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The deaths of these babies likely could have been prevented with a long-standard vitamin K shot. For reporter @deldeib.bsky.social, their autopsy reports painted the clearest picture of the tragedy of their short lives.

what I'm imaging here...they'll just hold off on the corruption fund until the midterms.

Corruption update: Order Shielding Trump Family From I.R.S. Audits Will Remain, Blanche Says www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/u...

In 2020, NIH funded a network of 10 centers intended to “expand knowledge on re-emerging and emerging infectious diseases” — the kind of niche work that could be helpful in the face of an Ebola outbreak. In 2025, their federal grants were terminated. www.statnews.com/2026/06/03/n...

Top story on the @nytimes.com app. A big sign that this all-important story is breaking into mainstream consciousness.

This is a helpful guide! If you haven’t made a comment yet, please do! Even—especially—if you’re not a scientist!

another day, another story about the administration's war on knowledge itself, all in service of allow its corporate patrons free rein to rob us blind and poison our world www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/c...

New in PN: Republicans go all in on toxic masculinity in Texas "Rather than talk about issues, records, or even personalities, Republicans have simply resorted to bellowing 'WE ARE MEN! THEY NOT MEN! MEN GOOD! NOT MEN BAD!' over and over again in sweaty fugue of bile and bigotry."

more in the not just politicizing science but also just throwing wrenches into the works just to make it harder to build a better future

🪼 Your tax dollars paid a scientist to squeeze jellyfish through cheesecloth. Osamu Shimomura processed tens of thousands on an NSF grant to understand why they glow. He found a protein that glowed green under UV light. Called it "green protein." Nobody cared. For decades.

Excellent summary of how Vought’s proposed rule will destroy science. Please be ready to comment tomorrow, call Congress, tell your friends. If you’ve been waiting for the right moment to speak up, that moment is now.

Just insane. New Jersey Gov Mikie Sherrill says DHS just denied state health inspectors full access to Delaney Hall. She's calling for it to be shut down.

Many in this administration are sloppy. That’s made it easy to fight back. But not Russell Vought. He is savvy and calculated and cruel. This article is old, but we are still seeing Vought’s handiwork today. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

"In the end, American consumers paid $159b in nat'l sales taxes for which most will never be reimbursed a penny. And rather than those taxes being used by the federal govt to, say, repave roads or build bridges, most of the money will instead provide corporate windfalls." — @schaller67.bsky.social

I saw chaos inside and outside of the ICE detention center Delaney Hall today. Detainees protesting the lack of due process, the disgusting food and poor treatment while their families and advocates stood outside calling for help. 1/4

Khanna: "This is a Dred Scott court. They have engaged in the fastest rollback of Black political rights since Rutherford Hayes ended Reconstruction in 1877. One-third of African American seats are threatened. We are not speaking up strongly enough against a court that's rolling back civil rights"

Yup. Sitting on a 3% scored R01 since Jan and I still don’t know if it’s getting funded. This is just not sustainable. How is the NIH going to spend its mandated budget?!

Yet another top job in the #HHS universe appears to be vacant. Jeffery Taubenberger, who has been acting head of #NIAID, the infectious diseases institute of #NIH, reportedly stepped down ~2 weeks ago. But HHS will not answer questions about his departure. www.statnews.com/2026/05/21/n...

NEW: Five teen girls were targeted by AI-generated child sexual abuse material at a Pennsylvania high school. In the days and weeks after the school learned about the abuse, the administration failed students, according to parents who spoke to 404 Media. TW:

RFK Jr. is taking backdoor routes to cut preventive healthcare that must be covered under the ACA.

NEW: Records released tonight show that Reynolds, makers of Vuse vapes, gave $5 Million to MAGA Inc. days before the FDA wrote a policy that could allow them to make millions selling flavored vapes. Via @kenvogel.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/u...

Twin Cities residents also have been reporting a noticeable increase in surveillance ops in recent weeks:

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has fired the co-chairs of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force.

