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Tonight was a very bad night.

Six people died from tampered Tylenol and the company pulled 30 million bottles off the market. ChatGPT is accused of urging seven people towards suicide, and OpenAI just assures us they’re still working out the kinks. Billions in investment, zero accountability.

#NIHfunding via the HEAL initiative for the PRECISION Human Pain Network has yielded a massive increase in data on human sensory neurons. One of the most amazing collaborations I've been part of. Data sharing across 4 centers, insights from experts across the network that really moved the needle.

Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

Why does a president file multiple suits blocking emergency food benefits for vulnerable citizens-many of whom voted for him? Because he could care less. He wants Democrats to cave so they can’t keep healthcare affordable for our most needy. What kind of human does this? A very little man. Stand up!

idk who needs to hear this but the President of the United States of America is APPEALING a judges order forcing him to fully fund SNAP. Yes — DJT is appealing a ruling telling him to NOT starve his own people. Let that simmer.

Happy to hear DCs Sandwich Guy has been acquitted of the “heinous” crime of throwing a Subway sandwich at an ICE agent in full body armor and causing bodily harm. 👏🏼👏🏼👍 #resist!

I live in a very small town and I know what keeps small town grocery stores open: SNAP.

“…the worse it gets for him, the more obvious it is that he’s losing, the more desperate and extreme he gets. That means we can’t sit back and relax, counting the days until the midterms and a beautiful blue wave. We need to maintain our sense of urgency.” www.americaamerica.news/p/a-punch-in...

I always find it interesting how the story changes when a lawyer gets to court. They can say anything they want outside of court without accountability but the rules are vastly different in court where you can get seriously penalized for lying.

What's that on his head? A napkin-crown? Oh -- just the hat of some rich white guy behind him, celebrating while people lose their SNAP benefits and ACA rates go through the roof. Time to stand up people.

On CDC website: "The Trump Administration is working to reopen the government for the American people. Mission-critical activities of CDC will continue during the Democrat-led government shutdown. Certain federal government activities have ceased due to a lack of appropriated funding." Really?! Ugh.

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 5: Vito Marcantonio There are many who dismiss our vision for New York as impossible. To them, I say we need look only to our past for proof of how we can shape the future. Tomorrow is Election Day. And this is the final Until It's Done of our campaign.

I continue to wonder when Americans will decide enough is enough. As Frederick Douglass reminds us: “The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.”

Sad but great day as our group celebrated Dr. Walker Rogers (far left) heading out for his postdoc at Yale in a couple days. He is the last member of a great cohort of 4 students I had the honor to train over the last 5-6 years: Drs. Gottlieb, Tatom, Gnatowski and Rogers! Very proud of them all.

Updated peer-reviewed evidence supports the safety and effectiveness of immunizations against Covid-19, RSV, and influenza during the 2025–2026 season @nejm.org @jakescottmd.bsky.social @stanforddeptmed.bsky.social www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

I'm shaking almost too hard to type. I entered SLC airport and heard screams and cries for help. I could see people gathered around, watching. I sped over to discover this woman face down on the floor, four grown men pushing her down, while she cried "HELP ME" and pled for her child.

You’ve probably heard but I have been federally indicted by Trump’s DOJ. We now have to cover the costs of a campaign *and* a legal battle to preserve our First Amendment rights. Help us win this fight by chipping in at katforillinois.com/legal

So moving to have participated in the No Kings march yesterday in Richmond. The energy of a large group hug with heads held high and voices clear and strong — as we shouted “This is what democracy looks like!”

Richmond!

The man just lies. He has no moral compass so does not consider the millions of people he is hurting. Disgusting.

So proud of the University of Virginia — where two of my kids graduated! They refused to “roll over like a dog”!

Really? I’m an elderly hippie AND a Hamas supporting violent criminal? I am chronologically old but I can tell you this — I’m going to act young, peaceful and strongly anti-monarchy tomorrow while marching in support of our rights to freedom and justice. Have to admit, I still like Joni Mitchell.

The "Party of Law & Order" is surprisingly partial to pardoning and commuting the sentences of convicted criminals who disobey the law and disrupt the order.

