An important thing about cities is that people are often engaging while walking, biking, or taking public transit, as opposed to the car-centric suburbs. Cars isolate us and make us angry and unhappy.

Private Profit, Public Loss: The Trump administration is pushing to expand grazing on public lands while reducing its already low cost, under the false premise that it will fill America’s coffers. w/ @highcountrynews.org

Self magazine partnered with AAP awhile back to make some. Some do show needles but they're not huge and the person/ child isn't crying like so many photos. www.flickr.com/photos/selfm...

FDA official Vinay Prasad proposes ‘impossible’ standards for vaccine testing that could curtail access to immunizations. www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va... My latest story for @cidrap.bsky.social.

Jamal Hinton and Grandma Wanda officially celebrate Thanksgiving together for a 10th year. 🦃

NEW from me - NSF cancels grant scheme for social science research. Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

CDC Quietly Turned Off Its Vaccine Search Tool. It’s Not Clear When It’s Coming Back www.notus.org/health-scien...

ok it also said this when he thought about reaching out to family for help techcrunch.com/2025/11/23/c...

As soon as this new information was unleashed, people began looking at the location data for accounts that primarily serve to stoke political tensions in the U.S. with far-right narratives that are often misleading or outright false.

I’m still flabbergasted — and not a little bummed out — that we could write a long series of stories listing zillionaire after zillionaire who didn’t pay taxes for years and years — and basically nothing happened

In Morrow County, healthy adults were coming down with unexplained medical conditions, including diseases that usually afflicted the elderly. In a survey of 30 homes, at least 25 miscarriages and a half dozen people living with one kidney were reported. 🔗 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

She was pregnant and addicted to fentanyl. Getting to keep her baby saved them both

The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.

This is the first story I ever did that got more than a million views

NEW: ProPublica has found multiple cases of women with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions. Tierra Walker, a 37-year-old mother, was told by doctors there was no emergency before preeclampsia killed her.

Trump admin axed 383 active clinical trials, dumping over 74K participants arstechnica.com/health/2025/...

2020 footage said to be in 2025. A scene of protestors in Illinois, suggested as Portland. We reviewed Fox News coverage and 700+ social media videos that preceded Trump’s decision to send the National Guard to Portland. Here's how Fox News told a misleading story:

This is cool. COURIER has created a searchable database with all 20,000 of the files just released from Epstein’s estate. Trump's name appears in them more than anyone else, in 1,628 documents. couriernewsroom.com/news/we-crea...

Anyone who’s ever used emergency contraception or gains peace of mind by even having it on hand owes Dr Camp a debt of gratitude. What a force. (Also, I just learned one reason the FDA rejected it at first was that they said the name Plan B was too glib!) Great obit—no paywall.

Um, this would flat-out destroy multiple areas of research. Is that the intent here?

What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck? It's the Pope in 1982.

Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.

By cutting surveys of public health, the US government won't be able to properly tackle problems ranging from drug addiction to food insecurity

Still an all-time classic! 🐋💥

Consequences of our retreat from foreign assistance and global health: #MedSky #HealthPolicy

Deep-sea mining starves life in the ocean’s twilight zone www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202... 🦑🌎🧪

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

The man who ended USAID is the world's first trillionaire

We are choosing to have expensive energy so rich people can get richer.

Study: Demographic shifts will fuel increase in drug-resistant bloodstream infections in Europe The modeling study predicts the rate of drug-resistant BSIs will rise sharply in Europe over the next 5 years, driven primarily by an aging population. www.cidrap.umn.edu/a...

Can we call tonight the Ballroom Blowout?

Walmart and McDonald’s are among the top employers of workers who rely on food stamps. McDonald's CEO raked in $18.2M last year — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay. Walmart's CEO pocketed $27.4M — 930x the company's median employee pay. See the problem?

For any unfamiliar with the quality of journalism at Teen Vogue, it's well known for hard-hitting stories on "politically sensitive" topics including climate. Then there's CBS: the only major network to increase climate coverage in the last few years. They just axed nearly their whole climate team.

The USDA sent an email to grocery stores telling them they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the SNAP funding lapse. I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email

In what's become an annual NYC Marathon tradition, here's a repost of something I wrote in 2013 back when blogging was still a thing and my daughter was much younger. "Why does it take a marathon for us to make a street for people? Why aren’t we doing this in every neighborhood every weekend?"

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After having been car-dependent for nearly 20 years, I am absolutely loving living in a 15 minute city I honestly have no idea why anyone* would be against being able to walk everywhere *unless you were beholden to the petrochemical industry of course

The federal agency SAMHSA funds programs focused on suicide prevention, teen alcohol use, opioid addiction treatment, and school-based mental health, among others. Amid a continued addiction and mental health crisis, it's being stripped of power: www.statnews.com/2025/10/30/s...?

Drivers will never stop being takers unless we make them pay what car infrastructure actually costs.

NEW: The entire staff supporting ACIP was laid off, and most working groups haven't met in months. That means the US may not make routine vaccine recommendations for more than half of children in 2026, and it could halt new vaccines in the pipeline. My latest: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

A traffic jam in a pivotal wilderness area that's full of animals, including bears. A regular occurrence for that area and emblematic of a real issue: Where does your right to view wildlife end and the wildlife's right to just go about their lives without interference or constant stress begin?

One food bank in Virginia saw a 65% increase in visitors since last year, more than at the height of the pandemic. “We thought it would come back down and it hasn’t,” the food bank’s chief philanthropy officer said. “It keeps growing.” (Published Oct. 3)

Measles is back Whooping cough is back Now, diphtheria is staging a return with large outbreaks now in Somalia, Sudan, Yemen and Chad — countries with civil wars or large populations of refugees where vaccination coverage is low... www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/h... @stephanienolen.bsky.social

Keep this in mind when people claim cars mean business — closing Central Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY. There was also a 71% drop in air pollution. Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople

Obama and his dog in the East Colonnade, now destroyed.

Despite a widespread and growing consensus that child marriage should be banned, a majority of U.S. states still allow the practice.