PEPFAR, the program to stop hundreds of thousands of children and adults from dying of HIV/AIDS, was $6.5 billion a year.

The… busywork… is your education. It’s LEARNING. it’s why we are both there (or we were, until ~Einstein~). If you do none of the work, you will not learn a single solitary thing and it terrifies me that there are people selling that and probably more people willing to buy it.

My grandparents both lost family members to measles and struggled to comprehend that there could be such a thing as an anti-vaccine parent. Somehow I thought that no one who had seen a child, their child, suffer this way could stick to their anti-vax guns. These stories keep proving me wrong.

Sure did. Huge numbers in early childhood, sepsis after childbirth, pneumonia among older adults, and even in conflict. WWI was the first conflict where the majority of deaths of combatants weren’t due to disease (still a third).

Wow.

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

An excellent thread. The brutality doesn’t stop after the violent arrests, broken glass, wrecked cars…

No science, just vibes.

No science, just vibes.

Follow-up questions: WHY WOULD YOU THINK THAT?! HOW WOULD THAT HAPPEN?

Can you imagine being this callous? Even if you can, I guarantee you can’t imagine being this rich. Safely evacuating his fired journalists would have been absolutely nothing to Bezos.

Marimar Martinez's attorneys also take on claims that it would "sully" Border Patrol agent Charles Exum to release his text messages. Martinez's attorneys call it "a fully deserved self-imposed sullying."

Follow-up questions: WHY WOULD YOU THINK THAT?! HOW WOULD THAT HAPPEN?

Entirely consistent with what I see in my teaching. I get fewer emails asking for help on homework assignments, but more students totally lost during closed-book tests.

Every incident the evidence “appears to undercut” or “seems to contradict”, at what point can we just skip all this and assume ICE lies?

Here’s what they found: Women are interrupted more often than men—by about 10–20% in economics seminars. Those interruptions are more likely to: - Cut women off mid-sentence - Come from men - Be adversarial rather than clarifying in nature

Sigmund Davíð “Wintris” Gunnlaugsson fer fyrir hraðast stækkandi þingflokknum á Íslandi og varaformaður hans segir að hann „[búi] yfir trúverðugleika á við engan annan í íslenskum stjórnmálum.“

Bíll Foege spoke at my UW graduation. He met us new PhDs backstage, and (in the spirit of “ego suppression” for which he was known) he asked our names and about our work, congratulated us… and didn’t introduce himself. I learned who he was when he got up to speak. Remarkable legacy and person.

This is the large domino, with the small domino being some random quack in the UK in 1998 trying to undermine the existing MMR vaccine so his business partner can swoop in with his own. Instead he lost his work credentials and now kids are dying needlessly all over the world, so great job everyone.

Holy moly this chart: Cumulative US measles cases

Guess I’ll be calling my Dem representatives and asking them to adopt positions at least as hardline as THOM TILLIS

Within 4 hours of ICE (actually CBP) killing Alex Pretti, the data suggested that the right wing spin machine was having trouble gaining traction, even on their home turf over on X. Here's a Substack I wrote analyzing X data from that time. katestarbird.substack.com/p/another-mu...

And these are just the ones we know about. How many are as violent in their homes as they've been on our streets? To quote @nbedera.bsky.social "Domestic violence teaches our oppressors to dehumanize the most vulnerable among us."

The one good thing that came out of Covid, renewed investment and advances in vaccine development, potentially ruined by MAHA.

Fuck you. I won’t do what you tell me. Stay till the end.

I am trying not to post on these events in this state of mind but: I hope people understand what the observers are doing is brave and dangerous.

They know this can happen to any of them and yet more and more people are getting involved. The sheer courage that takes, as well as the love and faith in others. Shrugging and going "welp nothing will actually change" is telling them that their actions don't matter. Grow up and stop it.

Yes, I suppose this would be fascinating if it wasn’t referring to the *completely preventable hospitalizations and deaths of children*.

Hi, for those of you unfamiliar with this sort of weather -if the power goes out, trying to heat your home with the clay pot + candle method is not a great idea, try personal warmth (ie blankets) and blocking and sealing drafty areas instead if you can

The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears.

Pepper spraying high school kids, gassing babies, leaving six year olds wandering the streets alone. Even setting aside how ICE treats adults, how can anyone stomach their treatment of kids?

Counterpoint: yes she absolutely does. It is not reasonable or fair to expect any one person to be an expert on everything. Hire an electrician to rewire your house, a lawyer to represent you in court, and listen to doctors and scientists when it comes to medical decisions.

30 years ago they were like we have to ban song lyrics for the children but it’s full steam ahead for the here’s how to do drugs until you die machine

I was trying to figure out where a bunch of new followers were coming from; delighted to find I’d made this list

Hands down

Much like the immigration crackdown after the National Guard shooting, this is just a repackaged rationale to advance Trump’s preexisting goal. He’s hated the lottery since his first term, when he claimed it was a mechanism that other countries used to “send their worst people”.

Several things jump out when reading this article. 1) The number of times officials refuse to comment or simply say "that's not true". 2) However arbitrary, uninformed, disorganized and cruel you thought the process of destroying USAID was, it was worse. www.propublica.org/article/usai...

Bravo to MMWR for this middle-finger salute to RFK Jr #IDSky

Petty bigoted asshole move. It’s not even like she was Senate confirmed w/ her deadname and the plaque changed when her name did (though I’d support that too!) Would a married woman’s portrait be changed to display her maiden name? Does Vance have to go back to James Donald Bowman “for accuracy”?

My magnificent articles bring all the predatory journals to the yard

Am I to understand that Willick thinks university HR responding to a faculty member trying to seduce a student - and at the very least musing to his convicted sex trafficker friend about conditioning advising that student on her favorable response, whether or not he actually did so - is bad?

Vaccine-preventable diseases, however, DO cause child deaths. Today, in high-income countries with excellent health care. Measles doesn’t have a cure or specific treatment. When complications arise, only supportive care is available; most kids recover, some don’t. Some do and die later.

This will kill kids. Anyone with a conscience would have been chastened by the deaths his disinformation contributed to in Samoa, but RFK Jr lied under oath for the chance to scale up his efforts.

Apparently RFK Jr. promised Senator Bill Cassidy that he wouldn’t remove the statement “Vaccines do not cause autism” from the CDC website. So what RFK Jr. did instead is spit in his face by leaving the statement there and adding this:

In my field we don’t tend to interpret a trend as”boosting” anything if our prediction intervals go from “everything is awesome” to “we all die”.

A terrorist targeted federal workers last week. There wasn’t much reporting on it. But I’m not finished thinking about it! 🧵 An anti-vaxxer fired more than 500 gunshots into CDC Atlanta, shattering 150 “blast-proof” windows on 6 buildings. Employees were pinned down in terror.

We wanted the robots to *do* the manual labor jobs and free us up for other pursuits. Not do our thinking and creating so we could all go back to the mines.