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These are my patients. Kids dying of brain cancer. Kids and families desperate for treatment and hoping to find a cure through experimental therapies. Trump is dismantling science and children with brain tumor are the victims. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...
trump can issue as many executive orders as he wants, perhaps coverage should reflect the fact that a lot of these have the legal force of a child's wishlist for santa
wow
Tag yourself, Iâm third frog.
The Nobel Prize and a Testy Phone Call: How the Trump-Modi Relationship Unraveled - The New York Times
Trump take electricity
In the wake of new federal guidelines limiting the groups for whom new COVID-19 vaccines are approved, the New Mexico Department of Health plans to take action to remove "barriers to the administration of the COVID-19 vaccine."
The pathologies described in this article still exist.
Anna Katrina Zinkeisen - Solitude
Paul Delvaux - Solitude - 1955
Vetheuil, Morning Effect - 1901 #artbots #monet https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/10832
Exclusive: The Justice Department gave some senior career attorneys a choice: They could either quit or go to a new Sanctuary Cities Enforcement working group. Six months later, all of those attorneys have left DOJ. âThe assignment was a sham,â one said.
Ten years ago, my friend Rik Wanninkhof's son, Patrick, was killed while cycling across the US doing charity work for Habitat for Humanity. The woman who killed him was using her mobile phone. She was also a nurse, like the woman in the video. Rik is still devastated. Don't text and drive.
Walmart in CO is same.
1876
anyway www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4Xz...
Another observation from my 101-year-old grandfather, since he's tickled pink that people enjoy his points of view. He says he listened to Father Coughlin's radio show back in his youth and that nothing reminds him of that infamous antisemite and bigot as Tucker Carlson's commentary today.
don't want to let it slip under the radar that racist law prof amy wax lost her discrimination suit against penn and will be suspended from teaching this year
Trump admin planning to change student visas from lasting for duration of academic program to fixed 4-yr term, and then much harder to renew Could destroy US ability to attract global talent, particularly those seeking advanced degrees in STEM. The median time to complete a PhD is 5.7 yrs per NSF.
Frog and Toad went out to fly a kite. They went to a large meadow where the wind was strong. âOur kite will fly up and up,â said Frog. âIt will fly all the way up to the top of the sky.â
1/ This week, House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer demanded that the Wikimedia Foundation hand over information on editorial policies & individual contributors to help the committee investigate "propaganda" on Wikipedia. These demands are offensive to 1st Amendment values
Well, @jasonleopold.bsky.social, I look forward to your FOIA story on this.
The CDC shaped my career and saved countless lives around the world. To see it hollowed out and replaced by ideology is devastating. In my latest essay, I share my own CDC story and why its unraveling matters for all of us. open.substack.com/pub/bktitanj...
âThe federal government plans to hire private companies to use artificial intelligence to determine whether patients would be covered for some proceduresâŚâ www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/h...
I listen to these obscure paywalled podcasts on Substack. I know these people in person. I hear their gossip. I do all of this so you donât have to. And the results are things like this article! Most of what I learn, none of you will ever have to hear. Because the people will never matter!
R.I.P. M J-W
NPR has learned that the Pentagon has also approved the expansion of the U.S. Naval Base on Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for the same purpose. By @ximenabustillo.bsky.social and Tom Bowman
Final CBO score of the "big beautiful bill" is out Largest Medicaid cuts ever - in fact, at least 4 times the size of the previous largest; $894-$990 bn cut Kicks 10 million off health insurance Largest SNAP cuts ever, $197 bn cut Still increases the deficit by $3.4 trillion from huge tax cuts
My story that aired on Friday feat @bbkogan.bsky.social, @pwallach.bsky.social, and others... all warning that the rescissions package Congress just approved means an already tough process to fund this government is likely to get harder. www.marketplace.org/story/2025/0...
In 1965, the government recruited thousands of strapping high-school boys to replace Mexican workers on farms in Texas and California. A lot of the boys went on strike. Others quit. The program "was considered a giant failure and was never tried again." www.npr.org/sections/the...
ICYMI: USPS mail carriers interviewing households for the #2030Census is part of a Trump administration pitch by Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to take over the Postal Service, which Congress set up to be independent of the White House. I wrote about the legal and logistical hurdles
The NIH, which has faced major budget cuts, is now overwhelmed with submissions for grants because theyâre getting spammed with AI generated applications www.404media.co/nih-capping-...
