I had forgotten how jaw-dropping these curves were. š
I had forgotten how jaw-dropping these curves were. š
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-...
The House Oversight Committee will be holding a closed-door roundtable tomorrow (Tuesday) to hear from Jeffrey Epstein's survivors, says Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.).
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This is the message. This right here.
Platner: No one cares that you pretend to be remorseful as you sell out to lobbyists. Symbolic opposition does not reopen hospitals. Weak condemnations do not bring back Roe V Wade. Maine deserves better than Susan Collins.
Some insiders have theorized that the White House installed Fugate to oversee a pivot away from traditional counterterrorism and to steer resources toward MAGA-friendly sheriffs and border security projects before eventually shuttering operations. (Published June)
On Thursday, Sept. 4 at 4 p.m. ET, ProPublica reporter @hannahallam.bsky.social will lead a panel of extremism and political violence experts to discuss how the federal governmentās retreat from counter-extremism efforts is reshaping the landscape of domestic security. š RSVP and submit q's:
Attention Chicago: We will NOT be meeting at Federal Plaza. We now will be meeting at Ida B Wells and Michigan. Time and date depends on the arrival time of the troops: IF TROOPS ARRIVE BEFORE 3PM, PROTEST SAME DAY AT 5PM. IF TROOPS ARRIVE AFTER 3PM, PROTEST NEXT DAY AT 5PM.
Here is my look at this weekend: www.lawdork.com/p/this-weeke...
The market is going all-in on AI. The biggest stocks are technology companies. The 10 largest companies in the S&P 500 accounted for 39.5% of its total value at the end of July. www.wsj.com/finance/stoc...
To gauge how itās āworking,ā one would have to be clear on what the actual work is, which is not helping to educate children but rather to imbed these systems in a way that they cannot be removed, establish them as a source of truth, and destabilize labor.
North Korea leader Kim Jong Un, ahead of his visit to China, inspected a research institute where a new high-powered engine for the solid fuel next-generation Hwasong-20 ICBM is being built, according to state media.
A few words about purple martinsāhow to help them, how to help all migratory birds, how to help birds that donāt migrateāin this weekās essay. Gift link via @nytopinion: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
A Labor Day reminder: today there isn't a single city, metro area, or state in the U.S. where a full-time minimum-wage worker can afford a modest 2-bedroom apartment. Millions of people with jobsāeven multiple jobsāaren't safe from homelessness in this country.
1997: the president was born in 1946 2007: the president was born in 1946 2017: the president was born in 1946 2027: weāll see
I almost admire the Atlantic's commitment to posting such terrible articles alongside decent ones. It's like 50/50, I think
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is definitely coming for your vaccines sciencebasedmedicine.org/robert-f-ken... via @sciencebasedmedicine.org.web.brid.gy @gorskon.bsky.social
The closest Dominos to the White House is reporting very high traffic. As of 8:09pm ET
Not counted as a heat death: āA 72-year-old Arizona man died days after falling on a sidewalk last year, with the hot surface burning 16% of his body. Cause of death: complications of thermal injuries because of prolonged exposure to elevated environmental temperatures on a hot surface.ā
Jerry Nadler ends his remarkable career, conceding that his brand of politics on the Middle East is over. āI donāt know what to say at this point,ā he said. āI canāt defend what Israel is doing.ā www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/n...
Murdered a child, shot him in the back. āA man was detained at the home where the shooting happened and questioned by homicide detectives on Sunday, KHOU reported. But Houston police later said the person was released after questioning.ā www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/11-...
No such thing as childhood in a country armed like itās ready for civil war.
Iām doing everything I can to stop Trump from dismantling our democracy. Thatās why Iām here with @abreezeclayton.bsky.social, but we need your help. If weāre going to fix whatās broken, we have to elect more fighters like @roycoopernc.bsky.social. So if youāre with us, sign up to volunteer today.
MedRxiv || Modelling a potential zoonotic spillover event of H5N1 influenza Philip Cherian, Gautam I Menon www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
"We need to reform zoning codes in order to increase housing supply" and "we don't want to step into the business of local government" and "dense cities are dangerous hellholes that we must pacify militarily" are three propositions that don't hang together at all
Only a 30-second standing O here.
Your climate-changed future is here. mainichi.jp/english/arti...
Adolf Hitler awarded the War Merit Cross to Adolf Eichmann, architect of the Holocaust. Just saying, awards don't mean sh** if the person awarding them is a fascist. www.foxnews.com/politics/tru...
Countries need to start to accounting for the #carbon lost through fires as #forest sinks become sources of emissions www.climatechangenews.com/2025/08/26/e...
This is how to cover this. NPR did a spot on the award and said nothing about 2020 and Giulianiās lies.
for people living many other placesā¦ this is probably a program where you live too
A widespread data-sharing program with ICE supports local and state budgets nationwideāeven in so-called sanctuary cities and states that forbid certain law enforcement cooperation and information sharing with ICE.
