just breathe

human, believer, work in progress ~ Eph. 2:8-9

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@shipwreckedcrew Dingell berries are pesky to remove

[La Jolla Populist @liberscravola]

I was wondering why are they making a big deal about a job that will be finished in under a month then it hit me, confession through projection. If the CA dems ran this project it would take months or years. They fully expected a empty pool all summer at the peak of DC tourism. The idea it would be done on time never even entered their minds.

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@NateSilver538 @mkolken It’s a feature not a flaw

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Yep, decline is a choice.

[FOX 12 Oregon @fox12oregon]

New international survey ranks downtown Portland at the very bottom of North American cities for beauty and vibrancy https://t.co/30xFssKXnF

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@VivekGRamaswamy The ol’ Wrap-Up Smear, as Pelosi calls it.

[Boston Globe Pitchbot @BostonSatire]

Red Sox under investigation for using performance inhibiting drugs

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@tylermilliken_ Couldn’t dodge it.

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The madness continues unabated here in Oregon, I see.

[KATU News @KATUNews]

An effort to criminalize the killing of animals for food in Oregon is a step closer to being on the November ballot.

IP-28 would make it illegal to injure or kill animals and would effectively ban hunting, fishing and the breeding of animals. https://t.co/Je1Z43xKAm

[Gary Sinise @GarySinise]

Today is our nations Memorial Day. Enjoy your day and take a moment to remember the true meaning of this day. A day to pay our respects to all those who have given their lives in our country's defense. God bless these brave heroes and their families.

[Tim Tebow @TimTebow]

Freedom has a price.
Today we honor those who paid it.
🙏🇺🇸

[BORED @BoredElonMusk]

Insanely clever marketing.

It’s a water stencil so what they’re doing is power washing the sidewalk and creating the words with the dirt that remains.

[Sunny @sunnyright]

Totally normal late night comedy program where a political party is mourning its loss by posting photos of all of the candidates the late night comedy program promoted for free

[Chris Loesch 𝕏 @ChrisLoesch]

Next Congress will for sure not have:

Thomas Massie
Al Green
Jasmine Crockett
Dan Crenshaw
Eric Swalwell
Mitch McConnell
Nancy Pelosi
Don Bacon
Jerry Nadler
Bill Cassidy

I’m happy about all of it.

[TFTC @TFTC21]

A peer-reviewed paper published last year in the journal Bioethics by two professors at Western Michigan University School of Medicine argues that it is "morally obligatory" to genetically engineer ticks to spread alpha-gal syndrome, a permanent condition that makes you violently allergic to red meat.

The paper is called "Beneficial Bloodsucking."

Their argument: if eating meat is morally wrong, then preventing the spread of a disease that forces people to stop eating meat is also morally wrong. Scientists should gene-edit lone star ticks to enhance their ability to carry alpha-gal syndrome and expand their range into urban environments to infect more people.

They call this a "moral bioenhancer." They frame releasing genetically modified disease-carrying ticks as a "vaccination" that only "infringes" on your bodily autonomy rather than "violating" it. The distinction, apparently, is that a tick bit you instead of a government official holding you down.

Alpha-gal syndrome is not mild. The CDC estimates up to 450,000 Americans are already affected. Cases have surged 100-fold in the last decade. Symptoms include anaphylaxis. There is no cure.

Alpha-gal cases are exploding across the United States. The lone star tick's range is expanding far beyond its historical territory. And two academics at a medical school published a paper arguing this is a good thing that should be accelerated.

At what point do we stop treating papers like this as fringe academic exercises and start asking whether anyone is already acting on them?

[Today in History @TodayinHistory]

When Mount Saint Helens erupted 46 years ago today, nothing survived that was within 230 square miles of the explosion.

Except for photographer Richard Lasher who escaped on his dirt bike after taking this shot.

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@Nyanasaur In the hardest right field in the bigs.

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@Jared_Carrabis 9 hits! Fire up the duck boats.

[FenwayAttendee @FenwayAttendee]

Dead at 27:

- Kurt Cobain
- Janis Joplin
- Jimi Hendrix
- Yankees World Series rings
- Brayan Bello

[Fuzz Lightyear @AZFredLloyd]

@PNWConservative Seattle and Portland are in a retard race to the bottom. Who will win?