“The children who are randomly selected not to receive the birth dose of the vaccine, those who “lost the lottery”, face in their earliest days the risk of contracting hepatitis B, which can cause irreversible lifelong damage.” No words. I am speechless. This violates all ethical boundaries.

Controversial vaccine trial touted by RFK Jr gets go-ahead in Guinea-Bissau

Recommended dose of hepatitis B vaccine will be withheld from thousands of newborns by Danish researchers

theguardian.com

Despite ongoing lawsuit seeking to stop Trump overhaul of DC's East Potomac Park, the National Park Service has notified the court that it's going to take down nearly 530 trees at the site Team Trump is pursuing plan to redevelop the golf course on site

I hate this so much

Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social · 2d ago

“This recent dump of papers on Tuesday destroyed the careers of early-career mathematicians. We've had whole research programs wiped out on Tuesday by their dump … they have all the mathematicians research programs in their training data” - Tristan Buckmaster on OpenAI solving unsolved math problems

This is clearly not acceptable

A member of the ICC gets the Nobel Peace Prize and suddenly we’re slapping sanctions on the ICC. Just saying

Jacob Öberg@profjacob.bsky.social · 3d ago

🚨🚨BREAKING: The #US State Department will impose “further sanctions” on the #InternationalCriminalCourt in response to its attempts to charge #American service members according to an official and memo reviewed by @nypost.com. nypost.com/2026/10/08/u...

“Every member of this ethnic group is a criminal who needs to be imprisoned by the state” is just pure uncut Nazi shit

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4d ago

Tom Emmer refers to Somali-Americans as "enemy combatants" and says they should be "rounded up and put in jail"

I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren...

Brendan Nyhan@brendannyhan.bsky.social · 4d ago

The news just since I left work: -A planned livestream of an execution by firing squad -Trump basically trying to incite a pogrom against Somalis Nothing mysterious or complicated about what's happening.

Would not mind reasons to replay all the J6 testimonies just before the midterms.

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 4d ago

BREAKING: MS NOW confirms. The Trump Justice Department is seeking a federal criminal indictment of ex-White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson on charges of lying to Congress about Trump's actions on Jan. 6.

BREAKING: MS NOW confirms. The Trump Justice Department is seeking a federal criminal indictment of ex-White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson on charges of lying to Congress about Trump's actions on Jan. 6.

Moving jobs overseas or hiring foreign workers is capitalism. Policing children's bodies is fascism. State-run sports programs that prohibit minority participation is fascism.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4d ago

Q: How do you define socialism personally? JD VANCE: I think in reality what it actually means in the American context is you want to replace American workers with foreigners workers, and you want boys to play in girls' sports

ICE Jailed a Rabbi For Protesting Israel. Now He Can’t Observe His Faith Officers told an anti-Zionist Orthodox Jew they ‘don't care’ about his need to pray away from a prison toilet. 'First Draft' from @premthakker.bsky.social: zeteo.com/p/ice-jailed...

ICE Jailed a Rabbi For Protesting Israel. Now He Can’t Observe His Faith

Officers told an anti-Zionist Orthodox Jew they ‘don't care’ about his need to pray away from a prison toilet. Plus: Trump gets angry over two advisers leaving the country for a major payday.

zeteo.com

The government doesn’t track how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve tallied more than 500 Americans held against their will in warrantless arrests and detentions during President Trump’s second term.

For Trump, laws are things to ignore: Trump Mobile failed to make required regulatory filings, senator claims The Washington Post could not find filings for the Trump-branded service that are required by the Federal Communications Commission. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Trump Mobile failed to make required regulatory filings, senator claims

The Washington Post could not find filings for the Trump-branded service that are required by the Federal Communications Commission under rules designed to prevent fraud.

washingtonpost.com

BTW this means no funding for GSS, ANES, or PSID. GSS 2026 is in the field now, but then it looks like that's it. Devastating for social science.

Dan Garisto@dangaristo.bsky.social · 6d ago

NEW: In March the White House released an FY27 budget request that zeroed out the National Science Foundation's directorate of Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE). For months it was unclear what would happen. Now, with FY26 over, the damage to SBE is coming to light. My reporting:

It’s simply unimaginable that CDC Director Dr. Erica Schwartz has just bowed to RFK Jr. and approved funding for an utterly unethical clinical trial that will withhold the birth dose of HepB vaccine in Guinea Bissau. It is to be conducted by researchers accused of academic misconduct.

CDC Is Moving Forward With a Previously Shelved Controversial Hepatitis B Vaccine Study

“It’s a wholly unethical trial, and it shouldn’t be allowed,” says Dr. Paul Offit of Guinea-Bissau study

rollingstone.com

So, the question is “to the extent permitted by law”, which begs the question: what is the basis for the Executive’s claim that it can bind the Smithsonian to EO in the first place?

This is even more insane than I remembered.

