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Lived experience. Type 1 Diabetes since 1972. older adult behavioral health and co-design of research. Digital peer support trainer.

[ᜰ @markklfc]

Lamine Yamal on Lionel Messi after Spain’s FIFA World Cup triumph over Argentina.

🗣️ Lamine Yamal: “Tonight I lifted the World Cup for Spain, but I also experienced something I’ll tell my children one day. The man who once held me as a baby was standing on the other side of the pitch, fighting for the same dream. Football has a beautiful way of bringing stories full circle.”

“When I looked at Messi after the final whistle, I didn’t just see an opponent. I saw the player who made millions of kids, including me, believe football could be art. I saw the man whose videos I watched over and over, trying to copy things that nobody else could do.”

“I know this defeat will hurt him. You don’t play with that much passion, carry your country again and again, and lose a World Cup final without feeling pain. Even in defeat, he kept demanding the ball, creating chances and refusing to stop believing. That’s what champions do.”

“People will talk about Spain winning this World Cup, and they should. But they’ll also remember that, at an age when most legends have already retired, Messi was still making the world’s best defenders panic every time he touched the ball. That’s extraordinary.”

“The photo of Messi bathing me became one of football’s most iconic images. Today we took another picture together, but this time I could thank him face to face. Without players like him, kids like me wouldn’t dare dream this big.”

“One day another generation will replace mine too. That’s football. But there will never be another Lionel Messi. Records can be broken and trophies can be won, but inspiring an entire generation to fall in love with the game is something only a few people in history will ever achieve.”

“Tonight belongs to Spain. Tomorrow, the debates will continue. But my respect for Lionel Messi will never change. He didn’t need to win this final to prove who he is. For me, he’ll always be one of the greatest players football has ever seen, and sharing the pitch with him was a privilege I’ll carry for the rest of my life.”

[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

[Charlie Baker @CharlieBakerMA]

One of the most profoundly affecting movies I ever saw. RIP Marine.

[Wes Moore @iamwesmoore]

It’s 7 AM and polls across Maryland are officially open! Make sure you have a plan to vote before the polls close at 8 PM tonight.

Not registered? You can still register in-person to cast your vote today.

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: In a stunning move, France’s leader Emmanuel Macron just announced he will not allow Donald Trump to remove sanctions on Iran until there is satisfactory agreement on ending Iran’s nuclear program. This is how you check Trump’s insanity.

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

Yet another study shows a 24% reduced risk of dementia after the Shingles vaccine. This one in over 500,000 participants with a recent skilled nursing facility stay, adding to 4 huge natural experiments in 4 countries (US, Canada, Wales, and Australia)
https://t.co/TmYqwTB7IT @AnnalsofIM

[STAT @statnews]

UniQure is the third case of a biotech granted a measure of regulatory relief from the FDA in the wake of the agency’s leadership change.
https://t.co/9Qe5xxyEEB

[Brendan Pedersen @BrendanPedersen]

TIMELY — join us next week at Punchbowl News’ Summit on the Future of Housing! @apalmerdc and I will take the stage with some excellent panelists to talk about where the industry and economy goes right as the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act appears to be on a glide path.

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

It's Scotland's first World Cup appearance in 28 years, and fans have been spotted throughout Boston reveling in the excitement of the tournament with song, chants and bagpipes.

[Emoluments Clause @Emolclause]

#BREAKING: Velshi: “What if I told you this? The Trump administraction had ALREADY spent 50 TIMES that much in taxpayer money to build his ballroom? What if I told you Trump had already taken $50 billion out of the U.S. treasury and spent it, all as part of what looks very much like a pay to play scheme to finance his vanity project? And I’m not making this up, a brand new report from the government watchdog group Public Citizen looked into the private donors who are supposedly funding the Trump ballroom as a gift. Guess what their investigation found? ‘More than half of the publicly identified donors…have won new or expanded federal contracts worth more $50 billion during the past six months.’ The report also found that most of the same companies are also facing federal enforcement actions over alleged wrongdoing and that some have had such actions suspended by the Trump administration since the start of Trump’s second term.”🙄

[Mia♡ @luxemiaa]

A 14 year old came into the clinic today with stomach cramps and bleeding.

She's pregnant.

Her parents came in with her and when they found out, her mother started screaming at her and her father was cursing her out. Both of them going at this child. And neither one of them, not once, asked who did this to her.

Not once.

My consultant asked them to leave the consultation room and they did.

I just need to sit with that for a second because I am struggling. She is 14. She is a child who came in with stomach cramps and is scared and bleeding and instead of anyone wrapping their arms around her the adults in her life are screaming at her like she is the one who did something wrong.

Someone did this to her. A grown man did this to her. And the entire energy in that room was directed at a 14 year old girl.

My consultant removed them and I wanted to stand up and........

[Christopher Webb @cwebbonline]

MAGA HEADS ARE GOING TO EXPLODE 🤯

🚨 A new Cato study found immigrants reduced US deficits by $14.5 TRILLION since 1994.

Not increased.
Reduced.

Even undocumented immigrants were estimated to have reduced deficits by at least $1.7 trillion.

The very people Republicans keep villainizing are working, paying taxes, and helping keep the economy afloat while billionaires and corporations dodge taxes with loopholes their lobbyists wrote themselves.

[Team Talarico @TeamTalaricoHQ]

Three years ago today, Ken Paxton was impeached by his own party for using his public office to enrich himself and his donors.

[Only In Boston @OnlyInBOS]

The Minnesota Twins released David Ortiz because they didn’t want to pay him around $2 million.

The Red Sox signed him for $1.25 million.

Boston then got 541 career HRs, 3 World Series titles, and Big Papi.

One of the greatest bargains in sports history.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

Trump is now reportedly responsible for roughly 27.7% of the entire U.S. national debt accumulated under all presidents combined.

That is an astonishing figure historically.

The national debt just crossed $39 trillion.

President Trump has added roughly $12–13 trillion to the debt across his two terms in office.

That’s approximately 30% of ALL U.S. national debt accumulated since 1789.

In 2016, Trump said he would pay down the national debt “over a period of eight years.”

Instead:

- First term: +$7.8 trillion
- Second term: roughly +$4–5 trillion already

And yes, COVID affected first-term spending.

It does not explain adding another trillion dollars every five months without a pandemic.

A political movement built on:
“fiscal conservatism”
“small government”
“balanced budgets”

has now overseen the largest debt expansion tied to any single presidency in American history.

[Boston.com @BostonDotCom]

The lawmakers' investigation found that terminating TPS would "exacerbate" shortages in the health care workforce, limit high-quality care, and "endanger patients," the report says.
https://t.co/QnizZvX3kp

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

Merla, a detector dog with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s Beagle Brigade, alerted her handler about potential contraband inside two duffel bags.

CBP discovered two passengers were carrying 100 sandwiches from Thailand, all illegal. https://t.co/MYozxkNISe

[Only In Boston @OnlyInBOS]

Massachusetts ranks as the #2 best state for working moms in 2026.

#1 in day-care quality
#1 in pediatricians per capita
#1 in parental leave policy

Still work to do: ranked 19th in the gender pay gap.