Cotopaxi joined the Save the US Forest Service movement.

Very true...

So JD Vance traveled to Hungary to endorse a candidate who appears likely to lose and then went to Pakistan to fall on his face with the Iran negotiations. Truly an impressively terrible international trip.

Great news. Orbán concedes victory to Magyar. Gotta think JD Vance helped by backing Orban. www.bbc.com/news/live/c2...

Imagine trusting science to bring astronauts to the moon and back but not trusting science to develop safe vaccines.

Judge gives federal government three weeks to turn over evidence from Renee Good’s killing bit.ly/4c6WtKc

This is ridiculous. Hitting Iran's electric power plants has nothing to do with the Iranian regime's ability to get a nuclear weapon.

Really remarkable how in a war against one of the most oppressive regimes on Earth we've still managed to be the bad guys. We had to work really, really hard to get there, but we did it.

🧪 So much in the sea we know nothing about.

And yet the Trump is closing part of a major bike lane in DC because it interferes with auto traffic and his vision.

The DOJ quietly closed 23,000+ criminal cases in the first six months of Trump’s second administration, abandoning hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime, drugs and other offenses as it shifted resources to pursue immigration cases. 🔗 Full story: https://propub.li/4e5vZLL

TULSI GOT A SUBPOENA? Looks like she should, huh?

Elon Musk is now worth over $800 billion. Tesla reported paying ZERO federal income tax on $5.7 billion of U.S. income in 2025. Meanwhile, millions of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck and household debt has risen to a record high. This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.

The Iran fiasco might finally prove, once and for all, why you don't turn over the world's strongest military to a drunken talk show host and a racist game show host.

This includes many, many increasingly-less-rare pathogens, some of them with no clinical test available *in the US* anymore. CDC always provided those rare pinch-hit testing services that weren’t available (or affordable, or reliable, or) anywhere else. Now what?

This whole thread could be titled "Samuel Alito is a very petty no-good racist"

Hiring freezes and resignations have shrunk the number of qualified CDC scientists who can assist state labs. Not a good sign. Gift article from The New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/h...

UK PM Keir Starmer: "This is not our war. We will not be drawn into the conflict…There's been a good deal of pressure on me to change my position in relation to joining the war. And I'm not going to change my position on the war."

The US caused the problem and now wants everyone else to spend resources to fix it. www.msn.com/en-us/news/w...

Why? Because of misinformation and conspiracy theories, which can delay care. www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/mor...

As so often happens, animal models don't predict efficacy in people. www.cidrap.umn.edu/mpox/tpoxx-s...

AI is not a neutral party, a long way to go.

Read the full thread.

Antivax attorney Aaron Siri petitioned HHS to add 300 “injuries” to the Vaccine Injury Table for the Vaccine Injury Compensation System. It’s part of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s plan to destroy the system, driving vaccine manufacturers out of the US. sciencebasedmedicine.org/rfk-jr-is-de...

🧪 Trump values neither science nor truth. www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/the-...

This major renovation, which should never have been started, should have gotten more scrutiny than that done for the surrounding fencing. A gift article from The New York Times. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

And in the arthropod vein there were also the “tics” (lunatic, bombastic, undemocratic, et al.)

The Senate passed a bill to fund all of DHS except ICE and Border Patrol. And we did it with the unanimous consent of ALL 100 SENATORS. Speaker Johnson refused to vote on this bill and chose to continue holding TSA hostage and to continue Trump's chaos.

“I am glad that this administration has finally chosen to pay these workers, after choosing not to for 41 days," says DeLauro. "The administration must provide an explanation as to what funding it is using to pay these workers after falsely claiming it could not do so."

At the beginning of this podcast Dr. Osterholm reminds us that MN was awarded a John F Kennedy profiles in courage award for standing up to ICE.🧪 www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...

DHS could pay TSA workers but chooses not to for what they hope will be political gain.

If Trump had nominated a new CDC director before today, Bhattacharya could've stayed on as acting head. Now he can only do delegable duties, and the rest falls to Kennedy. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Republicans reject a Democratic motion to fund TSA for the 10th time

Elizabeth Banks

Since there will be no consequences for the administration for not making the Congressionally mandated deadline, they will keep searching for the worst person they can find.

And once again there will be no consequences for missing the required deadline to name a director.

Just here to make sure this gets the ratio it deserves. Sad to see the National Academies not standing up for science.

Glyphosate most commonly known in the US as Roundup www.cidrap.umn.edu/antimicrobia...

Another day, ANOTHER study shwoing clear benefits for the baby when mom gets vaccinated against COVID during pregnancy I'll never forgive Bhattacharya, Makary, & RFK Jr for posting that horrific video that recommended AGAINST vaccination in pregnancy; it was dreadful disinformation

Dems need to be on every news channel saying this. Everyday. All day.

Despite what the administration said, the target was dairy farm, not a drug trafficking compound. Who would have thought the government lied about this 😜

DHHS will likely appeal the ruling but Dr. Malone indicated that he would not rejoin the committee. One can only hope he sticks to that.

Strong correlation between aridity and clinical antibiotic resistance. www.cidrap.umn.edu/antimicrobia...

President Trump cast a mail ballot in an upcoming Florida special election, according to Palm Beach County records, as he publicly condemns the voting method as fraudulent. nbcnews.to/4taQ8oi

I thought I had heard the depths of his ignorance until I saw this. I guess he missed 4th grade science. 🧪

On the bright side- it looks like they finally found something for the National Guard to actually DO in Memphis… act as seat-fillers for Trump & @MarshaBlackburn & @GovBillLee’s publicity stunt today 🫤

Get ICE out of our airports and fund TSA!

Senate Democrats voted multiple times to fund TSA separately from ICE. Republicans voted it down every time. Republicans are to blame for today’s airport chaos — all because they’re happy to keep letting Trump’s thugs terrorize our communities with no consequences. Remember this.