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Books (okay, Moby-Dick), dogs, coffee, Dylan.

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Thank you for posting this @AriaaJaeger

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On the subject of Trump’s dementia, the press remains tongue-tied. Fortunately, Doonesbury’s veteran psychologist is here to help. He brings receipts.

https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2024/04/28

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@JamesGleick. And and former professor at Johns Hopkins, JohnGartner who discusses what he calls 's "probably dementia" with Salon's . Their conversations are must-reads. Here is one example. https://www.salon.com/2024/02/23/dr-john-gartner-on-a-tale-of-two-brains-bidens-brain-is-aging-brain-is-dementing/

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Dr. Gartner, pt.2: "I don’t want to say the mainstream media is covering up Trump’s cognitive disability, but they certainly aren’t covering it like the 5-alarm fire it is. They are consistently not showing the parts of Trump’s speeches & interviews where his eyes go blank, his jaw goes slack, he looks confused, & slurs words, uses non-words, can't finish a sentence, rambles, perseverates, confabulates & babbles incoherently. That’s what should make the 6 o’clock news."

https://www.salon.com/2024/03/01/like-someone-pulled-the-metaphorical-plug-dr-john-gartner-on-accelerating-dementia/

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and .


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Not just high-risk patients but sane people. This is so wrong... (Thank you, WaPo, for making this article free)
High-risk patients alarmed by CDC’s plan to ease covid isolation guidance https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/02/17/cdc-covid-isolation-vulnerable-sick-leave/

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@jeffjarvis. This is cruelty and insanity. Cruelty in refusing to take any measures to protect the many people who are immunocompromised. Insanity in refusing to acknowledge the many diseases that are linked with #COVID, whether that is #Long OVID, #heart disease, #dementia, and more.

https://covid19.nih.gov/news-and-stories/rapid-progression-dementia-following-covid-19

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“Whenever I f---ing rupture,” Norris-De La Cruz said, “I’m giving my lawyers your f---ing name.” Words to live and maybe even die by. This is a must-read article about the devastating consequences of . As we have seen in , there is more to come.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/02/23/texas-woman-ectopic-pregnancy-abortion/?utm_source=newsshowcase&utm_medium=gnews&utm_campaign=CDAqDwgAKgcICjCO1JQKMLfRdDDXxvMB&utm_content=rundown (gifted)

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Thank you @lovelylovely for posting this. It has the seal of approval.

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Thanks @debblue

CindyWeinstein, to animals
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Attention !

CindyWeinstein, to LGBTQ
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re: deadly incoherence of + politics.
"That's the thing about the dehumanizing rhetoric of fascism: It doesn't have a limit. The scope of who no longer counts as a human being and is up for "rooting out" always broadens. Copeland's death is a horrible tragedy. His is also the latest in a line of lives destroyed by the GOP's anti-LGBTQ campaign. That so many people can't — or won't — see that is why this country is careening towards disaster."
https://www.salon.com/2023/11/14/the-of-a-gender-non-conforming-mayor-reveals-the-incoherence-of-the-rights-culture/

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Thanks for this wonderful post, @billjurgensen

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"Everywhere I go, the story is the same: library workers are afraid." -- , President of the

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/american-library-association-emily-drabinski-book-bans_n_66102163e4b083254eac0549


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This coverage of makes sense (unlike the hand ringing and cowardice of others who are calling for her to exit b/c of optics something something): "The hearing was ostensibly about whether her romantic relationship with the special prosecutor she hired to manage the RICO election interference case was disqualifying. But that was a thin veil over the roiling cauldron of disrespect, racist tropes, and public humiliation that the defendants were indulging in."

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo/fani-willis-racism-trump-georgia-rico-romantic-relationship

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"This is a fundamental breakdown in the ability ['s] to use language. . . .There is no healthy older person who speaks that way."

Trump also engages in "tangential speech." . . that's a sign of real brain damage, not being old, not being slow, not losing a step, but of severe cognitive deterioration. What I don’t understand is why those clips aren’t replayed over & over in the mainstream media.

https://www.salon.com/2024/02/23/dr-john-gartner-on-a-tale-of-two-brains-bidens-brain-is-aging-brain-is-dementing/

More of this please.


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A must-read re: , , , & the madness, the cruelty of our system. "nothing has opened my uncovered-by-insurance eyes to the sadism and untenability of our for-profit health-care system as much as sharing a home and a life with a man caring for a wife with Alzheimer’s. It is untenable to expect family members of those living with Alzheimer’s to either bear a yearly six-figure burden for memory care, quit their jobs, or get a divorce." https://www.thedailybeast.com/america-to-families-with-alzheimers-youre-on-your-own

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in : "All the shelves were covered in black paper. There were no books. There was nobody reading. There was nobody checking things out. It wasn’t a library. It was just a room. Initially, I was confused. Then I got angry. I found out why the books were covered up. It’s because of all these new laws and school rules that happened because some people were really upset the library had books about LGBTQ people — books about people like me."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/12/21/florida-school-book-bans-escambia-county/

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and the mailpeople who love them.

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How low can you go? "Every one of the Supreme Court’s nine justices is well aware of the recusal statute that binds federal judges . . . Even then, before produced its own totally voluntary, never-say-never ethical guidelines in 2023, internal policy and external law required them to refrain from acting like thin-skinned partisan nuts, and to recuse themselves from relevant cases when they failed to adhere to this standard. This is a low bar to clear."

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/05/alito-flag-supreme-court-justices-stop-the-steal-ethics-rules-pitiful.html

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I started to talk to a cashier person today and they were like so happy that I acted like they existed. I know that sounds really weird. But I was like wow how much they just stand there and are like this robot just sliding items across and taking your money. We forget human beings are human beings. I'd like to have a grocery store of grandmas you just talk to about their stories as they give you recipes.

CindyWeinstein,
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@sarahjeannebrowne. Have you seen this? Similar idea (but subject positions reversed). Still, creating community.

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A really smart take on and the power of stupid power. Thank you @pluralistic and @mastodonmigration

https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/stupid-power

CindyWeinstein, to anime_titties
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Must-read essay on the financial costs of , in this case , and the utter cruelty and absurdity of defining like this: “We don’t consider dementia a medical issue." Tell that to the person suffering with the ; tell that to the caregiver.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dementia-diagnosis-medicare-financial-hardship_n_64efa175e4b0e2c4bd6b51c3

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If you haven't read 's Just kids, shut your computer immediately and read this beautiful, funny, and generous about love, art, and so much more.

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"Imagine the impact all of this is having on potential witnesses and jurors in the criminal cases against #Trump. If Trump can get away with threatening a Judge’s daughter, if he can do this to the #President of the United States, then what’s going to happen to them if they take the witness stand against him or vote to convict?"

https://joycevance.substack.com/p/we-need-to-talk-about-this?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2

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"All major brain diseases—Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, ALS, Huntington’s—are associated with some amount of smell loss." Read this article about the link between smell loss and neurodegenerative diseases. https://archive.md/2024.01.15-144112/https://www.wired.com/story/a-key-to-detecting-brain-disease-earlier-than-ever/

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Andrea Mitchell is blaming Biden for the GOP Congress. Seriously. This woman is a true enemy of the people.

CindyWeinstein,
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@shoq. This is the kind of thing is talking about when he says, "The people who the media are turning to now as alarm sounders are not equipped to understand what is really happening" in this must-read essay, which I keep boosting because it's just so important.

https://www.salon.com/2023/12/11/jason-stanley-on-undermining-propaganda-with-fascism-trump-is-robbing-democracy-of-any-meaning/

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