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Justin Kieffer 🇺🇦 retweeted
Somewhere between Gen X and Millennial is a micro generation that is defined by this song.
Released in 1996 as the second single from Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, “1979” became the Smashing Pumpkins' biggest American hit, reaching No. 12 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 1 on both the Modern Rock Tracks and Mainstream Rock Tracks charts. The album was eventually certified 10× Platinum in the United States. “1979” was almost left off the album: producer Flood gave Corgan a final deadline to complete the unfinished song or remove it from the record. Corgan went home, finished the lyrics that night, and returned the next day with a new demo that convinced Flood to keep it.
Billy Corgan wrote the track as a nostalgic reflection on adolescence and the transition into adulthood. Although the title refers specifically to the year Corgan was 12, the song is less a literal autobiography than an idealised reflection on what it felt like to be young.
Justin Kieffer 🇺🇦 retweeted
Agree w this advice. Given flu trends, folks should get vaccinated soon!
NEW: Flu is surging unusually early in some parts of the western US. Seattle Childrens’ health system has been seeing case levels they typically see in early December. Experts saying consider getting shot now instead of waiting. My story.
washingtonpost.com/health/20…
Justin Kieffer 🇺🇦 retweeted
College gameday in a nutshell:
“Ohio state is good
“Michigan is good”
“Notre dame is good”
*SEC talk for about a whole hour*
“Here are some teams from the big12, I guess”
“What is better? SEC or big10?”
-Pat mcafee takes his shirt off
-Kirk’s dog shows up
The end.
Justin Kieffer 🇺🇦 retweeted
A top 5 reason to implement a wealth tax is related to this point below about China eating our lunch. If our super rich class was leading the world when it came to frontier industries, that would be a strong case to let them keep cooking.
Instead, their focus the past 15-20 years has been on building monopolies and moats, propping it up with ever-more-absurd financial engineering, media consolidation with the aim of stoking culture war and blunting criticism of Israel, which for some odd reason is supposed to be a national priority for us — all while falling behind China on robotics, batteries, EVs, and so on. We’re barely winning on AI if at all. They cheered as Trump effectively repealed the IRA, the biggest investment in new energy production in decades, and are now crying that there isn’t enough energy production for their AI.
If our billionaires were winners, we might consider defending them.
But our billionaires are losers, in several senses of the word, and they embarrass us on the international stage. A wealth tax will take them down a few pegs and hopefully let some winners rise up. We no longer have a meritocracy so it’s time to strip the participation medals from these monopolists.
So no, a wealth tax is not punishing you for your success. It’s punishing you for failure. Don’t like it? Stop losing.
Justin Kieffer 🇺🇦 retweeted
Ossoff: While the sailors on the Lincoln fight his war, while he fruitlessly drains our munitions and oil reserves, the president sleeps through his meetings. He golfs and trades stocks. So he doesn’t want to do the job. He wants to build his ballroom and travel with Natalie on their apparently defenseless flying palace gifted by the Emir of Qatar.
Justin Kieffer 🇺🇦 retweeted
It is always fascinating when ideology masquerades as physiology.
“Ozempic doesn’t fix metabolism,” we’re told, about a drug that lowers HbA1c, improves insulin sensitivity, reduces liver fat, lowers blood pressure, decreases cardiovascular events, and helps prevent progression of type 2 diabetes.
An interesting definition of “doesn’t.”
Then comes the familiar sleight of hand: “It only suppresses appetite.” As though appetite were somehow separate from metabolism. Hunger is regulated by the brain, the gut, hormones, and energy balance. Changing those signals is precisely changing metabolism.
The muscle argument fares no better. Lose enough weight by any method—diet, surgery, illness, or medication—and you’ll lose some lean mass. That is why physicians recommend resistance training and adequate protein, not because GLP-1 therapy is uniquely guilty, but because biology is stubborn.
And finally, the grand flourish: “No one needs an injection.”
A remarkable claim. One imagines the same principle applied to insulin, thyroid hormone, antihypertensives, or asthma inhalers. Chronic diseases have an irritating habit of returning when effective treatment is withdrawn. That is evidence the treatment was working, not evidence it was unnecessary.
The problem with ideology is that it demands reality conform to belief. Physiology has always been less accommodating.
Ozempic does not fix metabolism. It shuts down your hunger signal and lets the actual problem carry on underneath.
