WTF-Beta

Looks yummy

New England states are exploring banding together to do something similar

The Defender

@wtg

@wtg my doctor has been saying the same for a few years. I've been getting them anyway. I'm pretty close to the age barrier.

Mock

Just finished the first season of A Man on the Inside on Netflix with Ted Danson and Stephanie Beatriz. I think they absolutely nailed the senior living experience based on the six weeks I spent living at my stepmothers place after she passed away last year.

@Steve-Miller @wtg ours too!

Awesome

Scathing resignation letter from Director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Demetre C. Daskalakis MD MPH (he/his/him)

https://x.com/dr_demetre/status/1960843433473376602

Better link for those who won't do Twitter, also includes other resignation letters from the exodus at CDC today
https://open.substack.com/pub/insidemedicine/p/breaking-news-read-three-top-cdc?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

From Mark Zaid on Bluesky:
Abbe Lowell and I represent CDC Director #SusanMonarez. Contrary to govt statements, Dr. Monarez has neither resigned nor yet been fired. She will not resign.)

more from The Guardian

It's horrifying. And getting worse and it's happening everywhere. So when it's in my neighborhood it seems even more real.

Shingrix and RSV vaccines may protect against dementia

Large US Study published this summer in npj Vaccines seems to confirm earlier findings last year about the Shingrix vaccine.

NPR angled the headline slightly differently
Trump seeks to fire Fed governor Lisa Cook

Local green card holder, mother, US resident for 33 years, with health issues, is "arrested" at Boston's Logan airport after a family vacation to Mexico, hospitalized twice, detained for 10 days with no information given to her family and is finally released on her own after dark and in the rain with no phone at an ICE office near me.

Border Patrol Agent told husband, "if she dies we'll notify her next of kin."

Story at masslive.com

Fun and easy. Makes me feel smart and also that I'm not wasting too much time...

Nice. The tradition continues.

Started and finished it over the weekend--another hit from @Mary-Anna !

@wtg: +Franciscan dishes for @Mary-Anna , me and @lilylady .

According to Stephen Miller, they're the only DC protesters.

His rant starts at 1:45 ish. Audio is bad because of the protesters in the background

In contrast to Miller's characterization, here's a diverse group of DC resident protesters that ran ICE out of their neighborhood:

Native wild senna

It's gone, well, wild this year!