The Trump administration on Wednesday announced a proposed $70,000 fee for a popular work authorization program meant to give students professional experience. https://www.statnews.com/2026/10/07/trump-administration-proposes-fee-targeting-interational-students-optional-practical-training/

Trump administration proposes $70,000 fee for popular international student work program

The Trump administration has proposed a $70,000 fee for a popular work authorization program meant to give students professional experience

statnews.com

NEW: Anti-voting lawyer Cleta Mitchell and election denier Tina Peters are both pushing a scheme to have Trump's commerce secretary regulate voting machines as part of a broader effort to interfere in the midterms. But legal experts say their scheme is way off base and blatantly unconstitutional.

Election deniers Cleta Mitchell and Tina Peters want Trump’s commerce secretary to regulate voting machines

The problem? No federal official can seize control of election administration from the states and counties, who hold the power run elections under the U.S. Constitution.

democracydocket.com

ICYMI: Two groups with anti-abortion ties received almost $9 million in federal family planning grants. Trump admin is “sending every signal that they will select grantees who align with their ideology, rather than highly qualified providers with a proven track record of delivering quality care.”

‘Destructive’: Nearly $9 Million in HHS Grants Go to Groups With Anti-Abortion Ties

Millions in family planning funds are earmarked to create training centers, including one dedicated to infertility. The recipients have links to crisis pregnancy centers, the Heritage Foundation, and ...

autonomynews.co

Ever wonder how home run distance is actually measured? It's not an exit velo/launch angle formula, despite the myth that it is. Really cool work from Riley @ Sportsball to show what goes into it: www.instagram.com/_sportsball/...

SportsBall on Instagram: "How home runs are measured in MLB ⚾️ Data from Statcast, powered by @googlecloud and Gemini #sponsored"

18K likes, 168 comments - _sportsball on October 7, 2026: "How home runs are measured in MLB ⚾️ Data from Statcast, powered by @googlecloud and Gemini #sponsored".

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congratualtions to every news outlet that wrote a "trump actually to pay for ads himself, says Trump" headline. Don't print lies in the newspaper

Headquarters@headquartersnews.bsky.social · 6d ago

Q: When did you decide MAGA Inc. will pay for the taxpayer-funded ads? Trump: Uhhh, there's no reason for 'em to. We have a lot of money in MAGA Inc., we are using it for other candidates

Cut from this video: most of the agents didn’t care I was there, but one ICE agent did ask a state trooper to give me a jaywalking ticket for crossing an empty street while recording (the trooper laughed and said no).

Mother Jones@motherjones.com · last wk.

With the help of Republican officials, ICE has quietly arrested hundreds of people in Florida per day. Watch the latest dispatch from journalist Amanda Moore (@noturtlesoup17.bsky.social) out of southwest Florida:

Arkansas campaign ad sparks conservative backlash for portraying lazy welfare recipient as white apnews.com/article/welf...

Arkansas campaign ad sparks conservative backlash for portraying lazy welfare recipient as white

A new video from Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders was standard issue Republican messaging for promoting her state’s stricter rules for people on Medicaid.

apnews.com

Notice the absence of the traditional olive branch? The olive branch symbolized America prioritizing peace with war as a last resort. It has been part of the Great Seal of the United States since 1782 and was part of the original seal of the Department of Defense.

Mike Pompeo has been rewarded with a teaching fellowship at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. The same school that canceled my class on media, race and international affairs. @columbiasipa.bsky.social share.google/KEvTy5yER71U...

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to join SIPA faculty

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will join the School of International and Public Affairs as a fellow at SIPA’s Institute of Global Politics in March, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.

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Tony Somogyi 🇺🇦 🇨🇦🇪🇺@tonysomo.bsky.social · last wk.

Thank you for your courage and for reminding us about this murder & cold blooded dismemberment of a courageous journalist. I can never forget Pompeo’s off the cuff dismissal of Jamal’s fate and Kushner’s divulging of intelligence about MBS enemies in exchange for deal$; all of them put to death!

🚨BREAKING: The Trump administration illegally changed a form used by overseas voters to register and request mail ballots just weeks before the midterms, Democrats argue in a new lawsuit filed Thursday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Trump admin quietly changed overseas voter form at 11th hour to disenfranchise Democrats, lawsuit says

The change is part of a Republican plan to make it more difficult to vote or outright disenfranchise a bloc of voters viewed as more inclined to vote Democratic, the DNC lawsuit argues.

democracydocket.com

What

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 2w ago

TSA says it is removing chairs at document checks in airports, requiring staff to stand for their shift. TSA explained the reason as twofold: to ensure its employees meet its fitness standards and to create an amiable environment for travelers.

OMG you have GOT to be kidding me

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2w ago

BREAKING WSJ: The Trump Justice Department is reviewing whether the special prosecutor's office that investigated Watergate committed misconduct. A revisionist historian went to DOJ HQ to present his case that Richard Nixon and his associates weren't treated fairly.