Significantly helps people with heart disease *and* makes people 16% less likely to develop dementia? There should be lines at the pharmacy for this miracle drug.

I'll bet many people outside IL don't know that Juliana Stratton was a judge. And was a major proponent of restorative justice while she was. She threw herself into juvenile justice work and that's how I came to know her.

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People care about a lot of things but are only able to prioritize a very few. Once you internalize this, it becomes easier to organize.

Joe Kent is neither the worst person you know making a good point nor a broken clock; he’s a notorious antisemite and white supremacist who is blaming Jews to get out of a real job that’s quite difficult right now as we increasingly explode the world and create the conditions for terrorism.

Joe Kent is a right-wing lunatic with a “PANZER” tattoo (yes, in the original German), has close ties to White Nationalists and extremist paramilitary groups, he has consulted with Fuentes about social media strategy, employed a Proud Boy on his campaign - and that’s just off the top off my head.

If you're not familiar, the format for a "truth sandwich" is: * start with a true statement * introduce the newsworthy lie or distortion * true statement again The idea is that the false claim should not be the first or last impression. It's useful when you think a lie should not be ignored.

The NIH typically an average of 780 notices of funding opportunities (NOFOs) a year. In the 14 months since Trump came into office, the NIH has posted a grand total of 84. That drop is "striking" says Michael Lauer, former deputy director for extramural research for 15 years at the NIH.

The US NIH is stepping back from 'top-down' science. My latest analysis for @nature.com shows that funding calls have plummeted by 90%, funneling billions into broad, 'investigator-initiated' ideas, rather than targeted, agency-driven ones. A massive shift for the American biomedical enterprise.

Researchers detail the rise of sextortion of young users and teenagers on TikTok, Instagram & Snapchat, driven by Yahoo Boys, an West African cybercriminal gang: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/sextortion-yahoo-boys-snapchat-tiktok-teen-wizz-rcna134200

More details and context about what being a woman math major in the early-2000s was like and why it was so damaging here: cooperativeoverlapping.substack.com/p/a-fuller-s...

If he's going to get a national profile on the strength of a younger woman's campaign, I'm going to come out and say it: during his short-lived tenure as a math professor, Biss had an inappropriate romantic relationship with one of his undergraduate students. I was that student.

“The women are all weak, and a distraction sorry.” - Epstein in email about women attending a scientific conference. “…no really smart women – none.” - Epstein in email about women in science. 19thnews.org/2026/02/epst...

Here is a graph with dollar amounts of funding committed. The curves look very similar to those based on the number of awards.

NSF Update through March 13, 2026 1/2

Genuinely just bonkers to watch the USA do this to one of the most successful and innovative hubs of scientific research the world has ever seen. All those years of Free Speech On Campus debates and it turns out they actually wanted less cancer research. Absurd.

DT @ the Ken Center: Why are they pushing this? You can only survive in the US healthcare system if you have a connection to the president who will get you treatment by his “incredible White House” doctors? That’s the only way in this shitty system? Nobody should advertise this. #UniversalHealthcare

This is an incredible documentation of the systematic, intentional collapse of American health science, by Elizabeth Ginexi. open.substack.com/pub/elizabet...

It’s too bad we gutted the State Department and the National Security Council is just Marco Rubio running from one seat to another around an empty Situation Room conference table, talking to himself

* GERMAN DEFENCE MINISTER PISTORIUS: WHAT DOES TRUMP EXPECT FROM A HANDFUL OF EUROPEAN FRIGATES THAT THE POWERFUL US NAVY CANNOT DO? THIS IS NOT OUR WAR, WE HAVE NOT STARTED IT @reuters.com

I think the President musing about killing people "just for fun" would have resulted in every major paper demanding impeachment in the before times.

ICYMI—ACIP formed a COVID-19 vaccine injuries work group and the NY Times leaked their report static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics... It should be noted that exactly 0 of their proposed recommendations for consideration fall within the scope of ACIP's remit.

All this was a choice. I can’t get over how all of this was a choice. A plurality of American voters saw corruption, bigotry, pandemic, economic crisis, coup attempt, and criminal conviction, then opted for more.

Department of Homeland Security leaders removed top privacy officers who objected to mislabeling government records to block their public release, WIRED has learned.

Please note most federal grants *required* information on how the grants would benefit underserved or understudied groups. If you applied for a grant, you *had to* include something that would speak to diversity and equity.

