The first of two teacher gifts I needed to cut and stage for piecing before I wreck my rotary cutter on glittery school play fabrics #quiltsky

NIH funded this work—reflecting a surge in Alzheimer’s funding over the last 10-12 years. NIH is the primary funder for AD research.

Wanna see real-life miracles? Fund scientific research. A team of US scientists just cured Alzheimer’s in mice — and there is now hope that the disease can be reversed in humans. futurism.com/health-medic...

I didn't finish this until well after Christmas last year because the quilting took so long. The design appears in Walk 2.0 by Jacquie Gehring #quiltsky

Our Great Pyr mix spent part of the day most vigilantly watching the kids play in the snow, and now she is exhausted

Christmas at Pee-wee's Playhouse is the best Christmas TV special ever made

My Disney Princess of a husband, who manages to see way more cool wildlife in our yard than I do, was able to call me outside to see this one

NEW: RFK Jr.’s HHS made moves this week to restrict youth access to gender-affirming care. HHS said the policy changes were based on a peer-reviewed report. We looked at the peer reviews. They’re devastating. One called the report “a dangerous incursion of politics into science and medicine.”

This is a wildly unethical study that would be illegal to conduct in the United States. Have you heard of the Tuskegee experiments (crimes against humanity)? This sounds like that.

RFK Jr. has cancelled grants to the American Academy of Pediatrics because “they no longer align with departmental priorities”. The grants were on such topics as “reducing sudden infant death, rural access to health care, and mental health…” The AAP has criticized RFK Jr. That’s the real reason.

Managed to get these trimmed even though I felt like I'd been hit by a bus after three straight days of baking #quiltsky

The finished products

Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect. -- Rob Reiner

This entire weekend

2025 cookies complete

just for the record, this is fucking nuts www.cnn.com/2025/12/12/h...

Watched Mad Men and made 160 of these #quiltsky

I am currently on ID consult service. I saw my first severe case of post influenza staphylococcal pneumonia of the season today - very sick patient admitted to the ICU. Every patient I have seen so far admitted with influenza this week is unvaccinated. The vaccines keep you out of hospital! Get 💉💉💉

⚠️RFK Jr appoints anti-vaxxer to head FDA drug research center—"Putting Tracy Beth in charge [of FDA’s CDER] is like dropping an atom bomb," says an agency source, & multiple top-level officials preparing FDA resignations. "It's an extinction level event." www.cbsnews.com/news/fda-tra...

Dr. Prasad "... promised, in a long and argumentative memo ..., to revamp vaccine regulation after claiming that at least 10 children died from Covid vaccination...." w/ little evidence/details www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... @theguardian.com @melodyschreiber.com

you: "what are you talking about, 'sacred scriptures,' bullshit--" me:

“She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.” www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social

Someone's been raiding the Miskatonic University archives again.

lol the ACIP committee let Aaron Siri speak for some 90 minutes and cut off CDC experts and scientists off after two minutes (sometime yelling at them to shut them up). Incredible stuff.

Siri acknowledges that he has hundreds of lawsuits pending against HHS and other federal agencies. I thought that RFK Jr. was against conflicts of interest. This is the worst conflict of interest I’ve EVER seen at a putative scientific meeting.

~40% of Hepatitis B infections are caught in childhood. It is contagious enough that it can be spread just from sharing common household objects. The chance of chronic infection (ie does not clear, and is associated with high rates of liver failure and cancer) ranges from 50%-90% in this age group.

This regressive move will literally kill people. It's making kids' liver cancer great again. And it's a sign of more harm to come. CDC panel recommends delaying birth dose of hepatitis B vaccine www.statnews.com/2025/12/05/c... via @statnews.com

#ACIP invites anti-vaccine lawyer Aaron Siri to present on the schedule, since apparently they could not find any vaccine experts to do that. Apparently they invited Drs. Offit and Hotez who refused, maybe because Malone called them "industry experts."

Trump should burn in hell for many things, but especially for this www.npr.org/2025/12/04/n...

Why am I not surprised? NPS has made Trump's birthday a free admission day, while deleting MLK Day and Juneteenth.

It may sound radical, but if one guy has so much wealth and power that he can use the large newspaper he owns to publicly threaten to ruin a service we all rely on, presumably as a bargaining tactic to get lower rates, we probably need to tax that guy until he can't do that anymore.

James Bennet's critics said that Tom Cotton was very obviously a bloodthirsty authoritarian hungry for arbitrary state violence. And I have to say that was tremendous work by James Bennet's critics. Absolute bull's eye

“the USPS must turn a profit” makes me want to set things on fire they put a clause in the fucking constitution about postal service, that’s how important it is nothing in there about “only if you can make money on it”

The US is close to an institutional collapse across multiple public health agencies. Trump/RFK have purged anyone with expertise, many have fled and they’ve been replaced w functionaries who are either incompetent or malicious. I don’t think many understand how close to the edge we are right now.

ACIP is no longer a legitimate scientific body. Period. This is a goat rodeo of radical anti-vaxxers.

Anti-vaxxer and climate scientist Cynthia Nevison now presents data showing that maternal Hepatitis B cases are mostly in “foreign-born” women from Africa and Asia. She doesn’t explain why this information is relevant to public health. Her meaning is clear to me, anyway. Disgraceful.

Updated FDA org chart from BioSpace: nearly 90% of sr leaders who were at FDA a yr ago are gone. Most FDA employees are usually "career staff" who worked 4 multiple FDA commissioners & yrs of training 2b knowledgeable incl cell & gene therapies. Pazdur had worked 4 Bush, Obama,Trump & Biden #medsky

On Thursday, members of a committee that advises #CDC on vaccine policy will vote on changes to #hepatitisB vaccine use in babies. Manufacturers (who have safety data) & CDC experts who study the vaccine aren't involved in the planning for the votes. #ACIP www.statnews.com/2025/12/02/a...

He is such a good big brother

Woke up to a new De La Soul album and a David Byrne Tiny Desk (including "Nothing but Flowers"). All right.

@mtosterholm.bsky.social is most certainly correct that the irresponsible people now running #FDA & #CDC leaked this memo to get exactly the misleading headline & lede @nytimes.com gave it. Trust Osterholm, @pauloffit.bsky.social & Peter Marks. NEVER trust RFK Jr.'s sycophants. #ACIP #COVID19

The view from the couch when I come home smelling like thrift store

WOW! Autism Society of America, The Autistic Self-Advocacy Network, the Autism Science Foundation, the Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network and Autism Speaks put out a statement denouncing the CDC changing its website on vaccines autisticadvocacy.org/2025/11/lead...

He betrayed his oath as a doctor and voluntarily supported a man whose insane policies will kill children, all for the sake of power, MAGA, and politics. I hope he is shamed for life. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

Took a dozen kids to see the Wicked sequel, decorated the family party birthday cake, had that party, team worked the kid who had Too Much Birthday to bed. Tomorrow the Thanksgiving ramp up begins

if I have to become the helicopter pilot's strongest soldier I will do it but it'll be really funny if the transition team and post-election comments actually mean Mikie Sherrill has been hit with the Kathy Wokeul lightning bolt and/or has been lowkey planning to turn half-decent all along

he should try challenging scientific orthodoxy about gravity by demonstrating it is only a theory from the top of the millennium tower, what the fuck is this lede

The U.S. government is now inarguably spreading medical disinformation that is going to kill babies preferentially. Period. This is an INTOLERABLE. UNPRECEDENTED. DANGEROUS. ATTACK. ON ALL OF US.

How awful. This is outright health disinformation, lying to the American people. Not only is there massive evidence showing no link between vaccines & autism, there’s not even a plausible mechanism based on what we’ve learned about the genetics of autism, some environmental exposures in pregnancy

Online child sexual abuse material (CSAM) has been getting noticeably less attention and follow-up from authorities, per NYT, as the DHS is overwhelmingly used for Stephen Miller’s immigration crusade www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/u...