Not just foreign aid. Also: -CDC -FDA -NIH (in particular NIAID) In addition to the gutting of agencies, leadership is decimated: -8 of 10 NIAID leaders -Senate confirmed CDC head out in after a month -FDA leadership gone -NIH director also acting CDC director (not possible to do well) All bad 😳

1. Number of stories about Trump buying and selling hundreds of millions of dollars in stocks in the first three months of 2026: CBS: 0 CNN: 0 Fox News: 0 NPR: 0 PBS: 0 Politico: 0 Semafor: 0 Business Insider: 0

A summary of today’s revelations of treachery by RFK Jr.’s handpicked minions. In 11/2025, three doctors (Makary, Prasad, Hoeg) employed by the United States government told the world, with confidence, that COVID19 vaccines killed 10 children. We now have ironclad evidence that they lied.

“RFK Jr.’s HHS Orders Lab Studying Deadly Infectious Diseases to Stop Research NIAID’s Integrated Research Facility is one of the few federal facilities charged with studying Ebola. Tuesday afternoon, all of its work was put on indefinite pause by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s department.”

Rep. @brotherjones.bsky.social in Montgomery: “We’re here united to take on this new confederacy, 60 years after the Selma March… because we know their intent is to dismantle everything gained during the civil rights movement.”

Some of the identified individuals the US killed in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific showed "no indication of involvement with drug trafficking." And even if they were traffickers, they'd be low level. Killing them would make virtually no impact on the cartels or drug trafficking into the US.

NEW: We've spent 10 months tracking the outcomes in tens of thousands of lawsuits brought by ICE detainees amid an unprecedented detention push. It's not a cose call: judges have ruled more than 10,000 times against ICE, a 9-1 ratio. See the database: www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

“I worry that as we disinvest in global health, we’re losing our global capacity to deal with diseases,” says IDSA Past President Carlos del Rio, MD, FIDSA, on the importance of sustained investment in global health infrastructure. Watch our #hantavirus press briefing: https://bit.ly/4da42jN

Bhattacharya: "I don't see a bottleneck now.... My job is to make sure every single dollar goes out, and it will go out by the end of the year on excellent science. A lot of the concerns, it just seems like political noise to me. It's not reality." Reality... 🧵1/6 www.27unihted.org/jay-fact-che...

Kilmar Abrego Garcia returns to court today to fend off the Trump admin's THIRD attempt to deport him to Liberia. The last two attempts failed. Abergo's in the courthouse. I'm reporting live from federal court. Catch up here. www.allrisenews.com/p/rising-thi...

Thanks Donald.

Anything that helps people who are not billionaires...they will cut.

New research finds that ICE raids and deportation fears disrupted local economies, reduced work among undocumented immigrants, and may have hurt some U.S.-born workers too. n.pr/4uJCV6t

As an infectious diseases doctor...it would not be reassuring for Sec. Kennedy to be involved.

The Department of State says that as of September 30th support for PEPFAR by the CDC will end in most countries. And we will see death a levels we haven’t seen in decades. This is devestating

the most anti free speech administration in this country’s history

Ron Johnson is bonkers

Sen. Ron Johnson claims preposterously that as many as 3.9 MILLION (!!!) Americans died as a result of the covid vaccine Complete insanity

Voting rights organizations across the South Friday pledged to oppose the GOP’s efforts to rig congressional maps in its favor after the Supreme Court gutted a key part of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) last week. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

There it is. Republicans’ SAVE Act is not about protecting the right to vote – it’s about putting up barriers to make it harder for certain people to vote. Senate Democrats will block this anti-democracy garbage from ever becoming law.

RFK Jr has a brain lesion, heart issues, vocal cord problems, substance abuse, and mercury poisoning. So he’s talking about people like him dying. And to be clear: healthy people died of COVID. I saw it. It was awful. I had tears of joy when I received the vaccine because I knew how close death was

RFK Jr - anti vax, anti health, anti truth.

and again, all of this is happening in the name of “equal protection”

From the man who brought your sewage baths...😳

“Nearly half (48.6%) of investigators with equity-related terminations were BIPOC and 60.0% of investigators with gender-related terminations were SGM… 20.5% of investigators with institutional terminations (for purported antisemitism) were Jewish.” www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

horrible. this country’s turn away from science based medicine in the name of “wellness” is killing children and will kill a lot more. www.propublica.org/article/more...