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Excellent article from Flo and Zach When you put all the mutually exclusive scenarios for a lab related origin together in one place you can see what utter BSNow they are.
Whoa! From 1998. Still incubated with 35S, hahaha! I remember those days. Mostly analog (bringing your blot to the photographer) photography, but Photoshop was starting to be used in some labs. Can you see the unexpected duplications? #ImageForensics
Featured story: “HB 7 exports Texas’ extreme abortion ban far beyond state borders. It will fuel fear among manufacturers and providers nationwide, while encouraging neighbors to police one another’s reproductive lives, further isolating pregnant Texans, and punishing the people who care for them.”
His twin citations to Biden v. Texas and U.S. v. Texas are also the height of irony. He's trying to use them to say "look! We blocked lower courts from exercising too much power in Biden immigration cases, too." But the conservatives denied the Biden administration's emergency applications in both.
This is the best advice for the Democrats that I have read www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/o...
In 1980, Elaine Batchelor was attacked on a night train while backpacking alone in Europe. Two strangers stepped in and stayed by her side for the rest of the 12-hour ride.
Finally, I hope that leakers will one day realize how they have accused and sometimes ruined the lives of likely innocent people -- as one of them once did in a now distant past. ▫️9/fin Left: our paper doi.org/10.5802/crbi... Right: www.technologyreview.com/2021/06/25/1...
@zachhensel.bsky.social and I have a new paper on the origin of SARS-CoV-2! 🧪 There are a lot of reviews on the topic already, so we tried to do something different: characterize "lab leak" scenarios, and directly address those on SARS-CoV-2's furin cleavage site.▫️1/9 doi.org/10.5802/crbi...
Russian propaganda teaches Russians that Germany, Finland, Poland, the Baltic states, Ukraine, Azerbaijan were all "created" by Russia. A very dangerous narrative. 📹: Current Time
Featured story, from @byjustinmiller.bsky.social: These changes could deliver the GOP as many as 5 seats in the House and provide enough political cushion for the party to maintain control of the chamber and shield Donald Trump from electoral accountability and Democratic-led oversight.
The Trump administration is canceling the DOT’s rule to get passengers compensation for extreme airline delays - just the latest example of them siding with corporations and against customers.
Climate change is shifting where rice can grow. Long considered a southern crop, it has crept north into Missouri. It’s a crop that can thrive where others can’t. But for many farmers, making the transition to a new crop is nearly impossible.
“August 6, 1945, will remain forever a milestone in human annals. On that date the world's first atomic fission bomb was dropped upon Japan.” In a 1945 essay, Hanson Baldwin recounted the final days of World War II:
This. Trump (and his propagandists) have long been setting the stage for a Duterte-esque “war on drugs” used to justify a war on blue cities and immigrants.
Counterpoint: David Relman and at least one of the coauthors of this piece have believed ludicrously stupid conspiracist nonsense about the origins of SC2 & their claims of wanting more evidence are laughable in light of their refusal to contend with the extant evidence pointing to mundane zoonosis.
Highest level of support since Gallup started asking this question a quarter century ago
Ladapo said what? Comparing vaccines to slavery is just BEYOND insulting. A comment like that doesn't just miss the mark, it is diabolically ignorant & a slap in the face. Slavery is a REAL historical trauma, not a metaphor for vaccinations. @debunk-the-funk.bsky.social and Vincent discuss
Earlier this year, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dismissed all of the staff that distributed $1.7B annually in Social Services Block Grant funds, which many states depended on for their child welfare, foster care and adoption systems. (Published April 2025)
we have our official government response
Trump’s envoy Keith Kellogg said Russia’s strike on the government building in Kyiv shows no intent to end the war through diplomacy. He noted the rising risk of escalation and said he visited the site with PM Svyrydenko two weeks earlier.
I'm a little surprised O'Keefe's people can still do this hidden camera thing so successfully. If you work for the government and are on the dating apps you have to know this is happening constantly
Showers and thunderstorms may produce a localized threat of flash flooding over southern Texas and the Southeast coast and much of Florida. A few stronger thunderstorms capable of marginally severe hail/wind gusts are possible across portions of the central and southern High Plains.
