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Retired physician. Wigging out about waning immunity, US autocracy and CO2 levels. https://jenniferbrokaw.substack.com/

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The biggest drawback of driverless cars Driverless cars could save thousands of lives. They might also break our cities.

"Incorporating evidence from 26 studies on AVs’ impacts on the flow of car traffic, researchers find that a future where driverless cars become widespread is likely to increase the total number of miles traveled by vehicles in the US by around 5.95 percent." www.vox.com/future-perfe...

06.03.2026 23:21 👍 103 🔁 31 💬 18 📌 2

This doctor concurs.😕

06.03.2026 23:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Picture of downtown San Francisco from Sutro Forest with tree trunks in the foreground

Picture of downtown San Francisco from Sutro Forest with tree trunks in the foreground

Greetings from Sutro Forest in San Francisco. #morninghike

06.03.2026 17:32 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

One of the very best writers there ever was🥰

06.03.2026 13:44 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s Son Emerges as Leading Choice to Be His Successor

Hard-line like his father, almost 30 years younger, and undoubtedly out to avenge the deaths of his parents, wife and son in the attack. Anyone feel safer? 😳
#Iran

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/w...

04.03.2026 00:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

My father was a WH Correspondent during Watergate. When the WHC Dinner became a thing, he kept saying: “Bad idea. Very bad idea.”

03.03.2026 01:00 👍 14 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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The sharp divide on Betty Yee’s gubernatorial run Betty Yee has consistently polled in the low single digits. But at the state Democratic Party convention, she garnered an impressive 17% of the delegates’ support.

Trying to get something started here. #CAGov #BettyYee
sfstandard.com/2026/03/02/b...

02.03.2026 15:51 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

😞

02.03.2026 13:27 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Behold🙌🏼

01.03.2026 19:18 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Gov Moore is a good one to follow.

28.02.2026 20:58 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

there are a lot of people working in the government right now who want to intentionally trigger an apocalypse to create the conditions for the return of jesus christ and I know how crazy that sounds but its absolutely true

28.02.2026 11:54 👍 10142 🔁 2586 💬 320 📌 396
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The SAVE Act is built to trip women up. About 69 million married women have names that do not match their birth certificates, and this bill turns that paperwork into a weapon against their voice.

Screw the patriarchy. #SaveActTaxesYourVote

28.02.2026 00:51 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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Brighton Beach Memories: Neil Sedaka Sings Yiddish by Neil Sedaka on Apple Music Album · 2003 · 13 Songs

How cool it was that Neil Sedaka released an album of Yiddish songs? So many entertainers try to hide their Jewish identity, but in his later career, Neil leaned in. 🥰

music.apple.com/us/album/bri...

28.02.2026 01:02 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I love the insight that eliminating business and first class would also discourage non-essential business travel🙌🏼

24.02.2026 07:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

🥰

20.02.2026 00:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Getting shown up in the arena of elite impunity by *the British monarchy* is an incredible “America at 250!” achievement

19.02.2026 12:20 👍 13448 🔁 3451 💬 128 📌 126
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Opinion | One Man Stole $660 Million. He’ll Never Pay It Back.

More pieces like THIS:

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/o...

19.02.2026 13:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Also, the commentators gush over the skater’s performances before they start nitpicking them to death…like the judges😑 No, thank you! They’re all amazing.

17.02.2026 22:02 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I absolutely could not survive as a parent of a competitive performance athlete. They’d have to take me out on a stretcher every time. #WinterOlympics

17.02.2026 21:57 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

😖

17.02.2026 21:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Incredible.

17.02.2026 16:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Update from
SF Chron:
“This cold storm[…]will bring a chance of snow to local peaks, along with downpours, gusty winds and small hail in some places. Hail isn't common in the Bay Area but the air mass moving over the region today is forecast to be the coldest in three years”🥶

17.02.2026 16:50 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

HOW??!!

17.02.2026 16:46 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Quote from Rev Jesse Jackson: When everyone is included, everyone wins

Quote from Rev Jesse Jackson: When everyone is included, everyone wins

17.02.2026 14:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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a greeting card for the year of the horse 2026 ALT: a greeting card for the year of the horse 2026

xīn nián kuài lè!

新年好

17.02.2026 02:46 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Boo Radley and Gus McRae will live forever though.😢

16.02.2026 18:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Afraid to go outside? You're not alone Increasingly, we are becoming less comfortable in wild spaces. Scientists tracking the rise of nature anxiety, or biophobia, have some ideas on how to reconnect without feeling overwhelmed.

Many humans no longer have everyday contact with nature
And are actually afraid to visit nature outside

No wonder they care little that nature is being obliterated

But without nature they will struggle to exist

www.dw.com/en/lack-of-o...

16.02.2026 12:05 👍 46 🔁 20 💬 4 📌 2

Democracy is when voters choose their leaders. Autocracy is when leaders choose their voters.

14.02.2026 15:33 👍 9441 🔁 3385 💬 283 📌 107
"Moderna's CEO announced the company will no longer invest in new Phase 3 vaccine trials for infectious diseases: 'You cannot make a return on investment if you don't have access to the U.S. market. Vaccines for Epstein-Barr virus, herpes, and shingles have been shelved.”
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Feb 12, 2026
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"Moderna's CEO announced the company will no longer invest in new Phase 3 vaccine trials for infectious diseases: 'You cannot make a return on investment if you don't have access to the U.S. market. Vaccines for Epstein-Barr virus, herpes, and shingles have been shelved.” 9:12 AM Feb 12, 2026 604.8K Views

In terms of what cures are being lost:

- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease

13.02.2026 05:44 👍 12542 🔁 6208 💬 444 📌 785

Say it loud, Mr. President.

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