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“ cellular sensors detect subtle changes in blood pressure and adjust hormone levels to keep it in check. Scientists have long suspected that these barometers, or “baroreceptors,” existed in specialized kidney cells called renin cells, but no one has been able to locate the baroreceptors until now.”

MEAction NOW @MEActNOW

I had missed this in 2021 - Sharing in case you missed it well.

After 60 Years, Scientists Find the Missing Link in Our Body’s Blood Pressure Control.

UVA Health’s Maria Luisa S. Sequeira-Lopez and colleagues, finally reveal where the barometers are located.

https://newsroom.uvahealth...

After 60 Years, Scientists Find the Missing Link in Our Body’s Blood Pressure Control

A UVA Health research team has found the location of natural blood-pressure barometers that have eluded scientists for more than 60 years.

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OMG I just realized why FOX isn't covering the WH Correspondence Dinner. All their "fake news people" are in Russia.

07:47 PM - Apr 27, 2024

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The Supreme Court interrupted my knitting to reverse a ruling that would have interfered with access to abortion drug Mifepristone. It was welcome news, but it's temporary. And Justice Alito's dissent is deeply disturbing as is inaction on district judge Matthew Kacsmaryk's failure to disclose requi

open.substack.com

Not Quite Midnight at the Supreme Court

I was happily knitting away on my flight home from New York this evening, certain that the Supreme Court would go down to the wire on the Mifepristone case. The deadline Justice Alito had imposed for the Court to reach a decision was 11:59 p.m. Friday night.

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I stopped posting at X many moons ago but went private and kept my account, holding onto the fantasy that Musk may end up having to sell and the site be saved. Went back today to post this.

ketanjoshi.co

You are the fuel that energises Elon Musk’s hate machine – Ketan Joshi

X is something entirely new: it has the clout and influence of Twitter, blended with the hate of 4chan and the lies of TruthSocial. And it lingers because its users don't see themselves as the fuel poured into the hate machine.

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🎉🎉🎉BREAKING: FCC votes to restore net neutrality, which had been repealed under Trump.!!!

https://www.foxbusiness.co...

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MASSIVE -- Trump used an $8 million slush fund, via a GOP-aligned campaign finance company called Red Curve.

Red Curve is one of the companies that offered Cassidy Hutchinson a job right before she cooperated with investigators.

Is Trump using Red Curve to pay off witnesses?!?

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As Arizona issues an indictment of the Trump Conspiracy, it's a good time to remember that Ginni Thomas pressured 29 different Arizona state legislators, urging them to approve the fake electors.

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“What we’re doing with the status of existing natural gas plants is directly in response to our stakeholders, both our industry stakeholders and our environmental stakeholders, who said, ‘You can do better,’” EPA Administrator Michael Regan said on a call with reporters Wednesday afternoon.

huffpost.com

Biden Finalizes Plan To Revamp Power Grid | HuffPost Latest News

The regulatory package will set the first greenhouse gas limits on power plants and halve the time it takes to get new transmission lines permitted.

11:05 AM - Apr 25, 2024

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A lot of factors drove this change: lower poverty and better nutrition, cleaner air and water, and readily available antibiotics and other treatments. But one of the biggest contributors, a new study from the World Health Organization (WHO) concludes, was vaccines.
GREAT DAMN ARTICLE..PLEASE READ!

vox.com

How many lives have vaccines saved? New WHO study comes out with breathtaking estimate. - Vox

It is almost hard to believe just how effective vaccines are at saving infants’ lives.

11:13 AM - Apr 25, 2024

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“ The U.S. total fertility rate has been below what is needed to replace deaths of previous generations since 1971. ”
But the reasons for the continued decline are not obvious?

Deanna Fry @DeannaFryTV

U.S. birth rate drops to record low, ending pandemic uptick.
At least 3,591,328 babies were born in the U.S. in 2023, down 2% from the 3,667,758 born in 2022.

This is on par with annual declines seen before the pandemic, the report said, which averaged around 2% fewer babies each year.

U.S. birth rate drops to record low, ending pandemic uptick - CBS News

CDC's provisional figures show a 2% decline in births from 2022 to 2023.

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U.S. birth rate drops to record low, ending pandemic uptick.
At least 3,591,328 babies were born in the U.S. in 2023, down 2% from the 3,667,758 born in 2022.

This is on par with annual declines seen before the pandemic, the report said, which averaged around 2% fewer babies each year.

cbsnews.com

U.S. birth rate drops to record low, ending pandemic uptick - CBS News

CDC's provisional figures show a 2% decline in births from 2022 to 2023.

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When asked if the donations influenced DeWine’s support of nuclear energy, DeWine spokesman Dan Tierney said: “Gov. DeWine’s support for nuclear energy is documented well prior to 2018, including during his tenure as United States senator.”

motherjones.com

Utility That Bribed Ohio Regulators Secretly Bankrolled Republican Mike DeWine’s 2018 Gubernatorial Bid, Records Show – Mother Jones

FirstEnergy gave $2.5 million to a dark-money group backing the GOP nominee.

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Begs the question why SCOTUS took on this case at all and is dragging its feet addressing it.

Mona Burns @MonaBurns

Ari Melber:

"These are some of the most extreme, authoritarian arguments presented to the Supreme Court in the modern era.

The lawyer for a former President literally defending a documented plot to overthrow an election as "legal" - and a hypothetical *military coup.* All out in the open."
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Witness intimidation. 50/50 shot he gets pretrial detention at this rate.

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SEND THEM BACK TO LAW SCHOOL.
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EVEN BETTER: REVOKE LAW LICENSE.

'Insane': Trump lawyer's SCOTUS argument allows him to kill a rival or order a coup if it's an "official act."

https://www.rawstory.com/t...

rawstory.com

'Insane': Trump lawyer's SCOTUS argument leaves legal experts amazed - Raw Story

Faced with withering questions from both conservatives and liberal members of the Supreme Court, Donald Trump's lawyer went so far as to suggest that a president could have a political rival killed or order a coup as long as it was an "official act".In one exchange, attorney John Sauer..

MEAction NOW @MEActNOW

JUSTICE KAGAN: What if the president staged a coup—would that be an immune official act?

TRUMP LAWYER:

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Is it a stretch to think that SCOTUS or the medical insurance industry as a whole might, if the SCOTUS rules against lifesaving abortions, take the next step and try to end EMTALA altogether? If they can refuse to treat miscarriages, what else will they decide not to treat? You know they will.

Helen @tener_duende

"Enacted in the 1980s to address “patient dumping,” EMTALA requires that hospitals that receive federal funds take steps to provide life-saving care to a patient in an emergency condition. After EMTALA, it was no longer lawful for a hospital to leave a patient suffering on the hospital steps..."

Will the Supreme Court Dump Women’s Lives and Futures *Again*? - Ms. Magazine

The Supreme Court will decide on EMTALA and how long a pregnant woman must wait to receive emergency care when her organs and life are in danger.

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