The single most defining thing Elon Musk has ever done is killing untold numbers of people by having DOGE illegally raid and disband USAID. Not rickets, not cars, not even the CSAMbot on X. It’s this, and so many media pundits just choose to unsee it.

Oh, Senate confirmation hearings again? Lemme guess, they're denying they'll do the thing they're absolutely going to do?

Ok. What dumb shit is he going to do this weekend?

So. Should we take bets? Is it TACO? Or is it psycho? He stands alone. We have no allies at this point except an unreliable co-instigator. Iran isn’t giving him an easy out - they simultaneously call his bluffs while outing lies. They seem to be forcing it to a head. I think it will be TACO.

Amidst everything else, the Trump regime has quietly killed off the U.S. Forest Service 🌲 “One hundred and ninety-three million acres of your national forests… just handed, on a silver platter, to the people who’ve spent their entire careers trying to destroy it.” www.hatchmag.com/articles/tru...

Found this excellent article from 2024 in Current Affairs on why the Atlantic is so terrible. It does the hard work of explaining, at length, why the magazine isn't worth reading. When they cover the positives? Ed Yong, that's it. And he left. www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-wor...

“Flawed” is generous. Bhattacharya has been using credentials to push a harmful, anti-scientific agenda since at least 2020. The mentioned study violated legal & ethical standards, has results that were off by multiple orders of magnitude, and he used it to advocate for mass infection w/o mitigation

Begging everyone for the millionth time, please don’t just read your slides to us. We are generally a literate audience in science.

This is objectively hilarious. The president's dementia has regressed him to acting like little more than a carny guessing badly at people's shoe sizes, ordering them cheap shoes in the wrong size, then the little lickspittles won't dare wearing actual nice shoes or ones that fit.

Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.

My new piece about glyphosate and why it's probably fine for your health unless you're spraying the stuff in which case the data is mixed. Also, RFK Jr. got attacked by all of his friends and it was very funny to me. slate.com/technology/2...

A reminder of what “natural” immunity gets you.

People probably think this is catastrophizing or exaggeration about Dispensation. But the evidence keeps coming out at the seams. This is their objective. www.reddit.com/r/newsinterp...

The reason they are not sharing their rationale for the war is because they honestly can’t. Our poor hapless congress still doesn’t understand bad faith and lying. They want to feed thousands of our troops into a meat grinder to try to make Jesus come back. www.reddit.com/r/UnderRepor...

This is called Dispensationalism. Americans need to do a better job understanding their own religious radicals and the potential outcomes of people with these views coming to power. For this belief system, tens of thousands of Americans dying in war in the mideast is the actual goal.

I can see the movie about the planning of this war. Hegseth and the other Dispensatialist (look it up) hawks insisting we are are war fighters and this is our holy christian duty. Then all the “useless” logistical generals explaining the difficulties resulting in a temper tantrum about Ivy Leagues.

They let you do that when you’re famous, grab them by the air base.

This is an excellent new strategy. If you give your school-shooter worshiping child an AR-15, you go to jail forever. The kid was obsessed with school shooters and had a literal shrine to a school shooter in his room. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/u...

Apparently, telling your troops you're trying to start Armageddon in the Middle East to bring back Jesus is bad for markets.

I hear operation Epstein Fury is now gonna be our new forever war. He’s already saying we have infinite supply lines, a sure sign we are about to trap a few hundred thousand people in an epic blunder.

Uh no...we definitely realize it.

THE DEATH OF US SCIENCE ☠️

“Before even getting to her views on public health issues, there is absolutely nothing in Means' background to suggest she would be qualified to serve as surgeon general. No clinical experience, no public health training - just a large social media presence with a sketchy business background”

I think you can draw a direct line between the Hegseth tantrum about the Ivy Leagues this week and the concurrent planning for this Iran operation where anyone with any knowledge of history, political science, law, diplomacy etc., was probably saying this is the stuoidest idea ever conceived.

I mean, an author who insulted this group in 1988, in a book, spent a lifetime in hiding afterword and almost 40 years later his security slipped for half an hour and a guy popped up and stabbed him in the eye. I’m sure this will be fine for all of us.

If recent history has taught us anything, it’s that Ayatollahs are very forgiving, as are their religious adherents. I am sure this will create no long-term problems for Mr. Trump or his family.

As far as I recall there hasn’t been a time when assassination of a religious leader has caused any long terms problems, rifts or schisms. I’m sure we will be greeted as liberators.

Increasingly clear there was no such thing as an innocent association. He selected friends that were abusers, racist, sexist, gross.

I feel like something big is about to happen. Gates, Summers, Axel, all these mea culpas on the same day. What’s about to be revealed that these guys and their institutions are trying to get ahead of? What don’t we already know?

It’s amazing that it took this to finally get rid of this malignant narcissist.

Yup, one of RFK Jr's closest allies So, MAHA parents actively and deliberately WANT their child to get sick and to risk serious suffering, hospitalization, disability, and death? They WANT that for their kid?

If they had just chanted “pedophile” or “epstein” for the entire speech they would have undone his presidency. They’re just weak and unimaginative.

The "intellectual" circle of race science believers and sex pests still has too much academic credibility. Read Heffernan's piece about their long and disgusting association with Epstein and you'll see some well known names pop up that still enjoy credibility. www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...

I have to encourage them when they do well. The best article out of the NYT so far this year. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/o...

The silence from the Trump-loving MAGA physicians who run the US health system—Drs Bhattacharya, Oz, Makary, Høeg, & Prasad—is complicity

And that’s why we don’t swim in Rock Creek RFK. apple.news/AzjgKqK3cTR-...

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.” - 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas. Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

Can you imagine, these people all have > 100 billion yet in their lifetimes most haven’t even given away a single percent of their net worth. It truly is pathologic hording. www.reddit.com/r/NoFilterFi...

JFC, cut that shit in half and you’ve eradicated hunger, provided healthcare for all and made education free for all Americans. What the fuck are we doing?

Such a cowardly little man

It’s an RNA world. RNA is posited to be the first genetic material, arising 4 billion years ago. It can store information and act as an enzyme. Eventually, it duplicated its information into a more stable form, DNA.

Prasad’s antivaxx career started 5 years ago when he opposed the pediatric covid vaccine, which didn’t even exist. None of this is new for him. It was just inexplicably tolerated and rewarded.

An excellent shortread on why the poverty line should probably be raised - by about 4-5x! When you think about incomes in these terms it explains a great deal of the resentment of the middle class towards antipoverty measures - they probably need them too. www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...

Before declaring victory, be prepared for them to wait a single news cycle then reintroduce the partnership. If it will make them money they’re still gonna do it. abc7.com/post/ring-fl...

In terms of what cures are being lost: - Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis - herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis - shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease

Side question, how do all these rich assholes end up in such bad suits. Can someone show this guy what a fitted jacket looks like?

Top FDA official Vinay Prasad overruled the agency’s reviewers--career scientists--when he refused to accept Moderna’s application for a new influenza vaccine www.statnews.com/2026/02/11/m...

Amazing things are happening. Like, I don’t know if yall have heard but the drop in Bitcoin price is finally exposing the Ponzi scheme because people *invested in data centers believing it can only go up and are just now learning the risks of investing in a Ponzi. www.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/s...