The President does not get to raise and spend his own separate money. This is Constitution 101 stuff, guys.

“The mayor’s gesture reflected broader goals of repairing the city’s disjointed infrastructure for cyclists and pedestrians, and signaled to voters that he would undertake long-ignored street improvements — the kind of meat-and-potatoes issue that some previous mayors have struggled to deliver on.”

Omg: “If the woman is about half a standard deviation more agreeable than the man, that’s the optimal point for relationship durability,” he said, to which I must have emitted an observable psychometric signal. “Look at your face,” Mr. Zervas said. “You’re horrified.”

If you made a Venn diagram of every weird person I knew in Silicon Valley during the first dot-com boom, centrifuged it, extracted the pellet, and re-suspended it in high-proof eugenics with a splash of AI, you'd end up with something like this. It'll take a strong stomach to read this "gift" link.

“This Oil will be sold at its Market Price, and that money will be controlled by me, as President of the United States of America…”

“Doctors Without Borders, the international medical aid group, said Tuesday that Israel had ordered it to cease operations in the Gaza Strip after it failed to comply with new restrictions that include registration of all Gazan employees and limits on criticism of Israel’s conduct of the war.”

"Good for investors" Our FDA works for investors.

Trump and Hegseth are trying to intimidate me into silence. After 25 years in the Navy, I can tell you — that's not going to work. This is about defending everyone's First Amendment rights.

Call: “I'm calling to urge [REP/SEN NAME] to demand a full investigation into RFKJ’s unilateral and unscientific changes to the childhood vaccination schedule. These changes, made behind closed doors, threaten public health and access to lifesaving vaccines for children.” (I replaced CDC with RFKJ)

From an email to one of our faculty members.... Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!

“FDA Commissioner Marty Makary indicated that one of the agency’s priorities is fostering an environment that’s good for investors… The new approach appears to open the door to the unregulated use of generative AI products for certain medical tasks, such as summarizing a radiologist’s findings.”

Department of Interior says if you put a sticker over Trump's face on your national park entrance pass, the pass will be invalidated. Meanwhile Trump's decision to put his face on the passes is being challenged in court

this is how every outlet should refer to X

Walz: "What Trump tweeted the other night put the Hortman children at risk. They have to look at security. Put my family at risk again. What he's doing the Somali community is unconscionable ... for God's sake, the kids of a murdered Speaker. And [Rs] can't speak up and say 'this is wrong. stop it'"

RFK Jr. recently changed the vaccine schedule without an ACIP meeting and without new evidence that merited consideration for those changes, in a move that promotes the interests of infectious diseases over those of the public. I want to look at one particular change: Single dose HPV vaccination 🧵

When was the last time any of you saw a child with rotavirus admitted to our wards? It was once a mainstay of the wintertime pediatric ward. Ever seen a case of HiB meningitis? I haven't but it stalked the nightmares of the pediatricians who trained me.

“What scares those in the world of pediatrics, though, is imagining how the new schedule could play out over time. If vaccination levels drop, those who have compromised immune systems, like newborns and children with serious conditions, will be at much higher risk of serious illness and death.”

“Cassidy, in a position of real power and influence on Capitol Hill, has plenty of other options. He could concede publicly that confirming Kennedy was a tragic mistake; he could call for Kennedy’s resignation; he could even schedule hearings… Cassidy isn’t doing any of these things.”

Bill Cassidy spent 2025 criticizing RFK Jr’s radical moves, but failing to actually do anything meaningful, despite his powerful committee chairmanship. In 2026, the senator is offering more of the same, indifferent to the consequences of his passivity. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

The fact that there is no one who has instantly shut this down is one of the biggest indictments of the entire AI industry, Elon Musk, and our current government that we’ve seen yet.

“Mr. Trump dares the system to stop him. He does so knowing that the same system that failed to hold him to account for Jan. 6 is unlikely to do so now. The effects might outlast him. He has shown his Republican would-be successors, starting with Mr. Vance, that they can rewrite palpable history”

Scarce research funding is becoming more economically costly than the actual investment, especially when it’s a drop in the bucket for profoundly stupid fad topics like “GenAI to solve Africa’s problems.” This piece is SO important: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This is an actual quote from the President of the United States: “MAGA loves it. MAGA loves what I’m doing. MAGA loves everything I do," Trump said. "MAGA is me. MAGA loves everything I do, and I love everything I do, too."

If the US public health system were a functioning one, federal health agency leaders—RFK Jr & Drs Bhattacharya, Makary, Oz, Høeg, Kulldorff, & Prasad—would be out there doing everything possible to promote flu vaccination Instead, they’ve taken steps to roll it back abcnews.go.com/Health/flu-a...

