Another reason to keep cats indoors… www.iflscience.com/for-the-firs...

Measles is a vaccine preventable illness. Canada lost its measles elimination status in 2025 in part due to rising numbers of people refusing to get vaccinated. Traveling for the World Cup? Get your booster! Also, wear a mask! N95s are very effective at preventing airborne disease transmission:

Superb piece. It wasn’t the landfill site. MT @jvipondmd.bsky.social

Get your vaccines and boosters, people. We don’t want these deadly diseases of old coming back

speaking of corruption... that IRS lawsuit was a beauty and now this... abcnews.com/US/trump-poi...

My latest piece for @atrupar.com Public Notice focuses on Trump’s lying lackeys and why their lies may be worse than his. Please read, share, and support PN: open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...

The gist: Georgia Senate minority leader Harold Jones II reacted to the news of Georgia’s special session for redistricting by saying: “If Republicans ever used their power to help Georgians, they wouldn’t have to waste time and money redrawing the maps every few years to keep their majorities. /1

Women should not have to choose between building a career and building a family. Policies that make it harder for women to access advanced education are policies that undermine equality.

New from me: Five years ago, I criticized a San Francisco TV reporter for getting her facts wrong. Ever since, she and her allies have alleged that I was part of a conspiracy to end her career. That narrative just got a boost with her new book, which is being promoted by some powerful tech people.

The only response to this is "Mr. President, your people aren't telling you the truth." It won't change anything but at least it'll be on the record, and the press corps will have shown the slightest sign of a spine.

Just...I need everyone to realize how far we have fallen. This is, like, the sixth thing Trump said in this presser that would have been career-ending for any politician of 20 years ago.

Still funny that in the year of our lord 2026, reporters are still asking Trump questions like he knows what they’re talking about

No sitting justice on the Georgia Supreme Court has lost a reelection race in over 100 years. But on Tuesday, two liberal attorneys are challenging two GOP-appointed justices.

Inflation is at a three-year high. Everything costs more — groceries, gas, healthcare, a plane ticket. The math is simple. Every American dollar spent overseas on war is a dollar that could’ve been spent here at home to pay for a dignified life. It's time we change the equation.

Here's a list of Democrats you should never trust or vote for again. The idea of criminalizing bail funds is so unbelievably anti-democratic that it should be enough to force these dirtbags to resign immediately.

Debunking Prasad, like dunking on a 7 foot hoop.

COVID-19 death toll far higher than official numbers, says WHO "The World Health Organisation estimates that the COVID-19 pandemic caused 22.1 million excess deaths globally between 2020 and 2023. The figure is more than 3 times higher than the officially reported 7 million COVID deaths worldwide"

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

I hate to keep asking because I don’t want to know the answer but where is Bobby getting all this semen from minors to enumerate all this sperm?

It's a scandal involving a Tennessee congressman that just won't seem to go away because his stories keep changing. Now, multiple donors tell NewsChannel 5 they have one question for Andy Ogles: “What did you do with the money?” www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...

As someone pointed out to me offline, this is a really funny typo in Alito’s mifepristone dissent: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

ICE flights. Wednesday, May 13, 2026. (Yes, that is a Myanmar deportation. Those people were very likely tortured on arrival.)

to criminalize **bail funds** fucking garbage people.

A UFC fight on the White House lawn. Trump-branded coins and passports. Religious rallies declaring the nation “under God.” America’s 250th anniversary is increasingly being reshaped into a spectacle of political loyalty, Christian nationalism, and presidential glorification. Read more:

The wrongdoing appears to be not allowing a mob to ransack the Capitol, likely resulting in the murder of duly elected lawmakers attempting to fulfill their constitutional duties.

My guess is that the percentage of Americans who are aware that we are blockading and immiserating a neighboring country is in the single digits. Its not an invasion, but involves the use of American military force with the intent of collapsing the government.

Now this is medieval.

A pardon's not enough: Trump wants to take taxpayer money and pay off the J6ers. This account told you Jan 6 was a critical point, and that if it wasn't fully prosecuted, up to the organizers, they'd try again. That all came true. Those who tried to overthrow democracy on Jan 6 are still trying. 1/

Exciting stuff! “Ensitrelvir administered to household contacts of a patient with Covid-19 within 72 hours after symptom onset in the index patient was effective in preventing Covid-19 in the contacts.” Covid incidence in the ensitrelvir group was 2.9% compared to 9.0% for placebo (RR 0.33).

Justice Alito complaining about the Court granting a stay without any reasoning is, shall we say, rich? He's been in the majority in scores of such cases, many involving elections.

I am proud to share that three of the songs you helped nominate were selected to be inducted into the prestigious National Recording Registry at the Library of Congress—“Mambo No. 5” by Pérez Prado, “Texas Flood” by Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble, and “Feliz Navidad” by José Feliciano.

wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

Oh f*ck off. We would all be a hell of a lot better if we spoke multiple languages. Still pisses me off that my immigrant Italian family was ashamed of speaking Italian outside of the home.

I can say this for Alito his ability to be pissy little bitch is unrivaled peerless in the little bitch field

I can hear his voice when I read it. And I worry for my brain function

Alito in Dobbs: we’re just leaving it to the states Alito in Danco: NOT LIKE THAT

States’ rights is the doctrine that says the states can be more authoritarian than the federal government but not less authoritarian.

It's widely accepted that hantavirus transmits from rodent excreta to humans via inhalation of aerosolized virus, so I don't understand why we're so reluctant to acknowledge the inhalation route for human-to-human transmission. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/14/h...

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed an HIV vaccine candidate that achieves something never before observed in the field: inducing detectable neutralizing antibodies (nAbs) against HIV within just THREE weeks after a SINGLE immunization which was further INCREASED after an additional booster.

A giant framed picture of the @thejan6plaque.bsky.social Should be sent to his office.

So is remake a synonymn for re-segregate, I guess it technically is. Don't worry, all their decisions are only lightly racially tinged, it would be gauche to suggest (whispers almost inaudibly) racism.

Spot on, from @linseymarr.bsky.social, as always: --> “I don’t understand why we are so reluctant to acknowledge the inhalation route when we’re talking about person-to-person transmission" [1/2] www.nytimes.com/2026/05/14/h...

Cool, so NSF is now going to be used to essentially launder money to tech bros because universities are just too cumbersome and disciplinary oversight and regulations and accountability are all just too stifling for innovation. $1.5B for “X-Labs.”

As I noted last Monday, Justice Alito is the only justice who regularly imposes deadlines on his administrative stays—which he only does when he doesn’t like the applicants, and which *always* causes this kind of unnecessary drama as we approach his (totally arbitrary) cut-offs:

In 2017, Criselda Vasquez painted this portrait of her parents and titled it "The New American Gothic." Last month, her father, the man in this portrait, was abducted by ICE after being in the US for 30+ years. The family is now struggling with bills. A GoFundMe has been started: gofund.me/456d8a193

Temporary stay that keeps abortion pill available by mail dissolves at 5pm if SCOTUS doesn't act. Clock ticking.

Trump is still painting the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, racing to finish before a court can stop him. He skipped every legally required environmental and historic preservation review to get here.