This is fucking dark.

this is America

'Non-writers are producing books in the same way that car thieves are producing cars"

🔗: peoplem.ag/3N7f1l5 Asked if Americans should worry about Iran retaliating against Americans on U.S. soil, President Donald Trump responded, “I guess.” 📷: Aaron Schwartz/Getty

A man asked me last night what publishing needs to do for literary fiction to begin appealing to men again. I said, as nicely as I could, that, with over 2,000 books published every Tuesday, of which many would appeal to men, it’s not a publishing problem, it’s a men problem.

Pro Trump, Pro Netanyahu fanatics Larry and David Ellison will most likely now control Paramount, CBS, CNN, HBO, Warner Bros, and TikTok

This 53 year old man who lived in my neighborhood w/no criminal record & who had been in the US for 30 years, was detained and thrown into a cold cell for days, caught pneumonia and COVID there and deported. He finally died. I am so angry. www.kptv.com/2026/02/21/n...

On February 25 I'm hosting the Penn Nursing Storyslam! Attendance is virtual & free. Thanks to @marionleary.bsky.social for their collaboration on this. I look forward to hearing from our special guest @sarahdigregorio.bsky.social as well as our storytellers! www.nursing.upenn.edu/calendar/eve...

The FDA refused to consider a new, possibly better flu vaccine, sending shockwaves through the industry and leading to the cancellation of vaccines against mono/MS, shingles, and more. I asked: Did FDA approve the study design, as Moderna told me? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I’ve said it before I’ll say it again I’ve been genuinely astounded at how quickly & effectively RFK Jr & his allies—Drs Prasad, Bhattacharya, Makary, Høeg, Oz, & Kulldorff—have been able to dismantle the US vaccination system, including vaccine R&D I thought guardrails might slow them, but nope

first ICE almost murdered 18-month-old Amalia by knowingly denying and delaying her access to life-saving care, then they stole the medicine she needed to stay alive: people.com/toddler-hosp...

I wrote about Peter Attia for @vanityfair.com because honestly we all deserve better than this garbage. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/p...

My story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com. I’m also among 100’s of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valley’s political power

If you can’t see the links between the people in this photo and ICE kidnapping, torturing, & murdering people, then you really are not paying attention at all. At all. See, for example, this astounding piece by @sarahdigregorio.bsky.social www.vanityfair.com/news/story/r...

Alex Pretti took care of veterans as an ICU nurse. “He was a super nice, super helpful guy – looked after his patients," said @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social, who worked with Pretti both at the hospital and on scientific research. "I’m just stunned.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

RFK Jr. appointee Kirk Milhoan has just clearly stated, out loud, that he wants to experiment on the people of the United States by seeing what happens as vaccination coverage plummets and infectious diseases spread.

Watching the Greenland thing unfold really does feel like a psychotic break except instead of me breaking away from reality it's reality breaking away from me

I know there's a lot going on in the world to track. Learning about the intricacies of our vaccine supply line shouldn't be one of them - yet here we are. New @newrepublic.com piece: newrepublic.com/article/2053...

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Some perspective: The S&P opened down -1.3% on Trump's Greenland saber-rattling. That's $750 billion of wealth destroyed -- roughly equal to estimates of the value of Greenland. And so ~in dollar terms~ his shenanigans have already cost the US one Greenland, and we've got nothing to show for it.

I wrote about the slashing of the recommended vaccine schedule for children for @vanityfair.com because I think it's too tempting to read RFK as being off in his own wacky "wellness" world. In fact, his attacks on public health are an integral part of Trump's overall project.

Thanks @gavinyamey.bsky.social

"A Minneapolis couple said that ICE agents deployed tear gas... around them and their six children — the youngest only 6 months old — as they tried to maneuver their car out of a tense protest on Wednesday night." They were driving home from a son’s basketball game. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

I wrote about the overwhelming maleness (!!) of online longevity culture for @vanityfair.com www.vanityfair.com/news/story/l...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), run by Oz and his boss, RFK Jr., will no longer require physicians to report vaccination rates. Instead, they plan to start having doctors report if they’ve discussed “alternative” vaccine schedules.

I had a new story on private equity in health care in @newrepublic.com today-- newrepublic.com/article/2035...

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

This is horrifying. More MAHA recklessness in drive 2 make as much $ as possible from as much grift as possible & 2 profit from their own underfunding & decimation of actual medical research & treatment. Extremely well-done article by @sarahdigregorio.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

You probably saw videos of a nighttime raid in Chicago. Agents rappelling from a helicopter, bursting down doors, questioning brown-skinned immigrants. We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua. www.propublica.org/article/chic...

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat. Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵) www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador. Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

My god. “Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

For everyone saying political violence has no place in this country… Remember two Democratic legislators were shot in Minnesota just this year. And America shrugged and moved on.

The problem with allowing guns everywhere is that no one is safe anywhere.

It’s not just that the President of the United States has announced on social media that the US has bombed Iran, it’s that the President of the United States bombed Iran so that he could announce it on social media.

i just find this so bizarre. searching through texts and doing the reading for myself is how i actually think through ideas! trying to put together a sentence is how i figure out what i actually want to say!

Police have started attacking peaceful protesters at L.A.’s No Kings Day by trampling them with their horses, shooting less than lethals, and deploying tear gas. 🧵 @theglutster.bsky.social & @shoton35mm.bsky.social reporting

There is seriously no one here. Disneyland has a cooler parade every night of the year.

This is the last post that Representative Hortman made before she was assassinated.

assassinations, handcuffing a senator at press conference, marines detaining a civilian, and a military parade for the president’s birthday. rough week for democracy.

What is the city but the people?

The bill wouldn't just cause millions to lose their health insurance, it would also: *ban Medicaid coverage of non-abortion care at Planned Parenthood *ban Medicaid coverage of ANY gender-affirming care (yes, adults) *block marketplace insurance plans from covering abortion or gender-affirming care

After Texas' 2021 abortion ban, the rate of sepsis for women hospitalized with pregnancy loss increased by more than 50%, our analysis found.

i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country

Premature birth rates are up in New York City: So glad to see it covered! Not glad that the experts quoted in WNYC/Gothamist attribute the rise in lower income neighborhoods to diabetes/hypertension. Research says that the upstream root of much of this is exposure to racism and social inequality.