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Something I wish more people would realize.

Ramaswamy has produced an attack ad weaponizing the rape of his opponent, Amy Acton, when she was 12 years old. It features Acton’s mother, who abandoned Acton after she was raped by her step-father, fleeing the state with her husband. Here is the corporate money helping fund that ad.

This👇 is such a good example of how on top of her game Helen was. While she was keeping us all updated on Ebola, MERS, flu, and so many of all the other infectious diseases out there, she immediately grasped the gravity of the first warning sign of what we now remember as SARS-CoV-2 / COVID-19.

A big loss for us, the community of virologists and epidemiologists, she was one of the best science journalists, never fell for the conspiracies or false equivalencies www.statnews.com/2026/10/13/h...

Erie County Department of Health reports potential diphtheria exposure in West Seneca schools www.wivb.com/news/local-n...

So it looks like Trump and Putin struck their diesel deal two weeks ago and waited until Putin's birthday to announce it. Which is important information to consider when trying to understand the true nature of their relationship. bsky.app/profile/chad...

The Oct 1 ECMWF seasonal update is even wetter in California during Jan-Mar, and w/higher confidence, vs Sep 1 update. Nov/Dec are certainly leaning wet, but the real signal doesn't emerge until Jan-Mar. Jan and Feb have especially high potential to be extremely wet in CA.

The incredible full day, high resolution view of Hurricane Polo today.

The FDA just approved daraxonrasib, a breakthrough drug for advanced pancreatic cancer that doubles survival time. This is huge: pancreatic cancer was once thought untreatable. The researchers received a standing ovation when they presented the trial results, unheard of at scientific conferences.

Crying Newborn Has No Idea How Much Worse It Gets

A side benefit of the fuss over the Odyssey movie is that people have been interviewing Homer translator Emily Wilson, who is unfailingly interesting on these matters. Her new talk with @dkthomp.bsky.social, who has the wit (all too rare among interviewers) to stay out of the way, is terrific.

Trump-induced brain drain

Cape Verde's national team returned to Praia to a homecoming parade after a historic World Cup run that ended in a 3-2 defeat to Argentina in the Round of 32.

AACR is deeply concerned that proposed OMB regulations would disrupt the process for awarding federal research grants, severely weakening a program that has supported American medical innovation for decades. Learn more: buff.ly/GLOGlW8 #UnitedByCancerResearch

This is incredible. So satisfying. I was going to say it’s “cutting” but it’s more a knifing to the gut or maybe a beheading. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Please god let this close the portal to Hell the Cubs opened in 2016

Shasta County voters passed a local measure to ban mail in ballots, and require photo ID when you vote in person. 28,000 voters supported this. How many of those supporters voted by mail? YEP! 25,000 (88%) 🤦 🤦‍♀️ 🤦‍♂️ www.sfchronicle.com/california/a...

Roche enters $2 billion cancer drug agreement with Nurix Therapeutics reut.rs/3RTn3Ai

A real headline in the United States today

JACOBS: I have one last question for you. Who won the 2020 presidential election? MARCO RUBIO: I'm not here to answer about 2020 JACOBS: It seems like you have an issue admitting facts, just like you couldn't admit the shoes the president bought you were too big RUBIO: The florsheims fit fine

'If a control experiment fails, does that mean that the entire experiment is poorly designed and you must restart from scratch? Often, yes— but not always. I present five examples where failed control experiments triggered entirely new fields of research.' link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Trump says Iran war is worth the economic pain. These rural voters agree. reut.rs/4dL2y14

Trump on Iran War: Reporter: What extent are Americans’ financial situation motivating you to make a deal? Trump: Not even a little bit. I don't think about Americans’ financial situation

Dear god. Very, very serious allegations of mass civil rights violations at the State of Florida's Everglades immigration detention center (officially known as "Alligator Alcatraz").

Story here: www.azcentral.com/story/news/p...

Photos: Stunning images from the Artemis moon mission bit.ly/4tyK9cL

Few people are aware of how much progress has been made against cancers. Leukemia is probably the most striking example. Before the 1970s, most children affected by leukemia would soon die from it. Now, most children in rich countries survive. ourworldindata.org/childhood-le...

1 Just passed through security at La Guardia. ICE entirely doing security! 100% of ID and identity checks done by ICE…Truly icky and dystopian. Some thoughts.

New from me for @latimes.com: Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco, who is a leading Republican candidate for governor, has seized more than 650,000 ballots from last November’s election and is investigating whether they were fraudulently counted. www.latimes.com/california/s...

Now online! The E3-ome gene-centric compendium reveals the human E3 ligase landscape

Hassett: "If the war were to be extended, it wouldn't really disrupt the US economy very much at all. It would hurt consumers, and we'd have to think about what we'd have to do about that, but that's really the last of our concerns right now."

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

It’s insane this is legal. People around Trump are profiting off war and death. I’m introducing legislation ASAP to ban this.

Speedrun to #skynet

I guess being an anime anon doesn't work anymore. "Large-scale online deanonymization with LLMs" They show that large language models can be used to perform at-scale deanonymization. With full Internet access, our agent can re-identify Hacker News users and

A British grandmother with a valid visa detained by ICE for 6 weeks. "So why did ICE detain her, and keep her locked up for so long? ICE officers are paid a bonus every time they detain someone. 'Individual ICE agents get money per head that they detain – the guards told me that,' Karen says."

NEW: This year’s #2030Census test in Huntsville, Ala., and Spartanburg, S.C., is using an unrelated survey form that includes a U.S. citizenship question, according to a regulatory filing (To be clear, this is for the “2026 Census Test,” not an actual census) www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PR...

Jodi Kantor in the NY Times reports that the Chief Justice requested Court employees sign nondisclosure agreements in November 2024 - moving to formal contracts requiring silence/confidentiality after Trump was reelected: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...

BREAKING... and Thank God... 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos, father board plane for Minneapolis after detention center release - ABC News abcnews.go.com/amp/US/5-yea...

This is just insane. It’s only a matter of time before DHS kills another innocent person here. (clip via MPR and @davidjbier.bsky.social on X)

Most recently, the rise of China’s success in medicine and biopharmaceuticals has happened so quickly that the US risks losing its position of leadership in the life sciences. One would normally expect the US to react vigorously. That has not happened.

A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.

REP. OMAR after being attacked with liquid: “We will continue! These fucking assholes are not gonna get away with this! Here is the reality people like this ugly man don’t understand — we are Minnesota Strong. We’ll stay resilient in the face of whatever they might throw at us.”

People are definitely setting up a barricade of trash cans and this couch, in the middle of the street where ICE is. "That's my couch," said a woman standing nearby. "It's been on my porch for four years because it won't fit up the stairs. My neighbor will be pleased it's gone now."