💔Viktoriia Grebeniuk, 32, and her 3-months-old son Roman were killed by the Russian attack on #Kyiv last night. They were thrown out of the window by a drone strike. Viktoriia's husband, Roman's dad, was badly injured. Deepest condolences...
The Hill Country town of Boerne has broken ground on a new park. After a bond election, they purchased nearly 40 acres on the north side of the town. Read More👉 www.tpr.org/environment/202...
The de minimis rule that allowed small packages worth less than $800 to be exempt from tariffs ended on Friday, Aug. 29, 2025.
From @gusbova.bsky.social in our magazine: "Texas is six different states with a whole bunch of different cultures in it. That diversity is what has not only made Texas this fascinating endeavor, but it’s also what has made Texas so successful. You build successful, robust economies with diversity."
This article resonates with me as my American daughter starts college in the UK. I stay in the USA & work & resist so America does not become 1930s Germany paw.princeton.edu/article/max-...
Our lab at Yale literally studies government suppression of outbreak reporting. Please: don't promote unverifiable reports from anonymous accounts. They're very likely to be false, and it boosts unreliable actors. (If this is happening, I suspect CDC sources know how to text a journalist just fine.)
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My first year as co-EIC of Vaccine also means my first year co-chairing the #19VaccineCongress with Florian Krammer & Ivan Hung, w/ local chair Ken Ishii. Vaccination has saved hundreds of millions of lives worldwide, but it now faces a grave threat from my home country.
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I take Ozempic, a GLP-1 agonist, for weight loss. I lost 80 lbs. It has completely transformed my life and health, both physical & mental. But it is not without cost. Microdosing without evidence is a bad idea. Here are a few reasons why👇🏻 www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
"I'm interested in those four Republicans because they are three of the worst people in the world and Marjorie Taylor Greene. I view her as the most sincere MAGA in maybe all of America, and I can work with that." It's @jvl.bsky.social, @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social, and @timmiller.bsky.social:
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Jay Bhattacharya, an icon of apolitical objectivity, is giving a talk at a conference for MAGA ideologues this week. I thought it worthwhile to dissent to his hypocrisy. open.substack.com/pub/rasmusse...
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“This is unacceptable, and it should alarm every American, regardless of political leanings.” -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...
Emily overcomplicating it. As I said, we’ve been cultivating Alex W as a source for sometime now. After all, he has always said that he’s a good listener….😉
Critical thread here. Congress has stepped up but they need to do more—they need to check the Executive Branch from running roughshod over their constitutional power of appropriation. They need to stop America from stagnating in the intellectual backwaters of a dictatorship
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Gavin Newsom is exactly right, Trump is doing everything we told you he would do and more. It's time to wake the hell up, America. Authoritarianism is here.
No matter what @MarshaBlackburn keeps saying, it’s not criminals they’re targeting. www.cnn.com/2025/08/30/u...
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Bonfire of expertise: Trump drives scientists, spies and soldiers out of government
Public servants should face the public. So why are federal agents wearing masks to hide their faces? Check out our mobile billboard driving around Washington, D.C. right now demanding federal agents take their masks off!
Republicans used to be against federal government overreach—but now they're silent as Trump seems to be forming a personal paramilitary force.
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"January 6 survivor and former MPD Officer Michael Fanone launches a campaign demanding that federal officers remove their masks, advocating for transparency." Check out our new D.C. campaign demanding federal agents take off their mask! @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social www.wusa9.com/article/news...
Masked federal agents assault and disappear an American citizen into an unmarked van. Her name is Amanda Trebach. She was lawfully participating in a community patrol near ICE/CBP raids. For that, she was effectively kidnapped. If they can do this to a nurse in public, they can do it to you.
"If you want to be a patriot, it means you stand up for the Constitution in our first amendment and those people (MAGA) do not." — Tom Palmer at @theunpopulist.net 100% this. Liberals own the flag. We own the Constitution. We own the greatest chapters of American life. 🇺🇸
It's impossible to overstate how big of a deal this is. In a normal world, there would be impeachments, investigations, and prison sentences.
