While the world focuses on the destruction in Iran, we must not ignore what Israel is doing in Lebanon.
1,461 have been killed.
4,430 have been injured.
1.2 million have been displaced.
Israel now occupies 14% of Lebanon.
Enough is enough. No more US military aid to Israel.
The science of fetal microchimerism should have broken the internet by now.
It hasn’t.
When I read about a research I was so curious to know what’s actually happening.
Fetal cells — carrying the child’s own DNA — cross into the mother’s bloodstream during pregnancy and never fully leave. They embed into her organs. Her heart muscle. Her brain tissue.
Researchers have found a child’s living cells inside mothers in their 90s, from pregnancies six decades old. The child left the womb. The cells didn’t.
And they don’t just sit there. They migrate toward damage. Women with heart injuries show fetal cells concentrated at the wound site. Women with thyroid disease show their children’s cells inside the affected tissue.
The body that built the child gets tended to, in return, by the child’s own cells. Nobody designed this consciously. Evolution quietly built a repair system out of the mother-child bond itself.
The brain side of this is equally staggering. Pregnancy triggers gray matter reorganization — a structural rewiring that sharpens threat detection, deepens empathy, fundamentally alters how a mother processes the world. These changes persist for years after birth.
Possibly permanently. A mother’s nervous system doesn’t return to its factory settings. It was updated by the experience of carrying another person, and that update sticks.
The part worth sitting with longest — women who experienced pregnancy loss carry fetal cells too. The cellular merging doesn’t require a birth. It doesn’t require years of raising someone. Those cells remain regardless of what happened after. A mother grieving a child she never brought home is grieving someone biologically still present inside her. The world consistently underestimates that grief. The science says we have no business doing that.
Mothers always knew the connection didn’t end at birth.
Turns out it doesn’t end at the cellular level either.
All Time IN PRIME - Pick 1 Team
1)
Qb: S. young
Rb: LT, M. Lynch
WR: Megatron, Puka, J. Rice
TE: A. Hernandez
2)
Qb: A. Rodgers
RB: LT, A. Peterson
WR: Megatron, Moss, AB
TE: Gronk
3)
Qb: P. Manning
RB: Barry Sanders, LT
WR: Moss, J. Chase, J. Jones
TE: Gronk
All 3 of the Dems big winners this week ran on the “unaffordability crisis.” This was and will continue to be a winning message.
It’s the same winning issue that Republicans ran on when they called it “Biden’s inflation.”
But what is unaffordability or inflation? They are both just different ways of saying the debasement of our currency. That’s what is killing the middle class and the poor (and tremendously helping the rich).
The solution to this problem isn’t socialism (obviously) it’s sound money and free markets. We are debasing our currency because we have a gigantic government that we can’t afford.
If the Republicans were really an America First party, they could say this AND they could win the argument.
Unfortunately, the Republicans are just the War Party and, since we can’t actually afford any of those wars, they need to print the money to fight them.
Essentially, the Republicans choose war over preserving liberty in the United States of America.