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[Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @PeterHotez]

As I’ve said consistently for several years now, one of the best ways to protect your heart health is to keep up with your Covid vaccinations. And as I also say, remember the antivaccine activists don’t care about you or your family, they have another agenda https://t.co/Zp3pgFZVOn

[Susan @ifudontlike2bad]

If you think you have read everything about Mike Johnson think again. 🧵
1/
Mike Johnson has filed federal disclosures for 8 yrs & reports no bank acct, no savings, no retirement fund, no investments.
His office later admitted he does have a bank acct, but earns 0 interest so

[Jesica Bossi @jebossi]

Imperdible mensaje de Chistina Koch tras su vuelta del espacio.
Oratoria 10/10.
Contenido 10/10.
Emoción 10/10.
Gente que sí ♥️

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

JUST IN: The most irreversible consequence of this war is not happening in Tehran. It is happening in a barn in Iowa.

A farmer is standing over a kitchen table looking at two seed catalogues. One is corn. One is soybeans. Corn needs 180 pounds of nitrogen per acre. Nitrogen costs $610 per ton on the CBOT March futures settlement as of yesterday, up 35 percent in a month. Soybeans fix their own nitrogen from the atmosphere through root bacteria called rhizobia. They need nothing from the Strait of Hormuz.

The farmer is choosing soybeans. Millions of acres are choosing soybeans. And once the planter rolls into the field, the choice cannot be reversed until next year.

USDA projected corn at roughly 94 million acres for 2026, down from 98.8 million. Soybeans at 85 million, up from 81.2 million. Those projections were published February 19, before urea surged past $683 at New Orleans. The actual shift will be larger. USDA Prospective Plantings reports March 31. By then the seeds will be in the ground.

This is the transmission channel the world is not watching.

A 21-mile strait enforced by provincial commanders with sealed radio orders just rewrote the planting economics of 90 million acres of the most productive farmland on Earth. Not through sanctions. Not through diplomacy. Through the price of a single molecule that corn cannot grow without and soybeans do not need.

Now follow the cascade.

The Renewable Fuel Standard mandates 15 billion gallons of corn ethanol annually. That consumes roughly 43 percent of the entire US corn crop. The mandate is set by the EPA. It does not flex when corn acres shrink. It is inelastic demand consuming a fixed share of a declining supply. When supply tightens against a fixed mandate, the remaining corn reprices upward. Corn above $5 per bushel compresses every margin downstream.

The US cattle herd stands at 86.2 million head, a 75-year low per USDA NASS. Poultry and pork operations face compression from higher corn prices. Feed is the single largest cost in livestock production. When feed reprices, protein reprices. When protein reprices, every grocery shelf in America absorbs the increase.

This is the protein cascade. Corn to feed to meat to eggs to dairy to the checkout counter. Each link tightens because the link before it tightened. The originating cause is a urea molecule that cannot transit a strait because a provincial commander’s sealed orders say it cannot.

The farmer did not start this war. The farmer cannot end it. The farmer responds to the price on the screen and the biology of the two crops in front of him. Corn needs the molecule. Soybeans do not. At $610 the arithmetic is settled. The planter rolls. The season is locked.

Israel just authorised the assassination of every Iranian official on sight. The US has spent $16.5 billion. South Pars is burning. The Fed is holding rates because oil inflation will not break. Gold touched $5,000. Bitcoin is bleeding. China is running exercises near Taiwan. Sri Lanka shut down on Wednesdays.

And underneath all of it, a man in a barn is making the decision that determines whether four billion people pay more for food this year. He has never heard of the Mosaic Doctrine. He does not know what a sealed contingency packet is. He knows what nitrogen costs. And he is planting soybeans.

Full analysis - https://t.co/iFmUcarGdV

[Jonathan Reiner @JReinerMD]

HHS cancels $500 million in mRNA research, a $600 million contract to develop an mRNA bird flu vaccine, narrowed criteria on who should get the mRNA COVID vaccine, and now refuses to review a completed study of a mRNA flu vaccine. If you were trying to kill a technology, and a company, this is what you would do. Someone at HHS seems to have a thing about the President’s truly lifesaving mRNA vaccines.
https://t.co/P6OQcre6ZK

[Jake Scott, MD @jakescottMD]

The meningococcal vaccine just got moved to "shared clinical decision-making" on the new CDC schedule. This is one of the infections I feared most during my training. Here's what it is, why it's often confused with "meningitis," and what this policy shift will mean in practice. 🧵

[Sandy Collins @Sandyanddoyle]

@ddale8 Same ol lies.

[Cory Booker @CoryBooker]

The gun violence epidemic in America should not go another year unaddressed.

[Chaz Molder @chazmolder]

The only thing Andy Ogles has ever fought for is attention.

We need serious adults in the room who are fighting to lower costs and put people over headlines.

Proud to join the folks over at @MeidasTouch to talk about our Middle-Tennessee powered campaign to flip #TN05.

[harris4potus @kdh4potus]

Throwback to 2010: While serving as District Attorney, @KamalaHarris spent a day with Wendy Ko, a Bay Area home care provider. A powerful reminder of her enduring commitment to improving workers’ lives.

[Sandy Collins @Sandyanddoyle]

RT @TheTNHoller: WATCH: “Why is he here? Are you prepared to distance yourself from views of that disgracefully violent nature?”

@SenWhite…

[Sandy Collins @Sandyanddoyle]

@christopherhale L9l

[Phil Williams @PhilNvestigates]

This morning, a friend posted a video in which he shared a quote, “Do you remember when you wanted what you have?” That hit home because, despite the unrelenting stream of harassment from neo-Nazis over the last few days, I am doing what I always wanted to do. Having the ability to be a voice for the voiceless is the fulfillment of a dream.
Which is why you won’t see me succumbing to those who would hope to cow me into silence! You don’t let go of the dream once you have achieved it.
Have a fantastic Saturday! 🌞

[Devin Nunes' Cattle Dog 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🇺🇸🇨🇦 🇦🇺 @Kaos_Vs_Control]

Damn, we need more people like him. Dude didn't even blink to stand up for people. Type of people we need in office.

[Sandy Collins @Sandyanddoyle]

@JenniferJJacobs Concept of a plan.

[Beth Moore @BethMooreLPM]

I walk through these woods this morning, a north wind blowing and tall pines creaking, sycamores surrendering their giant leaves, all nature swaying to the rhythm of at last a changing season, I bring my burdens to the Lord — my pleadings,

“how long, O Lord??”

— And yes for me but not just for me. For wounded people I deeply love. For some to whom it seems the pain never ends.

The wind whips up words into a path before me I’ve walked a thousand times. Words my heart hears as an invitation:

Just around the bend.

Oh let it be, Lord. Let that be the hope lent to the labored and heavy laden by your Holy Spirit and not just the yearnings of human imagination. And let it be for all who are weary, for all who have long prayed.

Oh let it be, Lord Jesus, for every brother and sister who dares to keep walking into an uncertain future, faithing, hoping, praying. Let some answers to petitions long pled be waiting for each of us

just around the bend.

[ChrisO_wiki @ChrisO_wiki]

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

[Sandy Collins @Sandyanddoyle]

@bartbarber Oh what a tangled web we weave...

[Jahana Hayes @RepJahanaHayes]

I joined Connecticut Attorney General William Tong to announce a lawsuit filed by 25 states and the District of Columbia over the Trump administration‘s refusal to release almost $6 billion in emergency funds so that families won’t see their SNAP benefits interrupted starting November 1st. I am grateful to live in a state that fights for our residents at every level.

[Sandy Collins @Sandyanddoyle]

@atrupar Permits and historical review be damned.