WWII ended 80 years ago today, as Japan surrendered on the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
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WWII ended 80 years ago today, as Japan surrendered on the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
We have an opportunity this year to kick an Allegheny County Republican out of office. We must take it by voting for Alex Rose - @roseforacc.bsky.social - for County Coucil At-Large.
THIS, thank you. And not just Biden. Jesus Christ. I went to the NYT to look up their coverage when Hillary Clinton got pneumonia while campaigning in 2016. ** 10 ** stories, most over 2 days. THREE were Page 1. Every angle. Crickets for Trump, and he's actually POTUS. It's un fucking believable:
One of the neighbors keeps setting off fireworks; does he know something I don't?
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ā[RFKs] 7 month tenure at our nationās highest public health agency has been characterized by one disaster after anotherā¦it has dangerously eroded public trust in the institutions that are so critical for the health & safety of all Americans. It is time for him to go.ā -NNU Pres Mary Turner
Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwoodās Handmaidās Tale used to come to power.
To the extent parents distrust public schools, it's not because of COVID, it's because there's been an orchestrated, decades-long, right-wing attack on public education to keep it chronically underfunded, to stoke cultural wars, and to seduce frustrated parents & lawmakers w/ privatization schemes.
fucking wild that the fundamental moral test of our time is something as simple as "can you denounce fascism" and so many people are failing it
Countries on track to eliminate cervical cancer: -Australia by 2028 -Sweden by 2027 -Rwanda by 2030 -UK by 2040 -Indonesia by 2030 -Bhutan 2030 -El Salvador by 2030 -Canada by 2040 How? HPV vaccine. Same one RFK Jr is trying to ban. You will note USA is not on this list.
This āblue states closed schools too longā narrative is becoming increasingly entrenched in the Polite Center but itās arguable at best. Republican states had far more deaths during COVID and their students have roughly comparable learning loss.
Good news. The House of Representatives stands behind the NIH budget with no cuts.
A show of bipartisan support for NIH. Basically flat except for ARPA-H. The Presidentās budget proposal basically ignored (as it should have been).
Congress should act to restore expert-driven review and decision-making, halt the process of impoundment, and exercise its oversight authority of HHS - including the Sec.
Appreciated the opportunity to join Dr. Ali Khan and @richbesser.bsky.social via @wsj.com to discuss recent changes to public health and what this means for health and preparedness @altcdc.altgov.info www.wsj.com/video/three-...
āAgent of the government empowered to use violence in its name to enforce its lawsā is a pretty old invention, actually. This is what Iām talking about, this is just like magical thinking: you need *someone* to maintain and exercise the stateās monopoly on force. Itās literally unavoidable, sorry!
Tagging for #hpbio because philosophers are very interested in disagreements, clarifications, refinements, implications of concepts.
Yup, the Trump administration terminated the CDC's drowning prevention experts last month āand has proposed eliminating the program in its fiscal year 2026 budget requestā š¤¬ www.npr.org/sections/sho...
no seriously, feel free to ask any science writer - we have the cites
MSNBC has made Trump the center of the universe, giving him endless oxygen while Democratic wins barely get a mention. That doesnāt build confidence, it feeds despair.
"chatGPT 5 is like having a bunch of phds in your pocket" here's ten trillion dollars "bluesky is having an *actual* bunch of phds in your pocket" dying platform. it disgusts me
And again, them *wanting* those Republican voters instead of their own goes back to the psyop. The idea that any defense of enlightened cosmopolitanism must begin with a full throated apology for the crime of being right. Once the seed is planted, it can grow into a tree.
Someone please kill me right now.
I understand why it has happened but I loathe that everything is video now and Iām never gonna watch a half hour YouTube video to convey information I could read in three minutes.
A couple of #histSTM #histsci #philsci positions opening up: Asst Prof in Philosophy of Science & Technology (TT) at University of Toronto, apps due Oct 15 (including letters of rec). jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...
People literally bled & died fighting against corporate interests, robber barons, corrupt local & state politicians, cops & hired killers, & the federal government & US military for better working conditions for the rest of us so reflect on that today for just a bit while you're doing whatever else.
