The vaccines worked

I keep seeing people ask about the 25th Amendment. Guys. His entire Cabinet is walking around in shoes that don’t fit because they’re scared to take them off. The 25th is never happening.

🇪🇺🇮🇷 Kallas: The death of Khamenei is a defining moment in Iran’s history. There is now an open path to a different Iran, one that its people may have greater freedom to shape. I’m in contact with partners, including those in the region, to find practical steps for de-escalation.

That was nonsense

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.” - 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas. Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

Prasad/Makary/Hoeg still haven't released a shred of evidence to support this claim.

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One of the best things I’ve read in a while:

Beyond helping establish DHS itself in 2003, Mr. Mitnick was a senate-confirmed Trump choice for General Counsel for DHS in his first term. I've talked with him a few times, and he's not a man for hyperbole. So bear that in mind when you see him calling out DHS's "lawlessness, fascism, and cruelty."

So important. What they say is not the story. That is never the story. What happened is the story. Write what happened.

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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.

Worth every second

Common Sense, published 250 years ago today.

🧵 Essential ID Papers for 2025: A Clinician’s Guide Each year brings a flood of amazing ID literature. Here are candidates for some of the most important ID papers of 2025, spanning guidelines, trials, antimicrobials, and vaccines. 👇

Read the full email Sharyn Alfonsi sent her team about CBS pulling their segment on the Trump admin’s deportations of Venezuelan migrants

No prob, understood!

A merger, observed with the Hubble Space Telescope in the COSMOS survey. It is at redshift 0.63 (lookback time 6.09 billion years) with coordinates (149.93327, 2.11485). 49 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo: Hubble.

I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!

🔥 COACH SULLY: “Let’s see what $4.3 TRILLION looks like when each party gets their hands on it… the oligarchs are laughing all the way to the bank (with Republicans)…”

After yesterday’s rambling press conference on acetaminophen and autism, I wrote for TIME about the disastrous medical guidance offered by the president and why this was even worse than the ‘inject bleach’ press conference during Covid OpEd and accompanying video interview👇 time.com/7319680/crai...

Proud papa moment: my son J published a letter in the @nytimes.com today (in print tomorrow) on the need to think our definitions of autism.

It’s taken 7 months to ruin the CDC - the world authority in public health and identifying/managing emerging infections - in the effort to legitimize pseudoscience. What a loss for this country.

I am disappointed in the MGW and Eze outcomes but #THFC was done dirty by both Forest and CP. First club somehow was able to not honor a release clause and the second strung us along while awaiting a call from Arsenal. I hope our disdain for them will fuel us to smashing victory when we play.

It has taken medical science 200 years to advance humans to the point where people are so healthy and living so long that they can deny that science and medicine is what got us here.

And yet Joe Rogan puts guests on who say "Vaccines aren't actually responsible for the reduction in infectious diseases.”

For those supporting this obscene violation of due process and expansion of governmental overreach to detain and deport legal residents without due process, please research authoritarian regimes. Today they'll use it against a group you don't like, but it will be turned on you tomorrow.

The WH meeting today where Ukrainian President Zelensky was browbeaten was wrong. The behavior of the American President, VP, and assorted officials was an embarrassment to this country.

When I was a child, I learned that the Constitution didn’t apply to people like us. I said the Pledge of Allegiance from inside a barbed wire camp, the words “with liberty and justice for all” wholly meaningless. But I did not give up on America. I’ve spent my life fighting for its ideals.

it does me no good to sit and read about all the things trump is doing because i have been paying attention. when he showed me who he was i believed him and none of this is a surprise. oklahoma has been living under project 2025 for years. i already know what’s going to happen i live in it.

Very well designed study on a really important question 👏🏼 @merellambregts.bsky.social Inappropriate application of diagnostic tests/thresholds is a major issue in UTI (& clin micro generally). The mixed culture data confirms what others have shown; they are relevant in this pt grp. #UTISky

Spurs under Postecoglou are much better than they were Precoglou.

Freddy Mercury died of AIDS 33 years ago today. With modern medical technology, he likely would have lived. Never forget how much progress against major infectious disease has been made in a short time. We are at risk now of rolling back much of that progress.

I think it speaks volumes that right wingers criticize bluesky for being “liberal” and “left wing”, when it’s really just that hate speech isn’t allowed.

The real secret to the "Mediterranean diet" is eating equal qualities of pasta and antipasto so that they annihilate one another

That is exceptional grace from Sarah McBride.

This is great!

Hilarious!

I open my Bluesky feed and it is full of really cool people saying really smart things and being really passionate about really interesting stuff. I like this version of social media, and the world. Thanks, folks.

I am finding it quite unbearable to watch Sarah McBride bear the grotesque attack of her colleagues with so much grace. I know it is what we have been taught to expect of trailblazers, but I am increasingly struggling to accept this.

You followed your conscience.

Bullshit. If I had wanted power, I would have kept my mouth shut. I preferred my conscience.

Ugh. His misinformation campaign led to the deaths of 83 ppl from measles in American Samoa in 2020. Putting him in charge of our public health is wildly dangerous to our health.

A commenter on our YouTube channel has a suggestion

In times like these, community is everything. That's why we are so honored to be part of this pro-democracy Bluesky community. It's great to see how quickly this platform is growing, reconnect with familiar faces, and actually be able to follow the latest news again! Let's keep this energy going!!!

“bluesky is an echo chamber” the echo is sanity.

While Trump crows about his great COVID record, remember this, from the COVID Crisis Group (a bipartisan collection of scientists and public health experts), in a study published last year. Excerpt from The Death of Expertise, second edition.