Gradually Decomposing
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I've been around too long and can't believe it's ending like this.
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One of the biggest drivers of high housing costs is that a small, highly motivated group of incumbent homeowners block new housing in their neighborhoods and almost no one is organized to push back.
Young people bear the brunt of that imbalance.
Be a housing fan.
Young people bear the brunt of that imbalance.
Be a housing fan.
December 6, 2025 at 4:22 PM
One of the biggest drivers of high housing costs is that a small, highly motivated group of incumbent homeowners block new housing in their neighborhoods and almost no one is organized to push back.
Young people bear the brunt of that imbalance.
Be a housing fan.
Young people bear the brunt of that imbalance.
Be a housing fan.
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NEW: Pennsylvania Working Families Party is calling for a primary challenge against US Sen. John Fetterman and is looking to recruit potential 2028 primary candidates.
keystonenewsroom.com/2025/11/18/f...
keystonenewsroom.com/2025/11/18/f...
Progressive organization calls for primary challenge to Fetterman
A major organization launched an effort to train and recruit potential primary candidates for the commonwealth’s 2028 US Senate primary against John Fetterman.
keystonenewsroom.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:01 PM
NEW: Pennsylvania Working Families Party is calling for a primary challenge against US Sen. John Fetterman and is looking to recruit potential 2028 primary candidates.
keystonenewsroom.com/2025/11/18/f...
keystonenewsroom.com/2025/11/18/f...
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Between the end of February & mid-August, funding ceased for 383 studies that were testing treatments for conditions including cancer, heart disease & brain disease. The cuts disproportionately impacted efforts to tackle infectious diseases like the flu, pneumonia and COVID-19, researchers found.
NIH funding cuts have affected over 74,000 people enrolled in experiments, a new report says
A new report finds over 74,000 people enrolled in experiments have been affected by the National Institutes of Health’s funding cuts.
apnews.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Between the end of February & mid-August, funding ceased for 383 studies that were testing treatments for conditions including cancer, heart disease & brain disease. The cuts disproportionately impacted efforts to tackle infectious diseases like the flu, pneumonia and COVID-19, researchers found.
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I’m still thinking about “quiet, piggy.” No president should be able to speak to a member of the press that way and remain president. That moment encapsulates how vile, misogynistic, and horrible that man is.
November 18, 2025 at 2:34 PM
I’m still thinking about “quiet, piggy.” No president should be able to speak to a member of the press that way and remain president. That moment encapsulates how vile, misogynistic, and horrible that man is.
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I miss my 50-year streak of not knowing who the Secretary of Health is or anything about them.
September 26, 2025 at 2:11 AM
I miss my 50-year streak of not knowing who the Secretary of Health is or anything about them.
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Yup, exactly that—we have a HUGE problem in the US: the MAGA/MAHA men in charge of the health system are dismantling it, while spouting damaging BS, but because they were at Hopkins (Makary) or Stanford (Bhattacharya) or Harvard (Kulldorff) or UCSF (Prasad), apparently the world should believe them😢
As academics we need to get a lot better at calling out the bullshit and bullshitters from our own institutions. When a Hopkins Professor of Medicine can point to the words of the Harvard Dean of Public Health to support their BS, it's hard for people to disregard that.
MAGA/MAHA love to cite his opinions, but he got *at least* $150,000 to be an expert witness in anti-Tylenol lawsuits.
Conflicts of interest don’t bother MAGA/MAGA world at all—in fact, they almost seem to be a requirement (see: Dr Oz selling folinic acid)
🎁 link
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/h...
Conflicts of interest don’t bother MAGA/MAGA world at all—in fact, they almost seem to be a requirement (see: Dr Oz selling folinic acid)
🎁 link
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/h...
September 25, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Yup, exactly that—we have a HUGE problem in the US: the MAGA/MAHA men in charge of the health system are dismantling it, while spouting damaging BS, but because they were at Hopkins (Makary) or Stanford (Bhattacharya) or Harvard (Kulldorff) or UCSF (Prasad), apparently the world should believe them😢
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As academics we need to get a lot better at calling out the bullshit and bullshitters from our own institutions. When a Hopkins Professor of Medicine can point to the words of the Harvard Dean of Public Health to support their BS, it's hard for people to disregard that.
