Given the sometimes horrific things that we share here each day, I thought I'd share something good. REALLY GOOD. You can use semisweet choc chips, if that's easier. Do pay close attention as you toast the sesame seeds. You're welcome. 😇

Yes, that is why we continue to fight. @defendpublichealth.bsky.social

I'd call this something other than simply "unusual."

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My latest for @thenation.com. Russell Vought is on a mission. He wants to take over all federal grant making & re-make it in his image. He is a dangerous ideologue who wants to inflict trauma on the whole nation. He is cruel and he has a plan. Only we can stop him. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

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I'm up early. First things, first. Write to your members of Congress. Russell Vought is out of control. He is seeking to take over the entire federal apparatus of grant-making. He is a dictator in waiting. He who controls the purse controls it all. actionnetwork.org/letters/oppo...

It's Thursday and Russell Vought is still trying to take over all federal grant making, put it under his thumb and political control. It's a mad power grab. We need to stop it. Click on this and write a letter to your members of Congress. And share, share, share. actionnetwork.org/letters/oppo...

We are being attacked at our professional meetings now. Please pay attention to the totalitarianism growing around us. The potential target list is expanding, as we knew it would.

This huge totalitarian move by Trump's OMB impacts everyone in some way. It codifies Trump’s ongoing actions that use the withholding of federal funding as a form of retribution and power playing. TAKE ACTION! Comment at OMB and share your concern with your congresspersons.

Spent a week in the hospital. When I got out, I felt very much on my own, navigating a new chronic condition and the care I needed. Without a robust primary care infrastructure in the US, day-to-day medical management and care coordination is impossible. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

I see a lot of charts everyday. Few make me go: THIS IS CRAZY. www.carbonbrief.org/ai-boom-mean...

Holden Thorp is an institutionalist. He's been a university chancellor, provost, now EiC of Science. When institutionalists pull the fire alarm, we listen, because the call to action he issued this week exposes the dire nature of the threat we are facing. 1/ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Gaps in women’s health knowledge and care have created a business opportunity. The vaginal health market is projected to double, or even triple, in the next decade, according to some estimates.

The Trump admin tried to use an unrelated White House engineering contract to quietly start construction on Trump’s personal “Triumphal Arch” skipping competitive public bidding altogether. The arch isn’t on White House grounds. It’s on NPS land near Arlington National Cemetery, over a mile away.

Not that anyone needs a reminder but this man has the nuclear codes. He's posting unhinged AI slop and far too many people just shrug it off. Trump is unwell, and he is a danger to us all.

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY! greekreporter.com/2025/12/21/m...

Needs no more words ...

And where is the outrage from mainstream media outlets over this? Crickets. 🦗

RFK Jr. is a eugenicist. Plain and simple. He's ignorant of science and medicine and lives in a conspiracy-addled world of his own mind. He's is destroying American public health and biomedicine.

This reflects most poorly on the people who have the power to remove Trump, but glorify him instead. He is, undeniably and dangerously, insane.

NEWS: MAGA influencer Craig Long has been arrested in a human trafficking and prostitution sting in Florida, along with Ryan Yates, a Trump supporter who pleaded guilty in Feb 2024 for his involvement in January 6. Long posted this photo with Donald Trump and Donald Trump Jr. just a few weeks ago.

The editorial cartoonist's pen is one of the sharpest tools in journalism, whittling issues down to basics for satire or rage. I'm proud to say that my long-ago colleague, Milt Priggee, is unafraid to shock with a tough point of view.

Because we don't already have enough bad news from the judiciary:

Trump says anyone running for president should take a cognitive exam because you could end being stuck with a moron for years. “I mean, you get a guy who gets in there, he's got a good line of crap. He gets in and all of a sudden you're stuck with a man who's a moron”

We scored the top 5 California Governor candidates on environmental issues, including holding the fossil fuel industry accountable, protecting community voices and public input, fighting monopolistic utilities, conserving California’s lands and wildlife, and safeguarding people from toxic pollution.

CBD is one of my favorite organizations. Please check this out.

it is important to emphasize that this was *the point*. this was *intentional*. elon musk is a vicious white supremacist who thinks poor african children ought to die, so that the world can be whiter

Memories Eternal.

Happy Earth Day! 🌎

Nothing has killed more soldiers in the history of humanity than disease. While worst is a more complicated question Hegseth is absolutely the dumbest secretary of defense the United States has ever had. bsky.app/profile/ones...

With all the turmoil in the CA Governor's race, now is a great time to remind everyone why we're endorsing Tom Steyer (@tomsteyer.bsky.social). Tom will make Big Oil and electric utilities pay their fair share while lowering costs for Californians. sites.centeractionfund.org/news-release...

ICYMI: we released an environmental scorecard evaluating the five top-polling candidates for California governor on five key environmental issues. Tom Steyer @tomsteyer.bsky.social, who has pledged to hold the fossil fuel industry and monopoly utilities accountable, received the top “A” grade.

Can confirm

This would be funny if it weren't so dangerous. There IS NO POLICY for controlling the avian flu.

President Pezeshkian of Iran posted a statement on X in English and Persian condemning Trump’s insults to the Pope and his “desecration” of Jesus and tagged the Pope. In his Persian post, he used the honorific “peace be upon him” after the name of Jesus. (Jesus is revered in Islam as a prophet.)

Melania Trump wants these photos and emails to be scrubbed from the Internet. Please stop liking and sharing them. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Remember when Dan Quayle misspelled a word and it was the end of his political career?

Damn.

A HUGE risk, yet Dem leaders remain in denial. I never understimate the Party's ability to fail decisively with divisive performatives in place of actual strategy. It's their decades of missed opportunities and complacency that brought two Trump presidencies, and now, perhaps, a GOP CA governor.

Some good news: wapo.st/4c6f2yu

Still wondering if inequality is out of control?

Please stop posting these ICE agents without their parents' consent.

Even The Washington Post admits that RFK Jr is a dangerous quack. wapo.st/47o3EfI

I’ve spent years, decades, obsessing over the Bush Administration’s Iraq WMD lies, writing about them, debunking them. I can think of no lie about Iraq WMDs told by Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld et al that comes even close to the enormity and absurdity of this lie from Donald Trump.

It's Monday morning and Casey Means still doesn't have the votes to become Surgeon General. Let's keep it that way. Send a letter to your Senators now. If you have friends, famiy, colleagues who can do so, urge them on to act now. actionnetwork.org/letters/oppo...

who made this

The president of the United States killed children to distract from raping children.