Accidentally in Michigan for primary day. Editors do not read this.
Lizzie O'Leary
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So we went to urgent care in northern Michigan (kid strep) and a man ran (waddled) in and literally said “I have the explosive diarrhea.”
If you, too, have a Who Would Win child, please drop any animal battle style tv shows in the comments. Scientific rigor and vague age appropriate content (precocious 6 year old) appreciated.
Took me seconds to make an image showing 'protesters' around Google buildings, using Google Earth's new AI generation tool. You can make bomb blasts, protesters, drone strikes, nuclear plants. How on earth did Google think this was a good idea www.404media.co/google-earth...
Wild to create an AI tool that will so obviously be used to create disinfo and then to put the responsibility on a user to investigate — using more Google tools of course — whether the content was made with your AI tool!
Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 5d agoGoogle's statement that it includes a watermark that can identify them as AI-generated is completely braindead as to how disinformation works. You think people spending literally three seconds to derail a discussion give a shit about that? This is so easy to abuse www.404media.co/google-earth...
Endometriosis takes nine years to diagnose. That’s about to change. NICE has approved two tests: a saliva test reading microRNA markers, and a gut-sensor test returning results in 45 minutes, sparing women the keyhole surgery currently needed. buff.ly/QX3jHk8 #ShareGoodNewsToo
Rapid endometriosis tests to be made available on NHS in England and Wales
Saliva and gut sensor-based tests hailed as ‘gamechanger’ for millions of women who can wait years for diagnosis
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MedStar Washington Hospital Center delivers more babies in D.C. than any other. They’re cutting over a third of their postpartum beds, @samdelgado.bsky.social reports. What this could mean, especially for high-risk patients:
This hospital is cutting over a third of its postpartum beds
As the city faces a Black maternal health crisis, health advocates are concerned about cuts at MedStar Washington Hospital Center.
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Overland couple shot dead in Guatemala after local ICE stop led to deportations www.stlpr.org/law-order/20...
Overland couple shot dead in Guatemala after local ICE stop led to deportations
The couple’s 14-month-old daughter was found crying beside her mother’s body in a sugarcane field last week, according to Guatemalan authorities and media.
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I’m at the wildfire smoke I’m at the lettuce diarrhea I’m at the combination wildfire smoke and lettuce diarrhea
We are not watching TikToks with no headphones on this aircraft. Don’t make me come over there sir.
This is a good piece! There are some things I am careful about, especially post-cancer (food storage especially). But also there is a lot of non-evidence based fearmongering out there. Often by very privileged people. This piece threads the needle pretty well.
Cordelia Jenkins@cordeliajenkins.bsky.social · last wk.We asked the FT's climate corro @kenzabryan.ft.com to answer an all important question... just how toxic are your underpants, really? She took the commission very seriously and the answer is more clear cut than you think... as.ft.com/r/f8f9c6e3-4...
A Bloomberg News analysis of Skype messages, flight records and other documents released by DOJ show that from the time of his release from jail in 2009, through to his arrest in July 2019, Epstein ran a trafficking network that spanned the globe. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
The Flight Network Behind Jeffrey Epstein’s Trafficking Operation
Thousands of flights booked by the pedophile financier’s staff connected associates and victims to a global network of properties
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"He has also removed from promotion lists about 40 senior officers who had been selected by boards made up of their peers.” Politicization of the military produces politicking admirals and generals. Not good.
An Admiral’s Rise Reveals the Politics Driving Hegseth’s Pentagon (Gift Article)
Before he was picked to lead the Navy, Adm. Daryl Caudle found ways to signal his support for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s anti-diversity goals.
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“After months of insisting the dinner was worth reviving in the name of the First Amendment … the organization instead handed Trump a nationally televised platform to demean the very journalists it exists to represent,” @passantino.bsky.social writes. www.status.news/p/the-white-...
The White House Correspondents’ Disgrace
The WHCA sought to reconvene its annual dinner in celebration of press freedom. Instead, it handed Donald Trump a platform to attack the very journalists the organization exists to represent.
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I enjoy perusing the park slope subreddit because sometimes people run into bill deblasio
To all of us. It’s happened to me, and I have spent years of professional life learning to check and recheck. And check again.
Donie O’Sullivan@donie.bsky.social · 2w agoThis isn’t just happening to the wacky tin-foil-hat folks, clearly. In some ways it’s happening to all of us, dozens or hundreds of times a day, on our social media feeds. Algorithms serve us the things they know we want to hear, shaping our perceptions of everything.
This is exactly what I run into with conspiracy theorists — a stray, unverified claim gets treated as if it debunks the real story, and it almost always falls apart under scrutiny. Wild to hear that pattern showing up at 60 Minutes as Cecilia Vega describes it.
“A Penn professor thought she’d sell 1000 copies of her ‘Odyssey’ translation. She sold a million this year alone, thanks to Christopher Nolan.” “West Philly's Emily Wilson, who penned a highly acclaimed translation of the epic poem in 2017, is having a big summer.”
A Penn professor thought she’d sell 1000 copies of her ‘Odyssey’ translation. She sold a million this year alone, thanks to Christopher Nolan.
West Philly's Emily Wilson, who penned a highly acclaimed translation of the epic poem in 2017, is having a big summer.
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JUST POSTED: A deep investigation by The NYT of shortcuts taken to get President Trump his Qatari-donated plane in time for POTUS to show it off during 250th anniversary events-compromises that leave the plane more vulnerable to potential threats (Free link) www.nytimes.com/2026/07/25/u...
Inside the Rushed Effort to Get Trump His New Air Force One
A New York Times investigation found that President Trump’s push to speed delivery of the aircraft led to ballooning costs and trade-offs in safety features.
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The trajectory of National Geographic over the last 20 years is heartbreaking.
Asher Elbein@asherelbein.bsky.social · 2w ago"Most of the affected employees were at National Geographic, both at the cable network as well as editorial and operations." 🫠
NEW: In a stunning admission, the Trump administration admitted in court documents that it canceled billions in energy grants to states "based solely" on politics -- and whether that state was represented by Democrats and backed Harris in 2024. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...
Trump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for Him
Federal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states “based solely” on whether they backed President Trump in the 2024 election.
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Astonishing. RFK Jr. adds 8 members to a 6 member FDA advisory panel. 6 of them were sellers of peptides, and the 7th a compounding pharmacist. In an 8-6 vote with all 8 votes coming from these new panel members, the panel approved 4 peptides against the objections of FDA scientists.
FDA Panel Supports Lifting Restrictions on Four Peptides (Gift Article)
In an all-day hearing, the agency’s scientists argued against allowing broad access to unproven drugs that the agency had banned three years ago.
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Yesterday was World Sjögren's Day. I have Sjögren's, and like many people with an autoimmune disease, it took me years of pain and frustration to get a diagnosis. You can learn more about Sjögren's here. Shoutout to my fellow spoonies. sjogrens.org/understandin...
Understanding Sjögren’s
Along with symptoms of extensive dryness, other serious complications include profound fatigue, chronic pain, major organ involvement, neuropathies, and lymphomas.
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Good reminder of how hard it is to access health insurance for people who are disabled by their conditions but in the waiting period for coverage for SSDI/Medicare. The mortality during the wait period for people with cancer (neoplasms) is nearly 40%. www.healthaffairs.org/doi/epdf/10....
