2006 was pretty similar as far as midterm issues go. Academies didn’t kowtow to Bush on stem cell stuff, they led the way when there was a federal policy vacuum.

And when your colleagues decide they need to go along to get along, well, you get a pit in your stomach. I had hoped for better. End/

So much destruction has happened. We are going to see a lost generation of research, cede scientific leadership to other countries, foreclose on discoveries that could benefit so many. All this is Jay’s work. 8/

It’s just sad to watch happening in real time. I am less angry than I am filled with grief for my profession. 7/

The @nationalacademies.org has weathered many administrations but like with big law firms, key corporations, some universities, Trump has broken them. 5/

You can’t cordon this betrayal off, it sticks to everything you do. 4/

This is what happens when you decide to appease and capitulate on your principles and values. 3/

The NIH director is the antithesis of scientific integrity—his tenure has been filled with deeply ideological, unscientific decision making. Everyone knows it. Yet @nationalacademies.org depends on federal funding so felt obliged to invite him. 2/

Congratulations! You've unearthed a solid case for universal healthcare.

Gee, Jordan Peterson has brain damage. Who’d have ever guessed? www.9news.com.au/world/jordan...

Pope Leo turned the question around like the boss he is.

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I missed posting on the 111th anniversary yesterday but here is my Armenian great-grandmother Araxie. She immigrated to the US alone in Aug 1914 because her father was growing uneasy about the political situation. He was beheaded by the Ottomans that spring. Recognize the genocide.

I saw this yesterday. I love when words have multiple meanings.

What the fuck are we doing here

Happy National Independent Bookstore Day! And a hearty thank you to the booksellers who curate books and host readings and connect readers and authors to one another 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾(Photo is at Reparations Club Bookstore, LA)

Fantastic news, throwing phones away when the battery dies is quite ridiculous. We don't need super thin phones, we need phones we can repair.

Palantir employees are talking about company's "descent into fascism" www.wired.com/story/palant...

Congratulations to @stephenking.bsky.social for this well-deserved honor!👍 (Novels/Novellas: Approximately 65 to 67 Non-fiction books: 5 books. Short Stories: Over 200 Pseudonyms: 7 novels were published as Richard Bachman. Frequency: He has published at least one book almost every year since 1974)

Trump has a blowout in the midterms on his mind, and he doesn’t want to be thinking about a drunk Kash Patel. So bye-bye, 99 beers guy. I’m sure they’ll save a place for you at the bar in the Poodle Room. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/say-bye-by...

It's so disrespectful that every time Madonna releases a new album the discussion isn't about the music but her age. She is too old. She needs to call it quits. She is irrelevant. Nobody is telling older male musicians these things. Give her her flowers!

In my decades as a reporter, I did some things I was ashamed of to get a story. I had to schmooze some bosses I despised to keep my job. But I’m glad to say I never had to bear the sort of shame that will haunt those who attend the WHCA dinner tomorrow.

The tasteless, classless, orange clown is destroying our capital.

i hate this shit

They weren’t planning to discuss the safety of COVID19 vaccines at all. They were planning to baselessly attack them. bsky.app/profile/eliz...

and they lied on leucovorin too! bsky.app/profile/kckl...

What boggles my mind, the antivax propaganda was courtesy of putin (really) but it's trump's vax, he & everyone him are fully vaxxed & boosted. - The cult never answer, "Why do you think trump is trying to kill you w/his vaccine?"

I know many of us knew this already. But how many people did they convince that COVID19 vaccines were harmful before repeating this lie became politically problematic? And what kind of “scientist” abandons their convictions about something they claim is killing people because of politics?

Vinay Prasad announced without evidence that COVID19 vaccines caused the deaths of 10 children. Members of ACIP have made numerous false claims about how harmful they believe COVID19 vaccines are. Now, ACIP won’t be discussing them because it’s political poison. They were lying all along.

I want to be clear that the career scientists at HHS are working under incredibly stressful conditions. They are not to blame for this. HHS leadership under RFK Jr., including Makary, Prasad, Bhattacharya, Oz, Hoeg, etc. are 100% to blame.

In Sept 2025, Makary, RFK Jr., and Oz stood before the world and proclaimed that leucovorin was a useful treatment for up to half of autism cases, with no credible data supporting this. Last month, the FDA refused to approve leucovorin for autism. These people lie with abandon.

This is what happens when they gain power. bsky.app/profile/eliz...

It’s simple. Social media shitbirds with no knowledge, training or experience in public health should not be setting US policy. They got their jobs because of their successful click-n-like harvesting, and that’s also they do their jobs. There is nothing but incompetence behind the facade.

I want to once again shout out attorneys like @doritreiss.bsky.social and @weparmet.bsky.social for their endless dedication to fighting for public health through the courts. The process can be slow, but progress is happening.

Representative Juan Ciscomani (R, Gerrymandering) voted to kick 400,000 Arizonans off of SNAP, which is the total up to this point. That’s almost half of Arizona SNAP participants. Remember in November.

Representative Dingell (D, Michigan) just said in RFK Jr.‘s hearing that she asked the family of a child with measles why they didn’t vaccinate. They answered “because we’re listening to the government”.

“For hundreds of years Germany was good enough to receive these elements, although they possessed nothing except infectious political and physical diseases”. -Hitler, speaking of the Jewish population in a speech to the Reichstag, January 30, 1930.

“if you’re worried about polio tuberculosis, you should look at the immigration policies as a place where it’s occurring are the place with the immigrants are going cause they’re not vaccinated…” Exact quote from RFK Jr. He is a liar and this rhetoric is incredibly dangerous.

“For hundreds of years Germany was good enough to receive these elements, although they possessed nothing except infectious political and physical diseases”. -Hitler, speaking of the Jewish population in a speech to the Reichstag, January 30, 1930.

RFK Jr. just said that immigration is to blame for the outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases in the U.S., not him.

Rep Schrier (D, Washington) is drilling RFK Jr. about the “RFK Spillover Effect”. She asks him to say for the record that parents should give their newborns the vitamin K shot. He refuses to do so, putting millions of newborns at risk for brain bleeds and brain damage.

Hegseth has just proudly announced on Twitter that flu vaccines will no longer be mandatory for US Servicemembers. Before The Regime took power, the DoD correctly said that vaccine refusal is a national security threat.

3. Founded the anti-vax organization Children’s Health Defense 4. Claimed that there is no vaccine that is safe and effective These were not lies. RFK Jr. said all of these things.

Rep. Veasey (D, Texas) just rinsed RFK Jr. on his anti-vax bullshit, and RFK Jr. responded “everything you said is a lie”. Veasey said that RFK Jr. 1. Claimed the measles outbreak has been fabricated by government officials to create fear. 2. That Hank Aaron died from the COVID19 vaccine.

Hegseth is once again putting national security at risk by removing the military’s requirement for influenza vaccines.

“I’m pro-science. I just think we need to ask the right questions”. -RFK Jr., known conspiracy theorist, anti-vaxxer, and disinformation profiteer, in a congressional hearing.

Yeah. They are lying to the American Public on the daily.