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Based.

I'm glad somebody in government is saying it explicitly without mincing words.

Someone over on bluesky posted this and I figured I'd better repost it here. It's the pre-RFK 2025 vaccination schedule for babies and young children, ya know, just in case it mysteriously disappears. Save this and give it to your child's pediatrician; tell them this is the schedule you want your child on.

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I got my (now 18-year-old) daughter into Ao3 back in 2021. I taught her she should always comment - even if the fic looks old or abandoned or whatever. She did.

Well - she got this email this morning:

The fic was written in 2014 and essentially abandoned.

Bethy read and reviewed in 2021 (and was actually the only person who had commented at all).

Today in 2025 - the final chapter was posted by the author and this was her reply to Bethy’s comment.

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You will be much less likely to know from now on during the early days if we have something like the current rising bird flu epidemic. You will be less likely to know about any illness epidemics. Even once things are confirmed and being reported in some media outlets, there's a non-zero chance that you are not going to see any urgency or any communication at all from places you are used to.

For the love of little green apples, please start masking again. Please be more careful with your health then you have been over the last 4 years.

A lot of environmental damage is reversible if we act. We’ve got a lot of success stories like this actually. A lot of formerly endangered species have come back, fish have returned to American rivers, the ozone layer is being restored.

Yes, there were a lot of episodes where he became involved with women, but many of those never got to the bedroom or even a convenient pile of hay in a barn. IIRC, at least 2 of them he married and they then died.

They introduced a bill to repeal the entire Inflation Reduction Act.

Which, among other things, means they want to get rid of:

the $35 insulin cap.

And a yearly cap of $2,000 for medications in Medicare Part D.

And allowing Medicare to negotiate for drug prices.

And requiring pharma companies to issue refunds to Medicare if the costs of their drugs rises faster than inflation

And an elimination of copays in Medicare Part D for vaccines like tetanus and rabies

And an expansion of eligibility for low-income subsidies for Medicare

This is what other people voted for.

Seren in Snow. From my space opera series A DISTANT SOIL. Pencil.

I know I've been really quiet lately, but my thyroid has gone off the rails, and I am so tired I can barely keep my head up. Which is what happens when your thyroid goes off, you don't have to do anything to feel tired, you just want to sleep 14 hours a day.

I have to finish a big project and make major lifestyle changes. Hope to be more lively in the coming year, but priorities for now.

Briana Boston is a 42 year old mother of three from Florida who is under house arrest for expressing her frustration at her insurance (which she PAYS for) who denied her claim. She owns ZERO guns and doesn't have a criminal record.

She was originally held in prison for $100,000 bail. They have not dropped the charges and she is under house arrest even after widespread backlash.

They are trying to charge her with terrorism. They want her to spend 15 years in prison.

They are calling her a Luigi Mangione copycat. As if she killed someone. She made a indirect, not at all credible threat.

Meanwhile...

"FREE LUIGI

Deny Defend Depose

EAT THE CEOs"