The near daily barrage of deadly mass shootings in America feels like low level warfare against normal citizens who just want to live in peace. And because people keep electing Republicans who won’t do anything about it there’s no solution in sight.

We don’t talk enough about how racists and authoritarians are the ones who actually genuinely hate this country.

As a resident of #Portland it is impossible to capture how unhinged this is. We are a low crime city and the ICE protest "siege" consists of one auxiliary ICE office that normally has at most a dozen weirdos debating what performance art they should use to block a single driveway

Trump is ordering the military to use “full force” against an American city, while the Supreme Court declares him the Sun King and Congress hides under a pile of coats. The checks and balances only work when the institutions aren’t run by utter cowards and the complicit

Some critical context about Trump's troops to "war-ravaged Portland" that most folks don't know: Any conflicts there between protesters and ICE agents are happening because ICE agents ARE PROVOKING THEM (From that "radical left-wing group," the Portland Police Department) bsky.app/profile/mock...

Watergate-level high crimes and misdemeanors happening every day

“He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. “He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.” -Declaration of Independence

The cowardice of the elites is a defining feature of America in 2025

162,000 doctors strong: The American College of Physicians demands RFK Jr. be removed as HHS Secretary, warning he is undermining vaccines, science, and public health. www.acponline.org/acp-newsroom... #BlueSky #MedSky #NewsSky #NurseSky #SciSky

I don't know about you, but I love my country, and I love my children. Their birthright -- citizenship in a democracy that enshrined civil liberties like freedom of speech under the rule of law -- is seriously under threat. That's why I will be marching, for my the country I want my kids to inherit

A good time to remember that a whole bunch of us are getting together to speak out against this authoritarianism -- I used to say creeping, but it's really now just a full gallop -- on October 18. Join us www.nokings.org

What they've done to LA and are doing to DC they want to do to a city near you. We know this becasue they are saying it; and we know this because they just greenlighted $171 billion more for their secret police.

Raskin: In any event, if he really cared about public safety in DC… he would not have pardoned 1600 insurrectionists and violent cop beaters on his first day in office. 

He was lying about this from the get-go, which was obvious if you looked at literally anything he had done in his first term related to fertility care. Pay more attention to what politicians do than to what they say. css.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Now online, enrollment & baseline characteristics of our study on patients with symptomatic lumbar spinal stenosis initiating non-operative care. We identified 4 subgroups, which may inform health needs and allow for more patient-centered care. #spine #backpain academic.oup.com/painmedicine...

Research priorities about physical activity & exercise management of knee & hip OA developed with consumers, clinicians, researchers & policy makers #osteoarthritis #KeeleMSK www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Substantial #inequalities in the chronicity, severity and complexity of musculoskeletal #pain problems are present when seeking healthcare #KeeleMSK bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/7...

It’s absolutely impossible to think this is the result of good faith legal analysis, especially when they refuse to provide any reasons!

The right wing bullshit machine is going to try to find ways to divert blame from their toxic policies onto others. The left can’t assume that people who supported Trump/GOP, who are now impacted by these policies, will see through the BS, esp. when they are motivated by partisan identity not to.

Self-inflicted and preventable crisis

If I hear one more reporter say these attacks on universities and science are about "antisemitism," I am going to lose it. This is about destroying higher education full stop and it doesn't help to parrot the White House's talking points. www.science.org/content/arti...

Summary Table of the massive defunding of biomedical research in the United States www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Freedom from kings. Freedom from fascism. Power to the people forever. ♥️ Happy Independence Day 🇺🇸

Wishing everyone a safe and happy Fourth of July! Let’s celebrate Independence Day by recommitting to the Work of building a more just, equitable America.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

After the judge deemed the NIH grant terminations illegal, he noted that the government’s practices were discriminatory: “This represents racial discrimination, and discrimination against America’s LGBTQ community. … I would be blind not to call it out.”

You do not have to say “pro vaccine groups.” You can say the vast majority of doctors and scientists and the American Medical Association.

Please sign on and add your voice in calling for an NIH that prioritizes the safety of research participants and public health over political momentum. actionnetwork.org/forms/add-na...

ICE is a much greater threat to this country than illegal immigrants. The current administration ia by far the greatest threat this country faces. The problem is not st our borders. It is in the White House.

If these tanks can spend ~ a month going to and from an exercise whose sole points are to (a) flatter the ego of a wannabe authoritarian, and (b) destroy DC streets ... then maybe we have too many tanks?

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

The MAHA report is an insult to every one who reads it, to the medical community, and to every serious public health scientist. #episky #medsky 🧪 infoepi.substack.com/p/maha-plagi...

NEW RESEARCH—Long-term effectiveness of non-surgical interventions for chronic low back pain: a systematic review and meta-analysis bit.ly/43mmyCb Plus, linked Comment bit.ly/4dFiRej #Medsky #Rheumsky #Physiosky

Viewpoint in JAMA details the consequences of the proposed cuts to NIH: ❌15% reduction in new therapies ❌reduction in life expectancy by 83M life years in the US = $8.2T ❌loss of $51B in economic output annually All to save $20B annually. The math ain't mathin.' jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

There has never been a moment when Musk has done more real damage - to the public - and yet he can cultivate a "back to business" PR campaign about how he tried to fix Washington. Shame on every media outlet enabling this rather than raking him over the coals.

"Brooke Nichols, an associate professor of global health at Boston University, has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year."

"Gold standard science" brought to you by AI- hallucinations and citations of papers that do not exist! These people are as dishonest as they are reckless. nymag.com/intelligence...

Excited this is finally published. #Pain characteristics including bothersome pain, activity-limiting pain, greater number of pain sites, and more frequent pain medication consistently associated with lower & declining physical capacity over 6 years in older adults. journals.lww.com/clinicalpain...

A new proposal by the White House could further politicize the NIH Thousands made their reservations about the rule known “There is a threat of more politics, more instability, [and] loss of people who have the institutional memory” w/ @mmolteni.bsky.social 🧪 www.statnews.com/2025/05/23/n...

🚨 Action alert: Two days left!! Help protect NSF/NIH from political interference. 👎 A new rule (Sched. F) would allow for replacing career program officers with political appointees. ➡️ Action: Object here by THIS FRIDAY. Comments can be brief and/or anonymous. Helps future litigation.

I'm a health reporter at The Washington Post looking to talk to people who do not qualify under these narrowed criteria about why coronavirus vaccination matters to you If you're comfortable sharing your experiences for an article, please email me at [email protected]

Good article discussing how to not amplify the #AI hype and exaggerated marketing claims

How is this not impeachable? No other president ever would been allowed such a transparent and harmful vendetta. /imagine being such an asshole you make me side with Harvard

Thinking about devastating cuts to NSF: US gov-funded science has been the engine upon which most of the tech wealth was generated. But the oligarchs (currently hoarding much of that $) think it’s their own brilliance & not the accident of standing close to the scientific engine that made them rich.

My dear health equity peers, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is doubling down on their DEI efforts. 💪🏽 Here’s a grant opportunity tinyurl.com/3pnxhy2d with a rapid response option those whose “health equity research projects have lost federal funding.” ⭐️ Please share ⭐️

What’s *actually* behind the increased rates of autism in recent decades? Something nefarious like RFK likes to suggest? Or something rationale, plausible, and far less headline grabbing? Excuse my hospital lightning, but we distilled it down in 40 seconds with the great @stephruhle.bsky.social

the plan is to end American science research all of it, no exceptions other countries simply will not be able to fill the gaps here, this is just a shocking devastation of human scientific progress as a whole