Bill Meehan

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I work in the space industry. I like to scuba dive and play poker. I love coffee and punk rock music. I'm a veteran paratrooper and an atheist. I am an ally to the oppressed. I am pro choice and pro science. I support your right to your beliefs as long as they don't restrict freedoms. Feel free to live as restricted as you wish, but keep it to yourself.

This is my public appearance on Mastodon. All others are anonymous and more active. This account is for people who know me so they can find me.

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All-terrain wheelchairs arrive at U.S. parks: ‘This is life-changing’. Georgia and South Dakota are the latest states to provide off-road wheelchairs on public trails.

https://wapo.st/3GRo4RN

#Accessibility #Disability

All-terrain wheelchairs arrive at U.S. parks: ‘This is life-changing’

Parks in Georgia, South Dakota, Minnesota and Michigan are providing wheelchair users with free adaptive equipment to explore off-road trails.

The Washington Post

Mississippi is America’s Blackest state. It’s mostly white MAGA Govt annually rejects $1B in Federal $ for Medicaid. Now the last hospital in a rural part of MS is about to close—devastating Black & low income people.

MAGA racism & cruelty on full display. Like the old saying goes. Republicans claim government doesn’t work—then they get elected and prove it.
https://nbcnews.to/3EMk43p

A Mississippi Delta hospital anchors its community. Now it may close.

If Greenwood Leflore Hospital closes, residents in the Mississippi Delta, one of the poorest regions in the U.S., will have to travel farther for health care.

NBC News
"Some things in modern life are not hard to figure out. You don’t have to be progressive—and it shouldn’t be partisan—to grasp that Nazis are bad and so is Nazism." https://america.substack.com/p/hello-nazis-and-nazism-are-bad
Hello, Nazis and Nazism are Bad

Some things in modern life are not hard to figure out. You don’t have to be progressive—and it shouldn’t be partisan—to grasp that Nazis are bad and so is Nazism. Anyone who has a memory or taken a history class knows that millions of Americans fought to defend American principles and democracy itself against the Nazi march across the world. To be more specific, over 16 million Americans fought in WWII, over 400,000 sacrificed their lives and nearly 700,000 were wounded to defend America’s allies and democracy.

America, America

If you ever had a vaccine, injection or surgery, you’re indebted to the ancient & wondrous horseshoe crab.

Its blue blood contains Limulus Amebocyte Lysate (LAL) which clumps at contact with bacterial toxins. Animals are caught for their blood to test sterility of medical equipment & injections.

Unfortunately the harvest is unsustainable & populations are in decline. An effective synthetic substitute has been around for 2 decades & we just need the biomedical industry to switch. #SharedPlanet