MAGA/MAHA love to cite his opinions, but he got *at least* $150,000 to be an expert witness in anti-Tylenol lawsuits.
Conflicts of interest don’t bother MAGA/MAGA world at all—in fact, they almost seem to be a requirement (see: Dr Oz selling folinic acid)
🎁 link
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/h...
Conflicts of interest don’t bother MAGA/MAGA world at all—in fact, they almost seem to be a requirement (see: Dr Oz selling folinic acid)
🎁 link
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/h...
Harvard Dean Was Paid $150,000 as an Expert Witness in Tylenol Lawsuits
www.nytimes.com
September 25, 2025 at 1:24 PM
As academics we need to get a lot better at calling out the bullshit and bullshitters from our own institutions. When a Hopkins Professor of Medicine can point to the words of the Harvard Dean of Public Health to support their BS, it's hard for people to disregard that.
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The richest man on earth owns X.
The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.
The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.
See the problem here?
The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.
The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.
See the problem here?
September 24, 2025 at 8:00 PM
The richest man on earth owns X.
The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.
The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.
See the problem here?
The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.
The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.
See the problem here?
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Kulldorff points out that low rates of COVID-19 vaccination are a reflection of a lack of trust in vaccination, as though this is a tragic accident he spectated rather than something he played an active role in
June 25, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Kulldorff points out that low rates of COVID-19 vaccination are a reflection of a lack of trust in vaccination, as though this is a tragic accident he spectated rather than something he played an active role in
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Ironically, in the 1920s Stephen Miller's grandparents, Jewish immigrants who settled in central Pennsylvania where they created the inter-generational wealth that helped fund Miller's lifestyle, were attacked with this exact same rhetoric from the immigration restrictionists of their day, the KKK.
Careful guys, if you don’t control migration you might turn out like <checks notes> the greatest, wealthiest city in the world.
June 25, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Ironically, in the 1920s Stephen Miller's grandparents, Jewish immigrants who settled in central Pennsylvania where they created the inter-generational wealth that helped fund Miller's lifestyle, were attacked with this exact same rhetoric from the immigration restrictionists of their day, the KKK.
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RFK Jr. is anti-science, anti-vax, anti-public health, and in charge of preventing infectious disease in the United States.
If I’m flying I’m masking.
If I’m flying I’m masking.
June 21, 2025 at 4:33 PM
RFK Jr. is anti-science, anti-vax, anti-public health, and in charge of preventing infectious disease in the United States.
If I’m flying I’m masking.
If I’m flying I’m masking.
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“Bobby Kennedy is going to kill more people than any Cabinet secretary”.
Been saying this for months now.
Been saying this for months now.
James Carville warns RFK Jr’s vaccine plan will have fatal consequences for Americans
RFK Jr. recently purged all 17 member of CDC vaccine advisory panel, replacing them with members experts say are critical of vaccines
www.independent.co.uk
June 21, 2025 at 3:25 PM
“Bobby Kennedy is going to kill more people than any Cabinet secretary”.
Been saying this for months now.
Been saying this for months now.
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Lindsey Graham’s had decades to fix healthcare. Instead, he tried to repeal it.
I’ll protect it, expand it, and make sure no one in South Carolina has to go without it.
I’ll protect it, expand it, and make sure no one in South Carolina has to go without it.
June 3, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Lindsey Graham’s had decades to fix healthcare. Instead, he tried to repeal it.
I’ll protect it, expand it, and make sure no one in South Carolina has to go without it.
I’ll protect it, expand it, and make sure no one in South Carolina has to go without it.
