EXCLUSIVE: CDC to end all monkey studies. Decision handed down by recent college grad and former DOGE employee who is now deputy chief of staff at the agency. Animals were being used in studies of HIV prevention. Some may be euthanized. My latest for @science.org

Some notable things in what's being called the "Trump peace plan" but which could not have been more clearly written in Moscow if it came with a 2 for 1 deal on tickets to the Bolshoi Ballet. 🧵

This week was terrible: RFK Jr. put autism/vaccines at center of CDC website; ACIP is about to tank the birth dose of HBV vaccine; loans for public health/nursing degrees just got cut. I cannot express the white hot hatred I have for these people. Get on the phone. Call your representatives.

"To detain and deport Ventura Rubio, the US spent an estimated $25,700" www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

this defies parody. also helps explain why Sec Bessent bizarrely blamed immigrants when confronted with a question about high beef prices

8675309 is prime, and so is 8675311, so if you ever need a middlin'-large pair of adjacent primes to test your cryptographic suite, all you need is a 1980s earworm and a +2 and you're all set.

This is a long-to-medium-term worry, but I think the fact that we've all just internalized that immeasurably powerful people often just throw tantrums and you shouldn't take anything they say seriously is going to be catastrophic for American civic governance going forward indefinitely.

The real jackbooted government thugs bsky.app/profile/phil...

This story is nuts. "ICE agents then surrounded the judge’s car and demanded everyone to exit the vehicle, threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply."

“The children haven’t returned to school since last Thursday, too afraid to leave their mother’s side.” Ages 2-13, all US citizens, held at gunpoint by ICE agents who invaded their home looking for someone else

Davis Mills is absolutely putrid

Can’t believe Josh Allen didn’t get evaluated for a concussion

Honest meeting summaries: And then you got distracted and and started checking your email for 5 minutes and started browsing Bluesky

@hooverstreetrag.org have you “Death by Lightning”? Nick Offerman is giving strong shaved bear vibes as Chester Arthur

The last Maine vote fraud case before this one involved a Republican stealing her Democratic roommate's absentee ballot, voting and sending it in. It's consistently Republicans who commit vote fraud. Maybe they think they won't get caught. #mepolitics

This was the third time that Judge Xinis had ordered DOJ to produce someone who could actually testify to support its claims, and it was the third time DOJ failed to produce someone who could actually testify to support its claims.

What this shows yet again is that DHS's "official version" of events simply shouldn't be believed without verification. In video after video, claims made by DHS officers and DHS itself were shown not to have occurred at all — or to have occurred in a substantially different way than first described.

THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos. I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.

If they're making it harder for nurses to afford graduate degrees and have already made it harder for nursing professionals to come to the US to work under visas, then who do they think will work the hospitals, the nursing homes, the outpatient clinics, the community health programs, etc? Who?

add in this aging population, pandemic threats, medicaid cuts, spiraling costs, collapsed ACA markets, much higher uninsured rates, kavanaugh stops, and more. they are wrecking the foundations of our healthcare system in so many places, all at the same time—eventually components will buckle. (1/2)

I've had a missile blow up next to my airplane, been shot at dozens of times by anti-aircraft fire, and launched into orbit — all for my country. I never thought I'd see a President call for my execution. Trump doesn’t understand the Constitution, and we're all less safe for it.

A horrifying graphic from Pew showing the fruits of the right wing war on public health. Only 48% of Republicans believe that vaccines prevent serious illness, while 80% of Democrats do. This is not a difference of opinion in science. This is the result of a ruthless disinformation campaign.

This racist monster isn't even pretending to talk about citizenship here any longer - he's celebrating foreign-born people losing work REGARDLESS of citizenship. The Republican Party under Trump is a blatantly white supremacist institution and no Republican deserves your vote.

Joint Statement from Goodlander, Slotkin, Kelly, Crow, Deluzio, and Houlahan

The office is functionally vacant not just in a "he's very bad" sense but because he is literally unable to wield effective control over the government, and so non compos mentis that his orders are either disregarded as gibberish he'll forget or followed even though he's unable to validly give them.

