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Removing race from kidney function algorithm helped more Black patients access transplants Removing race from the eGFR had a big impact, resulting in 5.3 more kidney transplants per 1000 Black candidates.

“A new study found the change had big results, impacting 27% of Black patients and resulting in 5.3 more transplants per 1000 Black candidates.”

11.03.2026 13:38 👍 155 🔁 77 💬 0 📌 6
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Your car’s tire sensors could be used to track you - IMDEA Networks Researchers at IMDEA Networks Institute, together with European partners, have found that tire pressure sensors in modern cars can unintentionally expose drivers to tracking. Over a ten-week study, th...

This is not the dystopia I was promised in movies from the 60s and 70s

networks.imdea.org/your-cars-ti...

25.02.2026 18:24 👍 188 🔁 56 💬 22 📌 12

Settings, content & media, following feeds - is the menu to turn off reposts and quote posts in your following feed.

17.02.2026 16:56 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I have seen a couple bot posts with the hashtag because it's trending.

15.02.2026 22:15 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Text that says “P4millionA" “we’re here because” over an underwater background featuring the P4A play button and heart mascots snorkeling amongst colorful fish.

Text that says “P4millionA" “we’re here because” over an underwater background featuring the P4A play button and heart mascots snorkeling amongst colorful fish.

THANK YOU to everyone who participated in P4A this year, which surpassed $4 MILLION RAISED!

The livestream is over, but there’s still time to donate and vote for the charities you care about.

projectforawesome.com

15.02.2026 17:12 👍 240 🔁 77 💬 5 📌 10
Project for Awesome 2026 part 5!
Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! YouTube video by vlogbrothers

It's The End Of The Project For Awesome!! YOu HaVE To JoIN US!!!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYLH...

15.02.2026 15:19 👍 523 🔁 183 💬 23 📌 24
Project for Awesome Join the annual charity drive to decrease worldsuck.

projectforawesome.com #p4A2027 #p4A2026 #p4A

15.02.2026 15:22 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Key Voter Messages — Receiving and Returning Ballot Mail

Individuals who opt to vote by mail must understand their local jurisdiction’s rules and requirements for participating in an election, including rules and deadlines concerning the timely submission of ballots. Voters can contact their local election office for questions about processes and policies specific to their state. Voters can find their state and local election offices here: usa.gov/state-election-office.

The Postal Service’s mailing recommendations for voters include the following:

- In jurisdictions that require eligible voters to request a ballot in order to receive one through the mail, we recommend that domestic, non-military voters request their ballot as early as their jurisdiction allows. Not all jurisdictions require eligible voters to request a ballot in order to receive one; check your local and state voting requirements.

- For domestic, non-military voters who choose to use the mail to return their completed ballot, the general recommendation of the Postal Service is that they mail their completed ballot before Election Day, and at least 1 week before the deadline by which their completed ballot must be received by the election office. Some states may recommend allowing even more time for mailing completed ballots. In addition, some states require all ballots (including mail-in ballots) to be received by the election office by a specified deadline, while other states may accept ballots received after that deadline as timely if they were mailed and postmarked by a specific date.

- Voters must keep in mind the time required for both legs of mail delivery — to the voter and back to election office — when deciding how to participate in an election.

Key Voter Messages — Receiving and Returning Ballot Mail Individuals who opt to vote by mail must understand their local jurisdiction’s rules and requirements for participating in an election, including rules and deadlines concerning the timely submission of ballots. Voters can contact their local election office for questions about processes and policies specific to their state. Voters can find their state and local election offices here: usa.gov/state-election-office. The Postal Service’s mailing recommendations for voters include the following: - In jurisdictions that require eligible voters to request a ballot in order to receive one through the mail, we recommend that domestic, non-military voters request their ballot as early as their jurisdiction allows. Not all jurisdictions require eligible voters to request a ballot in order to receive one; check your local and state voting requirements. - For domestic, non-military voters who choose to use the mail to return their completed ballot, the general recommendation of the Postal Service is that they mail their completed ballot before Election Day, and at least 1 week before the deadline by which their completed ballot must be received by the election office. Some states may recommend allowing even more time for mailing completed ballots. In addition, some states require all ballots (including mail-in ballots) to be received by the election office by a specified deadline, while other states may accept ballots received after that deadline as timely if they were mailed and postmarked by a specific date. - Voters must keep in mind the time required for both legs of mail delivery — to the voter and back to election office — when deciding how to participate in an election.

