Truly the Fyre Festival of strategic campaigns.

The morally bankrupt Trump administration has partnered with another morally bankrupt authoritarian to declare an unprovoked war on Iran, already killing scores of civilians. We need an immediate vote from Congress on a War Powers Resolution. Then articles of impeachment.

This week's cover @thelancet.com

Take action to oppose Casey Means for US Surgeon General! Tell Congress to end her nomination by Feb 24. open.substack.com/pub/peoplesc...

"The American College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists (ACOG).. announced its withdrawal as a liaison organization from CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), citing concerns about recent changes that undermine the committee’s scientific integrity..." www.acog.org/news/news-re...

Is this bad

It is pretty telling that it comes as something of a surprise that the Supreme Court sided with the Constitution over Trump.

It's unchartered, but we can see the terrain: the territory ahead includes masked secret police taking people to concentration camps but not new vaccines. That's our reward for a system in which fewer than 20 people, all of them deranged and malicious, control over $3 trillion.

Re: Science Mag editorial celebrating mainly the inside/quiet advocacy done this year, I offer this in lighthearted response. 🧪 This is a Myanmar woman doing her usual, longstanding dance routine while black cars speed by to carry out a coup. 1/4

Every Dem should watch this ad. The thing about it is that right now, conditions are such that majorities will be receptive to this understanding of the situation. The opportunity to hammer it home should not be squandered.

A madman.

A long, absolutely must-read article from Cory Doctorow: www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

New, from me: The Trump administration isn’t just using social media to shape a narrative. They view the world through a social media lens in a way that is plausibly corrupting their judgment and undermining their performance. Welcome to the clicktatorship. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/life-under...

It’s started.

In 2016 Hinton predicted that AI would replace all radiologists in five years. Ten years later, why hasn't it happened? This post is a great explainer. www.understandingai.org/p/ai-isnt-re...

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

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.

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

WaPo gets to decide who speaks on its opinion page. And I get to say they can't pretend they're for "personal liberties" when they join a coordinated state effort to repress the voices of people who don't speak the way Trump wants in response to a newsworthy event. Support @karenattiah.bsky.social

Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it

Will be hard to explain in the future that the US government went antivax, causing a lot of avoidable suffering and death, not in response to any negative incident with vaccines, but to the biggest, fastest, most successful, most impressive vaccine rollout in history.

it's so cool to read articles about how chatGPT gives people psychosis, that workers resent AI being shoved into all their applications and that AI companies are more overvalued than right before the dot com bubble burst simultaneously as the white house brags about how chatGPT runs the FDA now

Billionaires are convinced AI is on the verge of making new scientific discoveries because they don't understand how AI chatbots work.

I was skeptical that the MAGA majority on the Supreme Court would ever rule that Trump could run for president again but after today’s ruling I think they’d probably roll over and do that too.

Ontario, CA surgical center staff stand up and demand to see ICE warrants.

See updated analysis from @kff.org of #Medicaid cuts in the Senate passed reconciliation bill. The cuts are bigger than the House-passed bill and much larger than the funding for the rural health fund added to help address the impact on rural areas.

as Republicans are poised to pass legislation stripping healthcare from more than 10 million Americans, all three major cable news networks are covering ... the Diddy trial

The most important Senators to call are Collins (ME), Murkowski (AK) and Tillis (NC). If they join Rand Paul, the bill it will fail. Murkowski’s dirty deal with Thune unraveled so she is more in play now. Folks in these states have an incredible obligation to get in Senator’s faces today.

Ending Medicaid to build concentration camps

Stripping birthright citizenship from people born in this country goes against rights guaranteed in the Constitution. We must stand against unconstitutional actions and stand up for the fundamental rights granted to people in the United States of America.

AOC: “It is absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment.”

No one is safe.

OptumRx owned by UnitedHealth continuing their tradition of killing people for profit

European Jews on Ellis Island protest against their deportation to Germany, 1936

To be clear, COVID-19 vaccination - as well as other critical vaccinations - should be recommended for pregnant people. Full stop.

So yes, as currently written the House GOP budget will require half a trillion dollars in cuts to Medicare. That’s T as in trillion and “care” as in Medicare on top of the cuts to Medicaid and Obamacare. So how did this happen? As near as I can tell House Republicans and the …

Eight hours work, eight hours rest, eight hours for what you will. Happy May Day.

At this juncture I’d like to point out: * we’re on the brink of a golden age of medical healing * there’s enough money in the world to solve every problem in the world * a united approach could stop the climate crisis But a small group of sociopaths seeking personal power are going to throw it away.

republicans are disappearing people under the guise of fighting antisemitism and can’t even pretend to give a fuck when a jewish governor’s house gets firebombed on passover

Very informative chart from Washington Post

I'm not kidding that any Dem who wants to run in 2028 should get out ahead of this and loudly say if El Salvador puts American citizens in Trump's gulag we'll fucking invade.