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Statement from the American Academy of Neurology: “This decision was made without consulting key neurology stakeholders, and there was no formal announcement nor a clear succession plan for NINDS leadership. NINDS plays a vital role in funding and directing research into the brain”
Statement on Sudden Departure of NINDS Director
www.aan.com
December 28, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Statement from the American Academy of Neurology: “This decision was made without consulting key neurology stakeholders, and there was no formal announcement nor a clear succession plan for NINDS leadership. NINDS plays a vital role in funding and directing research into the brain”
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I think three of these were born in the USA. Most of the rest had just got here.
December 29, 2025 at 5:21 AM
I think three of these were born in the USA. Most of the rest had just got here.
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Julie K. Brown is a reporter for the Miami Herald who did groundbreaking work on Epstein beginning in 2018, including groundbreaking work on the disgusting coverup by Alex Acosta.
Her travel itinerary was released with some of the Epstein files. It appears the DOJ was monitoring her in 2019.
Her travel itinerary was released with some of the Epstein files. It appears the DOJ was monitoring her in 2019.
December 28, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Julie K. Brown is a reporter for the Miami Herald who did groundbreaking work on Epstein beginning in 2018, including groundbreaking work on the disgusting coverup by Alex Acosta.
Her travel itinerary was released with some of the Epstein files. It appears the DOJ was monitoring her in 2019.
Her travel itinerary was released with some of the Epstein files. It appears the DOJ was monitoring her in 2019.
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Mechanisms of Europe’s “Death” since I was old enough to read newspapers:
- Inability to enact “structural reforms”
- Too much public debt
- Excessive focus on curbing fiscal deficits (“austerity”)
- Populism
- Low birth rates
- Absence of a European Silicon Valley
- Migration
- Stagnation
- Inability to enact “structural reforms”
- Too much public debt
- Excessive focus on curbing fiscal deficits (“austerity”)
- Populism
- Low birth rates
- Absence of a European Silicon Valley
- Migration
- Stagnation
It has become received wisdom in Brussels and Washington that there is a new “euro-sclerosis”: that the EU economy is lagging the US
This view is wrong
A little primer on the measurement of productivity – and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggerated🧵
This view is wrong
A little primer on the measurement of productivity – and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggerated🧵
December 12, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Mechanisms of Europe’s “Death” since I was old enough to read newspapers:
- Inability to enact “structural reforms”
- Too much public debt
- Excessive focus on curbing fiscal deficits (“austerity”)
- Populism
- Low birth rates
- Absence of a European Silicon Valley
- Migration
- Stagnation
- Inability to enact “structural reforms”
- Too much public debt
- Excessive focus on curbing fiscal deficits (“austerity”)
- Populism
- Low birth rates
- Absence of a European Silicon Valley
- Migration
- Stagnation
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Feel like the guy who tried to bomb Republican and Dem headquarters being an election denier got sort of overlooked
JUST IN: The alleged J6 pipe bomber confessed, said he wanted to “speak up” for those who believed 2020 election was stolen, dislikes both parties and modeled his attack on the Troubles in Ireland.
Says he wasn’t targeting the joint session of Congress
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Says he wasn’t targeting the joint session of Congress
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
December 29, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Feel like the guy who tried to bomb Republican and Dem headquarters being an election denier got sort of overlooked
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Both of the homes Trump claimed as principal residences in the ’90s were used as investment properties and rented out, according to an interview with his longtime real estate agent — exactly the sort of scenario he’s pointed to as evidence of fraud.
Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal
The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found Trump once did the very thing ...
www.propublica.org
December 29, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Both of the homes Trump claimed as principal residences in the ’90s were used as investment properties and rented out, according to an interview with his longtime real estate agent — exactly the sort of scenario he’s pointed to as evidence of fraud.
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Zelensky lands in Miami. Not a single US official is on hand to greet him. In the language of diplomacy this send an unequivocal message of coldness and hostility. Compare it with the lavish pomp and red carpet shown to Putin when he landed in Alaska a few weeks ago.
December 28, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Zelensky lands in Miami. Not a single US official is on hand to greet him. In the language of diplomacy this send an unequivocal message of coldness and hostility. Compare it with the lavish pomp and red carpet shown to Putin when he landed in Alaska a few weeks ago.
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Trump's net worth increased by $4 billion. All of the wealth was gained by manipulating his power as president. Nothing like this has ever happened before.
December 27, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Trump's net worth increased by $4 billion. All of the wealth was gained by manipulating his power as president. Nothing like this has ever happened before.
