Immunologist Zachary Rubin explains how, according to a recent study, living through a pandemic might accelerate brain aging.

Not long ago... Chemtrails were a comical marker of being totally off the rails. Tinfoils hats et al. Now? Example of the legitimization & embrace of hardcore bunk. States ban them & RFK Jr wants a "task force"? Dark Age 2.0 Chemtrails www.bmj.com/content/391/...

"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

🚨 CNBC: "Announced corporate job cuts surging past 1 million so far this year, with 153,000 new layoffs just in October according to Challenger. That is the worst October since 2003."

🚨 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

📢 Julia Gillard calls for bold, collective action during the launch of the 2025 Lancet Countdown Global Report. Read the 2025 Global Report - buff.ly/97Gf3Eu #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

DHS says our new piece is "dishonest, slanted, and fundamentally inaccurate" but won't say why. Here's the story where we show with evidence that DHS spliced together clips spanning years and multiple locations to create its own reality. Gift link wapo.st/4nuDGwf

A small town police force bragged that citizens "can't get a breath of fresh air in or out without us knowing" thanks to Flock surveillance cameras. They used the cameras to wrongly accused a woman of a crime, forcing her to find other surveillance video to prove her innocence.

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?

Arrest quotas always yield collateral damage and civil rights abuses. Every time.

🚨BIG changes happening -- ICE leadership is being purged tonight. The old guard, which prioritized targeted enforcement operations aimed at people with criminal records, is being replaced with Border Patrol and Gregory Bovino's "Midway Blitz" style. Think things are bad now? It'll get worse.

Non-linear shutdown impacts are kicking in. @denverpost.com www.denverpost.com/2025/10/23/s...

Latest: I wrote about the DHS Office of Public Affairs shameless lies about ICE arrests and all the times it's lied to me and other reporters lately. DHS did not respond to my request for comment about all the lies it's told. reason.com/2025/10/22/h...

"US Marshal shot during immigration enforcement in LA" * article explains he was shot by an ICE officer whose weapon discharged when he used it to smash a car window

🚨BREAKING: The State of Arizona filed a lawsuit accusing House Speaker Mike Johnson of violating the Constitution by refusing to swear in Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva. The plaintiffs argue that Johnson’s delay has deprived hundreds of thousands of Arizonans of representation.

🚨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."

Rand Paul: "When you kill someone, if you're not in a declared war, you really need to know someone's name at least. You have to accuse them of something. You have to present evidence. So all of these people have been blown up without any evidence of a crime."

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

"Freedom of speech has a point. It is there so people can speak truth to power. Often that truth is spoken first by young people." snyder.substack.com/p/gaza-and-p...

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

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

Excellent op Ed about the issues with single vaccines published in response to Trumps Statement about single shots for Measles, mumps and rubella as well as CDC call for single vaccine manufacturer 🧵🧪#HealthPolicy

INBOX: The Chicago News Guild joined others in suing ICE for attacking journalists at the Broadview facility. “Our members have a right, protected by the First Amendment, to do their jobs and report the news. They should not be targeted, injured or arrested for doing their jobs.”

"A group of Chicago press associations, journalists, nonprofits and unions sued the Trump administration and its top officials Monday, saying federal agents had used 'extreme brutality' at local protests to silence both the press and civilians."

My quote of the day If you want to preserve democracy as we know it, you have to have a free and many times adversarial press. And without it, I am afraid that we would lose so much of our individual liberties over time. That's how dictators get started. John McCain

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.

"Many mental health professionals and patient advocates say treating this as First Amendment speech could set a precedent under which any counseling is claimed to be free speech and no longer subject to professional standards, even if it's dangerous or inappropriate."

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

1/ In August 2020, the president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, made an extraordinary request to President Trump’s ambassador, Ronald Johnson. A previously undisclosed report tells what happened next, according to a new ProPublica investigation. 🧵 ⬇️

“'The fact that we don't have money to pay journalists, but we have money to pay Bari Weiss between $100 and 200 million is indicative of what the Ellisons' true goal here is,' a network correspondent said. 'And it's not journalism.'"

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."

My god. “Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

Listeria Outbreak to include more Prepared Foods ->Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | #Food | More from BigEarthData.ai

"The acting U.S. attorney in Sacramento has said she was fired after telling the Border Patrol chief in charge of immigration raids in California that his agents were not allowed to arrest people without probable cause in the Central Valley." Source: Los Angeles Times www.yahoo.com/news/article...