🫀Kara Jorgensen🏳️‍🌈

Queer, nonbinary author, adjunct professor, and dog mom. Your local ND science goth crocheter.
Julia Child meets Vincent Price. They/them
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[🫀Kara Jorgensen🏳️‍🌈 @AuthorKaraJ]

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[ᴘᴏᴛᴀᴛᴜᴍ @pot8um]

SAY NO TO MASK BANS.

Time to heat up these MD delegates’ phone lines!!

Joe Vogel, District 17
[phone]

Karen Toles, District 25
[phone]

Ryan Spiegel, District 17
[phone]

Karen Simpson, District 3
[phone]

Adrian Boafo, District 23
[phone]

[Don Ford - The People's Strategist - @DonEford]

This chart is amazing.

[Ben Norton @BenjaminNorton]

There's a common US talking point falsely claiming China's manufactured goods are so affordable because workers supposedly aren't paid well.

That's not true. Wages in China are much higher than in neighboring countries in SE Asia.

China produces goods so cheaply because:

1. A lot of the production in advanced manufacturing is now automated, using robots.

2. China's state-owned enterprises (SOEs) significantly reduce the costs of production by providing important services (like energy, mining, transportation, telecommunications, etc.) as cheaply as possible, because they are publicly owned companies whose mission is to serve the real economy, not to maximize profits and returns to shareholders.

3. The Chinese government invests heavily in high-quality infrastructure, as well as public education to train technical workers and engineers.

4. State-owned banks provide very favorable loans at low interest rates to manufacturers.

5. Through careful planning, China developed a complex supply chain that is largely local, inside the country.

In short, the Chinese government minimizes overhead by using its public ownership of the commanding heights of the economy (ie, socialism), which significantly reduces production costs and makes manufacturing very efficient.

This is the opposite of the US capitalist model, which privatizes the natural monopolies, maximizes overhead (see: its insanely inefficient healthcare system), and allows for-profit companies to charge exorbitant monopoly rents that make the costs of production prohibitively expensive. But, this system maximizes shareholder value, which is all that matters to the US government and the ruling class at the end of the day.

[Anti-Andrew Wakefield @BillieNyelish]

I feel like not enough of y'all understand what happens when you get Tuberculosis. It's not just a week or 2 w/ a lil cough & meds. You are required to fully isolate for 6 FULL MONTHS while taking meds. You can be ARRESTED & forced to comply in some states. Wear a RESPIRATOR!!

[Ben Crew @BenjaminCrew1]

Something very funny about Dracula is that Jonathan describes his dinners at the castle as delicious and assumes unseen servants are cooking them. He is later horrified to discover that there are no servants which means Dracula himself was thanklessly cooking his succulent meals.

[SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @COVID19_disease]

I'm receiving some concerning reports from China.

Staff at the Shanxi CDC estimate that 2,000 people have been infected with H5N1, with 300 deaths.

An insider at the Mainland CDC confirmed human cases and fatalities but said the exact numbers remain unclear. /1

[Mike Hoerger, PhD MSCR MBA @michael_hoerger]

We're in a lingering 10th Covid wave & flu is at its highest rate in 15 years.

You can stack these discount codes to get 25% off #FlowFlex Covid tests or FlowFlexPlus Covid + Flu A/B tests.

Best deal I've seen (U.S). FlowFlex are the tests my family, staff, & patients trust.

[Ian Sams @IanSams]

At least 11 federal agencies targeted by the Trump-Musk firings and cuts “have more than 32 continuing investigations, pending complaints or enforcement actions into Mr. Musk’s six companies”

per @nytimes

[sanstitre (commissions closed) @sanstitre2000]

This ancient Greek epitaph for a child...

[Senator Adam Schiff @SenAdamSchiff]

This morning, I sent a letter to the Office of Government Ethics (OGE) regarding @elonmusk's potential conflicts of interest.

Within minutes, the White House confirmed receipt.

By noon, President Trump fired the Director of OGE.

I want to know: Was this to prevent his answer?

[Rezi @Rezi31237553]

acd ❤️

[Christopher Webb @cwebbonline]

“Extinction Burst” as applied to MAGA.

This is worth the two minutes of your time. Trust me on this one…

[Chuck Schumer @SenSchumer]

Today, I’m calling on our brave public servants:

I’m launching a new portal for anyone who wants to expose corruption, abuses of power, and threats to public safety with the legal protections of being a whistleblower.

https://t.co/pjm1tb4VDt

[Phil Williams @PhilNvestigates]

President Trump’s Kennedy Center announcement appears to be blatantly illegal. U.S. Code says general trustees “shall hold office … for a term of 6 years” - nothing about the President having power to remove - and the Chairperson is appointed by the Board. A president cannot appoint himself.

[Ian Weissman, DO @DrIanWeissman]

The CDC published data showing that the #birdflu can be transmitted from cats to humans — but those data were removed within minutes of their initial publication due to new rules from the Trump Administration.
https://t.co/F92LBMflBY

[David Hogg 🟧 @davidhogg111]

Here’s what we did today

[WashU Medicine @washumedicine]

A nasal COVID-19 vaccine developed at WashU Medicine is set to begin a phase 1 clinical trial in the U.S. after FDA approval of an investigational new drug application. The trial marks a key step toward testing the vaccine this spring. https://t.co/wQZCObtmk8