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Tara Moriarty retweeted
If they dared, biohacking bros who seek to defy aging could try a simple, time-tested method: castration.
Removing the testicles extends male life span across many mammalian species, including humans. But a research team exploring this effect has now found the surgical procedure ormed early in life to boost longevity, as scientists had assumed.
In a new preprint, the group reports that neutering older male mice lengthens their lives by more than 30%, upending prevailing ideas of how the testes influence aging.
Learn more: scim.ag/4zs7KPX @NewsfromScience
Removing the testicles extends male life span across many mammalian species, including humans. But a research team exploring this effect has now found the surgical procedure ormed early in life to boost longevity, as scientists had assumed.
In a new preprint, the group reports that neutering older male mice lengthens their lives by more than 30%, upending prevailing ideas of how the testes influence aging.
Learn more: scim.ag/4zs7KPX @NewsfromScience
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Tara Moriarty retweeted
I have been holding my tongue about something that happened during the Ohio gubernatorial race. I refused to speak while the election was underway because I did not want my words mistaken for an attempt to influence anyone’s vote.
But now that the election is over, I have nearly twenty years, my ministry has taken me among the homeless, the abused, the exploited, and the forgotten. I have sat with victims of sexual violence and witnessed the lifelong wounds of childhood trauma.
What Vivek Ramaswamy’s campaign did to Amy Acton was among the most morally repulsive things I have witnessed in American politics.
They took a woman whose stepfather was indicted for raping her when she was twelve years old and featured her mother, from whom she had been estranged for nearly fifty years, in a political advertisement attacking her credibility.
The advertisement challenged Acton’s account of her childhood without mentioning the sexual abuse allegations or the circumstances of that estrangement. When people expressed their horror, the campaign defended it.
Imagine examining another person’s childhood suffering and fractured family relationships, then deciding those wounds might help win an election.
Anyone who has worked with survivors of childhood sexual abuse understands the painful realities of denial, betrayal, shame, and estrangement. A child growing into a successful adult does not erase what happened. Nor does a parent’s denial make that suffering disappear.
I find it equally disturbing that an elderly mother, whom Acton herself described as unwell, was brought into this spectacle. Whatever her own struggles or responsibility for the past, exploiting that fractured relationship was grotesque.
To everyone who defended this, consider the message you sent to survivors. To the young woman whose family refuses to believe her. To the man who has carried the shame of childhood abuse for forty years. To the frightened child who has yet to tell anyone.
What did you teach them about the value of their suffering?
I am a priest. I believe in repentance, forgiveness, and redemption. But none of those things requires me to pretend that deliberate cruelty is anything less than a grave moral failure.
Your political allegiance does not absolve you of moral responsibility. You do not get to set aside your conscience during an election and retrieve it afterward.
If your loyalty requires you to defend the exploitation of a childhood sexual abuse survivor, your loyalty has become an idol. And if your conscience cannot recognize the wrong here, examine what political tribalism has done to it.
This is not about Republicans or Democrats. We have a choice as a people: continue excusing cruelty from our preferred political camp, or summon the courage to condemn it wherever it appears.
Amy Acton deserved better. Every survivor who watched this unfold deserved better.
And God help us if we have reached the point where winning an election matters more than protecting the dignity of a wounded human being.
But now that the election is over, I have nearly twenty years, my ministry has taken me among the homeless, the abused, the exploited, and the forgotten. I have sat with victims of sexual violence and witnessed the lifelong wounds of childhood trauma.
What Vivek Ramaswamy’s campaign did to Amy Acton was among the most morally repulsive things I have witnessed in American politics.
They took a woman whose stepfather was indicted for raping her when she was twelve years old and featured her mother, from whom she had been estranged for nearly fifty years, in a political advertisement attacking her credibility.
The advertisement challenged Acton’s account of her childhood without mentioning the sexual abuse allegations or the circumstances of that estrangement. When people expressed their horror, the campaign defended it.
Imagine examining another person’s childhood suffering and fractured family relationships, then deciding those wounds might help win an election.
Anyone who has worked with survivors of childhood sexual abuse understands the painful realities of denial, betrayal, shame, and estrangement. A child growing into a successful adult does not erase what happened. Nor does a parent’s denial make that suffering disappear.
I find it equally disturbing that an elderly mother, whom Acton herself described as unwell, was brought into this spectacle. Whatever her own struggles or responsibility for the past, exploiting that fractured relationship was grotesque.
To everyone who defended this, consider the message you sent to survivors. To the young woman whose family refuses to believe her. To the man who has carried the shame of childhood abuse for forty years. To the frightened child who has yet to tell anyone.
What did you teach them about the value of their suffering?
I am a priest. I believe in repentance, forgiveness, and redemption. But none of those things requires me to pretend that deliberate cruelty is anything less than a grave moral failure.