Weight loss on Ozempic is not fat loss the way you think.
Much of it is muscle, and unless you are doing serious resistance work while on it you are trading strength for a number on a scale.
Insulin resistance does not go away, blood sugar chaos does not resolve, and the moment you stop the injection the hunger comes back because nothing about how your body processes food actually changes.
No one is ever broken enough to need an injection. Everyone has been fed processed carbohydrate for decades and then given a drug to suppress the appetite that food creates.
Justin Kieffer 🇺🇦 retweeted
@ProfBarryLam: "Higher-ed administrators spend money on software as durable infrastructure, like a building, when it is in fact perishable, and so a long term liability. Meanwhile, they treat tenure-stream teaching staff as a long term liability, when it is infrastructure."
Justin Kieffer 🇺🇦 retweeted
New statement from Scott Pelley:
There has never been anything in America like 60 Minutes.
The Sunday tradition is the most successful program of any kind in history. For more than a decade, its innovative growth on every major online platform has extended its reach to countless millions around the world. This spring, at the end of our 58thseason, 60 Minutes grew rapidly with an unheard-of 9% jump in viewers on CBS.
“60” has been the number-one program in America for decades because our beloved audience finds integrity, quality, and humanity in our stories. When stewardship of the program passed to my colleagues and me, our responsibility was to expand energetically into a new age of media technology while preserving the values our audience expects. Now, the new owner of our network is casting this legend aside, apparently to curry a moment of favor with the Trump administration.
The waste is heartbreaking.
Last month, 60 Minutes lost its DNA when our entire senior leadership and two of our best on-air correspondents were cruelly fired without cause. Good people were silenced because they stood up for our audience. They stood for fairness against the forces of political bias; they stood for professionalism against chaos.
For my part, new management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified. To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them. Recently, politicians have been invited to choose correspondents for interviews on the broadcast. Giving politicians control over 60 Minutes interviews is not how this is done. Finally, incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc. In a case involving one of my stories, the entire program came within 19 minutes of not getting on the air at all.
At 60 Minutes, we have fought harder than anyone knows to save the program that became an American icon. We owed that to our millions of viewers. I am deeply moved by the thousands of wishes we have received to “keep up the good fight.” Most of the men and women of CBS News are still in that fight. But now the collapse of values at the top has become untenable. The leadership of 60 Minutes is no longer recognizable. The principles I hold dear are gone, and so I must leave as well.
I depart after 37 years at CBS with one emotion—a heart brimming with gratitude for the men and women of CBS News who encouraged and enriched my work, very often at the risk of their own lives. I pray for a day when those people and their ideals are honored again—a day when sanity, competence, and courage return.
Scott Pelley
Justin Kieffer 🇺🇦 retweeted
Whoever invented these bad boys really knocked it out of the park, just a perfect little treat
Justin Kieffer 🇺🇦 retweeted
i’m just gonna say it: some of yall aren’t qualified for self checkout. if you don’t have an internal sense of urgency and fine motor skills, leave it to the professionals cause the rest of us are trying to keep it pushin
Justin Kieffer 🇺🇦 retweeted
Ohio voters: we want you to protect our jobs from AI, our communities from data centers
Ohio politicians, for some reason: we're going to protect blue lives matter flags from homeowners associations
Justin Kieffer 🇺🇦 retweeted
This is staggering in both its corruption and the incentive it creates to do illegal things on Trump’s behalf knowing you can get both a pardon and a payout.
Ok. so they really went ahead and did a $1.766 BILLION slush fund for MAGA. it will "come from the judgment fund, which is a perpetual appropriation allowing DOJ to settle and pay cases."
justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-d…
Justin Kieffer 🇺🇦 retweeted
FINAL | Thanks for the hospitaLLLity, Ann Arbor 🧹
The Buckeyes sweep the Wolverines in Ann Arbor for the first time since 1994‼️
#GoBucks
ALT Lee Ellis
100% true here.
Justin Kieffer 🇺🇦 retweeted
The degree to which I am treated as something between a curiosity and a zealot by colleagues at both institutions where I teach, because I insist that AI has no place in the writing classroom, is dismaying. But I’m not blinking first here.
“Meet the academics refusing to use generative AI.”
nature.com/articles/d41586-0…