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“We live in a country without a comprehensive federal privacy law, so your personal data has been freely harvested and sold for a long time,” EFF’s Lena Cohen told @wavynews10.bsky.social.
www.wavy.com
June 4, 2025 at 8:26 PM
“We live in a country without a comprehensive federal privacy law, so your personal data has been freely harvested and sold for a long time,” EFF’s Lena Cohen told @wavynews10.bsky.social.
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I’ll say this as many times as I have to.
No tax cut in the history of tax cuts has ever paid for itself. Not a one.
No tax cut in the history of tax cuts has ever paid for itself. Not a one.
May 30, 2025 at 4:55 PM
I’ll say this as many times as I have to.
No tax cut in the history of tax cuts has ever paid for itself. Not a one.
No tax cut in the history of tax cuts has ever paid for itself. Not a one.
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The coolest thing I’ve seen today is that a bunch of volunteer public health professionals and developers have restored the CDC website from before January 20th 2025.
This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.
This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
restoredcdc.org
March 9, 2025 at 1:11 PM
The coolest thing I’ve seen today is that a bunch of volunteer public health professionals and developers have restored the CDC website from before January 20th 2025.
This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.
This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.
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No, COVID vaccines aren't causing AIDS
In fact, despite the recent preprint, there's no evidence they're damaging your immune system at all.
My new piece with @immunologic.org
open.substack.com/pub/gidmk/p/...
In fact, despite the recent preprint, there's no evidence they're damaging your immune system at all.
My new piece with @immunologic.org
open.substack.com/pub/gidmk/p/...
COVID-19 Vaccines Aren’t Causing AIDS
The truth behind a new preprint from a team at Yale
open.substack.com
March 1, 2025 at 8:35 PM
No, COVID vaccines aren't causing AIDS
In fact, despite the recent preprint, there's no evidence they're damaging your immune system at all.
My new piece with @immunologic.org
open.substack.com/pub/gidmk/p/...
In fact, despite the recent preprint, there's no evidence they're damaging your immune system at all.
My new piece with @immunologic.org
open.substack.com/pub/gidmk/p/...
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New admin claims to be the frontier of radical transparency—but in just 1 week, public health decisions are being hidden from view. Instead of strengthening transparency, Sec. Kennedy is rolling it back:
1. ACIP meeting (CDC’s vaccine advisors). Delayed = No transparency on vaccine policy decisions
1. ACIP meeting (CDC’s vaccine advisors). Delayed = No transparency on vaccine policy decisions
February 28, 2025 at 9:26 PM
New admin claims to be the frontier of radical transparency—but in just 1 week, public health decisions are being hidden from view. Instead of strengthening transparency, Sec. Kennedy is rolling it back:
1. ACIP meeting (CDC’s vaccine advisors). Delayed = No transparency on vaccine policy decisions
1. ACIP meeting (CDC’s vaccine advisors). Delayed = No transparency on vaccine policy decisions
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This is a very unusual pattern for COVID. I'm really curious as to what is driving it.
February 15, 2025 at 2:08 PM
This is a very unusual pattern for COVID. I'm really curious as to what is driving it.
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In *this* household we’re celebrating Tinsel’s 4th anniversary.
I fostered Tinsel when she was a bag of bones. She was visibly old, stinky, & nobody wanted her. I figured given how rickety she was, she’d be alive < a year, so I just adopted her. Here she is 4 years later, no longer stinky & plump.
I fostered Tinsel when she was a bag of bones. She was visibly old, stinky, & nobody wanted her. I figured given how rickety she was, she’d be alive < a year, so I just adopted her. Here she is 4 years later, no longer stinky & plump.
January 20, 2025 at 3:16 PM
In *this* household we’re celebrating Tinsel’s 4th anniversary.
I fostered Tinsel when she was a bag of bones. She was visibly old, stinky, & nobody wanted her. I figured given how rickety she was, she’d be alive < a year, so I just adopted her. Here she is 4 years later, no longer stinky & plump.
I fostered Tinsel when she was a bag of bones. She was visibly old, stinky, & nobody wanted her. I figured given how rickety she was, she’d be alive < a year, so I just adopted her. Here she is 4 years later, no longer stinky & plump.