People have been asking me if I know of a resource like StandWithMinnesota for New Jersey, and I haven't found something comprehensive. So, for the moment, I have put together all the links to NJ orgs, crowdfunding links, events, and stuck them on a page of SWM. standwithminnesota.org/jersey

“The GEO Group operates all of the facilities where the hunger strikes have taken place…ICE issued a statement dismissing the accusations of substandard conditions at the facilities as a ‘hoax.’”

Look, plantar fascitis sucks but I think this guy has bigger issues going on

Can mosquitoes learn to love DEET? 🦟 Research published yesterday suggests that mosquitoes may learn to associate the smell of DEET with dinner—and start gravitating toward it instead of away from it. Read more: ow.ly/jFzP50Z5JPH

Not to mention that he's built a detention camp system on US soil where deaths from disease and malnutrition have already begun to accumulate. www.npr.org/2026/03/10/g...

I have in mind: cuts to USAID combined with this war and attendant oil shock combined with opportunity cost of their cuts to US medical research and vaccine production (especially their nixxing mRNA research funding). Maybe that last one is a bit cheeky but I think it should be counted.

I really think Trump II is going to rock up 20th century dictator bodycount when all is said and done and all accounted for, Leopold in the Congo kinda stuff here. Just wildly evil.

@repanalilia.bsky.social just got done speaking to @chrislhayes.bsky.social, speaking of people she met at Delaney Hall who were denied basic medical care for everything from head trauma to miscarriages

welp, they pepper-sprayed a US Senator today in Newark

Five people have died by suicide in ICE detention so far in 2026. That's the highest annual total in at least two decades and the year isn't half over. Nine total since the start of Trump's second term.

ICE's biweekly detention data is now over a month old. The public currently has no official count of how many people are in ICE detention. People I trust in this space are telling me the number is under 60,000 (possibly 57,000–58,000) but that's not publicly verifiable right now.

"One who plants a tree, doesn't always sit in its shade" - excellent remarks by President Mahama at #WHA79 opening, with a strong call for political leadership and investment in health, based on our institutional mandates, and a new order rising based on partnership and agency, not aid.

A bit about me: I'm a multimedia investigative reporter at the intersection of democratic backsliding and environmental justice. I founded @thexylom.com, the nonprofit, worker-led news outlet y'all know and love. We are the only Asian American-run news outlet covering the health and climate beats:

NYC Public Defenders Condemn the Treatment of Samantha Randazzo, Who Gave Birth While Handcuffed to a Bench in an Open Courtroom at Brooklyn Arraignments

Nicotine pouch sales are booming. 🚩 Global sales hit 23.5 billion tins in 2024, up 50.5% in just one year. Governments must move fast to regulate these products and protect young people. Read WHO’s new Report. 👉 bit.ly/4nymmbk #TobaccoExposed

In USA you can get a healthcare bill that will force you to sell your home but there is also a chance that the descendant of bootleggers that ascended to Folk Villain status & believes that handsoap weakens the immune system might also show up to your heart surgery & try to fiddle with your organs.

Free middle-school hot lunch, Shingu, Japan

Variationen.

Happy Mother's Day to all who are celebrating, especially the moms who got drafted in on an emergency basis to proctor finals exams at Rutgers...

Indignity Vol. 6, No. 41, THE STAIRS, Chapter 26, by @tomscocca.bsky.social www.indignity.net/the-stairs-chapter-26/

Breaking news: Indiana University plant microbiologist Roger Innes has been locked out of his laboratory by the school in response to a request by one of his federal funders. The move comes after Innes complained about the government’s prosecution of Chinese postdocs. https://scim.ag/4tsDqRr

…For those who weren’t there, something I didn’t post about (because we pivoted from policy to pop centers and I wanted to listen closely) was Bhattacharya’s absolutely astonishing claim that research evaluating the health effects of public policy is out of scope for NIH-funded research.

I know irony was declared dead in 1973, but it’s still twitching: “Iustitia Europa, an anti-establishment Spanish group that rose to prominence by challenging COVID-era restrictions, called for the MV Hondius to be barred from reaching Spanish shores.” @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social

The “MAHA” party just ensured a new generation of kids gets addicted to nicotine.

Like clockwork

This person exposed the attendees and staff at a Met Opera performance... I got a notice because I was there!

In the visiting room at the Delaney Hall detention center, when 50-70 visitors are let in all at once, a subset immediately lines up at 4 vending machines to buy drinks and snacks for their poorly fed loved ones. This seems very American to me. Fascism with vending machines.

I cannot understate how much of a shitshow all #medical care will become when the HR1 #Medicaid cuts hit in full on Jan 1, 2027.

I keep thinking about the ease with which they cancelled elections over the last 24 hours

MAGA grifters experiencing the problem, but resolutely not reaching the common sense solution, is almost too on-brand. Its the Joey meme all the way down...

Ignoring racism as a motivating force in society allows racists to advance their causes with a freer hand.

"Pay no attention to the shuttered hospital behind the curtain." tinyurl.com/5hdwnbtb #MEpolitics

1937 Igor Stravinsky's Jeu de cartes premieres

Liva: we need a shift in thinking of what economic systems are for. They are for people and for future generations. But there is so much path-dependency, that people are not open to even imagining new ways. Operational constraint with shrinking budgets: low risk tolerance. downward trend in trust.

Just an incredibly sad and melancholy story on the death of the Florida Orange industry slate.com/business/202...

CSHP Director Joel Cantor is among the honorees recognized on this year’s @njbiz.bsky.social Health Care Power List. Over more than two decades at #Rutgers, Dr. Cantor has become a widely recognized and trusted #healthpolicy expert in #NewJersey and nationally: go.rutgers.edu/uavuguc5

hows that

The DHS is reportedly developing its own smart glasses that it plans to couple with biometric databases and facial recognition. gizmodo.com/ices-smart-g...

IIRC, two thirds of the soldiers who died in the Civil War died of disease, not wounds. Anyone who actually prioritized warfighting and lethality and all those things Hegseth goes on about would mandate vaccines, since it’s hard to be a lethal warrior when you’re dead (or even seriously ill.)

Someone pointed out that all the tech billionaires are doing steroids now because they think AI will fix whatever health problems it causes in a few years

In comments to CMS, NHeLP and 45 other organizations, oppose the proposal to require states to provide "immigration identifiers" for all Medicaid and CHIP recipients via the federal T-MSIS database.https://healthlaw.org/resource/comments-on-medicaid-collecting-immigration-identifiers-in-t-msis/

life is a stance against decay

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

Not only is NE first out of the gate, its gov't plans to do it w/out hiring any add'l staff, even as other states prepare to bring aboard dozens if not hundreds of new employees to determine who should remain enrolled & who should be booted from Medicaid politico.com/news/2026/04... #Medicaid

"you could - by careful choice of an existing scoring method from the literature - find any effect, or nothing, or the reverse of any effect you choose. This is bonkers. ... so extreme as to be farcical." This is the sentiment we were hoping people would come away with! w/@anniria.bsky.social

went to check out the techno rave outside Parliament and I don't think I have the data allowance to share a video from it but let me tell you: there sure is a techno rave outside Parliament right now, celebrating Orban getting ousted

If you get alpha-gal from a tick bite, caused by climate catastrophe, and become allergic to red meat & dairy, well, there's always shrimp, which, certainly also thanks to climate catastrophe increasing oceanic temperatures forcing new zoonotic disease pathways to form, can now make you go blind