Laura Patterson

✝️Thankful for Many Blessings - my husband/my children/my grandchildren and their unconditional love. No DMs please.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

The green sea turtle is no longer endangered. 🎉

In October 2025, the IUCN moved the green sea turtle from Endangered to Least Concern on the global Red List, skipping Vulnerable and Near Threatened entirely. It's one of the most dramatic uplistings the organization has ever recorded.

The global population has grown by roughly 28 percent since the 1970s. Nesting beaches in Mexico, Hawaii, Brazil, and Florida are seeing numbers that haven't been recorded in living memory.

Florida alone counted 77,000 green turtle nests in 2023. The recovery came from protections that were put in place decades ago and held: international bans on commercial hunting, Endangered Species Act protections in the US, beach monitoring programs, and fishing regulations requiring turtle excluder devices in nets.

The work was slow and often invisible. Sea turtles take decades to reach sexual maturity, so the eggs protected on a beach in 1985 are the breeding adults we're counting in 2026. The results were always going to arrive a generation later than the effort.

But keep this in mind: the global designation is good news, but the species is not saved everywhere, and the threats that drove the original decline, illegal egg harvesting, bycatch, beach development, and warming waters affecting nesting success, haven't disappeared.

But after 40 years on the list, the green sea turtle is coming back.

[Buzz Patterson @BuzzPatterson]

Marco is the best spokesperson this White House has. Listen to him explain the MOU. He’s brilliant.
@marcorubio

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

Marie Skłodowska Curie defended her doctoral thesis on radioactive substances at Université de la Sorbonne in Paris on 25 June 1903 and became the first woman in France to receive a doctoral degree.

[Brandon Gill @realBrandonGill]

How exactly can Congress allow somebody to take an oath to defend the Constitution of the United States if they openly advocate for eradicating the country?

[Laura Patterson @LPatterson40822]

@HouseGOP @SenateGOP

[Laura Patterson @LPatterson40822]

And just how exactly do u propose WE proceed?

We have elected our Congress to vote the will of the majority of the people.
Why is our Congress - House and Senate Republicans not taking this seriously and voting together on issues⁉️
Get it together Congress‼️
If you all tried as hard to vote for the will of the people the way Trump works every day - we would not have a problem.

[Katie Pavlich @KatiePavlich]

This is so much better than the losers who dropped out.

[Bo Loudon @BoLoudon]

🚨HUGE: Dominion has DISMISSED their $1.3 BILLION dollar defamation lawsuit against Mike Lindell and MyPillow.

Congratulations, @realMikeLindell!

Follow: @BoLoudon

[Dan Bongino @dbongino]

Dear socialists,
When you get a minute, and that shouldn’t be hard considering most of you don’t have jobs, pop in to South Florida and find a Cuban cafe. Make sure to tell everyone there sipping their coffee how great socialism is.
Let us know how it goes.
Thanks!

[Lee Greenwood @TheLeeGreenwood]

What an incredible night and what an honor to help kick off Freedom 250.

God Bless the USA! 🇺🇸

@Freedom250

[Rapid Response 47 @RapidResponse47]

.@POTUS: "Under our leadership, America will also be a nation that dares to dream and to build again... For the 100th anniversary of our founding in 1876, America completed the Washington Monument and work began on the Statue of Liberty... For the 200th year, we built the National Air and Space Museum and renovated the United States Capitol. For our 250th Anniversary, we are likewise building new monuments to American Greatness. To serve every future president and First Lady, we are building the most beautiful Ballroom anywhere in the world right at the White House... And just across the bridge in front of Arlington Cemetery, we are building a totally magnificent Triumphal Arc to honor the 250-Year Triumph of the American Spirit."

[Nick shirley @nickshirleyy]

This is who NYC is protecting and letting free back onto the streets

@NYCMayor why do you allow these criminals to be set free despite a track record longer than a restaurant menu?

[Nick shirley @nickshirleyy]

🚨 Welcome to the lawless, dangerous, and illegal markets in NYC, where millions and potentially BILLIONS of tax dollars are lost each year. Where criminals arrested for drug dealing, assault, and resisting arrest are set free to commit their crimes once again.

The NYC Council says it loses over $1.7 billion in potential tax revenue. These vendors are primarily illegal migrants from Africa who make $10,000’s of dollars a week TAX FREE.

In a city that wants to "tax the rich" but turns a blind eye to open criminality and fraud, there is a problem. How can women feel safe knowing criminals arrested for assault are set free on the streets?

This isn’t about left or right, it’s about what is against the law. We all work too hard and pay too much in taxes for others to break our laws and defraud the system. Watch and share!

[Laura Patterson @LPatterson40822]

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[Katie Miller @KatieMiller]

There were many programs @DOGE protected that remain active at @StateDept today:

• HIV Epidemic Control: $1.3 billion for HIV prevention, treatment, and control efforts.

• UN Agencies / World Food Program: $7.4 billion for humanitarian food assistance and emergency response across dozens of countries.

• HIV Supply Chain: $7.6 billion for logistics and supply of HIV medications and related commodities.

• Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria: $13.4 billion for disease control.

[Laura Patterson @LPatterson40822]

And just how exactly do u propose WE proceed?

We have elected our Congress to vote the will of the majority of the people.
Why is our Congress - House and Senate Republicans not taking this seriously and voting together on issues⁉️
Get it together Congress‼️
If you all tried as hard to vote for the will of the people the way Trump works every day - we would not have a problem.

