"We are deliberately walking away from the most advanced form of one of the most effective public health measures available to the human race, and instead we are investigated older technologies that happen to involve the administration’s friends" Indeed. www.science.org/content/blog...

Analysis | The fact that Joe Biden isn't in the Epstein files shows how politically and culturally irrelevant he has become.

MAHA: Eating a giant steak cooked in butter alongside beef tallow fries and washing it down with coffee spiked with butter Not MAHA: Clean air, clean water, health insurance, vaccines, disease monitoring, scientific research, food assistance, food safety, bike lanes

From NY Times, a deeper look at how Epstein's network operated.

I think about this post a lot

Let's do this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQ9...

Seattle: the counterexample to both fatalist and denialist narratives about COVID.

Graph from the GOP's favorite pollster, Rasmussen, showing Trump’s approval going down and his disapproval going up.

This should NEVER have been necessary: the AMA has joined a project to define its own vaccine recommendations because it no longer trusts the US Government: www.ama-assn.org/press-center...

Moving interview of Lucy Dahl, daughter of famous author Roald Dahl, about measles vaccination. Her sister Olivia died from measles before the vaccine was available; her father was deeply upset that parents would refuse a lifesaving option that hadn't been available in time to protect Olivia.

Buy Now, Pay Later is the latest metastasis of what I call Financial Leukemia. 🩸 Unlike leukemia cells, BNPL companies can hire lobbyists. Source for statistics: capitaloneshopping.com/research/buy...

DC Health was notified of multiple confirmed cases of measles whose carriers took part in the March For Life marches www.npr.org/2026/02/08/n...

omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for gradient.horse

RFK, Jr wants NIH to work on treatments for measles, but his lies about vaccines are part of the reason measles cases are up. But we have a very safe and effective vaccine. He should focus on getting more people vaccinated.

Coding is talking to an electronic Amelia Bedelia. AI is talking to an electronic first-year undergraduate.

This song was mentioned in church this morning music.youtube.com/watch?v=c8-B...

There’s a “superstar” layer at every R1 institution I’ve been at that isn’t composed of academics in any sense I recognize. They’re there so the institution can claim them, but they use the university as a launchpad to contracts and speaking engagements. They’re not teaching the intro classes.

White Americans in Minneapolis are putting Mexican flags on their cars so that ICE will waste time by pulling them over. Minnesotans are calling it ICE fishing.

‪Donald Trump appears in Jeffrey Epstein's emails 38,000 times. But Hillary Clinton's campaign chair once shared risotto tips on a private email server. I have never felt more politically homeless.

Trust me, the woman of academia are not at all surprised by the number of academic men orbiting Epstein.

Have we really become so woke that we are no longer comfortable sending raunchy emails to convicted sex traffickers?

Beyond the pedophilia, fraud, and maybe blackmail, the main impression I get from the Epstein emails is rich, arrogant, misogynistic, entitled asshole. Even without the criminal part I just cannot imagine myself ever finding such a personality anything other than repulsive.

I would look at the glass and say something like "estimate 51% water (95% CI 41-61)."

If some church said laws against drunk driving were against its beliefs what would the answer be? "But you could kill somebody!" Refusing proven vaccines is morally the same! Immunocompromised people and very young babies can't be protected by shots: herd immunity is their only protection.

The worst decade to be alive? Probably 536-545 AD. The best? For humanity as a whole, probably 2010-2019. And if MAGA is followed by a new Progressive era, as happened after the Gilded Age demonstrated the failures of laissez faire capitalism, the 2030s might be even better.

When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives. — Robert Heinlein

A long read, but very important: a leading researcher puts MAHA into historical context and examines its implications for medical research: www.bakerinstitute.org/research/rea...

Trump has repeatedly claimed US manufacturing construction has gone up since he took office. That is not true: it has gone down: www.factcheck.org/2026/02/manu...

Man detained by INS at risk of dying if ICE doesn't give him his medicine: www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Phrase I just saw online: "the emperor's optimized decision making toolkit."

Shouldn't the follow up question to this response be: "Okay, so who is the racist staffer that has access to post on the president's behalf?" Its not that hard.

"Obviously our staffers watch so many racist videos they might accidentally post one to the president's account" is certainly one way to go with an explanation.

Both! It's Schrodinger's racism: it was both posted and not posted by Trump and it's both perfectly fine and so offensive it should be removed. Don't you libs understand quantum mechanics?

There's a point, well below a billion dollars, where the amount of money you have lets you rid yourself of anyone who can be a check on your worst impulses, and replace them with people who tell you those worst impulses are somehow valorous. Rare is the billionaire with someone to tell them "no."

4. And it's this version of people - the person you are when the power dynamic is equal, or where YOU have the power - that interests me. It's that whole "pay attention to how the people you're with treat the waitstaff" thing, but applied more widely. Who are you with the people who AREN'T like me?

Aside from the message, which I support, his control of his instrument is impressive

The prevalence of market rules in ancient, medieval, and modern societies reveals that the human tendency to lie and cheat is constant. What wavers is our willingness to accept that fact. — Robert LaValva

"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us".