There has not been a grocery store in the small Mississippi Delta town of Drew in 11 years. The nearest grocery store is a 20-minute drive to Cleveland, forcing residents like Melinda Davis to make a 40-minute commute to access fresh food. buff.ly/g1gSdiz

NEW: While so much attention is being paid to possible *causes* of autism, states are starting to cut funding on *treatment* for kids who already have it. I wanted to know why. Read my latest with @arjonesreports.bsky.social www.npr.org/sections/sho...

!! there's now a wiki page for reactionary centrism en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactio...

"My transgender patients are trying to get by, day by day. They’re trying to survive." ICYMI my interview with John Weiser, a former CDC official who resigned after refusing to comply with orders. @assignedmedia.org via @kffhealthnews.org www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

“The minute you try to make a capitalistic organization become a social justice organization, that’s when you are going to fail.” This piece by Jason Parham @wired.com is so worth your time. www.wired.com/story/dei-di...

NEW: Here's the searing tale of one woman's struggle to feed her family after the Trump Administration imposed a man-made food crisis. Beautifully written by Brett Murphy & @annamaria.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Cholera deaths are nightmarish & pathetically easy to prevent - clean water & antibiotics. The US has condemned people to horrible, gory deaths while saving taxpayers next to nothing, or nothing at all.

"Detainees were forced to eat while shackled with their hands behind their backs. 'We had to bend over and eat off the chairs with our mouths, like dogs,' said Chauhan, a British entrepreneur who had been detained by ICE at a regular immigration appointment. " @hrw.org www.hrw.org/news/2025/07...

Yah I’ve just done this except the sources are real, the location of the sources are wrong, the content of sources incorrectly interpreted So is it fully slop or just slop-adjacent

"They needed less than $20 mil to fund lifesaving health programs, including cholera response efforts, for 3 months — an eighth of what Trump recently approved to buy private jets for one cabinet secretary." Awful, important story by @annamaria.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/usai...

John Weiser, who resigned after 14 years at CDC, told @amymaxmen.bsky.social he was told he couldn't publish findings involving trans people: "it’s bad science to suppress data for ideologic reasons and because erasing people from the story harms actual people." kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

An HIV doctor quit the CDC when they insisted on censoring his research by removing data on trans people. This interview peels back the curtain of how anti-trans ideology figured into the Trump administration's war on science. Republished from @kffhealthnews.org, written by @amymaxmen.bsky.social.

This #HIV Expert Refused To Censor Data, Then Quit the #CDC @amymaxmen.bsky.social @kffhealthnews.org

Dr Weiser an HIV expert refused to censor CDC data about transgender people and ultimately left the agency rather than erase a community from the record. 🏳️‍⚧️ kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

🧵My talk w/John Weiser, an HIV expert & doctor who resigned from CDC after refusing to censor data. "I thought about my transgender patients and how I would face them...knowing that I had erased their existence from CDC." kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

Nuzzi on Trump: "[Trump’s] hand was so soft that it felt almost wet. My father had just died. I thought of his hands...Trump looked me up and down. 'Very young and very beautiful,' he said." @scaachi.bsky.social read Nuzzi's book, so we don't have to. scaachi.substack.com/p/olivia-nuz...

“My hopes for a natural delivery were shattered all for six YouTube videos at $800 each. None of those shots aired. I was never informed [by the New York Times] why, but can only assume that it would have been a bad look to open the episodes with a sweaty, heavily pregnant woman about to pass out.”

The United States is poised to lose its measles-free status next year. If that happens, more children will be hospitalized because of this preventable disease. Some will lose their hearing. Some will die. Measles also costs hundreds of thousands dollars to treat. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

More than 70 vultures found dead on athletic fields in Ohio. They most likely died from bird flu. This isn't going away. www.wlwt.com/article/dead...

RFK may make measles common again. More kids will be hospitalized, some will lose hearing, some will die. A comeback will be costly. A study estimates that an outbreak w/2 cases is >$240,000. An outbreak the size of West Texas' is estimated around $12.6 million. www.texastribune.org/2025/12/05/t...

Scientists are conducting genetic analyses to see if the measles outbreak that started in Texas is still spreading from state to state. The findings may determine whether America loses its measles-free status. @amymaxmen.bsky.social reports ⤵️ kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

RFK may make measles common again. More kids will be hospitalized, some will lose hearing, some will die. A comeback will be costly. A study estimates that an outbreak w/2 cases is >$240,000. An outbreak the size of West Texas' is estimated around $12.6 million. www.texastribune.org/2025/12/05/t...

CDC's @drdebhoury.bsky.social calls on Congress to act. "It is a purposeful reshaping of CDC away from evidence-based practice & toward ideology-driven governance...I did not resign to make a symbolic point. I resigned because staying silent would have made me complicit." time.com/7338714/dr-d...

