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[Devin Nunes' Cattle Dog 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🇺🇸🇨🇦 🇦🇺 @Kaos_Vs_Control]

Meet Bruce Taylor, of Taylor Farms. This man makes huge contributions to Trump so his lettuce is never inspected. So far, this man has given us E. coli, and cyclospora.

He does NOT allow his lettuce pickers to take bathroom breaks.

Kroger brand lettuce is actually Taylor’s.

[Becca Derex 📸 @beccaderex]

No matter how big you are, Alaska has a way of making you feel so small 🏔️🐻🩵

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Photographer Phil Thurston captured this wave, then slowed few seconds of time to make 40 seconds of slow motion water movement.

[📹 thurstonphoto]

[Caleb Williams @CALEBcsw]

#worththecost

[Billie Jean King @BillieJeanKing]

Born on this day in 1862, Ida B. Wells was a civil rights champion and one of the first investigative journalists in the United States.

She was also a feminist and anti-lynching advocate whose reporting documented lynchings in the American south.

Wells went on to help found the @NAACP.

Thinking of her legacy today.

[Kenny BooYah! 🖖🏾 @KwikWarren]

Lawrence O’Donnell on what trump accomplished in his speech tonight: “After Mitch McConnell issued a proof of life photograph earlier this week, donald trump delivered a proof of dementia video tonight! Twenty-five minutes of it.”

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

That is a FACT!

[Sammi🦋 @StoriesBySammi]

Bulldozers are about to dump gravel straight into wetlands, permanently burying them, inside one of the most important bird habitats on the planet. 🌎

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum signed off on it. Izembek National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, 315,000 acres of wetlands, eelgrass beds, and wilderness, is about to get cut through by an 18.9-mile gravel road. Construction could start within 30 days.

The road corridor is a wide swath of refuge land, most of it wilderness designated, being legally converted out of protected status. Within it, about 4.5 acres of wetlands and nearly an acre of stream channels will be filled in directly, meaning buried under gravel and turned into solid roadbed. Gone, permanently, as wetland habitat.

This refuge is a critical stopover for migrating geese and threatened Steller's eiders, birds that Alaska Native communities hundreds of miles away still depend on for subsistence food.

King Cove, the town pushing for this road, has logged over 217 medical evacuations since 2013 due to unreliable weather access, some requiring dangerous Coast Guard rescues. That's the argument for it.

Three lawsuits are sitting in federal court right now challenging this exact project. The state isn't waiting to find out how those cases turn out before it starts moving equipment.

What happens to a wetland once it's already buried under gravel, no matter what a judge decides afterward?

#DemsUnited

[Carolyn Rockey @CarolynWRockey]

Jo Nagai was raising swallowtail butterflies at his home in Kobe, Japan, when he noticed something odd. The ones he had looked after as caterpillars seemed to recognize him. Wild butterflies fled. His didn't.
He was in second grade. He wrote a four-page letter to Dr. Martha Weiss, an entomologist at Georgetown University who had studied whether moths could retain memories through metamorphosis. He asked if she could help him design a version of her experiment for butterflies.
She said yes.
Using a muscle therapy device, Jo trained caterpillars to associate the scent of lavender with a mild vibration. When the caterpillars became butterflies, 70 per cent of them still avoided the lavender. Their brains had been completely rebuilt during metamorphosis. The memory survived anyway.
Then he bred them.
The offspring, which had never been trained, also avoided lavender. So did their grandchildren. Without ever experiencing the vibration, two generations of butterflies inherited an aversion to a scent their grandmother had been taught to fear.
Jo documented it all in a 33-page research paper and presented his findings at the International Congress of Entomology in Kobe in 2024. He was 10.
A second grader wrote a letter to a Georgetown professor, and together they found evidence that butterflies can pass memories down through generations.

-Wilderness Whisper

[Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández @RepTeresaLF]

Sacred places cannot be replaced once they're lost. 

Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante hold the prayers, stories, and footsteps of generations. They are living landscapes where culture, history, and spirit endure.

