During his tenure Vinay Prasad
-Tried to block review of mRNA flu vaccine
-Demanded a sham-controlled trial for promising immunotherapy for huntingtons raising ethical concerns for patients.
-Imposed new warnings & study requirements for some biotech drugs and vaccines
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turns out that ICE has been hunting a congregation that is majority deaf/mute refugees with a large child population
I think this deserves at least as much sustained attention from US media as Claudine Gay's dissertation
This woman, US citizen living in Skokie, was detained at Ohare yesterday, taken to Broadview, then transferred to a detention facility in Wisconsin, now released. We know all this not because of DHS, who repeatedly denied that they even had her, but because her phone was pinging in those locations.
Click to send a note to your Senator: VOTE NO on Casey Means. actionnetwork.org/letters/oppo...
Screenshot of an X post by journalist Sam Stein stating that DHS claimed it left a man at a coffee shop described as a “warm, safe location,” but video later showed it was the middle of the night, cold, and the coffee shop was closed.
Screenshot of an X post from the official Homeland Security account titled “Here are the FACTS.” The statement says Buffalo Police alerted Border Patrol about a non-citizen, that Mr. Shah Alam entered the U.S. as a refugee in December 2024, was not amenable to removal, and accepted a courtesy ride to a coffee shop described as a warm, safe location. It adds that he showed no signs of distress or disability requiring assistance.
This is negligent homicide. We demand justice for Shah Alam and his family. He was nearly blind, and they left him five miles from his home, forced to try to walk home alone in the dark and the freezing cold.
three fluffy orange pomeranians that progressively get bigger and more fluffy
this is the only thing I will accept for the pombon evolutions
While we're discussing what we like and dislike in #Rstats, here's why I don't like tidymodels: mansthulin.se/posts/tidymo...
Sharing ahead of Casey Means’ Surgeon General confirmation hearing tomorrow:
Listen...these dudes changed the locks on her mailbox
They marked her mail undeliverable and returned it to the sender
They blocked her & her tenants from receiving doctor’s bills, medications, credit card statements, car titles, property tax statements, & more
ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/posta...
As I have mentioned previously, RFK Jr. is taking steps to eliminate the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF).
This is a group that was started by Reagan, who I guess was too woke lol.
USPSTF’s evidence-based screening recommendations must be covered by insurance.
Writing helps you organize and clarify your own thoughts.
When others read, it helps them do the same, whether they agree with you or not.
Both of us probably need the reminder a year from now.
This is why it’s valuable to write, even if your ideas aren’t unique.
This is basically my villain origin story.
"How old are you?" (unique responses)
An ICE agent shot and killed Ruben Ray Martinez, a US citizen and San Antonio resident, in March 2025. Then ICE and the Texas Department of Public Safety covered it up. He was 23 years old. I am calling for a full investigation into this shooting, including why there was an 8-month cover up.
A lot of people, including me, were wondering how an IRB could ever approve this study.
The answer is that no IRB did. The person who “signed off” on approval from the only ethics board that reviewed it had resigned three years earlier. His signature was used without his knowledge.
Judge Goodwin: "An anonymous government is no government at all. It cannot be held accountable. A masked agent freely uses force without justifying his actions, and the public cannot name him to challenge his conduct. A regime of secret policing has no place in our society."
Incredible opinion. It holds that the common ICE tactic of jumping out of an unidentified rental vehicle and seizing suspected noncitizens while masked violates the Fourth Amendment because the *manner* of the seizure is incompatible with a free society governed by the rule of law.
A new study finds Israel’s assault on the Gaza Strip killed far more Palestinians than initially reported. Writing in The Lancet medical journal, researchers found there were over 75,000 violent deaths in the first 16 months of Israel’s assault.
Illinois Governor Pritzker, following today's SCOTUS ruling, sends President Trump an invoice for $8,679,261,600 for refunds of the "illegal tariffs" the residents of his state were charged.
Just remember, if they’re not government employees they don’t have immunity.
Two female ICE agents popped the hood of their car and knocked on the door of a mechanic born in Mexico. He went out to help.
“A bunch of agents jump out and tackle him, essentially restraining him, and take him away...His six kids are now without their father." www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
This is the kind of thing white supremacists have been doing to Emmett Till’s memorial for decades.
It’s wild to see them do this to a white woman who the entire world saw extrajudicially murdered.
“Asked how the cuts have affected science, one [researcher] said, ‘This is like asking, how do you think dropping an atomic bomb on New York City will affect the future of Broadway musicals? This is a generational loss of innovation, technology, and economic power.’” 🔗 archive.ph/2026.02.12-1...
Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
'With its contempt for the humanities, Edge offered intellectually insecure reactionaries a pass. Without even opening a book (...) They could continue to ignore giants like Edward Said, Judith Butler, and David Graeber, and devote their brains instead to the race science and rape apologetics'
I am seeing nonprofits lay off staff, cut services, and in some cases close outright. The very programs that help those most at risk are being run into the ground so a murderous regime can build concentration camps and ballrooms.
However, all things are not equal. And that's because of Raja Krishnamoorthi, the current frontrunner. Krishnamoorthi has taken money from MAGA donors multiple times. He's lied about receiving endorsements that were never made. He's opposed to abolishing ICE,
You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.
NEW: The F.D.A. refused to accept an application from Moderna for its mRNA flu vaccine.
Its reason: The agency did not think Moderna compared the new vaccine to one of the best flu shots available. The company spent $750M+ on a 41,000 person study.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/h...
What, did you think they were going to stop with trans people?
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/u...
