The point was never to save money. That was only ever a convenient justification for an effort to decimate the public sector and dismantle the US social safety net.

Really sick victim-blaming. Sick, sick shit www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/u...

This is the best piece I’ve read so far on why the Guinea-Bissau RCT, in which a proven life-saving vaccine will be deliberately WITHHELD, is unethical “When benefit is established, withholding an intervention is no longer neutral experimentation it becomes premeditated harm”

I was interviewed for @theguardian.com by the wonderful @melodyschreiber.com, one of the finest health reporters in the world, about what I called a “neocolonialist” study planned by Danish researchers in Guinea-Bissau, funded by RFK Jr. So many red flags 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩 www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

“She has marks on her neck and wrist from where agents restrained her. Agents cut off her wedding ring and held her in leg shackles at Whipple Federal Building for about five hours.” Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.

“The only reason I don’t have this funding is because my last name is Rodriguez.” MOSAIC checked many of the boxes of the administration — but that didn't matter. It was terminated, and left grantees scrambling Next installment of American Science, Shattered: www.statnews.com/2025/12/08/t...

404 Media is making a print zine! About the surveillance technologies used by ICE. 16 pages, riso printed. Shipping early January. Features reworked versions of our best reporting and a few new things. We're very excited! And hope to do more if people like it: www.404media.co/404-media-is...

Absolutely unconscionable: Dr Prasad won't share details, data, evidence, or proof of causality. We just have Dr Tracy Beth Høeg's vibes - that's the assessment. AND: "FDA vaccine staff disagreed with the assessment that the reported deaths were caused by vaccines" endpoints.news/fda-says-it-...

48 years. That's how long trans women have been eligible to compete in tennis.

The former oil executive/DOE official who held the all-staff meeting announcing the change repeatedly told the scientists who work on clean energy that she "hates" clean energy.

Read through this and think about how absolutely unimaginable a message like this would have been just 13 months ago. The suppression of US academic liberty has been accepted and normalized instantly. The federal government is in full control of what thoughts and values are allowed in lecture halls

They lied about it. All of it. A thug cop shot an unarmed woman five times without justification, boasted about it to his colleagues, and then this administration tried cover it all up by arresting her and charging her with felonies.

CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”

5 headlines tonight on Charlotte Observer’s homepage: “Manolo's Bakery closes to protect customers” “Church members flee as federal agents arrive” “Super G executive describes agents dragging out teen employee” “Border Patrol questions people at Walmart” “Border Patrol sweep sparks fear”

Also, here’s an accessible video intro:

NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find: - NONE of the arrested were criminally charged - NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists." - ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.

Prasad and Hoeg are censoring studies showing the covid vaccine is safe. More great reporting by @lizzylawrence.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/11/12/f...

Looks like @moderation.bsky.app automatically mutes "rude" content? What an embarrassingly infantalizing thing for a social media platform to do

From Bovino's deposition: (1) he calls protestors "violent" if they articulate views hostile to ICE, even if no violence is manifested; (2) he instructs his forces to attack and arrest protestors who express "hyperbolic comments," which is to say, criticism of ICE and Bovino.

arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review. This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month. Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.

If you're wondering how things have been going since the CDC shooting, someone bombed a friend's workplace at Harvard yesterday and, if you were going off the discourse on Bluesky, you would honestly never know it happened www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/u...

The Python Software Foundation won a $1.5m grant from the US government National Science Foundation. Turned it down because required to affirm that we "will not... operate any programs that advance or promote DEI" simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/27/...

every day a new rubicon is crossed

first time at MSP Film's Main Cinema on St. Anthony Main Street for FRANKENSTEIN (2025) and not only do they offer weed at the concession stand but the Minneapolis skyline view from across the street is dynamite

The people on this airplane have a sense of duty and self-sacrifice that Donald Trump will never understand. They are NOAA employees flying their plane through the middle of the category 4 Hurricane Melissa south of Jamaica. And they aren't getting paid. I wish them safe flying and a safe return

The official USDA site is blaming trans people for SNAP benefits expiring.

cc all the thin blue line "WhO aRe yoU gOinG To CaLL wHen ThErE'S a cRiMe" poeple. Seems like when a cop wants to murder people, the answer is nobody www.inquirer.com/crime/new-je...

