Out of over 20,000 FDA-approved drugs, only 73 have active REMS—additional requirements that can make medication harder to get. So it raised flags when the FDA put a REMS on Nexplanon, a birth control device available since 2011. Read more from @garnethenderson.com at @autonomynews.co

As someone who has co-written two National Historic Landmarks, I know just how much work goes into getting these important sites designated (even more so for monuments). I keep thinking about the group of scholars who must have dedicated so much time to this, only to have it made meaningless.

Do you despise ICE as much as I do? If so, @defendpublichealth.bsky.social has a new campaign, and it’s easy to send a letter to your elected representatives to air your grievances and demand that DHS and ICE not get funding to terrorize human beings. Please join us!

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

There are tens of thousands of scientists working in the US whose funding or careers have been damaged, and dozens of them moving to other countires is...not that many. "Just move to somewhere else and do science" is not a serious approach here. There aren't anywhere near enough jobs elsewhere.

Segment with brave survivor Dani Bensky on the cover-up. What keeps getting lost is how the decades of cover-up of Epstein's crimes is the experience of so many CSA and SA survivors--in that way it is not exceptional at all. Lifetimes of justice denied and perpetrators not held accountable. 🧵

I wasn't aware until I saw this, and I know that it is unlikely to pass, but the idea of a bill that would deport people for religious beliefs has made me physically nauseated. It's a repulsive betrayal of bedrock American values that this has even come to a hearing

NEW: Federal judges are increasingly furious at what they see as a pattern / playbook of defiance by the Trump administration to court orders in immigration cases — in Minnesota and around the country. Here’s a look at what they’re seeing: www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

We are murdering people and it is basically just background noise at this point. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/u...

"'This CRA loophole is just going to go bigger and bigger and bigger until it functionally becomes lawmaking,' Goodwin said. 'In all practical matters, as long as you are creative, you can basically nullify the filibuster.'" www.eenews.net/articles/how...

"These practices must end now." Aliya Rahman, a U.S. citizen who was dragged from a car by ICE agents in Minnesota, speaks out at a congressional hearing on DHS immigration enforcement tactics.

“These are chemical weapons that are harmful to the human body and harmful to particularly vulnerable folks, like children,” says Asha Hassan, an epidemiologist at the University of Minnesota https://www.sciencenews.org/article/tear-gas-pepper-spray-health-effects

"Those who were laid off include Caroline O’Donovan, the Post’s beat reporter covering Amazon"

Our founders, though deeply flawed, understood that democracy requires an informed citizenry and a government accountable to it people. That’s why the press is the only profession protected by the Constitution. It’s also why autocrats and oligarchs seek to control and destroy it.

Historical analogies are arguments. So when someone makes an analogy between today and the Holocaust, or today and anything, think about they are really arguing for. What is the analogy trying to get you to do? New at @startribune.com

this whole thing is on Bezos, a perfect example of why billionaires will not save us for years he supported the Post and then he decided destroying it utterly at the altar of a wannabe dictator better served his personal ambitions, so he did institutions shouldn’t live or did at one man’s whim

Incredible. They destroyed a great newspaper because they hated the people who actually paid for it and read it so much that they'd rather scrap the paper if they couldn't get Tucker Carlson's audience bsky.app/profile/maxt...

I'm on Capitol Hill watching NIH director Jayanta Bhattacharya testify to the Senate HELP committee. Thankfully I haven't been escorted out of this event (yet). Here's what I'm following. You can also watch live here: www.help.senate.gov/hearings/mod...

I spoke with several VA staffers, most in Minneapolis, who say they've heard almost nothing from VA leadership after Alex Pretti was killed. They report low morale, blocked memorials and a feeling that the VA is downplaying it. New from me @taskandpurpose.com taskandpurpose.com/news/veteran...

New — I spoke to eight people who were present at the ICE protest on Saturday in Portland, Oregon when federal agents deployed tear gas and rubber bullets into a crowd of families, children, elderly and disabled people, and their pets. These are their stories:

“Pregnant mothers are not going to their prenatal appointments because they are scared to leave their homes. This week I helped a mother find home birth resources because she is due to deliver any day now.” www.americamagazine.org/faithinfocus...

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich

Harvard professor Steven Levitsky, who studies democracy backsliding, on Don Lemon's arrest: “This is a new dimension. In democracies, journalists don't get arrested. In authoritarian regimes, journalists get arrested." More in @status.news: www.status.news/p/don-lemon-...