Additional Voter Messages on Postmarks for Return Ballot Mail

- Each state establishes by law the rules and requirements for ballot submission, including submission deadlines and the role, if any, that postmarks play in determining whether a ballot was timely.

- The Postal Service does not postmark or “cancel” every piece of mail in the system. The primary purpose of cancellation is to ensure that postage cannot be reused, and some categories of postage are pre-canceled before they enter the mailstream.

- However, the Postal Service tries to ensure that every piece of Ballot Mail returned by voters receives a postmark, regardless of whether it is mailed with postage pre-paid by election officials or with a stamp affixed by the voter.

- While we instruct our employees throughout the country on this practice, we acknowledge that there will always be rare occurrences where a mailpiece does not receive a legible postmark. Election officials are advised that the use of automation-compatible, letter-sized envelopes increases the likelihood that a mailpiece will receive a legible postmark.

- Also, while our postmarking practices have not changed, we have made adjustments to our transportation operations that will result in some mailpieces not arriving at our originating processing facilities on the same day that they are mailed. Because postmarks are generally applied at those processing facilities, this means that the date on the postmarks applied at those facilities may not necessarily match the date of mailing.

- A voter can ensure that a postmark is applied to his or her return Ballot Mail envelope, and that the date on the postmark matches the date of mailing, by visiting a Postal Service retail location and requesting a manual postmark at the retail counter when dropping off the ballot for mailing. When asked, the retail associate will apply a manual postmark free of charge upon accepting custody of the mailpiece.

- As of December 2025, the Postal Service adde…

Additional Voter Messages on Postmarks for Return Ballot Mail - Each state establishes by law the rules and requirements for ballot submission, including submission deadlines and the role, if any, that postmarks play in determining whether a ballot was timely. - The Postal Service does not postmark or “cancel” every piece of mail in the system. The primary purpose of cancellation is to ensure that postage cannot be reused, and some categories of postage are pre-canceled before they enter the mailstream. - However, the Postal Service tries to ensure that every piece of Ballot Mail returned by voters receives a postmark, regardless of whether it is mailed with postage pre-paid by election officials or with a stamp affixed by the voter. - While we instruct our employees throughout the country on this practice, we acknowledge that there will always be rare occurrences where a mailpiece does not receive a legible postmark. Election officials are advised that the use of automation-compatible, letter-sized envelopes increases the likelihood that a mailpiece will receive a legible postmark. - Also, while our postmarking practices have not changed, we have made adjustments to our transportation operations that will result in some mailpieces not arriving at our originating processing facilities on the same day that they are mailed. Because postmarks are generally applied at those processing facilities, this means that the date on the postmarks applied at those facilities may not necessarily match the date of mailing. - A voter can ensure that a postmark is applied to his or her return Ballot Mail envelope, and that the date on the postmark matches the date of mailing, by visiting a Postal Service retail location and requesting a manual postmark at the retail counter when dropping off the ballot for mailing. When asked, the retail associate will apply a manual postmark free of charge upon accepting custody of the mailpiece. - As of December 2025, the Postal Service adde…

NEW: The U.S. Postal Service has released its 2026 election mail guide for USPS employees
about.usps.com/postal-bulle...

22.01.2026 16:01 👍 19 🔁 15 💬 1 📌 1

A is most well rounded, but all have nice touches.

02.01.2026 03:20 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
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Your ballot or other mail may not get postmarked by USPS the day it's dropped off Close to a deadline for mailing your ballot, tax return or legal document? To make sure it gets a postmark on time under the latest USPS changes, you may want to send it early or visit a post office.

