NEW: CDC’s chief blocked a covid vaccine study. Now it’s in a top medical journal. The study in JAMA Network Open used the same methodology that CDC’s Jay Bhattacharya criticized when the paper was not allowed to be published in CDC’s MMWR. My story. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

Doctors treating Ebola patients in the DRC say the symptoms may be milder than in previous outbreaks of the disease. That is good news for patients, but may make it harder to control the outbreak. 🎁 🔗 www.nytimes.com/2026/06/23/h...

Oof. "It's 'money out of politics' unless it's a medical debt collector funding his personal super PAC—including this ad." Look, if El Sayed wins the primary I'll both vote for & raise money for him, but it's the HYPOCRISY which pisses me off. (another $200,000 was donated by...his father in law)

Trans rights are human rights. Black rights are human rights. Jewish rights are human rights. This goes for everybody. Democrats must not abandon the vulnerable, and they MUST remember their base.

He definitely had objections about sending Iran money as he didn't want to be worse than Obama. So someone told him "That's the trick! The money belongs to us!" And that worked long enough to get him to sign thinking he had done another perfidy. But then the Strait will close :(

So the US will release the money to Trump who pinky-promises to give them to Iran, someday, maybe.

the theme of this season is u cant escape your true reflection

i do find the imagery of pouring endless, unnecessary money into a corroded mirror of rancid water a little heavy handed

SCOTUS today: BIG losses for human rights & government accountability, both 6-3. The Senate controls the make-up of scotus and its farm system. Tell me again that it's ok if Susan Collins wins because we can still take back the Senate without Maine. (No it's not, and we can't afford to risk it.)

I’ve been reporting on Christian nationalism for decades but God dared to discipline me with a ride down James Dobson’s three-story Jesus tube slide—that’s not a euphemism, you pervert, & yes I really did slide—and now here I am with my new podcast. Refunds available for all my previous books.

UN’S SHIPPING AGENCY SAYS EVACUATION PLAN FOR 11,000 SEAFARERS ONBOARD 500-600 SHIPS STRANDED IN THE GULF IS UNDERWAY

Important to note too that the racial wealth gap is very large, very stable, and not going anywhere. It basically only falls temporarily during recessions because white families have an asset portfolio more subject to market cyclical forces. It generally bounces back quickly.

4. Ignore the rules, reminding people why the rules exist: Trump invoked an exemption from procurement rules for situations involving the risk of “serious injury, financial or other, to the government.” In the end, the only injury has been to Trump's ego. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-the-r...

EXCLUSIVE: Eli Lilly gave compassionate use access to retatrutide, their unapproved powerful obesity drug, to a 79-year-old man in April. The application was arranged by a top doctor at NIH, and cleared by the FDA. www.statnews.com/2026/06/23/e...

New book from my new @notus.com colleague.

⚠️ Speaker Ghalibaf of Iran and the Sultan of Oman met and issued a joint statement: “The Sultanate of Oman and the Islamic Republic of Iran reaffirmed their commitment to maintaining the Strait of Hormuz as a secure and open waterway for international navigation.“

Important to note in the joint statement from Iran and Oman are the references to “services” and “costs.” The commodification of safe transit through the Strait of Hormuz is being codified.

Trump says peace in Lebanon without Israel or Hezbollah agreeing. Like a Gaza deal without Israelis or Palestinians. Or a US-Russia deal without the Ukrainians. And in Afghanistan by cutting out the Afghan govt. Peace without the combatants keeps failing. Unsurprisingly. My latest, in @ms.now:

Who could have known?

Just as we will struggle for at least a decade post Trump. Bad decisons have consequences. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/23/b...

Very dangerous.

"Unorthodox" is quite the euphemism here. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/21/u...

These (abstract) simulations by Rand show that you can make some headway closing the *median* racial wealth gap with a universal/race-neutral program that increases transfers to low-wealth households (like baby bonds) but this will do almost nothing for the *mean* gap. www.rand.org/pubs/researc...