š§Ŗ And House appropriators say: no cuts to NIH budget! House subcommittee version just came out (link below). Holds NIH flat at $48 billion. To be clear: this is far from over. But a good sign that science still matters across both sides of aisle. YOUR VOICE MATTERS!!
Platner: I believe that input from working people is far more important than input from someone who simply has money. I believe that we shouldnāt be settling for crumbs while billionaires eat the cookie we baked.
Alaska vowed to resolve the murders of Indigenous people. But when one nonprofit asked state law enforcement officials for a fundamental piece of data ā a list of Indigenous murders theyād investigated ā the state said no. By @kylehopkinsak.bsky.social, w/ @adn.com
Over the last year, NATO governments have accused Russian intelligence agencies of remotely recruiting criminals and using them to sow chaos.
This š§µ is long so please bear with me. It is compiles evidence in a historical timeline on how effective #COVIDVaccines are. When a pandemic ends we quickly and easily forget the tools that got us out of it. So here is my labour day gift to you prompted by this headline.
If giving Trump credit for Operation Warp Speed is what it takes to get rid of RFK Jr, then so be it. RFK Jr. is threatening Trump's core accomplishment which was to fast track mRNA vaccines which saved millions of lives. RFK Jr. is making it harder to get access to the COVID vaccine. He has to go.
Dumbest fucking timeline.
Still think gas is a climate solution? š„ Dangerous gas leak covered up by ConocoPhillips, NT Government and Santos. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
By William Foege William Roper David Satcher Jeffrey Koplan Richard Besser Tom Frieden Anne Schuchat Rochelle P. Walensky and Mandy K. Cohen gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
This is an unprecedented statement. "None of us would have agreed to the secretaryās demands, and we applaud Dr. Monarez for standing up for the agency and the health of our communities."
Trump family amasses $6 billion fortune fter World Liberty crypto trading launch - at least on paper The Trump family's inflated crypto assets now surpass the value of their inflated portfolio assets The grift is astronomical www.wsj.com/finance/curr...
This is interesting. Donald Trump is not coming out guns blazing for RFKjr, he's just asking questions.
This is literally the largest act of union busting in American history. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
Epis watching bird flu...
Labor Day weekend is the end of the peak season for many of the countryās national parks. But, in the last few months, the National Park Service has lost 24% of its staff. From budget cuts to āideologicalā changes, the Trump administration is shaping the future of our public lands.
Americans Astronomers watching watching US politics Betelgeuse š¤ āIt could happen at any timeā
Fear of crime: an unholy alliance between politicians that need a cudgel, local news that needs clicks, social media's ability to share viral anecdotal crime stories, police that need justification to exist, and the fact that police/surveillance tech is a multi-billion dollar industry, and racism.
Dammit itās only the 1st of the month and I already have to use up an NYT gift link. Open letter to ALL AMERICANS from 9 former CDC directors going back to the year I graduated from HS and Iām 66: We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every Americanās Health www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
The long term data on hepatitis B vaccination shows it reduces the incidence of liver cancer by 84% and death from liver disease by 70%. This comes from a large cluster RCT in which entire towns were randomly selected to give the hepatitis B vaccine to all newborns.
"Blueskyism" helped make The Onion one of the largest newspapers in the world in less than a year. If we had spent all of our time on Twitter, we'd be poorer, dumber and terminally ill with internet poisoning. He's just angry he's wasting away over there in a nazi agnostic lane that doesn't exist.
Such gigs are part of a new category of work spawned by the generative AI boom that threatened to displace creative jobs across the board: Anyone can now write blog posts or produce a graphic, but AI-generated content rarely makes for a satisfactory final product on its own.
Donald Trump is the most ruthlessly antilabor president since before the Great Depression. If the labor movement does not fight harder than it has since he regained the presidency, its future will be dire, Erik Loomis writes.
If true, this update is astonishing. The Commission climbed down from a planned break up of Googleās ad business to a mere fine, and then dropped even the fine for fear of offending Trump. This is for market violations that have been proven in U.S. court.
i'll note that the size of this fire has increased since this incident, while the containment has decreased
lol, after they've tariffed lumber, steel, appliances, etc., etc., etc., that goes into building homes
What if they not letting Trump speak because he had a Reverse Fetterman Stroke and hes woke now
It's the Epstein Client List.
I donāt know what did or didnāt happen to Trump, but what I do know is the country has the right to know the truth.
Why do you appreciate unions? Iāll start: Weekends off Paid vacations Work breaks Sick leave Paid holidays No child labor Safer working conditions Health care and retirement benefits
Beef prices have hit record highs this Labor Day Weekend ā in part thanks to Trump's tariffs. Remember when Trump said he would bring down the cost of groceries? https://youtu.be/9EXi6xyOXSk?feature=shared
Excited to announce that the 1st paper from my postdoc is now out in @currentbiology.bsky.social ! Using a large dataset of 3D preserved fossils, we explore the diversification of jaws in early bony fishes. 1/15 www.cell.com/current-biol...