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nationās public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Being lawless does not make Trump omnipotent ā nor can he just snap his fingers and make all his authoritarian desires a reality. America is in an acutely dangerous situation. But obscuring those distinctions is an act of defeatism that only serves the regime.
Medicaid cuts threaten rural hospitals ā and access to maternity care Trumpās Big Bill cuts Medicaid by almost $1 trillion over the next decade, risking service cuts and closures that could force rural women to travel farther to safely have a baby www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Reminder: the apparent plan was to spirit these children away in the middle of the night without them ever seeing the inside of a courtroom to challenge their deportation. Children.
Can't stress this enough. Schumer and Jeffries are doing their jobs of holding their caucuses together. It's a juggling act they do very well. Being national drivers of messaging has never been part of that job description.
Autism: The Truth is (not) Out There www.wiringthebrain.com/2014/10/auti... - it really is genetic and we really haven't been great at explaining that
The media could do a huge story on how the trump administration was just stopped from doing the same thing they got in trouble for multiple times by deporting 600 children without any due process. This story could even move the needle. They could do this. If they wanted to.
Enthusiasm grows when voters see a party fighting and winning. (And Democrats are doing both- fighting back on redistricting attacks and special election wins). Constant gloom, both sides coverage, and magnified Dem drama donāt inspire turnout ā they smother it.
āļø Atlantic circulation collapse could come sooner than expected Brian McHugh interviews Professor Sybren Drijfhout, who explains why cutting carbon dioxide emissions to net zero is becoming even more urgent to prevent AMOC collapse @yorkshirebylines.co.uk @brianmchugh.bsky.social
UPDATE: The indefatigable Judge Sooknanan orders DOJ to file an update when the last 4 children have been returned to the custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement.
MORE: Sparkle Sooknanan is still awake -- and she wants a fourth status report from DOJ. The judge orders the government to update her when all putative class members have been returned to ORR custody.
āThe people in this book are brave,ā said Toad. āThey fight dragons and giants, and they are never afraid.ā āI wonder if we are brave,ā said Frog.
MORE: Judge Sooknanan order DOJ to file yet another status report. She sets 10:45 pm deadline for Ensign to address whether all of the children have been returned to ORR custody.
JUST IN: Judge who blocked the transfer of about 600 Guatemalan minors from US to Guatemala Sunday is keeping a very tight leash on the government. Echoes of Alien Enemies Act litigation simply deafening here. Earlier: www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
The extent to which ICE is ignoring all civil rights and due process is astounding ā and indicative of a culture where theyāve been told they can do literally no wrong. Agency and admin leaders must face sanctions and legal consequences.
Anna has had excellent coverage of this developing case in which the Trump administration tried to use the holiday weekend to secretly and illegally deport children.
I signed an open letter from economists supporting Fed independence & Governor Lisa Cook Letter: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Add your name by Monday: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
We analyzed hundreds of hours of his public comments from 2020-2024 to show this and refer to him as an anti-vaccine activist in our reporting. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
Federalism & separation of powers makes American government frustrating because some policy solutions require a bunch of different levers of power from the president to your state legislator to be pulled together at once, but a unitary, unicameral parliamentary state expedites regime consolidation.
Also remember: we beat him and his enablers before, and we will beat them again
Manipulating parents with appeals to their vanity and ambition.
šš Starting September 12, Russia is preparing "fierce wave" of disinformation, - Budanov According to him, "attacks will come from all sides." About 90% of them will come from the Russian side censor.net/en/news/3571...
Yes, the crowd of Dem Bashers should focus on the real problems.
"syncope"
You know how the Gulf Stream (AMOC, for the climate nerd set) keeps Europe habitable? The latest tipping points paper is making the rounds for good reason. AMOC collapses past 2100 in *all* projections iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1... Good @economist.com take www.economist.com/leaders/2025...
![Figure 1. (upper) Ensemble means of the AMOC strength and (below) total ocean heat transport at 26Ā°N in the model simulations in which the northern AMOC shuts down. The letters are ordered from top to bottom to correspond to lines with decreasing values in year 2300/2500. The short cyan line shows the observed (yet insignificant) trend of the RAPID observations [21, 22] for 2005ā2023 (upper) and 2005ā2020 [23] (below).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3nekuksdc3y37mr7q66aaq4d/bafkreief3gzrwyhemgj77br3xekpalcft76trwmbh5cjpcopibwtpcdlry@jpeg "Click to view full size")
Disabled people have been warning about this EXACT SCENARIO since 2016 and raising the alarm that if Trump installs a fascist government *this is what would happen* We very literally predicted all of this. None of it is a surprise. People just donāt listen to the disabled so you are caught off guard
The USA is now cut off from critical minerals from Canada and China. Instead of US submarines, Canada will now buy German ones. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XweQ...