Jesus, at 54. tragic variety.com/2025/tv/news...
Everyone I saw detained at 26 Fed last week, like the young man below, followed the rules by attending their court dates. Judges granted them hearings on their asylum applications, signaling they were safe for the time being, before masked and armed agents ambushed them.
Maybe as owner of CBS David Ellison will do Trump's bidding. He's routinely identified as a right-winger because his father's a Trump donor. But per Open Secrets his nly donations have been to Democrats, most of it the â$1M he gave Biden in February 2024. đ¤ˇââď¸ www.opensecrets.org/donor-lookup...
The fact I hadnât known: âTrump hosted a party at Mar-a-Lago for [28] young women, a âcalendar girl competitionâ. Epstein was the only other guest.â Where his event plannerâs GF & business partner says âTrump took her into a bedroom, forcibly kissed and fondled her, and restrained her from leaving.â
I actually choked up a little reading this.
Lost Cause guys: "Don't you realize that Yankee culture was an affront to the South?" The actual culture of the "civilization" of the South:
she's got that "crazy eyes" thing down cold
Harald Sohlberg, Sea Spray (1908), pen and ink and watercolor on paper
The new @wired.com cover is our gift to you. (Youâre so welcome.)
The U.S. Postal Service is under threat of privatization and Wells Fargo has led the charge with a blueprint to help big corporations cash in on our public Postal Service. Join us Thursday, July 24 at 11:00AM at 535 7th Ave to say the US Mail is not for sale!
I am totally smitten with the intricate drawings of Japanese artist Shunshun. Itâs worth clicking through to see them in detail. [kottke.org]
needs a red carpet
BREAKING: In our lawsuit with @publiccitizen.bsky.social the judge just ruled that the Office of Management and Budget must restore its website that shows how it is spending taxpayer dollars. The judge had some strong words for OMB about the illegal removal of the site:
The S&P 500 has gone basically nowhere for two weeks. In the meantime, speculative stocks have gone insane and gamma squeezes are back. Awouuuuu (wolf howl) sherwood.news/markets/an-e...
Reaaaaally love this Businessweek story from @viajoshhunt.bsky.social about the worldâs largest zipper-maker, YKK, which is totally fascinating in too many ways to enumerate in a post. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
Before he passed in May, Sacha Jenkins (unbeknownst to the public) completed a documentary about Ed Sullivan, his variety show and his championing of Black artists by booking them to perform. Netflix contacted him and picked it up. That doc, Sunday Best, is out today. netflix.com/title/82048609
Trump admin going after the largest provider of pediatric care in Colorado coloradosun.com/2025/07/18/c...
This is an extraordinary interview. Please listen. www.npr.org/2025/07/21/n...
gift article www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/s...
Did you know that we know less about the sea than we do about space? With this comic, we explore some of what scientists do know about Earth's ocean.
Attempting to eliminate funding for certain kinds of âwokeâ studies, the Trump administration erased hundreds of millions of dollars being used for cancer research. www.wired.com/story/how-tr...
You can see Omas gegen Rechts (Nanas against the far-right) on every protest against the AfD. Here in DĂźsseldorf in January 2024 they led a 100k people's protest.
gift article www.nytimes.com/2025/07/20/u...
Please make him go through discovery.
Earlier this week, I wrote about Epstein, making a timeline for my own clarity. It was originally appended to the piece but was too long. So here it is on my personal site, if useful. pbump.net/timeline.html
Here you go internet. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Unprecedented and illegal: Russ Vought refuses to release White House budget as required by law. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Winslow Homer, Summer Night, 1890
Sens. Chris Coons and Lisa Blunt Rochester say Trump is nominating someone they've never even met -- his own White House senior counsel, Jennifer Mascott -- to a lifetime federal judgeship in their state. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
President Donald Trump is pushing for a minimum tariff of 15% to 20% in any deal with the European Union, the Financial Times reported on Friday, adding that the administration is now looking at a reciprocal tariff rate that exceeds 10%, even if a deal is reached.
Hahahahahahahahaha⌠everything is so stupid. The latest reason to fire Jay Powell is the Fed's use of âpremium marbleâ as part of an "ostentatious overhaul" of its offices. But the Fed wanted glass. Trump appointees insisted on marble. apnews.com/article/powe...
