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It was almost 60 last week. Then we got snow and it dropped down to the 20s. Tomorrow we get more snow. And the temps will be single digits overnight starting on Saturday night and into the early part of next week. Winter isn't giving up yet, not by a long shot.
Time to do garden planning. In the safety and warmth of my house....
The Trump administration has reversed cuts to grants for mental health and addiction treatment programs that were valued at nearly $2 billion.
Thousands of federal grants supporting the programs were suddenly terminated late Tuesday before sources confirmed to CBS News that the decision was reversed.
The abrupt cancellations at the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration would have impacted 2,706 of the agency's discretionary grants, a source familiar with the matter told CBS News.
President Trump's political appointees moved to terminate the funding, not career officials working for SAMHSA, according to the source.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-administration-cuts-grants-mental-health-addiction-treatment/
Bring out the clown car....
@Axtremus said in The disturbing true story of Peter Pan:
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30 day free trial of Hulu. You'd have to binge it!
I just do a search for the title of the article. Sometimes I get lucky and there's a non-paywall version on MSN or Yahoo.
Mr wtg tried two different statins and had the muscle pain (and other side effects). He switched to an OTC product with plant sterols and stanols (Cholestoff Plus) that isn't a statin but that does reduce cholesterol very nicely. Problem solved!
Here's a non-paywall version of the article:
Help may be on the way.
A new discovery may explain why so many people abandon cholesterol-lowering statins because of muscle pain and weakness. Researchers found that certain statins can latch onto a key muscle protein and trigger a tiny but harmful calcium leak inside muscle cells. That leak may weaken muscles directly or activate processes that slowly break them down, offering a long-sought explanation for statin-related aches.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/01/260114084122.htm
From Tangle. Scroll down to Today's Topic.
https://www.readtangle.com/the-latest-on-the-minnesota-fraud-somalia/?ref=tangle-newsletter
I found the whole discussion on the Minnesota fraud interesting, but this quote stood out.
One of the most consistent aspects of President Trump’s governing style is how his solution to a problem completely devours giving any attention to the root problem itself.
It’s Trump’s Big Game. It invigorates his supporters, it frustrates his opponents, and it confuses everyone else in between.
It starts with a real issue that has been publicly reported on but doesn’t gain purchase across the political spectrum (the way something like the Epstein files grabbed public attention). Then, a right-leaning outlet makes the issue a cause célèbre, adding in a healthy, editorialized dash of urgency. That story makes its way to President Trump, who takes the most divisive aspects of the narrative and dials them up to 11. Democrats get caught in a trap, decrying Trump’s response without acknowledging the problem, allowing Republicans to hammer them for not caring about the root issue. But is Trump’s solution addressing the root issue? Soon, that question becomes the main discussion; Trump’s solution trumps the problem, and now the thing we’re all talking about — again, seemingly unendingly — is Trump.
Trump always wins Trump’s Big Game — he dominates the news cycle and owns the narrative regardless of whether he’s solving the problem at the center of the media firestorm.
This pattern fits the Christmas Day strikes in Nigeria. It fits the administration’s capture of Maduro. It fits the National Guard deployments and DOGE and the war on universities and can even be drawn back to the singular issue that boosted him to the top of the Republican Primaries in 2015: the border wall.
You’re reading Tangle, so I’m preaching to the choir here, but I’m tired of playing Trump’s Big Game.
Today, let’s see what happens when we decide not to play it.
Hell, you could buy a new one.
Thomas “TJ” Sabula is asking people to please stop sending money.
The UAW member, suspended from his job by Ford Motor Co. after he shouted “pedophile protector” at President Trump during a factory tour in Dearborn on Tuesday, said he is grateful for overwhelming public support and now asks that people send their money to other deserving causes.
Fundraising on his behalf collected $810,000 from Tuesday through Wednesday.
“We greatly appreciate the outpouring of support! At this time we are closing donations to this campaign and encourage you to look for other causes and organizations to support,” said a note at the bottom of both original GoFundMe pages. “We appreciate every single donation, comment, share, and sign of support!”
https://phoebewallhoward.substack.com/p/ford-worker-pauses-gofundme-campaign
New Yorker profile on Rubio.
