Senator calls for criminal investigation of RFK Jr after Guardian report

Senator calls for criminal investigation of RFK Jr after Guardian report

Newly obtained records indicate health secretary lied about Samoa trip during Senate confirmation hearings last year A senior Democratic senator is calling for a criminal investigation into the US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, following reporting by the Guardian that indicated he lied during Senate confirmation hearings last year. Ron Wyden of Oregon said: “RFK’s platform is built on lies and grifts that leave a trail of dead children in their wake. There are consequences for lying to Congress.” Continue reading...

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The New Yorker today:

“The city of Tempe announced this week that it has turned off its Flock cameras with plans to end its contract with the company.”

Witch Queen🧙@witchqueen3975.bsky.social · 3d ago

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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News)@cenmag.bsky.social · 4d ago

A new report alleges that at least 15 companies are selling antibodies to researchers using images and validation data that show signs of manipulation: cen.acs.org/biological-c... #chemsky 🧪

My sister-in-law grew up in Puerto Rico. When I told her about Dolly Parton’s passing, she looked puzzled—no recognition of the golden voice or public persona—until her face lit up and she said, “Oh! The book lady!” I think Dolly would love to be remembered this way by a mother of two.

US halts all immigrant visa applications www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

US halts all immigrant visa applications amid tightening restrictions

Move by state department to limit access is part of Trump’s crackdown on both lawful and undocumented immigration

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BREAKING: In unusual 9PM Friday Federal Register filing, Postal Service finalizes regulation to deny delivery of mail-in ballots not matching addresses in database BUT says won't implement 'til court orders are lifted. #SCOTUS still quiet. Doc: public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-17238.pdf

"The tragedy of back to school in 2026 is that there will be fewer graduate students and fewer scientists pursuing cures for diseases because of the uncertainty that's been created by OMB," Research!America President and CEO Russ Paulsen tells Axios. www.axios.com/2026/08/21/t...

Trump's higher ed shakeup starts a new semester

Universities are raising red flags about proposed changes to federal assistance.

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This is the funniest shit. Florida allows religious exemptions for vaccines. Catholic schools in Florida: we require vaccines. Florida's attorney general, who is Catholic, is threatening to pull vouchers if they don't allow for religious exemptions The Bishops: separation of church & state

Catholic bishops remind attorney general about separation of church and state

“The government may not decide that Church teaching is insufficiently religious,” wrote the Florida Conference of Catholic Bishops.

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Jay went to Washington to relitigate 2020 over and over again. Trump and RFK had other plans for him.

Jeremy Faust, MD@jeremyfaust.bsky.social · 2w ago

During her first all-hands meeting as CDC Director yesterday, Dr. Erica Schwartz assured her new colleagues that she would “speak truth to power.” It was a nice thought. But it was the wrong one. insidemedicine.substack.com/p/new-cdc-di...

Today, we released updated clinical guidance strengthening our recommendations that ob-gyns perform salpingectomy at the time of other applicable surgical procedures to reduce patients' lifetime risk of ovarian cancer after shared decision making. Read the press release: https://bit.ly/4xm7FMz

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ACOG Strengthens Support for Fallopian Tube Removal to Prevent Ovarian Cancer

Bilateral salpingectomy reduces risk by as much as 78%; consider during nongynecologic surgery

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might want to re-read 1984 while you are at it....

“Almost”?!?!

Physicians for a Healthy Democracy@physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 2w ago

AI did not discover a cancer vaccine. Scientists discovered it because their research was supported and funded.

It only took 19 months for RFK Jr to turn the once safe US food supply into a game of gastrointestinal Russian Roulette.

The White House is reserving about $1 billion in science spending for its own special projects while cutting virtually ALL of the research money for the social sciences. This is catastrophic for sociology, political science, economics and more. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Exclusive: NSF set to issue lowest number of new grants in four decades

The US science-funding agency is withholding $1 billion of its budget so that the money can go to a special White House project.

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What’s for dinner?

I guess we’ll see if Cassidy effs us again. If she’s confirmed, it’s highly likely that the covid vaccine now ready to ship will not become available to Americans.

Richard Blumenthal@blumenthal.senate.gov · 2w ago

Trump is throwing down the gauntlet to both sides in the Senate—nominating an FDA head who demeans vaccines, denounces reproductive rights, & degrades science. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/h...

Moderna and Merck announced study results that reflect a "landmark moment" in treatment for one of the deadliest forms of skin cancer. https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/moderna-stock-melanoma-cancer-vaccine/ 

Moderna stock more than doubles after melanoma vaccine trial shows "landmark moment"

Moderna and Merck announced study results that reflect a "landmark moment" in treatment for one of the deadliest forms of skin cancer.

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NEW: The FCC has officially published its new proposals for E-Rate, which include possible elimination of this essential program. We need to take action. You can write a formal comment to the FCC urging them to protect E-Rate, which offers broadband discounts to libraries & schools nationwide. 1/2

This is a very dangerous lunatic. RFK Jr: “The polio vaccine "killed many, many more people" than polio ever did.”

A CDC campaign helped millions try to quit smoking. Under Trump, the ads went dark, and quitline operators reported fewer calls for help. theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/anti-smoki...

This is bad bad bad bad bad. Dangerous, even.

Baltimore Banner@thebaltimorebanner.com · 3w ago

A newscast without anchors? Maryland’s oldest TV station tries a new format.

✨Excited to announce a new post-doctoral position in my lab, focussed on the neural capacity limits of language processing using magnetoencephalography! Apply here: wp.nyu.edu/neurolinglab...

Hang in there. We’re listening carefully. scienceblog.com/t-voyager1-2...

Voyager 1 is whispering back to Earth with a radio transmitter about as powerful as a refrigerator light bulb, from roughly 16 billion miles away. Its signal takes almost a full day to reach us — and,...

Voyager 1 transmits at roughly 22 watts, but recovering that signal after more than one light-day depends on precision pointing, known coding and NASA's largest radio antennas.

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Immigration experts, academics, and advocates for students and postdocs warn a stricter policy will harm the nation’s scientific standing. @statnews.com

Visa time limits on foreign Ph.D. students and postdocs will harm U.S. science, experts warn

A Trump administration plan to limit visas for graduate student and postdocs to four years is fueling concerns that the U.S. could lose out on foreign scientists

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Listen to Commander Adama.

Josh Gerstein@joshgerstein.bsky.social · 2w ago

JUST IN: Justice Department's busy Office of Legal Counsel issues opinion deeming military to have broad arrest powers at border. Via @cbsnews.com www.cbsnews.com/news/justice... Doc: www.justice.gov/olc/media/14...

The NIH just released a proposal that will apparently hide peer reviewers’ impact scores and percentiles from the research team, their institution, and NIH program officers. All the better to obscure how funding decisions will be made primarily via political review, I’m guessing.