NEW: The @wired.com Security desk put together a comprehensive guide to filming ICE—with tips for reducing risk at the forefront. No paywall, but please consider subscribing to help find these kinds of resources. And stay safe out there. www.wired.com/story/how-to... www.wired.com/v2/offers/wi...

Important thread about how changes at NIH are harming research and researchers:

ICE didn’t just kill Wael, they ensured his last months were full of suffering. He knew he would die without his father. His father was the person who made him feel safe. Safety is a rare feeling when you’re disabled. It’s everything. They didn’t even get to say goodbye.

"NIH funding contributed to every one of the 210 new drugs approved by the FDA in 2010-2016...more than 90% of the $100 billion in relevant NIH funding was basic research related to the biological targets for drug actions."

A discussion about why Minnesota was so ready to reject ICE/CBP: "Number one is the rigorous focus on agency-oriented organizing practice, a north star of building multiracial, democratic governing power. We have a majoritarian orientation — we want progressive and popular power."

Eight great reads (and one listen) about the miracle of Minneapolis: www.headsupnews.org/p/people-pow... includes @adamserwer.bsky.social @erikhane.bsky.social @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social @kerryhowley.bsky.social @mollycoleman.bsky.social @jamellebouie.net @pkrugman.bsky.social @brucespringsteen.net

The Trump administration seems to think all innovation should happen in the private sector and political appointees should decide what good science looks like. My latest for @ucs.org uses examples from drug development to show why those assumptions are so dangerous. blog.ucs.org/liz-borkowsk...

Abolish DHS. If you can imagine a world before Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, you can imagine a world without the Department of Homeland Security. My latest at @startribune.com. (gift link)

ICE secretly told its officers that any time someone has been ordered removed, ICE can break down their door. It has been accepted for generations that the only thing which can authorize agents to break into your home is a warrant signed by a judge. No wonder ICE hid this memo!

Walz: "To Americans who are watching this, I've got a question for you: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal govt that can kill, injury, menace, & kidnap its citizens off the streets? Or on the side of a nurse at the VA hospital who died bearing witness to such govt?"

A federal judge effectively ordered the U.S. government not to cover up evidence that it illegally executed a civilian, at the request of local prosecutors seeking to investigate federal agents for murder. Don’t want to overstate things but it feels reminiscent of the run-up to the Civil War.

This witness to Alex Pretti's murder not only refutes the governmen't story, but says she is afraid to go home because federal agents might arrest her. This is what it feels like to live under state terror. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

M. Gessen, gift link: The soviet secret police too "were ruled by quotas... Fundamentally, the terror was random. That is, in fact, how state terror works. The randomness is the difference between a regime based on terror and a regime that is plainly repressive"

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

Another question I came here with was: how effective are the whistles and honking? Does it stop abductions? And the answer is, surprisingly to my cynical self, yes, and often. I have talked to so many people who have successfully interrupted kidnappings.

Thanks to Justine Jones of MplsStPaul for compiling this list of Minnesota mutual aid groups and funding pages of people detained by ICE. Donations don't just help people pay their bills, they also show that people across the country support communities under attack. mspmag.com/arts-and-cul...

The point of saying that he was a white citizen with a permit to carry is not to imply that the shooting would otherwise have been justified. The point is to make people understand that their race and legal status will not protect them.

Walz: Minnesotans are witnessing, and we're creating a log of evidence for the future prosecution of ice agents and officials responsible for this.

This is a small immediate action you can take to support the businesses where the murder this morning happened. They were closed yesterday. Now they’re going to have to close today. Few of them can take multiple days without business.

You: It can’t happen to me. The state: we looked into this white guy we killed and we do feel a need to bring up these parking tickets

“Federal agents briefly detained our reporter at the scene, who says he was tackled to the ground and had a gun put in his face.”

I will be another voice to say, I have watched the video and you do not need to watch it unless you doubt what is being said. There is no ambiguity. Agents dogpile a person, he is on the ground, one of them starts clubbing with a pistol and then fires repeatedly. Even after the body is still.

All of this. Disrupt the “violence comes from emotions running too high” narrative whenever you can. Patriarchal violence doesn’t come from someone losing control. It comes from someone using a very specific set of tactics to seek more control than they already have.

“There was the diabetic afraid to pick up insulin, the patient with a treatable wound that festered and required a trip to the intensive care unit, and the hospital staffers — from Latin America, Somalia, Myanmar and elsewhere — too scared to come to work. ‘Our places of healing are under siege.’”

"But looking at the ironclad resolve of ordinary Minnesotans to protect their homes and defend their neighbors, I think the administration is more likely to break on their opposition and learn, as the British did in Boston, that Americans are quite jealous of their liberties."