Delicate

WoW. Science. Cats. Politics. Not necessarily in that order.

[Delicate @FreakinFlower]

Inspired today by football players https://t.co/orVjvprNdN

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

some of you are testing for low T when you need to get tested for low IQ

[Jeff Timmer @jefftimmer]

Fun Fact: The President of the goddam United States paid nearly $6 million in damages today to a woman he raped. Once upon a time, this would have been the only news you heard.

[Just Jack @7Veritas4]

What I find most disturbing about the Graham Platner allegations is that, today, a federal judge ordered Donald Trump to pay the civil judgment of $5 million (+ interest) for raping and defaming E. Jean Carroll.

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

The sitting president of the United States had to pay $5 million to a woman he raped and defamed, and not one person in his entire cult of a party is calling for his resignation.

Not one.

[Delicate @FreakinFlower]

@MagdalenaDK @Nazuvious but will he say hi back? <sob>

[Declan Walsh @declanwalsh]

Great and tragic news at once.
Emmanuel, the 5-year old featured in this report, has since recovered and left the Ebola ward, his father told me.
But the lab technician I met in the next ward deteriorated and died last night. His name was Bienfaits.
https://t.co/ggpolsFgAY

[Amelia @amelia_tweetz]

Imagine if a woman president crashed the economy and started a war with no end in sight, and her biggest, seemingly ONLY concern was building a ballroom and redecorating the White House.

[Negan @Roger_Negan]

This

[Dr Steven Quay @quay_dr]

The 2026 hantavirus does not show major evolutionary jumps from previous Argentina infections and should act accordingly.

Some really nice work here by Emma Hodcroft, Univ Basal.

Unlike SARS-CoV-2, which is one 30,000 letter genome, Hantavirus has 3 separate segments of genetic material.

Why is that important?

For SARS2, the only way to get big junks of genetic material exchanged in a single step is to have 2 viruses in the same cell and then have the copying system make a cross over mistake.

With Hantavirus, if 2 different viruses infect the same cell it is very easy to package the 3 strands in all 8 combinations: AAA, AAB, ABA, BAA, ABB, BAB, BBA, BBB. (where A is one virus and B is the other virus)

Here Emma has looked at each of the 3 segments for the cruise ship virus and showed that each of the 3 segments is most closely similar to past viruses from Argentina and not past viruses from Chile.

Consequence of this information?

The current virus should act like recent Argentina hantaviruses and not represent a new, uncharted, combination of the 3 genome segments.

https://t.co/Uu730124hO

[LenaSun @bylenasun]

NEW: After I reported that CDC won’t publish a report showing covid vaccine cut ER visits and hospitalizations among healthy adults by about half this past winter, @SenBlumenthal is asking the head of CDC for records and information about the decision. 1/3

[#AfghanEvac @afghanevac]

STATEMENT: from the residents at Camp As Sayliyah regarding potential relocation to DRC.

[Delicate @FreakinFlower]

@atrupar Math is hard.

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: Marc Elias and Democracy Docket have already promised they will fight back against any illegal Executive Orders Donald Trump may sign tonight. Marc doesn’t lose, and I’m sure he’ll remind the world that #TrumpVotedByMail.

[Gaza's Creative Allies @GazaAllies]

In order for me to write poetry that isn't political,

I must listen to the birds.

And in order to hear the birds,

The warplanes must be silent.
- Marwan Makhoul

[Molly Jong-Fast @MollyJongFast]

Some of the frivolous September purchases made under Secretary Pete Hegseth’s stewardship include a $98,329 Steinway & Sons grand piano for the Air Force chief of staff’s home, $5.3 million for Apple devices such as the new iPad, and an astronomical amount of shellfish, including $2 million for Alaskan king crab and $6.9 million worth of lobster tail. (Lobster tail is apparently a favorite of Hegseth’s Pentagon—the department spent more than $7.4 million total on the luxury item in March, May, June, and October.)
In other pricey food purchases, the government decided to drop $15.1 million for ribeye steak (again, just in September), $124,000 for ice cream machines, and $139,224 on 272 orders of doughnuts.

[austerity is theft @wideofthepost]

Buffalo police tasered and arrested a blind Burmese refugee who was using a curtain rod as a walking cane because he couldn’t understand their commands. Then, Border Patrol dropped him off alone at a Tim Hortons at night, 5 miles away from his home, and he was just found dead.

[Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 @cmclymer]

I think it's fine that U.S. men's hockey goalie Connor Hellebuyck was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Trump for allowing only five goals during the Olympics.

But why wasn't U.S. women's hockey goalie Aerin Frankel, who allowed only two goals during the Olympics, not also honored in this way?

That doesn't make sense.

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

We are deciding right now whether we want to be a country with ethnic cleansing and concentration camps.

[🦢 @meishato]

everyone is talking about how poor people shouldn’t be allowed to buy junk food with food stamps… i don’t think billionaires should be able to buy 14 year olds on a private island

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

Or how about this headline — “American citizen arrested without cause after exercising his Constitutional rights.” Very important that government propaganda not become the default framing.