you know how to be married for fifty years or how to live alone, excuse me for interrupting, but you seem to possess some knowledge that makes the earth turn and burn on its axis-" But we don't request such things from strangers nowadays. So I said, "I love your hair."
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Multicolored tulips in a field
Purple tulips in a field
Pink, purple, and white tulips in a patch
Okay a few more.🤭
There were sooooo many! 🌱🌷
Our family's enslaver was one of the delegates who fought in the Seminole Wars, signed the South Carolina Declaration of Secession in 1860, all while bringing my ancestors down to Florida.
There is just so much to know and learn here.
a close-up view of a segment of a raceme of small white flowers arranged in a loose spiral around a reddish stem covered in tiny hairs. the flowers have 5 petals that alternate with 5 petal-like sepals, 10 stamens with long white filaments bearing tan anthers, and a tapering pale yellow to white pistil in the center.
two dozen or so small white flowers arranged in a loose spiral at the top of a tall flowerstalk. the central stem in green lower down but turns red towards the top & is covered in a frosty fuzz of short hairs. the flowers have 5 petals that alternate with 5 petal-like sepals, 10 stamens with long white filaments bearing tan anthers, and a tapering pale yellow to white pistil in the center. at the very top of the raceme there are still some unopened flowerbuds.
wherry's foamflower growing among fallen tree leaves on the forest floor. they have basal rosettes of large light green leaves shaped similar to maple leaves, with irregular red spots near their veins. there are around half a dozen tall flowering stems rising from various rosettes in this photo, with three tall stems from the one in the foreground; there's also a tiny little one low to the ground. the tall, green flowering stems have no leaves or bracts, just a terminal raceme with a loose spiral of dozens of small white flowers looking like a bottle brush. the flowers have 5 petal-like sepals that alternate with 5 petals; the petals are longer and have a more slender base than the stouter sepals. a tapering cream colors pistil sits in the center of the flower surrounded by ten thin white stamens with pale yellow anthers.
🌼 wherry's foamflower 🌿
Tiarella wherryi
#nativeplants #ecoregion71
“A Washington Post analysis found that through March 31, halfway through this fiscal year, the number of competitive grants awarded by the National Institutes of Health is down by more than half compared with the same period last year” 😢
A river stretching into the distance with reflected lights, deep blue under a deep blue sky
The River Isar in Munich at twilight
A diagram showing that 24 annually funded grants becomes only 15 funded grants if 50% of the funds for competitive grants are used for multi-year funding.
I was preparing for a talk I gave last evening to a lay audience and came up with this graphic to explain multi-year funding and why it leads to fewer competitive awards and funding investigators and projects.
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Frog and Toad swim and splash in the river. From "A Swim" In *Frog and Toad Are Friends*
Frog and Toad jumped into the water. They swam all afternoon.
Frog swam fast and made big splashes.
Toad swam slowly and made smaller splashes.
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