Flesh eating flies (disgusting!); Project 2025 budget cuts (despicable!); sterile flies; non-standard healing crystals from a crystal scientist; Hunter Biden is a natural poster

Note:

• New data from ASCO regarding melanoma indicate those with Stage 3b to 4 melanoma had longer time to recurrence and longer time to metastasis
• Alyssa accidentally called the screwworm fly as a “screw-tape.” Oops!

New World Screwworm Fly

• Texas Tribune: What to know about screwworm in Texas
• Screwworm Lifecycle
• Sterile fly production facilities
• How sterile flies are used in mitigation

Disaster OMB Budget Proposal

• Summary of proposed OMB changes to federal funding
• Things to consider while writing your comment
• regulations.gov, OMB-2026-0034 is where you can enter your comment
• Or you can go to StandUpForScience.net and they have a link as well

💊Take Two and Call Me in the Morning💊

• “Non-standard Healing Crystals”
• Trad Lifting
• Some Hunter Biden tweets 
  • Would not have left his drugs behind
  • He’s never stolen an erection
  • Correcting a bad AI photo of himself
  • Hunter Biden campaign slogan

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Credits

• Production by Arghavan Salles & Alyssa Burgart
• Editing by Alyssa Burgart
• Music by Joseph Uphoff
• Social Media by Arghavan Salles