New from me: RFK Jr., who has spent decades pushing disinformation about the safety of vaccines, insanely insisted to Congress today he's played no role in fueling the resurgence of measles in the U.S.
"I've never been anti-vaccine." www.huffpost.com/entry/rfk-me...
So much false equivalence in media on gerrymandering in Texas vs California & Virginia. California and Virginia maps approved by the voters. That's a huge difference not enough people pointing out
surprise: if you have always believed in disenfranchisement as a fundamental tenet of your politics you may not have as much left to gerrymander as the party whose voters do in fact broadly speaking believe in democracy
“A majority on the three-judge panel from the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals said the Florida-run facility wasn’t under federal control and didn’t need to comply with federal law requiring an environmental impact review.”
Angry goose meme. Close-up in the top panel has a squinting goose asking "Which sins of science" In the bottom panel, it's angrily chasing a person yelling "WHICH SINS???" in satisfyingly large font.
The more I hear our leaders agreeing that science should atone for its sins & needs to be reformed, the more I find myself asking "which sins, exactly?"
I wholeheartedly agree that systemic biases in academia & medicine harm a whole lot of people! ...but that's not what they mean, now is it?
there are nearly 13 million lawful permanent residents in the United States, and they generally have the right to leave and return to the U.S. as they please
on Wednesday, the Trump admin will ask the Supreme Court to change that
read up about Blanche v. Lau 👇🏾
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This is monstrous. Just profoundly shameful behavior by our government.
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Worth noting how many organizations like SPLC neutered themselves and the work that they do, trying to avoid this very moment. Especially since Trump won again. But MAGA was always going to come for them. And eventually, we'll all be targets. No matter how much we tried to remain nonpartisan, etc.
MAHA's leaders claim they want to end sickness, but they intend to do it by ending chronically ill and disabled people's access to the care that keeps us alive.
The MAHA plan for ending chronic illness is simply ending chronically ill people.🧵
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"Cleaning up the risk pool" is a euphemism for eugenicist depraved heart murder. When the Trump regime takes health insurance away from people who rely on it to pay for the medically necessary services that keep us alive, we die. RFK Jr knows that 🧵
RFK Jr. told the House E&C Committee today that the way to bring down healthcare costs is to "clean up the risk pool" — remove the people who cost too much. He said the $4.3 trillion we spend on chronic disease is the emergency. He said most of Minnesota's autism services funding was stolen. 🧵
(2/14) One new disclosure in our @NewYorker investigation: there was no written report, and findings were kept deliberately out of writing.
Full story here: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
And a thread below.
(🧵1/14) When OpenAI board members hired the law firm WilmerHale to investigate Sam Altman's firing over two years ago, many executives at the company expected to see extensive findings. Instead, OpenAI released a brief announcement with few details.
Sloth World, a proposed sloth attraction advertising to promote conservation, has killed dozens of animals due to poor storage conditions and disease. The attraction was supposed to open in February despite the attraction and its associated importer not having required USDA licenses.
We're hiring editorial fellows in SF and DC. Great gig that has launched hundreds of media careers:
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On the week Prince died, a decade ago, I had launched a big project on opioid overdoses for @mprnews.org. Seems like it's important to remember that opioids took Prince's life and the lives of hundreds of thousands of other Americans, continuing to this very day. share.google/kNbyhuO28DW6...
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Last week: Leadership for Educational Equity’s theory of change is top-down, meritocratic, and technocratic. It openly embraces the aims and generous funding of oligarchs; this means a cozy relationship with funders who are deeply committed to charter school expansion.
The Specials "A Message to Rudy" (1979) cc: @rpanchasi.bsky.social
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Lori Chavez-DeRemer @LChavezDeRemer X.com No one fights harder for the American Worker than President Trump and I am honored to have served under the most pro-worker president in US history. The allegations against me, my family, and my team have been peddled by high-ranked deep state actors who have been coordinating with the one-sided news media and continue to undermine President Trump's mission. I look forward to continuing to fight the good fight from the outside and always advocating for the American worker. 5:50 PM • 4/20/26 • 59K Views
It seems that the hard right can only ever be happy out of power. Once they control all three branches of government, fire all the civil servants and install partisans, and are unconstrained by the rule of law, they still have to blame “the deep state.” Sister you are the state
“Florida is sending criminal subpoenas to OpenAI, opening a novel investigation into whether a chatbot could be criminally liable for use in a mass shooting.”
IIRC, two thirds of the soldiers who died in the Civil War died of disease, not wounds. Anyone who actually prioritized warfighting and lethality and all those things Hegseth goes on about would mandate vaccines, since it’s hard to be a lethal warrior when you’re dead (or even seriously ill.)
His special session wish list also includes vaccine exemptions and redistricting. So…still shitty.
He is also fighting data centers. (You do not have to hand it to DeSantis for correctly getting on the right side of popular opinion)
DeSantis is an AI skeptic and is pressing the state legislature for an AI bill of Rights to protect consumers during the special session he called for the end of the month. He frequently employs lawfare to move issues that stagnate in lawmaking. For once, he’s on the right side. Entirely by accident
Warrior or not flu, anthrax, smallpox and meningitis can still prove lethal. All are vaccine preventable or attenuated significantly by vaccination. Only, Idiots will not understand these facts.
National Library Workers Day sign
Library workers are a special kind of civil servant. Our mandate is to give you and everyone else free access to some of the best things you can have: learning, self-enrichment, community, contemplation, fun, and simple peace and quiet. the best way to appreciate us is to come use us. 🙂 📚
There's something about this white-supremacy-coded-as-reason that drives me up a fucking wall.
We're here because we DID NOT stand up for leftist principles of universal education. NOT because we didn't teach enough Western Civilization, or condemn anti-genocide protestors.
You jackass.
