The American insurance system is not set up to handle multiple (unnecessary!) visits for vaccines that are now given at the same time. The schedules of American pediatricians and public health clinics are not set up to handle this. The schedules of American parents are not set up to handle this.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5h ago

Trump: "Effective immediately, my administration is recognizing gold standard childhood vaccine recommendations for only 11 core vaccinations against the most serious and dangerous diseases along with the MMR, which hopefully will be split up."

Look, I'm sorry, I know we're all exhausted and numb, but: WHAT

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5h ago

Trump: "At one year, you should have 5 separate visits for vaccines rather than getting them all in the same day. I've seen proof of where they have a vaccination thing that looks like the size of a bottle of soda and pour it into a little child's body."

Excellent, but upsetting, piece on how the huge loss of staff under Bhattacharya led to losses in: knowledge & institutional memory; new perspectives, emerging scientific expertise, & future leaders; trust & transparency; ability to carry out NIH’s most basic functions; & community partnerships

Jenna Norton@jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 2d ago

NIH has lost more than 20% of its staff. NIH has lost 1 in every 5 workers. This undermines the NIH mission. @27unihted.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/27unihte...

multiple minor genius points (sorry Gen X) (again)

lorem ipsum 🇧🇷🇺🇸@whiskeynachos.bsky.social · 2d ago

Immediately skipping Gen X as a bit is absolutely nailing it.

As a New Yorker, I endorse every word of what Jim says here. CNN is demonstrably far beyond shame these days, but they nevertheless should be ashamed.

James Fallows@jfallows.bsky.social · 2d ago

This by CNN is genuinely reprehensible. Everyone involved should be embarrassed. -The 'new pain' case vs Mamdani is *solely* his religion. -He was in NYC on 9/11, at grade school -Soon after attack GWB himself gave famous speech warning against blaming all Muslims for terrorism -25 yrs later, this.

The very definition of an August story.

I wonder how many people do not realize that Abdul El Sayed is a medical doctor, Rhodes Scholar and is author of many articles on public health.

Breathtakingly grim story from @theguardian.com about a vascular surgeon who possessed such a fetish for mutilation he appears to have caused the amputation of his own feet, and the distraught families whose relatives appear to have been harmed under his care. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

‘I felt sick that he was near my mum’: a top amputation surgeon had his own legs removed due to a fetish. Were his patients safe?

Neil Hopper was celebrated for continuing to do his job despite the loss of his lower limbs. But what the people he was treating didn’t know was that his injuries were self-inflicted. Now they and the...

theguardian.com

Today I randomly recalled that my mother and friends used to store clothes at dry cleaners, which had moth-proof vaults to hold winter clothes in summer and v.v. I haven't heard of this in ages. Because people have big suburban closets? Or because people don't bother keeping clothes any more?

Anchor: Finally, tonight, this news — Anchor: [finger to earpiece] Anchor: Wait, we're getting an update to this story. At least one of the rusted, dense, 160-year-old objects is the traveler's brain.

News Ticker@headline-feed.bsky.social · last wk.

[NBC] TSA DISCOVERS FIVE STOLEN CIVIL WAR-ERA CANNONBALLS IN A TRAVELER’S LUGGAGE IN ALABAMA

Google Earth, a tool often used as a source of satellite imagery to verify photos and videos, has added a feature that allows you to alter satellite imagery with AI, for reasons. blog.google/products-and...

Maybe we should all buy books. Any books, I don't care. (I mean, buy mine, but this isn't about me.) Visit an antique store. Go on Abebooks.com. Buy anything that looks interesting and old. Have a personal physical library. Save them for humanity while you can.

Shiro Sirius@shirosiri.us · 2w ago

I don’t want to be too sensationalist about this but also I’m the least violent person in the world and I think if someone said this to my face I’d hit them

A dreadful loss. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam.

Glen Hansard@glenhansard.bsky.social · 2w ago

With broken hearts we announce the passing of Glen Hansard in the early hours of this morning. We are still dealing with the shock of it all, so we kindly ask that the privacy of Glen’s family, colleagues and friends is respected at this difficult time. . Photo by Mikolaj Rotowski

Endorse.

Dorian Lynskey@dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 2w ago

I've written a few books and checked all the quotes (deleting some bangers because I doubted their authenticity) and if you're letting fabricated ones slip through then you're cutting corners in an egregious way. It is not the copy-editor's job to check every source, it's yours. Do the damn work

This is what the internet was for and maybe someday we'll decide to choose surprise and delight again. A dying man created a (fake but real!) internet radio station to endlessly play the recordings made by his basement band. At Maine news source The Bollard: bollardhead.substack.com/p/the-show-t...

