Very serious people with a laser focus on advancing the national interest.

This is one of the most insane and irresponsible things I have _ever_ seen from @theatlantic.com. And that's saying a lot. Just unbelievable stuff.

🎉 Congratulations to our editor-in-chief, @jeremyfaust.bsky.social! He's featured in a @bostonglobe.com profile by @akuchment.bsky.social, which spotlights his work as an ER physician, musician, and writer of "boundary-pushing journalism." Read the article: www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/07/m...

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My latest article examines one of the many ways that the return of measles is impacting people’s lives: More than 72,000 older adults sought blood tests to check their measles immunity during Jan 2025 - March 2026, exclusive data show. www.healthbeat.org/2026/07/07/t... #publichealth #episky

Nothing wrong with being a capitalist. But you're not supposed to mix it with being a public official. That's called corruption.

#ELB: Did Texas Attorney General (and U.S. Senate Candidate) Ken Paxton Commit Voter Fraud? https://electionlawblog.org/?p=157141

If you live in Philly trash pick up is on schedule despite the 4th fyi. I did a lot of work to get this info b/c the Philadelphia department of sanitation is still on X, not here, wild choice. Luckily I’m both good at finding practical info and shaming official accounts into divesting from X.

Today is the first Tuesday of the month, i.e. my (self-imposed) blog post day! pandemonium.hypotheses.org/2014 I wrote about the documents that were recently released by Tulsi Gabbard about Fauci's role on the US Intelligence Community investigation of the origin of COVID-19 ▫️1/ #covidorigin

By my nonscientific count, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo is at least the 30th person immigration agents have directly killed or participated in the death of since Trump retook the White House. That's on top of the at least 59 people who have died in Trump's concentration camps since then.

Hey so, if you use Waymo driverless car services, you are aiding and abetting fascism. Waymo helps ICE agents locate people to terrorize and abduct. The company willingly shares all facial recognition, license plate and GPS data with ICE and other law enforcement agencies—no subpoena required.

Read the 5 key takeaways from STAT's series "Out of Pocket, Out of Reach," an examination of workplace health insurance. www.statnews.com/2026/07/07/w...

“.. Paul Bowlding said his sister is quiet and tough, yet kindhearted. .. He said he sees her strength in the photo. “I do see her as a role model of letting people know … ‘It’s going to be okay because God got us.’” @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Every voice matters! @faseborg.bsky.social has made it EASY to share your personal insights on OMB's proposed rule. Check out their free tool and take action before July 13th!

From HHS Secretary Kennedy's weekly newsletter, a shoutout about the NIH "All of Us" program. 1/2

Private equity is buying America's hospitals and nursing homes. The playbook: pile on debt, sell the building, cut staff. The result, one landmark study found: patient deaths up about 11%. #news #information #privateequity

oh my god

Is @rsc.org ok with this behaviour by their Editor-in-Chief?

ICYMI: "The Department of Justice has tapped two prosecutors with expertise in organized crime and terrorism prosecutions to implement a White House directive to crack down on its political opponents, a department spokesperson confirmed to TPM." talkingpointsmemo.com/news/exclusi...

“The people losing coverage are concentrated at incomes well above the poverty line – exactly the opposite of what the administration’s fraud theory would predict,” said Peter Whoriskey, Health Research Group research director for Public Citizen and author of the report. #healthpolicy

www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res... Link to facts on poll monitors and election challengers. Their are processes and laws in place that could easily be followed, but instead the regime chooses to attempt to wield illegitimate power over a state's election process.

An Italian male professor Federico Rosei questions Mu Yang who appointed her as "vigilante" and "snitch" . Doubles down to accuse her of "distasteful" behaviour. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Everyone who's looked at this recognizes court expansion to be the safest & most straightforward approach. There are zero questions about its constitutionality; it can be done quickly; once done it can't be rolled back; every subsequent reform effort can only stick *after* expansion.

"Artisanal" is perfect. Next time I read a paper full of photoshopped images and nonsensical data I'm going to complain to the journal editor about artisanal images and data.

