BREAKING: (Gift) New Epstein emails reveal that Epstein claimed he had kompromat on President Trump. www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

This essay on Trump v. Orr, the transgender passports case, is excellent. The short of it: The Supreme Court put a lot of people in harms’ way, both at home and abroad. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/o...

Severe outbreaks in Australia and Japan, the latter of which has declared a flu epidemic, have experts concerned. “It’s not a direct lesson for what we can expect, but it’s a clue,” @cmyeaton.bsky.social said. “And that does give me pause that maybe we’ll be in for something a little bit bigger.”

As a study site for the ICoN-1 study, this is unfortunate news about the futility of inhaled clofazimine for refractory pulmonary MAC Raises questions about utility of PO clofazimine, which achieves much lower levels in the lungs investors.mannkindcorp.com/news-release...

Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person. The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person. People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives. And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office. If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.

“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.” aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

New — While some states have received SNAP benefits for November and USDA is supposedly pushing through all federal payments soon, that doesn’t erase the psychological terror of the last few weeks. I spoke with 20+ SNAP recipients in 16 states about preparing for a possible future with no food:

In 2008, a blogger named Curtis Yarvin called for a future president to kill foreign aid programs as part of a plan to replace democracy with dictatorship. Now 600,000 people are dead—and 14 million will die by 2030, according to the Lancet. This is the running death toll of tech fascism.

We sent a message to management today with a Slack icon change. More than half of our union participated and are demanding management reinstate the four people who were unjustly fired. Ready to show your own support? Reach out to Condé Nast management telling them to reinstate the fired four.

This capitulation will only embolden Trump to target other universities and institutions. This helps no one and only feeds the beast. We must continue to stand with those who resist Trump’s lawlessness and call out those who don’t. Shame on Cornell.

Abolish Border Patrol.

Within a few years after giving birth, many women with HIV fall out of care. In our new paper from rural Haiti, we explore why this happens—and what might help prevent it link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Easily several hundred people have packed into this plaza in Chicago's North Center tonight in response to ICE abducting a daycare worker early this morning. This is a neighborhood that has largely been spared until now from the "Midway Blitz" terror campaign. But everyone knows someone affected.

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

By this time next week, the estimated deaths due to the illegal destruction of USAID and the shuttering of its aid efforts will breach 400,000. More than 260,000 will be children. Source: www.bu.edu/sph/news/art...

Here’s a deeply tragic story: East Chicago woman with schizophrenia who opted for deportation after being held without her meds now missing in Mexico. By Meredith Colias and Kate Perez www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/03/t...

trump has destroyed nearly every part of the federal government that would help respond to incidents like this

Mamdani: Whether you are an immigrant, a member of the trans community, one of the many black women that Donald Trump has fired from a federal job, a single mom still waiting for the cost of groceries to go down, or anyone else with their back against the wall—your struggle is ours too

“We are witnessing nothing less than a clown show at #FDA right now.” People who worked at or rely on the US drug regulator see dysfunctional leadership & soap opera-ish behavior at a key federal agency, @matthewherper.bsky.social & @lizzylawrence.bsky.social report. www.statnews.com/2025/11/04/f...

"Hours after the confrontation in Lakeview, dozens of parents stood guard outside a school in Bucktown after hearing ICE and border patrol were in the area. Some parents set up an informal checkpoint next to the school to check cars for immigration agents..." www.reuters.com/world/us/wer...

“In the intention-to-treat pop, a Salmonella paratyphi A infection was diagnosed within 14 days after [oral] challenge [w wild type virus] in 21% of participants in the CVD1902 group & in 75% of those in placebo group (P<0.001), resulting in VE 73% (95% CI, 46 to 86).” www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

The USDA sent an email to grocery stores telling them they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the SNAP funding lapse. I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email

AP: “A U.S. Senate investigation report released by @ossoff.senate.gov has uncovered dozens of credible reports of medical neglect and poor conditions in immigration detention centers nationwide…” apnews.com/article/immi...

