Lesley with a Y

Performing Arts Teacher, Community Theatre Junkie, Intellectual Provocateur, Lin-Manuel Fan, Advocate for Sanity in Politics #resist

[Lesley with a Y @daisychainsgirl]

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[Angry Staffer @Angry_Staffer]

That’s…. Not how any of this works.

Become a serious candidate or a presumed nominee and you’ll get protection, mkay pumpkin?

[Laurence Tribe 🇺🇦 ⚖️ @tribelaw]

Confused about the “superseding” Mar-a-Lago indictment? Far and away the clearest, smartest summary is already available. Here it is, by the master of his craft, @DennisAftergut:
https://t.co/SdzuD0Ud9Y

[Jon Stewart @jonstewart]

A message from the comptroller!!! File! File! File!! This is not a drill!!! #PACTACT ⁦@DeptVetAffairs⁩ ⁦@WhiteHouse⁩

[Vice President Kamala Harris Archived @VP46Archive]

America’s history must not be forgotten. It must always be taught.

[Team Katie @TeamKatiePorter]

Immigrants who are eligible for the DACA program have been living here since before 2007. But somehow, Republicans want to blame Dreamers for their so-called “Biden border crisis.” I shut down this nonsense.

[Vice President Kamala Harris Archived @VP46Archive]

Extremists are pushing forward revisionist history. They insult us in an attempt to gaslight us, and we will not stand for it.

[CNN @CNN]

See how this child's coloring book technique gave NASA its first image of Mars https://t.co/4XkcsKbCWz

[Veera Rajagopal  @doctorveera]

A mind-blowing paper has come out today in @Nature

In 2016, JC Venter Institute scientists trimmed a bacterial genome to its barest minimum required for life to synthesize what they called a "minimal genome" (https://t.co/Rk8oZJ0bUj).

Today, a group of scientists from Indiana University reports how that minimal genome evolved over 2000 generations in comparison to the non-minimal genome.

The authors found that even when you reduce a bacterial genome to its absolute minimum where every nucleotide matters, the genome undergoes mutational events generation after generation as much as the non-minimal genome. One simply cannot stop the evolution.

Just over 300 days of evolution (equivalent to 40,000 years in humans) the minimal cell has gained everything it lacked in fitness on day one in comparison to the non-minimal cell.

When comparing the evolved traits between the minimal and non-minimal cells, the scientists found something striking. The evolutionary process increased the cell size of non-minimal cells but not that of the minimal cell. But that is not the striking part.

The scientists were able to identify the key mutation that resulted in cell size evolution. And it turned out that the mutation that helped the non-minimal cells to grow bigger is the same that helped the minimal cells to stay smaller. Growing bigger had a survival advantage for non-minimal cells and not growing bigger had a survival advantage for minimal cells. So, the mutation had a context-dependent effect. This just demonstrates that the evolutionary effects on traits have no absolute direction. All that matter is what is beneficial for the organism's survival.

The conclusion of the paper is metaphorically a quote from the Jurassic Park movie:

“Listen, if there’s one thing the history of evolution has taught us is that life will not be contained. Life breaks free. It expands to new territories, and it crashes through barriers painfully, maybe even dangerously, but . . . life finds a way". (https://t.co/UlxRlb86CT)

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[Hy Bender @hybender]

After a 3-year-old falls down a well, a 14-year-old boy just skinny enough to fit descends 50 feet to rescue the baby

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

It’s called unconditional love. It’s called being a good father. Maybe you’d understand that if you actually practiced what you preached in regards to family values.

[McNeil @REFLOG18]

RIP Alan Arkin. His “advice” scene in Little Miss Sunshine. 😂😂😂 Legend.

[Bradley Whitford @bradleywhitford]

No greater comic actor. No greater dramatic actor. Not a coincidence. This scene is a clinic. Rest In Peace Alan Arkin. Well done, sir.

[(I opt out of AI) love gd, life & the planet @_Coralee_]

@Angry_Staffer @jwitchieone meme moment

[Dr. Harvey @UnbedsideManner]

Let's all give it up for "Central Park Karen" and the new show she inadvertently created. 😂

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

RETWEET if you consider Rep. Adam Schiff an American hero.

[Victor Shi @Victorshi2020]

Let’s take this moment & thank Rep. Adam Schiff for his commitment to public service, accountability, & democracy. He is more of a public servant and leader than all the Republicans who voted to censure him combined. Republicans messed with the wrong guy.

[Edward Nirenberg 🇺🇦 @ENirenberg]

Good lord- RFK Jr. claimed on Rogan’s podcast that there is good evidence that the flu vaccine caused the 1918 Spanish Flu epidemic. Slight problem with that claim: influenza had not even been identified until the 1930s and a flu vaccine wasn’t available to the public until 1945.

[Lesley with a Y @daisychainsgirl]

This is insanity.

[Victor Shi @Victorshi2020]

Holy cow. Every dot you see here is a public investment made by the Biden administration for an infrastructure project. Just let this sink in. Hard to overstate how historic this is. More evidence President Biden will go down as one of the most accomplished presidents ever.