former CDC official Dr. Houry: "I first learned that the secretary had changed our CDC covid vaccine guidance on an X social media post. CDC scientists have still not seen the scientific data or justification for this change. That is not gold standard science."

When I was placed on the Professor Watchlist in 2021, people sent death threats about my children. I had security officers monitor my 8yo at school. Where is all the outrage for those of us who have been targeted for years? Where is the outrage for our families? My own colleagues are silent.

Here is the truth: there is no secret plan to defend American democracy. There is no hidden set of tactics that those of us in the pro-democracy movement are waiting to unveil at the right moment. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/what...

For the record. My posts were not even about Kirk directly, but about America's apathy towards political violence, and the coddling of white male shooters and hate peddlers. I was fired because I mentioned race: white men and violence-- that was my "gross misconduct."

I spoke with the NYT Magazine a while ago but have now heard that an editor said they can't quote me because I'm "too liberal" to be a trusted source. You know what's always the first example conservatives use to claim I'm "too liberal"? My work in the 1619 Project, organized by the NYT Magazine.

We don’t celebrate his death, but we won’t hide the truth about his life.

Suddenly "hate speech" is bad. Suddenly "dehumanizing" people is bad. Suddenly "cancel culture" is good. Suddenly words have consequences. The modern American right in 2025, folks.

NEW: Reuters asked the Michigan Tax Authority whether Lisa Cook violated any mortgage tax rules for her home in Ann Arbor. They said no. That's in addition to Reuters earlier reporting that nothing was wrong with the documents for her home in Atlanta. www.reuters.com/world/us/no-...

Destroying America and democracy to own the libs.

I have written 26 pieces for Democracy Docket in the first 20 days of August. That is in addition to 18 YouTube videos and countless podcasts and TV appearances. All while maintaining full time law practice. You can help support DD's pro-democracy mission by signing-up now. hubs.ly/Q03jcjqP0

.. and sexual abuse...

Fact Check: TRUE

🧵 Trump's 79-Year History of RACISM #Racism

Thank you, Boston Globe. This is how it's done.

This was published in 1963 by James Baldwin & is more proof that history rhymes. Citation: Baldwin, James. The Fire Next Time (Vintage International) (pp. 89-90). Kindle Edition. Link: a.co/d/5BDgQBo

Let them know you're filming them and keep asking the key questions: "Do you have a warrant signed by a judge? Show me." "Do you have a badge? Show me." "Do you know how pathetic you are? You showed me."

For the far right, it’s like the fights they started in Trump’s first term never ended. trib.al/QS3aKCF What ICE and other agents are now doing in the streets should be understood in the larger context, in which Trump has gone from endorsing violence, to pardoning J6ers in his first days in office.

🚨 PLEASE SHARE 🚨 If you’re in Austin, there is a current call to show up at the Capitol building 1100 Congress Ave. - tonight 08/17 at 7:00pm. The Texas GOP is holding Democratic Rep. Nicole Collier hostage. She refused to sign a “permission slip” that would require a police escort!

NEW: Sources tell Rolling Stone that Trump has repeatedly critiqued the string of media appearances by Epstein accusers and their families, arguing that some of them are just trying to make him look bad. Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Not ironic

Trump's DC Hellscape slate.com/news-and-pol...

"Building alternative institutions outside of gov. that reduce reliance on the authoritarian regime, lessen its power and relevance over day-to-day life, and preserve sites of independent thought can be vital both in preserving science and in defending democracy." www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Watch this life-long DC resident describe Secret Service and CBP hassling him tonight because he “fit the description of a robbery”

Katie Johnson's last interview back in 2016. Before the election. She warned the country! And she was silenced. She was 13 when she meet Trump and had sex with him. Yes, this was the girl that Trump picked because she reminded him of his daughter, also 13 at that time. What a Creep. I believe Katie

🚨Trump’s private remarks about Epstein victims exposed by Rolling Stone #SheSHed #Pinks www.yahoo.com/news/videos/...

🎙️NPR spoke with VoteVets @avindman.bsky.social on Trump’s meeting with Putin and what it means for Ukraine. LISTEN HERE: www.npr.org/2025/08/14/n...

Opinion US news Trump’s DC takeover is a move of staggering hypocrisy Rebecca Solnit Donald Trump is concocting a drama in DC because he would like us to really stop talking about the Epstein files Thu 14 Aug 2025 13.30 EDT www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY ...to my Dad & Stepmom! August 12, 1978, is the day we officially blended these families. And we’ve been killing it fashion-wise ever since!

RFK Jr. is upset that a recent large Danish study in Annals of Internal Medicine, conducted over 20 yrs in 1 M kids, found no association between aluminum in childhood vaccines & 50 different health conditions. His request for the retraction was rejected. 🧪 www.reuters.com/business/hea...

Why Do Octopuses Change Color? How It Works and Why They Do It My latest “ask a marine biologist” quotes @sarahmackattack.bsky.social www.scubadiving.com/why-octopuse... 🧪🦑🌎

Should you be scared the big chikungunya virus outbreak in China could reach the U.S? The infection is really painful. And yes it could hit the US, I report today in @sciam.bsky.social. We have the mosquitoes that carry the virus. But there are outbreaks much closer. Plus we have vaccines. 🧪🩺

🪶🌎🧪Bander Jannaca Chick got a surprise when she checked the band mumber of this Bewick's Wren recaptured at the Rocky Point Bird Observatory MAPS station in July. It was banded as a hatch year bird in 2018 and is 7 years old! Currently the record is 8 years old. Go little wren, go!

July's best science images, as chosen by the Nature photo team, include a glow-in-the-dark marsupial showing off its luminous furr, which earned photographer Ben Alldridge a spot as a finalist in the Beaker Street Science Photography Prize 2025. See more photos at the link. #SciArt 🧪 🔭 🏺

Our paper using Oxford #Nanopore direct RNA sequencing to identify m6A modifications on RNA isoforms in human brain is now out in Science Advances. 🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Trump says he doesn't trust the jobs data—but Wall Street and economists do https://www.dailykos.com/story/2025/8/7/2336984/-Trump-says-he-doesn-t-trust-the-jobs-data-but-Wall-Street-and-economists-do?pm_campaign=blog&pm_medium=rss&pm_source=