āThis is unacceptable, and it should alarm every American, regardless of political leanings.ā -almost every former living CDC Director with the conspicuous exception of lab leaker-turned-anti-vax fabulist Robert Redfield www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Courts still matter.
Judge Sooknanan is giving a master class in judging during the Trump Administration -- but really in how judges should always value the people whose lives are affected by their decisions.
Yes, it was carefully hidden in the New England Journal of Medicine. Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine (www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1... ) 1/2
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. filling an IV bag from a murky puddle near Trump National's sixth tee. "The president needs parameciums," he tells the assembled media. "It's the only treatment proven to work in real testing." His golf cart is piled high with dozens of dead birds.
Yep. I had Trumpy relatives who were *outraged* by covid mitigation, but they barely leave their houses to begin with. If they hadn't been told to be angry, they wouldn't have given a single shit.
Solar power is taking off quickly in Hungary āļøā”ļø Our latest data insight: ourworldindata.org/data-insight...
If youāve ever compared unvaccinated kids to vaccinated kids, youāve seen the former are more likely to die.
One reason for Democrats to ditch their reflex to say "You have a point" to the other side is the right wing hasn't had a good point about anything in most of our lifetimes
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.
One thing I often come back to on COVID 'closures' is that government action was usually **reactive** to the public. Not institutions curtailing freedom of movement -- but a tourniquet on economic demand collapse. Even when lockdowns didn't happen , the public changed behavior in line with a mean.
I've had multiple profs describe me as having good hands in the lab. As best as I can tell, this mostly means that I pay attention to what I'm doing, so all the steps, and work out a system whereby if I do something wrong I notice in time to correct it.
I really think a lot of people with big Twitter platforms are just mad that thereās a viable competitor where theyāre not as popular
hell i wish brands would post garment dimensions rather than vague sizing charts
Photo passed along from a federal employee from inside the Dept of Labor building, where a giant Orwellian image of Trump's face is now draped outside. Big Brother is watching.
Today Iranian President Pezeshkian is in Tianjin for the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit. Thread on the SCO and Iranās role in the organization.š§µ
Today is the first day of public trading for Trumpās crypto scam.
Great episode of @onthemedia.bsky.social this week. Recommended listening as always.
Wow, a governor calling federal troops an 'invasion' really puts things into perspective. It shows just how much the political climate in the U.S. has deteriorated. #MidtermPreparation www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I am old enough to remember when republicans and conservatives were all about states' rights.
EPA Fires āDissentā Statement Signers The EPA fired agency employees who signed a June declaration decrying moves that contradict science and undermine public health www.scientificamerican.com/article/epa-... as Labor Day weekend started.
The most urgent task for Congress is to avoid a government shutdown on Sept. 30, when federal funding runs out. https://to.pbs.org/4lRR6By
What was antibiotic resistance like before we ever used antibiotics? How did we change what antibiotic resistance genes looked like over 100 years? Our paper looking at resistance genes from a century of NCTC historical isolates now out in mGen: www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
Venezuela's Maduro says US seeking regime change with naval build-up reut.rs/4mHn1G2
* Trump Family Amasses $6 Billion Fortune After Crypto Launch @wsj.com
Water crisis. Mariupol. Today, according to the schedule, there was supposed to be water in Mariupol. In the end, the water was supplied ā but again not where people were waiting for it. And where it was expected ā there was no water.
āThe men and women who have joined C.D.C. across generations have done so not for prestige or power, but because they believe deeply in the call to service. They deserve an H.H.S. secretary who stands up for health, supports science and has their back. So, too, does our country.ā
Borrowing a page from Ukraine, "Finland and Poland are both considering rewetting dried-out peatbogs to form defence barriers against a potential Russian ground invasion. Restoring these natural carbon sinks could also bring significant environmental benefits." www.france24.com/en/europe/20...
Once again, of the laws creating aircraft carrier-sized loopholes for the president to utter the magic words "national emergency" or "national security" & then rule like a King must go. We can have nuanced discussion about re-delegation later but not now. bsky.app/profile/mcop...
President Donald Trump demanded that pharmaceutical companies release data pertaining to the success rates of their Covid "drugs" in order to clear up the discrepancy "mess" over the products, though some information already appears to be available.
This should be the lead story in all major national news outlets. Public health people prefer to stay out of the limelight unless there is no other choice. I canāt overstate how bad things have to be for 9 former CDC directors to band together and pen an op-ed in the NYT warning the entire country.
Weāre only a few years removed from creatjng a vaccine to protect against a deadly airborne virus in a matter of months. Now, we have a scion fail son running the CDC into the ground not because it failed, but because its success conflicts with RFK Jrās eugenicist ideology.
Bill Foege co-devised the ring vaccination strategy that was used to eradicate smallpox. I cannot fathom being in his shoes, seeing anti-vax radicals running American public health into the ground, and having *anything* polite to say about it! He is, literally & figuratively, a bigger man than I am.
I would read a whole series of reports like this on each individual federal goon. They all deserve a profile.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...