I would like to live in a world in which Robert De Niro is Chair of the FCC.

Kimmel: "Disney has asked me to read the following statement and I agreed to do it. 'To reactivate your Disney+ and Hulu account ... '"

“Our president celebrates hundreds of people losing their livelihoods because he can’t take a joke.” — Jimmy Kimmel (He’s killing it.)

I don’t know who’s had a weirder 48 hours — me or the CEO of Tylenol.” — Jimmy Kimmel

everyone else in the admin over the last couple days: what are you talking about, there was no attempted government censorship, stop fearmongering trump: I’m gonna sue them for putting kimmel back on the air

As the psychiatric units of nonprofit hospitals close (likely increasingly given hospitals’ worsened financial strains under OBBBA), we’ll see the growing dominance of these deeply problematic for-profit behavioral health centers. (See, e.g., Universal Health Services, rife with DOJ investigations)

Another word for that is kidnapping.

If you've followed the acetaminophen saga, then you've probably heard Trump officials cite a "Harvard study" purportedly proving the autism link In which case, you might want to read this article about the Harvard professor behind it www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/h...

Whatever happens with this race, don’t ever let anyone get away with telling you that your vote doesn’t matter.

I’m sorry but Acyn is burying the lede here that they both refer to Miller as a “sexual matador.”

"A pretty little place in Southern California, down San Diego way." (Happy birthday, Bruce!)

I know some of the Chotiner interviews are slow burns, but this one went off the rails for me in the intro www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

A couple weeks ago, these blowdried chucklefucks were "joking" about how they should reclaim the word Nazi and now they're "joking" about blowing up the UN or gassing the foreign leaders inside. But they didn't say anything questionable about Charlie Kirk, so no big deal.

Thrilled that my copy of Rural Versus Urban arrived in the mail today. Big congrats to @smettler.bsky.social and Trevor Brown! I can hardly wait to read it.

My late friend Amy would have turned 40 today. She shared a birthday with my favorite musician, Bruce Springsteen (Bruuuuce!). In honor of both of them, please enjoy her acoustic cover of "Dancing in the Dark." www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVo1...

And is this you doing your job?

Lmaooooooo

Quelle surprise

Where are these men? As of the end of August, two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July can't be found. They were removed from federal tracking. The gulag shut down and the men vanished. Why isn't Congress demanding answers?

Me: US New rankings are bullshit and we shouldn't obsess over them. Also me: Hell yes, UC Berkeley is back to being the #1 public university! GO BEARS! 💙💛🐻

When John Yoo is saying what you’re doing is unconstitutional…

Happy Bruce Springsteen’s birthday! Bruuuuuce!

A pop up box on Tylenol dot com

ACOG reaffirms that acetaminophen is safe for managing pain and fever during pregnancy. No reputable studies support suggestions like those in HHS’s recent announcement linking acetaminophen use in pregnancy to autism; in fact, high-quality studies show no such risk. https://bit.ly/47Wxc59

Go Bruins 💙💛

My man David Byrne released a new album this month

How many Schedule 1 substances must be consumed in order to understand these words? The number certainly is not zero.

Update: Maude seems to be doing better. I also caught a fun pic mid-meow.

Well, there it is. Sinclair is digging in for a fight, so please help push back -- find stations in your area, watch their local news to see what ads they run, then write those advertisers to tell them you're boycotting as long as they're on a Sinclair station. List here: sbgi.net/tv-stations/

Of the five men at that press conference, none were obstetrician gynecologists, toxicologists, infectious disease experts or pain medicine specialists. www.statnews.com/2025/09/22/t... via @statnews.com

There's a wrong way and a right way to report this

Are we sure this is fake news?

Oh look, it’s the people running our government.

These findings in the new Washington Post poll jump off the page: Trump is underwater by 19 points on his handling of the economy (40/59) and underwater by 30 points on his handling of tariffs. By contrast, the same poll found him at +14 net approval on the economy in Oct. 2020.

Having flashbacks to the pandemic-era pushing of hydroxychloroquine as a COVID treatment.

I’m glad Jimmy’s back. But Brendan Carr still needs to resign. www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/j...

"Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." Looking forward to seeing Jimmy back on the air.

I'm quoted here on an issue I've been raising for years now: the dire economic implications of democratic decline. Business has been painfully slow to recognize the risks --- so it is really, really good to see business reporters covering the story.

It was a real treat to get to connect with such an esteemed group of health politics/policy/law scholars for my first editorial board meeting with JHPPL. And I'm so excited about @sarahgollust.bsky.social's leadership in this critical (albeit dismal) moment for health politics research!

They would get better overall results by scattering this money in various parks.

Poor little thing isn’t feeling great.

Today in Introduction to Health Policy, I'm teaching my students how to do policy analyses, which means I get to teach Bardach and @ericpatashnik.bsky.social's The Eightfold Path to More Effective Problem Solving. Truly essential for those of us teaching in this space.

Don’t know that we’re ever going to find a better use of this.

Man alive. I have studied Right Wing authoritarianism for years and have watched some truly fucked up shit and today’s memorial service is maybe the most concentrated example of how messed up and disturbing that sector truly is.

Two thoughts here: (1) Bill Maher deserves all the (non-governmental) hate he gets. I have no idea what his monologue was, but if it's like his past comedy, it was unfunny and pretend-edgy. (2) If the government is pressuring his network to fire him, that's even worse than Maher's sense of humor.

"And of course, we'll need your most solemn sparkler display. Ideally something that would pair well with the Village People?"

This is the face of someone who repeatedly crashed my three hour Zoom public health retreat.

NEW: Air Force jets are doing ICE flights to Africa with transponders turned off, making them nearly un-trackable. This includes the third-country removal to Ghana and another secret flight. We figured out where it landed. From me for @rollingstone.com: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...