I stand with the tribal nations against this devastating decision from the Trump Administration. 

Trump’s decision is about greed and putting big corporate profit above public land. He would destroy our shared heritage so his rich buddies can get even richer.

[TaxBillionaires @Twylus]

@SteveCollinsSJ

[Sam Stein @samstein]

This is really incredible. Docs released by Trump tonight confirm RUSSIA tried to spread claims Biden was engaged in criminal activity vis-a-vis Burisma and that it advanced those narratives "with US officials" and planed a "high-profile corruption scandal... at the peak of the 2020 US presidential campaign."

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

The documents are so damning in refuting Trump's own case that I wonder if anyone in the White House actually read them (or understood what they were looking at)

[Senator Ben Ray Luján @SenatorLujan]

RT if you think Supreme Court Justices shouldn’t be allowed to accept lavish gifts and vacations. I just introduced a bill with @RepRaskin @RepAOC to hold Supreme Court justices to stronger ethical standards.

[Senator Ben Ray Luján @SenatorLujan]

Just 14 days to stop the destruction of one of America's most sacred cultural and historical sites. 14 days!

Donald Trump wants to obliterate Chaco Canyon for oil and gas drilling, sacrificing thousands of years of history to enrich his allies. That's why I'm leading legislation to permanently protect Chaco.

This is outrageous. Submit a public comment and share this post far and wide. We cannot let this administration destroy this heritage site. Comment link below ⬇️

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

Undermining trust in the justice and electoral systems, denigrating the media, targeting rivals. I’ve seen this playbook before in Putin’s Russia in the early 2000s.

America’s democratic institutions may be stronger, but we should never take them—or our rights—for granted.

[Ben Noll @BenNollWeather]

Another wave of dense wildfire smoke is forecast to reach New York and New England on Thursday afternoon and evening before it surges into the Mid-Atlantic on Thursday night.

Thick, unhealthy smoke is expected in D.C. on Friday, with some reaching Virginia and North Carolina.

[Sarrah Bellus @sarrah_bellus]

We may disagree on many things, but we all agree that this person does not deserve his position in this country and should be removed from office.

[Kevin Pho, M.D. @kevinmd]

The classic ADHD checklist had 59 questions. Seven were about inattention. That is most of the story of why a generation of women got missed.

It was built in the sixties, seventies, and nineties, around a picture of ADHD that looked like a boy who couldn't sit still. Very visible, impossible to ignore.

In girls it looks different. Not rambunctious, but restless. Fidgety, talkative, rapid speech, a mind that drifts mid-task. The inattentive kind is more common in women, and it is exactly what those old tools were worst at catching. So a lot of girls read as fine on paper while struggling their whole lives.

Then the recognition came from an unexpected place. During the pandemic, women started seeing themselves in each other's posts, and new diagnoses in adult women nearly doubled from 2020 to 2022. People named it for each other before the system named it for them.

Here is the part worth saving. Estrogen is made by the brain itself, not only the ovaries, and it helps regulate dopamine, serotonin, and norepinephrine. It rises and falls across the month. When it drops, in the days before a period, women with ADHD can hit real dips in attention, memory, and focus, and they appear to feel it more than women without ADHD. Same brain, different week. Researchers are only now studying what that means through perimenopause and beyond.

So a woman can spend years being told she is inconsistent, when the truth is that a neuromodulator of dopamine is cycling through her on a schedule and nobody ever charted it.

Arti Lal, a pediatrician who has spent 14 years diagnosing and treating ADHD, put the gap simply: hormones have been entirely left out in 50% of the population, and we are only coming to that now.

Even after 14 years of this work, she says: I wish I had known this before. ADHD has been trivialized and stigmatized for a long time, more so in women.

Recognition isn't a diagnosis. If this sounds like your life, that is a conversation for a real assessment with a clinician.

Listen to the full conversation on The Podcast by KevinMD. Link in the replies.

What did it look like in your life before anyone named it?

#ADHDinWomen #ThePodcastbyKevinMD