I’m seeing a lot of local leaders in Maryland celebrating ICE’s recent court declaration as a victory — that ICE is “backing down” and reconsidering using the warehouse for immigration detention. That’s not what the documents say. 🧵

The proposed cuts to the NSF would be “devastating,” says Leigh Stearns, a glaciologist at the University of Pennsylvania. “We cannot cut the pipeline and expect the output to continue. This is how the US loses its scientific leadership — with a reckless budget line.” www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Apparently the US is taking Iranians in this country hostage now:

Most of these migrants have not committed any crimes and are in the US under legal protections not to be sent back to their home country. But many of them end up in prison--in foreign countries they have no ties to--under the "deals" we're negotiating.

The US reportedly waited to strike the bridge in Iran a second time until rescue workers and others in the area gathered to help the wounded, which then killed at least eight people. Authorities in Iran are describing it as an act of terrorism.

History may remember the 2020s less for the failed U.S. government and more for the unfettered rise of AI. and its many side effects I went to Vineland where the steady hum of a new data center powering Microsoft's AI is already keep folks awake My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/data...

this is the chaplain btw. wonder why he was fired.

He’s with reporter Lidia Terrazas. I follow them both on ig.

“MRI scans showed that her son’s brain had swollen so much that the damage was irreversible. They took him off life support two days later. [He] had been vaccinated. But his immune system was susceptible to illnesses like Hib, Dahlberg said, because he’d been on an inhaled steroid to treat asthma.”

A former DOGE staffer developed an AI tool that hallucinated the size of Veterans Affairs contracts. For example, it concluded that more than a thousand deals were each worth $34 million, when in fact some were for as little as $35,000. (Published June 2025)

Um, what’s going on here?? Down at the end of an NYT story on the Bondi firing www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/u...

The medical examiner in Buffalo has ruled that the death of a nearly blind man left alone by Border Patrol agents on a frigid night was a homicide, a finding that could lead to criminal charges. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/n...

#Breaking: The Trump administration announced Thursday 100% tariffs on imported brand-name drugs — but with significant caveats. www.statnews.com/2026/04/02/t...

Hib once killed 1,000 children a year, permanently disabling many more. Conversations with pediatricians suggest additional Hib cases are occurring and causing severe illness.

RFK Jr. is taking away our access to new cancer screening and other preventative strategies in plain sight and he is getting away with it. The U.S. Preventative Services Task Force is not allowed to meet so they can’t issue disease prevention recommendations that must be covered under the ACA.

Trump’s VA killed a home loan program. Vets are now losing their homes www.npr.org/2026/04/02/n...

Jen Shah was in prison with Ghislaine Maxwell. She said Maxwell gets private workout sessions, special meals, and bottled water among other perks none of the other inmates get. She also says Maxwell is open about having no remorse for any of the Epstein victims: people.com/ghislaine-ma...

I talk about the US Preventative Services Task Force (USPSTF) a fair amount, but information about RFK Jr. shutting them down doesn’t seem to grab people’s attention as much as posts about vaccines, for example. That needs to change, b/c the dismantling of USPSTF is an equal if not greater threat.

One possibility for why RFK Jr. has blocked the U.S. Preventative Services Task Force (USPSTF) is found in this very article. “The current administration would not only like to cut back on regulation, they would definitely like to cut back on required benefits under the Affordable Care Act”.

the trump administration is selling this country wholesale to rapacious, extractive industries that will destroy our collective resources for private profit morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/breaking-t...

BREAKING NYT: Trump has discussed firing Pam Bondi in recent days as he grows frustrated with her leadership at the Justice Department and her handling of the Epstein files, according to four people familiar with the conversations.

Moon launch Livestream for anyone who wants to watch along www.youtube.com/live/Tf_UjBM...

so we're just going to get a complete cut-and-run and leave the global oil market in abject chaos. catastrophic defeat for the united states www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

Trump may resist handing over his official records to the National Archives, potentially complicating the transition process and adherence to legal requirements.

US exports of distilled spirits to Canada fell 70% (!) last year. That's because there has been a ban on U.S. spirits sales across most Canadian provinces distilledspirits.org/wp-content/u...

