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Summer has been a fraught and cautious time in the pandemic era, with travel and gatherings for holidays and vacation fueling COVID-19 spikes each of the last three years. Could the fourth time be the charm? This year marks the first summer of the post-emergency phase of the pandemic — a distinct new chapter marked not by breathless warnings from public health officials about a looming threat, but gentle reminders of well-worn safety tips.

<p>N. Adam Brown, MD, MBA, is an emergency medicine physician and business expert. This past weekend, I stood with my husband looking up into the sky. People packed the pier on the Wharf in Washington, D.C., as a rainbow of fireworks sparkled in the warm, June sky. Music played. People laughed and danced. "Pride" was in full swing, and I was proud.</p>

— Effects in small study seen independent of weight lossJust 1 week of early time-restricted feeding (eTRF) cut fluctuations in blood sugar levels, and reduced the time that blood sugar was elevated, in people with prediabetes and a high BMI, according to the TRIO study. The difference in the mean amplitude of glycemic excursion (MAGE) -- the standard for assessing short-term within-day glycemicopens in a new tab or window variability -- was 2.9 mmol/L with a usual feeding pattern versus 2.4 mmol/L with eTRF, and the difference was statistically significant (P=0.001), reported Joanne Bruno, MD, PhD, of NYU Langone Health...

Kyle Becker @kylenabecker BREAKING.🚨🚨 A federal judge issues a sweeping 'gag order' to Donald Trump in the classified documents case. beckernews.com Judge Issues 'Gag Order' for Trump in Classified Documents Case Despite Presidential Campaign

'The Case Against Impeaching Trump' author Alan Dershowitz joined 'The Brian Kilmeade Show' to discuss the media's role in covering the Trump indictment and his take on the validity of the charges related to his handling of classified documents.

The traditional body mass index (BMI) measure may have misclassified millions of Americans as not having obesity, according to National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) data. Among over 9,700 adults identified as having obesity according to total body fat percentage estimates using dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) scans, the BMI measure only accurately classified 47%, reported Aayush Visaria, MD, MPH, of Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Brunswick, New Jersey, at ENDO 2023opens in a new tab or window, the annual meeting of the Endocrine Society. When ruling out obesity, BMI and DEXA measures were congruent 95% of...

Fascism, explained by way of Mussolini’s Italy and Hitler’s Germany.

A Weatherford man says we need to channel our penchant for lying into something productive—or at least entertaining.Q: Why did Texans quit coming up with tall tales? I imagine that there are a lot of lying, stinking polecats out there who need a higher art form to aspire toward.Scott McNutt, Weatherford A: Texans have been telling untruths for the sport of it for a long time. The tradition, in fact, dates all the way back to Native American folklore and the earliest days of the frontier. As the legend goes, our pioneer forebears arrived in Texas steeped in the literary...

Former President Trump tore into Quinnipiac and Fox News over a poll showing him trailing President Biden in a head-to-head matchup. “The Quinnipiac Poll FoxNews keeps showing on “TRUMP” vs. Biden is not just an old Poll, it is a BAD Poll,” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Monday. “It under samples Republicans by 10 points, which means, instead of being down 4 points, I am up 6 points. Other Polls show me much higher than that.” Trump took issue with Fox’s broadcasting of the poll, saying that the network “will always attempt, as they did in 2016, to only...

MSNBC President Rashida Jones indicated on Monday that she’d be open to having former President Trump, who is running for the White House in 2024, on the network for a town hall event with “parameters” in place to “control the environment.” “If Trump came to you specifically and says, ‘I want to be on your air to do it,’ would you say yes?” Axios reporter Sara Fischer asked Jones, alluding to a potential on-air town hall with the former president. “Would I say yes? It would be a conversation. I think you’d have to put parameters about how to control...

[H/T Red Badger}SNIPIn the process of trying to sort out a sequencing problem, McKernan used anonymously sent, Pfizer and Moderna Covid-19 bivalent vaccines to act as mRNA controls. ‘Somebody sent me these thinking, this is the perfect control… It should be pure. So, if you get this to work, you’ll sort out your mRNA sequencing problems,’ McKernan explains in a recent interview. ‘They were right about that. It did sort out our problems. But what we discovered in the process is that they weren’t pure mRNA. They actually had a lot of DNA in the background.’McKernan was shocked, ‘It’s not...

