Grid scale batteries are the future. Not having to constantly worry about generating *just* enough electricity to handle grid scale fluctuations *and* being able to store renewable energy for later, an absolutely killer smart grid combination.
This is appalling: “Case counts [of measles] in 2026 are more than double what they were the same period of 2025 and more than ten times what they were in 2024.” 4/1/26 … 1/ www.nbcnews.com/data-graphic...
"But widespread layoffs, hiring freezes and resignations have shrunk the number of qualified scientists who can assist state labs...By July, the rabies team will be down to just one person with the clinical expertise to advise state and local officials, and the pox virus team will have none."
Gift.
This is incredibly important. The Trump Administration's pullback from treating and preventing HIV at home and abroad is a travesty. So much needless suffering and death will result.
REMINDER: Yesterday, 49 Senate Republicans voted AGAINST funding TSA.
They are REFUSING to pay TSA agents unless they get to shovel more money at ICE with no reforms.
"Junk science and fringe beliefs are elevated without justifiable explanation. Under Kennedy's leadership, politicisation [..] is imperilling the future of US science and innovation and throttling the public health enterprise that keeps the country safe today."
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US health officials are trying to delay a regional World Health Organization meeting that would confirm the loss of its measles elimination status until after the midterm elections in November.
This is a reckless, accountability-dodging move that puts politics over public health.
The savings we're getting here by annihilating decades of American science will pay for whole minutes of the operation to create decades of death, immiseration, and chaos in Iran.
On Nov. 16, a mental health counselor recorded in Kamilla’s medical records that her mother reported the girl had lost her appetite after being “served food that contained worms.” A week later, the couple said, children were told to gather in the gym for what they believed would be a Thanksgiving celebration. Excitement spread as families saw tables set with turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, they said. The children waited expectantly. But when a parent asked when the celebration would begin, Oksana said, staff told them the holiday meal was for employees, not detainees. The children, she said, watched despondently as the feast was packed away.
On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
"Moderna's CEO announced the company will no longer invest in new Phase 3 vaccine trials for infectious diseases: 'You cannot make a return on investment if you don't have access to the U.S. market. Vaccines for Epstein-Barr virus, herpes, and shingles have been shelved.” 9:12 AM Feb 12, 2026 604.8K Views
In terms of what cures are being lost:
- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease
the rollout of the mRNA vaccines was one of the greatest public health triumphs in history and the end result has been the all-around triumph of the antivax movement and I will never get over it
*Green card application in process and work permit, married to US citizen
*Lived in US for 20 years, no criminal record
*In detention for five months with no charge, despite judge approving release
*He disputes ICE claim that he signed forms agreeing to deportation
“You got signed judicial warrant to gain access to the scene and we’re still denied access by federal agents?”
“Yes, that’s accurate.”
We are so cooked 🇺🇸
You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.
Two women trained as first responders were abducted by three ICE agents. One of the agents starts seizing. The other two don’t know what to do. The women jump into action and save the agent’s life, only to be re-handcuffed and processed.
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I could think of few things more damning for an ACIP member to admit than that they don't view protecting public health as the priority of a group whose entire purpose is to recommend how licensed vaccines are used.
Trump let ACA subsidies expire and Speaker Johnson refused to act.
While Rs dragged their feet, Dems refused their effort to rip health care away from millions.
So we forced a vote by pressuring rank-and-file Rs, and passed a three-year extension to protect coverage.
Senate must finish the job.
I'm going to be very blunt here: headlines like this and articles like this are a significant part of our media problem because they make people believe things that aren't true
“'The guy, I’m telling him like, "Please step off the school grounds," and this dude comes up and bumps into me and then tells me that I pushed him, and he knocked me down,' an official at Roosevelt High School said. 'They don’t care. They’re just animals. I’ve never seen people behave like this.'"
I'll essentially just walk through the whole
"you only buy the solar panels and batteries once and then they harvest energy from the sun for free" thing, contrasting it with
"can't stop slurping oil outta the ground or all the machines stop" and stare intensely at camera while I ask which is better
Sarah Palmer stares wide-eyed in terror. (Frank Silva a member of the film crew can be seen in the mirror. This was unintentional and considered a happy accident. Frank would later go on to play BOB). Twin Peaks S01E01 - Northwest Passage.
Twin Peaks: Sarah Palmer stares wide-eyed in terror. (Frank Silva a member of the film crew can be seen in the mirror. This was unintentional and considered a happy accident. Frank would later go on to play BOB).
This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.