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Nothing about this is normal. I don't even know where to start other than to say again -- this is not normal.
December 28, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Nothing about this is normal. I don't even know where to start other than to say again -- this is not normal.
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The celebration and digital metastasization of conspiratorial thinking culminating with the U.S. head of health and human services believing that and governing as if modern diseases don’t emerge naturally, pandemics are all manmade, and science (not the complexities of nature) is to blame.
Kennedy is ramping up his attacks on vaccines. Conspiracy theories are central to that agenda of undermining faith in public health, medicine, and experts.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
RFK Jr. Claims 'Vaccine Research' Likely Responsible for HIV and the Spanish Flu
Presidential Candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claimed vaccine research was responsible for diseases like HIV, RSV, Lyme disease, and the Spanish flu.
www.rollingstone.com
December 28, 2025 at 7:39 PM
The celebration and digital metastasization of conspiratorial thinking culminating with the U.S. head of health and human services believing that and governing as if modern diseases don’t emerge naturally, pandemics are all manmade, and science (not the complexities of nature) is to blame.
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One way to quantify the GOP's attack on free and fair elections:
My law firm is litigating 78 voting and election cases in 39 states. This is, by far, the largest caseload we have carried in a non-election year and close to our peak in 2024. The question is how many more can a small firm handle.
My law firm is litigating 78 voting and election cases in 39 states. This is, by far, the largest caseload we have carried in a non-election year and close to our peak in 2024. The question is how many more can a small firm handle.
December 28, 2025 at 7:51 PM
One way to quantify the GOP's attack on free and fair elections:
My law firm is litigating 78 voting and election cases in 39 states. This is, by far, the largest caseload we have carried in a non-election year and close to our peak in 2024. The question is how many more can a small firm handle.
My law firm is litigating 78 voting and election cases in 39 states. This is, by far, the largest caseload we have carried in a non-election year and close to our peak in 2024. The question is how many more can a small firm handle.
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I hired professional fact checkers for my book bc it tells the story of how Matt Taibbi and Michael Shellenberger *lied about me.* Hired pros prev at The New Yorker. It was very expensive! My book also went through 6 rounds of legal review. So they haven’t sued me. Read it here:
Invisiblerulers.com
Invisiblerulers.com
December 28, 2025 at 6:55 PM
I hired professional fact checkers for my book bc it tells the story of how Matt Taibbi and Michael Shellenberger *lied about me.* Hired pros prev at The New Yorker. It was very expensive! My book also went through 6 rounds of legal review. So they haven’t sued me. Read it here:
Invisiblerulers.com
Invisiblerulers.com
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There’s a reason the political right wants to keep people dumb.
December 28, 2025 at 1:41 PM
There’s a reason the political right wants to keep people dumb.
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We Want Our Money AND Our
Healthcare Back,Motherfuckers.....
Healthcare Back,Motherfuckers.....
December 28, 2025 at 11:28 AM
We Want Our Money AND Our
Healthcare Back,Motherfuckers.....
Healthcare Back,Motherfuckers.....
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Read Jim's whole thread! I also want to add some historical context. During the 1918 pandemic, there was so much confusion because many scientists still thought that a bacteria, not a virus caused the flu (because, as Jim notes, we couldn't even see viruses under a microscope yet).
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has stated that the 1918 flu pandemic was caused by a lab virus from vaccine research, a defective influenza vaccine. Let’s analyze what a lie this is. First, in 1918, 107 years ago, virology was in its infancy
December 28, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Read Jim's whole thread! I also want to add some historical context. During the 1918 pandemic, there was so much confusion because many scientists still thought that a bacteria, not a virus caused the flu (because, as Jim notes, we couldn't even see viruses under a microscope yet).
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A nice thread in which an actual expert patiently explains why the Secretary of Health and Human Service is not simply a liar, but an especially stupid one.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has stated that the 1918 flu pandemic was caused by a lab virus from vaccine research, a defective influenza vaccine. Let’s analyze what a lie this is. First, in 1918, 107 years ago, virology was in its infancy
December 28, 2025 at 6:06 PM
A nice thread in which an actual expert patiently explains why the Secretary of Health and Human Service is not simply a liar, but an especially stupid one.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has stated that the 1918 flu pandemic was caused by a lab virus from vaccine research, a defective influenza vaccine. Let’s analyze what a lie this is. First, in 1918, 107 years ago, virology was in its infancy
December 27, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has stated that the 1918 flu pandemic was caused by a lab virus from vaccine research, a defective influenza vaccine. Let’s analyze what a lie this is. First, in 1918, 107 years ago, virology was in its infancy
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The “worst of the worst” Venezuelans deported to El Salvador’s CECOT prison weren’t the worst: nearly all had no violent convictions, many entered the US legally, and gang labels relied on tattoos—not evidence, reports Cato’s David Bier.