Precisely. We framed our warnings in science. Disability advocates framed theirs in their knowledge of the social Darwinism and eugenics that would victimize them. The warnings were ignored by far too many, and even more labeled us as exaggerating the threat or hysterical. bsky.app/profile/erin...
STAT+: Trump administration restored funding for major diabetes study. The pause still set researchers back www.statnews.com/2025/08/30/d...
š Shingles vaccine and heart health A global review found the shingles jab was linked to an 18% lower risk of heart attack or stroke, with protective effects seen even in younger adults. š www.theguardian.com/society/2025... #SciComm #HeartHealth #Vaccines š§Ŗ
Former Speaker of Ukraineās Parliament Andriy Parubiy was shot dead in Lviv today. The attacker, disguised as a Glovo courier on an e-bike, fired 8 shots and fled. President Zelensky called it a āhorrific murderā and vowed a full investigation as security services hunt the suspect.
It is so fucking easy to say shit like this when you don't actually have to be the ones to come up with a plan to make that work with only control of one legislative branch. Do tell how that we'll get passed in a Republican led senate and a white house with veto powers.
Oh, weāre going there
ā.. I never have seen an instance of an advanced, affluent country with among the finest scientific resources .. under assault, not from small pockets of the public or people who have unusual beliefs, but from the government itself.ā @mollyjongfast.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
Itās long past time you all stopped using āCongressā when you mean āRepublicansā. Not a single Democrat voted for this hot mess of an appointment. This endless grind to maintain a non-partisan tone, despite the partisanship of our fascist reality, is willfully blind, & a betrayal of your country.
Trump & Kennedy, instead of attacking diseases are attacking the scientists who keep us safe, exactly what anyone who watched Trumpās performance during Covid, is familiar with Kennedyās anti-science views, or read Project 2025 could have anticipated. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/h...
"It took her nearly two decades to find a permanent academic position. She found occasional work as a visiting professor, filling in for someone on leave for a year or two. She earned grants to fund her research... but she was often living on unemployment benefits" www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/s...
āA respected network of hospitals and cancer centers is halting enrollment in clinical trials for children with brain cancer after the federal government said it would no longer provide funding to the group.ā This is on Trump. Gift link here: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...
There is no health without mental health The new ESC Consensus Statement on Mental Health was released during #ESCCongress Listen to Michael Gibson & Roxana Mehran to find out why it is important to recognise the importance of mental health in cv patients š
yep! marine chronometers made the modern world in important ways also time zones, mostly for railways at first iirc
but Martin Niemƶller wasn't just indifferent. He was a conservative nationalist who voted for the Nazis over and over. He was violently opposed to socialists and communists, and was an antisemite (though he objected to Nazis persecuting converted Jews.)
I watched Carl Sagan a lot as a kid š¤£
telescopes are a kind of clock, and we used them for navigation across oceans.
"This is the bottom line...They don't like facts because facts are bad for them." Trump's war on facts makes all of us less safeā @neeratanden.bsky.social explains.
BEFORE / AFTER. Here's what the school pick-up was like BEFORE at our children's elementary school. A real rodeo. Lots of near misses. Cars parked in the crosswalks. Distracted drivers pulling up just when hundreds of kids are trying to arrive on foot or by bike. This June we changed things... š§µ
Dr. Dmitri Daskalakis, who resigned from the CDC says that RFKJr said he believes that Avian flu should be allowed to "burn through" the chickens and then children and others, so we can propagate a "stronger species". RFKJr believes in eugenics. RFKJr needs to resign or be fired.
Fun fact: Florida's orange harvest is now only 8% of what it was 20 years of global warming ago. Increasing hurricane activity and more hospitable environment for disease and pests, has *already* destroyed the Florida orange industry. citrusindustry.net/2024/05/07/f...
