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submitted 1 day ago • 72 comments

“A U.S. citizen!” And now he’s missing. Adrian Martinez tried to defend a man ICE was harassing. Video shows six agents swarming him. He struggles but doesn’t lay hands on them. They take him to the ground & shove him into a CBP vehicle. Abuse of power. Keep recording. Don’t stop. (1 of 2)

submitted 3 days ago • 1495 comments

At midday Eastern Time, we have a crowdsourced, unofficial estimate of just over 32,000 people attending No Kings Day protests around the U.S. so far. Please join us and add more data as more events get going. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

submitted 7 days ago • 60 comments

What to do after attending a conference with colleagues whose life’s work with vulnerable populations is under attack? Go to the NYC #NoKings rally.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

We are just getting started. “American Spring? How nonviolent protest in the US is accelerating…” wagingnonviolence.org/2025/06/amer...

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

Have a look and get ‘em done.

submitted 9 days ago • 4 comments

Democrats should introduce articles of impeachment for RFK jr Even if it doesn’t work, which it probably won’t, democrats need to make clear that he’s not gonna get away with it

submitted 11 days ago • 337 comments

Where do I put on my CV that the NRA Institute for Legislative Action called our JAMA Pediatrics paper “political propaganda masquerading as scientific research?” I’m thinking Honors and Awards. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/h...

submitted 12 days ago • 8 comments

The US has been the scientific & academic envy of the world for decades now. Thanks to reckless ideologues, we're surrendering that position. Our brethren at the #NIH are speaking out & we must rise to their defense. The eyes of the world are upon us. www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

This substitution of demagoguery for scientific evidence will harm us all- but especially the medically vulnerable: children and the elderly. As morbidity/mortality from #vaccine-preventable diseases likely rise in the coming months, remember the root causes. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/h...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

It's hard to overstate how destructive the reflexive "this is a distraction!" stuff that politicians and commentators and people are always peddling. Everything is happening all at once. That's how authoritarianism works. If you can't navigate and synthesize this, you're not meeting the moment.

submitted 12 days ago • 140 comments

What's next for @who.int without US engagement? In a new podcast episode, Lancet editors reflect on developments at #WHA78, including the pandemic agreement and shifting dynamics in global health leadership. Listen now 👉 tinyurl.com/7xrhu3rm #LancetVoice

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Reminder: Nobel-prize winning PCR (1983), used in basically all genetic tech today, was only possible because of extremophile bacterium discovered in 1964 in Yellowstone funded by a small ~$80k NSF grant with no obvious application at the time. #science 🧪 www.richmondscientific.com/how-a-discov...

submitted 12 days ago • 22 comments

I don't think the intent matters much. The fact is this: an American President is using the military to police US civilians in a US city. It's open authoritarian bullshit...and if you can't call it out & see how destructive it is, then you really are lost. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/u...

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

In the USA, a recent series of Executive Actions pose a substantial threat to the nation's health and health equity. In our latest issue, a new Comment highlights why and how academic medicine must champion diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility. Read this & more ▶️ tinyurl.com/6fn6uvr7

submitted 15 days ago • 8 comments

Chris Murphy: "We can't be preparing for the 2026 election. It might not come. All of our focus right now has to be on protecting the democracy, about stopping the corruption."

submitted 16 days ago • 891 comments

From an accomplished physician & #HIV researcher who has provided care & produced practice-changing evidence since the beginning of the pandemic. Thank you, Ken Mayer, for writing this important piece about the #LavenderPurge for @iasociety.bsky.social 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

For too long, we've indulged a culture that empowers fascist thinking & Musk's contempt for empathy as a "bug" is nothing new (remember Nietzsche's "Übermensch"?). If we don't forcefully reject this cruelty, it's our legacy as much as his. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

It will also kill a lot of people.

submitted 21 days ago • 7 comments

I don't think anyone outside of universities, pharma and biotech, independent research institutions have any idea of what is happening right now. If you haven't sounded the alarm among your friends, family and colleagues, now is the time to do it.

submitted 21 days ago • 66 comments

Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

submitted 22 days ago • 1301 comments

The test of being an #LGBTQI ally isn’t adding rainbow colours to your logo in June. The test is, will you stand up for all of us when we are attacked? Will you distance yourself from those who demean us or deny our rights? Will you still be our ally when it’s not convenient? Now more than ever. 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️

submitted 22 days ago • 5 comments

Canceling mRNA #vaccine grants & contracts is a disgraceful compromise of public health preparedness, particularly in the face of viruses of #pandemic potential; it's always about the ideology, never about the evidence with them. Sickening malfeasance. 😔 www.statnews.com/2025/05/28/m...