"These findings underscore the enduring value of immunization against respiratory viruses as a cornerstone of preventive care and support the feasibility of maintaining rigorous, evidence-based guidance during periods of institutional disruption." via @nejm.org www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Following your principles wherever they take you—& in particular being willing to break with the social groups with which they were once associated—is a rare thing worth lauding when the principles are good or even just defensible

Putting aside the cruelty, this statement is full of lies The facts: “in 2023, nearly two-thirds of adults ages 19-64 covered by Medicaid were working and nearly three in ten were not working because of caregiving responsibilities, illness or disability, or due to school attendance”

Sad day for the folks who staked their reputations on lab leak conspiracy theories. www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

REV. BLACK (who was shot in the head with a pepper ball): “If this is what they’re doing to pastors, journalists, teachers, mothers, and the elderly gathered to sing and pray outside ICE facilities… what might they be doing to our neighbors who are behind those walls?”

I keep seeing people say, oh, trans people must take a hit for the greater good and, first of all, no, you don't get to discard someone else's rights and second, we know from past experience that marginalized communities like theirs are merely the first to be targeted. They'll come for you next.

There’s a reason we have a centuries-old law banning living presidents on U.S. currency: to avoid the appearance of a monarchy. Today Trump's nominee to lead the Mint assured me he won't violate this law for Trump's latest vanity project. We will hold him to it. NO KINGS.

Three major respiratory viruses COVID-19, RSV & flu still drive hospitalizations yearly. A new review of 511 studies shows current vaccines work. COVID-19 mRNA shots targeting XBB.1.5 cut hospitalizations by ~46–50%; newer KP.2-adapted vaccines reached 68% effectiveness. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing. Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵

Ongoing peer-reviewed evidence supports the safety and effectiveness of immunizations against Covid-19, RSV, and influenza during the 2025–2026 season. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Portland dance group offers free Latin dance lessons at ICE facility 💃🏽

Trump’s funding cuts and restrictions on funding is rolling back the progress made on preventing and treating HIV. “Every delayed test, every missed prevention or treatment opportunity risks lives.” - José M. Zuniga.

Results from recently published, peer-reviewed studies support the safety and effectiveness of immunizations against Covid-19, RSV, and influenza. Learn more in a Special Article: nej.md/3L8m1gt #MedSky #IDSky

Even as the anti-vax lobby erodes public trust, new evidence confirms that "immunizations against Covid-19, RSV, and influenza have shown consistent effectiveness & safety and are associated with a substantially reduced risk of hospitalization & severe disease" www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

This is insane Either this man has no idea how health insurance works or (perhaps more likely) is he trying to sow doubt to justify ripping away health insurance from millions of Americans

Glad to have been a part of this effort: “These findings underscore the enduring value of immunization against respiratory viruses as a cornerstone of preventive care and support the feasibility of maintaining rigorous, evidence-based guidance during periods of institutional disruption.”

Today in @NEJM: The Vaccine Integrity Project reviews the latest data on flu, COVID, & RSV immunizations, filling a vital evidence gap for clinicians and the public. Independent science matters more than ever. Read the paper ➡️ www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa2514268

“Real working-class politics does not assume the worst of working-class people’s impulses. It does not launder their concerns for political points. It certainly does not argue, directly or indirectly, that a little racism is a good thing for reaching them.”

FOOD BANK DIRECTOR: “For every meal a food bank provides, the SNAP program provides 9. There’s no way we can meet that gap. We were not built to do this.” (@TNDemocrats are imploring @GovBillLee to fund SNAP with the billions in reserves as other states are, but he refuses)

If the current administration ever ends, many people in (and around) it will need to be prosecuted. From influence peddling to flat-out murder, their crimes seem to accumulate each and every day.

"A majority of western Alaska’s weather balloon network was not operating during the landfall of the storm last weekend due to staffing constraints inflicted by the Trump administration..." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Pepper ball rounds Trump immigration agents are firing at protesters: www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/v...

Walz: "We have a federal system that we're all in it together, we help other states when they need it, but we have a situation where they're trying to divide us & provide specific aid to states that they like at the moment, which is absolutely unconscionable... either that or give us our money back"