🦠My latest: RFK's new CDC appointee shrugs off the potential loss of the U.S.’ measles-elimination status and deflects blame to other countries. “It’s just the cost of doing business with our borders being somewhat porous.” @kffhealthnews.org kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

When @radleybalko.bsky.social writes that ICE is out of line even in comparison to police abuse, it's a sign to take abuse from ICE seriously. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/o...

ICE kidnapped a 5-year-old and sent him alone to a facility in Texas. Hell isn't hot enough.

Scientific research of gender transition has been stuck on "should these people be allowed to transition" for 50 years, so we don't know shit about how transitioning actually works.

Say what you will about Newsom, but this is insane. California is one of the largest economies in the world. www.sfgate.com/politics/art...

Trump has been in office for one year. We at @nature.com did a deep dive looking at the administration's disruption of science in numbers. Take a look—the numbers are staggering. By me, @dangaristo.bsky.social, Jeff Tollefson, @kimay.bsky.social, & help from @noamross.net @scott-delaney.bsky.social

‼️ Today @americansunlight.org launches TrumpCensorship.com, a public dataset visualizing 200+ censorship actions by the Trump Admin against journalists, researchers & citizens since his 2nd term began. From our weekly "Last Week in Censorship" monitoring → one interactive archive you can't ignore.

The Shingles vaccine is linked to slowing biological aging and reducing inflammation academic.oup.com/biomedgeront...

Insane Auroras seen from Space 😲💙😎 NASA 💫

"No Kings" in bright lights above the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland

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...

Here’s Mamdani actually doing something concrete that encourages people to have more kids if they want them instead of wailing about low fertility & by extension, women’s liberation.

Wow, the aurora is really rocking up in Maine! This next substorm will likely send pillars high into the sky that will be visible from the central U.S. Get ready! go.theauroraguy.com/webcams

i feel like the viral bus thread resonates because at every step of the way you're like "ok surely this will be resolved shortly, any second now," which seems like what all the passengers are also thinking. then the fact that the situation doesn't resolve and the bus just keeps going is an Allegory

Seeking confirmation from additional sources, but this is horrifying.

Wow. Here’s the real-time motion of the aurora tonight filmed with my iPhone. Amazing show just now, and the night is only getting started!

Yet again.👇👇

MUST READ thread before Monday night's forecasted G4 / SEVERE geomagnetic storm. Auroras could be seen as far south as the U.S.-Mexico border at times. Widespread mid-latitude displays are possible. Here's what you need to know to have a successful aurora chase tonight! 🧵 #heliophysics #aurora

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A 🧵on my @rollingstone.com exclusive: Internal emails show how @hhsofficial.bsky.social officials close to Sec. Kennedy made a $1.6 million no-bid grant to study purported Hep B vaccine harm in Guinea-Bissau a "funding priority." rollingstone.com/politics/pol... /1

Marx remarks somewhere that historical events appear, as it were, twice: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce. He forgot to add that beneath the farce also can lurk tragedy.

Here is the X1.95 flare + large Earth-directed CME which occured this morning. We are still awaiting model outputs from NASA and NOAA, but it looks like Earth could at least see a glancing blow from this eruption in a couple days.

BRENNAN: Noem called on your to set up a safe zone where protest would be contained. Is that something you're looking at? JACOB FREY: First Amendment speech is not limited to one park or one section of the city. You're allowed to protest so long as you're doing it peacefully

Hope it was all worth it, Bill.

Oh no! More options for efficient cars with a wider variety of sizes & price points.

Gratuitous photo of the hounds.

How sad is this? The CDC closed its FOIA office, so this story could only be published because a Danish journalist provided Rolling Stone with the documents, after obtaining them through a freedom of information request to the University of Southern Denmark www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

A Reuters/Ipsos poll released Wednesday found a staggering 4 percent of Americans favor the idea of seizing Greenland with military force. Is this the least popular idea in American political history?

Interesting speculation. Or things could go another direction, where embryos derived from adult stem cells are grown in vats without the need for gametes or wombs at all & biological distinctions between sexes become less meaningful.

this crystallizes why, despite truly heroic solidarity and activism, i can’t quite get in the “we’re going to win” mindset right now. the harm is so active and there’s so much violence we don’t even know about. people are being turned into ghosts.

More than 200,000 Danish citizens have signed a petition to buy California as a response to Trump’s attempt to take Greenland. They say they will provide Californians with “rule of law, universal health care, fact-based politics, and a lifetime supply of Danish pastries.”

TODAY: Massive protests erupt in Greenland and Denmark as people take to the streets to show their unity against the United States threat

As much as this month has sucked, it has also given me enormous hope in the power of ordinary people to do extraordinarily selfless things.

Adorable, but imagine beagle food drive + Australian shepherd smarts.😱

ICE has kidnapped so many people from their cars that the city had to put out this statement. Let that sink in.

Trump shares some interesting company as the last person to be gifted a Nobel Prize medal they did not earn was Joseph Goebbels.

Reports said the trial was halted. HHS says it will proceed. The revised protocol remains unethical. Scrutiny must continue until participants are no longer placed in harm’s way. I read the revised protocol and wrote a follow-up. bktitanji.substack.com/p/lipstick-o...

A vaccine to prevent colon cancer. Proof-of-concept for strong immune response and safety via neoantigens given to people carrying mutations for Lynch syndrome nature.com/articles/s41...

The genetics of dogs’ adorable floppy ears. A gene important for human hearing could determine whether a dog’s ears are pendulous like a basset hound's or stubby like a rottweiler's, according to a genetic analysis of more than 3,000 dogs, wolves & coyotes. 🧪🐶 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The Insurrection Act is not "martial law." It doesn't displace civilian law, it doesn't suspend habeas corpus, it doesn't alter or suspend state and local government, and it doesn't make anything newly illegal. It allows using the military to enforce existing law, it doesn't change what the law is.

I can’t decide which of them should be more embarrassed…

I don’t know if this is from the current round of anti-ICE protests, but I saw a lot of serious injuries from “non-lethal” weapons as a street medic. And I can say from experience that getting hit with a rubber shot ball hurts & leaves a bruise, even from a couple hundred feet away.

"...everything i feared in 2010 about authoritarianism, the rise of nationalist movements across the world, the sprawling and more entrenched police and intelligence and military apparatus all over the world ... towards full blown genocide and ethnic cleansing in the US" - chelsea manning, 2018

The University of Arkansas's law school just withdrew the appointment of its new dean six days after hiring her because conservative politicians complained that she filed an amicus brief to the Supreme Court in support of transgender students

BREAKING: The controversial hepatitis B vaccine trial in Guinea-Bissau has been *cancelled,* I can now report. A senior official with Africa CDC confirmed the cancellation and said GB officials are working to make sure any research is conducted ethically: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Koh: Trump has now spent $30 billion from the last bill for 10,000 more I.C.E. Agents that are going to be on the streets. That $30 billion would cover all the ACA subsidies for a year. It would eliminate all co-pays for prescription drugs for people from a year, and eliminate all medical debt.

Looks like one hand doesn't know what the other is doing.😕

Looks like some great opportunities here. Always warms my heart to see good publications hiring.

"...These investigations ultimately found no causal connection between GLP-1s and suicidality." www.biospace.com/fda/fda-asks...