Do you believe chupacabras exist? You’re not alone, at least not in Texas. A “chupacabra” — sometimes referred to as “the chupacabra” — is one of the American Southwest’s most famous cryptids. Cryptids, according to Merriam-Webster, are “animals that have been claimed to exist but never proven to exist,” like the Loch Ness Monster or Sasquatch, for instance. The folkloric creature, whose name means “goat sucker” in Spanish, is believed by some to roam areas of Puerto Rico, Mexico and the U.S., especially southwest Texas. Chupacabras were first reported as recently as 1995 but they’ve persisted as a feared livestock...

DeSantis is being embraced by the worst of the worst…The DeSantis hypocrisy tour marches on, this time to an elite fundraiser in Washington D.C., hosted by woke Marc Lampkin. It is important to note that host committee members must raise $50,000 for the DeSantis campaign. Lampkin is a proud Bush supporter and works as one of Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck’s top lobbyists. Lampkin has lobbied for child puberty blockers and big pharma. The fundraiser is scheduled to take place at the Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck Hyatt office.Lampkin’s work for Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck had him lobbying for Abbvie INC, a...

he Biden administration is using taxpayer funds to create "curricular materials" aimed at "empowering" K-12 students to become "climate justice action researchers and change agents," federal spending disclosures reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon show. An array of grants from President Joe Biden's Environmental Protection Agency, National Science Foundation, and Department of Commerce fund teacher trainings, research, and community projects meant to inspire elementary school students to fight climate change. One grant, for example, funds climate-related learning experiences for K-12 students, who are then expected to "advocate for change." The grant also calls for the creation of K-12 "curricular materials"...

Corporate media tries to muzzle President Trump to stop his message from reaching the American People.CNN’s Jake Tapper, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, and PBS censored President Trump on Tuesday following his arrest. These networks censored Trump while at the same time having no issue with Biden DOJ lackeys like Andrew McCabe joining their live broadcasts during Trump’s arrest.Jake Tapper became enraged live on air over the fact that CNN was showing a live stream of Trump stopping at Cafe Versailles following his arrest. Tapper could not stand the fact that Trump was receiving significant amounts of support at the Cafe. Tapper...

One of the American Civil War's most famous generals once lived on California's Central Coast and his home can still be visited. General William Tecumseh Sherman is best known for his "March To the Sea" where he marched from Atlanta to Savannah, destroying military targets, industry, infrastructure, and civilian property. The march was pivotal in ending the war and forcing the Confederacy to surrender. Before Sherman was fighting on the east coast and leading to the defeat of the traitorous Confederacy, he was stationed in Monterey and lived at the now-named Sherman Quarter, on Calle Principal, a block away from...

Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News Mon, June 19, 2023 at 1:12 PM EDT·2 min read Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a Sikh leader in British Columbia, Canada, was shot dead Sunday night outside the house of worship he led in a Vancouver suburb. Nijjar, 45, was president of Guru Nanak Gurdwara in Surrey. He was gunned down by two attackers, according to witnesses. “We honor the death of a brave warrior and declare that many more will rise,” read an Instagram post from BCSikhs. “The BC Sikh community has suffered an immeasurable physical loss tonight at the hands of spineless cowards.”...

Could a dose of hookworms provide a medication-free alternative to people with inflammatory bowel disease? The Malaghan Institute's team thinks it's possible. The feasibility study found hookworms were a safe and long-lasting treatment for participants with ulcerative colitis. In this randomized controlled trial, patients currently in remission from ulcerative colitis were infected with a controlled dose of hookworm larvae or given placebo, and followed up over twelve months. "We believe that the effect of hookworms may not be strong enough to push someone from an active disease state into disease remission. However, once someone is in remission hookworm could keep...

LinkedIn’s Reid Hoffman, Venture Capitalist Steve Westly play hostsKickstarting a bid to surpass his $1 billion fundraising haul from the 2020 election, President Biden is expected to come to Los Gatos and Atherton on Monday for re-election fundraisers co-hosted by longtime Democratic supporters and Silicon Valley luminaries. At about the same time, GOP presidential candidate and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is expected to get within a few miles of his Democratic rival. DeSantis will be attending a fundraising brunch in Sacramento Monday morning, the same place he recently sent three dozen migrants as part of his ongoing publicity campaign...

Hanna Maliar, Deputy Minister of Defence of Ukraine, reported that the Russians deployed more troops in Ukraine's east but the Ukrainian forces did not let them advance.Quote: "The situation in Ukraine's east is complicated at the moment. The Russians have deployed their forces there, conducting an active offensive in the Lyman and Kupiansk front, trying to seize the initiative. They are also frequently launching attacks. Intense fighting is ongoing.Our troops are acting courageously in the conditions of the prevailing Russian forces and assets, and do not let them advance."