On Monday, President Trump signed an executive order that calls for reducing the number of recommended childhood vaccines. History has shown how plagues from the past can roar back when trust in shots — or access to them — falters. Revisit our March investigation:

How Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Vaccine Agenda Risks a Resurgence of Deadly Childhood Plagues

The health secretary is spreading doubts about vaccine safety and considering changes that could prompt manufacturers to flee the U.S. market. History has shown how plagues from the past can roar back...

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Todd Blanche: “I am not sure of the uproar of having a Border Patrol or ICE agent at a polling location. What's the risk?” Uhm, maybe because it’s illegal? Federal statute 18 U.S.C. § 592 prohibits deploying “troops or armed men” to locations where elections are held. An AG should know this.

I wrote about a reason not to use generative AI in your writing that I haven't seen anyone talking about. Once I realized this, banning GenAI in our lab's writing became a no-brainer. Feel free to share, I think this is probably useful especially for trainees: www.carlsonlab.bio/thoughts/the...

The only reason you’ll ever need not to write with AI — The Carlson Lab

Over the last year, our lab has been developing a policy on AI use. To do this, we did three main things: We read a lot of academic publications and tech news. We set up an #ai channel on our la...

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The Trump Admin is harassing Fauci to scare scientists from speaking up against the administration's war on science, sowing public distrust in scientists and public health experts. We are standing up for Fauci. JOIN US by signing our petition at the link: zurl.co/RCYN8

Call me crazy, but if a Democratic president had 350 accounts closed by their bank for money laundering it’d be more than a blip in the media

This is what I mean when I talk about the Fantasy of the Optional Pandemic, where the virus was erased from the equation and mitigation measures were always portrayed as an avoidable choice. Headlines about what actually happened are never even acknowledged.

Lewis Goodall@lewisgoodall.com · 2w ago

There are working class and vulnerable kids who will never have the life they should have had because of school closures. Let’s address that too, shall we?

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

It is *unquestionably* unconstitutional and anyone who disagrees is lying about the plain meaning of the constitution.

Sarah J. Jackson@sjjphd.bsky.social · 2w ago

It’s pretty bad but I think requiring the kids to read Bible passages in every year of their education is not just really bad but unconstitutional!

For those of you who are still over there because of "the reach" or "the discourse" or whatever.

Brandon Friedman@brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 2w ago

Musk calls for the assassination of a reporter who embarrassed him with basic questions

I'm old enough to remember when the US president loudly & explicitly vowing to commit war crimes would have generated some pushback, or at least a more-than-24-hour story.

Strait of Hormuz: Trump threatens to target Iran's bridges and power plants if attacks on ship persist

Donald Trump says the US will respond any time Iranian forces shoot at a ship in the Strait of Hormuz.

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NEW: The number of Amazon workers on food stamps or Medicaid nearly tripled between 2020 and 2025. The number of Uber, DoorDash, Lyft and other gig workers on these benefits also exploded. From @laurenkaorigurley.bsky.social and me Gift link: wapo.st/4gS59s1

Amazon, gig companies see spike in workers on SNAP and Medicaid, study shows

Amazon workers on federal aid nearly tripled between 2020 and 2025, while ride-hailing and food delivery app drivers shot up on lists compiled by the U.S. Government Accountability Office.

wapo.st

"Bolsonaro has begun a twenty-seven-year prison sentence for his role in January 8, while the instigator of January 6 sits in the Oval Office...Should we in the United States try a Brazilian strategy?" spoiler: I answer yes. me, for @bostonreview.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/articles/tru...

Truth Without Reconciliation

Why did Brazil’s democratic institutions hold firm while those in the United States so quickly wilted?

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Artists/writers/creators in NYC - please feel free to sign the @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social coalition's letter calling for a two year moratorium on "A.i." in the public schools! We're up to about 650 signatures - would love to get this over 1000! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Artists for an AI Moratorium in NYC Schools

NYC Artists, Writers, and CreativesCall for a Moratorium on AI in Public Schools CLICK HERE TO SIGN Dear Mayor Mamdani, As writers, musicians, visual artists, filmmakers, photographers, actors, di...