Have to appreciate how fitting it is that Democrats' warning about Trump abusing his position to command the military to take illegal action prompted him to abuse his position by demanding that they be tried for capital crimes.

I was in the 7th grade. Our social studies teacher required that we all watch it, and we spent the class period the next day discussing it. It hit *hard*. I'm really glad that today the idea we could end up in a nuclear war seems so remote. It sure felt like a real threat at the time.

They lied about it. All of it. A thug cop shot an unarmed woman five times without justification, boasted about it to his colleagues, and then this administration tried cover it all up by arresting her and charging her with felonies.

God forbid we call a swastika, a noose, or the slavers' flag hate symbols. I think Trump admin will regret this. A little too Fuentes-forward.

Any President who calls for the opposition party to be hanged should be immediately impeached and removed from office.

CDC has switched sides in the war on infectious disease, now taking the side of the diseases

He already sent a lynch mob to chase Congress out of the Capitol and it was a skin-of-their-teeth miracle they didn't manage to get their hands on any of them. It's a big deal, but shouldn't be framed as shockingly new. It is his longtime position that murdering his political opponents is good.

the FCC is moving to dismantle some modest cybersecurity safeguards after the biggest Chinese hack of U.S. telecom systems in history a hack, made possible in part, by the fact the FCC historically hasn't done a good job holding telecom accountable for lax privacy and security standards

Let’s talk about sedition and treason, because the most powerful yet inadequate man in the world is having a tantrum about it, and his soulless, spineless sycophants are boosting his message. /1

Musk's Grokipedia cites a neo-Nazi website 42 times, researchers say www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-mu... via @nbcnews "...Grokipedia includes 12,522 citations to online sources that previous academic research has deemed as having very low credibility." "The guardrails are off."

Seems there are three possibilities here (not necessarily mutually exclusive): 1) Hurts is lying 2) Someone on the coaching staff is trying to deflect blame 3) Derrick Gun is absolutely full of shit

From pardoning MAGA insurrectionists who brought a noose to the Capitol, to urging that members of Congress be hanged, Trump is dangerously spiraling. What have Republicans in Congress got to say about this?

This is a fundamental attack on the very idea, the very founding myth of our country. These ghouls must be made to pay for their malfeasance.

The President of the United States is literally threatening opposing lawmakers with death for a video they made encouraging service members to refuse unlawful orders.

I’m howling.

Legally, morally, and practically, the office of president of the United States is vacant.

Traditionally you had to play this game of plausible deniability if you wanted to both play to a right wing base and get invited on The Shows: You had to say (and vote for) things that would energize racists while also acting horrified & indignant at any suggestion that you might yourself be racist.

This quote below is from Tom Murton, who was hired in the 1960s to reform Arkansas' worst prison. The governor fired him less than a year later after he started excavating unmarked graves of murdered inmates and inviting national media to write about it. Ended up running a duck farm.

Leaders of a Minnesota church community didn’t report a parishioner they knew had sexually abused girls for year. They told his victims that once sins were “washed away in the blood of reconciliation,” they could never speak of them again. Truly chilling, from @jlussenhop.bsky.social & Andy Mannix

RFK Jr's 'gold-standard science': in which data is ignored and/or removed to fit the preferred narrative even if doing so risks the spread of vaccine preventable diseases. I am sure Sen. Cassidy (Chair of the HELP committee) is very proud the header as not been removed. www.cdc.gov/vaccine-safe...

This is on Senator Bill Cassidy. He could have blocked this nomination, and he could still call hearings, but no, he's all-in with protecting his career, not the American people.

HEADS UP: CDC website now officially asserts that vaccines may cause autism.“Studies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities.” Also says the “vaccines do not cause autism” header remains b/c of an agreement with Cassidy.

JUST IN: The House Ethics Committee is launching an investigation into a stunning range of allegations against Rep. Cory Mills (R-Fla.). This development comes as Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) is moving forward tonight with an effort to formally censure Mills. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

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