Michael Traylor

Superintendent of the River Conference of the Free Methodist Church, Pediatrician, husband, father, Browns and CAVS devotee

[Everything Price Sufferer (but especially eggs) @agraybee]

From 1966 to 2025 we dropped sterile flies over South America that ate screwworm and thus prevented them from spreading, but the le epic efficient cracked coders at DOGE thought this was a silly waste of the ~0 dollars it cost us.

[John Hudson @John_Hudson]

A new Post analysis finds the video showing the Trump administration’s recent Pentagon appointee clambering into the Capitol on Jan. 6

[USA TODAY @USATODAY]

Patriot Front, one of the largest white supremacist organizations in the country, has roughly doubled in size every year since its founding in 2018 and has plans to keep growing — fast.

The group is adding hundreds of members in 49 states. Guided by detailed step-by-step manuals and through a network of fight clubs, members are meeting other men and signing them up, documents leaked exclusively to USA TODAY reveal. https://t.co/vnMIyODpto

📸: Jim Urquhart/Reuters

[Michael Traylor @drtraylor]

@MaryKayCabot Doesn’t that also preclude/disincentivize them from trading him back to Cleveland in the future?

[Faj @Faj1791]

The funniest thing about the whole "as a Christian even though Ken Paxton is bad I can't stomach voting for Talarico" thing is that these same "Christians" chose to nominate Paxton over the inoffensive Cornyn. Republicans keep acting like their nominees were forced upon them!

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth blocked the promotions of at least seven Navy officers in a move that targeted women and minority officers. https://t.co/1vww7IxOf1

[ProPublica @propublica]

New: Trump repealed Biden’s zero-tolerance policy for gun dealers who willfully violated the law, invited revoked dealers to reapply and shifted hundreds of ATF agents to immigration work, while ATF referred fewer gun-trafficking charges to prosecutors. https://t.co/qPC4ujR6ba

[ABC News @ABC]

Sunday marks the 105-year commemoration of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. The events of that day in Tulsa, Oklahoma, still reverberate throughout a community seeking justice. https://t.co/Nrkz07Ub2F

[Michael Traylor @drtraylor]

The public health system is being demolished.

[ProPublica @propublica]

The FDA webpage had a stark warning: Some purported autism “cures” or treatments, including chlorine dioxide and raw camel milk, are dangerous and make misleading claims.

Under RFK Jr.’s leadership, that advisory is gone.
https://t.co/yIzORc4N7M

[Michael Traylor @drtraylor]

This is stunning, but not a surprise for the same people of faith protecting the President and Ken Paxton

[Dr. Kevin M. Young @kevinmyoung]

The way Christians are contorting their faith into a farce just to avoid Talarico in favor of Paxton says everything about the demise of Christianity in America.

[Team Talarico @TeamTalaricoHQ]

Former Governor of Texas Rick Perry (R):

“Ken Paxton initially offered a plea deal to a MAN WHO ADMITTED TO MOLESTING a child to serve only ONE DAY IN JAIL.”

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

James Talarico: “We were not founded as a Christian nation. We were founded as a nation where you are free to be a Christian or a Jew or a Muslim or a Sikh or Buddhist or an Atheist. That’s the promise of America that we are this multicultural melting pot”

[Michelle Maxwell ™ @MichelleMaxwell]

With everything we are hearing right now about ticks this seems like good information to share.

“Here’s what I’ve learned after more ticks than I care to count.
First, whatever your uncle told you, forget it. No matches. No nail polish. No Vaseline. No soap on a cotton ball. All of those do the same terrible thing, they stress the tick out, and a stressed tick empties its gut back into the bite before letting go. Which, if you think about what that actually means for a second, is literally how Lyme and the rest get transmitted so you’re not speeding up its exit. You’re making it throw up into you.
Fine-tipped tweezers. Grip right where the mouthparts enter the skin, not the body, the head. Pull straight up, steady, no twisting, no jerking. It’ll feel like it’s resisting because it is, the mouthparts are barbed. Just keep the pressure on and it lets go in a few seconds. If a piece breaks off in the skin, leave it alone. Your body pushes splinters out. Digging around with a needle does more damage then the fragment ever would.
Clean it with alcohol or soap. Wash your hands.
Now here’s the part most people skip: don’t flush the tick.
Tape it to an index card. Clear packing tape right over the body, write the date and where on your body it was, and stick the card in a drawer. If you come down with anything weird in the next 30 days, rash, fever, joint pain, that flu-that-isn’t-flu feeling, that tick goes with you to the doctor. Some labs will test the tick itself, which is faster and often more reliable than waiting for antibodies to show up in your own blood. A dated tick taped to a card is one of the most useful things you can hand a doctor who’s trying to figure out what’s wrong with you.
The other thing worth saying out loud: if the tick was engorged when you pulled it, and you can’t swear it was off your body within 24 hours, call your doctor that same day. Don’t wait for a rash. Fewer than three out of four Lyme cases even produce the classic bullseye. A single preventive dose of doxycycline within 72 hours of a deer tick bite cuts the Lyme odds way down, and most docs in tick country will write that prescription without giving you a hard time, especially if you walk in with the tick taped to a card and a clear timeline.”

[Chris Pope @CPopeHC]

NEW REPORT: Subcontracting Medicaid to private insurers was supposed to reduce the cost of the program. It's mostly done the opposite.
https://t.co/5wiPPHlfPL

[DevilDog Diaries🇺🇲 @cjdelgross]

The swamp is alive and well!

The Bureau of Prisons just handed a $106M federal contract to LEO Technologies to use AI to monitor inmate phone calls.

The twist? LEO’s CEO is Elliott Broidy, the disgraced GOP fundraiser who pleaded guilty to running an illegal, back-channel foreign lobbying campaign, only to be pardoned by Trump in 2021.

A man convicted of selling access to the highest levels of the US government is now being trusted with a massive federal surveillance contract. You can’t make this up.

[Jerome Adams @JeromeAdamsMD]

Whoa 🤯

CDC begging staff to volunteer for Ebola airport screenings - no hazard pay, same regular salary, while exposing themselves to a deadly virus.

Why? Staffing & resources were gutted, so they’re scrambling to fill gaps with whoever raises their hand.

But sure… everything’s fine.

[Equal Justice Initiative @eji_org]

On this day in 1830, President Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act, forcing Indigenous people who had lived in the southeastern U.S. for centuries to migrate west in brutal and dangerous conditions.
https://t.co/jmxsbO2zup

[Barb McQuade @BarbMcQuade]

We already have a process for determining whether accusers are credible. It’s called a trial. And a jury already decided they believed E Jean Carroll. THIS is weaponization.
https://t.co/wKl1B9YX4v via @NYTimes

[ProPublica @propublica]

New: About three months before the Pentagon announced plans to lend $620 million to Vulcan Elements, Donald Trump Jr.’s venture capital firm took an undisclosed stake in the company. https://t.co/pvAqedZCSp

[USA TODAY @USATODAY]

Thirty-five former federal judges asked a court to investigate whether Trump's settlement with the IRS was an act of fraud against the court. https://t.co/0zSDFJ0xa7