The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 4/5

Immunity debt's "...explanatory power has faded as the number of non-covid infections has kept rising each year... A growing number of scientists believe that the SARS-CoV-2 virus may instead be subtly altering our immune systems." 🛟😷medsky

This week, the Trump administration repealed safe minimum staffing rules for nursing homes—and the CMS requirement that nursing homes have, well, a nurse (an RN on-site 24/7). My 2023 report on the nursing home staffing crisis in New Mexico: nmindepth.com/2023/everywh...

Why is science under assault and what forces are behind it? My review @thelancet.com of “Science under Siege” by @michaelemann.bsky.social & @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social www.thelancet.com/callback?red...

What Everyone Should Know About Fungi by Age 15 8️⃣ Mycorrhizal fungi extend root systems up to 100 times their normal reach, enabling plants to access hard-to-reach nutrients like phosphorus and nitrogen. See the top 10 list (www.spun.earth/articles/top...) and follow for new fungal facts.

There's a big divide in how Americans are thinking about vaccines: ♦️83% of Republicans don't want an updated COVID-19 vaccine. 🔷64% of Democrats want to get or have already received an updated vaccine. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/... 🧪

💥 🍃 🧬 🧪 Gene Therapy for Hunter Syndrome

How exciting! CRISPR reversed chemotherapy resistance in lung cancer, making tumors more responsive to chemotherapy. Eventually this tool can be applied to other types of cancers. CRISPR has so many applications. 🧪 www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

Republicans increasingly oppose requiring healthy kids to get MMR vaccines to attend public schools 2016 19% 2019 20% 2023 42% 2025 47% www.pewresearch.org/science/2025... 🧪

Who should have a major role in making childhood vaccine policy decisions? 💉Democrats are most likely to say medical scientists 🧪 💉Republicans are most likely to say parents www.pewresearch.org/science/2025...

Another reason RFK jr should resign

Yet another unique way to stimulate cellular immunity against cancer. “Using the gut immune system to induce cellular immunity is a unique approach,” Shirakawa notes. “And it should be very easy to extend it to other antigen proteins and also infectious diseases.” #ScienceSunday

Imagine knowing your platform was a playground for predators, fueling teen depression, eating disorders, and suicide and deciding the best course of action was… absolutely nothing. Meta didn’t just “miss” anything.

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.

It's astounding how much CO₂ we put into the atmosphere each year by burning fossil fuels. For comparison, we all agree that plastic pollution is bad, but the mass of ALL THE PLASTIC humanity has ever produced is only 25% of the CO₂ we emitted into the atmosphere in 2025.

Joan Meyer died of a heart attack shortly after police raided her home trying to identify the newspaper’s sources. U.S. police academies need to start making sure officers have read the Constitution to which they all swear an oath. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

Dems have spent the past two months saying they're fighting to address the crisis of spiking healthcare costs and now they're caving for a deal that does nothing to address healthcare costs ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

"Never let yourself be persuaded that any one Great Man, any one leader, is necessary to the salvation of America. When America consists of one leader and 158 million followers, it will no longer be America." Dwight D. Eisenhower

🚨 JUST PUBLISHED 🚨 ⚠️ The 2025 @lancetcountdown.bsky.social report reveals climate change inaction is costing lives and livelihoods, and harming the economy. ❤️‍🩹 Protecting people’s health demands all hands on deck. Read more: www.lancetcountdown.org/2025-report/ #LancetClimate25

🌎 Professor Stella Hartinger delivers a clear message on the latest findings from the 2025 Global Report of the Lancet Countdown. 👉 Read the 2025 Global Report now: buff.ly/97Gf3Eu #LancetClimate25

NEW: The Idaho Medical Freedom Act, which makes it illegal to require almost anyone to take a vaccine, test or other “medical intervention,” comes amid a national measles outbreak larger than the U.S. has seen in decades. By @audreydutton.bsky.social

COMMENT | J Trevaskis, DG Parkes, AA Young: On the 20th anniversary of exenatide, three former employees of Amylin Pharmaceuticals tell the story behind the first approved GLP-1RA 🧪

This is illegal, no?

🚨So important to take steps to clean up knowledge base! Journals & publishers crack down on research from open health data sets www.science.org/content/arti... "...following revelations that unscrupulous actors use these data sets to churn out nonsense scientific papers."

No amount of alcohol is safe, at least for dementia risk, study finds wapo.st/42DbNdR "...even light alcohol consumption can increase dementia risk."

Here is a reporter who deserves to be remembered. kyivindependent.com/ukrainian-jo...

CDC workers have been terminated tonight

My quote of the day Nobody ever thanks you for saving them from the disease they didn't know they were going to get. William Foege

A notice for tomorrow’s federal register designates a project area across most of New Mexico’s international boundary for border wall and related construction, including a new north-south stretch in the Bootheel.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio insisted “no one has died” as a result of U.S. foreign aid cuts. In Myanmar, the grieving father of a 2-year-old boy who died after their food rations were cut calls such claims a lie.

The EPA is ending greenhouse gas data collection. Who will step up to fill the gap? #Climate

The 280 pediatric flu deaths are the highest number reported in the U.S. since the 2009-10 H1N1 pandemic and the highest for a non-pandemic flu season since child deaths became nationally notifiable in 2004. The mortality rate was highest overall in infants under 6 months of age

The New Mexico Public Education Department filed an initial draft of a remedial action plan in a landmark education lawsuit by a court-ordered deadline Wednesday, plaintiffs said. sfnm.co/4nUNcJA

Sickening to see this happen to CDC. CDC’s vaccine information no longer entirely trustworthy, former director says www.statnews.com/2025/09/05/f... @statnews "She encouraged people looking for answers to go to those medical organizations, hospitals, or their health care providers."

The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy. www.chosun.com/english/nati...

“Doctors from abroad make up nearly one quarter of the physician work force in the United States. They provide much of the staffing in rural and underserved areas of the country, and many fill positions in important areas of medicine that are often shunned by U.S.-trained physicians”

The world is hot — and only getting hotter. Here's what places around the globe are doing to keep cool, from repainting surfaces and installing outdoor showers to planting trees and going underground. nyti.ms/46CXyqn