Honestly, the only thing even in the same league as vaccines is sanitation. Antibiotics are the next level down.
David Bowie's wisdom always hits the mark. šÆ
The goal is to weaponize the law to write public health out of existence: "By statute or regulation, CDC guidance must be prohibited from taking on a prescriptive character." That means, for example: no vaccine recommendations at all. Not fewer; none.
one thing to remember about "ICE is going to occupy Democrat strongholds" is that ICE, if it hires to capacity, will employ about 26k people by the end of 2026, which is 1/3 smaller than the NYPD, which is not a large enough police force to occupy New York City itself.
š¤°A multilabel neural network model was trained to predict the occurrence of cardiovascular morbidity in people with hypertensive disorders of pregnancy during the delivery hospitalization and within 1 year of delivery. #OBAnes #Maternalmortality #Preeclampsia journals.lww.com/anesthesia-a...
Women with a history of #HELLPsyndrome are at increased risk of all forms of #preeclampsia in subsequent pregnancies. Read more about another pregnancy after preeclampsia, eclampsia, or HELLP syndrome here: www.preeclampsia.org/the-news/com...
We are putting #WomensHealth front and center in @APSPublications ā Submit your research to our #CallsForPapers on key womenās health research topics journals.physiology.... #Alzheimers #Autoimmune #BreastCancer #CV #Menopause #Migraines #Pregnancy #Preeclampsia
CV Screening Rates With Establishment of Postpartum CV Care Pathway for Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy #HDP #CardioObstetrics #Preeclampsia #JACCAdvances www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/... @garimasharmamd.bsky.social @abraguo.bsky.social @anastasiasmihaili.bsky.social @jaccjournals.bsky.social
This is why, for 25 years, the Preeclampsia Foundation has been educating, supporting, and engaging the affected community, improving healthcare practices, and finding a cure. #preeclampsia Learn more about what we do here: www.preeclampsia.org/about-us
Departing CDC Officials Say Monarez's Firing Was the Final Straw www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...
Read the Resignation Letters of Top CDC Officials www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...
Just a reminder, the NOSIs for Research Continuity and Retention Supplements (childbirth, healthcare issues), and Re-Entry, Re-integration & Re-training Supplements, are ending Sept 9th. If you were thinking about one of them, apply soon. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
HHS secretary to testify at Senate hearing in wake of CDC shakeup www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/h...
AP live feed of the CDC walkout in Atlanta. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ7Q...
The White House fired the Center for Disease Control Director because she refused to go along with RFK Jr.ās unscientific directives. More top CDC officials have now stepped down amid the chaos. Vaccines and science save lives. This Admin must stop politicizing public health.
Hungary is suing the European Union over funnelling billions of euros in interests from frozen Russian assets to aid Ukraine, a case formally accepted by the European Court of Justice on Aug. 25.
Kennedy and his allies are malicious actors who donāt care about science or public health. They all have axes to grind. People will die because of it and they do not care. Eugenics are back, baby. The āhealth as an indicator of virtueā crowd are in charge.
Now all of you who didn't want to hear about disinfo network will say - Oh we didn't know. But all of you didn't want to know & didn't care. Now people will die, people will get sick. And I blame you!
Today I will be doing a Q&A special on #vaccines especially respiratory virus vaccines : #RSV, #COVID, #Flu. For the next 24 hours drop your questions in reply to this post and I will do my best to answer them and clear up some of the confusion around changing guidance. #AskAnIDDoc
Update: Appeals court overturns 90-years-settled law to make American employees' legal rights to speak up & act together to improve their jobs subject to presidential veto. Huge victory handed to Musk, Bezos, & other bosses. Big loss for labor. SCOTUS likely upholds prospect.org/justice/2025...
Enough is enough. The health of the country is in danger. Read our resignation letters: insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...
What people don't yet understand ā what I am just coming to understand ā is that Trump is not acting irrationally on climate & energy to "own the libs." Trump (and the GOP) are protecting the trillions of assets held by their fossil-fuel cronies, which would be utterly devalued if we decarbonized.
1/Our client was notified tonight by White House staff in the personnel office that she was fired. As a presidential appointee, senate confirmed officer, only the president himself can fire her.
This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
