Mulvey MD
@dimulvey.bsky.social
Clinical Bioethicist, MD, & Carbon-Based Lifeform.
Denver just signed a contract with Flock. Bad news.
New: We found cops who misused Flock to spy on their wives. Their bosses at the police department had no idea. Three are being investigated and one was arrested after we asked about their searches. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2... @douglasmac.bsky.social @aaronschaffer.com
Maybe this means something. Maybe it doesn't. But the solar industry, fresh off of a win in Tennessee, targeted Ralph Norman in South Carolina. He lost tonight. www.politico.com/newsletters/...
The solar super PAC’s next target
A clean energy group made waves by spending big to help oust Rep. Andy Ogles. Now they’ve settled on their next line of attack.
politico.com
And what other types of behavior would one expect from a guy who sent public hair embellished birthday greetings to Epstein? You know, the same guy who has made skin-crawling remarks about his own daughter’s looks. POTUS= Predator of the U.S. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Who is Natalie Harp? Trump’s closest and most devoted aide is in the spotlight
Speculation about US president’s executive assistant sparks furious backlash from White House
theguardian.com
WRONG! A “Blockbuster text chain” has not been perversely discovered on Dr. Anthony Fauci’s server by Trump/GOP toadies. The BLOCKBUSTER texts, documents, witnesses, and pubic hair-suggestive documents related to Epstein have been long found. www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/...
Anthony Fauci’s Group Chat Is Making People Lose Their Minds
Can the former NIAID director’s private text messages tell us anything we don’t already know?
theatlantic.com
“I don’t have a gag reflex…” nor any synaptic reflex. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
RFK Jr. says 'boxes and boxes' of McDonald's travel with Trump
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said in a podcast appearance that he had seen “boxes and boxes” of McDonald’s while traveling with President Donald Trump.
usatoday.com
So, Torquemada’s rack is too controversial?
The Trump administration plans to spend millions of dollars equipping immigration officers with gloves that can deliver electric shocks, describing them as a “de-escalation device.” Critics are alarmed that agents would have another tool that they say could actually escalate their use of force.
No. Let’s not praise Ward Churchill as a victim of the CU Board of Regents. He was terminated because “There’s no doubt that Churchill did cheat, plagiarize and violate scholarly ethics," said Braider, a colleague who protested CU’s actions AGAINST Churchill. www.denverpost.com/2026/08/12/w...
Ward Churchill, controversial former CU Boulder professor, dies
Former CU professor Ward Churchill, a controversial symbol of academic freedom who was fired after comparing 9/11 victims to a notorious Nazi, has died, his former attorney confirmed.
denverpost.com
The trap Katie Phang laid for Todd Blanche is closing after Judge Emmet Sullivan told the acting AG to show his work at a hearing next week. He just isn’t buying the department’s excuses for redactions and withholdings of key documents from the Epstein files. My write-up in the link in comments.
More uterus surveillance. When does it stop? At the midterm elections. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Rest assured, the new CDC director thinks ‘abortion surveillance’ is essential | Arwa Mahdawi
An exchange between Dr Erica Schwartz and Senator Josh Hawley during her confirmation hearing is alarming
theguardian.com
Who cares? Sen. Cassidy, paving his retirement with a fat lobbying contract, sold the American public OUT AGAIN! This SOB sold his soul to Trump and voted to confirm the epic incompetent RFK, JR., and now, he could have done something redemptive. Alas, no. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Trump’s attorney general pick Todd Blanche appears to clear last hurdle for confirmation
Bill Cassidy, Republican seen as a decisive holdout, said he is prepared to back Trump’s former personal lawyer
theguardian.com
The WH didn’t need a new helipad. Trump is too fat, out-of-shape, and cankle-limited to waddle to the site that has adequately served all previous holders of the office. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Trump orders changes to new helipad after weeks of around-the-clock work
Contractors have removed the granite seal that had begun to take shape in recent days, after the president complained about the slope of the White House lawn.
washingtonpost.com
Pathetic. As appealing as it may be to deride the insanity running amok in Trump’s Cabinet, the time is better spent finding your local candidates, local, state, and national, and finding a way to volunteer to aid in their November election bids. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
RFK Jr has a new cooking show. Are any Trump officials doing their actual jobs? | Arwa Mahdawi
Shouldn’t the health secretary have his hands full with the cyclosporiasis outbreak, measles or rabbit fever? Not when there are crispy salmon cakes to prepare, writes Arwa Mahdawi
theguardian.com
Blunt and to the point, Sen. McConnell, show up and explain your 43-day absence to your constituents or resign. I don’t have the luxury to disappear for 43 days. Do you? www.cnn.com/2026/07/27/p...
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear’s message to Sen. Mitch McConnell: Disclose more about health or resign | CNN Politics
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear has a message for Sen. Mitch McConnell, his state’s senior senator: Explain his long absence from the Senate and give details about his health, Beshear is insisting, or resi...
cnn.com
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/26/b...
Meet Jeffrey Epstein’s Girlfriend, Who Stands to Inherit Much of His Estate (Gift Article)
Karyna Shuliak, 37, is a complicated and unusual figure in the disgraced financier’s world who has been trying to blend into obscurity since his death.
nytimes.com
The Russians helping Iran? No shock with the exception of the oblivious POTUS.
What will DJT do with this information
BREAKING: In my lawsuit against Todd Blanche for the Epstein Files, Judge Sullivan has just ordered Blanche to produce, in camera (in chambers), the UNREDACTED emails & documents, and Blanche must bring documentation supporting his representations the DOJ’s redactions are what he claims they are.
We are indeed blessed and honored that a cadre of resilient men and women of science continue to weather the monsoon of an anti-science administration and their criminal neglect of fact over human life. Thank you, Dr. Hotez (and your colleagues) who stand with you in keeping the data current.
We are absolutely shocked that Brendan Carr and Co. accepted gifts from the Ellisons, so no one, ever. www.propublica.org/article/para...
FCC Officials Took Pricey Gifts From Paramount as the Company Needed Approval for Billion-Dollar Deals
Accepting tickets to the Kennedy Center honors gala compromised the commissioners’ impartiality, ethics experts told ProPublica. FCC Chair Brendan Carr has been gifted at least $63,000 worth of ticket...
propublica.org
There is a very simple reason why Pentagon Pete’s testosterone gambit is ridiculous and dangerous: when “exogenous” (external) hormones are introduced into the body, our body reacts by CUTTING DOWN or “down regulating” that hormone’s “endogenous” production. theconversation.com/more-testost...
More testosterone won’t make a better soldier or a tougher man – aggression and strength drive T levels, not the other way around
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is requiring service members to screen for low testosterone levels. Ironically, the military lifestyle itself is more likely to lower T levels.
theconversation.com
“This is what the movement does: it finds a tragedy, attaches a vaccine to it” and uses the grief to garner support.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
An Idaho mom charged with murder says vaccines killed her twins. Doctors say it’s not possible
Children’s Health Defense, the anti-vaccine group once led by RFK Jr, still stands by Andrea Shaw after her indictment
theguardian.com
Roy Cohn lives, again. The old, hackneyed “Communism is everywhere” red scare tactic made new by a desperate Trump. bsky.app/profile/wash...
Analysis: President Trump is warning of a “resurgence of the communist menace” as the Democratic Party shifts to the left, invoking historical memories of terror, collectivization and poverty in a bid to regain voter support ahead of the elections.