RFK Jr. in his official capacity as HHS Secretary has twice attempted to interfere with scientific journals about vaccine-related papers. One paper showed vaccines are safe and he wants it retracted. The other allegedly showed that vaccines cause autism and he doesn’t want it retracted.

Catbus is REAL!!

can't argue with this.

It's the end of the day here on the east coast and Russell Vought is still gunning for his personal take-over of all federal grant-making. The little dictator of the purse-strings is out-of-control. Write to you members of Congress and share, share, share. actionnetwork.org/letters/oppo...

New: Leaked records show how Dialog, the Thiel-linked private club, secretly grades members by wealth and fame, labels their politics, tracks relationships, and uses algorithms to help decide who should meet, who should date, who sits together, and who gets cut w/ @dell.bsky.social & Yulia Almazova

Perhaps the most prophetic sci-fi film of all time, 12 Monkeys is about a millennial who wishes it was the mid-90s again.

I just want to say: American science was always in this fight. Just a lot of the time a lot of scientists didn’t know it, pretended they weren’t, or were on the other side.

western history:

If you happen to be in Sackville, NB, wanna take a little drive from Moncton or are coming out for Sappyfest, you can also see some of my new work at Struts gallery 😌🌸 www.strutsgallery.ca/post/exhibit...

this may well be the defining joke of our era theonion.com/guy-who-suck...

RIP Mark Rothko. You would have loved how the hydrogen peroxide bleach is only turning the Reflecting Pool blue around the perimeter

Kohen Wiley, a 1-year-old child, is dead after a Mississippi police officer shot into a car and killed him. Family members say his mother was holding him in the passenger seat. The officers were responding to a shoplifting call over a box of diapers at the Senatobia Walmart.

NEW: A trove of internal records from Dialog, the secret society cofounded by Peter Thiel, was left exposed online. WIRED obtained a second cache of records that reveal who's really attending, how they're screened, and what personal details they were promised would stay private.

This is bombshell stuff.

Here is a public service announcement filmed by the Dallas Cowboys in the 1980s, and I promise that you would not correctly guess who pops up at the end if I gave you 10,000 tries

The @nejm.org comes out swinging against OMB's new proposed rule putting all federal grant making including science under political control. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Journalists have a duty to tell the public that the president and his aides are seriously considering suspending habeas corpus *when it is happening* rather than saving it for a book rollout over a year later

Obsessed with this 1735 illustration of hammerhead sharks from Japan

this is a story about a person who fled to seattle because their life was threatened because of who they are, the other a person who fled seattle because he was a selfish and entitled person who felt out of place these are not the same www.npr.org/2026/06/08/n...

The “Freedom 250” UFC fight at the White House features ad placement for the Saudis, along with gambling and crypto companies.

Now they're fighting... the Weather Channel

The Knicks only lost one game in the last two months and it was the one Trump went to lmao

Rep. AOC posts new photo on Instagram celebrating the Knicks alongside Mayor Zohran Mamdani

Today is the first game of the FIFA World Cup in Vancouver. But in the city’s Downtown Eastside, the lead up to the games has meant a increase in police violence & displacement. A community watchdog group has been keeping track. My first for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Yes, we can infer that sports have a partisan bent by comparing an event totally controlled by the ruling party and the other...not

Rebranding a hallucination as a ‘critical confabulation’ that can fill archival gaps is a big no from me.

It's surreal that the man has spent the week fueling a pogrom, calling for the jailing of the UK government, spouting great replacement theory racism and then selling a stock whose value is 95% vaporware and we are supposed to pretend that this is all normal.

I may not be a trillionaire but at least there are people in my life who love me

Musk buying twitter, Bezos buying WaPo, Ellison buying CBS—all are less profitable now. But they’re political investments that increase the value of the new owners’ portfolios Wealth concentration makes this possible, and that’s one mechanism by which inequality destroys democracy

I’m a pretty cynical person, yet I never thought I’d live to see a post-Jim Crow American political party take the position that “racist pogroms are good actually.”

Update; now no pedestrian or vehicular traffic between 30th and 35th between 5th and 8th Avenues starting at 4pm, 4.5 hours before tipoff and includes the busiest train station in the country and 100’s of businesses. Heart of Midtown. He ruins everything for everyone every time.

Found my long-missing sunglasses 😎

Trump totally take watch party.

BREAKING: in May 2026, *every single one* of the 599 refugees admitted in the U.S. were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 6,665 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November 2025), and nobody else. For reference, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees in 2024.

Jeezus, #BrokenTimes. It's not a reality show, a drama: a "feud." This is autocracy, dictatorship, the destruction of the Constitution and democracy. Cover it that way! Trump Keeps Immunity from I.R.S., a Victory in a Long-Running Feud www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/u...

THE OFFICIAL @standupforscience.net GUIDE FOR TALKING TO ANYONE ABOUT THE OMB RULE PROPOSAL!! www.standupforscience.foundation/policy-and-a...

Producers of Obsession (in their 40s making their 40th feature) had nearly 1 million but paid their early 20s crew min wage, no profit share or gas money & worked them to the bone. Some were volunteers. Should be a scandal but abuse is normal in indie film. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

You live in NYC, jackass.

In my dad hat era.

My crankiest old man take is that referring to all art/entertainment/journalism/criticism/comedy/advertising as “content” helped pave the way for broad-ish acceptance of AI slop.

A dog failed his service dog exam and was later seen at the train station on his way home with the reason why. 🤗

Scott Pelley was ousted from CBS News in the exact manner Bari Weiss *thinks* she was ousted from NYT

The SCOTUS has become so bold that they went from "This is the outcome we want, so we'll pretend/twist the law to fit the decision we want to get to" to "This is the outcome we want, so we're not even going to consider lower court rationale, apply the law, or pretend like laws matters for our side."

What's happening to CBS News is what the tech oligarchs call "parallel" strategy. Buy an existing institution, gut it, and convert it into a right-wing zombie version of itself. They are doing this to media, government, education, biotech, defense tech, etc. Some call it the "Network State."

Full statement of Scott Pelley after he's fired from CBS 60 Minutes, detailing the sort of corruption of journalism Bari Weiss has brought to CBS News:

How far the @nationalacademies.org have fallen. @joshuasweitz.bsky.social paints a picture of an organization simply unable to meet the moment, riddled with a leadership that is half-cowardice, half-collaborationist. What a sad day for American science. open.substack.com/pub/joshuasw...

Look, plantar fascitis sucks but I think this guy has bigger issues going on

Oh hell yeah @amnesty.org comes out swinging: "Amnesty International finds that standalone generative AI systems... are fundamentally incompatible with IHRL. As such, Amnesty International is calling for a prohibition of such systems." www.amnesty.org/en/documents...

NEW: A lot of bad has happened to American science over the last year but nothing comes even close to what’s about to happen if we don’t speak out in opposition to the OMB rule changes and I hope @aaas-socsci.bsky.social @apsphysics.bsky.social and others will launch public campaigns about this. 🧪🔭⚛️