Things that are cool: research into how maternal infections shape fetal development (hey Zika). Not cool: scaring pregnant women with fevers for no damn reason (RFK Jr. is no friend to moms. Or science. Or… bears?)

IT'S OFFICIAL: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and New York City have formed the Northeast Public Health Collaborative. The collaborative will issue their own vaccine recommendations and coordinate public health efforts.

TRUTH = DISSENT

"it’s material deprivation, not social diversity, that threatens to tear the social fabric. Perhaps it’s harder to have trust when you’re competing for resources. Whatever the cause, the solution seems to lie less in measures to limit immigration than in investment to tackle poverty and inequality"

The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States. 🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

Watching all these centrist pundits stress the “civility” of Charlie Kirk’s style without addressing the ugliness of his substance is giving me a renewed appreciation of how the civil, polite White Citizens’ Councils conned the same crowd into thinking they were distinct from the cruder Klan.

RFK Jr. and the Trump administration are preparing to do exactly what many of us feared they would. Next week, they are planning to present data that have been misused or manipulated to make it *appear* that COVID19 vaccines caused the deaths of 25 children.

Biology Department xkcd.com/3140/

If I were editing a column about Charlie Kirk’s political genius, I would tell the writer he needed to quote Kirk’s actual political beliefs. If the writer responded that doing so would weaken or distract from his argument, it’d be a pretty good sign that the column was not ready for prime time.

The reporters and editor should be fired.

If you’ve got more money than you could ever spend in a lifetime, you could use it to make the lives of millions of others better. Or you could hoard it and spend it on vanity projects that only serve your own interests.

We interrupt this coverage of a shooting with another mass shooting at a school. www.cnn.com/2025/09/10/u...

If I have any credibility with you from 20 years of reporting on rightwing & fascist movements, please listen when I beg you not to celebrate Charlie Kirk getting shot. Leave aside morality: this isn’t a match in dry grass, it’s a torch. We do not want what this could ignite & we would not win.

So... I did some analysis of grants that did receive noncompetitive renewals. In particular, I looked a those award where the title of the grant changed. Warning: The results are just what I expected, but oooph... 1/4

WA DOH's chief science officer: "We signed a statewide standing order that could act like a prescription — which instead of being signed by a doctor, is signed by a state health officer — to make it easier for people to get access to COVID-19 vaccines." All states should do this!

RFK Jr. went on Fox News today and claimed that Dr. Daskalakis, who resigned from the CDC in protest of RFK Jr.’s destruction of public health, refused to send CDC money to Texas in the midst of a measles outbreak. I do not believe RFK Jr. for a nanosecond.

This is censorship from an authoritarian regime that wants to project the illusion that they face no internal opposition or dissent. No other way to describe it.

Florida man working hard to solve affordability crisis by killing as many old people and babies as possible…

Race Isn’t Biological — So Why Do So Many Still Think It Is? @kevinlala.bsky.social and @kztwyman.bsky.social blog about their recent paper in the journal Evolutionary Human Sciences www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...

Please note, the addled tin pot dictator many people *willingly chose* does not admit mistakes. So long as this is framed as his mistake, it is immediately impossible to have him do anything but lend wild, vocal support to RFK Jr. And his voters the same. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

Mass shooters since 2018 who were transgender — 4. Mass shooters since 2018 who were not transgender — 4,193. Hope that helps.

It should never be easier to access a gun than a vaccine.

she said that “black” with a hard r

I often talk about the fact that MAGA does not access the same news as the left wing. I present to you Exhibit A. Dr. Daskalakis’ resignation letter excoriated RFK Jr. and shared that RFK Jr. was lying to the public, manipulating data, and ordering unethical actions. This what Fox News served.

Media: Please stop looking for shooters’ “motivations” and stop giving people guns. It’s the guns. It’s always been the guns. Stop pretending it’s not. Kids are dead.

Today I’ll be coddling my mitochondrial dysfunction while I enjoy the actual-joy in my life during End Times. Also writing about women’s health research. Cheers.

wtf is this nonsense? He thinks he can understand kid’s “mitochondrial challenges” just by looking at them? This is an insane person.

Here, let me help: “Bobby’s a friend a good friend a very nice soldier for MAGA and has done a fine job. He serves at my pleasure. I have decided to let him continue his work to make America healthy again as my Special envoy to Medicine and (some guy) will take over his role at the HHS.”

“My grandfather, who I am named after, stood up to fascist forces in Greece & lost his life doing so. I am resigning to make him & his legacy proud. The nation’s health security is at risk & is in the hands of people focusing on ideological self-interest.” Dr. Daskalakis, CDC immunization director

Gross. Bigotry and cynical self-service, with both-side-ism on full display at the NYT. Some people should really just go to dental school (not that you’d want this chick anywhere *near* your mouth): www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...

Jacob Frey, mayor of Minneapolis: “Don’t just say this is about thoughts and prayers right now, these kids were literally praying,” he added. “It was the first week of school, they were in a church.” (gift article from The New York Times).

Dear journalists: The President has not fired Lisa Cook. The President is *trying* to illegally fire her. Your words shape people’s reality. Please be accurate in your reporting.

Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.

The maddest someone has ever gotten at me was when I talked about the child sized manacles Jefferson had at Monticello for 9 year old children. They could not cope with the idea that a child the same age as their child had been enslaved. And it made them angry that I made them know facts

“They did not die from COVID , they had preexisting conditions.” “They did not die from starvation, they had other health problems.” This is what eugenics sounds like.

Anyone who has studied the history of police states and surveillance can tell you invasions like this are a stalking horse. Extreme tactics like this are always tested on vulnerable populations prior to being normalized across society.

Literally not looking out for your child.

Monsters, plain and simple. Stop posting about her *face* and start posting about her *hate*

Y’all know the face masks on ICE are just the new white hoods, right? Exact same purpose?

Guys, no one look for medullary bone in the Wankel T. rex okay? Not sure anything’s allowed to be female in DC anymore if it doesn’t fit the mold…

From the “fuck it, it’s all body” camp, a fun little romp for my cog nerds:

Just so we’re keeping score & everyone understands where we are now: you live in a country where there are two tiers of citizenship, the government is sending people to concentration camps, the president sets the policies of elite universities, & there are security checkpoints in the capital city.

Dinosaurs are freaky and we love ‘em for it. Males also often highly involved caretakers of offspring and, in some species, live longer than females.

Excellent to see this commitment to include older adults in research. Cries of ‘wokery’ will be fewer & quieter for the protected characteristic of age, yet the principles of equity and inclusion are the same as with sex, gender, ethnicity & pregnancy status. All matter www.ukri.org/news/committ...

The occupational hazard of being a woman and the greater risk of needing a restraining order to stay safe from a stalker is a risk to heart health 💔

Guess Jeanine Piro hasn't deleted all the data yet.

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

Today’s vibes: soundtrack to a coup d’etat

No, you did not give those of us who happened to look like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor any due process. And that was profoundly wrong. It destroyed our lives.