Terrifying. An Associated Press investigation found more than 420 bills attacking longstanding public health protections such as vaccines, milk safety and fluoride have been introduced in statehouses across the US so far this year. Around 30 bills in 12 states have already been enacted or adopted.

would love to know where vought got the authority to shutdown a government agency established by statute

Trump has no legal authority, "standing" or otherwise, to order the killing of people in international waters for unsubstantiated accusations of non-capital crimes. Calling them "narcoterrorists" does not make it right or legal to order their deaths without any due process.

This bit is key, too. No land border with Egypt means Israel controls everything that enters or leaves.

If you've never been to Gaza, you won't appreciate what the yellow line means. Basically Israel now holds most of Gaza's small but important agricultural land. Continued Israeli occupation, which I judge the likely outcome, makes Gaza even more unliveable and more dependent on outside goods.

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW). The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

Immigrant Nobel Prize winners exiting the United States

If you like yelling about misuse of the passive voice, THIS IS IT.

I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

“Describing the question before him as “perhaps the most important ever to fall within the jurisdiction of this district court,” a Reagan appointee says Trump unlawfully curtailed first amendment rights of noncitizens. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/u...

We’re gonna need fewer videographers and more people willing to put their bodies in between the aggressor and the victim.

Universal childcare wouldn't just relieve working families of a massive cost burden. It improves the whole economy. "There are a lot of reasons building a child care system that works for everyone is important to our children, to parents, to employers and to economic growth."

"The Hepatitis B vaccine has nearly eliminated maternal transmission of the disease in the United States, slashing the incidence to fewer than 20 cases a year from about 20,000 a year before 1991..." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/h...

Anyone who signs this pledge is not a journalist.

Fluoride in drinking water has widely been heralded as a public health triumph. But this year, with the rise of RFK Jr., legislation has been introduced in *at least 21 states* to roll back provisions related to it. Critical reporting @annaleighclark.bsky.social: www.propublica.org/article/fluo...

How Jay Jacobs is still state party chair is pretty remarkable. forget Mamdani or Walton, & his attitude toward the left. He bears a lot of responsibility for startling defeat of the "mainstream" voting rights referendums in Nov 2021, & for NY Dems' House struggles, factor in Johnson as Speaker.

Then he should resign or be removed.

“Many of the panelists also seemed unsure about the purpose of the Vaccines for Children program, which provides free shots to roughly half of all American children.” “It was unclear whether the members all understood what they were voting for.” It just keeps going. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/h...

Disney, a famously litigious corporation, should handle the Jimmy Kimmel situation the same way they handle every other legal matter: Nexstar and Sinclair for breach of contract until Kimmel is back on the air and sue the FCC into submission.

IT'S OFFICIAL: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and New York City have formed the Northeast Public Health Collaborative. The collaborative will issue their own vaccine recommendations and coordinate public health efforts.

Exactly this

“ABC and CBS are making a serious miscalculation. Their servility to Trump will not earn them peace, only greater pressure.” That’s the German professional association of journalists, @djv.de, calling on major US media to support their journalists instead of preemptively silencing them.

"He spoke to the president every day about changing the childhood vaccine schedule." Monarez testifies RFK Jr. and Trump spoke about changing childhood vaccine schedule without evidence. WATCH LIVE: www.youtube.com/live/KeTa_B0...

And yes, I was the last Black full-time columnist in the Opinion section. Washington Post -- operating in a city which for a long time has been majority Black, is now without any full-time Black opinion writers.

States have just weeks to apply for a slice of a new $50b fund for rural health care. How much states get will depend in part on whether they bar low-income people from using food stamps to purchase "non-nutritious foods" and reestablish the Presidential Fitness Test www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

This is five times the number of people who die each year worldwide from all causes.

US President back-pedalling furiously after his administration treated some innocent hard-working Koreans like they were innocent hard-working Latinos.

Some GOP officials want to clamp down on perceived expressions of schadenfreude about Charlie Kirk's death. Conservative activists are publicizing social media posts that are "celebrating" his death.

Meanwhile, on HBCU campuses, lockdowns after bomb threats and though I'm sure this won't interest most media types, it is worth noting: abcnews.go.com/amp/US/multi...

a major change to Senate rules around confirmations:

Meanwhile apnews.com/article/plan...

Red flag in this wasteful move: a USAID spox falsely claimed that birth control pills, IUDs, and arm implants cause abortions. “The administration will no longer supply abortifacient birth control under the guise of foreign aid.” 🚩🚩🚩

Trump's D.C. takeover was never about crime. In reality, it's an extension of his deportation campaign, as a whopping 40% of arrests made since the occupation have to do with immigration. trib.al/ha0ZjAm

Breaking: Missouri House passes new gerrymandered US House map giving GOP 90% of seats in state Trump won with 58% of vote. Destroys district held by Black Rep Emanuel Cleaver, one of 2 Dems in state Texas was just start of Trump’s sweeping plan to rig midterms www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

This is such a terrible and anti-democratic idea. The mayor of NYC should not need the support of the NYPD. There are pragmatic reasons why the mayor needs to have a working relationship with the police, but the NYPD doesn't get a veto over what voters want. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/n...

I can't believe I need to have an AI policy! I made it pretty short though: Using AI is cheating, yourself mostly. In addition to the environmental blight created by AI, it makes no sense to use it in your intellectual and creative work. Why would you outsource your innate intelligence?

"The group brings together hundreds of grandparents nationwide who lived through diseases such as polio, tuberculosis and measles — illnesses once thought eliminated in the United States..." www.kgw.com/article/news...

Mamdani: We need to make public transportation so good that “no matter how much money is in your pocket, you say: I’m gonna use this.”

Yet another person killed by ICE. 32-year-old Lorenzo Antonio Batrez Vargas, QEPD 💔 t.co/mmHdsHYJij

This whole thing is such a bleak three-for-one: They get to stigmatize autistic people AND blame and shame women AND they get to specifically blame and shame women trying to mitigate their physical suffering in the only way they're allowed to during pregnancy!

“science” by edict. get this dangerous quack out of our health care

PBS is cutting 100 positions, or roughly 15% of its staff, as a result of the major federal funding cuts to public broadcasting.

BREAKING, from NY Playbook PM: New York Gov. Kathy Hochul will sign an executive order allowing pharmacists to prescribe and administer Covid vaccines to New Yorkers who request them.

Something rare—maybe unprecedented—is unfolding in D.C.: Grand juries are refusing to indict Trump opponents whose minor acts of defiance have been inflated into felony charges. Washingtonians have few tools to resist the occupation of their city. This is one of them. slate.com/news-and-pol...

RFK Jr. rolled out that old chestnut again about how healthy Americans were in the 60’s, so here’s a fact check. In 1965: -42% of American adults smoked; it’s 11% now. -The infant morality rate was 24.7/1000; it’s 5.6/1000 now. -Overall life expectancy was 70 years; it's about 77 years now.

Had this exact same thought. I appreciate @warren.senate.gov calling out his lies from his confirmation hearing, but call out the lie he keeps responding to you with too. He says he wants data, it's there!

Really struck in these videos that I’ve been seeing that Kennedy keeps repeating this line about how there’s no data to indicate the vaccines work and the senators aren’t challenging him on it I’m sure some did but he should be challenged in every clip

WARNER: Do you accept the fact that 1 million Americans died from covid? RFK Jr: I don't know how many died W: You're the secretary of health and human services. You don't have any idea how many Americans died from covid? RFK Jr: I don't think anybody knows that W: How can you be that ignorant?

Why is it that R senators are always "concerned," but never do anything about it?

We took the paywall down on this one. defector.com/how-the-fuck...