Peg

Hardscrabbler. Native Vermonter. Writer. Bereaved mother. Food producer. Wood splitter. Weed-eater. 60+ triathlons. Kindness, community, democracy.

[Peg @ethnobot]

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[Restoring Your Faith in Humanity @HumanityChad]

This brave girl with cerebral palsy just proved that nothing can stop true passion ❤️

[Sue B Esq @Bob57518442]

@chiky_handlr @Kathlee14861239 I love that Hunter Biden has been patiently lying in wait like a trapdoor spider until now to make his move to slay MAGA. Righteous. ✊

[Jerome Adams @JeromeAdamsMD]

The claim that we must slash U.S. childhood vaccinations to "align with peer nations" rests on a false premise. A STAT analysis shows the old U.S. schedule wasn't the extreme outlier officials claimed. And the new pared-down version (now protecting against just 11 diseases) actually covers fewer diseases than all but one of the 20 so-called peer countries cited as justification for the cuts. 🤯👇🏽https://t.co/NxXtFBCPTG

[vibe instructor✌🏾🐝 @Vanessa_ABee]

was it by “drinking raw milk”

[Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf 🌏 🦣 @rahmstorf]

I'm afraid that this is why the US administration wants to shut down ocean observations: they don't want the people to know what is happening in our oceans, as it does not fit their ideology and the interests of their fossil fuel industry funders.

https://t.co/G1E5zXdyid

[Ian Cameron @easyout]

@brianstelter The key to 60’s success was that every show was a banger.

[David It Up! @Dave_it_up]

We’re a primary care practice in Vermont. We implemented a practice-wide protocol screening every patient at every encounter for recent SARS-CoV-2 infection history. What we’re observing in our panel is not consistent with a psychosomatic framework.

We’re seeing measurable, objective increases in new-onset hypertension, acute cardiovascular events, new-onset allergic disease, and new-onset type 2 diabetes mellitus, all temporally correlated with infection history. These are not symptom reports. These are clinical findings.

[Peg @ethnobot]

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[CBS News @CBSNews]

The U.S. Department of Agriculture confirmed the presence of a flesh-eating New World screwworm in Texas on Wednesday. https://t.co/DDirv2MW7B

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

TRUMP: Be quiet. You should be ashamed of yourself. You used to be a conservative from Alabama.

KAITLAN COLLINS: I'm still from Alabama.

[Chef José Andrés 🕊️🥘🍳 @chefjoseandres]

I’ve been doing this job of caring for homeless AMERICANS for 33 years too at @dcck ….all are inclusive and can be done at the same time…🫶🏻

[Fred Wellman @FPWellman]

Oh for F’s sake! It’s insurance! Healthy people don’t need it…UNTIL THEY DO! That doesn’t make them not legit. These goons have never lived in the real world.

[Karim Sadjadpour @ksadjadpour]

"The Iranian negotiation style is generally known in the world as the ‘bazaar style,’ which means continuous and tireless bargaining,” Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi wrote in his 2025 diplomatic memoir. “This method is a process of interaction that requires great patience and time,” and thus, “he who gets tired and bored quickly will lose.” https://t.co/6RPjkzFCdg

[Amesh Adalja @AmeshAA]

“Media reports say the situation is dire and not abating, with the healthcare system severely strained by nearly 57,000 measles admissions” https://t.co/zvsM8t0DcZ

[Peg @ethnobot]

@rpresley Sadly the weather‘s been so bad we haven’t even gotten the soil amendments into the ground. Temperatures from low 30s soar into the 90s, then back again. 2 inches of rain falls; the day the sun comes out, the wind blows 20mph.😵‍💫

[Liz McFie a/k/a Mat0 🐫🌗🌴 @fie_liz]

Modern historians have suggested that in his last years he (Richard II) was overtaken by mental disease, but that is only a modern view of the malfunction common to 14th century rulers: inability to inhibit impulse.

PS. - Barbara Tuchman, A Distant Mirror

[Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance]

Judge Cannon has been sitting on the Jack Smith report for over a year. But the 11th Circuit looks like it's running out of patience. Here's what's happening and why it matters. https://t.co/k9eDX8Lg76

[Cuckturd @CattardSlim]

We're to the part where Christian Republicans are saying Scott Presler is a reflection of Jesus, & James Talerico is working for Satan.

You can't make this up 😂

[Peg @ethnobot]

@brothersjudd Yeah, the campaign against her has already started off at a fast and furious pace.

“Some vegan! What a liar. Lookit those leather cowboy boots!”

“That square jaw? Dancing at a gay bar? That’s no woman! He’s a trans girl.”

[Jerome Adams @JeromeAdamsMD]

If you thought CDC morale was in the toilet after literally getting shot at last year, then watching 25% of the workforce get axed while the rest were told to "do more with less" in emergencies... just wait until you tell them they're being shipped to a 50%+ fatality Ebola hot zone halfway around the world, with a rumored 3 days of training, and zero promise of medevac home for real U.S. standard-of-care treatment if they get infected.

Imagine telling troops heading to Iran: "Go fight for America, but if you get blown up, you're staying in the desert. Don't worry though - we're building an 'Alligator Alley' field hospital. You'll be fine!"

This isn’t sound health policy (for reasons detailed below by @ashishkjha). This is the American Hunger Games - except the tributes wear hazmat suits and the Capitol won’t even fly the losers home.

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

Who can name this beauty that Trump mistook for his ex wife Marla Maples?