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

Clearer than ever that these charlatans are not only evil but also lazy. 😒 They obviously used AI to write their anti-public-health work of fiction & it did what AI often does: made up references that don't exist (and miscited others that do); what clowns. 🙄🤡 www.notus.org/health-scien...

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

In 2025, the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) in Brazil celebrates its 125th anniversary, marking more than a century of contributions to science, health, and social development in Brazil and beyond. ✍️ Lise Alves reports: tinyurl.com/2suxt3u6

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

I worry I won't say this well, but the deliberate undermining of scientific evidence on the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines to prevent severe illness & death is, to be plainspoken, evil. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/h...

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

UPDATE: They all voted for it anyway. punchbowl.news/article/hous...

submitted 30 days ago • 363 comments

Sen. Rosen to Rubio: "I'm not even mad anymore about your complicity in this administration's destruction of U.S. global leadership. I'm simply disappointed. I wonder if you're proud of yourself in this moment when you go home to your family?"

submitted 32 days ago • 665 comments

MAKE NOISE ON THIS ONE‼️ They didn’t just deport him—they sent him to CECOT in El Salvador. Agelviz came here legally through the refugee resettlement program—fully vetted. But when he landed in Houston, CBP snatched him over a tattoo: a clock and a rose. No charges. No record. Just a suspicion.

submitted 32 days ago • 573 comments

This is HUGE. For those wondering why due process is essential for EVERYONE. This is why!

submitted 33 days ago • 71 comments

Vaccines are key to reducing #COVID risk, especially for pregnant people “Pregnant women with COVID-19 consistently had a higher risk of death & pneumonia than nonpregnant women of similar age with COVID-19” Adj. Relative risk of death: 1.68 (1.36–2.08) Adj. RR of pneumonia: 1.97 (1.82–2.13)

submitted 35 days ago • 2 comments

Watters: So my question to you is how big of a masterclass was this? Jessica: While we were in the commercial break, Moodys downgraded our credit for the first time in the agency's history, so… masterclass

submitted 35 days ago • 259 comments

Wow — how could anyone ever imagine that the GOP wouldn’t be a good faith actor on the filibuster!?

submitted 37 days ago • 17 comments

Gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/o...

submitted 38 days ago • 15 comments

We lost another giant today. Please watch/share this brief clip from an extended conversation with the former Supreme Court Justice 12 years ago. {Relevant portion starts at 1:07:56 & ends at 1:11:04} RIP, Justice Souter. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVJh... www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/u...

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

So I don't have the energy to redo the entire thread about the papal conclave but I will redo the part about the Latin nerdery: the announcement of a new pope is always in Latin, and uses a very traditional form.

submitted 45 days ago • 8 comments

With NIH director Jayanta Bhattacharya dismissing my reporting as "false" and "spreading rumors" hours before releasing a policy that confirmed said "rumors," I feel compelled to respond. Here's an inside look into how this story was reported. It was a weird one. 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 46 days ago • 27 comments

I don't know if it's time for me to leave yet, but it's good to know others are aware of the gravity of the situation... www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/w...

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

We are in an extraordinarily dangerous moment for democracy, civil rights, & #PublicHealth. Share this video as widely as you can. Educate everyone you're able to. It's past time to push back forcefully against the ignorance & cruelty threatening us. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8H34...

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

American scientists: maybe just pretending as though we aren't subject to the capricious whims of a mad king isn't a sensible strategy? The damage to #research, to scientific progress, & to #PublicHealth is going to be generational. We must respond accordingly. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 50 days ago • 1 comment

May Day is not officially acknowledged in the U.S. because of what historians say is an ongoing resistance to unity among the working class. This resistance is prompting protesters to take action on Thursday, regardless.

submitted 51 days ago • 261 comments

House Judiciary R’s just voted to permit ICE to deport American citizens. Read that again. DEPORT AMERICAN CITIZENS. They are so beholden to Donald Trump that they are happy to deport their own constituents. Shameful and despicable.

submitted 51 days ago • 74 comments

We have now arrived at the "arresting judges" level of fascism.

submitted 56 days ago • 1721 comments