Greg Nance

🔜🌎 Mississippi River Run world record attempt powered by @brooksrunning. Join our 2,340-mile youth mental health mission 🧠💪

[Greg Nance @GregNance]

Rainier Sea-to-Summit World First is mission accomplished!! 🌊🏔

Yesterday at 6:48pm reached Tahoma’s top. Logged 85.1 miles from Puget Sound and 14,411ft net elevation gain to reach the summit in 46h54m.

[benmaritz @benmaritz]

Lots of takes on the new millionaire’s tax, especially that it does little to fix how regressive Washington’s tax system is. Fair criticism. But lurking in the tax code is an even worse, more distortive tax: B&O, a tax on business revenue, not profit. 1/x

[Governor's Office - St Helena, Ascension & Tristan @GO_ASHT]

Dear David Attenborough,

Congratulations on reaching your 100th lap around the sun, young man!

Thank you for sharing the wonders of our world with such care and curiosity.

Here’s to many more years, slow and steady wins the race!

With admiration,
Jonathan the Tortoise

[Greg Nance @GregNance]

@brookeleblanc @WHOOP @Garmin Enduro FTW

[Greg Nance @GregNance]

@KoleMusgrove23 Outgained by Bad Bunny 💀

[Ramez Naam @ramez]

Everyone who cares about climate should understand this. Texas, with no pro-climate policies, has blown passed California in clean energy. In large part because Texas has less red tape and makes it easier to build.

[Greg Nance @GregNance]

@ByNatePilling Just awful 💔

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@hanniespice Grateful for you, Hannie!

[Greg Nance @GregNance]

Excited to share: I’m running for re-election to the Washington State House. Together we’ve secured $42M for West Sound Tech, fought for ferries, protected Puget Sound, and preserved 680 acres of Kitsap forest. We’re not done 🌲🌊

👉 https://t.co/RpDXywSwkW

[Greg Nance @GregNance]

@TravisSCouture Oh man I’m so sorry to hear. Eric was always thoughtful, funny, and kind. RIP

[Greg Nance @GregNance]

@hanniespice I’m so sorry, Hannie 💔 Sending hugs

[Onyx @OnyxOdds]

CRAZY:

LeBron James now has as many playoff wins as the entire Chicago Bulls franchise

[Jack Soble @jacksoble56]

Hard not to get emotional watching Jadarian Price get the call from the Seahawks. The tears at the beginning, the smile at the end.

Marcus Freeman once called Price "the most unselfish individual" on the Irish, and his selflessness paid off tonight.

[Greg Nance @GregNance]

@HoldThe_Phone @LBJgoat_talk 💀

[BronMuse @BronMuse]

WINS IN THE PLAYOFFS: @statmuse

187 — Chicago Bulls
186 — LeBron James

THIS IS ACTUALLY INSANE.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

A parasite that has been eating people for 3,500 years is about to be wiped off the planet. It infected 3.5 million people in 1986. Last year, it infected 10. And I have not seen it make a single front page.

It is called Guinea worm. You drink contaminated water from a pond in a poor village. A year later, a worm up to three feet long starts coming out of your leg through a burning blister. There is no pill that stops it and no surgery that works. You wrap the worm around a stick and pull it out slowly, over days or weeks, inch by inch. If you rush, the worm breaks inside you and causes a fresh infection.

Guinea worm is ancient. Preserved worms have been pulled out of Egyptian mummies from around 1000 BCE. The Ebers Papyrus, an Egyptian medical scroll from 1550 BCE, describes pulling the worm out with a stick. For three and a half thousand years, that was the best humans could do.

Then in 1986, public health workers decided to kill the parasite off. They had no vaccine and no drug. What they had was cheap cloth water filters and a small army of volunteers willing to walk from village to village for decades.

The plan was simple. Give everyone who drinks from a pond a cloth filter to strain out the tiny water fleas that spread the parasite. Then send volunteers walking house to house, year after year, teaching people how to use the filters and keeping anyone with an emerging worm out of the water.

It worked. From 3.5 million cases a year to 10. Four were in Chad, four in Ethiopia, two in South Sudan. The other four countries where the worm used to be common, Angola, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, and Mali, had zero human cases for the second year in a row. The World Health Organization has already certified 200 countries as Guinea worm free. Six are left.

The last hurdle is dogs. Cameroon had 445 infected animals last year and Chad had 147, so a lot of the remaining work is on animals, not humans. Strays get leashed, and crews treat ponds to kill any remaining worms. The campaign keeps watching until the number hits zero.

When Guinea worm hits zero, it becomes the second human disease ever erased from the planet. The first was smallpox. It will also be the first parasite humans have ever wiped out, and the first disease ever ended without a single dose of medicine. Volunteers walked village to village with cloth filters for 40 years. Now a plague from the age of the pharaohs is about to be gone.

[Greg Nance @GregNance]

@jamie_raskin @JohnWMcCarthy Enjoy the boost, @RobSandIA 👊

[Rep. Greg Nance @RepGregNance]

Happy 2nd Annual Bull Kelp Day, Washington! 🌿🐋

Over 80% of bull kelp in Puget Sound is gone — but partners like @SeattleAquarium, PG S’Klallam Tribe & @SuquamishTribe are turning the tide.

Salmon need kelp. Orcas need salmon. We need both.

#BullKelpDay #ProtectPugetSound

[Andrew McCarthy @AJamesMcCarthy]

How it started vs how it’s going

[NASA @NASA]

Welcome home Reid, Victor, Christina, and Jeremy! 🫶

The Artemis II astronauts have splashed down at 8:07pm ET (0007 UTC April 11), bringing their historic 10-day mission around the Moon to an end.

[Greg Nance @GregNance]

@PurpGoldLakers 🐐