more than a year ago, the lancet put this out, now seemingly lost to the collective memory: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

In 2023, @laurenleffer.bsky.social gave us one of those perfect man vs. nature New York City stories, trying to find answers regarding why a raccoon took up residence on her fire escape and, furthermore, why the raccoon would not stop masturbating. hellgatenyc.com/my-horny-rac...

A horrifying statement published today by the Editorial Committee of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency. "Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die" Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:

On Feb. 15, José Manuel Ramos Bastidas called his wife from inside a Texas immigration detention facility. He asked her to record a message, “just in case something happens to me.” Thread 👇

In an essay for VF, Rümeysa Öztürk details what she witnessed in the six and a half weeks she spent being held in a South Louisiana ICE detention center: “Even God cannot hear us here,” said one woman.

The UFW can confirm farm workers were critically injured yesterday during chaotic raids in Ventura County, CA. Other workers, including US citizens, remain unaccounted for. UFW staff is on the ground supporting impacted families. Our full statement below. ⬇️ 1/

it's my favorite day of the year, when the entire U.S. "news" industry turns itself into a glorified blogspam affiliate for a single billionaire-owned retailer and nobody in any position of editorial authority thinks that's weird, tasteless, or unethical

With this vote, Congress makes ICE the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency in history, with more money per year at its disposal over the next four years than the budgets of the FBI, DEA, ATF, US Marshals, and Bureau of Prisons combined.

Huge sleeper issue is how states will (or won’t) be able to absorb huge SNAP cuts in BBB. www.inquirer.com/politics/pen...

RFK Jr. is poised to use 'AI' to weaponize the CDC's critical vaccine incident reporting system, in yet another of his assaults on public health.

Trump calls for deporting US citizens: "We also have a lot of bad people that have been here for a long time ... many of them were born in our country. I think we ought to get them the hell out of here too, if you want to know the truth. So maybe that'll be the next job."

New #ACIP co-chair signals the new committee will reopen issues core to anti-vax concerns, including the notion that kids are getting too many vaccines. www.statnews.com/2025/06/25/c...

Antivaxxers have long branded their movement as about "choice" but soon, most may not have the choice to get lifesaving immunizations for their children or themselves.

Alleging Israel has committed ‘war crimes’ suggests a recognizable event: that there is a war happening and there are some crimes in it. Gaza is different.

This is the kind of sweeping, truth-telling journalism we need more of. Good job, AP.

New: Not only would Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” ban gender-affirming care via Medicaid, it would ban insurance under the Obamacare exchanges from covering it as an essential health benefit www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

“This is the Theranos of the energy industry.” heimildin.is/grein/24581/...

Ashamed to hold a degree from an institution that responds this way to condemnation of genocide. Withholding an academic diploma for telling a basic truth is craven and absurd.

In only two years, ChatGPT and the surge of AI-generated cheating from college students it has created have unraveled the entire academic project.

Yikes.

I wrote this so you didn't have to!

I look at close to 100 stories a week and even more outside of work. I’ve done this ten years. This is among the most horrific things I’ve ever read — testimony from dying children whose access to medicine has been cut off by the Trump administration. www.npr.org/sections/goa...

AGI is a story, not a technology nymag.com/intelligence...

Leavitt confirmed that the WH is working on deporting US citizens to El Salvador

Amazing when federal agencies suddenly have no communications staff. Love it when there is no way for the public to learn about the work of their government.

"It can be hard to describe or visualize exactly what kind of country you want to live in, but it is not so hard to recognize the one you don't." defector.com/it-is-what-i...

We polled Nature readers to ask if they were thinking of leaving the US for jobs abroad. Three-quarters of them (who said they were US-based scientists) said yes. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Great Decoder episode with @laurenleffer.bsky.social and @reckless.bsky.social on bird flu. 1) Public health is working when you're not actively thinking about not having cholera. 2) What's the next threat marker? 3) Will capitalism sort it out... ?? Lots here: www.theverge.com/decoder-podc...

BREAKING: Virologists + Epidemiologists are increasingly freaked. (my first for The Verge) www.theverge.com/science/6326...

one especially harrowing detail: Khalil grew up in a Palestinian refugee camp in Syria. the US is now trying to deport him back there, even though his family fled Syria in the aftermath of the country's civil war, according to his attorneys www.theverge.com/policy/63012...

In which the Department of Homeland Security struggles to answer a very simple question: "Is any criticism of the United States government a deportable offense?" (From NPR here: www.npr.org/2025/03/13/n...)

ICE has kidnapped and disappeared a legal permanent resident over non-violent campus activism. His family and lawyer do not know where he is being held. If green card holders aren’t protected by the first amendment then nobody is.

We are increasingly setting ourselves up for old school bank runs.

Okay what is going on here. Are the accounts at a private banking entity? Does the federal government have direct debit permission set up? So many questions as to how Treasury instructed this payment. (Via NY Post’s Craig McCarthy)

I want to be clear: the private sector, as it presently exists, *cannot* quickly spin up to fill any void left by substantial dismantling of #NOAA. Full stop. If that were to happen, people would die in extreme weather events who would not have otherwise, & economy would suffer.

What do we think Elon Musk believes the purpose of government is?

If we are going to lose access to all federal benefits, all federally amassed science and data, all federal services, all federal infrastructure funds, and all federal communications. Then why on Earth are any of us paying federal taxes?

EXTREME TW: suicide I mean it!!!! A patient at a VA hospital in Syracuse, NY died by suicide jumping off the facility’s garage and hanging themselves whilst wrapped in a trans pride flag www.syracuse.com/news/2025/01...

we now have it confirmed: hospitals across the country are shutting off treatment for all trans people under 19 years of age some hospitals are still continuing care, but make no mistake: this will kill countless children and teens www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

*sigh* breaking my break from bluesky to say THIS COULD MAKE A LOT OF PEOPLE MISS RENT AND YOU SHOULD SPREAD THE WORD especially if this is widespread beyond EPA www.eenews.net/articles/epa...

Amy Maxmen's important story in KFF Health News: 150 cow veterinarians were blood-tested for signs of H5N1, study's author was going to publish results in MMWR & give a webinar; CDC canceled both. Your current govt wants you kept blind about infectious disease. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

National Science Foundation suspends salary payments, leaving researchers unable to pay their bills www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t... Story by @ericboodman.bsky.social

When measles vaccine rates plummeted in Samoa, health experts saw a looming crisis. But RFK Jr. saw an opportunity to study the health of unvaccinated children. “I can’t imagine anything less ethical or more cruel,” one expert said. More from @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social:

No food, device, or drug recall announcements. No bird flu updates. No information, despite the fact that public tax dollars fund these agencies for expressly the purpose of informing.