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More than 2,900 attorneys quit the Justice Department or were fired during the first 10 months of this year -- about triple the number who depart in a typical year. personnel records obtained by Reuters show.

ICYMI: These companies ignored an FDA recall of a formula that had sent dozens of babies to the hospital. They continue to sell it and some (Target) simply cut the price encouraging more people to buy it. This is just wholly shameful corporate behavior.

Meta has removed or restricted dozens of accounts belonging to abortion access providers, queer groups and reproductive health organisations in the past weeks in what Repro Uncensored call one of the “biggest waves of censorship” on its platforms in years.

They tried to ban state regulation of AI in the budget bill and couldn’t. This has no legal effect and withholding funds from states would be illegal. If you want to preempt state regulation, pass a law.

12 former commissioners of the FDA came together to write a Perspectives piece for the New England Journal of Medicine; raising our concerns about recent changes to vaccine approval policy at the FDA and its implications for patients and public health.

scanning the @sundance.org lineup: hmm, interesting, might be good, sure why not, :loses entire fucking mind:

Another good piece on the administration's abuse of its information powers.

"Are you prepared to make decisions that will cost children their lives?" one of the commenters asks of the committee. #ACIP

GOP Sen. Ron Johnson is crowing about Robert Kennedy Jr.’s CDC pushing debunked vaccine misinformation. “Time to apologize to Dr. Andrew Wakefield and all the others who were maligned and vilified for simply asking the right questions,” he says. Wakefield’s paper was *fraudulent.*

Wow.

A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

Meta earns $3.5 billion every six months from showing Faceboon and Instagram users 15 billion “higher legal risk” scam ad impressions a day, internal documents state. That haul vastly exceeds how much the company expects regulators To fine it for running scam ads. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

"Science is being destroyed across many agencies" say federal researchers. For my latest @nature.com piece, I spoke to 19 different scientists across EPA, NOAA, NIH, NASA, and USGS to document how science is being dismantled across US federal agencies.

I was looking up a case almost no one paid attention to this summer, and I encountered this heck of a footnote from Ketanji Brown Jackson aimed at the six conservative justices. (Justice Sotomayor, who joined part of her dissent, didn't join the footnote.) www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

We're seeing a massive institutional deportation and state violence apparatus being built and it honestly feels like people dont grasp the sheer scale of it and what already is in place. For every horrific video of masked feds kidnapping people there are so many people pushing paper to help.

The ACIP meeting planned for 22-23 October has been indefinitely postponed. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

If That’s a donation, it goes to the treasury and only congress can decide how to spend it. No such (lawful) thing as private payment of government obligation. Pentagon Accepts $130 Million Donation to Help Pay Troops During Shutdown www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

“Coverage of this mass sports gambling arrest is brought to you by DraftKings“

Just receieved this today from Florida Blue. This is for a Bronze plan. Our monthly premiums are going from $333 (2025) to $2300 in 2026.

Reporters were seen exiting the Pentagon and vacating their workspaces in the building on Wednesday after most news organizations rejected the Defense Department's new press rules and refused to sign documents acknowledging the policy.

Again, it is a full-blown federal felony crime for anyone in the White House or Executive Office of the President to order tax investigations into anyone. And it's not just a crime to DO it, it's even a federal crime for an employee not to REPORT such an order to the Treasury Inspector General.

If you think that professors exist as repositories of knowledge that students ask for answers, you’re missing the entire point of a college education. We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.

Great reporting by @lizzylawrence.bsky.social. Great, insightful quotes from @reshmagar.bsky.social, @nathancortez.bsky.social & @rachelsachs.bsky.social. Not great news, to say the least, for public health, innovation, or any of us.

the guy who caught cal raleigh’s homer was wearing a shirt that said dump 61 here and he immediately took it off and had a shirt that said dump 62 here

New KFF poll: Americans want Congress to extend the expiring, enhanced Obamacare credits by a whopping margin of 78% to 22% — a remarkable political entrenchment for subsidies that were a heavy political lift for Democrats just a few years ago, per Politico.

You could not more perfectly invert the whole point of the power of the purse than this false notion the legislature cutting off appropriations means the executive gets more power.

