Before they were arrested- Vets are demanding an end to the war on Iran at the Cannon Building in Washington, D.C.

The ICE Detention Reengineering Initiative ($38 billion to convert commercial warehouses into a network of massive detention centers) is not being built primarily by GEO Group and CoreCivic. ICE is turning to a crop of relatively untested contractors. A look at who. 🧵

Organize and Advocate to Abolish Detention Across the country, people are uniting to protect immigrant family members, friends, coworkers, and neighbors. ICE’s detention centers are everywhere, which makes federal policy a local issue in communities nationwide. Detention Watch Network advances federal advocacy to end immigration detention and supports local member and state-wide campaigns through information sharing, strategy development, public education and communications.

⚠️ ICE/DHS is creating a humanitarian and public health crisis by concentrating people into camps in inhumane conditions

Find out about ICE in your area: www.detentionwatchnetwork.org/take-action/...

Find an org near you that’s fighting back: www.detentionwatchnetwork.org/membership/d...

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Understanding where people with tuberculosis seek care to serve them better In an ideal scenario, someone with chronic cough, fever, and weight loss would promptly seek care at a public tuberculosis clinic, be tested immediately for tuberculosis with a rapid molecular test an...

If we better understood where people seek care and why, could we not serve them better?

The answer is YES, and that's what our Lancet paper is about

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Not a dime of taxpayer money or govt contracts should go to Palantir.

Gil Duran tweet: TLDR: Fascism in response to Palantir's long fascists screed on X.

"Your Account is Suspended" Message on X

The CEO of Palantir posted a fascist manifesto on X.

I pointed out that it was fascist—which resulted in a permanent suspension from X (my second time!).

So, when you hear the tweeters complaining that BlueSky is intolerant, remember why many of us came here in the first place.

Upshot:

🟢 JB says scientist training is his #1 priority.

🔴 Yet, this fiscal year so far, training-related grants are down over 80% from expected levels.

Guys, you can’t do science without scientists. JB gets an F (but not an F grant... ba-dum-tss)

More funding curves at Grant Witness:

Trump Pardoned a Nursing Home Owner Who Owed Almost $19 Million to a Grieving Family Stories about pardons are often about presidential power. But what about people on the other side of that grace? The Coulson family may never receive millions from a wrongful death lawsuit it won year...

NEW: Stories about pardons are often about presidential power. But what about people on the other side of that grace? The Coulson family may never receive millions from a wrongful death lawsuit it won years ago. @jeremykohler.bsky.social

We Need to Prepare for the Mammoth Task of De-Trumpification The damage he and his cronies have wrought could take decades to repair, particularly when it comes to science and public health.

The task of de-Trumpification of science and public health will take a generation and a "Marshall Plan" to rebuild. Without a bold, expansive vision to guide us, there is no coming back. Small-bore, poll-tested versions of the future will not help us. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Structural and immunogenetic signatures guide CD4-mimetic HIV vaccine development @cp-cellreports.bsky.social
www.cell.com/cell-reports...

I'm so sick of this just being a tiny blip on the news radar, in part because there is so much other crazy shit happening. I want consequences for extrajudicial murder.

OH LOOK. THE GOV LINING UP TO USE SCIENCE AS A WEAPON AGAINST THE PUBLIC. WHO COULD HAVE POSSIBLY SEEN THIS COMING???

Answer: @standupforscience.bsky.social

The person you're now supporting.

the tech fascists think they are so clever and smart but their entire worldview is just a bunch of stale apologetics for race hatred and fascism

For U.S. medical researchers, shrinking labs and bare budgets are the new reality The Trump administration has slashed the number of grants from the National Institutes of Health, with far fewer focused on women, cancer and mental health.

Bhattacharya, Letai & other politicals at NIH keep trying to to say all at NIH is fine, because they spent the full budget last year. This well researched article from @carolynyjohnson.bsky.social explains exactly why many scientists are still struggling. www.washingtonpost.com/science/2026...

Today, a lot of people will be talking about the manifesto that Palantir released. In addition to pouring over what those words mean, I invite you to ground the conversation in what Palantir has already done.

Its work with Israel and ICE show us exactly what it stands for.

Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement

Federal judge unloads on ‘unserious’ RFK Jr., says anti-trans policy showed his ‘cruelty’ Judge Mustafa T. Kasubhai vacated the “Kennedy Declaration,” finding it unlawfully attempted to override medical standards and restrict care for transgender youth.

This judge is just not having RFK Jr. at all.

“Unserious leaders are unsafe," are the first four words in the judge’s Saturday opinion striking down HHS's attempt to ban gender-affirming care for minors through executive actions.

www.advocate.com/politics/nat...

Today marks National Transgender HIV Testing Day, a day to recognize the importance of routine HIV testing, status awareness, and continued focus on HIV prevention and treatment efforts among transgender and gender non-binary people.

Learn more: https://bit.ly/4tIhcLM

Jamal is too nice to say "utter hypocrisy," but that's what this is.

Today's #SCOTUS treats *all* coercive relief against the executive branch as imposing irreparable harm on the government. For that proposition, they cite a 2014 opinion by ... Chief Justice Roberts.

Its absence here is deafening.

Trump, IRS In Talks To Settle U.S. President's $10 Billion Lawsuit Trump's adult sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, and the Trump Organization are also plaintiffs.

Trump is reported close to a "deal" with himself under which US taxpayers would pay him $10 billion.

I served in multiple communist and authoritarian dictatorships, but I never witnessed corruption on this scale or this blatant.

Trump administration deports elderly Irishman from US to Costa Rica under controversial deal Man arrived in the central American country on Friday as part of a group of 22 deportees

Elderly Irishman deported by US to Costa Rice.
The US is increasingly sending deportees to countries where they have no connections. Shannon Airport is frequently used as a refuelling stop by aircraft involved in these operations, as reported by @gillianbrockell.com

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We don’t want a surveillance state. Call your reps to keep pressure on them!
www.congress.gov/members/find...

#pinks

Ending HIV requires research in and with South Africa Recent changes to US federal funding policies have reinstated mechanisms for submitting foreign research component grants following a prolonged period of uncertainty. However, despite the absence of a...

Ending #HIV requires research in and with South Africa www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... (free access with website registration) @thelancet.com

AFSA reports that State Department has finally put up the USAID Memorial plaque marking the ultimate sacrifice made by too many of our USAID colleagues. It was saved from DOGE when they trashed USAID. Apparently there’s going to be a rededication on May 4, but it likely won’t be public.

Of course.

TAG's Research Toward an #HIV Cure Trials listing, April 16, 2026 update: www.treatmentactiongroup.org/trials/

There are many added links to abstracts from #CROI2026, which the conference website made publicly available (along with webcasts) on April 8th.

It's journalistic malpractice to cover the murder of Dr. Cerina Fairfax solely through the lens of her husband's career failures and emotions.

In the U.S., every year, men kill ~2,000 women. Black women are murdered by men at a rate two and a half times higher than white women.

Read 🧵

Acetaminophen Exposure During Pregnancy and the Risk of Autism in Offspring This cohort study evaluates the potential association between prenatal acetaminophen exposure and risk of autism in Danish national registers.

In another massive data set of more than 1.5 million children ‌born between 1997 and 2022, the use of Tylenol during pregnancy was NOT associated with autism, even after accounting for ​individual risk factors. Autism was diagnosed in 1.8% of children exposed to Tylenol and 3% of the unexposed group.

Just want to be clear that when RFK Jr. said in the hearing today that he is “overhauling” the U.S. Preventative Services Task Force, it is because this administration wants to reduce the number of services that health insurance companies are required to cover.