Your political allegiance does not absolve you of moral responsibility. You do not get to set aside your conscience during an election and retrieve it afterward.
If your loyalty requires you to defend the exploitation of a childhood sexual abuse survivor, your loyalty has become an idol. And if your conscience cannot recognize the wrong here, examine what political tribalism has done to it.
This is not about Republicans or Democrats. We have a choice as a people: continue excusing cruelty from our preferred political camp, or summon the courage to condemn it wherever it appears.
Amy Acton deserved better. Every survivor who watched this unfold deserved better.
And God help us if we have reached the point where winning an election matters more than protecting the dignity of a wounded human being.
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Tara Moriarty retweeted
Time to end this pointless trade war with Canada and LOWER COSTS! 🇺🇸🇨🇦
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Tara Moriarty retweeted
39 ans Jon Ossoff
42 ans Abdul El-Sayed
37 ans James Talarico
46 ans Annie Andrews
47 ans Josh Turek
43 ans Scott Colom
46 ans Chris Pappas
52 ans Gina Hinojosa
…
49 ans Paul St-Pierre Plamondon
Tout un changement de génération depuis 1 mois ! #polqc
42 ans Abdul El-Sayed
37 ans James Talarico
46 ans Annie Andrews
47 ans Josh Turek
43 ans Scott Colom
46 ans Chris Pappas
52 ans Gina Hinojosa
…
49 ans Paul St-Pierre Plamondon
Tout un changement de génération depuis 1 mois ! #polqc
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Tara Moriarty retweeted
Per Sharia law, all meals at the Cheesecake Factory must now begin with a land acknowledgement.
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Tara Moriarty retweeted
I hope the corporate Democrats don’t snatch defeat from the jaws of victory and chicken out of doing better for Americans, starting with health care for all
There is widespread confusion among Democrats this morning, after they accidentally won the US midterms despite their best efforts to lose. They now face their worst nightmare: enthused voters who actually expect something from them.
They are weighing up whether to condemn James ayed for giving people false hope, or pretend to be just like them. Perhaps the smart move will be to take the credit, just like that kid who pushes a train in that meme. Whichever way they go, there’s no denying this is awkward.
Ordinarily, Democrats prefer a tiny majority, so they can assign two bad cops to block every bill they introduce. Now they’ll either have to not introduce bills or pray that Trump vetoes them. Given the President spends half his time sleeping and can’t even finish his sentences, this is a risky strategy.
There is every chance that Americans end up with something good entirely by accident. I wouldn’t even rule out Trump forgetting to veto the release of the Epstein files. As you can imagine, the corporate donors who own both sides have steam coming out of their ears.
Democrats were so determined to lose that one of them endorsed a Republican to stop a Muslim from taking Michigan. Unfortunately, 60% of Michigan’s Jews turned out to be antisemites and voted for Halal law and Sharia meat. Chuck Schumer and Haley Stevens are losing their fucking minds.
It’s fair to say neither side wanted a blue wave to sweep across the US. Unfortunately, the Republicans’ strategy of saying a load of racist stuff and doing endless war backfired. Americans are only in favour of those things when they can afford fuel and groceries. Now that everything’s getting expensive, they are going cold on the whole imperialism thing.
President Trump was left scratching his head, wondering how he lost so badly, despite winning the Iran war 27 times this year. I don’t have the heart to tell him that Pete Hegseth lied. After all, he’s still mourning Lindsey Graham who could only watch on from hell as the results came in.
Without Lindsey Graham’s presence, the axis of evil is falling apart. The warmongers don’t even know who they are anymore. The result broke John Bolton so badly that his moustache crawled away and said it’s getting a divorce.
Bolton criticised Trump for his forever war in Iran and for surrounding himself with yes men. Given that he’s never seen a war that didn’t arouse him, this is deeply troubling.
The Republicans are facing a major identity crisis. If they’re no longer the party of paedophilia and genocide, what else can they offer? They’ve even lost the ability to cheat properly. They somehow lost the seats they’d gerrymandered, and to make matters worse, someone forgot to flip the voting machines.
We saw state after state change colour after people who normally prefer the greater evil chose the lesser one. Even Texas turned blue, despite scientists insisting this was physically impossible. It was supposed to be one of the three laws of the universe. You can’t go faster than light, Trump can’t be trusted around school girls, and Texas can’t turn blue.
For the longest time everyone just accepted this is how reality works. Now the Democrats have taken every office in Texas: Senator, Governor, Lt Governor, Attorney General, Land Commissioner, Comptroller of Public Accounts, Agriculture Commissioner, Railroad Commissioner, and all four Supreme Court Justices.
I can’t bear how embarrassing this must be for Elon Musk who tried desperately to buy Texas for $212 million. Turns out this was the biggest waste of money since he spent $40 billion to rename Twitter, only for everyone to keep calling it Twitter. Imagine being the world’s richest man, owning the most powerful propaganda tool in history, and still no one listens to you.
