You would think they’d be better at this with the consequences being so high.

A recent modeling study in JAMA showed that if MMR vaccine rates drop 10% (easy to see happen with this), we’re back to 400,000-500,000 cases a year. Our current outbreak is 2,000. This turns the clock back to 1950 🚨🚨🚨

What’s that you say? FDA chief Marty Makary is a shitbird conspiracy theorist who thinks HIV came from a lab leak? But of course. It’s why he got the job.

As a father of a medically fragile child, moves like this feel like an abandonment of some of our most vulnerable kids.

This year has been brutal for science, especially early career researchers and those working with communities further marginalized by this administration. Please read the experiences of these scientists. And when you’re done reading, find a way to fight back. theconversation.com/this-year-ne...

ICE has its own Health Services Corps, which it operates in 17 large detention centers, but an increasingly large majority of people are held in private detention centers where the healthcare is operated by contractor or subcontractor, where ICE basically just manages the insurance claims.

Today I received FOUR death notifications for people in ICE custody. That's 30 deaths since Trump took office. It's appalling & unacceptable.   ICE is required—by law—to ensure detainees are safe & their basic needs are met. It's clear this isn't the case. We NEED answers.

Congress is on vacation

Dr. Jonathan Reiner on why he was alarmed by Trump's speech: "It was delivered with a manic cadence -- almost a frantic cadence ... it was disturbing to watch. It was disturbing because he's the commander in chief."

Massie: Previous presidents told us to go to war over WMDs that did not exist. Now it's the same playbook. Except we're told that drugs are the WMDs. If it were about drugs, we'd bomb Mexico or China or Colombia. This is about oil and regime change.

greg bovino is doing tough guy drag when he's really just a little bitch

he sure loves his lil outfits

I'm told that HHS has just terminated all funding agreements with the American Academy of Pediatrics. Here's a letter HHS sent canceling one of the grants, relating to work on birth defects. Canceled because the project "emphasizes equity, diversity, and inclusion as key foundational components"

I asked @aoc.bsky.social about why she posted this tweet, and she said “because JD Vance is a goober, man.”

All the centers they’re cutting add up to less than $7 million in spending. UNC athletics budget is $185.4 million for the 2025-26 fiscal year.

Once a soulful school, now a shell of itself. NC State is now superior academically.

What is Belichick’s salary? You could probably operate all these centers just for that.

Walking around the #NIH hospital and seeing all kinds of patients getting care here: kids in wheelchairs, adults in masks and chemo caps. And all of this is being cut down, undermined, and destroyed by Trump. It should make us all incredibly angry.

Brings joy to my heart. I hope @drjeannem.bsky.social Jeanne Marrazzo nails the bastards who are destroying NIH

This afternoon, I was in a meeting with Jay Bhattacharya, and I can confirm this is *exactly* what he both wants and will be doing. THIS IS NOT HYPERBOLE.

Before the 1990s, plane crashes caused by microbursts used to kill planeloads of people fairly regularly. Dr. Ted Fujita and NCAR scientists figured out how to detect microbursts and warn pilots about them. Since then? Zero airliner crashes from microbursts.

In Boston, we like our protests with a whole lot of history. #teaparty #dumpICE #Dec16

This would actually make a good show

Terry Gross Conducts ‘Fresh Air’ Interview On Bluetooth During Uber Shift https://theonion.com/terry-gross-conducts-fresh-air-interview-on-bluetooth-during-uber-shift/

this gives me hope. then again, i'm used to crushing disappointment thanks to the last 10 politically awful years

BBC lawyers please take note 👇 Fresh air is the best disinfectant to deal with the rotten mess that is Trump.

I’ve been thinking about this Fresh Air interview with Rob Reiner even before today. So much love and warmth and humor. Then yesterday I watched Spinal Tap 2 and all the delight and liveliness of his performance there www.npr.org/2025/09/09/n...

I’d also like to point out that you cannot surround Venezuela with an armada.

It might get me labeled as a Crazy Bluesky Radical, but I don’t think it’s great that our nuclear arsenal is at the disposal of a demented old man who’s just an exposed nerve of grievances and hatreds with absolutely no impulse control.

A professor of nuclear science and engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was fatally shot at his home, and authorities have launched a homicide investigation

“.. The US economy is in a hiring recession. Almost no jobs have been added since April. “Wage gains are slowing. “710,000 more people are unemployed now versus November 2024.” @byheatherlong.bsky.social

look at this fucking loser

“Donald Trump’s Remarks on the Death of Rob Reiner Are Next-Level Degradation On a weekend of terrible violent events, you would not expect a President of the United States to make matters even worse. But, of course, he did.” By David Remnick www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

We’re going to share it with The Atlantic on Signal. 🤡

Leavitt was getting those "machine gun lips" ready

You know, somehow it’s all gotten even stupider.

"Sir, we're getting a lot of buzz from your comments attacking that beloved director who was slain. Whom should we go after next?" "Maybe an astronaut?" "Brilliant, sir. Everyone hates them."

Vinay Prasad’s tenure is proof that one official can paralyze an institution from the inside. The FDA’s credibility depends on accountability. Science survives only when truth is louder than control.

Under his direction, the Center for Biologics has drifted from oversight to obstruction. Whistleblowers describe stalled research, delayed authorizations, and leadership more interested in optics than outcomes.

Prasad also pressured FDA scientists to withdraw a vaccine study that was still under peer review. The paper, which supported vaccine efficacy, was forced into silence before it could be published. The message was clear: evidence that contradicts power will never see the light.

A must-read thread about one of the MAGA/MAHA physicians dismantling US public health Dr Prasad replaced “collaboration with control, turning the agency’s culture of peer review into one of fear and silence” It’s a genuine tragedy that doctors like Prasad, Oz, Bhattacharya & Makary are in power

Today, I spoke with Kilmar Abrego Garcia and his wife, Jennifer. In April, when I met with him in El Salvador, Trump said he would never set foot in the U.S. again. This case has never been about one man alone; if the govt can violate the constitutional rights of one, all our rights are threatened.

Page One in Indy: #redistrict 🇺🇸

A majority of Indiana Senate Republicans stood together to reject Trump’s mob-boss politics. There is more power in standing up to a corrupt, unpopular administration rather than playing its game. Law firms, universities, foundations, and media companies should take note.

It's impressive, in its way, to make cowardice not just part of your political identity, but ALL of it. When the book on Mike Johnson is written...it will molder in unopened cardboard boxes.

Disheartening to see federal agents take two neighbors on 29th & Pillsbury. Chemical irritants were used on observers by them. MPD showed up on scene, created a pathway for these federal agents to kidnap our neighbors, and assisted with controlling the space. Disappointing and heartbreaking.

The US National Science Foundation is relaxing some of its requirements for the review of grant proposals in an effort to cope with a backlog of applications and reduced staff numbers go.nature.com/3MF8aPm

Not that it's not appalling enough, but this is an official US Government post, paid for by our federal tax dollars.