I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

This is fucking dark.

this is America

'Non-writers are producing books in the same way that car thieves are producing cars"

🔗: peoplem.ag/3N7f1l5

Asked if Americans should worry about Iran retaliating against Americans on U.S. soil, President Donald Trump responded, “I guess.”

📷: Aaron Schwartz/Getty

A man asked me last night what publishing needs to do for literary fiction to begin appealing to men again. I said, as nicely as I could, that, with over 2,000 books published every Tuesday, of which many would appeal to men, it’s not a publishing problem, it’s a men problem.

Pro Trump, Pro Netanyahu fanatics Larry and David Ellison will most likely now control Paramount, CBS, CNN, HBO, Warner Bros, and TikTok

‘No one deserves this’: Beaverton father dies after deportation to Mexico A Beaverton family is grieving after the father, who was detained and deported by ICE, has now died.

This 53 year old man who lived in my neighborhood w/no criminal record & who had been in the US for 30 years, was detained and thrown into a cold cell for days, caught pneumonia and COVID there and deported.

He finally died.

I am so angry.
www.kptv.com/2026/02/21/n...

Penn Nursing Story Slam Nurses have the best stories! Come out and hear them!

On February 25 I'm hosting the Penn Nursing Storyslam! Attendance is virtual & free. Thanks to @marionleary.bsky.social for their collaboration on this. I look forward to hearing from our special guest @sarahdigregorio.bsky.social as well as our storytellers! www.nursing.upenn.edu/calendar/eve...

FDA refuses to consider Moderna flu shot in move experts claim is part of ‘anti-vaccine agenda’ Agency says application rejected due to lack of ‘adequate and well controlled’ trial, but experts say ‘they’re just coming up with reasons’

The FDA refused to consider a new, possibly better flu vaccine, sending shockwaves through the industry and leading to the cancellation of vaccines against mono/MS, shingles, and more.

I asked: Did FDA approve the study design, as Moderna told me?
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I’ve said it before I’ll say it again

I’ve been genuinely astounded at how quickly & effectively RFK Jr & his allies—Drs Prasad, Bhattacharya, Makary, Høeg, Oz, & Kulldorff—have been able to dismantle the US vaccination system, including vaccine R&D

I thought guardrails might slow them, but nope

Toddler, Hospitalized with Life-Threatening Respiratory Failure, Was Returned to ICE Detention and Denied Prescribed Meds A toddler at an ICE detention center in Texas was rushed to the hospital with respiratory failure, pneumonia and more, and when the 18-month-old and her parents had to return to the center, ICE office...

first ICE almost murdered 18-month-old Amalia by knowingly denying and delaying her access to life-saving care, then they stole the medicine she needed to stay alive: people.com/toddler-hosp...

Peter Attia Has Millions of Followers, a CBS Contract—and Some Seriously Bad Epstein File Appearances Doctors should be “far more concerned about the oath that you took than adjacency to powerful people,” says one physician—who, unlike Attia, is board certified—of the best-selling author and new CBS N...

I wrote about Peter Attia for @vanityfair.com because honestly we all deserve better than this garbage. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/p...

cover of The Washington Post on Wednesday Feb 4, 2026. Headline on bottom, right: Musk wanted to hook users; his chatbot got more sexual

My story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com. I’m also among 100’s of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valley’s political power

Nitasha, I'm sorry. What a bunch of bullshit.

Trump, RFK Jr, and members of their health cabinet, including Drs Oz, Bhattacharya, and Makary

If you can’t see the links between the people in this photo and ICE kidnapping, torturing, & murdering people, then you really are not paying attention at all.

At all.

See, for example, this astounding piece by @sarahdigregorio.bsky.social

www.vanityfair.com/news/story/r...

🙏🙏

Man shot in Minneapolis by federal agents identified as VA nurse: ‘He wanted to help people’ Alex Pretti, 37, worked in the ICU at the Minneapolis VA Health Care System and had assisted on scientific research

Alex Pretti took care of veterans as an ICU nurse. “He was a super nice, super helpful guy – looked after his patients," said @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social, who worked with Pretti both at the hospital and on scientific research. "I’m just stunned.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.

White. Hot. Rage.

Screenshot from STAT article that says "What we're going to have is a real-world experience of when unvaccinated people get measles," he said. "What is the new incidence of hospitalization? What's the incidence of death?"

RFK Jr. appointee Kirk Milhoan has just clearly stated, out loud, that he wants to experiment on the people of the United States by seeing what happens as vaccination coverage plummets and infectious diseases spread.

Watching the Greenland thing unfold really does feel like a psychotic break except instead of me breaking away from reality it's reality breaking away from me

Our Vaccine System Is Delicate. Trump Just Threw a Bowling Ball at It. RFK Jr.’s changes to the childhood vaccination schedule threaten the complicated and expensive process through which doctors stock vaccine doses.

I know there's a lot going on in the world to track. Learning about the intricacies of our vaccine supply line shouldn't be one of them - yet here we are. New @newrepublic.com piece: newrepublic.com/article/2053...

This line graph illustrates the percentage change in agency staff levels from the previous year for nine major U.S. federal scientific and health organizations between the fiscal years 2016 and 2025. The agencies tracked include the CDC, Department of Energy, EPA, FDA, NASA, NIH, NIST, NOAA, and NSF. For the majority of the timeline between 2016 and 2023, the agencies show relatively stable fluctuations, generally staying within a range of +5% to -5% change per year. However, there is a dramatic and uniform plummet starting in the 2024–25 period. Every agency depicted shows a sharp downward trajectory, with staffing losses ranging from approximately -15% to over -25%. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows the most significant decline, dropping to roughly -26%, while the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows the least severe but still substantial drop at approximately -15%.

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.

www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Some perspective: The S&P opened down -1.3% on Trump's Greenland saber-rattling. That's $750 billion of wealth destroyed -- roughly equal to estimates of the value of Greenland.

And so ~in dollar terms~ his shenanigans have already cost the US one Greenland, and we've got nothing to show for it.

Do you know where this video came from? I see the youtube channel, and I'm going to reach out to the owner of it, but just wondering if you have insight about when and where he said this?

Thank you for sharing it

Oh not at all! I'm so glad you found it, thank you!

I wrote about the slashing of the recommended vaccine schedule for children for @vanityfair.com because I think it's too tempting to read RFK as being off in his own wacky "wellness" world. In fact, his attacks on public health are an integral part of Trump's overall project.

Thanks @gavinyamey.bsky.social