Oh my GOD King County Public Health is just wilding out for Valentines Day (and a lovely one).

nobody posted the clip anywhere so i went and dug the whole episode up

I interviewed a family of Russian asylum seekers who’ve been held more than four months at the Dilley detention center in Texas. As we spoke over Zoom this week, their daughter Kamilla was one day shy of turning 12. I asked her what she wanted for her birthday. She replied: “To get out of here.”

It's so funny (sob) how I wrote this and then literally two days later, they were like, get your stuff and get packing, everybody, we're letting a couple thousand people go and I had no job.

#PedSky #MedSky #Pulmsky #EpiSky #addictionsci #policysky #polisky #neuroskyence #neurosci #PainResearch🛟 🫁💊🧪 🌍⚖️ FDA rejects porphyria drug from Disc Medicine that had received a fast-track review voucher.

I am truly grateful.

"The plan’s $38 billion budget is more than the total annual spending for 22 states, according to state budget data." Dems should not only pay a dollar for this monstrosity - in the future - they will need to claw back all that money and the entire $75 billion Rs appropriated for this monstrosity.

Science hangout on a Tuesday night? Come learn about blue button jellies at 7:30 pm EST on March 17th! Speaker: Colin J Anthony, The University of Tokyo Zoom link: u-tokyo-ac-jp.zoom.us/j/8103036128... Meeting ID: 810 3036 1288 Passcode: 527641

On the anniversary of a dark day for U.S. science, please raise a glass for everyone who has come out stronger and encourage those who are still recovering. Here are five stories. 🧪 🔬 💪 www.science.org/content/arti...

NSF Update Funding curve overall. A little bit of progress in the past week, but only a little bit. Now by Directorate... 1/11

On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast. The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me. But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.

EPA administrator repealed the legal basis for every federal climate regulation He spent most of the announcement complaining about his car turning off at red lights. called it "the obama switch." EDF says this will lead to 77,000 early deaths and $3.9 trillion in damage. #EPA #climatechange

They think they have a right to impose their delusions on your kids. They are banking on the fact that liberal parents will be too nice to be as aggressive as MAHA. Prove them wrong. This should infuriate you and you must make sure your legislators hear that. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/h...

"We are [...] walking away from the most advanced form of one of the most effective public health measures available to the human race, and instead we are investigated older technologies that happen to involve the administration’s friends." @dereklowe.bsky.social www.science.org/content/blog...

If only they had worn body cameras, this wouldn't have hap—

More than 560 items sold and over $12k raised for ACLU/NARF! Taking orders through March 1

Hear Ye! Hear Ye! #2026MMM (With a hat-tip to the Dropkick Murphys) The season's upon us, it's that time of year! Science & carnage, there's battles to cheer, there's twists to these plots and there's stings to be stung, there's research to do and plenty of fun!

Do you have a bunch of frequent flyer miles banked? You can make them available to people who have been detained by ICE and who need to fly home. www.standwithminnesota.com/skymiles

The IRS illgally shared THOUSANDS of taxpayers private data with ICE As CDT's Tom Bowman notes, the scandalous and reckless data sharing between IRS and ICE shows "precisely why strict legal firewalls exist and have — until now — been treated as an important guardrail.” apnews.com/article/trea...

NEW: SSA has been told to tell ICE the "date and time" when certain people have appointments, likely subjecting those people to ICE enforcement actions when they come in. @zoeschiffer.bsky.social, @telliotter.bsky.social, & @leahfeiger.bsky.social w/ the scoop: www.wired.com/story/social...

The Trump Administration has made a grave decision to ignore science and disregard the real impacts of climate change. By moving to abandon the EPA’s “endangerment finding”, they are opening the door to more pollution, more extreme weather, and more harm to our health and our economy...

From the brilliant @michaelemann.bsky.social and Bob Ward: "The endangerment finding was based on robust and rigorous scientific evidence. And that evidence is now stronger than ever." www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

Scoop: The NIH infectious-diseases institute (NIAID) will soon scrub “pandemic preparedness” and “biodefense” from its web pages, according to e-mails I obtained. The directive is the start of a broader shake-up at NIAID, which has long been attacked by Republicans.

13 February 1928 | Dutch Jewish twin sisters, Henriëtte and Sellij Fuldauer, were born in Geertruidenberg. They were deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in September 1942. They were most likely murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection.

Amazon's smart doorbell maker Ring scraps partnership with police surveillance tech company Flock Safety after Super Bowl ad backlash abc7.com/post/ring-fl...

We are seeking an ambitious reporter to cover elections and campaigns in #Maine as part of our award-winning, nonpartisan, nonprofit newsroom. Use the link to submit a resume, story pitch and links to three samples of your published work. Deadline: March 1. themainemonitor.org/elections-go...