Hey Yaniv Brandvain is not on Bluesky but his most recent biostats ebook is live ybrandvain.github.io/biostats/. His stats resources have been so helpful to me as I develop my own stats course, so check it out. Github repo here: github.com/ybrandvain/b...

The specifics of this are extremely bad. DHS is using a tariffs/product importation law to demand Meta unmask the identity of an Instagram account that posts about ICE enforcement actions. The page sells no merch. Lawyers call it "wildly outside the scope" of the law www.404media.co/dhs-tries-to...

Pre-print alert 🚨 We answer a longstanding question in the field. Do immune cells cause cerebral malaria? The answer is YES!!!! And independently of P. falciparum accumulation in the brain. www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

"We have spent a century repenting those mistakes, and now the Trump administration demands that we repeat them."

"What NPS anthropologists provide...is the ability to recognize the crossroads and overlaps between what the Park Service hopes to accomplish and the traditions and lifeways of communities who will be affected by their actions." Good piece @sapiens.org by Ellyn Demuynck #anthropology #nationalpark

ICE agents blocked an ambulance that was trying to take an injured protester to hospital. "We are still not being allowed to leave by ICE officers.” an EMT said on radio When driver tried to get out, an agent yelled, "DON’T YOU EVER DO THAT AGAIN, I WILL SHOOT YOU" www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

They also cancelled government data collection about hunger to minimize evidence about their policies

Some scientists aren’t waiting for journals to catch up. They’re showing us what’s next. The Beyond the Journal awards honor those breaking the mold in how science is shared. More details: pracheeac.substack.com/p/off-roadin... Nominate or self-nominate here: www.experiment.foundation/beyond

"When exposed to 13 dietary ingredients and food additives prevalent in industrialized diets, the U.S. microbiome responded differently from its Thai counterpart... the U.S. microbiome showed a predisposition toward weight gain under industrialized dietary conditions."

I’m glad people are aware of this, but it isn’t new. People in immigration detention were consistently moved away from their attorneys in the Biden admin. We reported on it then, but very few people cared about migrants when they weren’t a partisan tool.

New BMJ Research finds the implementation of work requirements with Medicaid expansion in Georgia did not increase health insurance coverage or employment. These findings have important implications after recently enacted legislation www.bmj.com/content/390/...

Another record month for bioRxiv - and further evidence the pandemic spike+dip was just that and growth continues. Thanks to all involved and that includes 🫵

This passage nearly broke me.

Be sure to sign up the right way or the feds will try to put you in prison for a few decades and then never explain why en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_...

Today I spoke with Greg Bovino, a top U.S. Border Patrol chief, as he led dozens of feds in military gear through downtown Chicago. He said they were arresting folks based on “how they look.” “How do they look compared to, say, you?” he said, referring to me. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Having only seen Wisconsin from Brewers TV broadcasts, I was shocked at how many different ways Wisconsin finds to be beautiful. The Driftless Area is amazing.

Pretty clear illustration of "you may as well stand up for what you believe in, they're coming for you anyway."

They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.

New from 404 Media: airlines are selling *5 billion* ticketing records to the government for warrantless searching, per new docs we obtained. ARC is a data broker owned by United, American, Delta, etc. Then sells peoples' travel info to ICE, Secret Service, FBI etc www.404media.co/airlines-sel...

Use of the word "evil" in official congressional e-newsletters, over time, by party

I can't stress enough that this is how is exactly how genocides are incited. They always use language to couch it in self defense to justify violence against their targets.

ME, IN TEARS: you can't just say every single part of a computer system is a file UNIX, POINTING AT THE MOUSE: file