All the news that's fit to post, and, in Dobrzyn, Hili and Andrzej agree on the fruitlessness of debate: Hili: Even debates can be fruitless sometimes. Andrzej: Much more often than you think. whyevolutionistrue.com/2025/09/23/t...

Happy to say my new book, “Controlling Contagion”, comes out next month. 700 years of tackling pandemics. Not all bad news… press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

"White House Says Doctors May Be Exempt From $100,000 H-1B Fee" www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

x.com/HamasAtrocit... Twitter's algorithm (much stricter than Bluesky's) deleted the exact moment of Hamas executing the blindfolded and kneeling men by shooting them at point-blank range. They did, however, leave up Hamas's "thank you" note addressed to Starmer, Carney, & Albanese.

If you could end war & famine by returning 48 hostages- Would you?

I’m very interested to see this too, and also: There is NO credible evidence that Tylenol causes autism. It’s appalling our federal government is apparently planning to say anything otherwise.

We haven’t seen the text of this yet, but to be clear, the president has literally zero legal authority to impose a $100,000 fee on visas. None. Zip. Zilch. The only authority Congress has ever given the executive branch here is to charge fees to recover the cost of processing the application.

Boats on the Zaan - 1871 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/3109799

I miss my mallards!

View of a Southern French City https://www.artic.edu/artworks/118979/

Kirk Milhoan just suggested that the FDA should remove mRNA COVID19 vaccines from the market because of “SV40 contamination”. This is an egregious statement based on no credible evidence.

How sugary drinks loaded with fructose and glucose may promote colon cancer metastatic potential www.nature.com/articles/s42...

This is just doing ordinary law enforcement with murders instead of trials, with the weasel word “narcoterrorist” obscuring the fact that the targets are garden variety criminals.

"Please stop muting me, that is disrespectful. You want debate and discussion but you're muting people and silencing them." Props to Jason Goldman for insisting that (Fake) ACIP make explicit how they are evaluating evidence, instead of just cherrypicking studies that say what they like.

Ted Cruz on Brendan Carr threatening ABC over Jimmy Kimmel: “That’s right out of Goodfellas… We shouldn't be threatening government power to force him off air. That's a real mistake.”

Isles of Shoals Garden, Appledore https://www.wikiart.org/en/childe-hassam/isles-of-shoals-garden-appledore

⚡️BREAKING: 3 Russian MiG-31s violate Estonian airspace, Tallinn says. Estonia summoned Russia's charge d'affaires on Sept. 19 after three Russian MiG-31 fighter jets entered the Baltic nation's airspace for 12 minutes, the Foreign Ministry said.

Sky Survey -1868 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/3109696

All the news that's fit to post and, in Dobrzyn, Hili and Andrzej mourn the state of the world. Hili: Was the world ever normal? Andrzej: Depends on what you consider normal. whyevolutionistrue.com/2025/09/19/f...

Experts at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia’s Vaccine Education Center fear policy changes coming under Robert F. Kennedy Jr. They are worried about the far-reaching potential of Kennedy’s leadership to limit access to childhood vaccines and stifle vaccine development.

In my opinion, if a bipartisan group of legislators have the political capacity to pass a bill like this they would have the political capacity to pass a bill reforming the broad powers of Sec. 232 and Sec. 301 tariffs. And they should just do that instead

Idiots

In the 1970s, it took 8,000 pounds of pancreas glands from 23,500 animals just to make a single pound of insulin.

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Killed while facilitating aid from Jordan into Gaza. HY"D Details in first comment.

All the news that's fit to post, and, in Dobyzyn, Hili and Andrzej are squabbling over dinner, Hili: What are we going to eat for dinner today? Andrzej: Whatever. Hili: That’s not an acceptable answer. whyevolutionistrue.com/2025/09/18/t...

Great piece by Alex Telford. Antibody treatment is over a century old, when von Behring and Kitasato made an early 'vaccine' against diphtheria. But back then, they came from injecting animals with toxins. Today they're produced by cells in steel tanks and treat millions. How did we get here?

It's not just murder. The US is on track to have the largest one-year percent drops in reported murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, and auto theft this year based on data through July.

the insult metonym “empty suit” dates at least back to the year ~1100

It's 1992 and still no one to vote for www.youtube.com/watch?v=J78e...

Russians continue to crash drones into random civilian cars to burn innocent people alive on a daily basis and the world should never forget the level of evil terrorism on display. All these videos should be saved forever and archived so no one forgets.

They don't make rappers like this anymore. www.youtube.com/watch?v=axoR...

Good news! The Space Lasers are finally ready.