You watch as a child sobs for his mother—while masked agents of the state prepare to drag her away. ICE: “I don’t have any choice… [we’re just following orders].” The coward’s refrain. The excuse of weak, spineless men—echoed by every tool of tyranny throughout history.
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Wondering what vaccines to get this fall or whether they will even be available? Most will be, but maybe for the last time. Make sure your family is up to date while you still can. open.substack.com/pub/rasmusse...
The MAHA assault on vaccines will kill people & usher in a scientific Dark Age. RFK Jr has got to go. Please join me, my fellow @accountabilityji.bsky.social advisory board members, Nobel laureates, National Academy members, & colleagues calling for his resignation. www.change.org/p/demand-rfk...
I'm on @npr.org 1A today with @pauloffit.bsky.social, talking about COVID vaccines, the impact of cuts to federal research funding, and navigating the current health information landscape. Join us!
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The second amendment guarantees the right to a militia to guard against federal tyranny. But if a president can use that force against its own state, against the wishes of that state, then it is no militia at all and a clear violation of the second amendment.
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A national donor class largely funds elections, whether national or state, or occasionally even local. Could a constitutional amendment - the "For Our Freedom Amendment" - be the answer? Jeff Clements joins @johnavlon.bsky.social in the latest episode of How To Fix It:
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Trump's threat to put troops in Baltimore underlines the extent to which he's using military/paramilitary occupations to demonstrate force to elected opposition figures who talk back like Pritzker and Moore. (Note also his threat to claw back congressionally voted funds for the Key Bridge rebuild.)
Remembering today when pro-GOP media erupted with outrage over Kamala Harris' warning that Trump had plans to militarize the national guard and deploy them on the streets of US cities. Indeed, he had such plans. And now he's implementing them.
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If you believe that keeping your head down and being quiet will spare you from this fate, you are mistaken. This will be all of us.
Shelby County, where Musk’s xAI facility sits, has Tennessee’s highest rate of ER visits for asthma. For the majority-Black residents of the area, emissions from the company’s methane gas turbines exacerbate longstanding public health concerns.
From @francescadnunz.bsky.social: “He has never been imprisoned or had a criminal record. His life has always been marked by hard work and integrity. He has no connection to the Tren de Aragua case.”
Performance isn’t just winning. 🏅 For Apolo Ohno it was about leaving nothing on the table & giving all of himself to that moment. 📺 Watch the latest episode of Men Talking Mindfulness with hosts Will Schneider & Jon Macaskill👇 🔗 youtu.be/oYj4fbWaPNU?...
Today is #Ukrainian Independence Day.We celebrate this day in full. This is our holiday that we fight for every day I think that this is also the holiday of everyone who stands with Ukraine, supports&helps Ukraine all these yrs. Thankful to all friends of UkraineMay we have the long-awaited peace!
John Bolton: “The historical verdict on Trump will be devastating. It’s rare to see one person being so destructive. He’s more like a vandal warlord than a constructive president. That’s what history will judge him on very severely.”
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Democrats should focus like a laser on the issue of affordability. Donald Trump is 25 points underwater on the issue of inflation. Since 2024, there has been a 34-point swing against him. Trump promised to lower costs but instead he has driven up prices for working families and small businesses.
No, I'm saying that people who think high rates of civilian vs military casualties is proof of genocide are people who have never read a fargin' history book.
In a major blow to scientists who had NIH grants terminated by the Trump administration, the U.S. Supreme Court has told the government it can refuse to restore $783 million in federal research funding. https://scim.ag/45R0QWZ
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There is an AI generated photo of me on Facebook. I want all my friends who may see this account to report it as fake, as I haven’t been on Facebook since 2016. Thanks. The age of disinformation is upon us.
This video from First Street Jetty, Virginia Beach this morning illustrates the power of even distant storms like Erin as it passes around 400 miles off the U.S. East Coast. Dangerous surf will be seen along much of the coastline from Maine to Florida through the day. weather.gov/beach
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