After years of seeing his interviews, this is more of the same. When challenged on his record and statements, he quickly gets rattled and loses it--really easily too. Look at the arm waving.

George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸@gtconway.bsky.social · 3d ago

The Secretary of Health and Human Services is pathologically lying, gaslighting psychopath.

Flying q asked with zero judgement: if you're in a window seat and close the window, do you give any thought to others who might want to see out of it when you do? I'm an aisle person but just wondering if that's a consideration for the window seat set? Again, 0 judgement. Just curious abt any norm.

Wow... If you think you're having a bad day...

Kat Tenbarge@kattenbarge.bsky.social · 4d ago

So I woke up this morning to find out that Ozzy Osbourne’s son made a video falsely accusing me of using AI to write a Rolling Stone article about the Tate brothers.

Good month... Not sure how all The Beatles stuff got in there though. Really enjoyed Colin Hay's Going Somewhere album. Great night time and work listening.

Having been a college DJ, I get the pressures on radio stations and factors that led to such a move. But chasing after the streaming service model seems a dead end too. Probably not helping is how bad and cliche classic rock radio programming is. Few/no deep cuts, old concerts, etc. I grew up with.

KCAL-FM lays off all on-air staff in switch to all-music radio station

On-air talent laid off by the station include Daryl Norsell, Patrick Tish, Nikki Preston, John DeSantis and more.

pressenterprise.com

Hey CA taxpayers: see this re: Prop 38 on the Nov. ballot. Bad look for UCLA. "...the ballot language criteria were tailored in a way that very likely excludes all but one institute in the entire state: the CA Inst. for Immunology & Immunotherapy." Donor & co-founder is chief backer of the prop.

Is this proposition a $4 billion giveaway to a billionaire’s LA research center?

Proposition 38 will award $4 billion to one unnamed research center. Under the very specific criteria, only one center seemingly qualifies.

calmatters.org

Update on the job termination lawsuit by Rebekah Jones, the controversial Florida Dept. of Health analyst, activist of sorts/social media person, and unsuccessful Congressional candidate. 🛟😷

This takes "funerals are for the living" to a whole other level.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Hannity: "My President, Lindsey probably has a heavenly version of Mar-a-Lago. It may even be a little bigger. I wouldn't be surprised if he added one big beautiful ballroom and an arch somewhere on the property. Because he would want to obviously duplicate his dearest friend in life. You."

Friends don't defend friends' horribly argued Atlantic pieces. Another reason why I don't trust the "Why Should I Trust You?" podcast. 🛟😷 sociology idsky health policy

Nice, short explainer here about 3 HHS rollbacks crippling Cyclospora outbreak response: 1. Cyclospora removed from FoodNet surveillance 2. USAID disbanding caused accidental defunding of CDC Parasite Division 3. CDC Cyclospora laboratory team severely defunded 🛟😷🧭🧪 Sociology health policy idsky

Maybe it's me, but the demonstration video in this story showing these drones against a non-moving, propped-up dummy is rather unconvincing regarding their real life effectiveness. Policy 🛟 sociology

Schools are adding pepper-spraying drones to help combat active shooters

The plastic, nonlethal aircraft, which can smash windows and ram attackers, will be at the ready in a handful of schools in Florida, Georgia and Colorado.

wapo.st

Terrific overview by @hiltzikm.bsky.social "The White House assault on scientific grants is an integral part of its general blitzkrieg on US sci. In a one-yr retrospective on the current Trump term published in Jan., Nature counted 5844 grants canceled or suspended by (NIH), & 1996 by (NSF)." 🛟😷🧪🧭

Commentary: Here are all the ways that Trump has tried to kill U.S. science research

Partisan political filters and the search for "DEI" have resulted in billions of dollars in canceled scientific research grants

latimes.com

"...you can’t separate MAHA from the antivaccine movement, nor... the motley assortment of 'health influencers,' quacks, antivaxxers, & grifters who see the movement as a vehicle that will let them profit selling supplements, unproven treatments... & 'health freedom' to the masses..." 🛟😷🧪 Sociology

Does public health “need” MAHA? No more than medicine “needs” CAM!

Last week, The Atlantic published an embarrassingly contrarian piece about how public health "needs" the "make America healthy again" movement. Public health needs MAHA only if it "needs" to integrate

sciencebasedmedicine.org

Informative explainer... Policy lawsky Polisky sociology

The Federal Government is Emailing You Campaign Literature – Can Anyone Stop It?

Is it legal for Social Security to send you partisan propaganda? In theory, no…

donmoynihan.substack.com

"I am the battered, coffee-stained backbone of writerly panic—the gasping pause where a thought should have ended but simply could not." I can't quit you, Em Dash!

McSweeney's@mcsweeneys.net · last wk.

"Writers have been using me long before AI. I am the punctuation equivalent of a cardigan—beloved by MFA grads, used by editors when it’s actually cold, and worn year-round by screenwriters. I am not new here. I am not novel. I’m the cigarette you keep saying you’ll quit."

What a mess. Helpful read covering what are rather confusing actual details of the Taylor Farms recall... 🛟😷🧪🧭

‘Not standard’ for Taylor Farms to ask White House to delay cyclospora recall, ex-FDA head says

Scott Gottlieb responds to report that company contacted the White House seeking to delay a recall announcement

theguardian.com

If my Google search is any indicator, this is already great PR--for the GOP Can't imagine Dem candidates in purple districts and not in major cities are enjoying this. Note: DSA has only ~120k members. Dems have ~44M total.

