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Looks like my "Flee to the Caymans" option just pulled into first place. twitter.com/doe_will/statu…

@TransLink Pulled Hubs out of bed on his day off to get me to work.

@TransLink Nope. Had to get a ride at 745

@TransLink Where has the 335 to Guildford gotten to? Been at the Newton Loop since 7:17, it's 7:30 now.

@TransLink There is a HUGE lineup at the loop. The 7:17, 7:23, and 7:34 all went missing.

@TransLink "Next bus" text and Goggle maps cannot agree on when I'll get to work, but the arrival time keeps hetting pushed back.

A parasite that has been eating people for 3,500 years is about to be wiped off the planet. It infected 3.5 million people in 1986. Last year, it infected 10. And I have not seen it make a single front page. It is called Guinea worm. You drink contaminated water from a pond in a poor village. A year later, a worm up to three feet long starts coming out of your leg through a burning blister. There is no pill that stops it and no surgery that works. You wrap the worm around a stick and pull it out slowly, over days or weeks, inch by inch. If you rush, the worm breaks inside you and causes a fresh infection. Guinea worm is ancient. Preserved worms have been pulled out of Egyptian mummies from around 1000 BCE. The Ebers Papyrus, an Egyptian medical scroll from 1550 BCE, describes pulling the worm out with a stick. For three and a half thousand years, that was the best humans could do. Then in 1986, public health workers decided to kill the parasite off. They had no vaccine and no drug. What they had was cheap cloth water filters and a small army of volunteers willing to walk from village to village for decades. The plan was simple. Give everyone who drinks from a pond a cloth filter to strain out the tiny water fleas that spread the parasite. Then send volunteers walking house to house, year after year, teaching people how to use the filters and keeping anyone with an emerging worm out of the water. It worked. From 3.5 million cases a year to 10. Four were in Chad, four in Ethiopia, two in South Sudan. The other four countries where the worm used to be common, Angola, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, and Mali, had zero human cases for the second year in a row. The World Health Organization has already certified 200 countries as Guinea worm free. Six are left. The last hurdle is dogs. Cameroon had 445 infected animals last year and Chad had 147, so a lot of the remaining work is on animals, not humans. Strays get leashed, and crews treat ponds to kill any remaining worms. The campaign keeps watching until the number hits zero. When Guinea worm hits zero, it becomes the second human disease ever erased from the planet. The first was smallpox. It will also be the first parasite humans have ever wiped out, and the first disease ever ended without a single dose of medicine. Volunteers walked village to village with cloth filters for 40 years. Now a plague from the age of the pharaohs is about to be gone.

@Bikegirl5885725 @Palle_Hoffstein How DOOOOOO you do!!!!!

@Palle_Hoffstein Johnny Cash knew all about that years ago....

I had people in my social circles who saddled their kids with bizarre names. I'm sure they thought they were giving their special little creation a special name to help them become a special person but in reality they were burdening their child with a life long pain in the ass.

So let me get this straight. @seanhannity no longer identifies as Catholic and now wishes to present as non-Catholic and wants us to... *checks notes* ...respect his choice? Dude. Duuuuuuuuuuuude.

We come to a hard stop at a stop light....then another hard jolt....and then sometimes a third. It feels like there are different sets of brakes going off in different parts of the bus. Hard jolts that can make you lose your balance if you're not careful.

@TransLink Can you please train your drivers how to use air brakes, gears, etc.? Today is particularly brutal as we shake back-and-forth at every stop light and bus stop. 335 to Guildford, bus #9685. I'm not filling out the customer complaint form; it does not accept from cells.

"Mistakes in judgement." He judged that his victims would keep quiet. BIIIIIG mistake.

WhY doN'T WomEn rePORRRRT?????

A reminder for all the pearl clutching Republicans who’ve suddenly decided that sexual misconduct is a red line… Long before he was found liable of sexual abuse (which he was), your guy bragged openly about grabbing women by the pussy. And you made him president. Twice.

@Palle_Hoffstein Happy Easter!

Easter Sunday breakfast. Blintzes stuffed with cream cheese and apricot jam, topped with strawberries.

A team of rapists headed by a rapist. #ICEout #NoKings #TrumpIsAPedo

This is truly insane, and it should be front page news across America.  Denmark secretly deployed soldiers to Greenland prepared to blow up airport runways to stop a U.S. invasion. They brought blood supplies to treat the wounded. France, Germany, Norway, and Sweden quietly coordinated against us. This was not a drill. This was our closest allies preparing to fight Americans. Let that sink in. NATO allies. Countries whose soldiers have fought and died alongside ours for decades. They looked at this president and decided they had to prepare for the worst. Fewer allies does not make America great. It makes us more isolated, more vulnerable, and it hands Russia and China exactly what they have always wanted: an America abandoned by its friends. The American people deserve to know how badly this president has damaged our standing in the world.  bbc.com/news/articles/…

And just like that, it’s completely VANISHED from the media. A sitting congressman, Ted Lieu, said on the record the Epstein files are being blocked because they show Trump raped and threatened to kill children. Let’s keep this in the spotlight every day.

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Just when you think Danger Yam can't go any lower.

"Underage girls testing positive for pregnancy at detention centers." Let me fix that for you. "Children being raped at detention centers." There you go.