OTOH, Occupy Democrats (which I follow on FB, but take with a grain of salt, because they don't have a fact checking department) is considered hyper-partisan & far less reliable in terms of fact checking. And Polifact has called them out on several recent reports: www.politifact.com/factchecks/l...

Why? As I've posted many times, you want your sources to stay within the "green box" of the Ad Fontes Media Bias Chart, which rates outlets on both credibility & political bias. People don't like some of its op-ed writers (& like others) but the NYT is solid with regard to its news reporting.

2/ actual news outlets, but by mining other accounts' posts. It's like news distribution via the "telephone hour" number in Bye, Bye, Birdie: What's the story, morning glory? What's the word, hummingbird? If you're going to be incredibly late with these revelations, could you please, at least,...

4/ to his post telling him to f** right off. (And yes, some may be out of state accounts or bots, but not all of 'em: I've even seen MAGA folks I know IRL making furious comments like this to his posts.) So, why? Is it just social identity theory (the need to protect one's group even at an expense

Psych 🧵: The other day, saw this post from Sen. Blumenthal discussing how he wants to eliminate hidden delivery fees that raise food costs by 80%. About 2/3 of Americans have used food delivery apps - many (esp. younger adults) use them weekly, or even more. & that use is rising nationally,...

I've been a pet owner for decades & my current cat has been sick for the better part of 3 years. But no one ever told me about these resources on evaluating pet pain from Rest Your Paws, an Australian palliative care & euthanasia company for pets: restyourpaws.com.au/pets/pain-in...

P.S. As to *why* people over-identify in the first place, see this part of the Conversation From Elsewhere:

2/ of explosive diarrhea. (Fun! But pretty dangerous, for some folks.) The change affected pathogen surveillance in CO, CT, GA, MD, MN, NM, OR, TN & parts of CA & NY. Now cyclospora is having a good ol' time in people's bowels in more than half of US states - including almost all that lost the...

He's like a fat little piggy-troll.

Yup.

2/ happens, that does NOT make her a liar. In fact, 80% of rape survivors don't report, for a bunch of reasons, you idjits. I try to behave professionally here, but I'm sick, & instead of taking the nap I needed, I fell down a rabbit hole of unadulterated victim blaming by people who supposedly...

He looks like a Gotham villain. Trump's new painting in the WH cabinet room looks like one of those mail order paintings that's created from a photo you send in (like in The Big Bang Theory).

He refuses to let me take his blood glucose this morning. He is cosplaying Moby Dick, except with razor sharp teeth. To gain health intervention compliance, it always helps to know what really motivates your targets. In this case, it's food, but alas - I can't feed him until he lets me draw blood.

4/ at her. And it's all been financed by...erm, we don't actually have any idea who-all bankrolled this monstrosity. But knowing would probably only cause us more pain. So happy 4th of July. If you're in DC, be mindful of the toxic 🎆 air tonight. (Expert advice is to mask up & stay inside; fun!)

It's Disability Pride Month! 🎉 Graphic credit: The Canadian Partners in Workforce Innovation www.canadianpartnerswin.ca/post/breakin...

I just got a perfect score on the NYT's US history quiz (you just had to order 25 major American events, one per decade), but the secret is: it's not hard when you've lived through most of them. (See, *I* can do self-deprecating humor.)

2/ And while costs have become exorbitant, quality of care has declined. But corporations know you'll pay: its like they're holding your puppy with a gun to its head & saying "cough up the dough or Bear gets it!" So you do. I have, repeatedly. The PBS News Hour segment explains it well. (Be patient

Here is the local health district's page: nothing about the fatality rate, post-exposure prophylaxis (vaccines), or the need not to wait for symptoms to develop. It's a horrible page. Note that, on the page menu, it looks like there's another rabies page before this one, but there isn't; same page.

Here's the breakdown on that survey section:

They won't let it go. They will never let it go. Ivermectin is their fetish in both a magic amulet & getting your rocks off sense of the word. They will die w/ a bottle in their hands, & place it in their corpses' mouths as payment to Charon to get them across the River Styx. Sometimes it bugs me.

The excellent images have begun. Photo credit: June 27, 2026, Tierney L. Cross, Getty Images

This made me think of when Selina Meyer is holding a rally in Veep and tells the crowd, "Freedom isn't Meee-dom, it's Weee-Dom!" At the Trump fair, Free(e)dom is definitely Heee-Dom.

3/ people; half who recover will have long term impairments. 🔹️No treatment, no vax. 🔹️Why now? Climate change, baby - longer tick seasons. 🔹️If you find an embedded tick, remove it carefully with a tweezers or one of these (I just bought it; my vet recommended), & monitor for symptoms for 30 days.

We are definitely not making America healthy again, any which way.

2/ American grit, courage and exceptionalism. But beyond that, it felt like a trade show for Christian groups, tourist boards and the military industrial complex." Each state gets just a flat photo background where you can take tacky, Kmart-style photos. Zzzzz. Your local 4H fair will be better.

P.S. I just found our old trip blog (which I can't share because it names my kid, who I think would not wish to be named), so here are a few photos. The first is of the awful wall sitters in Mesa Verde; the second is of the bison harasser at Yellowstone (w/o my telephoto), who slapped the bison's...

Omg. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

2/ ok (dry rice expands in stomach fluid), as I now need to feed him a full meal to give him his insulin, and they said yes but that they'd put in his chart that he was "fresh" & "made poor choices." That about sums him up. (The pee pad is an ex. of ones all over the house - b/c chronic diarrhea.)

Your bright spot for the day (Mondays suck): the WaPo has a photo ("independently obtained and verified") from inside the tarp, so we can all admire the Kennedy Center that way. www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/0...

Yeah, I *know.* Unfortunately, trying to live in a diurnal world when you're a nocturnal person can have very significant & unpleasant health consequences. Not much to be done, in my case.