From a few months ago: "The cuts are reducing the entire system to a shadow of what it once was...The moves reflect a shift that Americans may not fully realize, away from the very idea of public health: doing the work that no individual can do alone to safeguard the population as a whole."

Cutbacks Force Long-COVID Clinic Closures Many U.S. LC clinics face precarious outlooks as the Trump administration slash jobs, funding, and health units across multiple health agencies. I checked in with half a dozen clinics; many still grapple with waitlists and worry about the future of research.

SCOOP — Pennsylvania prosecutors were alerted to possible voting irregularities by one of MAGA's leading voices against voter fraud. A long paper trail shows Jack Posobiec has been living in Maryland but voting using his parents' PA address for years. From @jsweetli.bsky.social, @slate.com + me:

wapo.st/424jPfr They tested nine AI search tools with 30 tricky questions to see which gave the best answers without making stuff up. The overall low accuracy is concerning given the reliance on AI by regular people who don't verify and given how many use the ones that have the lowest accuracy.

From vanished study: “Since 1990, far-right extremists have committed far more ideologically motivated homicides than far-left or radical Islamist extremists, including 227 events that took more than 520 lives...far-left extremists committed 42 ideologically motivated attacks that took 78 lives.”

A must-read for parents. I hated every detail in this story so much. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

according to an immigration attorney representing several arrested workers, ICE agents chose to arrest the Korean workers to fulfill the quota of 3,000 daily immigrant arrests set by Stephen Miller www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

3/ Here is the latest post from Laura Loomer, who clearly has the ear of President Trump, calling on Trump to use dictatorial powers to destroy his political opposition. This kind of rhetoric is gaining traction in MAGA world, and Trump is now echoing it.

The global health and economic benefits of covid-19 vaccines came to between $5 trillion and $38 trillion in their first year, showing an incredible return on investment

The problem is that tacticool cosplay items are super easy to buy at regular stores, so there's no real way to know who people are when they pull up in unmarked cars with masks on to snatch folk off the street. Citizens shouldn't have to pay a game of "Police or Kidnapper?"

Evergreen thought. Doomscrolling content has never been this appalling and shocking. I've had about as much as I can handle for today.

A Black man and a homeless man were found hanging from trees in Mississippi yesterday, for those who haven’t seen yet because it’s barely made it out of local news.

As a kid, I didn't know a single celebrity name until a relative told me about this great actor named Robert Redford who starred in this baseball movie. This great obituary made me both sad and nostalgic -- not only for his passing, but also for a time long gone.

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A reporter just asked the U.S. president a perfectly legitimate question about his attorney general's vow to prosecute people for constitutionally protected speech. He responded by threatening to prosecute the reporter. The threat itself is an abuse of power. It ought to be an impeachable offense.

Everything is perfectly fine, this is all completely, totally normal. Absolutely nothing to see here.

I am currently looking for writing gigs, jobs and contract work and maintain my blog without paywalls for free. I appreciate any and all tips to do research and analysis. ko-fi.com/lmaoganma?re...

The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?

The number of Americans who have discovered names like Jack Posobiec and Nick Fuentes this past week without knowing what they actually stand for is pretty alarming

“Harvard quietly ended its Undergraduate Minority Recruitment Program in May — shuttering a more than 50-year-old initiative to encourage minority high school students to apply … The UMRP was not involved in making admissions decisions.” www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

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News orgs are imperfect. Stories miss the mark, reporters/editors focus on a wrong angle, an analysis has a bad take etc. But I still have faith in their ultimate mission and support them. But after almost a decade, I cancelled my @washingtonpost.com subscription. Democracy dies in darkness indeed.

Washington Post’s commitment to personal liberties does not extend to employing people who criticize gun violence or accurately quote, without comment, Charlie Kirk’s words

"...it’s one thing to watch old movies with now-dead stars and an entirely different matter when you watch a working actor like Hawke go from childhood to young adulthood and middle age in your own time." Very much this. Also, Ethan Hawke remains one of my favourite interviews, thoughtful and kind.

