Opinion | Does the Trump Administration Really Want More Teen Pregnancies?

Does the Trump Administration Really Want More Teen Pregnancies? www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/o...

Folate receptor beta drives NLRP3 inflammasome activation and pyroptosis in macrophages independent of folate binding Abstract. Folate receptor beta (FRβ), encoded by FOLR2, is selectively expressed in monocytes and macrophages, yet its function in innate immune signaling

Our work for the past 3+ years is finally published! Folate receptor beta drives NLRP3 inflammasome activation and pyroptosis in macrophages independent of folate binding url: academic.oup.com/jimmunol/art...

Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:

Judge Strikes Down Kennedy’s Vaccine Policies

🎉About. Damn. Time. 🎉

So much damage already done by RFKJ’s anti-science nonsense, but at least this ruling overrides the vaccine changes.

Let’s hope 🧠🪱 soon makes a speedy exit from the admin and goes back to whatever it is that rich nepo health influencer dilettantes do.

I Wrote Research Funding Announcements for NIH for 22 Years. This Year They’ve Published 14 How NIH went from 756 funding announcements to 14 in two years — and what it means for every disease that depends on federal research

This is depressing as hell. open.substack.com/pub/elizabet...

Good news today: @standupforscience.bsky.social is organizing rallies for science. 💪

Bad news:
Funded science is way down.

This is why I said wks ago the budget bill was “bad because it doesn’t go far enough.” How the science agencies are governed matters!!! This is killing labs. 🧪

Why Hot Sauce Has Helped Me Get Comfortable with Being Uncomfortable On learning to sit in discomfort — and why it matters more than you think

Terrific piece about leadership and practicing hard conversations by @dmaronoff.bsky.social

medium.com/p/why-hot-sa...

Thank you my friend! I appreciate you sharing this.

Why Hot Sauce Has Helped Me Get Comfortable with Being Uncomfortable On learning to sit in discomfort — and why it matters more than you think

Do you like hot sauce? medium.com/@aronoff/why...

NEJM: Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis after Measles Infection

bit.ly/4rFkQ8w @nejm.org

Get vaccinated.

Cutting HIV Funding Is Short-Sighted and Costly Why Investing in HIV Prevention and Treatment Is Essential for Public Health

medium.com/@aronoff/cut...

This is essential viewing—thank you Dr Green for sharing it

It’s a genuine tragedy to see the NIH Director embracing censorship so gleefully; his response to Dr Green (“it’s bad science!”) is one of the most repulsive things I’ve seen from Jay Bhattacharya, amidst a long list of vile utterances

Extended follow-up of invasive cervical cancer risk after quadrivalent HPV vaccination: nationwide, register based study Objectives To evaluate the long term risk of invasive cervical cancer after receiving the quadrivalent human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, how risk varies by time since vaccination, and to assess the ...

The HPV vaccine is durably AMAZING.A massive Swedish registry study w 18 years of follow-up found no waning protection against invasive cervical cancer. If vaccinated before age 17, cancer risk is cut by ~80%. Even those vaccinated later still had substantial protection.
www.bmj.com/content/392/...

Cutting HIV Funding Is Short-Sighted and Costly Why Investing in HIV Prevention and Treatment Is Essential for Public Health

medium.com/@aronoff/cut...

Deputy attorney general says administration will appeal order to release 5-year-old from ICE custody Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said in an interview that the Trump administration will appeal a federal judge’s decision to release a 5-year-old and his father from ICE custody in Texas.

Worst of the worst, right?

Still thinking about this young hero.

Not just the physical challenges to swim for hours to find help, but the psychological fear to having left your family behind in open waters and carrying the weight of being their only hope of survival.

This really deserves a lot of recognition.

Awesome!

Just watched this. Whoa. Nothing changes. Colonialism, capitalism, & neoliberalism are such horrible realities.

Blood in the Earth: Life and Death in Congo's Coltan Mines - BBC Africa Eye Documentary YouTube video by BBC News Africa

This hour long BBC documentary last was heart breaking. I was in tears watching the horror that is Coltan mining in the DRC. I highly recommend watching. I try to do my part by not buying new electronics unless absolutely necessary and I know it's not nearly enough.
youtu.be/jpIcC1_5JAk?...

DRC: Many killed in coltan mine disaster in east — rebels At least 200 were killed when mines collapsed at a coltan mining site in eastern Congo this week, rebel authorities say. The Rubaya mines, where the disaster occurred, supply a key metal for smartphon...

Every day miners in the DRC working under unsafe conditions with no protective gear, die so that we can have new electronic devices. A cruelty we all participate in willingly or not. It feels so hopeless 😔. How does one stop the cruel exploitation.
www.dw.com/en/rubaya-mi...

Pam Bondi just sent a letter to Minnesota officials saying ICE will leave if the state turns over its voter database to Trump.

Guess what? This has never been about safety or immigration. It’s a pretext for Trump to take over elections in swing states.

They are collectively and individually horrible.

The top cause of death among American kids is guns

Yet in RFK Jr’s first MAHA report, coauthored by Drs Bhattacharya & Makary, entitled “Make Our Children Healthy Again,” there is no mention of guns

And these 3 kooky, dangerous dudes have successfully rolled back vaccination 😢

I was just supposed to follow clergy leaders as they did a pilgrimage from George Floyd Square to Renée Good’s memorial.

But then when we got back to the landing spot, we found out an observer had been attacked by ICE agents who had been tailing the religious leaders.

From me today in Minneapolis:

Prenatal paracetamol exposure and child neurodevelopment: a systematic review and meta-analysis Current evidence does not indicate a clinically important increase in the likelihood of autism spectrum disorder, ADHD, or intellectual disability in children of pregnant individuals who use paracetam...

𝗜𝗠𝗣𝗢𝗥𝗧𝗔𝗡𝗧 𝗧𝗢 𝗞𝗡𝗢𝗪

Comprehensive analysis confirms safety of TYLENOL 💊 in pregnancy

𝘊𝘶𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘢 𝘤𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘩𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘢𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘮 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘮 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘳, 𝘈𝘋𝘏𝘋, 𝘰𝘳 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘢𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘨𝘯𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘵𝘢𝘮𝘰𝘭 𝘢𝘴 𝘥𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥

you know this guy is a FOR REAL photographer because he's telling the story of his brutal, unconditional arrest by federal goons and can't help but slip in a gear review

This is an extraordinary piece, about the NIH under Jay Bhattacharya

I urge you to read it

This week: we execute a U.S. citizen.

Next week: we take over elections to stop “fraud.”

It's so transparent what's going on here.