So the feds ARE NOT considering an mRNA vaccine for the flu, which could save countless lives, but ARE backing research into whether horse dewormer can cure cancer, because the right views vaccines as elite and ivermectin as populist. Cool. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

Now Trump's / RFK Jr's FDA is refusing to even look at scientific data on vaccines. People will die, just as 83 people died in Samoa following RFK Jr's anti-vaxx lobbying and as children have died needlessly of chickenpox this year in the USA. RFK Jr wats annual flu deaths to rise.

Welp, that was a steaming pile of poop. #UNC #GoHeels #GDTBATH

And the new NCI Director moves to piss away his scientific credibility. First, killing cancer cells is a very low bar; many compounds kill cancer cells and are not the least bit useful for treating cancer. 1/2

Seahawks win the Super Bowl and Carolina beats Dook! Hard to top that for a Dave Sports Weekend.

Just taking a few more moments to be like Coach! #GDTBATH

I am still in complete disbelief! As always, this game delivers. The best rivalry in all of sports doesn’t disappoint. Wow!! #GDTBATH 🩵🐏👣🏀

Oh. My. God. What a game! Carolina takes it's only lead with .4 seconds left in the game to Beat Dook! #GoHeels #GDTBATH

In response to ongoing ICE activity in Minnesota and around the country, Superchunk is reprinting their "Abolish ICE" T-shirt, with profits from the sale benefiting The People’s Laundry Minneapolis and the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota.

I'm heartbroken to learn of the passing of Parthenon Huxley. I took guitar lesson from him from years, and I got him to do a cover of @superchunk.bsky.social 's Rosemarie. I was going to overlay me playing the guitar solo, but I never got around to it. LMK if you'd like the whole song.

This tweet which NIH Director Bhattacharya retweeted raises some interesting points (although perhaps not the ones that they intended). The tweeter notes how AIDS was treated when he started medical school in the San Francisco Bay area in 1988. This is misinformed. Sorry for a long 🧵 1/19

Today CBP officers executed Alex Jeffrey Pretti, a 37 year old nurse who worked at the VA. He was an observer, he was restrained and he was on the ground.

The deadly shooting in Minneapolis today was a straight-up execution of a protester by Trump's federal brownshirts. The thugs wrestled him to the ground. They pistol-whipped him, then shot him multiple times. They murdered him.

How bout dem Heels! #UNC #GoHeels #gdtbath

No one can be watching this Davos speech and reach any conclusion but that the President of the United States is mentally disturbed and that something is deeply wrong with him. This is both embarrassing and extremely dangerous.

ST. PAUL MAYOR: “We’ve received reports of ICE officers going door to door asking where the Asian people live… I myself have received advice to carry my passport with me because they may target me based on what I look like.”

this Greenland shit is fucking insane. it’s fucking insane. the fact that anyone is humoring him is fucking insane. the biggest problem in the world today is that nobody is taking the president seriously for the fucking psychopath he is. this isn’t all some fucking joke

Caleb Effing Wilson! Man-child! #UNC #GoHeels #GDTBATH

For years, the FDA provided an informational webpage for parents warning them of the dangers of bogus autism treatments—before it was quietly deleted at the end of 2025.

If you only have time to read one piece today, read this. It voices the particular pain civil servants have felt since “the purge”, which was never about waste, but rather removing the scientific and professional foundations of American government, making it easier to raid, sell, and manipulate.

"I doubt NATO would be there for us if we really needed them." ~Donald Trump. The USA invoked Article 5 after 9/11. This photo shows members of the Danish Huntsman Corps in Helmand Province (2009). I wasn't there in 2009, but I did work with this group in 2002, Task Force K-Bar.

This is exactly what I told someone yesterday. Even if I spot you the first shot (I shouldn’t, but let’s go with that), shots 2 and 3 were inexcusable and this officer will lose his case if it ever goes to court.

Just saw the video of the ICE shooting in Minnesota. That’s murder, full stop. You don’t shoot someone in the head for trying to flee the scene.

