The new chair of RFK Jr.’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), Kirk Milhoan, has decided that personal freedoms are more important than herd immunity from polio. He also seems glad to have the opportunity to undermine vaccine requirements because he views it as an experiment.

“…Kennedy and his handpicked allies are tossing aside longstanding review practices and working behind the scenes … to fund studies they think may generate after-the-fact scientific justification for policy changes they appear determined to make.” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

The Life of Chuck 💜 Thank you, @stephenking.bsky.social for the beautiful story. A year ago, I was listening to the audio book in the car when I had to pull into a random parking lot to focus on the story. Thank you, @mikeflanaganfilm.com for the beautiful film (now on Hulu). A balm for the soul.

Mass firings, buyouts and heightened uncertainty led to an exodus of federal workers in 2025. More than 300,000 employees will be out of the government by the end of December. n.pr/4p0qEr6

Trump Announces 5,000% Increase In All Numbers

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About that exclusive, "closed-to-press" MAHA summit last week with RFK and JD Vance: I got in. Here's what I saw. 🧵 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

NEW: "It takes a special kind of callousness to take away cancer patients’ hope—and for what? To score a quick political point?" newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/trump-cut-...

I'm editing an anthology about unlikable characters and seeking work from younger writers, 15-21. If you know of one such writer who might want to submit their work for consideration, please share this call for submissions: audacity.substack.com/p/acquired-t...

“More than 420 anti-science bills attacking longstanding public health protections – vaccines, milk safety and fluoride – have been introduced in statehouses across the U.S. this year, part of an organized, politically savvy campaign to enshrine a conspiracy theory-driven agenda into law.“

Federal workers: If you were impacted by the Trump administration's just-announced mass layoffs, our reporters are here to listen. We understand you may be taking a risk in contacting us, and we take your privacy seriously. Here's how to get in touch securely 👇

NEW: In newly unsealed testimony, a SpaceX insider revealed that Elon Musk’s company had directly received money from Chinese investors, raising questions about foreign ownership interests in one of the United States’ most important military contractors.

More marine life is living on some World War II munitions disposed of on the Baltic Sea’s seabed than on the sediment surrounding it, according to a paper in Communications Earth & Environment. go.nature.com/48yFNLy 🌊 🧪

Federal workers who took the Trump administration's buyout offer come off the payroll at the end of September. Now some are confronting fear, regret and uncertainty as they figure out what's next.

Donald Trump’s system for handing out pardons “is the definition of corruption,” according to the former U.S. Pardon Attorney he fired in March.

Earlier this year, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced massive cuts to federal health agencies. The Trump administration has refused to say how many workers have been lost so far. But a new ProPublica analysis gives a detailed view.

NEW: In March, the Trump administration announced a massive purge of workers at the nation's health agencies. We asked them how many workers were laid off, pushed out or left. They refused to give us numbers. So we conducted our own analysis... 🧵 projects.propublica.org/federal-heal...

🤔🤔🤔 He said he became convinced the peptides weren’t the cause of the severe reactions after plugging everything he knows about the incident into an artificial intelligence app, which he said gave him a 57-page report that “basically says that it is impossible it was the peptides.”