Science will not be defeated

Obama: I am not immune to anger or doubt. But I do know this when we lose faith in each other, when we stop believing that voting matters… we open the door to the most ruthless or the most careless, or the most fearful among us who see some groups and some people as more equal than others

Mark Zuckerberg built a massive data center in Georgia just hundreds of yards from people’s homes. Now the water pressure is gone. Sinks don’t run. Toilets won’t refill. Homes shake nonstop. Power outages are routine.

In the past year alone, Jeff Bezos's net worth has increased by $75 billion. That’s $205,479,452 per day $8,561,643 per hour $142,694 per minute $2,378 per second The median American’s weekly earnings is $1,235 ($64,220/yr).

Go Spurs Go!!! #NBAplayoffs2026

Raise a glass to freedom!

Last year, Dr. Ezequiel Véliz was named 2025 Resident of the Year at UT Health, Rio Grande Valley. Last week, ICE detained him in McAllen, Texas—ripping him away from his family, his life, and his patients.

I’ve called my Senators and Representative multiple times. I’ve taken my whole family to every single #NoKings and ICE protest in our community. I don’t want ANY of this, but especially genocide of an innocent people. How do we get the 535 people who have actual power to DO SOMETHING???

BREAKING: Another person has died in ICE custody, per required notification to Congress, marking 15 deaths in detention this year and 45+ since Trump took office again.

FAVREAU: “$200 billion could eliminate nearly all medical debt in America, fund free community college for two decades, or feed 42 million Americans for two years. Instead, we're dropping bombs on Iran.” (From @podsaveamerica.crooked.com )

#NoKings San Antonio!

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Casar holds a 3 minute and 26 second moment of silence to represent the time in which DHS officers let Renee Good bleed out after she was shot

I know you've heard that a federal judge ordered the release of 5 year old Liam Conejo Arias and his father, and that they're now home. But did you look at the judge's order? It's less than 2.5 pages and well worth a minute. "Jesus wept." Link to pdf: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Murdering citizens in the streets, arresting independent journalists, buying up warehouses to store people? Sounds like the plot of a dystopian film that would never be set in America, yet hrrr we are… www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

“That’s fine dude, I’m not mad at you”

Copy Editing Matters, from HHS's release on the new childhood vaccine schedule: All the diseases will still be available to anyone who wants them

More women have nearly bled to death during miscarriage under Texas’ abortion ban. Experts say the trend paints a troubling picture of the harms of unnecessary delays in care. “This is striking,” one doctor said. “The trend is very clear.” (Published July 2025)

Members of Congress: stop posting online and APPEAR, PHYSICALLY on the steps of the Capitol to decry this unconstitutional violation of domestic & international law. SHOW THE PEOPLE the level of danger we are facing as a country. @housedemocrats.bsky.social @senatedemocrats.bsky.social

73% of ICE detainees have no criminal convictions, according to govt data. Don’t fall for Trump’s lies about targeting the “worst of the worst.” As ICE terrorizes cities to fill up detention centers, remember that some of Trump's major donors are private prison corporations.

There are so many holes in DHS’s story it’s nuts. They say this woman was driving her boyfriend’s car, who they claim is undocumented. ICE pulls her over, see she’s alone, know they are looking for a man, and still handcuff her while she screams “I am a US citizen,”. Why is ICE harassing women?

The decision by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to downgrade its recommendations to protect infants from hepatitis B is a dangerous move that will harm children. Click here to read AAP's full statement: bit.ly/3Y9ZQJT

The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.

If SNAP benefits vanished tomorrow, feeding 42 million Americans for a month would cost about $7.8 billion.That’s less than 1% of the combined net worth of the three richest men in the U.S. A reminder of how obscene inequality has become and how easily hunger could be solved if we chose to.

It’s Love Your Lungs Day! 🫁💙 Declared by the City of Chicago in partnership with CHEST, October 19 celebrates lung health and the professionals who care for it. Join us at #CHEST2025 and share how you #LoveYourLungs. 🔗 www.chestnet.org/newsroom/pre...

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

According to the City of Paris, in the last 10 years 150K trees have been planted & 45ha of parks created in the already hot city, all intended to not only improve quality-of-life today, but also help the city adapt to & manage summer heatwaves of 50℃ (122F) by 2050. Just the start. Common sense.

This is pretty scary stuff. Fellow Americans are not the enemy. They’re just people trying to make it through the day and leave the world a better place for their children. I can’t believe that this is what our good servicemen and women signed up for.

Hmmm …. What is the word you would use to describe intentionally submitting incorrect billing/coding in order to affect reimbursement? If a doctor did it, I’m pretty sure you’d call it FRAUD. @ama-assn.org aasm.org/new-aetna-an...

This is what unity looks like.

WHO statement on autism-related issues The World Health Organization (WHO) emphasizes that there is currently no conclusive scientific evidence confirming a possible link between #autism and use of acetaminophen (also known as paracetamol) during pregnancy Full statement bit.ly/47YsgwI

As a household that watches 20min of Frozen most days, this hurts. But as Anna says, “You must go on, and do the next right thing.” Protecting free speech is the right thing, and I hope #Disney musters the courage to act like the heroes they created.

More Americans are very worried about climate change than are about crime. @yaleclimatecomm.bsky.social climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications...

None of this is normal. Institutions are shuttering venues of dissent. The judiciary is being turned into a mechanism to harass Trump's political opponents. The media is silencing critics. And now the Senate is no longer going to do advice and consent. None of this is normal.

Violence is not the answer

The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city. This is not a joke. This is not normal. Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.

Changing the name of the Department of Defense will cost billions.We could build units for all unhoused veterans. Or give service members a pay raise so 35K active duty members wouldn’t have to rely on food stamps. Or… or… or…

These are truly careless people who have too much power.

The fact that you can have all of these organizations calling for Kennedy's resignation (or the NYTimes op-ed by 9 former CDC directors) and it having so little discernible impact is a sign of how far the US has moved from valuing scientific advice and expertise and how big a challenge it faces...

Elections of every level matter. Don't believe me, ask Texas, whose governor has allowed more people to die than any other in modern history by mismanaging money & supplies for Uvalde PD, mismanaged the Electric grid, and also failed to put sirens in flash flood alley while campers used it yearly.

I spent 2020 taking care of critically-ill COVID patients & was so grateful to receive the vaccine that felt like a miracle of science. The vaccine reduces the risk of transmission to vulnerable people & since then has saved millions of lives. What are we even doing now? apnews.com/article/vacc...

A federal-state partnership that monitors for foodborne illnesses quietly scaled back its operations nearly two months ago. As of July 1, the critical surveillance program is monitoring for only two pathogens instead of the usual eight, a spokesperson for the CDC says.

“He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.”

Reading “Careless People” by Sarah Wynn-Williams and feeling even more discouraged about the state of things. This reality is darker than I naively realized.

Instead of working on flood relief, the Texas legislature is dedicating its time and our resources to a power grab. More evidence that the Texas GOP doesn’t represent the interests of Texans. They just don’t care about us and we the people need to stop electing them.

Jay Bhattacharya, an economist who has never practiced medicine and doesn’t conduct biomedical research, thinks that you and your loved ones dying from diseases that could have been cured is worth it cause antivaxxers are nicer to him on social media than people who know how anything works

they fired people contributing to cancer research