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[ShannahKH @ShannahKH]

@goodreads Finishing Piranesi BUT stoped to donate to the thrift store and picked up a copy of Age of Innocence and started that too.

[Secretary Kennedy @SecKennedy]

Today @USDA @SecRollins and I secured a major win for animal welfare.

Ridglan Farms will transfer its remaining 475 beagles out of a research breeding facility and into the care of a no-kill rescue, where they can begin the path to adoption.

Thank you, @LaraLeaTrump, for championing this issue.

We are also launching a new @NIH office, ORIVA, to speed the transition away from animal testing and toward modern, human-based science.

We will keep fighting for humane treatment of animals, better science, and accountability.

[Walter Kirn @walterkirn]

For this spectacle to come off a lot had to work -- a lot of difficult stuff, some of the most difficult stuff humans do and have ever done.

And it had to work at exactly the right time.

Not a small thing.

America has every right to be profoundly proud.

[ShannahKH @ShannahKH]

@ThrillaRilla369 I am never going on a cruise.

[ShannahKH @ShannahKH]

@AngelaLEKa33f @goodreads 😃

[ShannahKH @ShannahKH]

@LifeIn_Pictures I really like the pinecone picture, Jim!

[Disaffected @DisaffectedPod]

I *hate* what "Covid" did to "normal standards" for businesses. 6 years on, and the change is permanent. Everyone thinks it's "just normal, you know?" now like nothing is different.

Where I live in New England, *all* 24 hour stores are no longer 24 hours. Not Walmart. Not the grocery. Not a single one of the eight or so convenience/gas stores. At least four used to stay open. None do now.

The restaurants on Main St in a tourist town? 9 pm closing on Fridays and Saturdays.

The entire town, and the surrounding area, closes down at 9 pm. Even on weekends. Even with tourists in town.

The one grocery store in town? Used to close at midnight. Then it went back to 11 pm with hand drawn signs "sorry no staffing heart emoji". Then 10.

Now it's down to 9 pm. Now that's normal. Even on Friday or Saturday.

"Covid", somehow, I don't understand how it could still be this way, is the demarcator line. Somehow, 6 years later, businesses are still struggling to find staff. No business I've patronized has been fully staffed in six years-I'm serious.

What is going on? How did all these people, who still exist and still have bills to pay, manage to find a way to not work, and they're still paying their bills?

Better hope you never actually need anything in an emergency.

-J

[SEANDURGIN @SEANDURGIN]

🚨 WARNING about StubHub 🚨 We purchased 4 FIFA World Cup tickets (France vs Senegal, MetLife Stadium June 16) for $2,189 back in December. Three days before the game, the seller "couldn't deliver." StubHub's so-called FanProtect Guarantee? When we clicked the link — ZERO replacement tickets available. The same seats are now listed at DOUBLE the price. Oh, and our $300 non-refundable parking pass? Gone. This is a deliberate bait-and-switch scheme and we're filing complaints with both the NJ and MD Attorney General. Do better @StubHub. #StubHub #FIFA #WorldCup #BaitAndSwitch #ConsumerFraud

[Thrilla the Gorilla @ThrillaRilla369]

Instead of adding pink ribbons to their products every October maybe companies should just remove the cancer causing ingredients

[ShannahKH @ShannahKH]

@Chris23236702 @goodreads I watched the miniseries and it was great. I bet the book is even better (it always is).

[ShannahKH @ShannahKH]

@AngelaLEKa33f @goodreads Why does that cover say “Reader’s Edition”? It’s a book. Aren’t they *all* reader’s editions?

[Nicolas Hulscher, MPH @NicHulscher]

Genetically engineering ticks to spread meat allergies throughout the population is bioterrorism.

A recent peer-reviewed paper said that CRISPR-edited ticks should be used to spread alpha-gal syndrome as “moral bioenhancement” to FORCE humans away from eating meat.

[ShannahKH @ShannahKH]

@poemsaboutme @goodreads I have not read “Intensity” but it looks interesting. I read “Watchers” first, then the Odd Thomas books and then “Elsewhere”. This is not my typical genre either although I would say l’m a bit of a reading omnivore. I hope you like his stories!

[DNI Tulsi Gabbard @DNIGabbard]

Today, I’m releasing never before seen intelligence revealing new evidence of past US government funding for more than 120 biolabs in over 30 countries, including Ukraine.

In support of President Trump‘s Executive Order to end federal funding of dangerous gain of function research around the world, and increase transparency and accountability, ODNI will continue working with partners across the Administration to identify where these labs are, what pathogens they contain, and what “research” is being conducted.

https://t.co/pLMD0krc69

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

The year is 1949.

