"'In the face of the US canceling all this funding for vulnerable countries, and then it’s still going to pay for this research to be done – that is really worrying,' @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social said..." 1/2 www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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Detainee they are interviewing was a college student in Columbia. Waited in Mexico until he had a 2024 immigration interview in CA - a scheduled appointment - where he was told he was a danger to society. Claims he has no criminal record, never even got a traffic ticket. Was immediately detained

When I teaching the Holocaust I note the Holocaust museum’s definition of a concentration camp is a prison whose inmates are denied due process. These are by definition concentration camps.

2025 Headline of the Year nominee (April)

Bill Clinton releasing a statement saying 'release the Epstein files, you cowards' was not on my bingo list.

You've gotta hand it to Bari Weiss -- she's got people excited about watching 60 Minutes again

It's the least important element to this, but I find it fascinating on an aesthetic level too. Americans are watching a bootleg broadcast that someone in Canada recorded off their TV. And people are copying it to various platforms (however imperfect visually) to get it out as widely as possible.

2025 Headline of the Year nominee (September)

Harris County District Attorney Sean Teare says "that ICE raids have affected nearly a dozen criminal cases his office was pursuing, including sexual assaults of children, because victims and witnesses were either deported or refused to participate in trials because they were undocumented."

Our son was born 8 weeks premature & was in the NICU for a couple of weeks. The uninsured price would have been ~$25,000 per day. In 2006.

Uhh I don't know if anyone is still following the Nuzzi-Lizza thing but missive 8 basically says that she engineered her entire fall from grace three years before she ever met RFK Jr

This is 404 Media's @jasonkoebler.bsky.social waving at himself through a Flock camera; one of 60 we learned was left exposed to the open internet. Not only could anyone with a link livestream it, but some admin portals were open with no login credentials required. www.404media.co/flock-expose...

"Staffers in the Heritage Foundation’s economic, legal, and data centers resigned over the weekend to join a conservative advocacy group founded by former Vice President Mike Pence" www.nationalreview.com/news/exclusi...

I'm getting new glasses before the end of the year (use those benefits!) and there's a new box on this medical history form: "disease caused by 2019-nCoV" is this a holdover from early Covid days, or is this about long Covid? intriguing

I wouldn't say I "celebrate the holidays" so much as I "survive winter break"

Tell me you've only ever worked in op-eds without telling me...

“These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.”

One of the reasons why I go so hard on science misinformation/disinformation, is that as a working scientist it is frustrating to see your research misreported to push an agenda. For example, consider this piece of right-wing propaganda from The Telegraph that was just published

I'm going through my transcript from the last ACIP meeting and saw this from Robert Malone: "It my personal bias is to err on the side of enabling individual decision making and individual rights over the rights of the collective. That's my personal preference."

Three Dems in the House voted for Marjorie Taylor Greene's bill to criminalize having trans children

Even on the longest, deepest night, don't forget: we're stars. Happy solstice, friends.

"Babies in the randomized, controlled trial will or will not receive the vaccine at birth... "It is a breach of scientific ethics to withhold an intervention that has been proven safe and effective." www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Over 91% of Clients in the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Reach Undetectable Status www.poz.com/article/91-c...

omg

"the patient experienced clitoris the size of a pineapple"

You've heard of hot vax summer, now get ready for www.kuow.org/stories/toil...

This is absolutely fascinating and I'll be thinking about it for a while

It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans. 🧵 1 of 9

He'd probably be just as likely to work in renewable energy businessintexas.com/blog/texas-l...

-25 on healthcare

This is a reminder of how much it matters that pediatricians, public health specialists, scientists and members of the public who care about vaccines and science based recommendations continue to speak up. Many voices break through. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

I had no idea this is how the NORAD Santa tracker got started! www.npr.org/2014/12/19/3...

This.... doesn't sound like the MoCA

"Officials are urging doctors to vaccinate their patients and provide flu antivirals after deaths among children reached record highs and as a concerning mutation of the virus circulates in the US." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... via @melodyschreiber.com @theguardian.com

Rick Vandendolder, 73: "My dad was with the Dutch resistance, and he helped hide Jews and others who were fleeing Nazi persecution," he said. "I met some of the people that he saved, and I never dreamt that I'd be seeing the same thing going on in this country."

It's funny because this photo is already public and the smart thing would've been to leave in everything known

As told by the late dancer and choreographer Agnes DeMille.

It would seem that the anti-vaccine movement's focus on autism is just a way to reduce vaccines, period. They don't actually care about autism.

Congratulations to everyone who wrote an op-ed about how he just wants americans to eat better

I love this

I just called Tiny Tim "Little Jim or whatever" if you were wondering how things are going over here

This was shocking to me. He got the number wrong -- at least 288 children died from flu last season -- and also, my God

Get vaccinated, not just for yourself but for others who can’t fight off infections or who might be immune compromised. Urge anyone you care about to get vaccinated.

Tens of thousands of annual cases of chickenpox, rotavirus, and other vaccine preventable diseases a year - in a country of six million people. Not only will Denmark’s vaccine schedule not work for the US, it already isn’t working for Denmark.

A recent modeling study in JAMA showed that if MMR vaccine rates drop 10% (easy to see happen with this), we’re back to 400,000-500,000 cases a year. Our current outbreak is 2,000. This turns the clock back to 1950 🚨🚨🚨

I encourage people posting to stay mindful of the fact that countless real little girls and young women were horribly victimized by the Epstein network—and there are also MANY other survivors reading what is written here.

The Epstein file is the only thing Trump has ever taken his name off of

It is utterly catastrophic that RFK Jr. plans to end CDC recommendations for most childhood vaccines. It’s a betrayal of science, ethics, compassion, and the people of the United States. And it was also a specific goal of Project 2025 (page 254).

HUGE NEWS from the new Epstein files: Records show that Maria Farmer, who worked for Epstein, filed a "child pornography" report to the FBI in 1996. The FBI has never before acknowledged that complaint. The case went nowhere, and mass abuse followed. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...