My latest: On the science of measles elimination. “It will be quite a stain on the Kennedy regime,” said @drdemetre.bsky.social “I think they will do everything they can to cast doubt on scientific findings, even if it means throwing scientists under the bus.” kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

RFK laid out his plans to wreck vaccine science & policy in books, speeches, podcasts & films before becoming Health Secretary. @sherylnyt.bsky.social & @by-cjewett.bsky.social track how he's succeeding in impressive detail. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u... eg:

Rand Paul just posted this letter from the Coast Guard confirming that 1/4 of the boats they stop carry no contraband. The likelihood that Hegseth & Bradley ordered the murder of innocent civilians is very high.

Remember, Tracy Beth Hoeg, who will likely present the VAERS data on COVID vaccines in kids to ACIP is a quack. She peddles "orthobiologic platelet rich plasma, proliferative therapy such as dextrose as well as bone marrow aspirate."

A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social

Honestly, when there is a reporter on the story with the expertise to say it, they can simply say it. Some things are just true. Like "FDA offical makes unprecedented claim, with no evidence, that Covid vaccines killed children." Nothing here needs an "experts say" to back it.

The numbers in here are hilarious. Do you use AI on the job? Execs: 87% Managers: 57% Workers: 27% Planned investment by 2030: $5T "Necessary" annual revenue to justify that spend: $650B Current annual revenue: $50B

Public health funds have been cut and frozen across the U.S. abcnews.go.com/Health/red-t...

An Iranian professor on a visa was arrested for being Iranian at the airport, and detained for 3 days. Incredibly chilling to see this happening in my own country.

Since 2005, the number of wild and domesticated birds H5N1 has killed is greater than the combined human populations of the U.S. and Russia. On this week's episode, why this version of avian influenza won’t go away. bigpicturescience.org/episodes/flu...

If you're looking to support journalism, particularly science journalism, I can't think of a better place to give. The Open Notebook builds community and could really use the support.

On Friday, Washington reported that the person hospitalized with the bird flu H5N5 has died. The CDC's bird flu tracker hasn't updated to include the death. I haven't seen a press release. Last year, that would have at least been scheduled by now. doh.wa.gov/newsroom/gra...

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Republicans increasingly oppose requiring healthy kids to get MMR vaccines to attend public schools 2016 19% 2019 20% 2023 42% 2025 47% www.pewresearch.org/science/2025... 🧪

it’s weird knowing we all read the same disgusting document

Now that’s a lede. Story by @taracopp.bsky.social and @michelleboorstein.bsky.social. Read here: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

HEADS UP: CDC website now officially asserts that vaccines may cause autism.“Studies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities.” Also says the “vaccines do not cause autism” header remains b/c of an agreement with Cassidy.

The CDC tracker now says 960+ people exposed to H5 (usually farmworkers) have been tested since March 2024. So 80 people were tested in the last few days, or the tracker wasn't updating for some time. (I'd guess the latter) Glad to see SOME testing. Unfortunately, the tracker may not be reliable.

I’ve been tracking and writing about Brownstone since December 2021 and it’s really validating to see these pieces. Solid write-up from KFF on its influence. One thing left out: The group helped steer the GOP House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic long before Trump took office.

The Brownstone Institute, whose members now run US health policy, is funded by a subset of people who support prominent groups in conservative politics, such as the Federalist Society and the Heritage Foundation. By @rachanadpradhan.bsky.social kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

Anti-abortion laws are sentencing women to death. www.propublica.org/article/texa...

I spoke with the Boston Globe about the Summers situation TLDR: other professors like myself can no longer trust Summers to perform a key duty of a university professor, which is to advise & mentor students www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/18/m...

This is such a great read.

We've got a MASSIVE DEEP-DIVE rebuttal to the NIH leadership’s recent essay. They're arguing for a head-in-the-sand approach to pandemic preparedness. The great @angierasmussen.bsky.social joins me in an extraordinarily detailed, line-by-line fact check. insidemedicine.substack.com/p/a-rebuttal...

NEW: An Irish tourist visiting the US was jailed by ICE for 3 months after overstaying 3 days due to medical issue. Thomas agreed to be deported, but instead went to federal prison where he recounted horrific conditions + no medical care. “Nobody's safe from the system if they get pulled into it"

"Watson’s legacy can — and should be — that the very science his research and leadership enabled disproves his own unfortunate and simplistic view of the human condition." From @cbo.bsky.social & @sramach.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/14/o...

“In Texas, CDC funds to stem a measles outbreak weren’t available until after the crisis had subsided and two children had died. A project to protect Alabamans from raw sewage and hookworm was abandoned…Time-dependent surveys on HIV and maternal mortality were halted…”