The Nobel Prize in Medicine has just gone to the man who invented the lobotomy. Your doctor suggests one for your sister, who has not been herself since the baby came. It is the most celebrated advance in psychiatry of the age, and he is simply current. By the time the prize curdles into an embarrassment, close to twenty thousand Americans have had the operation, and proportionally more here in Britain.

The year is 1956.

Lay the baby down on his front, the doctor says. So does the most trusted childcare book ever written, the one on every new mother's shelf. On his back he might choke, the reasoning goes. Millions obey. The advice holds for nearly thirty years, long after the evidence has quietly turned, and a generation of cot deaths is counted before anyone thinks to roll the babies over.

The year is 1966.

A bestselling book informs your wife that menopause is a disease, that she is, in the author's word, a castrate, and that a small daily pill will keep her youthful and tolerable to live with. Her doctor agrees. The drug becomes one of the most prescribed in the country. Nobody mentions that the author sat on the payroll of the company that made it. That detail surfaces decades later, in the same year the landmark trial is halted early for raising rates of breast cancer, stroke and clots.

The year is 1979.

Your ulcer is caused by stress and sharp food, the doctor explains. Calm down, drink milk, take the antacid that happens to be the best-selling medicine on earth. Two Australians are about to prove that most ulcers are caused by a bacterium and cured by a fortnight of antibiotics. The profession laughs. One of them eventually drinks a beaker of the stuff to settle the matter. The establishment takes the better part of twenty years to stop laughing. The Nobel lands in 2005.

The year is 1985.

Butter is dangerous, the doctor says. Switch to margarine, it is modern, it is heart-healthy, the experts are united. The spread he nudges you toward is loaded with trans fats, which the next decade will identify as the genuinely dangerous one, and which will eventually be banned outright. The butter goes quietly back in the fridge. No correction is ever printed at the volume of the original warning.

The year is 1992.

There is a pyramid on the surgery wall, and the very same one in your grandchild's classroom. Bread, cereal, rice and pasta form the broad virtuous base, up to eleven servings a day. Fat is exiled to the tiny tip. The chart was reportedly held back a year while the relevant industries had their say. It is wrong at the bottom and wrong at the top.

Now it is today.

Your doctor has new guidelines, new studies, a fresh consensus, delivered with precisely the steady confidence of every guideline above. He believes it, and he has good reason to. So did every doctor in this thread. None of them were villains. Each was sincere, most were kind, and all were certain, reading from a map that somebody else had drawn and handed them. That is the part worth sitting with.

So when the man in the white coat tells you what to eat, what to fear, and what to swallow every morning for the rest of your life, you are allowed to ask. Who paid for the study. What the evidence says beneath the headline. What he was just as certain about thirty years ago, and where that advice sits now.

Then make up your own mind. Call it scepticism, or call it whatever your grandmother called it when she ignored the advert, kept the butter where it was, and lived to ninety-one.

It has outlasted every consensus on this list. It will outlast this one too.

[ShannahKH @ShannahKH]

@goodreads NOT Infinite Jest!!!!! Finally! (I finished it Sunday morning.)

Now I’m reading Piranesi and then either Stoner or Don Quixote.

[ShannahKH @ShannahKH]

@poemsaboutme @goodreads That’s a great change of pace from serious books. His books are both charming and entertaining. Remember that it was written before cell phones. I would suggest Odd Thomas next. He’s such a great character. Enjoy!!

[ThePersistence @ScottPresler]

Since I’m still trending, just wanted to take the opportunity to remind our Senate that part of the reason we have 53 Republican colleagues today & not 52 is because of Pennsylvania.

Senator Bob Casey Jr. was defeated by a mere 15,000 votes.

I would also like to remind our Senate that you would have an even greater majority today had you secured our elections years ago.

In 2024, we should have won AZ, MI, NV, & WI.

If you take into account the debacle of the 2020 election followed by Georgia Senate runoff elections, Republicans should have closer to 60 seats.

So, if you pass the SAVE America Act, you will be rewarded with votes & likely bigger majorities.

If you do not pass the SAVE America Act, then I can guarantee that Louisiana & Texas won’t be the last time that incumbent Senators were defeated

— peacefully & respectfully.

[ShannahKH @ShannahKH]

@SketchesbyBoze The Hobbit is Elementary School level. 90% of high schoolers should be able to handle it.

[NSFVoyager2 @NSFVoyager2]

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