Guinea-Bissau "terminated a contentious hepatitis B vaccine trial bankrolled by the Trump administration following a sharp ethical rebuke from the WHO, which warned the study risked causing irreversible harm to newborns" "It's not going to happen, period," said Foreign Minister Joao Bernardo Vieira

Its not exciting, doesnt scandalize your mom, and wont impress a bunch of kids on a discord, but your boring good governance sewer socialist is the politician capital most fears in America

Seeing Trump and Kash Patel interact with the men’s hockey team is a solid example of how misogyny functions as a male bonding ritual. Patel is clearly trying to impress the athletes and Trump, Trump is trying to impress the athletes, and the athletes are trying to impress the president

You want me to log into Threads? The stuff that terrorizes the people of Pern??

All this arguing about whether a 2-day suspension for punching a Nazi is “lenient” & man, I have NO frame of reference for this. When I was in HS my one & only disciplinary sanction was a 4-day suspension for… inflammatory pamphleteering 😂 So like, obviously the fascists were running THAT ship 🙄

I don't know that any social media platform is good for you but the stated intention of the owner of twitter is to make you worse and studies are now showing that he's having some success with that. This isn't esoteric, everyone knows it. So at this point being judgmental about staying there is fine

Yeah, jokes aside, it’s such a classically patriarchal representation of women’s sexuality, both in terms of plot points & general character vibes. I realize Whedon hardly invented SluttyMirrorverse!<InsertCharacterNameHere> but between Vamp!Willow and Faith alone… 🙄

Buffy season three REALLY has its ups and downs, but I must admit that having a character signal their imminent arrival at Rock Bottom by having sex with Xander is pretty much the GOAT of episodic TV foreshadowing

Punk rock says "make art without training, without credentials, without technique, without the approval of gatekeepers." Prompting an algorithm to spit a slurry of other people's work down your throat like a baby bird, coated in an uncanny veneer of good-enough-ness, could not possibly be less punk.

Remember when RFK Jr. unilaterally decided that COVID19 vaccines should no longer be recommended during pregnancy? Well, COVID19 increases the risk of preeclampsia. And it turns out that getting boosted, either before or during pregnancy, significantly reduces the risk of preeclampsia.

You don’t hear it much, probably due to corporate capture of media, but this is what FDR did that got the ‘33 Act and the ‘34 Act passed. generational anger at corporations funneled into aggressive legislation that would have been unthinkable ten years earlier.

It is difficult, as a Jew whose family was massacred in the Holocaust, to watch people come to this realization. Millions of us died because of people like this. The Holocaust was not that long ago! People have not evolved out of racism and bigotry. Folks like this will always live among us.

This is intentionally choosing to expose Black babies in one of the poorest countries in the world to a very transmissible virus that can cause long term liver damage for no reason, but to appease a cohort of white anti-vaxxers.

A lot of people, including me, were wondering how an IRB could ever approve this study. The answer is that no IRB did. The person who “signed off” on approval from the only ethics board that reviewed it had resigned three years earlier. His signature was used without his knowledge.

when the tariffs are gone but the prices stay high, that's Trumpflation

How many adults do you think she told who then called her a liar? (Wesley Dingus case if people need context or have it muted, with the local mayor sniffing his minor relative’s worn underwear)

I'm crying this is the funniest "Tam Lin" joke I've ever seen in the wild

I WOULD LIKE TO GO TO THE ALL SPIN DOCTORS OLYMPICS PLEASE

Either Ke$ha’s “Die Young” in the original Klingon by the @klingonpopwarrior.com or a nightcore version of Sting’s “The Soul Cages” (the latter TRAGICALLY does not currently exist, afaik)

It has been beyond endlessly frustrating for me, a former professional athlete, that not a single Dem could muster the courage to say “what the fuck is wrong with you, sports are inherently unfair to begin with, let kids play with their friends”

You ever met that type of religious couple who are super conservative but because they’re married, and God is therefore OK with them fucking, they feel free to talk about their sex lives way too openly with casual acquaintances? Father Bear and Mother Bear are absolutely one of those couples.

