4,049 people gone from NIH compared to 2024, an 18% loss in staff. www.medpagetoday.com/washington-w...

Anyways, today is a good day to become @thexylom.com's member. As WaPo abandons its international coverage, the responsibility of reporting from Sudan to Ukraine will fall to indie outlets like ours. I just want to keep my job and not have to self-deport by the end of 2026: bsky.app/profile/thex...

Babe, wake up, new sarcastic but entirely worthwhile internet abbreviation just dropped

It is absolutely outrageous that Moderna’s flu vaccine was met with a “refusal-to-file” even after their approved their protocol with FDA and carried out the trial as agreed. This vaccine works better in older adults than the current flu vaccines. apnews.com/article/mode...

Next week! On Weds 18 Feb at 6pm ET, launching the new season of @emorycshh.bsky.social's Health Storytelling with Mallary Tenore Tarpley and her new book SLIP: LIFE IN THE MIDDLE OF EATING DISORDER RECOVERY. Streamed to multiple platforms, RSVP here for links: humanhealth.emory.edu/events/livin...

la subtilité, la précision:

This is an exceptionally well-researched and written presentation on the history and future of #ICE by Garrett Graff ( @vermontgmg.bsky.social ) to the Governor J.B. Pritzker’s “Illinois Accountability Commission”. Really freaking disturbing. Thanks for the great work Garrett!

A thread worth reading.

For news nerds, I submit: A Double Betteridge.

most recent email i have received is a guy who told me i should be lynched. looked him up and he is a 68/69-year-old retiree in phoenix who doesn't appear to be married or have children. his facebook page is nothing but reposted memes and AI slop and he used to post a lot on gun forums

So about TrumpRx: We crunched the numbers today and about half of the drugs on there have cheaper generics available already. www.statnews.com/2026/02/06/t...

The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions! This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...

Seven years ago yesterday, this ad ran during the Super Bowl.

Incredible testimony at a municipal meeting, opposing ICE purchase of a warehouse, supposedly without the knowledge of the local political leadership. Urge reading the whole thread of community reaction in what was a hard-R district. But definitely watch the entire 2+ minutes of this.

A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."

Let's be very clear that the Post's owner could fund the paper in perpetuity, at its historically highest staffing levels, with couch change. There is no business plan here that survives scrutiny. (And I'm so sorry, news colleagues.)

How much do I love @nymag.com, choosing the exact right moment — of insane restaurant pricing and affordability chatter and Mayor Mamdani targeting halalflation — to bring back their Cheap Eats feature? Perfection. www.grubstreet.com/article/best...

Goddammit.

Just to establish for the record, we're claiming "ex-husband" status for a divorce that occurred 51 YEARS AGO? In 1975? Because there is nothing that the tabloid world won't do or say to besmirch 1) a woman who 2) possesses a politically liberal identity? Claro OK.

It's Elmo's birthday

Today is the paperback release day for my book The Contagion of Liberty! It’s about how Americans demanded that their governments provide inoculations for smallpox to the public as their right and also to affirm that public health is a foremost duty of government. www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

A journalist and author living in Minneapolis describes what everyday life is like there now. There was no pivot. deardara.com/so/adPmSCLoz

🦠 Researchers have uncovered how a high-risk class of genetic vectors can efficiently spread #AntibioticResistance within the gut, enabling even highly virulent #bacteria to acquire drug resistance under real-world conditions. #AMR

oh no

France: We are very sophisticated. France: We are the home of nonjudgmental sexual variety and refinement. Also France:

It's Nerd Book Club time again! The Health Storytelling series of livestreamed chats with authors of new books (and me) returns this spring with Mallary Tenore Tarpley, Dr. Tom Frieden, and Jason Gale. First up: Tenore Tarpley on 18 Feb with "SLIP," on eating disorders: bit.ly/mallary-teno...

This is probably not true. But I want it to be true. And if it isn't true, someone please create it.

There's been so much important writing about Minneapolis recently. I have compiled some of the most stirring, informative, beautiful, and surprising. @kristenradtke.bsky.social @rubycramer.bsky.social @mashagessen.bsky.social @chashomans.bsky.social @kellymcb.bsky.social @philipkennicott.bsky.social

Holy moly this chart: Cumulative US measles cases

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.

Always been a fan of the 34-star flag. Flown by the Union regiments throughout the war. Basically as anti-Confederate as one can get.

The person killed by ICE in Minneapolis today was an ICU nurse and a public health researcher at the Minneapolis VA.

Rapid and thorough analysis by a trustworthy organization.

Below is our story about the skyrocketing number of kids detained by ICE. We cover the facility where Liam is now being held-- parents said food had worms and mold, and kids were so distressed they hit themselves in the face and wet themselves. www.themarshallproject.org/2025/12/17/c...

This whole article is just flabbergasting. Here for instance, he's either forgotten about the massive measles epidemic 1989-1991 or is ignoring it. How different do you think our treatment is today? (Not that much!)

You know this new FAA notice from Jan 16th that appears to prohibit drone flights within 3000 feet of ICE/DHS? Well, me and a number of others have been trying for days, and we've still heard *nothing* back from official government sources who might be able to clarify what this means in practice.

National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation. Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.

NEW: DHS appropriations bill funding ICE passes 220-207 7 Democrats voted YES on the bill: - Jared Golden - Marie Gluesenkamp Perez - Henry Cuellar - Tom Suozzi - Laura Gillen - Don Davis - Vicente Gonzalez One Republican voted NO: Thomas Massie

The only people who got the news correct today were @attackerman.bsky.social and @parkermolloy.com

The US granted visas to Jews but only allowed 30,000 in from Germany a year. You had to wait for your number to come up. Meet Robert Smallbones. An unassuming British diplomat who 'hacked' this system so effectively (saving 48 THOUSAND Jews) the UK government kept his scheme secret for decades /1 🧵

If you're only reading headlines and see "Trump Says He Won't Use Force" it will give you a misimpression of both how bellicose this speech is and how dug in he is on Greenland.

something I'd strongly recommend to everyone in the Twin Cities: explain simply, directly and frequently what you're witnessing every day to anyone in your life that isn't from here. everyone I've told -- even the well-informed! -- were shocked and horrified to hear the reality of it all.

Maine there is a Facebook group recruiting people to infiltrate groups supporting their neighbors during an ICE occupation. Andy writes about it here. People are joining the Pine Guard “militia” with their full government names. #hostilepress #hostilepressME www.facebook.com/story.php?st...

Thank you, Maine officials.

“One morally vacant aristocrat could not have accomplished today on his own. Everyone who was supposed to protect [us] from this failed in unforgivable ways … Every institution you may have believed had value revealed itself to be for-sale or out-to-lunch.” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

It's been one month since the deadline to release all of the Epstein files. The Trump Justice Department has released less than 1% of all the files.

jack asked if i would sketch up a poster to tell people in nearby neighborhoods about the partnership between flock and ring, and this is what i came up with. it can be printed on an 8.5x11 sheet of paper.

Requiring people to show their papers when the US doesn't issue citizenship documents is interesting.

Guys the NYTimes found a new rural diner.