Side Effect xkcd.com/3261/

No—blue books, in-class exams, locked down browsers, etc. won't fix this. Nothing will replace the research, reading, thinking, organizing, writing, and revising skills that students developed through the good old fashioned research essay that has been the core of higher ed for countless decades.

They're saying the quiet part out loud now. Jenny Maxwell, head of education for Grammarly/Superhuman: “We’re doing a huge pedagogical upheaval in education,” she said, calling it a “burn it down moment. We’re just in the early stages.” Burn down higher ed without any plan to rebuilt. Gift link.

What these shitbirds do not care about is that a healthy population does, in fact, yield financial benefits to society as a whole. But not enough of it will go to their crooked friends, so this is their solution, at the expense of everyone else. Our taxes are going to further enrich rich men.

A recent study reveals that the #HPV #vaccine significantly reduces cervical cancer mortality to nearly zero in women under 30. The vaccine has saved over 200 young women's lives in England. www.skepticalraptor.com/skepticalrap...

Dewey decimal system. #FinalAnswer But watch the 921s

icymi @aselrod.bsky.social "Will the tyrannical emotional state that brought us the war now be applied inside the United States? ... Hegseth’s view of war also has to do with primal urges, which he expresses in terms of God and the male body."

Sometimes symbolic victories matter. And for a community of LGBTQ Floridians in Miami Beach, restoring their rainbow sidewalk demolished by Gov. Ron DeSantis is a huge victory. @citizencohn.bsky.social goes to Miami Beach to speak with members of the community and explore the city's history.

Say what you want about the Trump Administration, they certainly now how to surrender with swagger.

Another administration abuse of authority, corruption of law, and waste of public resources collapses Judge is a George W. Bush appointee who clerked for the late Supreme Court Justice Scalia & mentored Justice Amy Coney Barrett app.startribune.com/story/601860...

Babe wake up, new Mozart just dropped. (Did I read that right?)

Musk doesn’t care how many people die, he will never admit he was wrong about LiDAR.

Watch as a shadow causes Tesla self-driving v14.3.4 to swerve onto the wrong side of the road, forcing the driver to disengage! Elon Musk’s defective software should be banned from public roads.

“At least 5 data labelers, whose job was to comb through hours of FSD footage to train the vehicle's software to avoid past mistakes, told Reuters they routinely saw Teslas driving above the speed limit, an issue which engineers & managers treated like a low-priority compared to edge-case issues.”🫣

Happy #MapMonday! A BETTER WORLD WAS POSSIBLE.

"And yet, faced with the plainly and painfully disastrous results of America’s addiction to hitherto cheap fracked oil and gas, so-called moderates are wringing their handkerchiefs and suggesting maybe we should build more fossil pipelines." prospect.org/2026/06/22/a...

Pretty much! No shortcuts!

"There was a time when people used to think of Marco Rubio as a sort of reformist Republican. Now he is walking around in oversized shoes because Trump bought them for him. My God."

A federal judge who has reviewed a slew of subpoenas issued to Minnesota Gov Walz and a series of other prominent Democrats has concluded that this was all part of an act of peevish retaliation over their criticism of Trump's ICE crackdown in Minnesota and has quashed the subpoenas.

#Messi That is all.

china did it with rare earths. iran did it with the strait of hormuz. use a critical chokepoint once and the world starts building around you. @gzeromedia.com

⚠️ IRGC-affiliated outlet Tasnim says Bessent’s assertion that IAEA inspectors will be permitted entry into Iran has NOT been confirmed by the Iranian negotiating team or other officials in Iran:

⚠️ US Treasury has issued an Iran oil waiver. The 60-day sanctions waiver authorizes the production, delivery, and sale of Iranian oil through August 21st.

I mean, while I don't disagree with the objective finding that moderation can add to the vote margin in battleground states and districts, the vast majority of contention in the US party system remain driven around racial and economic cleavages, not social ones: shifting on policy may win...

Another example of judges citing each other on how to deal with politically abusive prosecutions—here, Schiltz is quoting Boasberg's ruling quashing Jeanine Pirro's subpoenas to Powell