They look like they live on a compound that the ATF is going to raid

Man, “Band Candy” hits different when you’re Giles’ age 😳

this is straightforwardly in violation of the 8th amend. and the ADA, as well as the PREA regs (unless those were withdrawn). the problem is that it’s federal so you need Bivens actions (at least for damages). the good news is the prison is one place where Bivens is pretty well established.

This post is going around again so I will add this excellent resource: leavesubstack.com

"The Victorian Parliament has passed laws banning unnecessary medical interventions on children born with variations in sex characteristics." A wonderful outcome - and tribute to the dedication of many activists over many years. #springst #aushealth #intersex qnews.com.au/victorian-pa...

…I realize there are other explanations for this, but I choose to believe somebody’s kid hyper fixated on that particular episode of Dinosaur Train, and this was the result 😂

I took a class on the anthropology of genital cutting practices around the world that comes to mind: In it, we read a piece on how if you can be persuaded to harm your child for your beliefs, those beliefs become unshakable. Otherwise, you hurt your child for nothing, which a parent can't accept.

Thousands of institutions abandoned programs, ended or rewrote scholarships, closed down clubs and publications, all in pre-emptive compliance. And you know why? Mostly because they wanted to do it if they thought they could blame someone else for it.

Every uni that dismantled depts and offices did so because they wanted to. DEI was always window dressing for admin and faculty who did the work were labeled problems. At best, unis believed complying in advance would save them from the fire directed at Columbia and Harvard. Cowards.

Tonight, @therotund.bsky.social and I will be talking about examples of fashion in spec fic, both written and on-screen. Right here on Bluesky, in fanfare for the forthcoming "What Elegant Stars," a fashionable space opera anthology. www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav...

"AI will cure cancer" No bro, it is fully on cancer's side

Calvin Coolidge’s 16-year-old son got a blister playing tennis with no socks on at the White House on June 30, 1924. The blister got infected, he developed septicemia, and he died on July 7th.

14yo: “Are you laughing at my Canadian tuxedo?” Me: “I honestly didn’t notice until you mentioned it.” 14yo: “I don’t think black denim counts anyway.” Me: “Yeah, it’s more of an emo tuxedo.” 14yo: “First of all, how dare you.”

People who throw a fit over being blocked on social media are so funny. Like oh, why are you not letting me into your bedroom so I can yell at you. Are you afraid of what I have to say?

One of my best students works with the Open Seat Food Pantry on my campus (which also provides hygiene products), & they really need help putting pressure on the administration to actually provide a full-time staff member as they have previously committed to doing: sign.moveon.org/petitions/th...

I can’t believe you lefty Luddites hate tech so much that you embrace mRNA vaccines, heat pumps, electric bikes, hybrid work, renewable power (and awesome advancements in storage), space telescopes, and hot/cold running water but reject the planet destroying plagiarism enrich the worst people bots!

It’s good to see papers start to address LLMs as structural plagiarism — provenance, more hidden than the original words or training data. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

"the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children"

Happy Lunar New Year to all who celebrate🧧 The last Year of the Fire Horse began in '66 & saw anti-war protests & civil rights struggle. It was the year Rev. Jackson left seminary to join Dr. King’s Freedom Movement. May 2026 bring New York the same bold change people deserve.

YUP. I’ve got too many controlled scripts to be pissing off doctors without really considering the pros & cons first, so I end up saying yes to this even tho multiple providers have almost killed me in the past WITHOUT an assist from AI hallucinations…

There are so many names which mean ‘God is good.’ It would be funny if there was a name that was less definitive. Like if Jeff meant ‘God is okay’

My phone is still convinced I MUST know & be referencing someone named “Dino” after 15 years of nothing but 🦕 🦖 and teenagers are out here asking ChatGPT for sexual health advice 🤦🏻‍♀️

You [Looking at a button down shirt with an all-over print of potion vials]: Lol who would even wear this Me, the nefarious bisexual wizard: I’ll take your entire stock

charges, even if dropped, also mark these kids going forward. how many folks are focusing on how the regime is detaining "immigrants never charged with a crime"? any immigrant teens here now fall out of that category. that's the social construction of crime, baby.

wish i could start a group text with all my doctors via mychart