Larry Lynam
@scopedbylarry.bsky.social
Retired microbiologist and science writer, full-time Sonoran Desert resident who escaped from Florida in a nick of time.
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“I went into a room with dark suits & men with gray hair..."
“And I sat down & somebody came & told me that these were seats for the doctors & the drug reps needed to go to the back of the room.”
“Oh, I’m sorry, I’m a doctor, “I’m one of the surgeons.”
🧪🎁🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/h...
“And I sat down & somebody came & told me that these were seats for the doctors & the drug reps needed to go to the back of the room.”
“Oh, I’m sorry, I’m a doctor, “I’m one of the surgeons.”
🧪🎁🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/h...
Female Cardiothoracic Surgeons, Unlocking the Male Fortress
www.nytimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 10:58 PM
“I went into a room with dark suits & men with gray hair..."
“And I sat down & somebody came & told me that these were seats for the doctors & the drug reps needed to go to the back of the room.”
“Oh, I’m sorry, I’m a doctor, “I’m one of the surgeons.”
🧪🎁🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/h...
“And I sat down & somebody came & told me that these were seats for the doctors & the drug reps needed to go to the back of the room.”
“Oh, I’m sorry, I’m a doctor, “I’m one of the surgeons.”
🧪🎁🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/h...
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Interesting approach to student loans apnews.com/article/mack...
MacKenzie Scott's college roommate once loaned her $1K. Now it's the billionaire's turn to invest
Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott is one of the world’s wealthiest women. As a Princeton University sophomore, however, she faced dropping out until her roommate got her father to loan Scott ...
apnews.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Interesting approach to student loans apnews.com/article/mack...
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Mind bleach required.
November 29, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Mind bleach required.
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THIS is criminal behavior.
Kavanaugh stop. Smashed the kid’s car windows and arrested him. He told them he was a U.S. citizen. The officer replied “I don’t care.”
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
High school senior, a U.S. citizen, detained by ICE in Oregon
The 17-year-old was held more than five hours Friday in an ICE facility, his brother said.
www.oregonlive.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:54 AM
THIS is criminal behavior.
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I'm still thinking about how USAID, CDC, NIH were Missing in Action at last week's ASTMH Global Health meeting -- and what that means for our future health. It's pretty bleak, now worsened w Prasad and Makary wanting to kill #vaccine access
www.forbes.com/sites/judyst...
www.forbes.com/sites/judyst...
Reminders Of What Our Losses From CDC And USAID Mean
With the loss of USAID and much of CDC, our ability to respond to pandemics is at risk. Global health issues are a growing threat.
www.forbes.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:33 AM
I'm still thinking about how USAID, CDC, NIH were Missing in Action at last week's ASTMH Global Health meeting -- and what that means for our future health. It's pretty bleak, now worsened w Prasad and Makary wanting to kill #vaccine access
www.forbes.com/sites/judyst...
www.forbes.com/sites/judyst...
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Seriously looking like the evil monster that he is
November 30, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Seriously looking like the evil monster that he is
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"With the news that the administration plans to link the COVID vaccine to child deaths using data from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), it’s worth revisiting how we actually detect whether a vaccine is causing harm."
Excellent explainer from @drjenndowd.bsky.social from 9/2025😷🛟🧪
Excellent explainer from @drjenndowd.bsky.social from 9/2025😷🛟🧪
When “Stuff Happens” After Vaccination
How scientists separate coincidence from true side effects
jenndowd.substack.com
November 30, 2025 at 4:10 AM
"With the news that the administration plans to link the COVID vaccine to child deaths using data from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), it’s worth revisiting how we actually detect whether a vaccine is causing harm."
Excellent explainer from @drjenndowd.bsky.social from 9/2025😷🛟🧪
Excellent explainer from @drjenndowd.bsky.social from 9/2025😷🛟🧪
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Emmett Till, who lived with his mother in Chicago, had been visiting relatives in Mississippi when he was murdered. His body wouldn’t be recovered until three days later, when two boys who were fishing found it in the Tallahatchie River.
Barn Where White Men Murdered Emmett Till to Be Preserved as a ‘Reverent, Sacred Site’
The barn in Drew, Miss., where two white men murdered 14-year-old Emmett Till in 1955 will be preserved as a “sacred site.”
buff.ly
November 28, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Emmett Till, who lived with his mother in Chicago, had been visiting relatives in Mississippi when he was murdered. His body wouldn’t be recovered until three days later, when two boys who were fishing found it in the Tallahatchie River.
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After a speeding semitruck killed his son, Gary Wilburn and his wife spent decades advocating for mandated speed limiters in trucks.
DOT proposed a rule to do just that.
Then Trump appointees stepped in, killing the proposed regulation.