Some highlights from our family tour of Italy.

Ummm, go me?

Highlights from our Christmas in Rome.

He’s gilded the entire White House, slapped his name on both the Kennedy Center and Institute for Peace, installed a new Trump Gold Card, and now proposing a new “Trump class” of naval vessels. I know we keep saying this is insane but this is seriously fucking insane.

YES! Tar Heels hang on to beat The Ohio State! #UNC #GDTBATH

RFK Jr.’s handpicked anti-vaccine staff at HHS have apparently decided that the CDC will no longer recommend most childhood vaccines. They will encourage parents to discuss it with doctors instead. This is going to kill babies, and it will cause the most harm among the most vulnerable.

AAP learned this week that seven grants to AAP under the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services are being terminated. The sudden withdrawal of these funds will directly impact and potentially harm infants, children, youth, and their families. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

RFK Jr. has cancelled grants to the American Academy of Pediatrics because “they no longer align with departmental priorities”. The grants were on such topics as “reducing sudden infant death, rural access to health care, and mental health…” The AAP has criticized RFK Jr. That’s the real reason.

California Don't Need RFK Jr.'s Damn CDC, California Gonna Have ITS OWN DAMN CDC www.wonkette.com/p/california... By Doktor Zoom @doktorzoom.bsky.social

NSF is about to dismantle NCAR at Russell Vought's direction to protect the fossil fuel industry. It's hard to communicate just how much NCAR does, so let's take a look: I've never worked at NCAR, and I've worked with NCAR researchers once ever. What scientific discoveries has NCAR made possible? 👇

TODAY: Join us at 2 PM ET for our last #ArsLive of the year, where we'll chat with three former CDC officials about what they saw (and are seeing) at the agency under RFK Jr’s rule, and what it means for the country’s health: arstechnica.com/health/2025/...

Happy release day to Juliana Hatfield! Her new album, Lightning Might Strike, is out today.

Some pics from our weekend golf outing to Pinehurst, NC. We played Southern Pines, Pine Needles and Mid Pines. Such great Donald Ross courses. #golfsky

🚨 Today, I formally introduced articles of impeachment against Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. RFK Jr. has turned his back on science and the safety of the American people. Michiganders cannot take another day of his chaos.

I was pleased to again partner with virologist @jimalwine.bsky.social on this piece about the continued, insidious assault on public health by RFK Jr. We are truly on a bullet train back to the dark ages; prisoners to Kennedy’s bizarre whims. He is contemptible.

Make America Healthy Again my ass.

Whoo Boy! Day 1 of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) meeting is over. Here are some summary thoughts. TL;DR: RKFJ’s ACIP members are completely unqualified for the job but are now (ironically) calling themselves "CDC experts". They are not. Do not trust ACIP recommendations.

When asked on Wednesday why the panel would target the Hep B vaccine, Cassidy said of Kennedy’s HHS: “The best I can tell is that they have a prejudice against science. That’s the best I can tell.” Umm...thanks, Bill. Any thoughts on why we are in this mess? rollcall.com/2025/12/04/c...

Reports now said that Kegbreath told Admiral Holsey that the military will follow all order & not to question any of them. Holsey stated the strikes are illegal & Kegbreath said do it or step down & retired. Holsey step down & retired. allaboutlawyer.com/admiral-alvi...

ACIP member Cody Meissner states clearly that HBV vaccine is the reason for the drastic decline in HBV in the US. Anti-vaxxer Robert Malone: In your opinion: Meissner: These are facts.

🧵1/4 Why is hepatitis B vaccination in infancy so important? Because HBV isn’t just “a disease adults get.” And babies are exposed to more blood in everyday life than most people realize.

Ahead of the ACIP meeting tomorrow where they’ll be considering removing the Hep B birth dose recommendation, here’s a good breakdown of why that’s a bad thing:

Not a pretty game but its good to get the W. #GoHeels #GDTBATH

This game is so painful to watch. So. Many. Bricks. #GoHeels #GDTBATH