https://ow.ly/wifs50XO2TY
https://ow.ly/wifs50XO2TY
DHS Doesn’t List CECOT Prison Deportees in Its Worst of the Worst Data
The United States should have allowed most of these immigrants to reside and work in the country legally. They could have been economic assets to the United States, and it serves no legitimate purpose to send them back to, at best, horrific conditions in Venezuela and, at worst, more persecution.
ow.ly
December 28, 2025 at 7:00 PM
The “worst of the worst” Venezuelans deported to El Salvador’s CECOT prison weren’t the worst: nearly all had no violent convictions, many entered the US legally, and gang labels relied on tattoos—not evidence, reports Cato’s David Bier.
https://ow.ly/wifs50XO2TY
https://ow.ly/wifs50XO2TY
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Trump ordered airstrikes on ISIS targets in Nigeria, claiming it was about protecting Christians.
But people on the ground say that narrative doesn’t match reality.
“In Jabo, we see Christians as our brothers. We don’t have religious conflicts, so we weren’t expecting this.”
1/2
But people on the ground say that narrative doesn’t match reality.
“In Jabo, we see Christians as our brothers. We don’t have religious conflicts, so we weren’t expecting this.”
1/2
December 27, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Trump ordered airstrikes on ISIS targets in Nigeria, claiming it was about protecting Christians.
But people on the ground say that narrative doesn’t match reality.
“In Jabo, we see Christians as our brothers. We don’t have religious conflicts, so we weren’t expecting this.”
1/2
But people on the ground say that narrative doesn’t match reality.
“In Jabo, we see Christians as our brothers. We don’t have religious conflicts, so we weren’t expecting this.”
1/2
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I had missed this. Perverse even by the standards of the Trump White House. They’re threatening to pull student aid from Brown over the shooting www.nbcboston.com/news/local/t...
Trump administration investigates Brown's security after shooting
The Department of Education said its Office of Federal Student Aid would investigate if Brown University violated the Higher Education Act in connection with the deadly shooting on Dec. 13.
www.nbcboston.com
December 27, 2025 at 3:27 PM
I had missed this. Perverse even by the standards of the Trump White House. They’re threatening to pull student aid from Brown over the shooting www.nbcboston.com/news/local/t...
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This administration lied about the people it sent to an overseas torture prison. It lies about the people it’s deporting. It lies every day to gain political advantage. Not a chance in hell they won’t lie about huge swaths of people they suspect might vote for the other party.
December 27, 2025 at 12:31 AM
This administration lied about the people it sent to an overseas torture prison. It lies about the people it’s deporting. It lies every day to gain political advantage. Not a chance in hell they won’t lie about huge swaths of people they suspect might vote for the other party.
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At this moment, Kyiv is repelling a simultaneous attack by Kinzhal missiles, ballistic (other) and cruise missiles. Russia is targeting energy infrastructure.
December 27, 2025 at 12:10 AM
At this moment, Kyiv is repelling a simultaneous attack by Kinzhal missiles, ballistic (other) and cruise missiles. Russia is targeting energy infrastructure.
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Note the date. We knew a long time ago.
December 26, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Note the date. We knew a long time ago.
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I wrote this a year ago and it hit a nerve. It is still relevant today:
Each time I have sat down to write something I am bothered by this recurring phrase that I cannot get out of my head. So, this week I am going to just say it out loud: we are on our own. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/we-a...
Each time I have sat down to write something I am bothered by this recurring phrase that I cannot get out of my head. So, this week I am going to just say it out loud: we are on our own. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/we-a...
We Are on Our Own
From Marc | Our institutions are not going to save us. Only we can do that.
www.democracydocket.com
December 27, 2025 at 2:16 AM
I wrote this a year ago and it hit a nerve. It is still relevant today:
Each time I have sat down to write something I am bothered by this recurring phrase that I cannot get out of my head. So, this week I am going to just say it out loud: we are on our own. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/we-a...
Each time I have sat down to write something I am bothered by this recurring phrase that I cannot get out of my head. So, this week I am going to just say it out loud: we are on our own. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/we-a...