Today’s poem is selected by Sophie Howarth as part of the 20th anniversary of Read A Little Poetry. "Praying" appeared in Thirst by Mary Oliver, published by Beacon Press, 2007. Shared here with deep gratitude.

A recent study that warned tramadol provides little pain relief and raises the risk of heart disease is stirring some debate. Some patients say tramadol works for them, while a researcher disputes the notion that the synthetic opioid has harmful side effects.

“Let’s frighten the dragons,” I said to Pooh “That’s right,” said Pooh to Me “I’m not afraid,” I said to Pooh, And I held his paw and I shouted, “Shoo! Silly old dragons!” - and off they flew “I wasn’t afraid,” said Pooh, said he, “I’m never afraid with you.” ~A.A.Milne

Good for ⁦my pals at Manny's Deli⁩ in Chicago for rising to the occasion!

In Evanston ICE has started brake checking people to allegedly try & get them to hit them so it looks like protesters are doing it because they’re trying to cover for their own ramming of cars.They arrested the driver person violently & then brutalized a man already in handcuffs.

Billie Eilish just donated 1/4 of her net worth ($11.5M) to food charities. If only some billionaires were to do the same: Kim Kardashian ($425M) Jeff Bezos ($60.5B) Larry Ellison ($83.6B) Elon Musk ($125B)

This proves the "opioid crisis" is NOT prescription opioids, but polysubstance ILLICIT drugs which may or may not include a diverted RX opioid. You can't read these "charts" any other way: the less RX opioids available, the more illicit OD's there are. #StopPROP

Crazy how half the U.S. economy fits into a few metro areas.

Hope so!

When I was 22 years old, I commissioned as an Ensign in the United States Navy and swore an oath to the Constitution. I upheld that oath through flight school, multiple deployments on the USS Midway, 39 combat missions in Operation Desert Storm, test pilot school, four space

Nothing quite says Make America Healthy Again like scrapping the requirement to test for asbestos in talc products: federalregister.gov/public-inspect…

We are calling this "The Practice What You Preach Pledge." Doctors and nurses feel free to print and sign.

This Thanksgiving season, CIA is grateful for our hardworking officers and their unwavering professionalism and devotion to mission.

“Then he said, leaning forward: “You’re strange animals, you women intellectuals. Tell me: what’s it like to be a woman?” I took my rifle from behind my chair and shot him dead. “It’s like that, I said.” ― Joanna Russ, On Strike Against God

I made an infographic about the patterns in how we talk about patterns

Every Thanksgiving, I take a moment to read Abraham Lincoln’s Proclamation from 1863, in which he invited “my fellow-citizens in every part of the United States to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next as a Day of Thanksgiving and Praise.” Counting an

Today I learned that you can use Fibonacci numbers to convert from miles to kilometers. 😲

Andrew H. Smith M.D, Ph.D Psychiatrists will literally bore holes in your cranium before they allow you to try psychedelics. Even if you’re on your deathbed. Glorified narcs.

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