Debbie, Just Crabby

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[Debbie, Just Crabby @Deb1323]

If you want to help people but don't know how, routine blood donation is a good way. Not only during an emergency, it also helps other accident and violence victims, cancer patients, people having surgery, and many others who need blood and blood products to survive.

[Leela Gray @LeelaJGray]

You can't solve problems you refuse to measure.

Yet this month, 900 ocean monitoring instruments are being physically pulled out of the water. A $368 million system. A decade to build. Designed to run 15 more years.

Gone.

This network tracked hurricane intensity, coastal flooding, marine heatwaves, and sea level rise. The data was free, public and used in over 500 scientific publications. Congress tried to stop it... twice. They got overruled anyway.

For a coastal community like FL-13 that just lived through Helene, this isn't abstract. This is the difference between an evacuation order that comes in time and one that doesn't.

Florida deserves a representative who fights for the science that protects us, not one who looks the other way while it gets dismantled.

#LeelaGrayforCongress #LeelaJGray

https://t.co/8SBFNnsFcU

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Reporter: How do you define ceasefire?

Trump: “I'd say in that part of the world, ceasefire is when you're shooting in a more moderate manner.”

Huh?

[Dr. Daniel Grossman @DrDGrossman]

Ectopic pregnancies (i.e., when an embryo implants somewhere other than the uterine lining) are never viable & can be life-threatening.

Despite this, doctors in Arkansas & Oklahoma tried to discharge a patient with an ectopic pregnancy without treatment. https://t.co/t5IsdNOaf9

[S.V. Dáte @svdate]

How does this guy, of all people, have the audacity to talk about health care fraud????

[Daniel Dale @ddale8]

Another softball interview, another series of obvious lies from the president.

Here's a fact check of a whole bunch of false claims Trump made in a New York Post podcast interview released this morning – all of them, of course, unchallenged:

https://t.co/cmqYCyw84E

[Mark Warner @MarkWarner]

It seems there is an entirely different set of rules for Republicans and Democrats.

[nature @Nature]

Scientists are raising the alarm about a White House proposal that could fundamentally recast federally funded science. The proposed rules would put political appointees in control of all federal grants and de-emphasize peer review, among other measures.

https://t.co/xvOLHPiP4T

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

BREAKING:

MS Now confirms Trump will formally nominate his former personal lawyer Todd Blanche to be his next attorney general.

Todd Blanche mishandled the Epstein files, supported the controversial slush fund to give to insurrectionists, and targeted Trump's perceived enemies. https://t.co/jqU0Vi5WAP

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

Over 200 people killed so far, some who seem likely to have died agonizing deaths by drowning after clinging to wreckage for hours, with no trials, and without a single piece of evidence released to the public of their guilt or of any intent to smuggle drugs to the United States.

[Matthew Cappucci @MatthewCappucci]

The lack of morning weather balloons launched across the western and central U.S. is having a real, tangible impact on degrading forecast quality.

We can't look at weather balloon data that doesn't exist. We can't pump nonexistent data into models. We can't rely as heavily on models that don't "know" what's happening above our heads.

Today's severe weather forecast is less certain because we don't have weather balloon data to confirm the strength of jet stream winds aloft.

This is extremely frustrating, and is the result of logistical, organizational, political and budgetary decisions.

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

started / going

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

Trump, Musk and Rubio slashed aid and scoffed that it was woke nonsense. Now they're seeing that it not only saved one life every 10 seconds but also protected us from diseases like Ebola. Their actions constituted a security failure as well as a moral one.
More broadly, their fecklessness contrasts with the courage and humanity of doctors and aid workers in Congo and Uganda, lacking adequate PPE but still risking the virus to care for fellow humans.
Trump, Musk and Rubio might learn something from them. https://t.co/kPKj7fqJFZ

[Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @NotHoodlum]

May the odds be ever in your favor.

Adults on Medicaid will be required to work 80 hours per month. The Trump administration says people who are sick will have to prove they are too sick to work to be exempt from the new work rules.
https://t.co/lcoumaFJkB

[Grace Yarrow @YarrowGrace]

NEWS: Screwworm has been detected in Texas, USDA confirmed - marking a serious threat to US cattle and other animals

Larvae of the parasite were found in the umbilical cord of a 3 week old calf

Screwworm was eradicated from the US in 1966

[David Cook News/Info @FoolsApril64]

🚨*UP NEXT!* 4-JUN (THU) 7ct/8et tune in for The Red Rabbit Society Happy Hour Hangout Album Club (this month's 💿album: Caroline's Spine - "Attention Please") with David Cook on @GetOnVolume!! 😍 (FREE for Silver & Gold members) https://t.co/FqixLFhbhZ

[bigslickkc @BigSlickKC]

You heard their story. Then JahVelle stepped on stage for a powerful “Lean on Me” with @thedavidcook and the Big Slick crew. As Layla told her dad, “Your music is the thing that makes me feel normal.” An unforgettable moment at the 2026 Big Slick Show. ❤️

https://t.co/EZFdmugeE4

[David Cook News/Info @FoolsApril64]

JahVelle Rhone Joins David Cook for an Emotional “Lean on Me” at Big Slick https://t.co/zVKPjurzN7 via @YouTube

[Adrienne LaFrance @AdrienneLaF]

You really have to read Ted Chiang on consciousness and AI—just published in The Atlantic:

https://t.co/z9eRSlkwQ8

[Debbie, Just Crabby @Deb1323]

It's true

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

Superficiality has guided some of Donald Trump’s most important decisions and has seeped into many policy domains, Jonathan Chait argues. https://t.co/UQLUHEjPfk

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

Superficiality has guided some of Donald Trump’s most important decisions and has seeped into many policy domains, Jonathan Chait argues. https://t.co/UQLUHEjPfk