I'm sorry, I just can't get past her dress dragging through the filthy sidewalk all day. 🤢

Check out Progress in Research Integrity Defining and Managing Conflict of Interest (Barbara Redman, ed.) link.springer.com/book/10.1007... a lot of great work in this volume with a few highlights ⤵️

To my knowledge, this is the first federal case substantively assessing the government's use of AI to make a decision. It will be an important precedent for the next one.

For most of my lifetime, the John Birch Society was considered the farthest right lunatic fringe imaginable — even Republicans were required to shun them.

For almost a century, scholars believed there were as few as 200,000 people in #Australia when the first British colonists arrived in 1788. New research suggests that estimate was off by several million. A related study links the devastating arrival of smallpox to the "First Fleet." @science.org 🧪

There is an actual living, breathing Republican who is speaking out against the proposed OMB rule to require political appointees to make the decisions on grant funding. Yes, it’s only Susan Collins, who will likely misplace her spine again, but…

@jamesgoodwin.bsky.social with apologies. Just noticed the OMB proposed rule is neither an ANPRM or NPRM. How does this work? Because "we say so?"

Bhattacharya is an anti-public health ideologue. It’s worth noting that his whole beef with the COVID vaccine stems from his insistence that mass infection would deliver herd immunity and that was the best way to get out of the pandemic. That stance made him a celebrity on the right.

Read our full release: www.citizen.org/news/trump-a...

Social media makes the anti science, anti vax crowd seem much larger than it is. Surveys show it’s actually a very small share of the public greatly outnumbered by science believers. My new column: on.kff.org/4wthpni

On July 9, join us online for an important conversation with Senior Fellow @michaelkofman.bsky.social on Russia's military power after Ukraine, moderated by The Economist's @shashj.bsky.social. RSVP here: carnegieendowment.org/events/2026/...

So interesting and important

@propublica.org: I can answer this: "Current and former CHMR personnel said it’s impossible to know whether a more robust prevention team could’ve helped the military avoid civilian casualties in Yemen and Iran." Because I was the person whose job it was to check potential targets at CENTCOM. 1/

Sure, extended time in bad corners of the internet can "radicalize" people. But too much of that discussion focuses on ordinary people, rather than the upper crust of American society -- leaders and upper management types, aka the people in this country who can actually afford to scroll all day.

The AAUP, AFT Connecticut, and the national AFT call on Yale University to reject any negotiated settlement with the Trump administration that would compromise academic freedom, shared governance, due process, or institutional independence. www.aaup.org/news/aaup-af...

IT'S UP! An article about the rain-soaked disaster that was July 4th in Washington DC this year, including all the videos I couldn't upload of the sad and angry crowds, plus details that didn['t make the thread. Please check it out if you would like to!

Small PDS MOOver release tonight, mostly some bug fixes and QOL. The biggest being there is now a dedicated URL to help users move back to bsky.social if it is ever needed. No more long, confusing directions. Can just send this link. pdsmoover.com/moover/bsky....

UK judge rules that Western insurers can skip payouts to Nord Stream's owners because the pipeline bombers, whoever they were 😉, acted on motives "driven by the war" in Ukraine, triggering the insurance policies' (standard) "war exclusion." www.ft.com/content/c8ca...

I have no deep thoughts about this CNN story except 1. they spelled UC Santa Barbara wrong ("Santa Barara"), 2. as with all fusion yarns it's 99% about what might be done (nothing actually done), & 3. the quote from UCSB about the work sounds like pure ChatGPT slop edition.cnn.com/science/shuj...

Happy Fourth, everyone. My latest piece is about how the current US administration is directly threatening babies’ safety. Them have been multiple botulism outbreaks in infants bc of contaminated baby formula since Trump and DOGE took a hatchet to the FDA. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Mandal has now lost nine articles to retraction and more than two dozen of her papers have been flagged on PubPeer, most for image irregularities or data issues in graphs.

“Trump Targets Not Just Georgia’s Vote, but Also Trust in Elections” electionlawblog.org?p=157050

I know there is, um, other stuff happening right now, but HHS under RFK Jr. has postponed yet another meeting of the US Preventive Services Task Force, while also failing to provide public access to nominees' application materials as promised in a Federal Register notice