Will point out again that for $2 billion we could fund ~100 phase II clinical trials. mikethemadbiologist.com/2025/10/28/a...

Nature Reviews Nephrology comment on the harms of NIH grant terminations related to kidney disease www.nature.com/articles/s41...

My latest is about the latest revelations on the failed prosecution of Donald Trump, and why you should blame Merrick Garland more than the Supreme Court.

As someone who has been on SNAP benefits in the past, what will happen Nov. 1 is that people will start diverting other funds towards groceries. They will choose to feed their families over making credit card payments, paying medical bills, car payments, etc. This is going to affect a lot of things.

New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

Food bank director: “for every meal that a food bank provides, the SNAP program provides nine. There’s no way we can meet that gap.”

ProPublica did a big investigation into these questions. www.propublica.org/article/insi...

Brian Schatz: "This is not about money. There is enough money to bail out Argentina with $20b. There is enough money to purchase a brand new aircraft for $173m for Noem. There is enough money to renovate the WH ballroom. What there isn't enough money for under this Republican government is you."

Imagine this shit in a crowded office. Or in a meeting. Or on a train.

kids teacher just sent this home as part of an assignment he's doing and i want to smash every computer at the school

“How can Portland POSSIBLY stand against the might of the federal government?!” “Let me introduce you to our frog.”

If you take the Trump/MAGA/GOP threat to US Constitutional democracy seriously—and I really think you should—then things getting worse faster, before Trump has consolidated authoritarian power, is beneficial, not detrimental. If Democrats don't fight now, they might never have another real chance.

Release the jobs report. And while you’re at it, release the Epstein files.

BREAKING: Governor Pritzker calls for the removal of Donald Trump as President by invoking the 25th amendment. EVERY governor should stand behind the Illinois governor. Governor Pritzker also cited health concerns for the president. He is clearly not well. youtu.be/Dt4mrxNWQWs?...

I just called Chuck Schumer’s office and, for the first time EVER, a person answered, who then politely entered my complaints into their call log. This tells me two things: 1) They’re not getting enough calls over there, and 2) If you want to yell at Schumer, today’s the day. (212) 486-4430

my full @rollingstone.com story on the likelihood democrats abandon trans people to fund the government unless they face a mass movement calling on them to hold the line cc @parkermolloy.com

the democrats need to let the government shut down happen. they cannot let donald trump pass the funding bill that ends federal funding to hospitals that give hormone replacement therapy

Trump threatens to shut down US government unless Democrats agree to ban all trans health care https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/09/29/trans-care-ban-government-shutdown/?utm_content=1759153201&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

For @truthout.org yesterday I wrote about how the government's lies about tylenol and autism reminds me a lot of the government's lies about trans people. truthout.org/articles/ant...

"And they are adamantly opposed to recognizing bad faith, so they let themselves be used, over and over, in an endless attempt to find reasonable common ground with political forces bent on division."

I can’t tell you how much good could be done right now by average citizens socially cold-shouldering anyone tangentially working for ICE.

4,840 people on instagram liked this post & it is still up. bluesky’s trust & safety policies are reactionary, unprofessional, & ineffective. rot in piss charlie kirk

Awful and dangerous to hear the Mayor echo the transphobic bigotry coming from the Trump administration. It's completely at odds with the values of our city and another reason why his single, disgraced term in office cannot end soon enough.

Ro Khanna: "They're making comedy illegal. Brendan Carr pressured ABC to cancel Jimmy Kimmel, and Disney cancels Jimmy Kimmel. This canceling from an administration that lectured us about cancel culture. That's why today I'm introducing a motion to subpoena Brendan Carr."

Charlie Kirk was a bigoted, homophobic, sexist arsehole of the highest order who promoted gun violence as a good necessary thing. He was a blight on society. I’m free to express my opinion. If it upsets you, appeal to your local politician for retribution, I say they can get fucked too.

Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.

tell me which side is anti-comedy and anti-free speech again

Powell: "In the near term, risks to inflation are tilted to the upside and risks to employment to the downside -- a challenging situation." (In other words, stagflation)

Pulitzer Feeling Increasingly Out Of Place In Washington Post Office

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

1. Trump threatened every hospital that provides gender affirming care to transgender youth. Many complied and shut down their programs. Boston Children's Hospital didn't. They fought back and kept providing care. And now, they just beat Trump in court. Subscribe to support our journalism.

It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

From ‘The Onion’ Editorial Board: It Is Journalism’s Sacred Duty To Endanger The Lives Of As Many Trans People As Possible https://theonion.com/it-is-journalism-s-sacred-duty-to-endanger-the-lives-of-1850126997/

I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Transgender people are owed a retraction and apology from @wsj.com. The lie has already become canon to millions and it seems the least they could do.

Charlie Kirk died at 31 I’m still alive and beautiful at 32

We don't yet have any idea what the ideology of the Kirk shooter was. But we do know that the Denver school shooter was a far-right white supremacist. www.denverpost.com/2025/09/11/e...

This is class solidarity. In case you’re at all confused.

democrat melissa hortman was literally politically assassinated in her fucking home less than 3 months ago and now everyone wants to comment on how bad it’ll be now like ok

"The only people who should ride their bikes during the workday are bike messengers, who I also dislike. They weave, they bob—it’s inappropriate. Bike messengers need to do what drivers do: go straight, get pissed off, and hate everyone."

The Atlantic and NYT lost their minds if there was so much as a trigger warning in classes. Now, professors and Deans are being fired for a class that discussed the existence of trans people and those same publications are quiet. It was never about free speech. www.texastribune.org/2025/09/08/t...

The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city. This is not a joke. This is not normal. Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.

Important to remember that everyone involved in renaming the DoD to the Department of War is afraid to take the subway.

It's just a sports ban. It's just a bathroom ban. It's just a healthcare for kids ban. It's just a military service ban. It's just a federal jobs ban. It's just a university housing ban. It's just a passport & visa ban. It's just one Constitutional right. It's just your status as free citizens.

Support for vaccinating kids against infectious diseases dropped from 81% in 1991 to 51% last year We are getting dumber as a society

New in PN: Judge steps up to block ICE's kidnapping of Guatemalan kids "It’s a strong rebuke to doomers who say that the law doesn’t matter. It mattered this weekend for the children pulled off those planes, and it continues to matter as courts step in to check Trump's worst, cruelest excesses."

Eisendrath: "American parents are going to watch their children die because they didn't get them vaccinated."

23. He is not intent on controlling and preventing disease. He’s intent on letting it run wild. Whatever doesn’t kill us makes us stronger. Public health is, therefore, not a goal. It’s an obstacle to overcome. Doing that first requires making us accept the idea that “vaccine skepticism” is real.

Yes, it was carefully hidden in the New England Journal of Medicine. Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine (www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1... ) 1/2