The greatest music show in television history (Old Grey Whistle Test) and this is one of the finest ever performances, by a true musical genius youtu.be/ne7xhcuVemI?...

I played my 7” vinyl copy of this tune today on my radio show; what a freaking brilliant tune by one of the finest Scottish art pop bands in history youtu.be/VEWjGswYvYI?...

a heartwarming story of how being an unethical and talentless hack is no barrier to success when you are willing to endlessly flatter the wretched views of rich dipshits

Wow, the Justice Department website *blames Dems* for the Trump Administration shutting down the government—a clear Hatch Act violation

Really gratifying to see journalists attend to the administrative burdens that impede access to services and benefits to which people are entitled and desperately need. This really matters for vaccination.

David McCallum - House of Mirrors [UK, smoky, spooky jazz/instrumental] (1967) https://redd.it/446ieu https://youtu.be/Y0jfzSJFU5Y

One of the things I’m angriest about is that horrific anti-vaxx video that RFK Jr, Jay Bhattacharya, & Marty Makary made & posted to X, telling pregnant people that COVID vaccination is no longer recommended It was extraordinarily damaging & it flew in the face of all the evidence Ugh

OMG, just got tix to a show with two of my fave artists on the planet, Tortoise with opening act Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer (in London), yay

📻 I'm back on the radio today for my weekly show, Professor G's Musical Odyssey, 4-6pm ET, wxdu.org (I'll have 2 trainee DJs with me for next few weeks) I'll spin new albums from Eiko Ishibashi & Jim O'Rourke, The Ukelele Ska Collective, Jens Lekman, Nation of Language, & more Why not tune in?🤷

Reuters travelled to northern Cameroon - where the U.S. had played a leading role in the malaria response for nearly a decade - to document how Trump's sudden cuts are contributing to delayed malaria diagnoses, inadequate treatment and a growing number of deaths. www.reuters.com/business/hea...

They're zip tying kids to each other What do you call a country that kidnaps people, including children, & puts them in concentration camps, many of whom then disappear? How would you describe a nation whose government gleefully roughs up reporters & disappears people who it simply dislikes?

Hell yes

Vaccination during pregnancy was associated with lowered maternal risks of COVID infection, stillbirth, preterm birth (including a 34% lower risk of severe preterm birth before 28 weeks), neonatal intensive care admission, & congenital anomalies 1/2

It’s a definite contender for the best debut album of 2025 An electrifying, ecstatic meditation on two of Kahlil Gibran’s seminal works—The Prophet, and The Madman—Ami Taf Ra’s visionary debut draws on spiritual & choral jazz, gospel, & gnawa amitafra.bandcamp.com/album/the-pr...

And the antisemitic dog whistle is on the holiest day of our calendar (Yom Kippur) 😢

Terminal centrist brain rot that threatens us all.

Terrific OpEd by @zachhensel.bsky.social The anti-science, kooky, conspiracy theorist MAGA folks have literally turned the US government’s previous Covid science information websites into pages promoting bizarre lab leak claims (see covid.gov) 🤯

Yes he is 😢 It’s central to his eugenicist beliefs (youtube.com/shorts/G6gGT...)

Folks who signed the Great Barrington Declaration must be really thrilled to see their guys (Drs Kulldorff, Bhattacharya) holding such senior MAGA/MAHA positions in the Trump Administration, delivering RFK Jr's anti-vaxx agenda, pushing for mass infection instead of mass vaccination (the GBD 'way')

I have just left a lengthy Pubpeer comment on the autism/Tylenol study being cited by the Trump administration. There appear to be a number of fairly straightforward errors in the paper. pubpeer.com/publications...

THANK YOU for your R&D work!

In June 2023, @enirenberg.bsky.social & I wrote about this for TIME; it was 100% predictable that RFK Jr would, as HHS Secretary, push for mass infection instead of mass vaccination (which is also why he loves the Great Barrington Declaration guys who now do his bidding 😢) time.com/6289037/robe...

RIP the one and only JD Twitch Here’s an absolutely magnificent compilation he put together of German post-punk from 1980-1984 strut.bandcamp.com/album/jd-twi...

So do I!

💉I worry that Kulldorff & RFK Jr are coming after the HPV vaccine Kulldorff received >$30,000 as a paid expert in a legal case against the vaccine (his side lost); & Reuters notes he’s “listed as an expert witness in a similar case pending against Merck in Los Angeles state court, records show.”

🇯🇵 Give yourself the gift of listening to this deeply soothing new slice of Japanese psychedelic yet mellow neo-soul from Tamtam tamtam.bandcamp.com/album/hana-w...