Trump's temporary fix to pay TSA workers back pay does not apply to all 'essential workers' who have toiled without pay for over a month.

Babies have very little vitamin K in their first months of life. Before doctors started routinely giving vitamin K shots to newborns in 1961, up to one in 60 babies developed serious bleeding (including the brain) due to a vitamin K deficiency. This is just a vitamin, not a vaccine.

What could possibly go wrong? #CDC pauses support for states on testing for #rabies & #mpox because it doesn't have the personnel to do the work. 2 pathogens you really don't want to mess with, rabies & mpox. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/h...

WAPO: “.. The mission would require the airlift of potentially hundreds or thousands of troops and heavy equipment to support the excavation and recovery of radioactive material. That could take weeks .. and take place under fire deep inside Iran.” www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

"'If it weren't for Miller pushing, this would be dead by now,' the source told me. A new DHS secretary may not be the obstacle many wish it were." Read more to learn why now is the time to be making noise.

And the Senator whose bill this was? lol. Wait for it. Marco Rubio. (He and Tim Kaine collaborated on a 2023 bipartisan bill to block a future president from quitting NATO without 2/3rds of the senate saying okay)

BREAKING The Jan. 6-related civil suits seeking to hold Trump liable for inciting the insurrection SURVIVE, as a federal judge rejects his latest bid to scuttle the case on immunity and First Amendment grounds. Doc buff.ly/ZjGrJOP

Holy shit, Trump is going to show up at the Supreme Court and glare at them to try to get his insane Birthright Citizenship assault carried out. www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

This sucks

In an administration that posts Nazi iconography online and is full of people with ties to white supremacist groups, what could possibly go wrong? www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/u...

"After all, the White House does not belong to any one man - not even a president!" Judge Richard Leon drops at least 18 of his trademark exclamation points in ordering a stop to construction on Trump's White House ballroom (delays enforcement for 14 days so DOJ can appeal) buff.ly/WG6ktOX

Doug Evans, a former prosecutor, removed nearly all Black jurors in Terry Pitchford’s 2006 trial, raising legal questions

Several participants in the Jan. 6 riot file a class action lawsuit against the federal government, seeking millions of dollars in damages over their claims that police used excessive force against the pro-Trump mob that attacked the U.S. Capitol in 2021.

"Thank you for your service. Now hand over your parents."

FAVREAU: “$200 billion could eliminate nearly all medical debt in America, fund free community college for two decades, or feed 42 million Americans for two years. Instead, we're dropping bombs on Iran.” (From @podsaveamerica.crooked.com )

Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill led to at least a $65 billion windfall in 2025 alone for corporate America, with many of the biggest companies like Amazon, Meta, Verizon, Walmart, Eli Lilly among the companies telling investors their taxes dropped significantly, @reilly_cait reports (Follow her)

Justices Reject Colorado Law Banning ‘Conversion Therapy’ for L.G.B.T.Q. Minors. “Conversion therapy” doesn’t change someone’s sexual orientation or gender identity but has been shown to cause real harm www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/u...

Supreme Court overtuned a Colorado law banning conversion therapy. It's 8-1 with Ketanji Brown Jackson as the lone dissent. Surprised by the vote, but not the outcome. MAGA is on a march to erradicate the LGBTQ community and the Supreme Court will help them.

The vast data centers that power artificial intelligence guzzle huge amounts of energy but they also have another alarming impact, according to new research. https://cnn.it/3PwIbeB

"ICE agents will be stationed outside graduation events for the nation’s newest Marines to identify whether any of their family members are undocumented, according to the Marine Corps."

Jaysus Effin' Christ. I hope this leads to a better policy of scrutiny. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/b...

As ICE rapidly tries to expand its detention capacity, it is repeatedly pushing the edge of what federal procurement rules allow. Full analysis: www.projectsaltbox.com/p/analysis-i...

It’s like they’re trying to lose the midterms www.axios.com/2026/03/30/g...

A new bill approved by the Kansas legislature "mandates all voting rights challenges in Kansas be heard in Shawnee County, where a judge who handles civil cases has leaned to the right." kansasreflector.com/2026/03/27/k...

The categorical and retributive framing of this threat to attack Iranian infrastructure makes clear that this a threat to commit war crimes.