This morning, I was hit in the face by a baton. I’m going to have a pretty gnarly bruise but we need to remember why this is happening: Trump and ICE are rounding up our neighbors, treating them as subhuman, and shipping them off to labor camps in foreign countries. It has to end.

Make it make sense. [Cartoon by Adam Zyglis]

Speaker Johnson states that attending the No Kings rally for freedom on Saturday - means you hate America, love Hamas, are a communist and "far left". Wrong on all of these. I am proud to be an American, but one unafraid to stand up for our right to freedom of speech in resisting totalitarianism.

Journalists turn in access badges, exit Pentagon rather than agree to new reporting rules… apnews.com/article/pent...

Fascist pigs. Unless there was more to this clip that was not shown -- ICE grabbed someone just for singing. Where are we? What country is this? This is not the country that my parents' generation defended against fascism in WWII. Stand up this Saturday 10/18 at a rally near you -- No Kings!

Time for some JoJoFromJerz... ...Because every time we take to the streets, every time we raise our voices, every time we laugh in the face of fascism, we remind them and ourselves that we are still here. Still fighting. Still funny. Still free... open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...

Proudly announcing successful defense of thesis by Dr. Walker Rogers - "Genetic Studies at the Intersection of Alcohol Use and Pain". My 19th PhD or MD/PhD trainee! Great work by Walker. Look forward to seeing his future success. Another productive collaboration with my good friend, Dr. Imad Damaj!

Several news organizations, including The Washington Post, The New York Times, Newsmax and NPR, have announced that their journalists will not sign a new set of Pentagon restrictions affecting news gathering in the massive military complex.

www.nokings.org This Saturday is where it's at...

Vaccines are safe and effective. Autism isn't caused by vaccines, and autistic people and their families deserve our support. When you want information, ask your doctor. It's more important than ever for all of us to speak plainly, truthfully, and directly about public health.

The fascists hide the truth or bend it with lies so the public ends up misinformed and mistrusting the truth sayers — like scientists and honest journalists. Johnson and Trump called millions of us “haters of America” because we are choosing to stand up for truth & democracy on Oct 18th. Stand Up!

#PedSky #MedSky #EpiSky #policysky #polisky 🛟🫁💊 Heroic infectious disease investigators protecting the United States were smeared and laid off. They now have to put their shattered lives back together. They Fought Outbreaks Worldwide. Now They’re Fighting for New Lives.

Strange site Saturday at Richmond airport - muscular young men unloading huge boxes from luggage return belt. Airport personnel then brought out long rectangular plastic cases, each secured with 2 padlocks. These clearly were weapons cases, and likely ICE personnel. Sickening. We have to stop this.

What are the odds that RFK read the WHOLE abstract on this important study?

Updated funding curve (with two weeks to go in the fiscal year) (Posted on jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g... )

RFK Jr.'s ACIP managed to accomplish what they set out to do: create barriers to vaccines and stoke even more deadly vaccine hesitancy at a time where preventable childhood diseases are making a roaring comeback. #ImpeachRFK

Vaccinations have been so successful that “there's been a collective forgetting that measles, and mumps, and rubella—these used to be diseases that would kill people in fairly large numbers,” the Nobel laureate Jennifer Doudna tells Jeffrey Goldberg. Watch more: bit.ly/46a5DUE #TAF25

All the administration attacks on the media and particularly comedians, make me feel we are living in Hungary or Russia. That is how it starts — the loss of free speech. There is only one way to stop it - stand up, speak out, write Congress, campaign and vote for freedom — peacefully but strongly!

We are witnessing a full blown war on science, public health & truth itself. Let me be clear: Vaccines have prevented more than 1.1 million deaths, 500 million cases of illness & 32 million hospitalizations. That's a lot of moms and dads who don't have to bury their children.

While it LOOKS like Trump is making everybody capitulate, you guys realize 6 people own 90% of ALL media in America? There are not tens of thousands of people capitulating. There are just a few old men—lusting for more power— & Trump is giving it to them! That’s what Kimmel's cancellation means.

Walz: This is North Korea style stuff. And it's being done because this is a weak, thin skinned man who's failing as a president. All of the things he promised are not happening. It's a it's our most cherished freedom to point out very clearly, this is a terrible president

What's happening with Jimmy Kimmel is about politics and power.