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[Rep. Melanie Stansbury @Rep_Stansbury]

Friends, they’re not even trying to hide their voter suppression. ⬇️

[Rep. Jason Crow @RepJasonCrow]

Congress passed a bipartisan bill to make it easier to own a home.

The President is refusing to sign it.

Donald Trump doesn’t care about lowering costs for you.

[armani @ayarmanii]

does anyone even use this app?

[armani @ayarmanii]

does anyone even use this app?

[Clarence Thomas the Tank Engine @TheRealJChubby]

At a certain point you have to recognize that your government is at war with you.

[Forrest Miller 🎥🏆 @AlwaysFlacko]

This shit is funny because nobody sane or who wasn’t pandering ever said George Floyd was a hero.. we just said he shouldn’t have been murdered by a cop who kneeled on his neck for 9 minutes.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

A 17-year-old in Iowa boiled beets in her chemistry class and turned them into stitches that change color when your wound gets infected. Her name is Dasia Taylor. It started as a science fair project.

She wanted a low-tech version of the "smart stitches" Tufts researchers built in 2016. Those used thread wired up with sensors and a tiny chip that pinged your phone if something went wrong. Cool, but useless without a phone or a hospital that can afford it.

Her version doesn't need any of that. Healthy skin is slightly acidic, like lemon juice but much milder. When bacteria grow in a wound, the chemistry flips and turns more like soap or baking soda.

Beet juice has a quirk. The same red pigment that stains your fingers when you cook it shifts color based on what it touches. Bright red on healthy skin. Dark purple on infected skin. The switch lines up with infection almost exactly.

She tested ten threads before finding a cotton-polyester blend that soaked up the dye and changed color within five minutes. That was the prototype.

Around 1 in 40 American surgeries end in an infection at the cut, costing hospitals more than $3 billion a year. In poorer countries the rate is closer to 1 in 9. In parts of Africa it's 1 in 6. In some Ethiopian hospitals, up to a quarter of surgery patients leave with an infection.

The whole game is catching it early. Spot it in time and antibiotics handle it. Miss the window and the patient is back on the operating table.

Dasia filed a patent in 2021 and started a medical device company called VariegateHealth in 2022. The stitches haven't been tested on real patients yet. New medical device patents can take a decade. She's also looking into a side benefit: the beet pigment kills bugs like E. coli and Klebsiella in lab tests.

Smart stitches need a phone to read them. Hers just need eyes.

[KERIA @justkeria]

I mean so much to me, and I’ll never stop showing up for myself.

[Commie Gibberish of the Day @CommieGibberish]

Seriously ask yourself: Is this normal?

[Governor JB Pritzker @GovPritzker]

There it is.

While families can’t afford day care, health care, or even their rent, Donald Trump is willing to spend your money instead on a never-ending war in the Middle East.

[Gabrielle Blair @designmom]

We didn’t fight to work. Women have ALWAYS worked. We fought to get paid.

[Maine @TheMaineWonk]

And so it begins.

[uMARAZOR @zizithebadgal]

& for the lady, perhaps a day off?

[sine. @sneminaj]

Baby we believe in God around here I don’t care what’s trending these days.

[$ @jxtsummer]

thank you God just for the ability to be able.

[Darth Powell @VladTheInflator]

In history........

[No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen @NoLieWithBTC]

Remember when they defunded food for hungry children a few months ago?

[African @ali_naka]

Donald Trump RAPED a 13 year old

[elise @yumyumeg]

Yeah let’s talk about how I’ve been voting at the same city hall since I was 18 just for me to get there and they ask if if Democratic or Republican and made me leave go to another location 20 mins away and had to wait in line for 2 hours and barely made it by the 7pm cut off.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

They massacre 63 Iranian schoolgirls and teachers in cold blood — and then have the audacity to lecture the world about human rights and international law.