This is exactly what was horrific about Ezra Klein saying Charlie Kirk did politics "in the right way." Read the whole @nytimes.com essay by Nikole Hannah-Jones. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/m...

a new mRNA therapy apparently can cut the rate of Huntington's disease progression by ~75%. yet more miracle shit www.bbc.com/news/article...

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

This is a great piece by @unbiasedscipod.bsky.social with helpful tips for addressing COVID misinformation. As a science communicator, my experience is that the best way to win people over is with empathetic real world conversations and it's work we all need to do if we want to turn things around.

The AMA has issued multiple (upward of a dozen) statements opposing RFK's actions, expressing grave concerns about his impact, calling for reversals of decisions such as his dismissal of all the members of ACIP (vaccine panel). To my knowledge, AMA has not yet outright demanded his removal.

Gramsci on my block:

The below piece is in MedPage Today, re: AI models and responses to suicidal risk. (The NYT article on Adam Raine quotes a coauthor of the study but does not expand.) That these bots are being used, unregulated, as a therapeutic stand-in is terrifying. Study: psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/...

James Dobson dedicated his life to evil and the world is worse because he made it so on purpose. defector.com/james-dobson...

New developments in the AI-ificaiton of the US government. In my view these are further steps toward building an evil computer that auto-funnels your tax dollars directly to the broligarchy. You be the judge. Here's the evidence 🧵

ICYMI: writer @alexismwright.bsky.social wrote about the white woman scammer industrial complex--and what it reveals about who is believed in our society. theflytrap.beehiiv.com/p/racialized...

www.forbes.com/sites/judyst... Another look at Defend Public Health's common-sense report, Improving the Health of Americans Together (IHAT), released today. #IHATnotMAHA

Don’t let this die. Keep elevating this.

"One of the reasons the epidemic of violence against women is so unacknowledged is because cases like these are talked about individually, and often treated as though they are shocking aberrations rather than part of a pervasive pattern that operates at all levels of society."

Babies Burned to Death & Pregnant Women Bombed in Tents: What a Dallas ER Doctor Saw in Gaza thebarbedwire.com/2025/07/22/c...

A while back I mentioned I helped to build a government AI tool. DOGE "deleted" (fired) my whole org (@alt18f.bsky.social) and took the tool to become their "AI-first strategy." But what is the strategy? What are they actually planning to do? I’m trying to piece it together. Here’s what I think 🧵

This is my first official post; I am always more inclined to read and respond, but it's time to step up and put words out there. Today is Trans Day of Visibility. Trans rights are being erased by this regime. Please share this awesome anthem to protect trans kids: www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2QK...