Overall: mRNA is one of the most powerful vaccine platforms modern medicine has.👇

There are a lot of writers I would like to read more of, but the moment I see "Substack" I'm like, er, well that's too bad.

If you are on Substack and wondering why, here's a primer, with some options for other platforms.
leavesubstack.com

Tracee Ellis Ross delivered a #CupOfJoe full of real truth for women.

Emotions are not the problem.
Especially your anger.

Your anger carries truth, history, & wisdom.

Healing starts when you stop silencing yourself & start paying attention.

WHY ARE WE ALL PICKING ON DOUG?!

WHEN HAS DOUG EVVVVER DONE ANYTHING WRONG?!!

Documents Reveal a Web of Financial Ties Between Trump Officials and the Industries They Help Regulate ProPublica is releasing a trove of disclosure records that detail the finances of more than 1,500 Trump appointees, including former lobbyists, industry executives and at least a dozen officials who d...

#ICYMI: We released a trove of disclosure records that detail the finances of more than 1,500 Trump appointees, including former lobbyists, industry executives and at least a dozen officials who declined to identify former clients.

For the record, for anyone who’s forgotten, it’s sheer madness for a president to contradict himself nearly every day. It’s profoundly wrong that we can’t trust the veracity of a single thing that he says.

A zen moment - forest light passing through a reed

Globe showing the Atlantic Ocean with arrows depicting the AMOC circulation: warm surface currents (pink/red) flowing northward from the tropics toward the Arctic, and cold deep return currents (blue/purple) flowing southward. The background shows sea surface temperature trends, with a prominent blue cold patch, the "cold blob", south of Greenland, contrasting with warming (orange/red) across the rest of the ocean.

1/ There's a system of ocean currents in the Atlantic that shapes Europe's #climate, drives monsoons, and keeps sea levels stable along the US coast.

In the last 5 years, the scientific evidence that it could collapse has shifted dramatically.

Most people have no idea. 🧵

Tell Congress: Stop Trump’s Illegal Plan to Destroy the US Forest Service Contact Congress today!

Tell Congress: Block Trump’s illegal scheme to gut the US Forest Service. Our public lands are not for sale to developers and polluters. Stand up for our forests before it’s too late.
#VoteYesVirginia! actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

Burning wood for power worse for climate than gas equivalent, report finds Research casts doubt on plans by UK government to offer subsidies for carbon capture attached to the power source

It's 2026. The question isn't which thing can we burn to produce electricity that is slightly less worse than the other things we burn.

Building new infrastructure to burn things in 2026 is peak stupidity and greed.

Luckily solar, wind and storage are cheaper.

Good news is #Habs are beating Tampa in every facet of game (but working the refs)

Good 1st overall
#GoHabsGo 🇨🇦🫡

Pathetic: Trump's Deranged Islamabad Circus

This is not diplomacy — it's a national embarrassment.

After JD Vance's 21-hour negotiating marathon in Pakistan collapsed with ZERO agreement, Trump is now shipping Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff back to Islamabad for round two.

1/

The New Twin Fossil Shock | Ember How the energy crises of the 2020s speed up the electric age

Trust your common sense: yes, a series of massive fossil fuel supply shocks is, in fact, going to radically accelerate the process of electrification & decarbonization.

Map showing the western United States mean temperature for January to March 2026 relative to a 1991-2020 departure.

Almost the entire Western United States is averaging more than 5°F warmer than the most recent 1991-2020 climate baseline so far in 2026, which is truly remarkable. Off the color scale here!

Graphic from wrcc.dri.edu/my/

🛡️ @timothysnyder.bsky.social joins Sky Defense!

Our ambassador is raising $500,000 for interceptor drones and other air defense equipment to help protect Ukrainians from russian attacks.

Join us — let’s make a difference, strengthening Ukraine against terror:
u24.gov.ua/news/timothy...

Three jars on top of a black microwave against a pale green wall, each with plants in them. On the left, blue Scilla in water. In the middle, pussy willows in a dry jar, locust seed pods around the base. On the right, a small bottle of water with a blooming branch of yellow forsythia.

Spring things in jars in our kitchen.

😡😡😡😡😡👎

The only well run portion of this entire war effort has been the market manipulation and profiteering.

Billions of Birds Have Vanished in a Generation | The Walrus To save them, we need to look and listen

Billions of Birds Have Vanished in a Generation: Spring is billions of birds quieter than a century ago, and there’s no sign that these losses will slow. thewalrus.ca/billions-of-... via @thewalrus.ca #environment #nature #ornithology #ecology #SciChat

OUT: Carney's speech.
IN: Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez speech in Beijing
"navigate this post-Rupture world in which Washington’s reliability can no longer be assumed, and in which Beijing’s partnership, however complicated, cannot be refused"
www.sinicapodcast.com/p/pm-pedro-s...

Against a dark background, the Sun’s disc is shown in dark orange, as captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory. A thin halo of yellow light surrounds the Sun, giving it a luminous outline against the dark background of space. This yellow outline shows the Sun’s inner corona, as captured by Proba-3. Also in yellow, two solar prominence eruptions are visible, resembling bright yellow wave-like outburst extending outwards from the Sun -- a large one in the top left and a much smaller one in the bottom right.

#PPOD: The Sun’s inner corona, the hottest part of our star's atmosphere, appears faint yellow in this image taken by the ASPIICS coronagraph aboard Proba-3. The image combines data from Proba-3’s ASPIICS coronagraph (inner solar corona in yellow)... 🧪 🔭

‘It’s just madness’: Trump administration to close three-quarters of Forest Service research stations Between funding cuts, facility closures, and the inevitable resignations that will follow, there’s virtually no way for the Forest Service to continue to do research at its current level or quality, w...

My big takeaway from reporting this story is that it's not JUST about the Forest Service.

The closure of these stations threatens to upend a delicate system of mutually beneficial collaboration and resource sharing, and the impacts will ripple out far beyond the Forest Service itself.

Grad school: to be successful in a future career you're going to need to focus on THIS ONE THING for the next 5 years.

The actual career in question: you can't focus on one thing for more than 30 minutes at a time and you have to keep switching between 1000 things endlessly

I'm helping to lead a group of Senate Democrats who are planning to force a vote - every single week the Senate is in session - to end the war in Iran. We have that right under the Senate rules, and we are going to keep putting Republicans on record supporting this insane war.

Nice country for holidays and the world cup, huh?

But in many ways, it describes JD perfectly. He is an empty vessel, a cosplaying chameleon. Everything comes from a vacuous void of arrogance.

Congrats!

Gas tax breaks are bandaids at best. Real solution is to help low & middle-income Cdns get off fossil fuels. Invest in solar, heat pumps, batteries, EVs. Tackle barriers, offer real incentives & fund w/ windfall tax on Big Oil (who are laughing all the way to the bank). Cleaner, cheaper, healthier.

Carney has announced he’s temporarily dropping the relatively small gas tax. He didn’t need to do that, with Poilievre in a free fall. And all it does is fuel the idea that gas taxes drive gas prices, which they obviously don’t. This was a mistake, similar to letting the carbon tax be reframed.