“The world’s richest men are crushing the world’s poorest children.” @nickkristof.bsky.social on Trump’s assault on foreign aid is must read. (I appreciate the shoutout to Into the Woods Chipper: “It chronicles the callousness, dishonesty and ineptitude.”) www.nytimes.com/2026/05/09/o...

My reporting finds that sexual violence against Palestinians by Israeli authorities is widespread. I'm grateful to these assault victims for sharing with me the brutality they endured. Whether we're pro-Israel or pro-Palestinian, we should unite in being anti-rape. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/o...

Dogs are amazing. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/t...

“This is like the horrible, lame-dad cover band version of the worst of American foreign policy,” said Matt Duss, executive vice president of the Center for International Policy. Republicans Know This War Is Going Badly www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/o...

NEW: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been transforming a government that long championed vaccines into one that questions their safety. This is what could happen over the next 25 years if shots are unavailable even to the people who want them.

‘A Mass Disaster Nonstop’: Inside the Turmoil at Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s C.D.C. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The Pentagon said the Iran war cost $11 billion in the first week. But it's way way way more than that. Hundreds of billions more. Your family's share is thousands of dollars. And I've got receipts. Lemme youtubesplain: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCF_...

“Our pets are not luggage, they are part of our families,” one Greek official explains.

Judge Strikes Down Kennedy’s Vaccine Policies www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/h...

This is not good.

Employers cut 92,000 jobs in February and the unemployment rate ticked up to 4.4% as the labor market continues to weaken after an anemic year of job growth. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...

The piece of hide was sewn with a cord made from plant fibers and animal hair.

Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, we’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change—all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.

"The administration's decision comes in the wake of the three hottest years humans have ever recorded, deadly flooding in communities across the U.S. from Texas to Alaska and climate-fueled wildfires that destroyed thousands of homes in Los Angeles." www.npr.org/2026/02/11/n...

F.D.A. Refuses to Review Moderna Flu Vaccine www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/h...

So the feds ARE NOT considering an mRNA vaccine for the flu, which could save countless lives, but ARE backing research into whether horse dewormer can cure cancer, because the right views vaccines as elite and ivermectin as populist. Cool. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

This is terrifying. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/c...

Here is one of many consequences of MAHA/Kennedy's policies, unfolding in real time. Encephalitis is a severe complication of measles. It may lead to convulsions, deafness or intellectual disability in children. It occurs ~ 1 month after infection. 🧪 www.wired.com/story/measle...

Trump administration officials have falsely linked Alex Pretti and Renee Macklin Good to domestic terrorism. It's part of a larger pattern by the Department of Homeland Security. n.pr/45Arnsg

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/t...

This Is the Vaccine Story RFK Jr. Doesn’t Want You to Hear open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

This New York Times story is not paywalled, and it shows a second-by-second breakdown of what happened. Please scroll through it. This is not what America, or anywhere, should be www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Pam Bondi just sent a letter to Minnesota officials saying ICE will leave if the state turns over its voter database to Trump. Guess what? This has never been about safety or immigration. It’s a pretext for Trump to take over elections in swing states.

The Coming Trump Crackup www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/o... “History does not record many cases in which a power-mad leader careening toward tyranny suddenly regained his senses . . . On the contrary, the normal course of the disease is toward ever-accelerating deterioration and debauchery.”

I know some of you who follow me mostly care about ocean or climate but this is one of the most alarming things happening and is worth your attention.

Watch this: bit.ly/49e6YeJ

Former police chief condemns ICE murder -- Norwalk, Connecticut: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XB6M...

"In the last four months alone, immigration officers have fired on at least nine people in five states and Washington, D.C. All of the individuals targeted in those shootings were, like the woman killed on Wednesday, fired on while in their vehicles." 🎁article www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/u...

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/o...

An advance look at Barry Blitt’s “Guzzler,” the cover for next week’s issue. #NewYorkerCovers

Take it from a real vaccine expert, @pauloffit.bsky.social, this move is baseless and dangerous. pauloffit.substack.com/p/on-being-d...

Gifted article. Power flexes, race targeting, mass deportations, threats and dealmaking, retribution, maga-fying the military, dismantling the government, self enrichment, economic whiplash - worth the read. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The corruption is absolutely staggering. One big money donor after another receiving direct benefits in return. Trump didn’t drain any swamps, he created a giant sewer to roll around in daily. Great reporting. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

"The astounding haul hints at a level of transactionalism for which it is difficult to find obvious comparisons in modern American history." Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I've mostly been talking about the Trump regime's plan to dismantle NCAR, but you might be asking yourself, wtf is NCAR and why should I care? @drshepherd2013.bsky.social has got you covered here. www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...

RFK Jr. has thoughts about breastfeeding. I have thoughts about paid parental leave.

“Today is a defining moment for our country,” Michael Osterholm, a public health expert at the University of Minnesota, said. “We can no longer trust federal health authorities when it comes to vaccines.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...

To be very clear, Kennedy's team is messing with a vaccine which has led to a 99 percent drop in the incidence of hepatitis B, which kills, early and painfully, 25 percent of the people who get it as children. lnk.thebulwark.com/3Xt957M

The U.S. does not subject itself to accountability, so we're using the avenues we have before us," Kovalik said Wednesday. "We believe that a decision in our favor, combined with public pressure, can get us that compensation and also can end the killings in the Caribbean

This is terrifying. "Public health officials warn that if Mr. Kennedy succeeds, measles and other infectious diseases will come roaring back" Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...

Vaccine Committee May Make Significant Changes to Childhood Schedule "Decisions by the group are not legally binding, but they have profound implications for whether private insurance and government assistance programs are required to cover the vaccines." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/h...

Under Trump, the government isn't just withholding data it doesn't like; it's killing its own capacity to produce reliable data.

When a politician says: we’ll deregulate health insurance and send you a “freedom account” check, ask: freedom to buy what? If insurers don’t offer real policies or can cherry-pick only healthy people, that money is a coupon for a store that’s not open.

Such classic gaslighting it's an instructive moment. The question is not whether generic is better or worse, it's that a list with more expensive brand names is not the same as a list with cheaper generics. Perverting that truth into an attack on those calling it out is Manipulation 101.

Meta buried 'causal' evidence of social media harm, according to unredacted filings in a lawsuit by US school districts against Meta and other social media platforms reut.rs/3LXcPMj

An open letter to MTG. open.substack.com/pub/alyssajm...

I sat down with Ed Elson to talk about Trump's new idea of a "tariff dividend," and we got to talking about the deeper issues this raises, like how seriously to take economic proposals from a White House that doesn't take its own proposals seriously. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdqd...

@timmiller.bsky.social isn't letting this slide: bit.ly/4qZpcqZ

The pardons include 77 allies tied to efforts to overturn the 2020 election, including Rudy Giuliani, former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, and former Trump attorney Sidney Powell.

Breaking News: The Trump administration told states to undo any steps to provide full food stamp benefits to low-income families, threatening financial penalties if the states do not comply. It was unclear how that would affect the program.