Prison guards: - Watched a woman experiencing psychosis gouge out her own eyeballs. - Ignored a man’s beeping insulin pump for more than 24 hours before he died. - Left a man sitting in his own feces not eating for weeks, he lost 60 lbs before he died. All in San Diego County, last ~5 years.

Inside the New Fast Track to a Presidential Pardon Even some of the president’s closest advisers have been surprised by a number of the recent series of pardons. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Trump order blocking state AI laws could slow health AI adoption, leave patients vulnerable State laws offer providers some guidance and protect patients in the absence of comprehensive federal AI laws www.statnews.com/2025/12/12/t...

STAT reports departures of multiple FDA digital health leaders. The transition may affect near term guidance priorities and industry expectations for clinical AI oversight. www.statnews.com/2025/12/17/f...

Remarkable how brutal the ruling against Trump on Abrego Garcia truly is: It details flagrant and malicious abuses of power all throughout. Trump and Stephen Miller were testing their ability to spread lawless state terror. But the court held the line. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2043...

Trump’s strategy is to be so corrupt, dishonest, and hypocritical that people eventually stop calling him out

@covertshores.bsky.social what’s up with Japanese subs? x.com/pati_marins6...

Goodhart's Law, transplant edition even when gaming the system involves invasive medical procedures www.statnews.com/2025/12/01/o...

Impeach RFKjr, he is a danger to our health who lied during his confirmation hearings

The square antenna on the top of the fuselage of this Russian jet-powered Geran (Shahed) drone looks like Starlink (?)

The ultra-conservative, polyamorous homosexual billionaire Peter Thiel is a bit of a hypocrite when he claims that the Pope is a tool of the Antichrist because he is not conservative enough. ‘Do as I say, not as I do’ is probably Thiel’s favorite sentence

$474M in now tax exempt investments

RFK Jr. and Jay Bhattacharya must resign

MAGA: Children shouldn’t learn about slavery. Also MAGA: We’re reinstalling this monument of a confederate general who fought to preserve slavery.

Long overdue, noise cameras using technology and steep fines to combat roaring engines and blasting radios www.wsj.com/us-news/new-...

The. comments section gives a useful window into the editorial policies of the NY Times. Not what they contain, but what they censor. Sure ways to get your comment nuked, call Trump: - corrupt - senile or question his mental acuity - mention his age and infirmity Sorry, but the NYT supports him

The Department of Justice is pretending it needed to talk to notorious liar Ghislaine Maxwell to know the truth about Jeffrey Epstein, when it is concealing thousands of documents about him that don’t lie. It’s a sick farce.

The human cost of China's chemical warfare attack on the US. Fentanyl is very tightly regulated in China, but they turn a blind eye or worse on exporting fentanyl and precursors to the West www.mlive.com/news/kalamaz...

Gilead to provide HIV prevention drug to 2 million people in lower income countries at cost Agreement with Global Fund does not include PEPFAR, reflecting Trump’s cuts to foreign aid www.statnews.com/pharmalot/20...

Little known, America was a British penal colony. During the 17th and 18th Centuries, tens of thousands of convicts were sent to the colonies as indentured labor. England only started using Australia when the Revolutionary War closed American ports podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

Public schools have been one of America's great strengths. The Trump administration continues its war on the fabric of our society. Trump administration withholding $157M in funding for Michigan schools www.detroitnews.com/story/news/e...

Sad that it has come to this. Personal threats and vandalism are not free speech. University of Michigan regents, execs get 24-hour security as threats, harassment persist www.detroitnews.com/story/news/l...

Human intelligence is the result of millions of years of biological evolution to create systems that can live and work with each other. AIs have none of that. In essence AIs are sociopaths. The Monster Inside ChatGPT www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...

The costs of gun violence we too often ignore. Security guard suffered a shattered tibia and will be out of work for months, may well end up with a permanent disability. Deacon lost his truck. GoFundMe efforts set up for 2 heroes who prevented mass church shooting www.freep.com/story/news/l...

Alert parishioner and a security guard averted a mass murder. Authorities said Browning was armed with an AR-15 style rifle, more than a dozen fully loaded magazines, a semi-automatic handgun with an extended magazine, and hundreds of rounds of ammunition. www.detroitnews.com/story/news/l...