Your mail may take a day or two to be postmarked under new Post Office procedures - if your ballot, taxes, or payments require certain date postmarks get it from a postal employee to be sure.

www.npr.org/2025/10/23/n...

30.12.2025 03:34 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Sepia photograph featuring a woman standing against a wall wearing a long patterned dress with hands classed in front of her looking outwards with head tilted slightly to the left

Sepia photograph featuring a woman standing against a wall wearing a long patterned dress with hands classed in front of her looking outwards with head tilted slightly to the left

“Well, I hope that if you are out there and read this and know that, yes, it’s true I’m here, and I’m just as strange as you.”
- Frida Kahlo
#Womensart

29.12.2025 08:17 👍 651 🔁 107 💬 0 📌 3

I love that each review mentioned different episodes. It was such a strong season. Looking forward to season 8!

17.12.2025 22:03 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Hank Green: Pissing Out Cancer | Full Comedy Special
Hank Green: Pissing Out Cancer | Full Comedy Special YouTube video by Hank Green

Pissing Out Cancer, my comedy special produced by and formerly exclusively on Dropout.tv is now available for free and in full on YouTube.

Thank you so much to Dropout for being chill and letting me write this into my contract!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh5G...

11.12.2025 19:41 👍 2016 🔁 287 💬 38 📌 40

The state of Florida is still holding immigrants in cruel conditions unaccountably. www.amnestyusa.org/wp-content/u...

11.12.2025 17:15 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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John and Hank Green’s vlog is a multimillion-dollar philanthropy machine How The Fault in Our Stars author and his brother built a powerful forum for change

www.ft.com/content/9d79...

11.12.2025 14:57 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Footprint, but it does seem like a lot of work and clean up for you. My in-laws gave everyone framed marker scribble from the toddler as gifts one year.

09.12.2025 18:02 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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HHS changed the name of transgender health leader on her official portrait Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered.

Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered. n.pr/48HypvT

05.12.2025 22:50 👍 2843 🔁 1082 💬 328 📌 687
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RFK Jr.’s CDC panel: No more hepatitis B vaccine for some newborns The CDC's vaccine advisory panel, stocked with anti-vaccine activists and loyalists to RFK Jr., voted Friday to stop recommending a birth dose of vaccine.

Kennedy's zombie ACIP panel just voted to restrict hepatitis B vaccine for newborns. Experts say it will harm children for no reason. www.ms.now/news/rfk-cdc...

ACIP member Dr. Cody Meissner:

"'Do no harm' is a moral imperative. We are doing harm by changing this wording. And I vote no."

05.12.2025 15:36 👍 1852 🔁 816 💬 129 📌 138
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ACIP votes to abandon universal hepatitis B vaccination for newborns Vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are meeting today on what could be a major change to the childhood vaccination schedule. Follow here for live updates.

ACIP votes to end universal HBV birth dose for newborns. The consequence? Prepare to see a reversal of our rates of chronic liver disease and liver cancer as more children are left unprotected.

The birth dose has an up to 90% efficacy rate of protecting newborns from Hep B, which is incurable.

05.12.2025 15:55 👍 161 🔁 73 💬 15 📌 10
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Trans woman still waiting for answers in DeKalb County library police incident Sasha Swinson Sasha Swinson has not stopped visiting Tucker-Reid H. Cofer Library, nor has she changed her choice of restroom there since a terse exchange with an officer led to multiple local stories about her and an internal investigation. In October, the Brookhaven trans woman says she was misgendered and verbally accosted by a DeKalb County police officer who was on duty at the library for early voting. The officer, whom the DeKalb County Police Department has not publicly identified, is now under an internal investigation as a result of the incident.

Trans woman still waiting for answers in DeKalb County library police incident

Sasha Swinson Sasha Swinson has not stopped visiting Tucker-Reid H. Cofer Library, nor has she changed her choice of restroom there since a terse exchange with an officer led to multiple local stories about her and an…

04.12.2025 13:58 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

I like to swirl peanut butter in my vanilla yogurt.

