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This is not efficiency, this is abandonment. Americans deserve health care that works for them — and instead, the Trump administration is wreaking havoc on seniors, people with disabilities, and our most vulnerable. In Illinois, we will stand up against these attacks.

The Trump administration restructures federal health agencies, cuts 20,000 jobs

The reduction in force comes along with a reorganization of the Department of Health and Human Services, consolidating 28 divisions to 15.

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Past temps on inauguration day. 1985 - Reagan - 7 degrees Fahrenheit. 1961 - Kennedy - 22 degrees Fahrenheit. 2009 - Obama - 22 degrees Fahrenheit. 1977 - Carter - 28 1941 - Rosevelt - 29 Forecast for Monday in Washington 23 and sunny. Conclusion: Trump is a pussy.

One fun thing about working on #ctenophores (comb jellies) is that you get to see animals nobody has depicted for more than a century. I haven't found any images of Deiopea from the time between Chun's 1880 drawing and my 1990s photo. Even shallow SCUBA exploration can yield surprises 🌊🦑🧪

Left image is a line drawing of a comb jelly from Carl Chun's 1880 masterpiece based on a specimen from the Mediterranean Sea. On the right is a photo of the same species (or at least the same genus) collected with blue-water scuba diving off the coast of Santa Barbara, CA. The photo shows thin bluish-white canals outlining the body against a black backdrop. The widely spaced comb plates are a diagnostic feature of this lobate ctenophore. 
The image from Chun has been rotated 180° to align with our modern understanding of these animals. Historically, they have been interpreted like medusa jellyfish, with the mouth down, but we know they encounter their environment oral end first.

“There is a clear link between emissions from fossil fuels and global warming. But recently oil and gas firms have been making plans to ramp up production.” It’s not the finding and producing of hydrocarbons that’s the problem…it’s the use of them 😭 #ClimateSky 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

BP profits drop as it says it will reset strategy

The oil giant is widely expected to say it will scale back on renewables later this month.

bbc.co.uk

In the past 10,000 years, humans have devised roughly 100,000 religions based on roughly 2,500 gods. So the only difference between myself and the believers is that I am skeptical of 2,500 gods whereas they are skeptical of 2,499 gods. We're only one god away from total agreement

I think countries around the world should levy tariffs specifically on Tesla in response to US tariffs, as well as banning Twitter as a national security threat driving a wedge between our co-dictators may be the most effective thing they can do

I just saw someone genuinely say “just because one is worse doesn’t make the other one better” and I cannot fucking handle that statement. I’m just. These are the people who didn’t vote. holy fuck.

In 1659, the the Puritans in Massachusetts enacted a law that declared that Christmas was sacrilege and exchanging of gifts, greetings, and wearing fine clothing on that day was Satanic. Anyone caught celebrating was fined 5 shillings. (About 5 days wages.) The "War on Christmas" was an inside job.

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It should be noted that in addition these are women with desired pregnancies- who had baby showers and prepared for a new baby. So this isn’t an elective procedure -this is a medical emergency where a pregnancy has died inside the mother & has to be removed or she dies period. Sin my ass 🤬

This headline should read "Republicans Want Women to Die." Because that is ultimately what they want. They hate us so much they want us dead.

Both Texas and Georgia are destroying evidence of all maternal mortality, blocking proof that women are dying from abortion bans. This story has a lot more going on than you think. Especially since Republicans are lying about the public cases. www.salon.com/2024/12/02/d...

Republicans don't care if women die from abortion bans — but they don't want you to know about it

Women will keep dying, but the GOP is working hard to destroy the evidence

salon.com