Toni Fitzgerald

Please support Luke & family on road to recovery & getting a heart transplant. If you've ever watched Luke play, you know he's a fighter! Eli's been lucky enough to play with/catch for him for years (pic of them from 12U all-stars the year Luke won the state home run derby).

Final Regular Season Matchup⚾️@BwaterBaseball 🆚Hampden-Sydney ⌚️12/3 PM 📍Hampden-Sydney, Va. 📈 tinyurl.com/46hsk7dh 📺 tinyurl.com/28ph5tsy #BleedCrimson #GoForGold

"Only very sick kids should die from measles" No, Secretary Kennedy NO child should die from measles. Because there's a vaccine to prevent it.

Take a close look at this. NBC News published a major investigation this afternoon. Six reporters. Six named sources inside the US government. The story breaks open something the Trump administration has been hiding for two months. The damage Iran did to American military bases in the opening phase of the war is far worse than the Pentagon has admitted. Repairs will cost billions of dollars. Here is what NBC found.

GOP Lawmaker Opposed to Abortion Comments on Vaccines: "What happens in your body is a decision between you and your physician, you and your creator, or your belief. And there is no room for the government to get in between that relationship..."

NEW YORK (@AP) _ Barely two weeks before it was due to shut down, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette said Tuesday it had found a last-minute buyer — a nonprofit journalism operation that has agreed to keep the struggling newspaper open. The Post-Gazette dates its ancestry to 1786, the first newspaper to open west of the Allegheny Mountains, and its closure would have left Pittsburgh as the nation’s largest community without a city-based paper.

reminder that the IRS built a direct file program because doing your taxes should be free and easy, and then Trump and Republicans killed the program as a favor to TurboTax

This is a movement, not just a moment. If you or anyone you know has been sexually harassed or assaulted by a member of Congress, please reach out. We have resources for you. We believe you. I am hearing from new women every day - you are not alone.

It’s very clear that there’s a culture in Washington of protecting serial abusers. You see it in these incidents with Swalwell and Gonzalez. You see it in the Epstein files. That has to stop, and it shouldn’t be a partisan issue.

Hi quick PSA- pls stop saying the “credibility of all women” is in jeopardy cause **insert** the story of one woman who may or may not have done whatever headline is out there. If you’re dense enough to equivocate the actions of one to all, you’re probably a sexist who was looking to dismiss a woman’s career trajectory anyway. This is not new and we’ve ALL had ppl at some point in our career reduce us to a DEI hire, a hot girl hire, or a sleeping around hire. OLD TRICKS! Don’t fall for it.

Just in: Another Jan. 6 defendant pardoned by Trump has agreed to plead guilty to charges of child sexual abuse. David Daniel, who earlier pleaded guilty to assaulting police on Jan. 6, is now pleading to federal child pornography charges. One victim was under 12 years old.

In response to @thehill's inquiries about sexual misconduct allegations against @RepSwalwell, his (now former) chief of staff says Swalwell "rightfully has no one working for him anymore"⬇️

I have spent my entire career reporting on sexual misconduct by politicians. The barrier to publication anywhere with good lawyers is very, very high. Getting women to speak and share personal records and acquire corroboration from friends and colleagues is extremely difficult.

Sonia Sotomayor grew up in a housing project in the Bronx. Her father died when she was nine. Her mother raised two children alone, working long hours. She was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes as a child. Brett Kavanaugh’s father was a lawyer and business executive. His mother was a judge. He attended Georgetown Preparatory School, clerked for Anthony Kennedy, and eventually filled Kennedy’s seat. At the University of Kansas this week, Sotomayor described Kavanaugh’s concurrence in a case about immigration enforcement stops. He wrote that encounters with law enforcement tend to be “typically brief” and that most people “promptly go free.” Sotomayor’s response: “This is from a man whose parents were professionals. And probably doesn’t really know any person who works by the hour. Those hours that they took you away, nobody’s paying that person. And that makes a difference between a meal for him and his kids that night and maybe just cold supper.” The case involved an emergency order pausing lower court rulings that had barred immigration agents from targeting people based on race, employment, language, or presence at car washes, bus stops, and similar locations. The people being taken for “typically brief” stops are hourly workers. An hour away from a car wash or a loading dock is not a minor inconvenience. It is a measurable economic injury to a family with no margin. Sotomayor didn’t say Kavanaugh was dishonest. She said he doesn’t know. That’s a different and in some ways more structural critique. You cannot rule well on consequences you have never seen and cannot imagine.

Pennsylvania shouldn't have to pay for a Fox news co-host. Go to the Senate floor and explain how it's ok we spent $50 billion and 13 American lives while Iran kept its uranium and started tolling the Strait.

Exclusive: The acting director of the CDC has delayed publication of a report showing the covid-19 vaccine cut the likelihood of ER visits and hospitalizations for healthy adults last winter by about half, according to two scientists. wapo.st/4tFqKqY

🦔A researcher invented a fake eye condition called bixonimania, uploaded two obviously fraudulent papers about it to an academic server, and watched major AI systems present it as real medicine within weeks. The fake papers thanked Starfleet Academy, cited funding from the Professor Sideshow Bob Foundation and the University of Fellowship of the Ring, and stated mid-paper that the entire thing was made up. Google's Gemini told users it was caused by blue light. Perplexity cited its prevalence at one in 90,000 people. ChatGPT advised users whether their symptoms matched. The fake research was then cited in a peer-reviewed journal that only retracted it after Nature contacted the publisher. My Take The researcher made the papers as obviously fake as possible on purpose. The AI systems didn't catch it. Neither did the human researchers who cited it in real journals, which means people are feeding AI-generated references into their work without reading what they're actually citing. I've covered the FDA using AI for drug review, the NYC hospital CEO ready to replace radiologists, and ChatGPT Health launching this year. All of that is happening in the same environment where a condition funded by a Simpsons character and endorsed by the crew of the Enterprise was being presented as emerging medical consensus. The people making these deployment decisions seem to believe the pipeline from research to AI to patient is more supervised than it actually is. This experiment suggests it isn't supervised much at all. Hedgie🤗 nature.com/articles/d4158…

but when we say american kids should be able to eat lunch or people shouldnt go bankrupt to get cancer treatments the reply we get is: “how are we gonna pay for it”

The University of Missouri has stripped its historic Black student governing body, as well as at least four other minority affinity groups, of all annual designated funding starting in July "Mizzou has been the canary in the mine" insidehighered.com/news/diversity…

Picked such an iconic photo for a historical subject we don't talk enough about! The history of the Black caddies at the Masters is a deep one; for almost 50 years, only Black men caddied at the Masters. The hat you created deserves to be seen and is a cool piece to own, for those who love the sport. The folks over at Lucy Craft Laney Museum in Augusta, should see this one.

Iran Deal by Obama: •0 Americans killed •0 Iranians killed •0 bombs dropped •$0 spent on war GOP: THIS IS AN TOTAL FAILURE! WE LOST! Iran Ceasefire by Trump: •15 American soldiers killed, ~700 injured •1900 Iranian civilians killed, 26,000 injured •$45 BILLION in taxpayer money wasted •18 countries bombed or involved in war MAGA: THIS IS A TOTAL WIN! SO MUCH WINNING!