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Trump doesn’t force people to do bad things. All he did was show people they could get away with being horrible if they really wanted to, and a lot of powerful people decided they didn’t need to pretend anymore. Especially those in influential positions who could push back but did not.

Journalists: please, please get ready for this in ADVANCE. We know Trump's going to claim "new evidence shows the 2020 election was stolen". You've got 3 days to write a story that confronts that lie head-on before he says it - pre-write this like an obit. America is begging you: plan ahead. 1/

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4w ago

it's even dumber than you think

PSA: Today is the last day to submit a comment on the OMB's proposed rule that would politicize scientific peer review, threaten international scientific collaboration, and turn all federal grantmaking into a cudgel in the culture wars. You can leave a comment here:

There is still time to submit your comment and tell the government that you don't want US research to be completely destroyed by politicians meddling in individual grants. You can submit your comments here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/OM...

Rebecca Solnit@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · last mo.

Comments due by Monday on the attempt to politicize science/aka kill American research as we know it. Do it at the link (counter the ton of Heritage-foudnatoin-prompted comments): www.regulations.gov/document/OMB...

Reminder there is no evidence that any initial statements by ICE or DHS should be trusted — and reporters should state that in all coverage and stories. Every ICE shooting we’ve seen the agency lie about the circumstances.

Joyce White Vance@joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 4w ago

"BIDDEFORD, Maine (WGME) -- A person is dead following a shooting involving ICE in Biddeford, according to House Speaker Ryan Fecteau." wgme.com/news/local/i...

Alas, Culturefest! I knew them, Horatio: a podcast of parasocial jest, of most excellent fancy: they have borne me on their back a thousand times; and now, how beloved in my imagination it is! my tears rise at it. Here rang those voices that I have heard I know not how oft...

Kavanaugh, Thomas, Gorsuch, and Alito should be impeached www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 4mo ago

this + if any Supreme Court justice *doesn't* reject Trump's attack on the constitutional order in the birthright citizenship case, Congress would have good cause to pursue impeachment it's that flagrant 9-0 or they've got to go

CBS staff, you have one job and that is to incept Bari Weiss into believing she can win over Isaac Chotiner.

Mike Boylan-Kolchin@mbkplus.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I'm actually surprised by her apparent desire to do this: I thought she had the self-awareness to know her superpower is convincing the Epstein class of her brilliance, not conning us plebeians. But I guess I was giving her too much credit.

@shuntarooo3.bsky.social, Prof. Kosuke Inoue (may not be here Bluesky), and I, translated "Epidemiology by Design" written by @epidbydesign.bsky.social into Japanese 🇯🇵 Hopefully, this book will contribute to studying epidemiology in Japan.

New for this year! @epidbydesign.bsky.social has been circulating some 'teeny tiny methods zines'! A limited supply were avaliable for a few minutes, before being snaffled up. Look out for more tomorrow! #SER2026

Thanks to @eunoiareview.bsky.social for publishing my short poem, "Next to the on-ramp." eunoiareview.wordpress.com/2026/06/23/n...

Made a zine for #SER2026 with @epidbydesign.bsky.social and @haidonglu.bsky.social!

good to see this. Musk is clearly getting visibly angry at the rising awareness of how many hundreds of thousands of people his DOGE wilding spree has already killed, millions more if this stays in place into the future. Everyone can participate in spreading the word about all the blood on his hands

All In with Chris Hayes@allinwithchris.bsky.social · 2mo ago

WATCH: Chris Hayes looks at how Elon Musk’s assault on USAID became one of DOGE’s most devastating legacies—and why Musk is now trying to rewrite the record.

Reupping for SER season.

Daniel Westreich@epidbydesign.bsky.social · 6mo ago

With everything going on in the world, what better time than now to re-up my thoughts (that is, rant) about scientific posters? (Thread!)

Reupping for SER season.

Daniel Westreich@epidbydesign.bsky.social · 6mo ago

With everything going on in the world, what better time than now to re-up my thoughts (that is, rant) about scientific posters? (Thread!)

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." — President Dwight D. Eisenhower

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4mo ago

Trump: "The US can't take of daycare. That has to be up to a state. We're fighting wars. Medicaid, Medicare -- they can do it on a state basis. We have to take care of one thing: military protection. But all these little scams that have taken place, you have to let states take care of them."