EU to Trump censorship regime: F** you. We protect our citizens.

Anbefaler denne grundige debunkingen av lab-leak teoriene som ble.a. Sigrid Bratlie, @civita.bsky.social og @langsiktsenter.bsky.social har spredd i Norge youtu.be/ra0WKNhQZ0U

Further context on the lab leak claims: bsky.app/profile/phil... bsky.app/profile/teth...

The Great Pandemic Rewrite minimized COVID, made it a lab leak, and attacked interventions. Now it is squarely focused on the vaccine— and the math doesn’t hold up. John Ioannidis has an order of magnitude problem. #CDC #vaccines 🧪 #episky #medsky open.substack.com/pub/drbobmor...

Everyone involved in the publication and promotion of this book should be embarrassed. It's not a "harsh truth" that COVID mitigation was a mistake, it's ghoulish and false.

With a detailed shoutout to our Anti-Autocracy Handbook sks.to/autocracy 2/2 2/2

Superb video by @simonoxfphys.com Simon Clark on how truth on climate change is twisted and dismantled by Trump administration: www.youtube.com/watc.... 1/2 1/2

Btw this is one of the biggest reasons why it’s not as easy as people think to start up independent newsrooms or just be an indie journalist on substack. If you are actually holding powerful and rich people to account, you WILL need legal representation. Not a matter of whether but when

I’m co-organizing a neuroscience and AI meeting in Europe next year. To all European scientists: sorry for this guy, the Trump NIH head. He’s an apparatchik pushing American rightwing billionaires’ political agenda, if that helps take the sting out.

Europe needs to protect its citizens against these acts of retaliation targeting its law-abiding democratic citizens. Anybody involved in this drummed-up nonsense & attack on EU sovernity from the US state department needs to be called in for hearings in EU and/or sanctioned.

Krass: Die US-Regierung hat Sanktionen gegen Anna-Lena von Hodenberg und Josephine Ballon von @hateaid.org erlassen, dazu trifft es auch den früheren EU-Kommissar Thierry Breton, weil "These radical activists and weaponized NGOs have advanced censorship crackdowns by foreign states". Einreiseverbot

The US State Department is now going to be deporting people and/or revoking visas over Benz, Taibbi, and Shellenberger’s “censorship industrial complex” hoax. Let that sink in. This is what the Twitter Files pretext was actually about. Water boys for authoritarians. www.state.gov/releases/off...

The hepatitis B vaccine is amazing. It was the first viral protein subunit vaccine, the first recombinant vaccine, AND the first vaccine to prevent a type of cancer. That's right: we've had a cancer vaccine for over 40 years. Our new three-hour episode of Hard Drugs is all about it:

I know everyone is dunking on #BariWeiss right now, but it is #Paramount CEO #DavidEllison who is her patron. Would love to see some blowback to this billionaire-handmaid to authoritarianism too.

The CBS investigation portrays a modern concentration camp, similar to the Soviet GULAG (like CECOT, an acronym): sadistic guards, 24 hour lighting, isolation cells. Americans once opposed this inhumane system. The Trump administration sent innocent people there to suffer.

one of the critical things here is that 90 percent of journalism has been destroyed, and the remaining 10 percent is what was once the top 10 percent, highly status-driven, highly opinion-driven, and intensely New York/DC centered. there's no ladder to come up as a journeyman left.

Stellt euch vor ihr findet als Journalist:innen unter Hilfe von komplexen OSINT durch eine Universitätsklasse, Zeug:innen und Berichte Hinweise darauf, dass der Weihnachtsmann in Absprache mit der Regierung des Südpols Rentiere vom Nord- an den Südpol verschleppt und diese dort gefoltert werden...

Nicht DEI vernachlässigt Qualifikation, sondern der Geltungsdrang durch vermeintliche Zensur gecancelt zu werden und die Ignoranz der Allgemeinheit gegenüber den Fakten befördert hier jemanden an eine Position, für die diese ganz offensichtlich keine ausreichende Qualifikation besitzt.

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His advice is to look beyond the now: "If you have political will that is designed to destroy and they have the power to destroy, it is almost futile to try to push against the destruction. Instead, you have to get through the dark age by sort of deciding what the Renaissance is going to look like"

His view on the future is pretty bleak. He thinks much of what public health has achieved in the US will be dismantled: "We've entered this, like, dark age and it's going to get worse. It is going to get so much worse."

