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Health Rounds: Inhaled insulin as good as injection for children at mealtime reut.rs/3T8uQrf
Health Rounds: Inhaled insulin as good as injection for children at mealtime
Children with diabetes who inhaled their mealtime doses of insulin did just as well as those who injected insulin under the skin, researchers reported at the American Diabetes Association scientific meeting in Chicago.
reut.rs
June 25, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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Genetic material shed by tumors can be detected in the bloodstream three years before cancer diagnosis, according to a study led by investigators at Johns Hopkins University.

That study was made possible with federal funding. Now, many studies like this are canceled. hub.jhu.edu/2025/06/04/...
Cancers can be detected in bloodstream three years prior to diagnosis
Detection of cancer before a clinical diagnosis could give patients and caregivers more time for intervention and may lead to better outcomes because tumors are more likely to be curable
hub.jhu.edu
June 11, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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📌The Cabinet of the United States of America is a collection of the worst, most incompetent morons in history, and we are supposed to just suffer through it as if it was just another cloudy day.
May 23, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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We should be investing in rural communities and making them better places to build a life & raise a family - not shutting down rural hospitals by choking off their funding.

Saving rural hospitals is one more reason to call your Representative and speak out against this GOP attempt to cut Medicaid.
Hundreds of rural hospitals are at risk of closing, threatening critical care
Hospital officials told CBS News the closure was driven by the same factors that have closed other rural hospitals: low reimbursement rates.
www.cbsnews.com
May 21, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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No one experiencing the tragedy of a miscarriage should be arrested, much less abandoned in jail for 5 months with a $100k bond. But that’s exactly what happened to Mallori Patrice Strait in Texas. Women, particularly women of color, in this country are no longer allowed dignity even in extreme loss
May 21, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.
Diseases are spreading. The CDC isn't warning the public like it was months ago
Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.
www.npr.org
May 21, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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TANK vs TESLA

"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"

- ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
May 7, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Busting up big corporations. 

Tackling Wall Street’s greed.

Getting big money out of politics. 

Strengthening unions and fighting for higher wages.

Medicare for all, paid family leave, universal childcare...

This is the progressive populist agenda we need in America.
May 7, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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May 3, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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April 26, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate.

The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns.

Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care.

The list goes on and on.

Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
April 22, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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Previous to the FDA, folks would put chalk and plaster of Paris in milk to make it appear white. They could also add formaldehyde to cover the smell and taste of spoiled milk.
April 22, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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The concentration of wealth in the hands of an elite few isn't just bad for our economy. It's corrosive to our democracy.

When the wealthy and well-connected control our political system, the American people don't have a voice.

The result? Demagoguery and corruption.
April 20, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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Gold soars to record high on trade war concerns, weaker dollar reut.rs/42TGvjh
April 21, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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they want us poor, sick and desperate
We're told the FDA is now making plans to end most of its routine food safety inspections

That oversight work would be effectively outsourced to state and local authorities, under this plan

www.cbsnews.com/news/fda-foo...
FDA making plans to end its routine food safety inspections, sources say
Food safety inspections would be left to state and local authorities under the plan being developed by the FDA.
www.cbsnews.com
April 17, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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“He made 2.5 million today and he made $900 million. That’s not bad.”

Sounds like market manipulation to me. That’s bad.
April 10, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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If you're in congress and you aren't publicly in favor of banning the trading of individual stocks by people in congress, get your head out of your fucking ass.
April 10, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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It’s weird* that the president can just decide to put a huge tax on American businesses without congress even being a little bit involved.

* very unconstitutional
April 5, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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SpaceX gets a $5.9B contract.

All the renewable energy & energy efficiency R&D done by the Department of Energy is only $3.5B. Wind, solar, geothermal, electric vehicles, fuel cell vehicles, biofuels, weatherization, buildings, efficiency, state programs, manufacturing, everything. Total: $3.5B 🔌💡
April 6, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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France’s institutions defended its democracy, upholding the law.

South Korea’s institutions defended its democracy, upholding the law.

Brazil’s institutions defended its democracy, upholding the law.

Only America’s decided a criminal must be allowed to break its laws and destroy its democracy.
Marine Le Pen barred from running for French presidency in 2027
Far-right leader found guilty of embezzlement of European funds and immediately barred from running for office
www.theguardian.com
March 31, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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The reason that the US is locking up tourists for weeks in hellish detention centers rather than letting them book tickets back home is because the detention centers are owned by corporations. They are charging the taxpayers fortunes to cage these people, and making bonanzas off their suffering.
March 29, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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My maternal grandmother died in the 1918 flu pandemic.

RFK Jr can go fuck himself.
March 22, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Elon Musk’s DOGE team is eliminating jobs at the vehicle safety agency, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, that oversees Tesla and has launched investigations into the deadly crashes with his company’s cars.

Yet another reason I’d never buy a Tesla.
February 23, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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NEW: U.S. consumer sentiment plunges—down 10% from January over tariff and inflation fears.

Most people I know think the economy is cooked thanks to Trump’s policies—designed to help the rich and screw working folks.

He’s not doing shit to fix the economy or lower costs. Just broken promises.
February 21, 2025 at 3:47 PM