The SAVE Act is a massive voter suppression bill -- and folks should definitely be resisting it. It's been motivated and justified by conspiracy theories about election fraud. But we don't need new conspiracy theories (about DOGE, stolen SSNs, and future fraud) to justify pushing back against it.

But... "Osaka announced last month it had received an unusual donation of 21 kilogrammes of gold to pay for the maintenance of its ageing water system. The donation worth US$3.6 million was made in November by a person who had already given $3,300 in cash for the municipal waterworks..." What.

The quiet part being illuminated: there have been very few new awards from NIH this fiscal year, for some very specific reasons 🆘 www.science.org/content/arti...

"The $7.3 billion National Cancer Institute (NCI), NIH’s largest institute, is also feeling the effects. At a recent public meeting, Deputy Director Doug Lowy noted the NOFO approval process now requires 16 steps. He joked that it’s now more complex than a 1929 Rube Goldberg design for a can opener"

A 50-year-old woman “had never been on an airplane until authorities flew her to North Dakota last year to face charges” based solely on AI facial recognition.

As LLM use expands, “the models’ outputs…are reabsorbed into human discourse & shape users’ own expression & reasoning and, in turn, influence the data used to train future models, transforming homogenization from a passive bias into a structurally reinforced influence.” www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

Continue to be astonished by how the NYT describes monstrous corruption as just, you know, this normal thing that’s happening.

I wish I could do this with every Iranian dead as well. It’s perverse that we kill so many people whose names we will never know and even never think about. When you come upon this post in a thread I fear I will keep updating, spare at least a moment for them.

Mamdani angers certain journalists and their bosses because he's a well-educated child of privilege like they are, but he's the way he is and they're the way they are and it shames them and they can't deal with it. It's not hard to figure out

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/w... 35. FCC Chair threatens broadcasters' licenses over how they are covering the Iran War.

This episode is an absolutely essential listen. The bombing of the school in Iran was not an "error" in any way. It was the end result of an array decisions made by an administration of war criminals.

How is this not illegal? 🎁 Jared Kushner Solicits Funds for His Firm While Working as Mideast Envoy www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/b...

Haitian woman, 31, dies alone at Pittsburgh bus stop days after ICE released her to the streets far from home to perish. Rest in power, Daphy Michel: migrantinsider.com/p/the-loneso...

I’ll be storing my data to make graphs with it throughout the spring. If you want to do that as well, I made some tools for you! You can find them in this blog post. But also, feel free to just share your bird lists! You can quote this thread if you want, I will! www.skwinnicki.com/single-post/...

Our local news coverage of the attack on the temple in West Bloomfield is light years ahead of national coverage. Detroit, Dearborn, and SE Michigan is not utopia. However, there is a very long history of interfaith cooperation here. Many of us mourn for and with our Jewish and Muslim neighbors.

All I can say is, I hope it causes the maximum amount of reputational damage. Shun them from polite society and shame them publicly.

🤯 Oh my. Gotta save these poor privileged white boys from reputational damage.

Ossoff: "The WH put out a video depicting this war as a video game. When service members are returning in flag-draped coffins, & even more have lost limbs or suffered brain injuries or are fighting for their lives, this WH treats war like a game. It's a disgrace. And it speaks to a moral rot."

Reflecting on the attack at Temple Israel.

NEW: The Office of Refugee Resettlement has a new policy of concentrating pregnant minors in its custody into one single South Texas shelter. The move comes over the objections of some even within the agency, who say it’s about denying abortion access. 1/ www.kut.org/politics/202...

JFC. Impeach and remove this lawless man, you fools.

while we're thinking about Hegseth this week, Pirro is still on her bullshit every day, all day long. And Miller, and RFK jr and Dr Oz and Ka$h and on and on and on. It's an entire galaxy of constant malevolent incompetence.

"I got my PhD by writing prompts instead of doing research, I'm winning" got some bad news, there still no jobs and now you also know nothing

Seems really important that the rest of the world does not treat this lightly, as has been the tendency: "Oh these are just silly men saying things". Needs an ICC response, it seems to me.

Hegseth: "We will keep pushing, keep advancing. No quarter, no mercy for our enemies." No quarter is the refusal to take prisoners and instead just execute everyone. It's been considered a war crime for over a century.