If white people in Mississippi voted Republican at the same rate as white people in Louisiana (about 73% vs. 81%), it would be a tied tossup state. At the same level as Georgia or South Carolina, it would be a safe blue state.
Anyone who visited the following locations during any of the listed dates and hours may have been exposed: Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport’s Customs federal inspection station in the international terminal arrivals area, and lower level international bag claim area, on April 12, 2026 from 7:50 - 10:30 p.m. FastMed Urgent Care (2827 Smith Ave. Baltimore, MD), on April 14, 2026 from 5 - 8 p.m., and on April 17, 2026 from 12 - 3:30 p.m. Sinai Hospital’s emergency department main waiting area and pediatric emergency department, on April 17, 2026 from 3:30 - 7:10 p.m.
Maryland! Measles exposure: health.maryland.gov/newsroom/Pag...
Until we get an ovarian cancer vaccine I imagine I will keep wearing KN95 masks indoors in public. My immune system has ONE JOB, to fight the cancer, and I don't want to distract it.
But while it sucks to have cancer it's been nice to not have actually been SICK... (I do miss indoor dining though.)
One of the weirdest things about Covid was that it was a collective mass experience -- that we all experienced largely on our own.
No two Covid's were the same.
Doc, a tiny brown tabby, mid-yawn. She had immediately prior been sleeping in the shrimp position and she is stretching out with her right front paw curled up and pointed left at top of frame and left front paw pointed straight to camera,in the middle frame. Her feet are pointed to the right. Her spine is liquid.
Cats are liquid
If she's just slid into an amazing dress, why does she also want to slide into meat? Doesn't that block the view of the amazing dress, and leave it all grease-stained once she has slid out of the meat?
OH HELL YES @bradlander.bsky.social
"We are pleased to share more than 125,000 U.S. Supreme Court records and briefs. These materials which span nearly two centuries of American law are now freely accessible online."
"Includes records and briefs spanning cases from 1830 through 2019."
Doing a talk tomorrow for a class of second-graders about my great-great-great grandfather, an immigrant from Schleswig-Holstein who fought in the Civil War. I'm going to use him to talk about immigration, immigrants in the Union Army, why soldiers fought, and what they thought about slavery.
A clip from The New York Times reads: "But only the entities that officially paid the tariffs are eligible to recover that money. That means that the fuller universe of people affected by Mr. Trump’s policies — including millions of Americans who paid higher prices for the products they bought — are not able to apply for direct relief. The extent to which consumers realize any gain hinges on whether businesses share the proceeds, something that few have publicly committed to do. Some have started to band together in class-action lawsuits in the hopes of receiving a payout."
The average American family paid $1,700 in tariffs last year, according to the bipartisan Congressional Joint Economic Committee. Few will ever see any of that money back. The refunds will go to companies, if doled out at all. What a joke.
Leaving aside the basic fact of its absurdity - no, the average IQ in Somalia isn’t 70 - all I see here is a couple of idiots desperate for an unearned reason to think they’re better than others. Pathetic.
If only the boyars had warned the tsar about all this!
One can wirelessly control a gene switch using electromagnetic fields and activate epigenetic reprogramming in rats and mice, extending lifespan and reversing aging markers across multiple tissues. Super-cool science.
www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...
Just look what we humans can do.
Americans are more polarized in their trust in scientists than in virtually any other societal institution. — James N. Druckman.
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More, via Opinion Today:
opiniontoday.substack.com/p/260420-top...
... worse than mine. Particularly for the cousin who worked at a grocery story and the friend who was a nurse. /end
And we lost nearly all our contractors to adjust for the fact that the travel part of our business went away, so a bunch of teams' projects got rejuggled for that. But the company kept all of the permanent employees when some other companies didn't. So a lot of other people's work life was ...
Supporting other people's WFH was also part of my job - I had to rework the way a certain software update deployed to accommodate the bandwidth issue deploying to everyone at home, and that part was not so great, because it broke a lot of the processes we had just set up.
I honestly think I would have been... not great, but okay, on my own. But my five year-olds were absolutely miserable and there was nothing I could do to comfort them. They were kids who needed peer socialization at that age and I couldn't provide it for them. That sucked, a lot.
There should be Dem Fight caucuses, and members with genuine hunger for aggressive oversight should demand enforceable concessions that prevent leadership + frontline members from shutting down promising inquiries. www.offmessage.net/p/how-to-det...
A good template for oversight that works around Trump’s obstruction. The key (see next post) is to deter all leadership-driven impulses to “look forward not backward.”
newrepublic.com/article/2092...
Prescient.
“Mr. Obama had been one of just 22 senators to vote against Chief Justice Roberts’s confirmation in 2005, saying that the nominee had ‘far more often used his formidable skills on behalf of the strong in opposition to the weak.’”
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...
SCOOP --> Paramount, Meta, and X are refusing to say what happened to their huge contributions to Trump's presidential library after Sen Elizabeth Warren raised questions about its fund getting dissolved. Ds say tens of millions remain unaccounted for.
Details here:
newrepublic.com/article/2092...
Don't be shy to take on a little two-week side project. These five months will be the most precious three years of your academic journey.
For rather understandable reasons, social media perspectives on peak Covid tend to get skewed towards people who don’t like leaving the house all that much, so figure I should represent the “leaving the house and having parties is my favorite thing to do” perspective
... I like, not that I'm averse to seeing people in the office at all (and I'm OK with hybrid). /end
... away whom I wouldn't see most of the year even when not travel restricted, which is why, even though we now can and do fly to visit my mother in Maine, we also have weekly family Zooms. I didn't enjoy social isolation as such. Even for WFH, it's the avoiding rush hour traffic part that ...
I enjoyed the not commuting part (which is why I was with the rest of the IT folks at work in wanting some degree of WFH afterward, which is why, in turn, lots of us are now hybrid and some departments are WFH except 2 days a month). I also enjoyed the Zooms for people thousands of miles ...
I've long stopped caring about what zionism means to anyone. I care about the outcomes and minimizing bloodshed.
The thing I am getting from this is that human beings can run a half-marathon in an hour which is fucking amazing, hurrah human beings