Airstrikes, shootings, hypothermia: The harsh reality of life in Gaza under US-backed ceasefire

DOJ official Todd Blanche promised to dump his crypto holdings no later than 90 days after his Senate confirmation in March. But about a month into the job — before divesting — he ordered an end to investigations into crypto companies. By @coreygjohnson.bsky.social @shaw.al

Yes, please. And asap, if you don't mind.

Fantastic work by the Kremlin PR team.

The RFK, jr effect.

A nasal nanomedicine has demonstrated effective delivery of immune-activating therapy to the brain in mice, offering a less invasive approach to treating glioblastoma tumors. doi.org/hbb644

If you need dating guidance from ChatGPT, perhaps just get a blowup doll and call it a night...

from the other place. Three years ago...

Folks better remember what insurance companies were doing to women who were diagnosed with breast cancer, prior to the Affordable Care Act. This is what Republicans are supporting. If you’re in a red Congressional District, call your House Rep. #Florida

More than any other publication @propublica.org is rising to this moment. So many legacy newspapers still cower in equivocation and shy away from simply reporting the facts in their terrible details. Bravo @charlesornstein.bsky.social and the team. They make history. Support @propublica.org today.

GOOD NEWS! For the first time ever, Huntington's disease has been successfully treated. A groundbreaking new miRNA treatment, AMT-130, slowed the progression of the disease by 75%. These results are likely to support the first approval of a genetic treatment for the rare neurodegenerative condition.

According to eyewitnesses, armed ICE agents dragged kids out of their beds in the middle of the night, zip tied them and put them in rented vans while raiding an * entire apartment building* on the South Side of Chicago. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOXO...

There is no understanding the hate and ignorance of the Old Confederacy. THEY WILL NEVER CHANGE. slate.com/news-and-pol...

In A Few Words essay by Alan Finkelstein, PhD: Giving Grace bit.ly/45JzaUX (FREE)

Um, I was told that tariffs would bring the American manufacturing back

Oh come on @thomasjrennie.bsky.social! Muniz gets the ball & performs a football move. Chalobah dives in late. So you're penalizing Muniz for beating the defender to the ball and making a difficult football move and rewarding Chalobah for poor defending?! Leave the bad takes to Alexi Lalas.

The results were so secret that they were published for the entire world to see, even RFK Jr. But, as @jimalwine.bsky.social and I wrote back in February, “Kennedy, a science denialist, will never accept the real scientific evidence that vaccines are safe”.

“A respected network of hospitals and cancer centers is halting enrollment in clinical trials for children with brain cancer after the federal government said it would no longer provide funding to the group”

"The top story of the moment is the one story that our most influential newsrooms won’t touch: That the United State has become an authoritarian state." — Dan Froomkin @froomkin.bsky.social presswatchers.org/2025/08/we-h...

Say it loud @thomasjrennie.bsky.social : POCKETS! (although not sure even pockets would have helped in this case). #Leeds #Everton

Best comment on Jay Bhattacharya that I've read to date.

Important note from inside NIH New grants policy terms may lead to terminations after October 1st. Don't panic, but do realize that this is a possibility.

In light of today’s news about the National Cancer Institute announcing a 4% payline, it’s really important to communicate to people that the previous 10% payline was still effectively a lottery and the result of decades of underfunding the NIH. Paylines used to be 25%.

The death of 2 unvaccinated children from measles (deservedly) drew a lot of outrage & attention this spring. Here's something the media completely missed. 253 children died from flu this season. 90% were unvaccinated. The nat'l rate of kid's flu vax is less than 50%. More outrage please!

As of July 6, the United States reported 1,281 measles cases in 2025, the highest total since the disease was declared eliminated in 2000. 1/5

"Before the review process was based on merit and impact. Now it's rolling the dice because a DOGE person has the final say." "We are under pressure to only fund proposals that fit the new narrow priorities even if they did not review as well as the others." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

It’s hard to convey the scope of pain that will hit Americans if the GOP's “Big Beautiful Bill” becomes law. The rich get richer The poorest get kicked down ICE detaining American kids Clean energy jobs are toast Student loans are harder to get An assault on American life tinyurl.com/3y6d3y4k

If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029: - $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion - $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million - $8 billion for hiring/retention - Billions more.

Also rural hospitals and clinics are screwed.

Are you live fact checking the Energy and Commerce Committee meeting tomorrow at 10AM ET with #RFK? Here’s what’s at stake. Spread the word. #RFKlies #truthmatters

Y'all are racist.

Making America poorer again: each US $1 million invested by the NIH in health research generates about $2.5 million in economic activity. NIH funding produced $94 billion in new economic activity and supported more than 400,000 jobs in 2024 alone. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

from @propublica.org: State Department officials campaigned to force Gambia to license Starlink, even threatening to cancel development projects. US diplomats now work on behalf of Elon Musk? www.propublica.org/article/trum...

What do cancer and a mountain lion have in common? Here's a piece by Caitlin Feeley (whom I met in 2015 through @firstdescents.bsky.social) on how it's like to go through cancer treatment: dreadpiratekhan.tumblr.com/post/1177584... #ayacsm #btsm #bcsm #lcsm #cansky

“The study also found that 139 of 694 of the terminated grants were training grants, which support early-career researchers and are sometimes intended to promote diversity in the sciences.”

I keep hearing this commercial on @siriusxmfc.bsky.social for the HR management company Bambee that refers to "babysitting employees" with baby crying sounds in the background, and then goes on to say something about "a poor performing employee who now wants to take 3 months off." Ummm...

New report shows that NIH grants fueled $95 billion in economic activity and 407,782 jobs in 2024. That's not to mention the countless lives that biomedical research has saved. Show me a better investment than that. www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

I can never keep this straight - do the tariffs move forward or back tonight?

New from me: A school district in Pennsylvania voted against adding a Black author's book about the 1921 Tulsa race massacre to the curriculum. Then, the community decided to do something about it.

New avenue of research in prevention of gastric cancer, H/T: @weldeiry.bsky.social

Bluetorial: The path to a new pain medication with little potential for addiction Perhaps a good story to share with folks who want to learn about how biomedical research works and where advances come from.

SWAN: DOGE and SpaceX employees are now working directly at the FAA and DoD, agencies that have billions of dollars of contracts with Musk's companies or regulate them. How is that not a conflict of interest? TRUMP: Well I mean, I'm just hearing about it

I really like some hip-hop, but that performance left me flat. Maybe the point was to have Kendrick be the sole focus, but pre-recorded music and background vocals? Felt like a missed opportunity to do something more interesting.

Results from the phase II study of zenocutuzumab in #NRG1 fusion+ cancers now @nejm.org. RR 30% with DOR 11.1m, PFS 6.8m, favorable safety profile. NRG1+ lung cancers do not respond well to standard therapy. Zenocutuzumab now FDA approved for NSCLC, pancreatic cancer. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

🧪 "Researchers who have clinical trial participants staying at the NIH’s on-campus hospital, the Clinical Trial Center, said they weren’t able to order test tubes to draw blood." www.cnn.com/2025/01/24/h...