The Show That Never Ends

The Movie, a band that barely existed, achieves internet immortality

bollardhead.substack.com

I am on a flight and a woman in front of me is wearing a T shirt that says: You will have to go through me And the letters are in the stripes of the trans flag. And I love her.

How did a false allegation lead to Pete Buttigieg's separation from his kids? Our exclusive reporting shows how authorities did not take steps to vet the caller who left her contact. We found the caller who said she wanted to thwart his White House ambitions. Gift link: wapo.st/45ok5XP

Source of false Buttigieg allegation appeared ‘mentally unstable,’ records show

The Michigan attorney general’s office is investigating how the accusation that prompted the ex-Cabinet secretary's separation from his 4-year-old twins was handled.

washingtonpost.com

There are cathedrals everywhere for those with eyes to see.

AndaliteBandit@andalitebandit.bsky.social · 2w ago

Found this on Tumblr with the caption, "Saw a fire, stopped his car, got out and Madonna'd the fuck out of those flames". I want him carnally.

It is time to come clean. I went to a university where there were a couple of profs who indulged their creative sides by writing musicals. One of them was a musical theatre retelling of the Odyssey. I played Penelope.

What?

We Geek Girls@wegeekgirls.bsky.social · 2w ago

Simon Pegg has been cast as the voice of the Balrog in 'The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power' Season 3. #SDCC #LOTR #TheRingsOfPower

Once more for the folks who joined late: Food safety is a food waste issue,

Stone Cold Jane Austen@abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 3w ago

New contamination just dropped

He was literally already leaving the country.

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 3w ago

NEW INFO HAS REVEALED that the 28-year-old Mexican man killed while running from ICE last week was just visiting on short tourist visa—and already had a plane ticket to go home. newrepublic.com/post/213277/...

Last week, while marooned on the ATL west-side perimeter next to an impenetrable wall of semis barreling at 75+mph, I heard myself say 2 things. 1: "I understand why people think they need ever-bigger SUVs." 2" "But eventually everyone will be driving tanks." And, well, here we are.

Rafi@rafil.bsky.social · 3w ago

Not only should this be illegal but if you have ever put down a deposit a vehicle like this you should lose your drivers license, right to vote, and right to bear arms, and be ineligible to take out bank loans or credit cards.

Studies are documenting devastating side effects in the ongoing measles epidemic that have ranged fro brain swelling to sepsis. Those most likely to end up hospitalized live in South Carolina and Utah 👇

Studies Document Brain Swelling, Sepsis in U.S. Measles Outbreaks

Kids and the unvaccinated were most likely to end up hospitalized in South Carolina and Utah

medpagetoday.com

Yesterday, WIRED learned that Madison Square Garden was suing us for our accurate reporting. We stand by our work. That’s why we’re removing the paywall from two of the MSG stories they don’t want you to read, making them free for everyone.

Congrats we just made it impossible to come here for a PhD www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/16/m...

Trump administration limits student visas to four years, changing longstanding policy - The Boston Globe

The new rule, which also restricts the international students’ ability to transfer schools or change majors without approval in their first year, will go into effect in mid-September.

bostonglobe.com

California has excellent disease detection bc: 1) the state government believes in public health and funds it AND 2) it's the home of Kaiser Permanente, a private health system with excellent patient care AND unified records that can be plumbed for data. socialized medicine and public health x2!

Fucking Bitch Kate 🪷@kateculliton.bsky.social · 4w ago

California never stopped testing and the only California cases are linked to international travel at this time! Thank you California 🌞 www.latimes.com/california/s...

Incredible Wall Street Journal reporting on how this war succeeded in making the Iranian people rise up…to support hardliners within the regime. Secular women showing up to rallies to change “We are the soldiers of Seyyed Mojtaba,” things of that nature. www.wsj.com/world/middle...

This is genuinely moving

Minnesota House DFL@mnhousedfl.bsky.social · 4w ago

Rep. Aisha Gomez: “To look at people standing up against ICE and see ‘paid protesters’ says nothing about us and everything about you.” “That you cannot conceive of us loving our neighbors so much that we would actually do something for them.”

Streisand Effect Streisand Effect STREISAND EFFECT

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 4w ago

The American Diabetes Association appears not to have learned their lesson the first time around (below). Now they've blocked publication of an editorial about this event that was slated for publication in the same journal, Diabetes Care, this week. But here it is. You know what to do.