Daskalakis resigned 20 days after the shooting, when it became clear to him (with the firing of CDC director Susan Monarez) that he would have little power to stop harmful decisions, he says, "because if I can't mitigate harm then I'm allowing harm to occur."

"It is going to get so much worse." For the first of two end-of-the-year episodes of @pandemia.bsky.social, I talked to @drdemetre.bsky.social about what happened in 2025 at the CDC and how he thinks about the future of vaccines and public health in the US. A quick 🧪🧵

I mean... yeah

Cheryl Hines in the phase of her career where she’s becoming the lead gen mechanism for propaganda about dead kids. Career is really taking off! From today’s Children’s Health Defense newsletter.

After months of learning in our InnovateUS series, the lesson is democracy works when governments can listen, learn, and act on public input. From Taiwan to California, it shows engagement tied to decisions reduces polarization and builds trust. rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/deliber...

Here’s a gift link to this stunner Washpost story, quoting the 60 Minutes correspondent on the CECOT story, who accuses Bari Weiss of spiking the piece all because the Trump Administration wouldn’t comment. “Government silence is a statement, not a VETO.” wapo.st/3YL4T3D

"Eine Millionärsabgabe in Massachusetts, die der New Yorker Bürgermeister-Spitzenkandidat Zohran Mamdani als Modell für die Besteuerung der Reichen anführt, hat 3 Milliarden $ mehr Einnahmen generiert als erwartet, ohne zu nennenswerten hochkarätigen Abgängen aus dem Staat zu führen. " #taxtherich

Title a bit too click-baity, but the work is real and shows how small teams can have huge impacts, if they care about their environment and others. youtu.be/9IIxOiMmaTg?...

This is a stunning piece of work by Global Witness laying out how Musk's chatbot software actively helps spread climate denial and disinformation. globalwitness.org/en/campaigns...

This is a surgical dismantling of yet another dumb Matt Yglesias argument by a former clean energy exec and current Representative. This is the sort of thing that should make people stop listening to people like Yglesias. Read the whole thing.

I was interviewed for @theguardian.com by the wonderful @melodyschreiber.com, one of the finest health reporters in the world, about what I called a “neocolonialist” study planned by Danish researchers in Guinea-Bissau, funded by RFK Jr. So many red flags 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩 www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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.

Peter Thiel's cronies are freaking out about my book. Here's Garry Tan—an early Palantir employee who designed its logo—launching yet another attack. Make a tech lord cry! Pre-Order "The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and The War On Democracy" 👉 www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...

There’s an excellent and devastatingly thorough article in the latest @indexers.bsky.social journal by Elizabeth Bartmess and Michele Combs demonstrating that LLMs are worthless for indexing

this is a good piece

The most insightful thing anyone has said about Trump, and it’s true of every fascist you can name. They lie about the past in every possible way, and are perfectly straightforward about what they want.

Parabéns Gabriel Wallau, belo trabalho! Mostra a importância de monitorar os patógenos presentes nos biomas brasileiros!

This “let’s just do something now and it’ll force proper action down the line” is the exact same reasoning that created the USA’s TikTok ban. Look how that worked out, and now imagine that for a *wildly* more consequential bit of the internet’s architecture.

Lies are truth. The truth is a lie. Up is down. War is peace. Sick is healthy. Recession is prosperity. The Trump era.

Hard hitting and important piece.

Should scientists apply to OpenAI's fund for research on AI & mental health? Should policymakers consider it a credible safety effort? Avriel Epps & I see it as "grantwashing," and it's an insult to anyone whose loved one's death involved chatbots. We explain: www.techpolicy.press/beware-of-op...

“We’re asking…” But actually. We do hard-hitting reporting exposing bad actors and attacks on public health and science. If you think our work is valuable, please consider donating as little as one dollar to support it. If everyone did that, we could sustain our operations through next year.

You MUST watch this 5 minute video.

Podcast Jay: His job is to lie to the public about NIH while the Vought people destroy science and universities

I thought it would be worthwhile to substantiate @katherinejwu.com 's reporting on "Podcast Jay". I went looking on the internet for all the speaking engagements or shows he's been on since getting confirmed back in April. So far I've found the NIH Director in 66 separate appearances. 🧵