[Speaker Mike Johnson @SpeakerJohnson]

There are MINI MAMDANIs popping up all around the country.

It is a dangerous thing — this is NOT a joke.

We are in a fight RIGHT NOW to save the Republic and EVERY AMERICAN needs to take this seriously.

[Laura Patterson @LPatterson40822]

⬇️@CoachForGov @SenKatieBritt ⬇️

[Catherine Herridge @C__Herridge]

Personal News: I am writing as a mother and living organ donor.

Twenty years ago this month, our youngest son Peter received a life-saving liver transplant at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh @ChildrensPgh

With Peter’s permission, I’m sharing a photo taken with his older brother a few weeks before his 2006 transplant, when he was in liver failure.

Four years later, he won gold at the U.S. Transplant Games in Madison, Wisconsin. And here he is today—healthy, strong, and thriving.

What I didn’t fully appreciate in 2006 was that Peter and I were part of pioneering research aimed at reducing the risk of organ rejection in pediatric patients.

Even though I donated a segment of my liver to Peter—and as mother and son we are genetically similar—the new testing protocol still helped lower his chances of rejection.

Peter and I participated in a research project that developed a simple blood test called Pleximmune @plexision

It predicts the likelihood of rejection in pediatric patients by analyzing the unique immune chemistry of both the child and the donor.

The test also helps doctors determine exactly how much immunosuppression a child needs to keep rejection at bay.

Our family knows firsthand how valuable this early warning system truly is.

When Peter hit his growth spurt in his early teens, like so many pediatric transplant recipients, he needed increased immunosuppression.

The Pleximmune test predicted this need months in advance, giving his doctors time to adjust his care before problems arose.

The threat of rejection is a cloud that hangs over every transplant patient and family.

This test is making a real difference. It helps prevent rejection and can save tens of thousands of dollars for families and insurance companies.

This is where common sense matters.

In early July, the research team is preparing an appeal to Medicare @MedicareGov to price the Pleximmune test "fairly and consistently" with similar diagnostic tests.

Right now, only a small percentage of the cost of the test for pediatric patients is being reimbursed.

As the team told me, “Fair pricing is the lifeblood of a company’s ability to provide patients with more informed care and continued innovation.”

Today, Pleximmune has been used to test roughly 10% of children under age 21 who have received liver or intestine transplants in the U.S.

If you want to support this important work and help more pediatric patients and their families benefit...

Send a note to your senator, let them know to escalate the matter with Medicare so the appeal gets a fair hearing.

Catherine

[Catherine Herridge @C__Herridge]

Personal News: I am writing as a mother and living organ donor.

Twenty years ago this month, our youngest son Peter received a life-saving liver transplant at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh @ChildrensPgh

With Peter’s permission, I’m sharing a photo taken with his older brother a few weeks before his 2006 transplant, when he was in liver failure.

Four years later, he won gold at the U.S. Transplant Games in Madison, Wisconsin. And here he is today—healthy, strong, and thriving.

What I didn’t fully appreciate in 2006 was that Peter and I were part of pioneering research aimed at reducing the risk of organ rejection in pediatric patients.

Even though I donated a segment of my liver to Peter—and as mother and son we are genetically similar—the new testing protocol still helped lower his chances of rejection.

Peter and I participated in a research project that developed a simple blood test called Pleximmune @plexision

It predicts the likelihood of rejection in pediatric patients by analyzing the unique immune chemistry of both the child and the donor.

The test also helps doctors determine exactly how much immunosuppression a child needs to keep rejection at bay.

Our family knows firsthand how valuable this early warning system truly is.

When Peter hit his growth spurt in his early teens, like so many pediatric transplant recipients, he needed increased immunosuppression.

The Pleximmune test predicted this need months in advance, giving his doctors time to adjust his care before problems arose.

The threat of rejection is a cloud that hangs over every transplant patient and family.

This test is making a real difference. It helps prevent rejection and can save tens of thousands of dollars for families and insurance companies.

This is where common sense matters.

In early July, the research team is preparing an appeal to Medicare @MedicareGov to price the Pleximmune test "fairly and consistently" with similar diagnostic tests.

Right now, only a small percentage of the cost of the test for pediatric patients is being reimbursed.

As the team told me, “Fair pricing is the lifeblood of a company’s ability to provide patients with more informed care and continued innovation.”

Today, Pleximmune has been used to test roughly 10% of children under age 21 who have received liver or intestine transplants in the U.S.

If you want to support this important work and help more pediatric patients and their families benefit...

Send a note to your senator, let them know to escalate the matter with Medicare so the appeal gets a fair hearing.

Catherine

[Catherine Herridge @C__Herridge]

STUNNING:  USAID + THE BIG GRIFT

Looks like USAID supported college tuition for Anwar Aulaqi (Awlaki) who later became a high level al Qaeda terrorist.

Aulaqi falsely claimed he was born in Yemen to secure the financial help via the State Dept. when he was actually a US citizen, born in Las Cruces New Mexico.

Aulaqi would later develop close ties with several 9/11 hijackers and attain leadership status in AQ's Yemen affiliate.

Aulaqi was the godfather of the digital jihad that leveraged his writings and the web to radicalize Americans to AQ's cause.

Aulaqi became the first American targeted for death by the CIA. In 2011, he was killed in a US drone strike.

This 1997 Aulaqi mugshot is for soliciting prostitutes.

Good catch first flagged Feb. 2025 via
@browne_pamela
@intelwire