President Johnson, in a November 9, 1968 letter to the Smothers Brothers: “It is part of the price of leadership of this great and free nation to be the target of clever satirists . . . May we never grow so somber or self-important that we fail to appreciate the humor in our lives.”

Even if you take the most lenient possible interpretation -- that SCOTUS has made it increasingly hard to prosecute bribery and corruption -- you still have to ask what kind of crooked-ass administration hires a guy who just took $50k cash.

All they have to do is stop acting like brownshirts and then people will stop making the comparisons.

That’s me in the video. And a Fox News host just celebrated me being assaulted by ICE. If ICE will do this to a congressional candidate with a big platform, just imagine what they’re doing to the people they’re kidnapping.

There's a word for that … I think even a word that's in the Constitution … Oh, yes, bribery.

While we're all distracted by the domestic sideshow, Trump is sending the military out to kill people he says are "terrorists", in violation of US and international law. No wonder people at the Pentagon are checking in with their lawyers. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Border Czar Tom Homan was caught by the FBI accepting bribes - on camera - to deliver government contracts in exchange for $50,000 in cash. Pam Bondi knew. Kash Patel knew. Emil Bove knew. And they made the investigation go away. A corrupt attempt to conceal brazen graft.

the kimmel thing is bad but as long as they arent rounding people up indiscriminately based on race, building concentration camps and talking about eradicating those they deem sexual deviants, i think we’ll be ok

A huge shoutout to all the dedicated grants management specialists at the NIH who are working around the clock to push grants out before the Sep 30 deadline. And also to the POs responding to frantic emails. Not an easy job under the best of circumstances and right now it's the pits. Thank you!

The FDA is taking their reviews of new drugs behind closed doors, with Director Marty Makary replacing vetted and publicly transparent deliberations with "panels of handpicked scientists who support his views." This is a miscarriage of science, and a betrayal of public trust in service of MAHA.

Neurosyphilis: an old foe resurfaces. A new review reminds us to never take our eye off of any disease. Neurosyphilis is not just history it is a pressing modern challenge. Rates of syphilis are the highest since the 1950s, and neurologic complications are once again front and center.

Former U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams says he will get the updated COVID vaccine to protect himself, his community, & to model trust in public health. buff.ly/wTvEHIW COVID vaccination reduces risk of: - severe disease, - Long COVID - transmission to others #medsky #pedsky 🛟😷

Aww, look at the president calming things down. Not.

Will ICE send guys to Boston looking for red hair and listening for brogues? Or stake out delis in Chicago to see who buys a kielbasa? No. This is about profiling people by skin color and language. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

No one would be confused about what is happening here if they saw it in another country.

My friends and I discuss how an #education "bathed in the light and color of the restored gospel" can differ from "the philosophies of men, interlaced with a few scriptures." In other words, how do we maintain strong #faith as we pursue serious secular education? ssad.podbean.com/e/education-...

Important effort. Good job, CHOP. Hospital Launches Misinformation Tracker www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...

Even Trump knows: siding with RFK Jr. on vaccines is a losing bet. Help us deal the final blow: send your reps a Quack-O-Gram. Impeach and Remove the Quack! act.standupforscience.net/fundraising/... #standupforscience #impeachthequack

NEW: Bluesky is becoming place to discuss scientific research - it gets more proper engagement & attention, new study finds. For all the talk of decline - borne out by several metrics - the science community seems to have adopted Bluesky more than others. Story: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

My quote of the day Nobody ever thanks you for saving them from the disease they didn't know they were going to get. William Foege

Pritzker on Trump sending troops into cities: "He has other aims other than fighting crime... he would like to stop the elections in 2026 or frankly take control of those elections. He'll just claim there's some problem with an election and then he's got troops on the ground that can take control."

9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

A new study from Bhooma Aravamuthan, MD, DPhil, and peers has found an objective way to measure leg dystonia in children with cerebral palsy. Read more: https://bit.ly/3UwBWqh

Well worth a quick read

Whatever the accuracy and value of “Democracy Indices”, this is truly remarkable and again shows the striking disconnect between the U.S. legacy media and U.S. political reality.

However bad you think things are at the CDC they are worse. That's the takeaway from this well-reported story from Daniel Payne w/back-up from an all-star STAT team. Must-read. www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/c...

Fox News won't ask this, of course, but the next question for anyone else should be, "Ok, then I assume you support government-funded mental health programs with easy access for Americans all across the country to end this scourge of violence?"

Mike Johnson dismisses the unpopularity of the Big Beautiful Bill: "The individual provisions of that giant piece of legislation are wildly popular." CNN host John Berman immediately debunks that claim.

Important work from the folks at University of Minnesota.

Once again for those in the back: "natural" ≠ healthy Hemlock is natural. Strychnine is natural. Water is natural, but try telling that to a drowning man.

My latest: Pseudoscience Support @wired.com I cover it ALL. RFK Jr & MAHA misinformation, Calley Means’ cancer lies, glucose monitors, hormones in milk, food dyes, Dirty Dozen, fluoride, mRNA vaccine, chemicals, diabetes, hep B, beef tallow, seed oils, and more. Watch ⬇️⬇️ youtu.be/hfBJTpewWos?si

This is *not* good news.

I love "LPU" (and thought I'd invented the term) :)

We are recruiting a new PI at the FIL @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social, Associate or Full Professor. This is an amazing place to do cognitive neuroscience, in the heart of London. If you or someone you know might be interested, please pass it on. #neuroskyence www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Being in a room with a doctor reduces #tics in youth with #Tourette syndrome more than intentional tic suppression does. This result has implications for #epidemiology, #genetics and #drug development. link.growkudos.com/1er4w4h59fk

well-written and thought-provoking

Wha ... ? SecState can't say anything about the government's opinion?

"Is There a Smart Way to Deliver Our Institutions Over to a Wannabe Dictator Who is Set on Indoctrination?"

Trump is rewriting history. He wants you to forget the truth. anntelnaes.substack.com/p/trump-is-r...

A fun reminder that a loss of 60,000 jobs in and around academia is ~50% more than all coal mining jobs in the entire country.

The massive list of suspended UCLA grants came out today: 300 NSF and 500 NIH grants. I am miraculously not on the list, but this is devastating. Science will be lost, progress will be frozen, people will lose jobs, and careers in science and medicine are being destroyed. This is not ok.

Make America Numerate Again

Front line medical staff are leaving the VA in large numbers, jeopardizing the healthcare of our veterans. #medsky www.militarytimes.com/veterans/202...

#MartyMakary is a peddler of misinformation. A study came out on Monday saying: "In this nationwide cohort study, no increased risk of 29 adverse events was observed after vaccination with the updated COVID-19 mRNA vaccine [...] in approximately 1 million adults." Trust the data, not this fool. 1/

Another jaw-droppingly absurd lie from the head of the FDA: "We’ve never talked about environmental exposures that may, say, cause cancer.” Make America Scientifically Literate Again

This past week, the 79-year-old president announced he’s ended six wars (some that have been going on for centuries), asserted that windmills drive whales insane, called for Beyoncé to be prosecuted, claimed Obama committed treason and complained a convicted pedophile “stole” teenage girls from him.

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To have such ignorance anywhere in government is sad. To have it in the head of the FDA is terrifying. let's Make American Scientifically Literate Again

this is truly one of the most outrageous lies I have ever heard, which is really saying something considering how much these folks lie

Anyway, I know it's not news that Trump is hypocritical, but here's my story reminding people that MAGA world insisted that the Biden admin sending impolite notes to Facebook was the greatest threat to free speech, but are completely silent on Trump calling up Murdoch and demanding he kill a story