At least it’s all bad news today. Israel has disputed the claim that Iran achieved regime change in the US, after it successfully installed AIPAC Shakur as House Speaker. If anyone can let Democrat voters down as badly as President Biden, it’s Hakeem Jeffries.
The first black House Speaker in US history has already announced his determination to be the worst black House Speaker. Americans are terrified this might inspire Kamala Harris to do another presidential run.
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Tara Moriarty retweeted
Last night’s victories in the South, in the Sunbelt and across the country transformed what we imagine for America. Here are my thoughts this morning.
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Prévisions de COVID pour le Canada : JUN 28-JUL 11, 2025
GRAVE : aucun
TRÈS ÉLEVÉ : aucun
ÉLEVÉ : ON
MODÉRÉ : CAN, AB, CB, MB, NB, TNL, Nord, NÉ, ÎPÉ, QC, SK
Environ 1 personne sur 120 est actuellement infectée au Canada.
GRAVE : aucun
TRÈS ÉLEVÉ : aucun
ÉLEVÉ : ON
MODÉRÉ : CAN, AB, CB, MB, NB, TNL, Nord, NÉ, ÎPÉ, QC, SK
Environ 1 personne sur 120 est actuellement infectée au Canada.
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Mise à jour : La prochaine prévision sera publiée le 16 août 2025, avec une date de publication estimée vers le 18 août 2025.
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La prochaine prévision sera disponible le 9 août 2025. Veuillez vous joindre à nous virtuellement le 12 août à 20 h (HE) pour une discussion sur les données des derniers changements apportés au modèle de prévision, car les sources de données disponibles continuent de diminuer.
Inscrivez-vous à l'avance à cette réunion :
(Sélectionnez le 12 août 2025 dans la liste déroulante)
us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…
Inscrivez-vous à l'avance à cette réunion :
(Sélectionnez le 12 août 2025 dans la liste déroulante)
us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…
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Mise à jour : La prochaine prévision sera publiée le 16 août 2025, avec une date de publication estimée vers le 18 août 2025.
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Prévisions de COVID pour le Canada : JUN 28-JUL 11, 2025
CANADA
MODÉRÉ (stable)
Environ 1 personne sur 120 est infectée
Par rapport au point le plus bas de la pandémie au Canada :
-Infections ~5X 🔺
-COVID longue ~7X 🔺
-Hospitalisations ~5X 🔺
-Décès ~4X 🔺
CANADA
MODÉRÉ (stable)
Environ 1 personne sur 120 est infectée
Par rapport au point le plus bas de la pandémie au Canada :
-Infections ~5X 🔺
-COVID longue ~7X 🔺
-Hospitalisations ~5X 🔺
-Décès ~4X 🔺
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Mise à jour : La prochaine prévision sera publiée le 16 août 2025, avec une date de publication estimée vers le 18 août 2025.
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Canadian COVID Forecast: Jun 28-Jul 11, 2025
SEVERE: none
VERY HIGH: none
HIGH: ON
MODERATE: CAN, AB, BC, MB, NB, NL, North, NS, PEI, QC, SK
About 1 in 120 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.
SEVERE: none
VERY HIGH: none
HIGH: ON
MODERATE: CAN, AB, BC, MB, NB, NL, North, NS, PEI, QC, SK
About 1 in 120 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.
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Correction: the next Forecast will be for August 16, 2025, and is scheduled to be posted on or around August 18th.
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NEXT FORECAST DATE: August 9, 2025.
Please join us virtually on August 12 at 8 p.m. ET for a Data Discussion of the latest changes to the Forecast model as the sources of data available to us continue to dwindle.
Please join us virtually on August 12 at 8 p.m. ET for a Data Discussion of the latest changes to the Forecast model as the sources of data available to us continue to dwindle.
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Correction: the next Forecast will be for August 16, 2025, and is scheduled to be posted on or around August 18th.
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Canadian COVID Forecast Jun 28-Jul 11, 2025
CANADA
MODERATE (no change)
About 1 in every 120 people infected
Compared to lowest point of pandemic in Canada:
-Infections ~5X higher
-Long COVID ~7X higher
-Hospitalizations ~5X higher
-Deaths ~4X higher
CANADA
MODERATE (no change)
About 1 in every 120 people infected
Compared to lowest point of pandemic in Canada:
-Infections ~5X higher
-Long COVID ~7X higher
-Hospitalizations ~5X higher
-Deaths ~4X higher
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Correction: the next Forecast will be for August 16, 2025, and is scheduled to be posted on or around August 18th.
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COVID-19 Resources Canada is having a Data Discussion at 8pm Eastern tonight, hosted by the wonderful @Wikisteff!
You can register here: covid19resources.ca/discussions/
You can register here: covid19resources.ca/discussions/
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