🧪 Great exploration of #PFAS pollution issue with Rob Bilott, @leanahosea.bsky.social, Oksana Pyzik and Ian Cousins.
🚰 Only the EU’s universal restriction on PFAS will truly turn off the tap on this ‘poison of the century’.
“A year into Donald Trump’s second term, the Department of Justice has become his private law firm,” Adam Serwer argues.
Well, this is an utter disaster for science.
This gutting of peer review is very likely driven by Project 2025/OMB/Vought, very likely is about funding junk science, and very likely is coming for #NIH and biomedical research next.
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Waste. Fraud. Abuse.
DEAR MISS MANNERS: A couple of years ago, my wife and I attended the wedding of two people who had been friends of ours for years. One year ago, the woman left the man for another man. We heard all about it from the man but heard nothing from the woman as we live in separate towns. We received a little Christmas package from the woman who, in her note, made no reference to her infidelity -- an act that considerably affected all who were friends of the pair. I felt instinctively the need to thank her for the gift and card, but I didn't feel as if I should ignore the issue of her leaving her husband. In the end, I wrote a thank-you note and told her what I thought of the situation - not in excoriating terms but in bluntly honest ones. In your opinion, was this boorish? GENTLE READER: Yes. Had you wished to register your disapproval you could have written her a dry letter of thanks; had you wished to register extreme disapproval, you could have returned the present. Miss Manners is afraid that “Thanks, slut," is not a proper communication.
with the holidays upon us please enjoy my favorite miss manners column (circa 2002)
If you call yourself a follower of Jesus Christ but support the pepper-spraying and arresting ministers, then thou art staggeringly full of crap.
Nice to meet you Blue; my name is Ella.
"I’d respect you more if you told me you actually believe in this crap and that’s why you were supporting the bill. But to tell me you don’t believe in this stuff, you think it’s going to hurt your own constituents, and vote for it anyway, that’s moral cowardice."
During the early days of the pandemic, I saw how the janitors worked tirelessly around the clock to make sure each room was sterilized to prevent the spread of COVID. Some worked 2-3 shifts in a row just to meet the demands of the hospital. I will never forget their hard work and dedication.🙏🏻
We are demanding today that all of the Epstein files be released. We have 212 Democrats and 4 Republicans.
We need just two more signatures to force the release, so we gather here to confront these corrupt forces.
Any Republican brave enough to stand up?
Independent and rural hospitals are collaborating with their neighbors to shore up their finances instead of joining larger health systems to stay afloat.
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
Thank you on this labor day!!
Results so stunningly clear they inspired this classic xkcd (xkcd.com/2400/):
"America’s leading physician groups are now openly defying Kennedy. U.S. vaccine consensus has officially shattered."
www.vox.com/health/45922...
“I was r*ped sometimes 3 times a day on that island… and I was not the only girl on that island… Ghislaine must die in prison, because I’ve been in hell and back for the last 17 years.”
Listen to the survivors.
People will go without health insurance next year. That's the reality.
We must do our best to not become numb.
Virginia Giuffre's family: "The content of these transcripts is in direct contradiction with felon Ghislaine Maxwell's conviction for child sex trafficking. During DAG Todd Blanche's bizarre interview, she is never challenged about her court-proven lies, providing her a platform to rewrite history."
For Mohammed "Adeel" Khaleel, MD, leaving the comforts of suburban Dallas for war-ravaged Gaza has always been an easy decision.
The hard part is coming home.
Read the full article at: www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/exclusiv...
My goldendoodle has better self-control as I walk up the porch stairs after being away for a week.
And the cover letter.
"I have advocated for academic freedom throughout my career, with a particular public focus in the last five years. My position has not changed; scientists must be allowed to pursue their ideas free of censorship or control by others."
One’s golfing, the other’s fishing—while shootings, kidnappings, and disappearances pile up. Their entire existence is built on hate. Pick a group—immigrants, scientists, doctors, LGBTQ, POC—make the majority hate them. Then sit back on the green or the dock and watch the hate they planted grow.
TWiN recently did an episode on this. If you'd like to dive into the neurology of it: youtu.be/b-Xbpgjrk20?...
BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: A higher up at the Bureau of Prisons WAIVED Ghislaine Maxwell's sex offender status in order to transfer her to a minimum security camp in Texas, per source. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...
Statement from the family of
Virginia Giuffree.
Blacks Swans are majestic… 😊
And don’t get me started on how cute the babies are…. 🥰❤️
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A flyby of Earth from the International Space Station.
-Credits: NASA
I’ve prosecuted Trump. I’ve researched him. I’ve devoured every book and article on him.
He is DESPERATE — overreacting because the WSJ articles drew blood and are almost certainly true.
And now he’s botching everything. Suing WSJ? Terrible idea. Releasing Maxwell? Even worse.
