A screen shot of the MAHA institute round table discussion. It's 5 middle aged white dudes sitting in chairs. There i a MAHA institute backdrop which is blue with white letters.
MAHA Institute is live streaming their MEVI (Massive Epidemic of Vaccine Injury) Roundtable today on YouTube and it has 3 viewers.
Love that book. Imperfect but always effective at clarifying my priorities.
Quick reminder: Epstein.
Now more than ever I’m convinced losing Anthony Bourdain meant we lost probably the biggest person on tv who advocated for the wonders of meeting new people and calling anyone online who hated learning new cultures the children they were, ruthlessly to the camera.
Graph of award probability of R35 and R01 from NIH factbook as a function of review rank percentile. As is apparent, 2025 is a significant departure, with lower award probabilities at all scores <40 and significant departures from norm, where even being in the top 10% is no longer a nearly certain indicator of success. Data source: https://report.nih.gov/nihdatabook/report/302
The data is in: the NIH goalposts have shifted.
What were once almost certain fundable scores have become coin flips and what used to be likely grants have become aspirational, leading to fewer awards.
Another manifestation of how HHS policies have led to fewer awards and less science.
Turns out lawlessness is not a winning strategy. See you at Nuremberg 2.0
forget inheritance taxes, how about mandatory military service to receive inheritances over a billion dollars
It's just too bad Congress isn't around to see this
This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t
I can't fucking believe we're doing this again.
Swalwell: ICE agents shot Alex Pretti and Renee Good. And the only person in the world who has been held accountable by DHS is the pilot who somehow forgot to move Kristi Noem’s blankie.
lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · 49m I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone. I have no words. I'm devastated. Quote lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · Jan 25 Waking up without power, heat, or running water. (Again.) But the work here in Kyiv continues. Warming up in the car, writing in pencil — pen ink freezes — by headlamp.
INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.
Quite the closing words from the judge too:
Just experienced the most intense tear gassing of my life by federal officers outside the ICE facility in Portland where marchers gathered. There was no fast exit as they indiscriminately threw loads of gas and flash bangs. Children were in the crowd screaming. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com
“Imagine how they lie when there’s no evidence to contradict them.”
Watch this powerful message from Jon Stewart.
It's now against the TikTok tos / community guidelines to use the word “Epstein”
Alex Pretti’s coworkers take a moment of silence this morning
I know it's hard to track all the threats to democracy out there right now, but this is at the top of the list.
Seen in Los Angeles
(Credit: Zurita Carpio)
VA nurse Alex Pretti gave a veteran his final salute. The veteran’s last words to his son: “keep fighting the good fight.” 🇺🇸 In their honor, we must all fight the good fight to get ICE out of our communities. #BlueSky #ICE #PoliSky #MedSky #LawSky
this is it. this is the level. this is the standard for democratic officials. anything less is intolerable.
Conservatives: We need to bring back civics education
Minneapolis Guy: I'm speaking as an american this is about the 2nd amendment, the fourth amendment, the sixth amendment
Conservatives: Not like that
[but seriously this guy is on it]
The NYT clearly states in its reporting that the federal government's version of events is contradicted by videos of the shooting today. Here is @melodyschreiber.com piece on the victim, a VA nurse who worked in the ICU www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
This is so emblematic of Schumer being useless. Where does he think ICE will go next? Are we going to play hot potato with blue cities? Does anyone doubt that on this trajectory ICE will happily kidnap and murder people at polling places by November? The only possible plan is defund ICE.
This is courage. Looking a masked, government fascist dead in the eye, face to face, knowing full well that your life is on the line.
If elected officials had 1/10th of Alex Pretti's resolve, we would have far fewer troubles.
Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.
White. Hot. Rage.
Alex Pretti from his early days working at the VA
Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now
ACIP: “Polio vaccine should be optional.”
This is the stupidest timeline.
Heartbreaking cruelty visited upon children in our name
