@DrKrisEdward @TheFoxMatriarch Most people in their 40s need to work to support themselves. They can’t spend their days providing free childcare.
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prairiegrass
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@TheFoxMatriarch A big part of it is having young or at least youthful grandparents.
I'm in my 40s and healthy. I don't have grandchildren but if I had had children starting by 20 I could reasonably have had grandchildren right now and it would be FINE!! I would be totally on board with this.
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How do people with 5+ kids have grandparents that watch them? Like my parents aren't young enough to keep up with that many kids especially when they're young. I'm always amazed by big family influencers going on like week long vacations but leaving the kids with the grandparents
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@brittilina So the old folks are less able to take care of 4 kids than they were with one 13 years ago, and it’s their fault for “making herself sick” and not wanting to be left with a crying kid. A crying kid won’t bond just because they’re left with him crying. You could try appreciating.
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It’s actually been really sad to see my parents lose their ability to handle kids as more have been added to our family.
My oldest was born in 2014, and my parents were there for EVERYTHING. My dad would hold and comfort and bounce a crying baby all evening.
When my third was born (2023), there was a gap of like 6 weeks where they were unable to see her and it was apparently a crucial bonding time for her bc she would never calm at their house. Instead of trying to spend more time and bond with her, they just mostly stopped watching her for our date nights. She didn’t really get used to her grandparents till her first birthday or even later.
I just had a baby 6 weeks ago. My parents watched our kids for 3 nights while I was in the hospital. All 3 older kids sleep through the night, mostly take care of themselves. Yet by the last morning my mom had made herself sick (fever, sore throat) worrying about them and barely sleeping herself.
This deterioration is devastating, especially from my dad, who called himself “the baby hog” with all my cousins and always bragged that he could calm down any baby.
That man is just… gone.
Anna Katherine ☀️🦊✨️@TheFoxMatriarch
How do people with 5+ kids have grandparents that watch them? Like my parents aren't young enough to keep up with that many kids especially when they're young. I'm always amazed by big family influencers going on like week long vacations but leaving the kids with the grandparents
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@drseanmullen @Tabbyette112 I don’t have long covid but I lost a bunch of hair after I had covid. My hairdresser said that’s common after someone’s had covid. My grandson also lost a lot of hair after covid and they had to shave his head. It all grew back in nicely.
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@Tabbyette112 Hair falling out is a signal. I’ve talked to dozens of women with Long Covid who experienced this.
Claiming Novid without testing regularly is amusing.
Assume she’s had multiple infections if she’s doesn’t test or mask. The average is in the ballpark of 5.
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Them: “I’ve never had Covid. Isn’t that interesting? Maybe it’s genetic or something. I should be studied.”
Me: So you’re a CC Novid and you haven’t been sick since 2019 and somehow we only just met. I find that interesting.
Them: I didn’t say I haven’t been sick. What’s a Novid?
Me: Wait, do you test and mask?
Them: 😂 It’s 2026.
Me: The study is over. I have all the information I need.
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@MissouriCentury Young people are leaving Missouri because your schools are underfunded crap and you keep attacking women’s health so nobody wants to have a baby or raise children there. Cutting rich people’s taxes and raising sales taxes will just make that worse.
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Missouri’s population is stalling while other states grow.
Phase out the income tax. Make Missouri competitive again.
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@DaveBl4ck @emilykmay Wow, you made your own meals for two whole months? And you think that’s some kind of achievement? That’s pathetic.
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@emilykmay We do. But you don't notice, don't care and don't give credit. I lived on soup for two months because my pregnant wife couldn't even smell other foods without feeling sick. I don't need your lecture and neither do other men.
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as a recipient of meal trains after baby's births and other surgeries, I can confirm that 85% of the meals were made by women and a good chunk of those women were working full time.
men, you can do these gestures too, even though you have jobs!
slimzim@jameszimmermann
A family from church has a boy in the hospital, my wife made them dinner to ease their suffering. I like being married to a woman who does stuff like this instead of typing numbers into a spreadsheet at a job she hates. Happy to work a little harder to make it happen.
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@DrJMarine @ashishkjha It happened during covid but the average American is too stupid or inattentive to understand relative risk. You have a 1% risk of dying from covid or a 1/100,000 risk of a bad reaction from the vaccine. So both are dangerous! The vaccine is too dangerous to take!
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@ashishkjha "We should explain risk and let adults decide"
This should be the foundation of public health practice.
But this did not happen during the covid debacle.
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Telling people that no amount of alcohol is "safe" is technically true but also stupid messaging
No amount of driving is safe
No amount of bacon is safe
We should explain risk and let adults decide
A woman who has a glass of wine a day for her entire adult life increases her lifetime risk of developing breast cancer by 1.8% compared to a woman who never drinks at all
Not nothing but also, not that much (your risk tolerance may differ)
Derek Thompson@DKThomp
One of the things I found really frustrating about public health guidance during the pandemic was that the public wasn't trusted with nuance, so the communication was often over-torqued. I think health communicators should trust their audiences with nuance. "Friends, stop drinking alcohol. Not cut back. Eliminate." isnt' really nuance. It's absolutism. You're offering a pragmatic defense of absolutism, and it's smart to be pragmatic, but I'd prefer we just be honest: Alcohol is a delicious bit of extremely mild cellular poison and having too much of it is really bad in the long run but having a little of it won't kill you. Everything in the realm of diet circles the issue of moderation. Chronic caloric surplus leads to obesity. Severe caloric deficit can lead to death. I'd prefer we attempt to articulate the principle of moderation in alcohol, too
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@GShaneMorris @TheoManBabies One is the President of the United States, from whom some gravitas and dignity and respect should be expected. The other is a bunch of random people. See the difference? I expect better behavior from the president than anonymous nobodies.
