This interview by @aliroginpbs.bsky.social with FDA Commissioner Marty Makary is a masterclass. It should be taught in j-schools and she should receive a medal for it. Here are just a few of the things she does while making it all look easy: www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

Progressive groups yes but also a lot of the federal employees involved with all this www.gravityisgone.com/a-slap-in-th...

🚨ALERT: Large ICE/ federal agent and MPD presence on the 1800 block of Columbia Rd in Adams Morgan. Agents reported to be detaining people, entering buildings, and confiscating scooters. We recommend you avoid this area. 1/

like i say every few weeks (annoying all my followers), in a crisis like this, people are scared, and they are looking for leaders they can trust — people who they think will fight for them, and defend them when it gets bad. now think about the message democrats sent today.

The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it. Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.

NEWS — FDA announces 13 cases of infant botulism across 10 states after babies were given ByHeart powder formula from two specific lots.

And let's name names. #ElonMusk #MarcoRubio #RussellVought and #DonaldTrump (with help from #JohnRoberts). This is premeditated murder--of children. You can spin it anyway you like but you cannot escape this fact.

Politicians should probably get on Bluesky to get better in touch with the American electorate.

RFK Jr wants many children to die of measles. The centrist position of just letting A FEW children die of measles might sound clever if you've got worms in your brain, but I can promise that, "ZERO CHILDREN SHOULD DIE OF MEASLES" will win my vote.

🧵1/7. More blows to science. Dr. Rachel Riley, a 33 year-old DOGE staffer and former McKinsey consultant, replaced a Rear Admiral as the head of the Office of Naval Research. The ONR, with a budget over $2B, oversees Navy and Marine Corps research programs in science and technology.

SCOOP The admin is making it harder for male vets w/ breast cancer to get their care covered The admin cites Trump order: “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government” I got the memo laying it all out www.propublica.org/article/vete...

How New Trump Multiyear Policy Makes NIH Grants Even Harder To Get www.forbes.com/sites/brucel...

This video from Portland is a metaphor for what is going on in America. ICE trying so hard to get Americans to cross a line and if they don't, dragging them across the line and violently attacking.

Powerful anti-vaccine advocates and people selling potentially harmful goods such as raw milk are benefitting – financially and otherwise – from the push to write anti-science policies into law across the U.S.

This week's comic on the looming threat to the ACA:

Turks have an unforgettable saying ▸ Öküz tahta çıkarsa öküz padişah olmaz, saray ahır olur “When an ox ascends to the throne, he doesn’t become king; the palace becomes a barn”

I'm just a brain worm and by no means a subject matter expert in affairs of state, but slashing heath care and research funding while rapidly constructing large scale concentration camps at great cost does not seem like a typical course of action for a functioning republic.

People on twitter are losing their minds over this, including several scientists who I have to assume have either brain poisoned themselves or were always like this. People don't always cite what's best; they cite what they know & researchers from historically excluded communities get the short end.

Anti-science bills hit statehouses targeting public health protections. www.pbs.org/newshour/hea...

Giant copy of the Constitution being carried down Pennsylvania Avenue.

in this thread of guides we have: - protest guides against government surveillance - what a faraday pouch does - best VPNs to protecting your privacy online - background on “no kings” organizers - what tools the trump administration is deploying to surveil protesters and his “enemies” - and more

This is possibly the all-time funniest real answer to an interview question

This FDA warning letter jumped out at me because I have seen this product promoted by mom influencers on instagram. www.fda.gov/inspections-...

No one knows what is happening. Now, we are hearing some of the CDC RIF notices might have been in error. Error = Miscoding Where are we hearing this? Through media of course! No one is being transparent with CDC staff. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h... We continue to track the cuts. Stay tuned.

Let's recap. This May, the Trump administration established "Gold Standard Science," using the language of scientific integrity and openness to empower political appointees like RFK Jr. to override scientists debunking Trump's dogma around science — from climate change to vaccines. #impeachthequack

Federal agents aren’t trying to keep the peace. They want violence to escalate so that Trump can declare martial law. They shot a reverend in the head with pepper balls while he was praying in front of an ICE facility. If that doesn’t tell you where we are as a country, nothing will.

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repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

BREAKING: The director of the presidential library and museum in Abilene, Kansas, said he was suddenly told to resign or be fired. He refused to give the Trump administration a historic sword from the museum’s collection.

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later. harpers.org/archive/1941...

Finally read this, and the reporting is as good as everyone says it is. It’s also terrifying, confounding, and deeply weird. The most powerful people in American politics right now — including the guy who has all our personal data — aren’t just evil, they’re absolutely bonkers.

When you're feeding on a rotting brain and it does *this* it's time to find a new brain to rot

This was always the funniest conspiracy theory to me — that there are MRI machine-like devices that can cure all known illnesses in seconds, but the government has been hiding them — and Trump just posted an AI generated video of himself announcing they're real. We're cooked!

“I’m emotionally shellshocked right now,” said one professor in the Texas Tech system. “What does it say about academic freedom? It says we don’t have it.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

NIH staffers worked around the clock to get awards out after this administration imposed delay after delay. But we funded many multi-year grants all at once, which means we're funding much less. For cancer research, only about half as many awards have gone out. Bad for those in need of cures.

Coincidentally, another group published results today on a very similar question: What research wouldn't have gotten done had the NIH's budget been cut by 40%, as Trump proposed? Under that scenario, NIH-funded research on more than half of 557 drugs approved 2000-2023 would have never happened!

I’d seen the nutty excerpts of Miller’s speech at Kirk’s memorial, but hadn’t seen the whole thing. It’s easily the most unhinged, unapologetically fascist rhetoric I’ve ever seen from someone in US government. It’s more of a discount, Dwight Schrute Goebbels than Goebbels. But still.

A new Senate report claims DOGE put every American's Social Security number at risk—and that officials at federal agencies essentially obstructed an investigation, all but denying DOGE even exists. www.wired.com/story/armed-...

I didn't know MAHA stood for "Make America Hungry Again," but that's what Trump and his cronies are doing with this cruel, senseless move.   With food insecurity already on the rise, this will only make it harder to help those in desperate need. It cannot stand.

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The New York Times piece today about US science is terrible and wrong—in many ways. I could write a whole article about this, but as one example: “To close observers, the original crisis began well before any of this…” No. I’m a close observer of science, and this is incorrect.

You don't have to be a Fed to sign this letter asking Congress to retake their power of the purse. We do not want a shut down, but we will accept a temporary one to fight this lawless administration and the harm it does to the American people. 1/2 actionnetwork.org/forms/civil-...

HARDEST PHOTO OF 2025 JUST DROPPED

CDC official provides the ACIP panelists a look at the success of the universal birth dose of hepatitis B vaccine. #Medsky #IDsky #pediatrics #vaccines

Can these supplements REALLY boost brain rot by 69%???

whether the liberalism of our time will be defined by above (by the neoliberals, think tankers, and pundits) or from below (by civil society, normies #NoKings protestors) is enormously historically consequential, and even those to the left of this whole conversation should recognize that

Shivers down my spine. What a set of ghouls and charlatans. Thanks to Amy Schoenfeld Walker and @lazarogamio.bsky.social for this. These people want to take away your vaccines. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

(1/10) We’re excited to share our new preprint (doi.org/10.1101/2025...), which uncovers the spatiomolecular landscape of the human nucleus accumbens (NAc), by integrating snRNA-seq with Visium spatial transcriptomics across 10 control donors. 🧠 #NAcLIBD #snRNAseq #10xVisium