Unreliable expensive energy. Michigan's electric utilities need to get their act together instead of asking for yet another big rate increase. www.mlive.com/environment/...

Nissan Leaf, on road since 2009 and best sold EV model worldwide on 1-1-2020: zero (!) people burned alive 27 fire victims in the cheap Ford Pinto half a century ago, "worst fire hazard car ever in automotive history" And now 138+ burned alive in a Tesla: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Americans want and deserve secure borders and control over immigration, but as we clean up the mess of decades of failed border policy, we need ways to recognize people who have contributed to society and not caused trouble www.mlive.com/public-inter...

Cutting primary care access by cutting Medicaid will drive people into ERs, the least efficient way to deliver care. Bad policy. Hospital ERs will be overwhelmed if $800 billion Medicaid cut passes, doctors warn www.mlive.com/news/ann-arb...

Here's the CBO's analysis: www.cbo.gov/publication/...

The Trump regime has quietly shut down the only federal agency that investigates industrial chemical explosions. Hazardous chemical accidents happen in the US just about every other day. Eliminating the US Chemical Safety & Hazard Investigation Board will come at a huge cost to safety—and lives👇

It’s always fun when the “anti government paranoia” switch gets flipped to the “actually we love our armed agents of the state, don’t we folks” side

Amy Klobuchar (who got Mike Lee to take down his hateful tweets) speaking now. www.c-span.org/event/us-sen...

I worry about the disabling effects of the viruses RFK Jr wants to let run rampant Long Covid surpassed asthma to become the most common chronic illness in children Measles & polio both disable at an alarming rate What will happen to these kids under a Regime that devalues disabled lives?

Geological hydrogen could drive an energy revolution, and Michigan is positioned to be a leader www.freep.com/story/news/l...

Michigan Republican House proposed 65% cut in state funding for @UMich Ann Arbor. This is a terrible idea. The Ann Arbor campus has been an engine of innovation for the Michigan economy and attracts many talented people to our state. www.mlive.com/politics/202...

The apps are being distributed nationally. Where are the FBI and FCC? Why are we relying on state Attorneys General to file lawsuits blocking foreign actors putting malware in apps? www.wsj.com/opinion/nebr...

Prasad has promised several times that new vaccine RCTs will be done by spring 2026. If they are not, I’m not blaming drug companies. I’m blaming him & our medical establishment. Is their job to deliver results for us. Let’s hold them accountable. 🧵 m.youtube.com/watch?v=1SII...

Today RFK Jr took the single biggest step towards destroying childhood vaccines When @nytimes asked me in December whether RFK could kill the vaccine program - I said he’d have to remove CDCs ACIP And… that’s exactly what he just did today Not good-just like that we cannot trust CDC on vaccines

It was a public waterway before they built the dam. Why should building a dam to generate their own electricity give them the right to exclude the public now? [sorry, paywalled :(] www.mlive.com/environment/...

Anecdotal, but I'm definitely noticing an uptick in advocacy for violence here. About which I'll say only this: Promoting violence on social media is the work of trolls and fools, those eager to bait others into implicating themselves in the age of surveillance or fools rushing to the gulag.

In today’s Vatnik Soup, I’ll talk about Finland and how pro-Kremlin propagandists have become more active in the Finnish political space since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. For the first time since 2022, they’ve gained some political power in Finland. 1/16

▪️In the fall of 2022,Ukraine faced relentless drone attacks from Russian forces using Iranian-made Shahed drones.In response,Ukrainian engineers developed Sky Fortress—a nationwide network of acoustic sensors that tracks drones by sound

This exchange is revealing, terrifying, and intellectually bankrupt. No world leader would ever want to enter a room to deal with this guy because he's a crank.

Had a call with trump for 1 hour and 15 mins. Apparently "The Art of the Deal" lets me do whatever I want.

Nice to have it reopen, but renovating a news stand should not take 5 years. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Remember when we used to think it was a good idea that America educated world leaders? It still is. Harvard Has Trained So Many Chinese Communist Officials, They Call It Their ‘Party School’ www.wsj.com/world/china/...