SCOOP: Two weeks ago, the head of the CDC delayed publication of a report showing covid vaccine cut likelihood of ER visits and hospitalizations by half. Now that report is no longer allowed to be published in CDC’s flagship scientific journal. My latest. 1/2
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...
trump and republicans making america great again by... cutting cancer research:
www.washingtonpost.com/science/2026...
🚨BREAKING: The Department of Justice is demanding that Wayne County, Michigan turn over its ballots from the 2024 election to investigate voter fraud claims. Michigan’s attorney general and secretary of state have responded saying that’s not going to happen. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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...
This is a well-documented pattern in medical research and reflects systemic gender bias in pain assessment and treatment.👇
We should be learning from other countries...
In another massive data set of more than 1.5 million children born between 1997 and 2022, the use of Tylenol during pregnancy was NOT associated with autism, even after accounting for individual risk factors. Autism was diagnosed in 1.8% of children exposed to Tylenol and 3% of the unexposed group.
One of the best
While you’ve all already paid billions more for gas during Trump’s war, the White House wants you to know that Big Oil is doing just great.
“.. Inflation was coming down in the United States — and then Trump’s tariffs happened.”
@heathmayo.bsky.social
Disappointed, though not surprised, I began to describe various life- saving components of USAID’s global health portfolio, highlighting how we prepare for and respond to emerging pandemic threats; support the diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis, malaria, and HIV; and immunize millions of children from the deadliest childhood diseases. I spoke for about five minutes, focusing primarily on our infectious diseases work and hoping to keep the attention of people who seemed to have no experience—or interest—in global health. When I finished, the room was silent, the political appointees looking at one another in what appeared to be disbelief. The silence was broken by Ken Jackson, who chuckled softly and shook his head. “Wow, there really is so much that USAID does that we never knew,” he said. “This is the story that needs to get out there.” Joel, also smiling, chimed in next, echoing Jackson’s amazement. “I had no idea you did all this,” he said. “As a Republican, when I think of what USAID does in global health, I assumed it was just, you know, abortions.”
This is NUTS
www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-usai...
In an age of performative cruelty, kindness is punk as fuck. Be punk as fuck.
WTF!
Exclusive: The acting director of the CDC has delayed publication of a report showing the covid-19 vaccine cut the likelihood of ER visits and hospitalizations for healthy adults last winter by about half, according to two scientists.
"Filing taxes should be really easy and completely free. It is in most other developed countries. In 2024, the Biden administration debuted a program called Direct File to make tax filing easy and free for most American taxpayers, too.
President Trump killed it."
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/04/o...
BREAKING: Another person has died in ICE custody, per required notification to Congress, marking 15 deaths in detention this year and 45+ since Trump took office again.
I am super geeking out over these new Artemis photos.
The “Earthrise” is crazy.
Flat earthers are in shambles.
I watch a documentary about him that the Pan African Film Festival showed. It is excellent.
Graphic promoting voting in Virginia with the text "VOTE YES for fair elections." Features the Virginia State Capitol, a cardinal, and dogwood flowers. Additional text: "Early voting is open until Saturday, April 18" and "Make your plan to vote at IWillVote.com."
Virginia: Vote YES! Early voting is open for the next two weeks until Saturday, April 18.
As Trump and Republicans try to rig the midterms in their favor, you have the chance to stop them.
Make your plan to vote early or on Election Day, April 21, at IWillVote.com.
Your federal government on Trumpism:
"More than 10,000 veterans lost their homes to foreclosure since May 2025, when the Trump administration shut down a key safety net in the VA home loan program...
"Another 90,000 vets are heading toward foreclosure..."
www.npr.org/2026/04/02/n...
Why do we live in such a childish, stupid country? A country that wastes its money on useless billion dollar aircraft carriers, when it could be spending those tax dollars to actually help its citizens like sane countries.
Wow
I coined the term "eligible voter" over a quarter century ago to make a distinction between the voting-age population and eligible voters when calculating turnout rates. Makes me think whenever I see it that I changed the world in this small way
RUBIO: “Imagine if Iran spent billions on its people instead of weapons... They’d have a much different country.”🤔😕
Unreal. @marcorubio Do you even hear yourselves? Your shameless hypocrisy is killing us
I mean there it is.
