I’m assuming he doesn’t know about George Washington and smallpox?

WELL NOW, would you look at that?

A massive, 26-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 2.4 MILLION people in Sweden found NO EVIDENCE to support a causal link between acetaminophen (the API in Tylenol) use during pregnancy and increased risk of autism, ADHD, OR intellectual disability in children.

American combat deaths in World War I: 54,000.
American soldiers killed by flu in World War I: 45,000.
They would have given anything for a flu vaccine.

The natural gas powerplants being built to power just this one data center will emit somewhere around 20-35 Megatons of CO2 (back of the envelope math, in metric tons) per year.

That's something like 4-7 million typical American drivers' vehicles worth of annual emissions. One data center. One.

The lede:

“One could call it a, ahem, hard case. But ultimately, an Alabama judge found, not hard enough.”

Completely idiotic. Worse, we have to read the ludicrous, completely unscientific claims of three unqualified influencers before we get to the first doctor’s warning! Just the dumbest grift by the same hacks who have championed other dangerous “cures” like raw milk and ivermectin.

This. N95’s can save lives from wildfire smoke. The scientific evidence of the damage caused by Particulate matter is clear and terrifying.

I’m old enough to remember when talking heads scolded us for supposedly being in an echo chamber over our repeatedly stated global warming concerns. Almost as if we weren’t the ones in the chamber.

Study Finds Each Protein in the Epigenome Produces a Different Pattern of Gene Expression A new study finds the proteins responsible for controlling which genes are expressed in a genome do more than simply turn a gene on or off.

We've known that the proteins in the epigenome control DNA expression, but we thought they were just on-off switches.
They're not. They're more.

This is pretty remarkable.
🧪🔬🧬

news.ncsu.edu/2026/04/each...

Just no.

Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later.

“Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial. Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later.”

This is why we should fund science. 🧪

Wait until you hear about "cars"

Someday, with luck and hard work, she will have a name too.

Trump can try to erase January 6th convictions, but he can't erase history This week, Donald Trump’s Department of Justice asked a federal court to erase the seditious conspiracy convictions of a dozen far-right leaders of the January 6th attack on the Capitol. Trump is going beyond mercy, and seeking to tell us that January 6th was not what we watched happen with our own eyes, but history doesn’t vacate that easily. 

Donald Trump’s DOJ asked a federal court to erase the convictions of a dozen far-right leaders of the January 6th attack on the Capitol. It’s an effort to say: January 6th was not what we all watched with our own eyes. But history doesn’t vacate that easily. #Velshi

This is the potential that has excited researchers about mRNA technology, at the exact same time that the very same technology has been targeted by HHS for huge cuts when applied to infectious diseases. 🧪

Dear Member of Congress: The Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and HIV Medicine Association (HIVMA) are deeply grateful for the longstanding bipartisan support from Congress for the National Institutes of Health (NIH). We want to inform you of current and likely impacts of delays and changes in funding policies and procedures for NIH grants. Our concerns relate to the following areas within NIH: • Massive reduction in notice of funding opportunities • Delays in funding processes and inadequate capacity to administer grants • Increase in forward funding of multiyear awards in year one • Delays and potential lapses in funding for large clinical trial networks and clinical trial units Lack of transparency around permitted international collaborative partners for research projects • Disproportionate impact of grant terminations on vulnerable populations, especially women and people of color

U.S. infectious disease research is on the brink. Without immediate action from Congress, much of it will cease to exist within a year.

For example👇

1️⃣ No collaborative RFAs posted for >1 year (normal: many / year).
2️⃣ No foreign collaborators allowed on grants.

🧪🪦 www.idsociety.org/globalassets...

Yet another ICE inmate death is ruled a homicide by medical examiners.

Tell the truth and get fired.

Current hostility (on the part of politicians and institutional leaders alike) to even looking at the past is strikingly blunt. It touches many disciplines, but denying history is the key issue.

The backlash against Bouie’s piece on Enlightenment and then the 1619 Project were public turning points

The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

it is, among other things, incredibly striking to see that roberts was so solicitous of the burden the clean power plan might put on fossil fuel executives, when, a decade later, he is indifferent to the way trump’s moves have thrown hundreds of thousands of lives into turmoil.

Screenshotted excerpt from linked article reading as follows: "In public, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. has cultivated a reputation for care and caution. The papers reveal a different side of him. At a critical moment for the country and the court, the papers show, he acted as a bulldozer in pushing to stop Mr. Obama’s plan to address the global climate crisis. When colleagues warned the chief justice that he was proposing an unprecedented move, he was dismissive. “I recognize that the posture of this stay request is not typical,” he wrote. But he argued that the Obama plan, which aimed to regulate coal-fired plants, was “the most expensive regulation ever imposed on the power sector,” and too big, costly and consequential for the court not to act immediately."

OOP

New York Times got receipts on John Roberts being like, 'I know this isn't how anything works, but a Democratic president is about to implement a policy!!'

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

"Those taxes you just paid? The money is going straight into Trump's pocket" would be good messaging

What I Saw Inside the Kennedy Center I spent 10 months working at the institution because I thought I could help protect it. What I observed there is far worse than the public knows.

The NIH is very different from the Kennedy Center. But this article feels eerily familiar.

“What I observed there far worse than the public knows.”

www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

Rümeysa Öztürk, Tufts University grad arrested by ICE agents last year, returns to Turkey - The Boston Globe The government and Öztürk’s legal team have jointly moved to dismiss her immigration proceedings.

America is losing a talented researcher today.
Rümeysa Öztürk, whose abduction by masked men prompted a search and her eventual release by ICE, has returned to Turkey. She wants to resume a career without "state-imposed violence and hostility."
www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/17/m...

FDA Vaccine Chief Front-Runner Called mRNA Vaccines “Experimental Genetic Technology,” Compared Pandemic Response to Iranian Rule Dr. Houman David Hemmati is closely aligned with the MAHA movement.

NEW: The front-runner to become the nation’s next vaccine chief has called the mRNA COVID shots “experimental genetic technology,” compared the pandemic response to Iranian rule, and branded pandemic awareness a “COVIDian religion.”

www.importantcontext.news/p/fda-vaccin...

Montana Supreme Court Rules Its Constitution Entirely Protects Trans Citizens In Landmark Ruling The ruling will have enormous impacts for transgender residents in the state.

1. In a landmark ruling, the Montana Supreme Court has declared that the constitution, one of the most progressive in the nation, entirely protects transgender people.

The ruling is even insulated from SCOTUS decisions, due to how state constitutions work.

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I study racism for a living and can still manage to be shocked by how institutionalized it is. What do you mean they were giving tax-breaks to white supremacists celebrating treason?

just a wild country

Again, Project 2025 literally published its blueprint for turning the US into an extreme authoritarian society before the election. The chief architect, Vought, is now OMB director (and the “shadow President” per ProPublica) so is trying to make good on his twisted vision.

For decades, birthday party clowns folded balloons and played games. John Wayne Gacy is taking a different approach.

Project 2025: The right-wing conspiracy to torpedo global climate action The GOP threatens to weaponize a potential second Trump term against any and all domestic climate action. But what happens in the United States doesn’t stay in the United States.

Since Viktor Orbán’s approach to governance in Hungary was cited by the Heritage Foundation as their blueprint for #Project2025 (kettering.org/the-global-d...) it seems like a good time to re-up this piece in Aug '24 piece in @thebulletin.org: thebulletin.org/2024/08/proj...