so we don’t actually need ACLs. the anatomical establishment has lied to us for the last time

just explained to mom who snoop is and clarified that he did indeed probably get away with murder

we really need to talk about how AI is being used to provide cover for government policy based on deadly misinformation — and how every one of us who writes about AI in health, but doesn't center that fact, is lending credence to the enterprise.

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probably the most basic thing about me but it gives me hope, watching all these young athletes hopeful for humanity’s future, despite the best efforts of bad people in charge

DeLauro has faced exactly one competitive election in her life and it was before I was born.

oh my god, the maple leaf unis are objectively delightful

delauro’s comments today pretty much confirm this

i’ve got a pretty solid sound system and i can’t understand one word the nbc announcers are saying

I published a short and quick primer on how local law enforcement, mostly sheriffs, can collaborate with ICE. I hope it's useful -- I also would love to know what people are seeing in their community. sheriffs.substack.com/p/how-local-...

JD Vance ruins everything

As a real practical question, how could you have normal social relations with the ghouls who do this? How could you accept them as kids sports coaches, for example? I’d never trust a person associated with this.

Not even BLS Commissioner can directly influence estimates. Staff do the work with multiple people checking each other at each step. They present estimates to commish near release time. Fully baked. Commish can influence methods and policies over long term but no thumb on scale.

for folks new to the olympics, the nbc fanfare/music was written by john williams of star wars, jurassic park, and ten million other amazing scores

lol. all they know how to do is rip off americans and podcast

can’t emphasize this enough, public health friends

Concentration camps are the defining issue in public health right now. Measles and TB outbreaks, healthcare being withheld as punishment for your race. It is not enough simply to turn the grants tap back on. To do so would make us the same as the Nazi scientists who discovered smoking causes cancer

She’s is being primaried but not in a robust way (yet) - www.newhavenindependent.org/2025/12/02/2...

delauro’s comments today pretty much confirm this

they should do olympic medals for the best team fits

delauro was photographed celebrating passing DHS/ICE funding just one day before alex pretti was killed

this is incredibly disappointing

“going to be late for piano” kind of crushed me

reminder

winter olympics

I made a Congress "Abolish ICE", tracker, please send me any press releases, news articles, candidate questionnaires, etc. that I have missed! bsky.app/profile/alex...

what is with this guy and getting humiliated during winter sports

i'd vote and volunteer for her in a heartbeat simply because she is reacting to the concentration camps like a normal human being

Since there's been some conversation about historical analogies for the present stuff with ICE, I figured I'd share this. In it I argue the similarity between (opposition to) border enforcement and (the effort to abolish) slavery. buttondown.com/nateholdren/...

“…Truth Social account go through layers of approval. Trump signs off on the content posted, but he often does not find, and certainly does not clip or upload, these clips himself. He is often presented with a menu of options by senior aides for approval, and the footage or images are…

toe toaster two thousand

the thing about the new democratic social media hub is that younger generations of dems have spent *their entire lives* getting slow-tracked and locked out of leadership. change on that front is what i'm watching more closely.

NEW: The FDA recently approved the contraceptive implant Nexplanon for use up to five years (instead of three). But it also placed the device under a REMS protocol, a special layer of regulation that could affect access. Many providers did not yet know about the REMS when I contacted them.

so we don’t actually need ACLs. the anatomical establishment has lied to us for the last time

This is like the lowest hanging fruit. Democrats shouldn’t take money from fucking fascist funders! It’s absurd that this is even a discussion in the caucus and speaks to a real failure of leadership. It undermines the entire party brand.

this rocks

The Public Health Service Commissioned Corps contains some of the most expert, committed public servants I know. They signed up to help people live longer, better lives, not to be part of the inhumane mass deportation machine. www.npr.org/2026/02/05/n...

this is important to understand

fun fact: levar burton directed the famous (and objectively delightful) union episode of star trek ds9

pretty little town. photo ©jack brauer: mountainphotography.com/photo/ouray-stormy-autumn/

Federal vaccine advisers are setting their sights on the next targets: the mRNA Covid shots, and vaccines offered to pregnant women. One panelist, Robert Malone, says he is “trying to force FDA to come clean” on data showing harms of COVID shots Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/h...

The danger of adopting a Danish-style vax schedule: "When we remove a vaccine like the meningococcal shot from the routine schedule, we aren’t just changing a line on a chart. We are inviting previously well-controlled diseases back into our high schools & colleges." www.statnews.com/2026/02/06/d...

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In brief, this maneuver: - effectively converts employee status to "at-will" (meaning they can be fired for any--or no--reason), - redirects whistleblower complaints to internal agency counsel, & takes away these civil servants' rights to appeal adverse personnel actions.

New in PN: Why Delia Ramirez thinks DHS needs to be dismantled "We have to ask ourselves, fundamentally, why would we ever want to give them more money to keep doing what they’re doing?"

at a vigil for the victims of ICE at the VA hospital in east atlanta

May their memory stir action. timhirschelburns.substack.com/p/the-people...

Free them all.