Christopher Webb@cwebbonline.com · last wk.

EVERY DEMOCRAT NEEDS TO SEE THIS. DSA co-chair Megan Romer laid out the organization’s platform. Now I’ve got to ask: will they be held accountable when they can’t get these policies enacted, just like Democrats in general? 🧵

"Even modest annual reductions in (MMR) vaccine coverage among young children generate a nonlinear increase in cases & hospitalizations, with costs totaling $7.77 billion over a 5-y period." 🛟😷📈🧪 health policy sociology polisky

The health and economic repercussions of declining MMR coverage in the United States | PNAS

The resurgence of measles in the United States, driven by declining childhood vaccination coverage, poses a substantial public health and economic ...

pnas.org

CDC leadership continues to try to manufacture a scientific debate on vaccines where none exists. 🛟🧪🧭😷 Policy

CDC leadership continues to try to manufacture a scientific debate on vaccines where none exists

CDC leadership continues to try manufacture a scientific debate on vaccines where none exists, writes Ben Lopman.

statnews.com

"A lot of teen campers believe Jason Voorhees is nothing more than a serial killer who can't be reasoned w/ but he offers an opportunity that campers concerned w/ forest preservation cannot afford to squander." Seriously though, NO. 1/n 🛟

The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · 2w ago

A lot of people in public health believe that MAHA is “nothing more than a subversive anti-vaccine, anti-science syndicate,” but the movement is an opportunity that the public-health sector “cannot afford to squander,” Craig Spencer argues:

Considering the pros and cons of cultural (versus economic) adaptations to increasing temperatures. Spain offers France some insights. Sociology 🛟 policy

Faced With Heat and Wildfires, France Turns to Spain to Learn How to Cope (Gift Article)

A French government delegation will travel to its southern neighbor to learn how it copes with long spells of hot weather.

nytimes.com

NY Post: Taylor Tinkers Stomachs Cry

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 2w ago

Representatives for Taylor Farms called the White House to try to delay a recall tied to one of the largest foodborne illness outbreaks in U.S. history www.wsj.com/health/taylo...

"CDC nominee Erica Schwartz probably will have enough (GOP) votes to be approved after committee Chair Bill Cassidy (R-La.) said he'll support her... But lingering tensions over...policies were apparent as the committee postponed a vote on Trump's pick for asst. sec. for preparedness & response..."

🏛️ Health nominations stall

axios.com

As Utah's measles outbreak risks US' measles elim. status & US cases at 35yr high, UT Sen. Mike Lee wants other states to suffer too. His antivax org-endorsed bill wld: -defund schools that don't allow religious vax exemptions -prevent req'ing parent/student documentation to justify the exemption🛟

Sen. Mike Lee Files Bill to Defund Schools that Ban Religious Vaccine Exemptions: 'We Don't Worship Fauci'

A bill that would block federal tax dollars from schools that refuse to allow religious exemptions for vaccinations has been introduced by Sen. Mike Lee.

breitbart.com

Unbelievable. Can we give Newsom back a portion of that $500M budget allotment to undue this?

Newsom appoints podcaster Scott Galloway to UC Board of Regents

Galloway, an NYU professor, co-hosts a popular show with Kara Swisher.

politico.com

“In any previous era no president would touch this with a barge pole... Maybe individual cases with some compelling reason, but the systemic elimination of criminal liability of major financial crime would never have happened before, and it didn’t.”

Trump extends pardons to companies, echoing a 17th century king

Trump has become the first modern US president to issue pardons for companies, from a Middle America auto supplier to a crypto platform and a media startup.

pressenterprise.com

Nothing says "quality education" like universities cutting Bachelor's degrees to 3 years in response to "declining enrollment" while spinning it as an effort to make "college more affordable and allow students to get into the workforce more quickly." 🙄

AAUP@aaup.org · 2w ago

“Compressing or reducing the curriculum threatens to narrow students’ education at precisely the moment when society needs graduates with stronger critical thinking, communication skills, scientific literacy, & civic understanding." — @proftwolf.bsky.social, @rweingarten.bsky.social #academicsky

I would recommend replacing the many small hats with one really big hat they can all wear together.

a perfect example of a musician who so many people have heard play (if not Pink Panther, then "Peter Gunn" or "Rockin' Robin"), but didn't know his name. a studio legend: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/a...

Plas Johnson, Saxophonist Behind ‘The Pink Panther,’ Dies at 94 (Gift Article)

His recording for the theme song, written by Henry Mancini, included a solo improvised in the studio. He also backed Frank Sinatra and Barbra Streisand.

nytimes.com

Tort suits as food regulation? The suits don’t allege Taco Bell directly caused the contamination "...most US states permit consumers to bring 'strict liability' claims over contaminated food..." Such cases are usually settled. A plaintiffs’ lawyer settled prior cyclospora cases for $25k to >$1M.

As food poisoning cases mount, lawsuits follow

When federal health officials on Thursday linked lettuce served at Taco Bell to a food-poisoning outbreak that has sickened thousands of people, plaintiffs' lawyers wasted little time.

reuters.com