Larry Lynam

The United States, 1819-present:

I’m an NIH whistleblower. The scientific community cannot afford to avoid politics “Scientists are often encouraged to avoid politics. But this advice is outdated, if it was ever correct in the first place,” writes Jenna Norton, NIH whistleblower.

Thoughtful piece here about the debated connection between politics and science... 🛟😷 medsky sociology polisky health policy 🧭

"could cause reputational damage"

Yes, they SHOULD

Based on his comments about Black Americans, inner city residents, immigrants and Muslims, Tuberville hates about 60% of the Alabamians he wants to govern.

OMG. Please tell me this is not real but the fact 8 and 9 on his list are adjacent to each other is a real tell.

How a Decades-Old Loophole Lets Billionaires Avoid Medicare Taxes Some of Wall Street’s richest and most powerful figures are using a legal loophole to avoid paying millions of dollars in taxes earmarked for health care, a ProPublica investigation found.

Billionaires are using a loophole to avoid Medicare taxes.

Closing it — and eliminating other ways around the tax for wealthy business owners — could raise more than $250 billion over 10 years for the program.

(Published Dec. 2024)

To be clear, these are conservationists doing bear workups and den checkups to check a bear's health and see how the population is doing, not a photo of a bear after being trapped by hunters or killed.

One of the pleasures of working for @statesnewsroom.com is working with a damn good DC Bureau.

Texas Private Schools Hire Relatives and Enrich Insiders. Soon They Can Do It With Taxpayer Money. An investigation by ProPublica and The Texas Tribune found more than 60 instances of nepotism, self-dealing and conflicts of interest among 27 private schools that likely would have violated state law...

An investigation by ProPublica and @texastribune.org found more than 60 instances of nepotism, self-dealing and conflicts of interest among 27 private schools that likely would have violated state laws had the schools been public.

(Published Aug. 2025)

An excellent summary of how DOJ & DHS are keeping the ‘stolen election’ conspiracy alive and how Mayes, Fontes and Hobbs are pushing back.

Just trying to keep neurons firing and creating more synapses. I had my Spanish fairly conversational in the 80s, my Dutch passable in the 90s but life got in the way and that all slid to the side. I’m starting to tease out some Spanish memories so maybe I am doing myself some good.

Restraint my friend, restraint. I still had my Spanish class to get through last night. In keeping with the recurring theme, “No fue mi mejor noche”.

I’m getting serious about getting my Spanish conversational again, I feel like I need to be prepared in case the madness keeps expanding.

I chose the second remedy. I had to open a very nice white wine to put a 1/2 cup in that hideous dish. We polished off the bottle. 😀

I’m going to embrace that. Thank you.😀

Thanks Chris. I’m hopeful for tomorrow, but slightly less than optimistic. 😀😀

Thanks, it’s all first world problems but it still sucks. 🤣🤣🤣

Stay safe!

The first thing that went wrong was in now had extra liquid and boiled over into the oven.

I finally got it cooked and it just looked gray. I added more salt and pepper. We sat down to eat it, I added Tabasco sauce. It was only barely edible. Unredeemable.

I should have just stopped, called it a day and ordered take away. But no I decided to tweak it up. Recipe called for white wine, heavy cream and broth. I had some tamarind chipotle sauce from the weekend, I added that. Added extra spices.

I am a very decent home cook but tonight I screwed up dinner so badly I am ashamed. I was making a sausage and rice casserole from a recipe I got off America’s Test Kitchen.

Just as I prepared to start browning the sausage I realized it wasn’t sausage. I had grabbed a package of ground pork.

It looks like my shitty day continues. Geek squad estimates it will be about 3 hours to get my computer all restored.

Meanwhile I completely screwed up dinner. This day. I swear it is an abomination.

Posted via the National World War II Museum in New Orleans, LA. Real life "Rosie the Riveters" visiting their museum today.

Too good not to share here - #HistorySky + #WomensHistoryMonth.

I have such a love hate relationship with them. They are cute even though they are destructive in our yard. I try to co-exist with them as best I can.

UPDATE: Trump says Kushner helped convince him to go to war with Iran The disclosure highlights Kushner's massive financial conflicts.

Did Donnie Despot decide to get setting up Jerkoff Jared to take the fall for the Iranian fiasco because Jared's shtupping the woman he lusts after (aka Ivanka)?
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OMG. Well it is official. I have had a day as annoying as fuck. 30 mins of my life lost to CVS nonsense. Then I opened an email from a friend that turned out to be a hacker. I changed my Gmail passsord immediately and now I cannot get Gmail on my iphone, iPad and PC.

What an idiotic fool. The only people more idiotic are those disgusting fools in his backdrop.

Ivana Trump was unavailable for comment regarding stair falls