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A FB dude pointed this out, and it's very much true. If your reaction to these two images was substantially different in either direction...time to do some soul-searching/principles inventory.
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@GodsRiddles The covid vaccine is not experimental. It’s one of the most thoroughly tested drugs out there - billions of doses have been given. And you’re not forced to take it. If a job requires it, you don’t have to take that job. You don’t have a constitutional right to a certain job.
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Riddle me this, America. The Supreme Court holds that no person has a right to access investigational drugs, even when they are terminally ill, outside of FDA authorization. Yet, the 3rd, 5th, 6th, 9th, and 10th circuits now hold that healthy people can be mandated to use experimental drugs and simultaneously surrender any right to sue when injured by them. This sounds like the courts' only focus on death, not life. If you're dying, you can't try the drugs, but if you're healthy, you can be mandated to use a drug that might kill you. This is so 2026 America right now.
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@DrSuneelDhand The people with no medical background have no way to evaluate the info, often wrong, that AI spits out. One medical group entirely made up a disease and AI happily spits it out when it gets the right prompts. It’s a medical misinformation tornado.
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I have talked to at least two people in the last couple of weeks, no medical background whatsoever, telling me how they are routinely having medical conversations with AI— really happy with the results, and telling me they think it’s way better than talking to their doctor.
I really don’t think the medical professional understands what a complete gamechanger we are witnessing.
A lot of arrogant physicians out there have no idea what’s coming!
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@JoshuaSeattle1 @xio4444 @ABmrJutt Google fail on your part. Google miscarriage arrest, sepsis, hemorrhage, turned away from hospital. Also women refused miscarriage drugs at pharmacy due to pharmacist’s “religious beliefs”. Your ignorance of current events doesn’t mean they’re not happening. Try to keep up.
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@JoshuaSeattle1 @xio4444 @ABmrJutt Then you’re not paying attention. Miscarrying women have been turned away from hospitals and left to get septic or hemorrhage. Women have been arrested for having a miscarriage like this one: theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j…
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I don't know how it is in South Asia, where you're from, but here in the US, certain states have investigated or charged women for pregnancy loss in specific cases involving drug use, disposal of remains, or suspected self-managed abortion, but this is not a nationwide policy and most miscarriages face no criminal scrutiny.
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@JillFilipovic This is also an indication of what an incredibly sloppy administration this is. Any other would have gotten this info in background checks - if the Daily Mail could get it, so could the normally rigorous background checks of the FBI would have flagged it before she was nominated.
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This is a rightly compassionate piece. I hate his wife’s politics and her actions, but I also feel sorry for Bryon Noem.
Adam Nagourney@adamnagourney
What's so good about @ShawnMcCreesh story is it would have been easy just to make fun of Bryon Noem. Instead, he writes a compassionate (and well-reported) story about the humiliation he's going through. Should teach this one in journalism school. nytimes.com/2026/03/31/us/…
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@MollyJongFast Imagine a competent administration that would do security checks on cabinet secretaries’ families before nominating them? If the Guardian could find it, the FBI and CIA would have been able to find it before they fired all the competent people, and spared us this embarrassment.
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Trump to address the nation with 'important' update on the Iran war
Either Trump leaves Iran with his tail down and Iran now in control of the Strait which they have no incentive to open OR he starts a ground invasion everyone knows will be a disaster. nbcnews.com/politics/donal…
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@DrAlmarielao Phony. No woman gives her address to a stranger she met on Instagram without meeting him first. First date in a public place with her own transportation. This is some guy’s idea of a first date.
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“What is literally the point?”
A Utah man sets up a date. Saturday, 7 PM, all planned. They meet on Instagram, exchange numbers, everything seems normal.
Then… hours before the date, he asks for her address. She assumes he’s picking her up.
But right after getting it? He switches it up completely. Wait, l what happened to the original plan?
She instantly felt the red flag. Because if someone can’t stick to a simple plan after asking for your address… what else might they switch up?
Was her reaction a smart instinct catching a red flag… or did she turn a simple last-minute plan change into unnecessary drama?
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@TheMaineWonk Republicans are out at the beach and pool today. Republicans are also already have IDs to vote. Trust we ain’t going back to Biden bullshit. We will show up in November. Being on a boat > circle jerking and blocking traffic 🤷
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@Henry71796951 @Sandy91670659 @DougWahl1 And he charges the secret service rack rates for their rooms while they’re protecting him. He doesn’t miss a chance to make a profit ever.
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@Sandy91670659 @DougWahl1 He can't go anywhere without secret service protection.
The secret service need transportation, housing, food while on assignment.
Make sense yet.
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@karenburns @naomirwolf Because covid infections are 100X more likely to cause myocarditis than the vaccine, and the myocarditis from disease is more serious and dangerous.
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@naomirwolf Causing myocarditis in kids! How do pediatricians live with themselves???
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“Was COVID just mismanagement—or worse?”
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