What is the cost of this war going to be? We already know that gas prices are going to go up. The American people are already concerned about cost of living.

Hmmm. A lesson, perhaps?

When a Vermont pastor and asylum seeker was detained in early February, an outpouring of support came from local faith communities. Tendo was released last week, but the case highlights the role these communities are playing in protesting the Trump administration’s immigration tactics.

Older people with exceptional memory have a surprisingly high number of young neurons, a study finds

Will the FDA follow suit?

This week's cover @thelancet.com

The cover says it all:

This is such a well done piece that reports out, with hard data and interviews, something profound about what's gone wrong in this country. www.wsj.com/us-news/amer...

“Perhaps the most at risk: teenage girls, like my daughter and her friends, who play soccer 12 months a year. They face a greater than one-in-six chance of a tear before finishing four years of high school. Those returning to soccer after rehab face a one-in-three chance of a second tear.”

ACOG Withdraws From ACIP, Citing Scientific Integrity Concerns www.medpagetoday.com/obgyn/genera...

Please read this article to the end. Even before ICE got involved, this started because this *blind man who speaks no English and uses a curtain rod as a walking stick* got lost on a walk and some Karen called the police on him and they tasered and beat him bc he didn’t drop the rod. WTF

Guinea-Bissau stops vaccine study funded by Trump administration www.reuters.com/business/hea...

And perhaps 1/3 or more of those remaining dailies are ghost papers, maintained with slop feeds for various distant financial reasons.

The call has been made! NYC Public Schools will have a full snow day tomorrow.

Absolute disgrace for our country open.substack.com/pub/onecount...

Ukraine is a democracy. It isn’t perfect, and allegations of corruption around senior officials are troubling. But they’re made public precisely because Ukraine's democratic institutions are functioning. You don't see that happen in Russia because those institutions simply don't exist there

I wrote a book! It's trickling out, already in some bookstores. And I'm doing a bunch of events for it (see below). More info on book in alt text.

“We are watching one of the wildest things a nation-state has ever done," journalist Garrett Graff wrote: "A superpower … suicide because the [Repub] Congress is too cowardly to stand up to the Mad King. This is one of the wildest moments in all of geopolitics ever.” @hcrichardson.bsky.social

“You now live in a country where volunteers deliver babies at home, in secret, off the books, because mothers fear that if they go to the hospital, they will be abducted by masked, armed agents of the state while giving birth.”

And yet it’s even more dumb: Both hospital ships are in dry-dock in Alabama, so they won’t be arriving anytime soon. This is a weird distraction from the Danes medically evacuating a sick US sailor from a US Navy nuclear sub yesterday 9 miles from Nuuk. What was a sub doing nine miles from Nuuk?

Denmark's military says its arctic command forces evacuated a crew member of a U.S. submarine off the coast of Greenland for urgent medical treatment. n.pr/4rwqZny

Healthcare in Greenland is publicly funded, free at the point of use, and despite geographical challenges considered very good. Healthcare costs in the USA are extortionate and responsible for 60% of all US bankruptcies. So maybe Denmark should be sending hospital ships the other way.

NH state house passes "CHARLIE Act," which bans teaching, I kid you not, "critical consciousness" & "prohibited world-views," such as that queer people exist, or that slavery involved race, or, implicitly, that the Nazis murdered Jews based on identity. newhampshirebulletin.com/2026/02/19/h...

Read the Epstein files. They'll educate the public while also sustaining the filibuster all the way through the midterms.

Antimicrobial resistance is threat to humanity; claims 1 million+ lives annually. Vaccines are 1 of tools to address #AMR: investments in @gavi.org help tackle this ‘silent’ pandemic. Pleased to attend 2026 #AMR Summit, hosted by #CSIRO & #FlemingCentre & discuss issues w/ UK AMR Envoy Sally Davies

More good news on vaccines A two-in-one mRNA vaccine developed by Moderna targets seasonal influenza & COVID-19. It produced robust and durable immune responses w/o safety concerns in a small mid-stage trial. mRNA is the future. We can’t afford to lose it. 🧪 www.reuters.com/business/hea...

Congress compels the Trump Administration to spend science and health funding - The Lancet www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

The Supreme Court weighing in on tariffs may sound like a Washington issue but here in the North Country, it affects real families, real farms, and real jobs.

How Ordinary NH Citizens Move Good Legislation open.substack.com/pub/frontrow... #nhpolitics #voterparticipation

2026 US measles total nears 1,000 as South Carolina confirms 11 new cases. Why is 1000 a scary number? Because measles kills 1-2 children for every 1,000 cases. www.cdc.gov/measles/down... www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/2026...

NH House of Rep's rejects bill to end vaccine mandates, 192 (w/ 34 Republicans)-155. “NH has the lowest vaccination rate for measles in New England,” Rep. Jessica LaMontagne, a Dover Democrat, said in a floor speech... “Do you want to be the legislature that ushers in the next outbreak of measles?”

Insurer to Pay Millions Over Alleged Ghost Network for Mental Health Care www.propublica.org/article/embl...

It’s far too expensive to raise a family in America right now - and the cost of child care is a big reason why.

Trump’s Transparent Hospital Pricing Pays Off for Industry — But Not So Much for Patients kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

Yikes! Those are scary numbers. This is one of many reasons I wanted my mom to stay out of the hospital if at all possible.

Mike Osterholm on ACIP: “What they’re putting out right now is not science. It’s somewhere between magic and craziness.” podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

"A single nasal spray vaccine could protect against all coughs, colds and flus, as well as bacterial lung infections, and may even ease allergies, say US researchers." www.bbc.com/news/article.... #medicine

More hope from mRNA vaccines. In this instance, individualized vaccines were given to women with triple negative breast cancer following surgery and adjuvant therapy. The results are quite remarkable. Despite cancer finding a ‘T cell-evading’ work-around in some patients. #Science 🧪

Today marks the annual Day of Remembrance of Japanese American Incarceration. More than 120,000 Japanese Americans were interned during World War II, and today we should work to ensure that injustices like these never occur again.

We’ve written so, so many stories on the benefits (and no harms!) of COVID vaccines during pregnancy.

This is the fourth thank you note I’ve received from a Dem running for state legislature in a red district this week! Interestingly all of them have been from Indiana candidates so far. Huh. blue26.org/state

Special elections are where it’s at right now.

NEW: ICE has raided dormitories at the Dilley concentration camp to confiscate letters from children per @pabloreports.bsky.social. I have filed a FOIA request for them. @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social: the second we get anything, we will send it to you. 1/ www.muellershewrote.com/p/new-ice-co...

“In Washington’s graceful departure, after serving two terms in office, he laid the foundation for the tradition of the peaceful transfer of power—what became the most American of acts by leaders who valued democracy and loved their country more than power itself.” open.substack.com/pub/america/...

There are so many reasons to get a COVID-19 vaccine.

Does that seem fair to you?

In a statement, the WHO said it “has significant concerns regarding the study’s scientific justification, ethical safeguards, and overall alignment with established principles for research involving human participants.”