DOT proposed a rule to do just that.
Then Trump appointees stepped in, killing the proposed regulation.
How Trump’s Transportation Department Is Loosening Safety Rules Meant to Protect the Public
ProPublica has identified dozens of instances in which the Trump administration’s DOT has moved to cut, soften or delay safety regulations for cars, trucks, planes, trains and even oil pipelines. Expe...
www.propublica.org
November 28, 2025 at 2:00 AM
After a speeding semitruck killed his son, Gary Wilburn and his wife spent decades advocating for mandated speed limiters in trucks.
DOT proposed a rule to do just that.
Then Trump appointees stepped in, killing the proposed regulation.
DOT proposed a rule to do just that.
Then Trump appointees stepped in, killing the proposed regulation.
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Experts say it’s highly unusual for the White House to tell agents to give up custody of potential evidence in an investigation, as it did with the Tates.
“I’ve never heard of anything like that in my 30 years working,” an ex-DHS official said.
“I’ve never heard of anything like that in my 30 years working,” an ex-DHS official said.
The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.
www.propublica.org
November 28, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Experts say it’s highly unusual for the White House to tell agents to give up custody of potential evidence in an investigation, as it did with the Tates.
“I’ve never heard of anything like that in my 30 years working,” an ex-DHS official said.
“I’ve never heard of anything like that in my 30 years working,” an ex-DHS official said.
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He just spews one racist lie after another. It's despicable.
VP JD Vance stood before a crowd and tried to falsify history, claiming Christians ended widespread mass child-sacrifice practices among Native Americans
November 28, 2025 at 6:28 AM
He just spews one racist lie after another. It's despicable.
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My mother immigrated from Ireland because there was no free secondary education when she was a teenager. Which is why she left at age 17, and for no other reason.
Trump makes the outrageous claim that “most” immigrants, which include over 25 million U.S. citizens, “are on welfare, from failed nations, or from prisons, mental institutions, gangs, or drug cartels.”
As insulting as the “deplorables” comment, and on Thanksgiving day no less.
As insulting as the “deplorables” comment, and on Thanksgiving day no less.
Trump calls Tim Walz “seriously retarded”
November 28, 2025 at 1:40 PM
My mother immigrated from Ireland because there was no free secondary education when she was a teenager. Which is why she left at age 17, and for no other reason.
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How do you win elections in Alabama? It helps to be a football star.
November 28, 2025 at 2:41 PM
How do you win elections in Alabama? It helps to be a football star.
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Police knew she was selling fake Percocet but did not stop her.
His mother sought the right treatment for his addiction but couldn’t find it.
Two teens got caught up in a system unprepared to handle kids on either side of the drug trade.
(Published Sept. 2024)
His mother sought the right treatment for his addiction but couldn’t find it.
Two teens got caught up in a system unprepared to handle kids on either side of the drug trade.
(Published Sept. 2024)
Maylia and Jack: A Story of Teens and Fentanyl
Police knew she was selling fake Percocet but did not stop her. His mother sought the right treatment for his addiction but could not find it. Two teens got caught up in a system unprepared to handle ...
www.propublica.org
November 28, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Police knew she was selling fake Percocet but did not stop her.
His mother sought the right treatment for his addiction but couldn’t find it.
Two teens got caught up in a system unprepared to handle kids on either side of the drug trade.
(Published Sept. 2024)
His mother sought the right treatment for his addiction but couldn’t find it.
Two teens got caught up in a system unprepared to handle kids on either side of the drug trade.
(Published Sept. 2024)
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At Thanksgiving yesterday some teenagers behind us were quite amused and impressed at the same time that our 8yo completed an old 4th grade math workbook during mass - whilst my mother in law was annoyed that he didn’t follow mass.
November 28, 2025 at 5:58 PM
At Thanksgiving yesterday some teenagers behind us were quite amused and impressed at the same time that our 8yo completed an old 4th grade math workbook during mass - whilst my mother in law was annoyed that he didn’t follow mass.
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The Atlantic used to be one of my go-to media outlets. That changed during the pandemic, as explained here. Great piece.
. @theatlantic.com has some some of the best writers around.
But, under the guise of being moderate and nuanced, they were also perfectly happy to elevate right disinformation talking points to numb people to the risks of COVID and MAHA.
My latest.
sciencebasedmedicine.org/if-the-atlan...
But, under the guise of being moderate and nuanced, they were also perfectly happy to elevate right disinformation talking points to numb people to the risks of COVID and MAHA.
My latest.
sciencebasedmedicine.org/if-the-atlan...
If The Atlantic Wishes to Honestly Understand the Origins of MAHA, They Need to Investigate The Atlantic.