04.12.2025 15:48 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Graphic with three lit candles against a softly blurred background of stained-glass colors. Large white text reads ‘Transgender Day of Remembrance’ and ‘Honoring Those We’ve Lost.’ The Lambda Legal logo appears at the bottom.

Graphic with three lit candles against a softly blurred background of stained-glass colors. Large white text reads ‘Transgender Day of Remembrance’ and ‘Honoring Those We’ve Lost.’ The Lambda Legal logo appears at the bottom.

TDOR is not just about remembrance.

It's a call to action to interrogate + dismantle oppressive systems that perpetuate this violence, which disproportionately impacts Black trans women. Today and every day, we recommit ourselves to fighting for a world in which all TGNCNBI people can thrive.

20.11.2025 17:04 👍 40 🔁 30 💬 1 📌 0
Text that says “Project for Awesome, February 13th-15th, 2026" over an underwater background featuring the P4A play button mascot swimming near a squid and many colorful fish.

Text that says “Project for Awesome, February 13th-15th, 2026" over an underwater background featuring the P4A play button mascot swimming near a squid and many colorful fish.

We can't wait to dive into P4A!

The Project for Awesome 2026 livestream will be February 13th-15th! #P4A2026

13.11.2025 18:08 👍 120 🔁 17 💬 0 📌 12
Why You Shouldn’t Trust Confident People
Why You Shouldn’t Trust Confident People YouTube video by Veritasium

Why You Shouldn’t Trust Confident People - Our latest video, out now on YouTube!
youtu.be/9M_QK4stCJU

13.11.2025 10:03 👍 53 🔁 13 💬 3 📌 1
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Maintenance Phase

So thrilled that Maintenance Phase pod covered "swill milik!"
Nothing I drink should be able to give me tuberculosis.
Thanks @yrfatfriend.bsky.social & @michaelhobbes.bsky.social !
www.maintenancephase.com

13.11.2025 17:01 👍 177 🔁 12 💬 4 📌 2
The FAA, under the Trump administration, is limiting the number of flights that can be made to and from the nation's largest airports, in order to pressure Democratic congresspeople to capitulate to the Republican demands to end the government shutdown. The goal is not safety, it is suffering.

This had better not get expensive. @mmasnick.bsky.social

www.trumpcancelledmyflight.com

07.11.2025 22:17 👍 210 🔁 71 💬 11 📌 5
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White Parents Rallied to Chase a Black Educator Out of Town. Then, They Followed Her to the Next One. Cecelia Lewis was asked to apply for a Georgia school district’s first-ever administrator job devoted to diversity, equity and inclusion. A group of parents — coached by local and national anti-CRT gr...

An anti-CRT movement targeted an accomplished educator — driving her out of two Georgia school districts.

The mission began inside a golf community clubhouse on a Sunday afternoon, where parents were coached on how to land a Fox News appearance.

(Published June 2022)
By @nicolefcarr.bsky.social

04.11.2025 01:00 👍 438 🔁 189 💬 19 📌 16

You may be able to appeal their denial. NPR had good info: www.npr.org/2025/08/21/n...

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State election panel recommends ending no-excuse absentee voting in Georgia  The Georgia State Election Board voted to recommend that the state Legislature end no-excuse absentee voting at a Wednesday meeting. Maya Homan/Georgia Recorder When Georgia’s State Election Board considered a proposal to recommend that state lawmakers ban no-excuse absentee voting early last year, the Republican-dominated body shot it down, with then-newly appointed Chair John Fervier casting the deciding vote. But in a Wednesday meeting in Atlanta, a trio of Trump-aligned board members successfully approved a similar proposal in a narrow 3-2 vote. The board will now officially recommend that the state Legislature end a practice that was adopted in Georgia back…

State election panel recommends ending no-excuse absentee voting in Georgia

 The Georgia State Election Board voted to recommend that the state Legislature end no-excuse absentee voting at a Wednesday meeting. Maya Homan/Georgia Recorder When Georgia’s State Election Board considered a proposal to…

23.10.2025 13:54 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1

Thanks for sharing, it was a good rabbit hole.

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