"Thank you for calling the corporate headquarters of ANTIFA. Comrade, your call is very important to us and will be answered in the order it was received. Current wait times to speak to an actual ANTIFA representative are infinite. [🎶Soviet Musack🎶]"

In March, we reported on how two leaders of a white supremacist network allegedly helped create a detailed hit list of U.S. politicians, execs, academics and others, according to court documents. Each entry included a photo of the target and their home address. W/ @frontlinepbs.bsky.social

Scientists have confirmed that Yersinia pestis, the bacterium behind later plagues like the Black Death, caused the Justinian Plague - the world’s first recorded pandemic 1,500 years ago.

Read more about the discovery here:

These are the sorts of attacks on experts that resulted in a domestic terrorist firing 500 shots at the CDC just over a week ago. If you stand for evidence based public health interventions, you basically get a target placed on your back by DHHS leadership. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

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Dan Pelzer read at least 3,599 books since 1962. After he died this month at 92, his family made his handwritten reading list public, hoping to motivate readers everywhere.

One day Alligator Alcatraz will be filled with those who built it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-p0...

"A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people." —The Declaration of Independence

A serious article from the best satirist around. It’s definitely time for the trump regime to be removed. It’s our right and responsibility to our country. open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...

“If donors to these nonprofits are not just holding the keys to an elected official’s political future but also literally providing them with their income, that’s new and disturbing,” a campaign finance expert said about Noem’s secret income.

If you're an #EmergencyMedicine doctor in these states, COVID 2020 would have been walk in the park: 1. Texas (80 closures, 30 imminent) 2. Kansas (62 closures, 31 imminent) 3. Oklahoma (39 closures, 26 imminent) 4. Mississippi (35 closures, 25 imminent) www.beckershospitalreview.com/finance/703-...

Big? Beautiful? It all depends where you're sitting. www.politico.com/cartoons/202...

“family members identified the victim as Narciso Barranco, a father to three sons who are all U.S. Marines” ktla.com/news/local-n...

📊 WWSCAN Weekly Data: Respiratory weekly update: SARS-CoV-2 is in the ‘Medium’ category. All other respiratory viruses we monitor (RSV, Influenza A, Influenza B, HMPV and EV-D68) are in the ‘Low’ category nationwide. 🛟😷🧪

RFK Jr fired the vaccine advisory committee due to supposed "conflicts of interest." In reality ACIP members must follow strict ethical rules. Please ask him to produce evidence for his claims & have him address his own conflicts of interest (making millions from antivax lawsuits & consulting). Ty!

HUGE MEDIA NEWS: POLITICO is launching a new spin-off publication, POLITICO Weimar! If you sign up now, each morning you can get its “Reich Chancellery Playbook” newsletter delivered to your inbox as a bonus!!

Jeffries: "We will not be lectured by Donald Trump and anyone in the Republican Party about issues of law and order ... he pardoned hundreds of violent felons, criminals, who brutally assaulted police officers and attacked the Capitol on January 6. That's what Donald Trump did on day one."

Taiwan is the only country CLOSE to getting it right. This should be for everyone though. www.taiwannews.com.tw/news/6129174

🔴 Brand new comic now up on @boingboing.net - "A Busy, Busy Day at the Airport" after Richard Scarry - boingboing.net/2025/06/04/t...

The White House is downplaying major citation errors in a sweeping report on chronic disease in children released last week by the Make America Healthy Again Commission. scim.ag/4dPFNaQ

This is a first for me: an actual, honest to cod COVID memorial in the park by my parents' house.

Every year on Memorial Day, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring. They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died. France also gave us this land as American soil.

My latest in @plosglobalpublichealth.org journals.plos.org/globalpublic...

Hubble and Dark Energy Camera image of Arp 122, also known as NGC 6040 and LEDA 59642. This pair of galaxies are in the midst of a collision, warping the top spiral NGC 6040. Credit: ESA, NASA, J. Dalcanton, Dark Energy Survey, DOE, FNAL, DECam, CTIO, NOIRLab, NSF, AURA Source

Our medical establishment, Prasad and Makary, issued what amounts to a viral mandate. They reject bodily autonomy and medical freedom. If I can’t get a vaccine and get really sick next year, I know who to blame. So do you. My latest. sciencebasedmedicine.org/viralmandate/

I was published in MSNBC today, commenting on the FDA’s attack on COVID vaccines. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

We’ve scored both successes and seen setbacks in an extended legal process to try to turn back the clock to March 14. Despite today’s hitch in federal court, I'll continue to speak out on behalf of my courageous colleagues even after I soon retire from VOA. open.substack.com/pub/newsguy/... #SaveVOA

Since Donald Trump is freaking out about Bruce Springsteen calling this the most corrupt, incompetent and treasonous administration, it would be a shame if this video was shared even more widely....

“Poor man wanna be rich. Rich man wanna be king. The king ain’t satisfied ‘til he rules everything.”—Springsteen, Badlands

So this is MAHA??? www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

This is a project and an area I've been working in for years. We've published numerous papers on the topic, and recently went through a competitive renewal in which the science of the grant was rigorously evaluated and supported. And it was cut for cheap political points

A new study shows that air cleaners can reduce up to 98,1 % of viral load in the air of a #COVID patient's room with confirmed positive airborne viral RNA. Rooms with HEPA ventilation had zero virus detected. 👏 #CleantheAir in hospitals and schools!👏 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Alcatraz, Gulf of America, a third term, being Pope. All distractions. So well done to the oldest Sunday newspaper in the world for focusing on a story that matters. Trump Inc and the new age of corruption.

This is CRUCIAL legal context for the assault by ICE on Members of Congress today. ICE has NO LEGAL AUTHORITY to prevent members of Congress visiting facilities to exercise oversight. There’s isn’t even a requirement to give prior notice of a visit. (H/T Aaron Reichlin-Melnick on X) 👇

New RSV vaccine, treatment linked to dramatic fall in baby hospitalizations arstechnica.com/health/2025/...

Having zero tolerance for our leaders profiting off elected office should have nothing to do with right/left politics. Sooo...my op-ed for Fox News on how Trump's first 100 days marks him as the most corrupt president in American history. www.foxnews.com/opinion/sen-...

I went to the Senate floor to tell a story about Trump’s first 100 days - a story of daily, norm shattering corruption. I laid out 40 different corrupt acts - each one alone could have taken down previous presidents. 1/ A 🧵 of my speech. People need to know this story.

Elon Musk to blame for world’s poorest kids dying, says Bill Gates.

Hardcoded credentials in the Signal archiving tool used by the White House is a five-alarm security dumpster fire.

“I’m someone who shows up for others by protecting myself. But I’m not confused. I’m committed.” 🔥 A highly impactful article by Sean Mullen: whn.global/stuck-in-the...

Protect and defend editorial cartoonists this World Press Freedom Day

VA study: Pfizer #COVID booster 68% effective against hospitalization Yet uptake of the vaccine was extremely low—less than 4% through November 2024. www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...#COVID Photo: Camosun College / Flickr cc

Go back through history. Look who adds more to the debt. It's the Republicans, not the Democrats.

The udder madness of DOGE www.politico.com/cartoons/202...

Spirals and vortexes, oh my! My latest over at The Climate Brink: www.theclimatebrink....