Join Bearing Witness to stand out at the infamous Burlington ICE office. Tomorrow and every Wednesday 11:00 to 1:00.

If you need a researcher to tell you about Tylenol, MMR vaccines, and autism. Here is one. www.npr.org/2025/09/23/n... The TL;DR...

The federal government has censored the work of dozens of scientists, including work by my lab, on the impacts of climate change on Acadia National Park. Signs have been removed from Cadillac and Great Meadow. They’re also removing signs about the Wabanaki’s sacred connections to Cadillac.

HEY SCIENCE & POLITICS, STOP TRYING TO "CURE US" IN THE WOMB AND LISTEN TO OUR VERY COMMON SHARED PROBLEMS FROM OUR OWN MOUTHS & HANDS THEN MAKE THE MATERIAL CHANGES WE KNOW WILL GO A LONG WAY TO SOLVE THEM FOR EVERYONE ELSE TOO ❤️ We will win, we will build the world we all need to live and thrive

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents held a 5-year-old autistic girl outside her Massachusetts home to pressure her father to surrender to authorities last week, according to the girl's family www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

I want you to read one of my 2022 investigations again + understand that the response you’re seeing from your children’s school boards-the harassment + firing of teachers, administrators & staff-is tied to a network of folks who have been in this game for years: www.propublica.org/article/geor...

i am seriously begging democrats to bring the same smoke to this story that they brought to jimmy kimmel being indefinitely suspended

COVID-19 updated boosters are now easier to get in Florida. Publix and Walgreens pharmacies in Florida will begin administering the 2025-26 COVID-19 vaccines to eligible patients without a prescription, joining CVS and CVS Minute Clinic. (Free to read)

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

I've said this before, but I feel pretty strongly that the building of concentration camps - and now, the inevitable disappearance of 1,800 people from those camps - is the biggest story in American public health right now that isn't being treated like one

Question for animal researchers: if you have a small number of animals in your study, how do you refer to them in your pubs so as not to cause confusion? Would it be monkey 1, monkey 2, monkey 3? Alpha, beta, gamma? I know names are a no-no 🧪

What are people saying about my eco-horror short story collection, Haunted Ecologies??? “Soggy” - Becky “Prophetic” - Ai “Weird” - Dave “Great” - Regan “Weird” - Yvonne “Weeds” - Raymonde “Thorny” - Hillary “Fun” - Matthew “Book” - Kelsey

It seemed impossible: New Mexico — poor, bluish-purple, oil-and-gas-heavy — passed a clean energy law more ambitious than almost any other state had achieved. Not only that, it did so with broad bipartisan support. The catalyst? A dying coal plant. jrehmeyer.substack.com/p/how-a-dyin...

Private equity literally costs people their lives www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/23/b...

Rubio making excuses for dismantling a massive force for good and overseeing the biggest decline in our national security and prestige in our nation's history

WIRED asked security and privacy experts for their advice for hardening personal privacy protections and resisting surveillance. Here are their recommendations.

Call your senators and your house rep. Make a stink by being clear that abandoning trans adults and children is a no-go. Cis people, call and be loud for us. We are tired.

Universal childcare wouldn't just relieve working families of a massive cost burden. It improves the whole economy. "There are a lot of reasons building a child care system that works for everyone is important to our children, to parents, to employers and to economic growth."

The International Day of Sign Languages celebrates the linguistic identities of the Deaf community and all who use sign language. John Bulwer was the first person in Britain to advocate for the education of deaf people. His 1644 book explores the communicative and rhetorical power of hand gestures.

In a UN speech today, President Trump said that "all of these [climate] predictions were wrong". Back in 2019 I led a research effort to digitize old climate model projections and assess how well they did. Turns out they got future warming pretty spot on!

No evidence. No science. No solutions.   Just Trump peddling another dangerous lie — this time about Tylenol and autism — that sows chaos, scares parents, and puts our health at risk.

They held a child hostage. A child.

These people are monsters. Actual monsters.

Autistic people are amazing and their existence makes the world a better place. 🤎 My heart is with anyone who has ever been told otherwise.

We need to get rid of falsely named kings.

Gupta: It is safe. That’s what the best-quality research shows. And how irresponsible, using the podium of the WH to put this out there when you’re not even offering an alternative. That is dangerous. An untreated fever is dangerous. Untreated pain in pregnancy is dangerous.

Zohran's New York City 🤝 New Mexico Universal Childcare Is The Way

I am not sure what is worse - trying to subjugate pregnant women by scaring them with anti-science or this vile climate denial at the United Nations today. Climate denial is hate speech. We need to start holding the US internationally responsible for their blatant violation of the no harm principle.

ICE agents held a 5-year-old autistic girl outside her Massachusetts home to pressure her father to surrender to authorities last week, according to the girl's family

BREAKING — Notices for the Disney+ price increase went out at noon ET today, confirming my scoop from last night. Details: www.vulture.com/article/disn...

Current river conditions - spot the drought waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/rt

Right-wing influencer Robby Starbuck has a new job advising on political bias in Meta’s AI tools. His record on climate is concerning, say advocates. www.desmog.com/2025/09/22/m...

A new study, based on a survey of 1,150 workers suggests that the injection of AI tools into the workplace has not resulted in a magic productivity boom and instead increased the amount of time that workers say they spend fixing low-quality AI-generated “work.” 🔗 www.404media.co/ai-workslop-...

Yes!

Reminder that @charlesgaba.com maintains a website where he curated @archive.org Wayback Machine links for various federal websites as they appeared before this administration fucked with them. Idk what hot garbage is going to come out soon, but here's the FDA one acasignups.net/fda-website

Pritzer gets the mechanics of authoritarianism – systemic intimidation, seizing control of elections, etc. – in a way others in national democratic leadership don't or won't say out loud.

Patients are more likely to die in the ER when private equity buys a hospital. That’s the price of corporate greed. This is why I will continue to fight for my Health Over Wealth Act—to protect patients, providers, and communities.

Fact check: the last eight months have been disastrous for the United States' national security, democracy, and the safety and welfare of its citizens

Trump & RFK's attack on Tylenol is part of an emerging campaign within the right to valorize “natural” pregnancy & motherhood—to the point it corrodes women’s health & safety. Under this campaign, pregnancy & motherhood are seen as women’s natural states. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Anyone else having a really hard time talking to students about careers in science? I talked to an undergrad, technician, & grad student about careers today & floundered when comparing industry to govt to academic positions, how to prep for any of them, or what those jobs will look like in 5 years

IT’S MIGRATORY CHOCOLATE BONBON SEASON!!! #birds #wrens #fall #migration #BirdButt

An article from a site called "Clean Tech Times" about Charlie Kirk and Big Oil money is trending in r/energy on Reddit It's a completely plagiarized, unauthorized, unlinked version of an article I published the day before I have no idea what to do about it except complain. It's so fucked up.

We went for a walk this evening at Norfolk Botanical Garden, and the first sasanquas have opened! 🌱 #FlowerReport from VA #Bloomscrolling #camellias

Realizing that the endpoint here is probably massively scaling back screening for autism spectrum disorders, limiting resources for people who need them, but leading to a decline in cases & declaration of victory. "If we stopped testing right now, we'd have very few cases, if any."

My thoughts on what RFK Jr and President Trump got wrong about autism. open.substack.com/pub/drrubin/...

This ought to be engraved somewhere.

People who are 70 year olds now are of a generation where they very well may have been institutionalized (neglected and often died). People like RFK Jr said their lives didn’t have value. So disabled children and adults were locked up. Hidden away. This is the future if he has his way.

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