Really big deal that FDA sent a Warning Letter to Hims & Hers for marketing unapproved new drugs (GLP-1s). Telehealth cos sell compounded versions and generally get away with much more aggressive advertising than drug cos could get away with, all under the idea that they're not drug manufacturers.

I had AI create an image of a federal government shutdown for my Administrative Law course. Not bad.

You can read @nicholasbednar.bsky.social's explainer here. Key thing to remember, shutdowns have never triggered mass layoffs before. Instead, this is a government that likes to fire employees looking for an excuse to do more of it. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/redu...

Six Justices shockingly conclude that it's likely the Impoundment Control precludes an otherwise valid APA claim to require expenditure of obligated funds. This argument, which turns the ICA on its head, is so absurd that the Trump DOJ itself wisely disclaimed it a month ago. Utterly lawless.

Say goodbye to the separation of powers. Top line: The Supreme Court grabs power from Congress, which decides what to do with money that belongs to all of us, and hands it to Donald Trump. Forever. (This money will never reach its intended recipients.) www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

This is bonkers. FDA is going to change leucovorin's label based on a lit review with data on 40 patients w/ cerebral folate deficiency and comparisons to "known natural history." www.statnews.com/2025/09/22/f...

Correlation vs Causation #tylenol #acetaminophen

NEWS: Scientists say the president of the United States and his health secretary distorted the facts behind Tylenol and autism, potentially setting back research and causing real harm to mothers and kids. By @amymaxmen.bsky.social kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

CDC has removed multiple webpages again. A list of sites that give a "404" message includes not just LGBTQ-related topics but also, inexplicably, an "Alzheimer's Communication Guide". #Medsky #Psychsky #Neurosky #familymedicine #internalmedicine #IDsky

I like this. Since under RFK Jr, Covid shots are now for people with underlying conditions that put them at risk, Michigan’s chief medical executive Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian states that not having the most recent Covid shot constitutes such an underlying condition. www.michigan.gov/mdhhs/inside...

Significant comments from Republican Sen. Ted Cruz on FCC chair Brendan Carr’s threat to ABC over Jimmy Kimmel. “That’s right out of Goodfellas. That’s right out of a mafioso coming into a bar going ‘Nice bar you have here, it’d be a shame if something happened to it.’” Cruz does the accent:

There’s competition, I know. But threatening to pull the broadcast licenses of the affiliates of an entire “big-3” television network unless they stop their evening talk show host from criticizing the president has to be one of the biggest First Amendment violations in U.S. history.

Shutting down the war on cancer. “New presidential administrations have usually gone out of their way to make transitions at the NIH as seamless as possible so as not to disrupt ongoing research…” Right. That’s not what is happening now. Must-read article. 🧪

🚨 Today is the LAST DAY you can leave a public comment for the CDC’s vaccine advisory committee, which meets Sep 18. Reports suggest they may falsely link vaccines to child deaths and restrict vaccines to ages 75 and up. You can submit a written comment here: www.regulations.gov/document/CDC...

Kudos to the post for beating me to this. Finishing up a story on this today. Have been digging into the legality of situation & its scary that there aren't a lot of protections in place to stop presentation & actions on bad data like this that contradicts CDC info.

I know we've been inching towards this a long, long time, but this is still a pretty big deal. The "nuclear option" in the Senate has finally been invoked. And, no surprise, Democrats considered this and balked; Republicans didn't. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/u...

Well this would be a bombshell — getting rid of prescription drug ads on TV. Industry spends billions on this every year. Huge First Am. problems though. www.hhs.gov/press-room/h...

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

We talk about this in our very first class of the semester in Administrative Law.

In 2023, the U.S. spent an average of $13,432 per person on health care — nearly twice the average amount spent by comparable countries ($7,393 per person). Explore the comparisons: https://on.kff.org/4gdrfmD

🚨EXCLUSIVE: Federal judges tell NBC News the Supreme Court has got to do a better job of explaining emergency rulings, with frequent decisions in favor of Trump at least appearing to validate harsh criticism of the judiciary at a time of rising threats: www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

covid directly killed millions of people and disabled millions more and yet it’s likely that the most damage it will do in the long term comes from enabling antivaxxers to take over public health