Lynne, Murphy and Barney 🇨🇦

Six Reasons Heart Disease Is Normal, Good For You, And Nothing To Do With That Covid Infection

This happens every single time the GOP meets because they’re all cheating on their wives. The party of family values!

Online, I keep seeing people arguing about the importance of being healthy. Offline, I keep hearing people talking about how (somehow) they are sick again.

If only there were a law that said: "Whoever makes or offers to make an expenditure to any person, either to vote or withhold his vote, or to vote for or against any candidate Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned" We could call it 18 U.S. Code § 597 - Expenditures to influence voting

No one could have foreseen this. www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/rep...

Listen: it is true (obviously, it is true) that not every “bug,” that not every sore throat, that not every fever, is a case of Covid, and while that is true (obviously, that is true) unless you test you can’t really know for sure.

JON STEWART: “They began covering their ass 3 weeks after 9/11… There was poison in the air, on the ground, on your pets/clothes… THE CITY KNEW. Rather than limit the damage, they covered it up… After 9/11, business will never be usual again.” (From @mamdanibulletin.bsky.social )

A new systemic review has found “Lingering respiratory virus symptoms aren’t limited to COVID,” with the further details that lung problems are common after flu, and heart symptoms are common after RSV, but fortunately a good mask will help protect against all three.

www.discovermagazine.com/covid-19-is-...

A new report has found that Long Covid has affected more than 25% of healthcare staff (in the UK) who contracted Covid, but that 25% is of healthcare staff (in the UK), and that isn’t you, so keep telling yourself that it’s probably fine for you to keep catching it.

The pandemic seems to have permanently increased (or coincided with) asocial behavior. On an average day, one in 10 young adults now has no in-person contact with another human www.ft.com/content/e1eb...

At this point the FDA has upgraded the egg recall linked to salmonella to its highest risk level, which does not mean that this outbreak can’t get any worse, it just means we lack official language for it getting any worse.

Don’t say 
we’re in deep shit 
say 
cyclospora outbreak. Don’t say 
we’re screwed 
say 
screwworm in Texas. Don’t say 
we’re in hot water 
say 
the climate is changing. 
Don’t say 
we’re sick and tired
say 
Covid persists. Don’t say it’s bad say something ignorable.

Fascist governments are run by narcissistic leaders who only care about themselves. Everyone else is expendable. Trump leaving the plane that was targeted was understandable, what wasn’t acceptable was that he allowed that plane to fly knowing that others may die. Unconscionable #FascismInAmerica

Wow. Proponents of the ICE taser gloves are openly saying that one reason they love the gloves is that they doesn’t leave any marks or proof that they were used, making it harder for people to sue when they’re shocked excessively.

The kids are not alright. Emily was only 9 when she got Covid, and she’s been disabled ever since. She’s 14 and struggling with the crushing loneliness and isolation that comes from living with chronic illness. We must do better. Mask up. Clean the air. Protect the kids.

If you’re grabbed by someone wearing “shock gloves”…your body may convulse involuntarily. It could look like you’re resisting arrest when in reality, you’re in medical distress. The appearance of resistance will embolden ICE to use lethal force. These gloves will kill people.

I don't know who needs to hear this, but an economy controlled by a handful of oligarchs isn't a "free market."

Joe Rogan is now pretending to act surprised over Trump's recent actions.

This is pretty much what you would expect someone who views sailors and soldiers as suckers and losers to say.

Thomson Reuters, which owns news agency Reuters, has signed a $125M deal giving ICE access to its databases of personal data. USA Today has partnered with Palantir to gain "actionable intelligence" on its audiences. The media should be opponents of Trump's police state — not collaborators.

14 million souls ended in a single year by Elon Musk's cruelty and stupidity Here are some of the comparisons: Rwandan genocide: 800k dead Cambodian genocide: 3 million dead The Holocaust: 7 million dead

I read a study “Post-Mortem Analysis of Long-Term Inflammation After Mild Covid-19,” which found inflammation in the heart and lungs as well as brain dysfunction continued long after infection, which seems to suggest there’s no such thing as a “mild” Covid infection.

As Gen Z turns to risky industries like crypto, sports betting, and prediction markets to get ahead, Trump is pushing to deregulate them. Remember: his family has lucrative financial stakes in each. When it comes crashing down, Gen Z will be left holding the bag while the Trump family rakes it in.

👀 "U.S. Investigated Left- Leaning Groups During Minnesota Immigration Crackdown. The government conducted expansive surveillance, infiltrated group chats and obtained financial records of organizations never accused of crimes." www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/u... #McCarthyism2.0

No less than 3 million children under the age of 5.

🚨BREAKING: A bombshell new investigation alleges Vivek Ramaswamy’s mother helped reanalyze failed clinical-trial data to make an Alzheimer’s drug look more promising. Vivek aggressively promoted the drug. He made a fortune. Then the Phase 3 trial failed—and the stock collapsed 70% in a day.

The conditions on the USS Abraham Lincoln, which is stationed in the Middle East, are so poor that sailors have tried to jump overboard. Trump also gutted the VA, firing thousands of workers who are veterans themselves. Remember this when Trump and Republicans claim the mantle of patriotism.

Listen! In this heatwave we all must do our part to conserve power: unplug electronics and turn off lights, don’t run big appliances and set your AC to 78°. Listen: In this heatwave we must all do our part to conserve power: so the data centers can use it.

Yep. The fat friend Trump was talking about on Ozempic is himself. People keep saying he only has X amount of time left, but he isn’t living by normal rules. He’s a billionaire and the president. He gets healthcare and treatments the rest of us will never see. And here it is.

We have a veterinary emergency and I need your help. Catherine O’Hara’s right eye filled with blood ystdy. There’s too much blood. We can’t see what is going on. Tmrw am she sees the Eye Specialist in Salt Lake City Utah. You can help me help COH with a donation or a share: theherdhouse.com

Breaking News: The Supreme Court declined President Trump’s request to review a $5 million civil judgment against him after a jury found in 2023 that he sexually abused and defamed the writer E. Jean Carroll. nyti.ms/4oWpoH2

Quick 🧪 and law note. The SCOTUS decision in Slaughter today has *profound* implications for US science, cancer cures and the economy. Sotomayor dissent: “Put simply, today the majority reshapes our Government… shifting tremendous power over broad swaths of American life into the President’s hands”

In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court struck down a 91-year-old precedent that has prevented presidents from removing members of independent agencies meant to be a check on his power. n.pr/4biY5Rx

🚨 Israeli airstrikes have reportedly killed at least three people and wounded two others in southern Lebanon, according to Lebanese state media, just one day after the U.S. and Iran signed an interim agreement calling for an end to the war on all fronts, including Lebanon.

For more than half a century, Title X has been a bipartisan program to help women and men get contraception and reproductive health care, reducing unintended pregnancies and making America healthier. Now the Trump administration is gutting it.

NEW: Records obtained by ProPublica detail at least a dozen SpaceX investors with addresses in mainland China, Hong Kong or Russia who acquired stakes in SpaceX years ago through a middleman firm in the U.S. called Tomales Bay Capital.

As I typed the word “trillionaire” the program underlined it with a bright red line as if it refused to believe it was a real thing, and as I stared at that underlined word I sympathized, as I also wanted to refuse to believe it was a real thing.

Half of Silicon Valley is on TRT, peptides, and "longevity" stacks they openly post about while voting for politicians who ban gender-affirming care for trans teens. Same hormones. Same pharmacies. Different politics. Spot the pattern? #TransRightsAreHumanRights #Hypocrisy

This is damning. This was his main justification for the war.

"Time to turn the Epstein Files into Epstein trials." Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM)

There is no world in which this is okay.     Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito did not recuse himself from cases involving Trump’s Treasury Department while his own son was secretly working there as a political appointee and attorney. 🧵