As new groups form & new leaders & organizers emerge, there is a wide variety of experience, skill, and difference between those who know and those who think they know. #BuildCommunity #StaySmall #StaySafe #StayBrave #ORGANIZE #RESIST #OPPOSE #NonViolenceIsPower #EveryEffortCounts Reminder:

Anthropic head of AI safety quits, warning of "world in peril" & announces plan to study creative writing, as my college charges ahead in deal with Anthropic, which trained its tech on at least 25 books taken without permission from our Creative Writing faculty. www.bbc.com/news/article...

When the Supreme Court allowed immigration agents to consider race during sweeps, Justice Brett Kavanaugh said that citizens shouldn’t be concerned because agents will “promptly let the individual go.” For these Americans, that wasn’t true. (Published Oct. 2025)

NEW: Yesterday, the House passed the SAVE America Act, a measure that would disenfranchise millions of Americans domestically and abroad. @demsabroad.bsky.social Martha McDevitt-Pugh asserts voting is not a privilege; it’s a constitutional right. And they do not lose that right when living abroad.

Study of 8M biomed & life science articles finds those led by women spent 7 to 15 days longer in review than those led by men. Over a career, women's papers could spend 350 to 750 additional days in review. Delays could slow promotion, esp to full professor. www.the-scientist.com/women-s-rese...

Rosemary says EAT THE RICH! sticker available: mcapriglione.art

It doesn't take a tinfoil hat to wonder whether the below Susan Collins post is her way of telegraphing to the site's Nazi-saluting, billionaire owner that she considers herself a fan/ally and he should therefore consider dropping some $$$ into her Senate race. #MEpolitics

I can't think of an attorney general ever showing this much open contempt for Congress before. Not only would most of them think this kind of conduct was beneath them, they'd have known that the Judiciary Committee chair, whatever the party, would never stand for clownish antics like this.

Fascinating and deeply satisfying resolution to why adenovirus-based vaccines produced blood clots in 1 out of 200,000 people. Two factors interacted: a mutation in an antibody gene + weak similarities between a viral protein & a human blood-clotting protein = induced clotting cascade.

Five years after the rollout of Covid-19 vaccines started, it seems the mystery of why the Astra-Zeneca and J&J vaccines led to a rare but deadly side effect of unusual blood clots and bleeding has finally been solved. 
 It's a fascinating case of molecular mimicry that may help make vaccine safer.🧪

This is some genuinely psycho shit...

More than 21 millions Americans do not have documentation proving their citizenships, and would be disenfranchised by the SAVE Act the GOP just passed through the House. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...

Internal Revenue Service improperly shared confidential tax information of thousands of individuals with immigration enforcement officials, according to three people familiar with the situation, appearing to breach a legal fire wall intended to protect taxpayer data.

#TardiGandalf lives!! #2026MMM

Every photo from Minneapolis looks like this. Cops decked out with guns and full tac gear facing off against people in bathrobes, parkas, and sweatpants armed only with whistles and cell phones. Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.

Kristi Noem has to go. Gregory Bovino has to go. Stephen Miller has to go.

NEGUSE: AG Bondi, that man works for you now, right? The man in that video from J6 yelling 'kill them!' at cops. His name is Jared Wise. BONDI: He does work for us, yes. I believe he was pardoned NEGUSE: And you expect hard-working police officers to believe you take law enforcement seriously?

Alzheimer’s disease is the sixth leading cause of death in the U.S., yet it is still poorly understood. Learn how JAX Professor Greg Carter is using data and computational science to connect experimental models to real human disease. 🧪 🧠 https://go.jax.org/Carter5Q

BALINT: Yes or no, has the DOJ asked Secretary Lutlick about his ties to Epstein? BONDI: He has addressed those ties himself BALINT: Yes or no, has the DOJ asked Secretary Lutlick about his ties to Epstein? BONDI: He has addressed those ties himself (That's a no!)

🚨 The Department of Justice is monitoring the search history as members of Congress navigate the unredacted Epstein Files

RASKIN: Do you think it would violate the emoluments clause for the president to work out a deal to get money in one of these lawsuits against the government? BONDI: I'm not going to discuss pending litigation

Lieu plays Bondi the infamous clip of Trump & Epstein partying together & asks her if there were underaged girls at any party the two attended "This is so ridiculous," Bondi says. "There's no evidence that Donald Trump has committed a crime" "I believe you just lied under oath," Lieu replies

Gallup says it will stop doing presidential approval polls (after 88 years of doing it) because of "an evolution in how Gallup focuses it's public research". This is eliminating a time series that goes back to FDR. thehill.com/homenews/med...

Epstein survivors raise their hands to signal they've been ignored by Trump's DOJ as AG Pam Bondi refuses to look at them (Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty)