An estimated 1 million people have disabled their Disney+ accounts in support of Jimmy Kimmel…👇 Let’s. Do. This. 😎✨ #BoycottTheMouse #FuckDisney

’September’ open.substack.com/pub/steady/p... Thank you Dan Rather or suggesting we take a listen, and Earth Wind and Fire for some musical joy.

Vermont and Maryland too

Seeking out small beautiful things, especially in nature, is akin to gratitude practice with the positive effect it has on anxiety & mood. Some small beautiful things from the last few days, in case you’re scrolling & feeling low or stressed🌿:

This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.

Nine former CDC directors, from Bill Foege onward, speak out about the incalculable harm that RFK, Jr. is doing to public health in the US and around the world. Gift link.

Today while walking along the beach thinking about what microplastics do to us, I chased off a seagull that was trying to eat this. Come on humans! We can do better. Stop using these take-away containers at the very least! #plastics #plastic #marine #seagulls #beachwaste

That state and federal government and all of us — benefit from these fire fighters spending days breathing in heavy smoke without protection is unconscionable. I spent the past week writing about cancer and “combustion products”; we’ve known the link for nearly a century if not more.

I eventually found a NYT story on these protests but it was hard, def not part of their rolling front page section on the DC takeover. It's an editorial choice to keep protests less visible. It makes Trump appear stronger than he is & kneecaps the momentum opposition needs. Make a different choice.

They recovered over 180 bullet shells at the CDC. Debris from shattered glass is still being cleaned up. I am completely stunned at how quickly the news cycle has moved on. This was an act of terrorism targeting public health experts, and the response seems to be a collective shrug.

The oddity of writing about stuff I did in 1984, while in a coffee shop that is playing The Smiths, music I was listening to while working in a lab doing the stuff I am writing about. #toxicology #nostalgia #music #science

If you think a golden ballroom is more important than childhood cancer research… I have nothing left to say to you. Please unfollow me. #pediatriccancer #cancermom

Love this!

I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...

@tomtomorrow.bsky.social @rubenbolling.bsky.social First they come for the comedians, then the cartoonist. Kings fear being laughed at. We have a funny bone to pick with/without a smile on our faces #Colbert #Kimmel #SethMeyers #DailyShow

#NeverAgain @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social

We need to Declare our Independence from Donald Trump . . . www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

How do ICE agents grow up watching Star Wars and decide that Storm Trooper is what they want to be?

A politician’s job is to make the political case to voters. And few do it better than Rep. McGovern.

Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. So we published a guide to the evidence-based vaccine recommendations in place *before* all 17 members of the advisory panel were abruptly dismissed by the new admin. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-... 🧪

Graduate Students Push Back Against Science Funding Cuts www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/s...

when 4-5M people march peacefully against the current regime it's the story of the year. NYT cannot bring itself to focus on that reality.

So proud to be a part of this amazing morning. Location ocean beach San Francisco #nokings

On the way #nokings road rally and proudly flying the red white and blue. #takebacktheflag

"If you saw all this in any other country — soldiers sent to crush dissent, union leaders arrested, opposition politicians threatened — it would be clear that autocracy had arrived." www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/o...

“We’re going to deport violent criminals…” ICE arrests garment workers, flower market workers, day laborers, pregnant moms…tries to arrest first graders at an elementary school #Shame #UnmaskICE

In a Few Hours, My Texts ICE stalks a landscape truck, the police are complicit A granddaughter is born A cancer is successfully removed You bastards. We will resist.

In one week. Be there or be ruled. Nokings.org

"It bears repeating: the power to decide over whether a study meets the Trump administration’s 'standard' would rest in the hands not of scientists but of political appointees, who could use this power to discard any evidence that doesn’t give them an answer they want."

That any of us have to care about the messy breakup of these two massive narcissists — and that they both individually wield such massive power — is an indictment of our political system and further proves the poisonous influence of Big Money on our democracy.

Sitting in a coffee shop writing about toxicology and what I learned forty years ago. Working in the lab late at night a favorite songs was Time After Time by Cyndi Lauper. It's playing now and I am near tears. Thank you for the music. #sciencewriting #music

Please write. Tell your story. Share your science. Counteract the false narratives. On Writing About Science in 2025 www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco... #science #writing

Write with Science Homecoming, and put your piece on the map: sciencehomecoming.com

I wish more people really took this to heart and acted accordingly. The correct approach to any given problem is not a compromise halfway between right and wrong.

A good read. As a former toxicologist who killed too many mice, rats and fish I would love to see the end of animal testing but I hope this current no-nothing administration doesn’t screw this up by pushing too fast too far. www.the-scientist.com/is-this-the-...

SPRINGSTEEN, on tour in the UK: “.. "In my home, the America I love, the America I’ve written about, that has been a beacon of hope and liberty for 250 years is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent, and treasonous administration." @variety.com variety.com/2025/music/n...

No, you’re not crazy. They are deporting brown people and importing white people.

Cartoon by @mluckovich.bsky.social.

When the HHS Secretary is telling the American public that trusting expert scientists is not a function of democracy, it’s well and truly over for science in the USA. I can’t stress this enough. If scientific expertise is believed to be an enemy to democracy, we are finished. Complete catastrophe.

Members of an immigrant family in Worcester, Massachusetts were targeted, terrorized, and seized by ICE agents this week. The father was taken into custody by ICE on Wednesday, and agents returned to the family’s home Thursday to execute an arrest of the mother — without a warrant. Worcester…

THIS IS NOT NORMAL Telemundo Nueva Inglaterra captured video of a 16-year-old girl's face being held on the ground by Worcester police officers; she and her mother were detained in an apparent ICE operation #immigration

"Science is an investment. We will put forward a new 500 million package for 2025-2027 to support the best and the brightest researchers and scientists from Europe and around the world." — President @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu at the ‘Choose Europe for Science' event at La Sorbonne 🇫🇷

Trump wants to spend $45 million for a military parade on his birthday. You don’t get to throw yourself a $45 million parade while slashing our rights. That’s why we’re taking to the streets on June 14 — because real power isn’t staged in DC, it rises up everywhere else: nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

𝘚𝘤𝘪 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘭 𝘔𝘦𝘥 Weeks after 𝘉. 𝘣𝘶𝘳𝘨𝘥𝘰𝘳𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘪 is cleared, its peptidoglycan lingers in the liver in polymeric form—resisting degradation, rewiring mononuclear cell metabolism, and triggering low grade inflammation Structural basis to long-lasting symptoms that affect 5-10% of people with Lyme disease?

This is about right for the times, “chemical approval” over chemical evaluation. What happens when scientists with some integrity find a particular chemical doesnr warrent approval? www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/u...