We also had to call a home phone and ask our romantic interest's parent if we could talk to their son/daughter, which tbh was MUCH more stressful than asking a stranger for directions.

YESSSSS FINALLY!

Nobel-Winning U.S. Chemist Will Move to China to Lead A.I. Institute. Gift link: nyti.ms/4gvPcYl

Always always always always read @rtraister.bsky.social -- and especially on Graham Platner, women, and what comes next. nymag.com/intelligence...

When the right wing exploded in ridiculous outrage over Mamdani's 78F thermostat advice, it was a smokescreen for a deeper attack on energy efficiency that serves only one constituent: the fossil fuel industry Gift link to my column for @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

In rape culture, everything a woman says means yes and nothing she says means no. This seems to assert that though she said not to come over, said no repeatedly, struggled against Platner, an ambiguous prior comment constituted irrevocable consent. Not a shocking breach not to include it.

*Maine Democratic Party calls on Platner to quit the race

So glad to get to hear from Roswell Encina, whose Instagram post about this moment was so poignant: "Moments like this remind me why civic education matters. Democracy is strongest when we understand it, participate in it, and reject the hatred that threatens it. That’s work worth doing every day."

Damn. @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

My latest for @opinion.bloomberg.com is on the big drop in ACA enrollment this year. The Trump admin would have Americans believe its all in the interest of clearing out fraud (couldn't possibly have anything to do with the big hikes in monthly premiums after Republicans let subsidies expire!)

As we head into the holiday weekend, July 4th is not just the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence but also marks 1 year since H.R. 1 was signed into law, which made the largest #Medicaid cuts in history & with ACA Marketplace cuts makes 10 million people uninsured.

My latest for @opinion.bloomberg.com is on the big drop in ACA enrollment this year. The Trump admin would have Americans believe its all in the interest of clearing out fraud (couldn't possibly have anything to do with the big hikes in monthly premiums after Republicans let subsidies expire!)

Well this is as infuriating as you'd expect it to be. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

There’s a mine off the coast of Australia that has predicted a century of major wars, and it’s opening again. I went there to better understand tungsten, a critical mineral at the heart of the geopolitical struggle between the US and China: 🧵 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

An extraordinary cancer stat recently just dropped: zero. That’s how many UK women in their early 20s died from cervical cancer between 2020-24. My latest @opinion.bloomberg.com is on 20 years of HPV vaccines--& how the US could better maximize the potential of this critical public health tool (🎁):

The U.S. (and Canada) Could Eliminate Cervical Cancer and Other HPV-Related Cancers By Embracing HPV Vaccination. What’s the Holdup? by @lisamjarvis.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti... via @opinion.bloomberg.com

On Vought's latest attack on science:

The ban is heinous for what it does to transgender athletes. But if you think cisgender girls and young women won’t be caught up in the fallout, too, you are woefully ignorant

On Vought's latest attack on science:

An extraordinary cancer stat recently just dropped: zero. That’s how many UK women in their early 20s died from cervical cancer between 2020-24. My latest @opinion.bloomberg.com is on 20 years of HPV vaccines--& how the US could better maximize the potential of this critical public health tool (🎁):

With the deadline for public feedback on Russell Vought's proposed new rule around grant funding just 2 weeks away, re-upping my @opinion.bloomberg.com piece about OMB's dangerous attempt to permanently politicize science in the US:

My @opinion.bloomberg.com piece from earlier this month on the ways Trump's CMS is making already draconian cuts to Medicaid that much worse in their implementation--like with this issue around exemptions for people considered medically frail:

My @opinion.bloomberg.com piece from earlier this month on the ways Trump's CMS is making already draconian cuts to Medicaid that much worse in their implementation--like with this issue around exemptions for people considered medically frail:

Good. Grief. (but also, of course they are)

Possible I've seen Wilco more than any other band (hey, I live in Chicago, it happens). Whenever I'm on the fence, I remember the deep joy I get from hearing "California Stars" live & buy the ticket. But all of Mermaid Avenue? With Billy Bragg & Natalie Merchant? I bet last night in MA was magical.

This is a really really weird way to be thinking about people I'm sorry

The US public health workers sent to staff an Ebola facility in Kenya described a shambolic and hurried effort to stand up an isolation unit, leaving behind state of the art facilities back home. Latest for @bloomberg.com : www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Scoop with @mercohn.bsky.social: Johns Hopkins University is laying off more than 100 employees in the Bloomberg School of Public Health, the Carey Business School and central administration. Hopkins is suffering "debilitating" decreases in federal research funding www.thebanner.com/education/hi...