The Atlantic has some of the best writers around. But they were also eager to launder right-wing talking points under the guise of a being liberal, reasonable, and moderate publication, able to see a
sciencebasedmedicine.org
November 28, 2025 at 6:08 PM
The Atlantic used to be one of my go-to media outlets. That changed during the pandemic, as explained here. Great piece.
The man does not even possess a human soul, and nor do those ghouls who feed in his lair.
Trump entered the Mar-a-Lago ballroom for his Thanksgiving feast to the song “We Are the World,” a song used to raise money to help starving children.
Trump himself has cut aid to address global famine and has fought for the right to cut food stamps from American families.
Trump himself has cut aid to address global famine and has fought for the right to cut food stamps from American families.
November 28, 2025 at 8:50 PM
The man does not even possess a human soul, and nor do those ghouls who feed in his lair.
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POS and his POS family.
Trump entered the Mar-a-Lago ballroom for his Thanksgiving feast to the song “We Are the World,” a song used to raise money to help starving children.
Trump himself has cut aid to address global famine and has fought for the right to cut food stamps from American families.
Trump himself has cut aid to address global famine and has fought for the right to cut food stamps from American families.
November 28, 2025 at 6:13 PM
POS and his POS family.
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Wait a minute...
Both Putin and the Trump family have ties to the same bank that has been accused of laundering money for the sex trafficing trade?
www.msn.com/en-us/money/...
Both Putin and the Trump family have ties to the same bank that has been accused of laundering money for the sex trafficing trade?
www.msn.com/en-us/money/...
MSN
www.msn.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Wait a minute...
Both Putin and the Trump family have ties to the same bank that has been accused of laundering money for the sex trafficing trade?
www.msn.com/en-us/money/...
Both Putin and the Trump family have ties to the same bank that has been accused of laundering money for the sex trafficing trade?
www.msn.com/en-us/money/...
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I guess he wants to be called the "Secretary of War" because he commits *War Crimes* and he thinks he'll get away with it because it's in his job title?
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:41 PM
I guess he wants to be called the "Secretary of War" because he commits *War Crimes* and he thinks he'll get away with it because it's in his job title?
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Spotted in tiny Dover, TN (pop. 1,826) yesterday – vote @aftynbehn.bsky.social 💙💙💙
November 28, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Spotted in tiny Dover, TN (pop. 1,826) yesterday – vote @aftynbehn.bsky.social 💙💙💙
Not a traditional Thanksgiving at our house today, but I made a huge pot of shrimp and crab gumbo that reminds me so much of my gulf coast (Gulf of Mexico still) home. My great grandmother’s gumbo recipe & my Aunt Flora’s Broccoli Cheddar Cornbread & it is the most comforting meal to me.
November 27, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Not a traditional Thanksgiving at our house today, but I made a huge pot of shrimp and crab gumbo that reminds me so much of my gulf coast (Gulf of Mexico still) home. My great grandmother’s gumbo recipe & my Aunt Flora’s Broccoli Cheddar Cornbread & it is the most comforting meal to me.
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Obviously, a smartphone from today isn't going to still work in 120 years.
But we should be able to get 5 years out of a $1,000 phone without it causing the economy to collapse.
But we should be able to get 5 years out of a $1,000 phone without it causing the economy to collapse.
November 27, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Obviously, a smartphone from today isn't going to still work in 120 years.
But we should be able to get 5 years out of a $1,000 phone without it causing the economy to collapse.
But we should be able to get 5 years out of a $1,000 phone without it causing the economy to collapse.
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“This is what corruption looks like,” Rep. Jasmine Crockett said about a firm with ties to Kristi Noem secretly working on a DHS ad campaign. “They’re stealing money from the American people’s pockets and depositing it into their bank accounts.”
Lawmakers Call for Probe of How Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Got Piece of $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts
The demands for an investigation come after a ProPublica story revealed that the Noem-connected Strategy Group was secretly a subcontractor on the ad campaign.
www.propublica.org
November 27, 2025 at 8:00 PM
“This is what corruption looks like,” Rep. Jasmine Crockett said about a firm with ties to Kristi Noem secretly working on a DHS ad campaign. “They’re stealing money from the American people’s pockets and depositing it into their bank accounts.”
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CNBC loves to promote toxic work culture.
While work-life balance may give you a sense of happiness and fulfillment, it isn’t always realistic, says Walmart executive vice president and chief people officer Donna Morris.
Walmart exec: ‘I’ve never believed in the term work-life balance’—this is the mantra that made her highly successful instead
Many professionals see work-life balance as a non-negotiable. Walmart CPO Donna Morris says people should practice work-life integration instead. Here's why.
cnb.cx
November 27, 2025 at 8:25 PM
CNBC loves to promote toxic work culture.