100% tax on medication imports? How does that make us great again? And build a company in the US to produce those meds in the US? Guess what you need for that. Experts. With H1B visas. For $100,000 a pop. See the problem here?

The interesting opposite of this is General Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord. Post-WW1 titan of the German army. Who Hitler DESPERATELY courted. von Hammerstein is one of only 3 figures believed to have told Hitler to fuck off to his face. He even thwarted Nazi attempts to politicize his own death. /1 🧵

This is the official communication from the FDA to physicians on acetaminophen use in pregnancy. - They acknowledge the lack of a causal link with autism - Essentially tell physicians to keep doing what we've been doing anyway It's very different from the press conference. Pass it on.

South Korea, Brazil and now France. They show us how it SHOULD be done.

Give me vindictive and evil for 5 please… Another way to enforce destruction of NIH (and other agencies).

"History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes." Mark Twain en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturda...

"More than a million people had canceled Disney streaming subscriptions as of Monday, the Disney source told me, and the company likely knew that trend would only continue the longer they kept Kimmel silenced." @marisakabas.bsky.social w/ a doozy. 👀

Der SPIEGEL called T.umps speech at the UN general assembly “a speech at the verge of madness”. (Article in German)

Huntington's disease has been successfully treated for the first time, doctors tell BBC

This is huge: “A drug that provides near-perfect protection against H.I.V. with shots just twice a year will be made available at $40 per patient annually in low- and middle-income countries, offering new hope… making lenacapavir a realistic choice in countries with constrained resources.”

Obama photographer Pete Souza posted this pic of Obama on that UN escalator… www.instagram.com/p/DO9GFjUEZi...

BREAKING — Notices for the Disney+ price increase went out at noon ET today, confirming my scoop from last night. Details: www.vulture.com/article/disn...

Hi @wnyc.org teach Jon Hamilton how to review the literature. Your ”science expert” mentions a study that may maybe show a connection between Autism and Tylenol yet this “expert” fails to mention a study in 2.5 Mio children that found none. No mentioning of that. You should do better. Infuriating.

Hey a thing I really don’t want to get lost here is that while Tylenol doesn’t cause autism, IT’S FINE TO BE AUTISTIC. Let’s not grant them the premise that autism should be eradicated in our way to correct the science, okay? Okay.

Look, it’s Heroin and Adderall ganging up on Tylenol.

This is Annie. She freaking loves fall. 13/10 (FB: James Osborne)

Now with comments... Lots of comments (A long thread) 1/n

I don’t know. Reeks like Brutopia or Gotham City. Nothing elegant at all. Just brute force.

That magical moment when the pumice is gently cleared away revealing, for the first time in nearly 2000 years, a white mosaic. #MosaicMonday #Pompeii

What movie do you consider perfect?

Remember that MLK said America suffers not just from "the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people."

Hitler and Mussolini also persecuted members of anti-fascism. Sophie and Hans Scholl, von Stauffenberg, Niemöller, Bonhoeffer, Adenauer, Brand, Parri, Pertini... Rosenstrasse protest (it worked). Other prominent members were Eisenhauer and Churchill.

The 3,000-year-old gold Shropshire sun pendant was dicovered in 2018. Crafted with incredible skill and decorated with intricate geometric patterns, it symbolizes the importance of the sun in Bronze Age society. As scientific analysis has indicated, the pendant...🧵1/2 📷 me #archaeology 🏺

This is an excellent overview of how the Trump admin is disrupting life-saving cancer research. And it’s not just happening in cancer, not just at NCI. It’s happening at every Institute, ripping away cures and hope for people with every type of disease. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...

21 September 1942 | The first 400 three-tiered bunks were delivered to KL Auschwitz from the SS-WVHA warehouse in Oranienburg. They were later installed in the wooden barracks in Birkenau. Barracks for prisoners at Auschwitz II-Birkenau: https://youtu.be/m0PGSIoCgKY

CRISPR is amazing

Choose. Your. Fighter.

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

about the $100K H1B fee, here's some interesting details: "If an employee is in the U.S., he or she will not be subject if (i) applying to extend or amend H-1B status, or (ii) applying to change from another visa category into H-1B status from within the U.S."

Had brunch with two colleagues. Pessimism all around. Deep and profound pessimism. As in there is no light at the end of the tunnel as there is no end in sight.

Photo representing our time:

100k a year for an H1B is bananas. But at this point, I think the writing is kind of on the wall for the best and brightest wanting to come here anyway.

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

This is amazing.

Oh great, another Friday surprise to destroy academia, decouple us from the rest of the world and to destroy highly skilled manufacturing in the US. This is all nuts.

STEWART: “Comedy doesn’t change the world, but it’s a bellwether— we’re the banana peel in the coal mine… authoritarians are the threat to comedy, music, art, thought… progress.” Nailed it.

Make measles great again

My first academic article was on the dictatorship of Uzbekistan inventing a group called "Akromiya" that did not really exist but which they used to arrest anyone with whom they disagreed under the pretext of "terrorism". Just bringing this up for no reason whatsoever!

This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.

I think it was Adam Serwer who noted that free speech means they can say what they want and you can say what they want. Can't get any more obvious than what we've witnessed over the past week.

So, the first amendment is dead now I see. Anyone of these lawyers willing to bring THAT up to the Supreme Court of … Oh, never mind

the 1st part deserves a listen extremist views have been with us and probably always will be what’s new is these views being embraced, celebrated, and mandated as the only view tolerable by the White House that aspect keeps being ignored despite its central importance to the American experiment

If we’re going to have Chinese style autocracy in the US, I’d also like the renewable energy infrastructure, high speed rail, electric vehicles, investment in science, and good food.

in light of the kimmel news, just a reminder that a few days ago a prominent fox news host literally called for killing homeless people. right afterward, someone shot up a couple homeless encampments. that fox news host still has his job.

So are there any late night talk shows left or is it all FOX now with statements on euthanasia of homeless people?

Cartoon by @mluckovich.bsky.social.

Susan Monarez is a public health hero. #ProfilesInCourage