BREAKING: Federal judge grants patients' request to block DOJ from seeking or obtaining patient information via grand jury subpoena as to any transgender people who received gender-affirming medical care in New York City (including NYU Langone). More to come:

EXCLUSIVE: Eli Lilly gave compassionate use access to retatrutide, their unapproved powerful obesity drug, to a 79-year-old man in April. The application was arranged by a top doctor at NIH, and cleared by the FDA. www.statnews.com/2026/06/23/e...

E-scooters are much more dangerous than bikes. Why? "Electric micromobility devices are much heavier than their conventional counterparts — and go much faster." Kids hit the ground much harder, get complex fractures, damage to organs, and brain injuries. Kids had <45% of e-scooter injuries (2024)

NEW: The Fifth Circuit agreed to expedite a hearing in Louisiana's lawsuit against the FDA over the abortion drug mifepristone. Sen. Josh Hawley's wife Erin is repping Louisiana, which seeks to end telehealth prescriptions of mife—a key anti-abortion goal storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Summer in Chicago means daily scenes of young teens (& even tweens) zipping through traffic on e-scooters, almost always w/out a helmet. ER docs from around the country tell me serious injuries have become common. My latest @opinion.bloomberg.com looks at how we can make the situation safer:

Dazzling on Dad's Day. This morning's Chicago sunrise along the Lake Michigan shoreline.

My latest @opinion.bloomberg.com is about tweens, teens, e-scooters, and the urgent need for parents, pediatricians, schools & policymakers to work together to turn around the sharp rise in serious injuries--and tragic deaths, like the 2 teens who have died here in Chicago this year. (no paywall!)

affirming my wordle suspicions!

“At least every other trauma alert that we get from EMS is a kid that was on an e-bike or e-scooter,” says a Florida-based pediatric emergency room doctor who creates medical content under the name Dr. Beachgem. “We’re seeing really, really dramatically injured children.

My latest @opinion.bloomberg.com is about tweens, teens, e-scooters, and the urgent need for parents, pediatricians, schools & policymakers to work together to turn around the sharp rise in serious injuries--and tragic deaths, like the 2 teens who have died here in Chicago this year. (no paywall!)

BREAKING: The Federal Trade Commission and four states sue the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) and other associations in ... the Northern District of Texas, Fort Worth Division. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Long form health journalism is not dead—read this superb in-depth piece (with GREAT photos) Congrats to @amandamull.bsky.social & team Bloomberg is clearly doing a lot right; @lisamjarvis.bsky.social has written some of the strongest OpEds under Trump 2.0 RFK Jr wants to “liberate” peptides 😳

Several colleagues and I have a big new feature out today: An inside look at the global peptide trade, a billion-dollar black market in experimental and potentially dangerous drugs that RFK Jr. is pushing to make legal. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

Quite the line up for the Obama Center grand opening ceremony, Chicago!

Your conversations w/your doctor about your heart health could look different under the new cholesterol guidelines- mine definitely did! My latest @opinion.bloomberg.com is about the more nuanced approach to assessing the risk of heart attacks & strokes- one that takes a longer view on prevention.

YES. This is maddening.

SCOOP from @by-cjewett.bsky.social & me: Markwayne Mullin urged the Department of Health and Human Service to remove warnings from the FDA website about the health risks of the gas station drug kratom. Mullin owns equity in a leading kratom company called Botanic Tonics that could have benefited.

My latest for @opinion.bloomberg.com: Trump's fresh attacks on US science are buried in proposed changes to federal grant rules& could mean research priorities at agencies like NIH shift w/the political winds. That could damage innovation, institutions & ultimately the health of Americans. 🎁 link

HISTORY.

One point I think deserves more attention: In addition to worrying about grants cut or never funded based on ideology, we probably also ought to worry about outside groups (like, @shobitap.org points out in my piece, big tech) gaining influence over research priorities and individual grants.

My latest for @opinion.bloomberg.com: Trump's fresh attacks on US science are buried in proposed changes to federal grant rules& could mean research priorities at agencies like NIH shift w/the political winds. That could damage innovation, institutions & ultimately the health of Americans. 🎁 link

Should insurers start lending their customers money so they can cover the plans’ high deductibles? It’s one idea being floated by the Trump administration. Here’s my story: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/b...