History is instructive for the present (and future) because it often reveal possibilities in the past - possible worlds - that are instructive (but not predictive) for how human agency can shape events

But the scariest was coming across images taken of women in the street, digitally stripped by Grok. Thought you could keep yourself safe by never, ever posting a picture online? Forget it. Anyone with a phone who walks or drives past you can create pornography of you now.

important point. hard to say it's the CDC changing the vaccine schedule when they are operating outside the legal policy mechanisms!

The Onion can just copy and paste this HHS language

Copy Editing Matters, from HHS's release on the new childhood vaccine schedule: All the diseases will still be available to anyone who wants them

The district court injunction that prevented NIH from capping indirects at 15% was upheld today on appeal! www.reuters.com/world/trump-...

TAPPER: Can you rule out the US is going to take Greenland by force? MILLER: Greenland should be part of the US. By what right does Denmark assert control over Greenland? The US is the power of NATO T: So force is on the table? M: Nobody is gonna fight the US militarily over future of Greenland

Taking a break from the depressing news to celebrate my recent cooking success: eggs, dill, feta cheese, rice, spinach, lemon juice, scallions, garlic and lots of black pepper.

“The top Republican and Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee said there was “no legitimate basis for excluding” them from the classified briefing underway inside the Capitol given the Trump administration had said the capture of Maduro “was a law enforcement operation”

This is absolutely horrifying. ChatGPT recommended “Sam take twice as much cough syrup so he would have stronger hallucinations. The AI tool even recommended playlists to match his drug use… Turner-Scott is now left mourning her only son, and shocked by what this new technology did to him.”

New EBM pyramid

This is a policy choice. As Dr. Gottlieb recently put the issue on CNBC: if we substantially reduce vaccination rates, "we're going to have to build new pediatric hospitals." www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8CJ...

“The U.N.’s top official, Secretary General António Guterres, said the Trump administration had violated the U.N. charter. Colombia’s ambassador said it was reminiscent of bygone eras of American interference in the region and that the United States was undermining “international peace and security”

Bill Cassidy — who voted to confirm RFK Jr — says his move to roll back vaccine recommendations “will make America sicker.”

“The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funded NPR, PBS and hundreds of local radio and TV stations across the United States for more than a half-century, said on Monday that its board of directors had voted to dissolve the organization because Congress cut off its federal money.”

Utterly devastating. “Not long ago, Mr. Smith walked through their house outside of San Francisco with tears in his eyes… When she died, he had to endure merciless online comments, including one on his Facebook page saying that her death was no loss. But he thought she was perfect, he said”

Don't sleep on this one! Just think, YOU could be HERE (@iamwbob.bsky.social) in 2026!

One of the new @cambridgemass.bsky.social EV recycling trucks serviced my street today, and it is SILENT. What a shared win for climate AND quality of life!

i realllllly want to stress that this change is most likely going to be stopped in court, and quickly. but the confusion rfk jr. is spreading is also part of the project. that’s long term damage

This is incredibly short sighted and will cause serious harm longterm. This unilateral decision to reduce recommended childhood vaccines from 17 to 11 in the USA is not backed by science or the healthcare access realities of the US population. www.statnews.com/2026/01/05/c...

I can’t fully articulate the way my stomach dropped when I saw this headline. Please know the evidence has not changed. The people in charge have changed, and they did not consult any relevant experts or the public. “This new policy has not been vetted with pediatricians, the public, or the ACIP”

“We must never forget the terrible consequences of treating people as ‘other,’” Schloss said in 2024. “We need to respect everybody’s races and religions. We need to live together with our differences. The only way to achieve this is through education, and the younger we start the better.”

“With no U.S. troops in Venezuela, will Americans “run” Venezuela by issuing loud statements and threats? By ordering periodic military interventions? …Trump’s pursuit of an illusory sphere of influence is unlikely to bring us peace or prosperity—any more than the invasion of Ukraine brought peace”

One of most remarkable US presentations at UN Security Council I've ever seen. - No reference to UN Charter legal justification - Claims Panama as precedent (which the UN condemned) - Energy reserves ⤵️ as justification is illegal - Sharp contrast with US Ambassador Pickering presentation in 1989

“But demoting Kelly requires an administrative process known as officer grade determination, which by law makes its decisions based on an officer's conduct while on active duty. It's not clear how the board can legally consider Kelly's post-retirement conduct when making its decision.”