right now in Los Angeles.

There’s some lag time before the U.S. really starts falling behind in new preventive strategies, but we are rapidly approaching it. A Phase I trial of an mRNA vaccine against Epstein-Barr Virus has just launched in Australia, and this vaccine could prevent multiple sclerosis, among other things.

Supreme Court: we are ending civil rights protections because we are a post-racial country now White Male Confederate Governors: we are going to immediately disenfranchise Blacks NYT: conservatives say we are in a post-racial world, losers say we are not: there is no way for us to adjudicate this!

a reminder that a lot of the things people find unpleasant about cities - along with the noise and dirtiness - are largely a product of filling them with cars. get rid of the cars and the pleasantness of the environment improves dramatically

Never heard of Nicole Saphier, Trump’s new Surgeon General nominee, until today. I’m guessing a lot of us are about to become experts in the myriad ways in which she is unqualified. A cursory search alone is revealing. A person with no experience in public health should not be Surgeon General.

Yeah, people gotta stop acting surprised at their hypocrisy. Trying to find ideological coherence with Republicans is a futile task.

This. Gender is everywhere, once you know you can't unsee it. Tech bros cannot envision a woman being skilled at what they do.

The world conservative wants is a world they themselves are miserable in too, but it's worse for minorities so they want it anyway.

Me reading the 87th anecdote about a rich person who says they earned it through hard work

Tomorrow is #MayDay - join America’s unions @aflcio and working people nationwide in the streets, on the shop room floor, in union halls and at the ballot box as we take back our power. Find an event near you: www.mobilize.us/aflcio/?q=Ma...

as long as john roberts has his majority, there is simply no pro democracy reform that will survive the supreme court. none.

We simply must. Conservative ideology which is rooted in hierarchy and power is inherently incompatible with equity and democracy. They must be defeated.

I am begging people looking to make major donations to universities to either 1) care as much about academics as they do sports, or 2) make unrestricted gifts instead. Signed, A faculty member at a university with brand new athletic facilities and crumbling teaching and research infrastructure

Evil looks like this. Utterly morally bankrupt statement to make.

“What I have learned more deeply this year is that public health is not just a job. It's a responsibility -- and right now, we need to recognize and support the people already doing that work, whether they're on payroll or not”. Excellent piece by Dr. Linas.

This regime is pathetic. Loser, insecure behavior

Conservative ideology fundamentally opposes democracy. It's an ideology of hierarchy, power, and subjugation of 'the others', and will naturally have friction with equality and democratization.

It is so depressing watching everything previous generations fought and died for be dismantled piece by piece. These basic protections and institutions, while imperfect, still pushed in the right direction. We are failing future generations and leaving a worse world behind for them.

A full 25% of American healthcare spending goes to things like billing, claims processing, and customer service. www.ft.com/content/6b1b...

The Voting Rights Act is essentially dead and it’s quite possible that we will, like when a similar SCOTUS gutted civil rights at the fall of Reconstruction, see a disappearance of much of the Black congressional representation, especially in the most heavily Black states, which are in the South.

This has gone off charts viral. It’s a transcript I made of the 60 Minutes interview that shows the exact cuts made by CBS. It’s free for anyone to read - No Paywall. substack.com/@decodingfox...

We don't hate insurance companies enough.

Everyone who voted for this regime is irredeemable.

It is in the interest of a fascist regime to create as many problems as possible, so their panic and violent rhetoric can be more effective.

It is in the interest of a fascist regime to create as many problems as possible, so their panic and violent rhetoric can be more effective.

No amount of centrist compromising can fix the fundamental ignorance of America. The only viable future is on the left. We either move forward and fix things, or we rot with the rest of them.

The fascists do love censorship

Shout-out to the Bond movies for making an evil tech founder a super-villain back in 1985, at least 25-30 years before the rest of us caught on.

If they can register you for the draft, jury duty, parking fines, etc., they can figure out automatic voter registration. Voter ID laws are pointless hurdles to voting. Vote no on this California. Don't even get me started on the SAVE act bs

More details on the firing of the National Science Board. The NSF now has no director, deputy director, or board. They have issued almost no new awards in 2026. The plan appears to be to completely destroyed the agency. The details are horrifying and have Russ Vought written all over them.

This regime is doing mass murder with extra steps Zeldin is as morally bankrupt as rfk jr

Seeing Michael Tracey and Matt Taibbi gang up on smearing Virginia Roberts Giuffre when she can no longer even defend herself is truly sickening. Their little routine of denying that Jeffrey Epstein did anything that bad may make them money from fellow freaks but it’s harmful to victims everywhere

The Iranian schoolgirl, the cancer patient whose clinical trial was cancelled, the African AIDS patient who can't get treatment anymore — none of these are "real" to our media elites. Can't imagine themselves in that situation or visualize it. But "panic at the fancy gala!" on the other hand,

No, the assassination attempt of a corrupt tyrant is not the same level of violence as the systemic terrorism of gestapos, and the mass death of gutting public health services (to name a few). To be clear, both bad, but do not suggest they are the same.

Crime. This is arguably wage theft by how egregious underpaid this position is.

yeah my thought when i hear that is "tell this to the president and his goons"

“Everybody needs to turn down the rhetoric.” -supporters of a guy who threatened to destroy an entire civilization of 90 million people

About last night’s scrambling from gun fire at White House reporters dinner .. Rep Jamie Raskin (D-MD) makes a critical point on CNN: “This is happening in schools across the country.. the kids have no resources to process their trauma”

This. "Journalists" attending a fascist regime's fancy dinner is nothing short of absurd.

We’ve become way too inured to the constant violence because of all of the people in power who revel in it. What a joyless, artless, sexless, rudderless country we became so fast.

The number of journalists who support fascism is too damn high

NYT is conservative apologist

Why are economists like this? In this 10 part podcast series I will...

Truly. This is America (derogatory).

Our society has a massive blind spot when it comes to how dangerous these giant trucks and SUVs are to everyone outside of them.

This was published in 2026. We don't hate the racists enough.

Oligarchs have always been a threat, but tech oligarchs represent a new level of danger. Their wealth dwarfs historical tycoons and their control over algorithms allows them to curate human reality. They own the digital infrastructure of thought

This. They never cared about you, and people are starting to realize finally.

Still feel like "Musk and his crew of incels destroyed a bunch of stuff they didn't understand and thereby hastened the deaths of millions of children" did not get the public attention it warranted.