Our 9 year old son is getting the HPV vaccine this month…..

Children and teens who had a Covid reinfection had a doubling of #LongCovid risk (PASC) and a significant increase in many other adverse outcomes (Figure) www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Sure, RFK Jr has surrounded himself with "new school antivaxxers" to do his bidding, like Drs Bhattacharya, Kulldorff, Makary, Oz, and Prasad......but he's now dug out a very "old school" antivaxxer to join him as well ☹️

🪩 I came of age as a soul boy in North London in the ‘80s, so this tune was everything to me…..this is my original 7” single from 40 YEARS AGO 👀 Still a miracle: youtu.be/yz1kvk9qeWI?...

Stone cold funk classic Unbelievable, earth-shatteringly fine heritage players & producers on the 1977 album “A Blow For Me, a Toot to You”—Bootsy Collins, Bernie Worrell, Maceo Parker, Fred Wesley, the Brecker Brothers, produced by George Clinton & Bootsy Collins youtu.be/DaLfxWawFAc?...

I ❤️ the title of this album: "When I sing, I slip into the microphone. Into that void, I bring comrade “prayers”, then, turning to face the outside, together we explode," by Nijiumu It has been reissued by Oren Ambarchi's Black Truffle label It's heavy! blacktruffle.bandcamp.com/album/when-i...

Keith was one of my absolute heroes. Shaped my musical tastes substantially as a student in 90s Edinburgh, through visiting his pre-Optimo club Pure. Gone way too soon

Very saddened to hear of the passing of the DJ & producer JD Twitch (half of the Scottish duo Optimo), dying at the same age as I am now, of an untreatable brain tumor Of the many wonderful things he created/curated, this post-punk comp is perhaps my fave optimomusic.bandcamp.com/album/cease-...

yes it is

I've always felt that there's something kind of "devotional" in the music that Bitchin Bajas make, no more so than on their astoundingly beautiful new album "Inland See" (which I'm reviewing for WXDU) bitchinbajas.bandcamp.com/album/inland...

I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again—the reason he is being so devastatingly effective at dismantling vaccination is that he has a team of willing MAGA/MAHA dudes with power doing his bidding: the Great Barrington guys obviously (Drs Bhattacharya & Kulldorff) & Drs Makary, Oz, & Prasad 😢

As a disability reporter, I'm not looking forward to covering the drug shortages that tariffs will cause. Like, this isn't a systemic issue–just Trump being erratic.

I’m really grateful for Pritzker. But that he’s so good at this also makes clear just how badly most other Democrats are failing to meet the moment.

I do wonder what the final death toll will be, once he has successfully disrupted a *whole range* of highly effective public health programs; he's doing exactly as expected (he's been one of the world's most extreme & dangerous anti-vaxx activists & anti-science conspiracy theorists for decades)

👏👏👏👏👏👏

This is the future that RFK Jr promised 😢

💉New study of HPV vaccine shows “robust population-level effectiveness & herd protection in adolescent girls & young women” From 2006-2023: ➡️ Proportion of vaxxed women positive for high-risk HPV-16 & -18 types fell 98.4%, proportion of unvaxxed women fell 71.6% 1/2 jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Banning the words “climate change” will CERTAINLY make the crisis just disappear 🤪

I called too I don’t have much faith in Dem leadership to do the right thing, but let’s put pressure on them anyway!

Dr Osondu Ogbuoji, Deputy Director of the center at Duke that I'm lucky to lead, launched a medical student mentoring initiative at the medical school where he graduated (University of Ibadan, Nigeria) The students we mentored just published their study 👏👏👏 journals.plos.org/digitalhealt...

One of my favorite albums of 2019 "Eri Yamamoto transcended jazz, classical and folk forms in creating her new work for jazz trio & 50-member choir" Part 4 is 🔥🚒🔥🚒 eriyamamoto.bandcamp.com/album/goshu-...

RFK Jr wants to outlaw vaccines—but he knows he can’t ban them overnight, so he’s successfully chipping away, little by little, at the US vaccine system, with the help of those Fox News MAGA/MAHA MDs & PhDs (Drs Bhattacharya, Makary, Oz, Kulldorff, & Prasad) Blaxill is another extreme anti-vaxxer😢

🌞Good morning Give yourself the gift of watching one of the greatest videos, and listening to one of the finest pop songs, in recorded history; the brass, the strings, the choirs, the spoken word.....<chef's kiss> "Feel it in the air The wind is taking it everywhere....." youtu.be/lrKZNqIR2U0?...