foxandfriends Follow "We will never use this agency to censor scientists who disagree": Director Jay Bhattacharya reflects on his pandemic-era censorship experiences & outlines his commitment to open scientific communication at the NIH. April 1, 2025

A Health Department official said Dr. Jay Bhattacharya had met with the study's authors but that they had not wanted to change its design. Eric Lee for The New York Times By Apoorva Mandavilli April 22, 2026 The acting head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has canceled the publication of a study that found jthat the Covid vaccine sharply cut the odds of hospitalizations and emergency visits last winter, a Health Department spokesman said.

How it started / how it’s going — Jay Bhattacharya edition.

2025: “We will never use this agency to censor scientists who disagree"

2026 : Bhattacharya “has canceled the publication of a study that found that the Covid vaccine sharply cut the odds of hospitalizations and emergency visits”.

C.D.C. Cancels Publication of Study Showing Benefits of Covid Vaccines

Gift link to the story.

Bhattacharya’s problem with the study, of course, is that it adds to the enormous weight of evidence that he was wrong to advocate against COVID vaccines, and that his bad advice and policies have cost countless lives.

"If you poors could hurry up and die, that'd be really swell for us!"
-The GOP, probably.

just saw someone call Kash Patel “J Edgar Boozer” and need to lie down

Man Finally Good Enough At New Hobby To Understand How Bad He Is At It ST. LOUIS—Voicing frustration as he discussed his lack of even the most rudimentary skills, local man Henry Right told reporters Monday that he had finally gotten good enough at his new hobby to under...

“I picked up the guitar last year, and after endless hours of private lessons and online tutorials, I’ve now learned enough to realize that I have no idea what I’m doing with this instrument,” said the 45-year-old content strategist

Between not feeding his troops properly and making sure that they get sick, he certainly enforcing *an* outcome...

To be entirely fair, the current establishment Dems have largely been absent from the table and eating their own chess pieces when they think nobody is looking.

These are all quotes from Frasier.

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surprised pikachu face drawn on a Shock mtg card

:3

"This is an important thing to think about."

Chavez-DeRemer stepping down as Labor secretary The scandal-ridden secretary is the latest member of President Donald Trump's Cabinet to exit.

Lori Chavez-DeRemer was a scandal-ridden disgrace but more importantly she ended up being a stooge for Trump's anti-worker, pro-billionaire policies.

America deserves leaders who stand up for working people and the middle-class.

RUIZ: Bloomberg reports that Trump & the WH have benched you because you're making the president look bad

RFK Jr: That's not true

RUIZ: I think the reporting is correct. You're making the president look bad. You talked publicly about snorting cocaine off a toilet bowl seat. Your words, not mine.

Apparently Sam Altman also wrote a manifesto (on top of Marc Andreessens a while back). Are there others?
Genuine question: why do we think the tech bros are doing this? Which need does this fulfill for them?

GET HIS ASS

Man, when you compare the bravery of every day Minnesotans to the overpaid cops it’s astounding

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"In retrospect, basing the entire global food system on fossil fuels may have been a poor idea." -- @benehrenreich.bsky.social
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New US Congress bill proposal requires all operating system providers to verify ages We've covered here before on individual US states setting up their own age verification laws, and now a new US Congress bill has been proposed for it.

New US Congress bill proposal requires all operating system providers to verify ages
#Gaming #USA #PCGaming #US #AgeVerification

Calm down, computer software isn't making decisions about who lives and who dies in war. It merely processes a ton of data and then makes a recommendation to a human who has no realistic way to verify it

I hate Al and I refuse to use it Peter, if you don't use Al a bunch of super rich men will lose a lot of money I already said I hated Al Harry, you don't need to sell it to me

Translation: they are proposing a bill that says you cannot under any circumstances use a computer for any purpose without allowing the United States government continuous monitoring and a backdoor

It was never polling, it was donations.

Curious
#pixelart

RFK Jr: There's an argument for vapes. Vapes reduce cigarette smoking

DeSAULNIER: That was the argument Juul made

This just failed.

While finishing the second piece, I made a slight rework to the previous one by adding Kabru!

The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they're the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive-because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about "Western civilization," while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.

Really powerful, hopeful paragraph from the latest article in the Atlantic by @adamserwer.bsky.social

Discworld QOTD, from I Shall Wear Midnight