PBS and NPR stations in Mississippi will lose about $2 million after Congress eliminated $1.1 billion in federal funding for public media, accounting for about 15% of the budget, says Mississippi Public Broadcasting Executive Director Royal Aills.
Is late night in financial trouble? Sure. Should you take Paramountâs word that thatâs the reason Colbert is going? Give me a break. [giftie] www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/a...
Various pro-Administration accounts have touted the Southern California ICE raids as a crackdown on child farm labor or criminal drug operations. Even if true, how would that explain a U.S. citizen gassed and jailed for three days without charges or a chance to call his family or a lawyer?
Okay, I know we like to shit on the New York TimesâI do it all the time!â but theyâve done exactly that: created a timeline. Hereâs a gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/u...
they're going to have to change the name of the agency if they keep up with things like this
So often when Donald Trump is cornered, he manages to escape thanks to a simple tactic: He cries hoax. With Jeffrey Epstein, Trump is once again screaming âhoax.â Yet it is not quite doing the trick.
Superman
I now live in a country where a prominent talk show host can be removed from his job for political reasons.
They asked if I had tried acyclovir, which is not the drug we used for CMV. I asked for their name and told them it was so the patient's family would know who was responsible for them dying of non treatment of their condition. The drug was approved within 48 hours.
You are hardly ever speaking to a peer. An insurance company refused to cover a drug called valganciclovir for a patient with biopsy confirmed cmv colitis. I had to do a peer-to-peer, the "peer" was not an ID doc, had never treated CMV colitis.
Trump has cited the Federal Reserve's costly renovation of two buildings as a potential firing offense for Chair Jerome Powell. But in 2020, Trump appointees pushed the Fed to use more marble, and now WH officials cite "white marble" as an extravagance. W/Josh Boak: apnews.com/article/powe...
Trump making sure future Epsteins donât get caught. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
sounds like a lot of stuff abcnews.go.com/US/unrelease...
âACA health insurance will cost the average person 75% more next year, research showsâ âThe average person who buys Affordable Care Act insurance will be paying 75% more for their premium, according to the analysis from KFF, a nonpartisan health policy research group.â
Another chapter in Trump's vibes-based foreign policy.
Putting aside whether it's a good idea to be even more partisan, as OMB Director Russ Vought suggested (I suspect most Americans would disagree), it is a huge problem for the administration to ignore our laws and system of checks and balances to move spending power from Congress to the president.
"Colorado health insurers have proposed huge price increases for next year for people who purchase coverage on their own â a consequence, state officials say, of the recently passed One Big Beautiful Bill Act tax and spending measure."
Took a year and a half to confirm but our instincts were right. New exclusive â A Rhode Island man arrested on gun charges was part of a Neo-Nazi Telegram channel that discussed killing a researcher tracking them. www.courtwatch.news/p/135-rhode-...
there is a certain liberal anti-affirmative action scholar who has insisted, like a rube, that once racial preferences are gone we can build support for class-based affirmative action. but the people who oppose affirmative action also very obviously oppose redress for class inequality!
Oh also: I wrote up some Epstein numbers. Free to read: s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/?tra...
2/ I thought that was a gift link. Here's the Gift Link www.wsj.com/politics/tru... And the year 2003 birthday album note:
In re: Colbert, my column for The Washington Post today deals with media companies and institutions capitulating in the face of Trumpâs authoritarianism. Gift link: wapo.st/3IzN4QA
"Each year I donate an autographed doodle... It takes me a few minutes to draw something, in my case, it's usually a building or a cityscape of skyscrapers, and then sign my name... I don't mind spending a little time for a very good cause." -- Donald Trump, "Never Give Up" (2010)
The Denver Post stands firm when a flack for the federal government tries to go on background. The NY Times? Well, not so much. Via todayâs Laurels/Darts. www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...
Ukraine, Poland, and Lithuania agreed to establish a Historiansâ Forum to deprive Moscow of the opportunity to manipulate history The forum is a response to Russiaâs attempts to fuel tensions between the countries amid its war against Ukraine euromaidanpress.com/2025/07/17/u...
Rare to see a MĂśbius strip in literary form