This is appalling and unconscionable. If it is truly based solely on unverified, self-reported VAERS data, it will only further underscore how unreliable and untrustworthy the data is coming out of this administration. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Seven different organizations had offered to buy or accept a donation of the contraceptives at no cost to the government; selling it to the UN Population Fund would have recouped at least $7 million in taxpayer funds. Instead they decided to destroy the products at an estimated cost of $167,000.

The CDC has quietly and drastically scaled back the country’s most comprehensive system for tracking the food-borne illnesses estimated to sicken millions of Americans each year.

"Political violence is antithetical to small-l liberal democracy and the murder of Charlie Kirk was wrong" and "Charlie Kirk advocated for a brand of politics that was steeped in bigoted values and did not foster constructive discourse" are two thoughts you can hold simultaneously without exploding.

Still a top 15 leading cause of death though. In 2024, it was a factor in around 47,000 U.S. deaths.

I know Charlie Kirk valued debate and free speech because he blocked me for fact-checking his lies on Twitter and then put me on his organization's Professor Watchlist for writing a book he didn't like.

“Rhetoric that dehumanizes different views or different orientations or different religions creates a permission structure for violence.” “Violence is the ultimate statement that you no longer have any interest in trying to change somebody’s mind...”

🎉 @uoft-tcairem.bsky.social member Fahad Razak is featured in this @medscape.com article by @solarina.ca ! #AI Arrives in Long #COVID Diagnostic and Treatment Fight www.medscape.com/viewarticle/... #MedSky #AImedicine #AI #HealthAI #AIinHealthcare #MedTech

These days, it's hard not to feel a bit misanthropic whenever I venture out of my bubble of good people to read what the rest of the world is up to. (This comes on the heels of that unhinge Wired surrogacy story.) There is something very wrong with our moral compass. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/t...

“Thank god for IVF so I could get pregnant” “Actually god made you infertile, science made you pregnant. So it’s thank science actually”

i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.

👇🎯 The platform <must> be institutional reform. “Just win every election, narrowly, forever, under our current anti-democratic, wildly malapportioned institutions” is not a strategy. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

This right here.

"What I thought would be no more than a three-day holdover at Green Haven turned out to be a 12-day punishment. Nothing could’ve prepared me for the inhumane conditions my peers and I had to endure."

I know there's a lot happening today, but this is sneaking in under the radar. This proposed new rule would absolutely crush foreign PhD students, potentially making it impossible for them to enroll with any certainty of their ability to finish www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com Nothing has kept President Trump “from acting as if he does own the White House, the Smithsonian, the District of Columbia and practically everything else under the flag as well,” our columnist @jamellebouie.net writes.

This has been a thing forever in China, esp. for shows. They call them "reuters" (even though it has nothing to do with the venerable news agency) and they wet fan appetite further and make them even more rabid with anticipation. 😂 ‘All the magic is going away’: are on-set images ruining movies?

Imagine being a climate scientist or environmental policy specialist, etc. working for the — checks notes — *Environmental PROTECTION Agency* ... and this is what they do.

Don't let people's health or the health of the planet get in the way of letting companies do whatever they want so they can make more money! Absolutely unbelievable. Why would anyone want to buy these products?

Such a great piece by @theguardian.com's Amy Hawkins. Labubu underground: Lafufu makers defy Chinese authorities to feed the world’s appetite for viral doll | China | The Guardian share.google/D22hXbVJOACz...

Some critics call supply management outdated, but when a crisis hits, it’s hard to argue with a system that keeps shelves stocked and farms afloat. Journalist @solarina.ca takes a closer look at Canada’s agricultural safety net: thewalrus.ca/egg-prices/

I never thought reporting on *supply management* could be this interesting, but if you've ever wondered how Canada's egg and dairy industries work, why our egg prices didn't soar, grumbled about the price of milk,and what's making Trump cranky about CUSMA, my explainer attempts to break it all down.

This is illegal: these are civil servants who cannot be fired except for cause. The Trump administration is claiming powers here it does not have, assuming the Supreme Court will continue to let it act with impunity.

A 20-year-old American citizen from Tampa was beaten to death by Israeli settlers on Friday while visiting family in the occupied West Bank www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...