More on the continuing purges at #NIH. Now 13 out of 27 institute directors have been gotten rid of. This is not normal. @jonathanwosen.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/12/27/n...

The CDC grant to study hepatitis B vaccines in Guinea-Bissau "reeks of a modern day resurrection of Tuskegee, complete with additional corruption and cronyism," @gorskon.bsky.social writes. sciencebasedmedicine.org/every-accusa...

archive.org/details/ceco... a higher quality version.

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Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

All of these links went to promotion of this story earlier today. All these links are dead now — that's how thoroughly they've scrubbed this.

America is giving decaying strip mall energy. But I will still go to the Sbarro's in the food court and hit up the Dippin' Dots stand, though. And get some Cotton Candy Baskin-Robbins Ice Cream while the fun lasts.

The U.S. is giving dying mall vibes. I can't explain it, but you know I'm right.

Rob Reiner: I'm going to make a coming of age drama, a fantasy adventure story, a romantic comedy, a psychological horror and then a courtroom drama. Us: Across your entire career? Reiner: In a 6 year period. Us: That sounds- Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.

Telehealth has “become a lifeline” for women seeking to end their pregnancies, especially those who live under abortion bans, said @ushma.bsky.social, co-chair of #WeCount, to @washingtonpost.com. wapo.st/3MN5hfi

Every part of this is bonkers. The intro is bonkers. The transition to his health is bonkers. The mention that other presidents didn't need cognitive exams is bonkers. The claim that this screening test is somehow hard is bonkers. The idea that criticism of him is treason is bonkers. All of it.

How many tax dollars did we waste on Rubio looking at a bunch of fonts

Stephen Miller’s Wife @katiemiller : “Can you cite the statute that makes the boat bombings illegal?” @bakarisellers.bsky.social : “The due process clause in the constitution.”

How it started / How it’s going

"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism. Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.

SCOOP: The Trump administration has instructed employees and grantees not to use U.S. funds to commemorate World AIDS Day — because the observance was started by the World Health Organization. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...

2. Following a contentious newsroom battle at the BBC over allegations of political bias, it seems the media empire has given way to transphobic rhetoric—canonizing anti-trans talking points in one of the world’s most influential news outlets.

1. It would appear that in recent reporting, the BBC is now using the phrase "biological male who identifies as a woman" when they mean to talk about a transgender woman. This is an incredibly demeaning way to talk about transgender women in news pieces. Subscribe to support our journalism.

I forgot about this site (covid dot gov) and am horrified all over again. WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK

Every healthcare provider/institution should be plastering accurate info about vaccines on their websites, on social, wherever they have audiences.

I still can't quite believe that the current administration has placed transphobic and medically inaccurate disclaimers across a bunch of CDC sites. I am sorry to the millions of people who have been or will be harmed by these dangerous scumbags.

3 infant #pertussis deaths this year in Kentucky. "Of the three infant deaths reported over the past 12 months, all three were not vaccinated, nor were their mothers." We first tested maternal vaccination for whooping cough over 80 years ago. It's safe & effective & might have saved these babies.

A new kind of rapid Chotining. Please appreciate the alt-text.

Hear me out: Chotiner and IG Live-era Ziwe as co-interviewers

"elevate charismatic figures such as Alan Dershowitz" -____________-

Five people have now died in the Marburg virus disease (MVD) outbreak in Ethiopia near the border with South Sudan. A total of 53 suspected cases have been tested so far. MVD is a hemorrhagic fever similar to Ebola, with a case fatality rate that has been reported to range from 25% to 90%.

“we need to be nicer to men” bro they didn’t let women have their own credit cards til 50 years ago

Omar El Akkad spoke after winning the 2025 National Book Award for nonfiction for “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” his book on the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. He accepted the award at a gala in New York City this week.

This is one of my favorite sets in my collection. Somewhere out there in the 1960s, a kitten and bird were pals. 💕

real ones know there is only one correct way to travel from NYC to DC (Amtrak northeast regional cafe car)

I’m howling.

Elon Musk’s online encyclopedia, Grokipedia, cites the neo-Nazi website Stormfront as a source 42 times, according to an analysis by two researchers at Cornell University.

Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad

Independent providers like @queerdoc.bsky.social are stepping in as hospitals reduce or eliminate gender-affirming care, but this makes them easier to single out for harassment. It's a dynamic we've long seen in abortion care, as @garnethenderson.com notes www.autonomynews.co/doj-subpoena...

NEW: Trump's DOJ sent a subpoena to a gender-affirming care clinic seeking information on patients, including minors, and its insurance billing practices. The clinic—which doesn't even take insurance—fought the demand in court and won. Read @garnethenderson.com in @autonomynews.co

The CDC website update to the page on autism and vaccines (THERE IS NO EVIDENCE OF A LINK) is so deeply entrenched in eugenics that it's impossible to know who RFK wants to kill off more

CDC dot gov now saying "[t]he claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim" and "[s]tudies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities." Andrew Wakefield should be tried for crimes against humanity.

The U.S. government is now inarguably spreading medical disinformation that is going to kill babies preferentially. Period. This is an INTOLERABLE. UNPRECEDENTED. DANGEROUS. ATTACK. ON ALL OF US.

VACCINES DO NOT CAUSE AUTISM, YOU FLAMING SHITBIRDS. WE HAVE, IN FACT, NOT IGNORED YOUR NOW-DEFUNCT HYPOTHESIS. WE INVESTIGATED IT TO THE TUNE OF STUDIES WITH DATA FROM MILLIONS OF KIDS.

Weaponization of the premier public health agency in the country for personal clout and gain. The CDC website should not be trusted given the fact that it is controlled by people who will profit from spurious and false attempts to link vaccines to autism. www.cdc.gov/vaccine-safe...

In 48 other states, new moms have access to Medicaid for up to one year after they give birth. Not in Wisconsin. There, the limit remains two months. And it’s only because of one man: Assembly Speaker Robin Vos. By @megomatz.bsky.social

I also want to highlight today's "actual good news"—a section that doesn't make it in often. An expert told me she's been waiting for this study to be published for 1.5 years after seeing early results at a conference. She called it "profound." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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I've been rounding up Seattle-area resources for healthcare (preventive, abortion, GAC) & social needs (e.g., food, housing, support for immigrant communities) & wanted to share the link out: seattleresources.carrd.co Plz feel free to share it anywhere & everywhere you think it might be helpful <3

Finally found the ICE video that I fully could not watch and it was the man having the seizure while they pulled a child from his arms. Countries are fake, borders are fake, nothing can justify this inhumanity. It’s all just for the abstract comfort of withering country clubbers and their pawns.

HE'S APPEALING TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES THAT HE BE ALLOWED TO STARVE AMERICANS

BREAKING: SCOTUS continues to bend the rule of law for Trump's fascist attacks, now by clearing the way for Trump's transphobic passport policy to resume. This policy has nothing to do with security—it's simply another way for this administration to attack those it hates.

someone went up to sarah mcbride in front of the u.s. congress, hurled her deadname at her loudly and called her a pedophile repeatedly, posted video of the exchange to x, and it is now going wildly viral i will not share the video but if you’re not speaking up about this, you’re hurting yourself

“People are forced to attempt to sleep for days or sometimes weeks on plastic chairs or on the filthy concrete floor ... They are denied sufficient food and water. They cannot shower, they are denied soap, hygiene items, and menstrual products, and they have no way to clean themselves.”