MEETING OF THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON IMMUNIZATION PRACTICES (ACIP) AGENDA - DRAFT Centers for Disease Control and Preventior Atlanta, Georgia 30329 Thursday, December 4, 2025 8:00 AM Welcome and Roll Call Agency Updates Hepatitis B Vaccine Presentation Discussion Break Hepatitis B Vaccine (continued) Presentation Discussion Lunch Hepatitis B Vaccine (continued) VFC presentation CMS presentation Discussion Public Comments Break Votes 5:00 PM Adjourn
MEETING OF THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON IMMUNIZATION PRACTICES (ACIP) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Atlanta, Georgia 30329 Tuesday, April 15, 2025 8:00 Welcome & Introductions Dr. Keipp Talbot (ACIP Chair) Dr. Melinda Wharton (ACIP Executive Secretary, CDC) 8:15 Mpox Vaccine Introduction Dr. Faisal Minhaj (CDC/NCEZID) Presentation on immunogenicity and safety of JYNNEOS in 12-17 year olds Dr. Buddy Creech (Vanderbilt University) EtR for JYNNEOS in outbreaks and due to the 2022 global outbreak Dr. Faisal Minhaj (CDC/NCEZID) 9:55 Lyme Disease Vaccine Dr. Grace Marx (CDC/NCEZID) 10:00 Influenza Vaccines Introduction Dr. Jamie Lochr (ACIP, WG Chair) Influenza vaccine effectiveness update Dr. Aaron Frutos (CDC/NCIRD) Dr. Sophie Zhu (California DPH and CDC/PHIC), Dr. Joshua Quint (California DPH) FluMist self/caregiver administration Dr. Allyn Bandell (AstraZeneca) 11:15 Break 11:30 COVID-19 Vaccines Introduction Dr. Robert Schechter (ACIP, WG Chair) Moderna mRNA-1283 COVID-19 vaccine Dr. Bishoy Rizkalla (Moderna) Epidemiology and risk factors for COVID-19 hospitalizations Dr. Fiona Havers (CDC/NCIRD) Vaccine effectiveness update Dr. Ruth Link-Gelles (CDC/NCIRD) Workgroup considerations for use of 2025-2026 COVID-19 vaccines Dr. Lakshmi Panagiotakopoulos (CDC/NCIRD) 1:30 Pneumococcal Vaccines Workgroup Next Steps and Proposed Work Plan Dr. Miwako Kobayashi (CDC/NCIRD) 1:45 Break 2:00 Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Vaccines Introduction Dr. Oliver Brooks (ACIP, WG Chair) Update on literature related to reduced number of doses for HPV vaccination Dr. Carla DeSisto (CDC/NCIRD) KEN SHE trial Dr. Ruanne Barnabas (Harvard University) HPV vaccination coverage Ms. Cassandra Pingali (CDC/NCIRD) Modeling of reduced number of doses for HPV vaccination Dr. Jane Kim (Harvard University) Modified EtR: wording of the age for routine HPV vaccination Dr. Ruth Stefanos (CDC/NCIRD) Workgroup next steps and considerations Dr. Lauri Markowitz (CDC/NCIRD) | 4:00 Cytomegalovirus (CM…
The destruction of the legitimacy of ACIP is so complete that the vague agenda on the left is all they have up for tomorrow’s meeting.
It looks like no CDC scientists will present. No materials are posted.
Usually ACIP posts a detailed agenda which includes materials (see example on right).
Difficult to overstate how profound a failure DOGE was. Spending in FY2025 was not only than in FY2024 – but higher than it was projected to be when Trump first took office.*
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
we have PrEP because of these monkey studies. animal welfare in medical research is extremely strictly limited and regulated to ensure ethical use. there is no replacement for these animal models in biomedical research.
Calvin & Hobbes walking along a tree trunk laid across a river as a bridge.
40 years ago today the world was introduced to a small boy and his best friend. Happy birthday Calvin & Hobbes.
Faith leader, Michael Woolf, minister at Lake Street Church of Evanston, is detained by Illinois State Police during a protest against immigration actions, outside the Broadview ICE facility in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., November 14, 2025. REUTERS/Jim Vondruska
A masked ICE agent sprays David Black, pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, directly in the face during protests outside the ICE processing facility in Broadview, Illinois. Sept 19 2025 Photo by Ashlee Rezin of the Chicago Sun-Times.
Pastor David Black of the First Presbyterian Church in chicago being hit in the head with a pepper ball Sept 19 at the Broadview ICE facility
An unidentified federal agent fires a chemical weapon into Rev. Jorge Bautista's face during a protest outside of Coast Guard Island in Oakland on Thursday Oct. 23, 2025. Credit: David Bacon
ICE vs the clergy
I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
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