Rick Weinmeyer

The U.S. women's team is still extremely good. However, gymnastics is so MUCH more interesting now that they aren't the default champions time and again.

I've been smiling for 24 hours straight. Skye Blakely is a tremendous, resilient athlete, and she is so deserving of being the all-around world champion, and now the bronze medal winner on vault and bars.

I listened to this interview the other day. A really great perspective on such a horrible problem.

“Earlier this month, MAHA supporters released a scorecard, noting the Trump administration has broken more than 85 percent of its promises to the movement”

Big day for the Court (via @theonion.com).

"One nice thing about having a decades-long STI bore through your central nervous system is it keeps you from overthinking things."

Hey, do you lead a clinic or practice in the area of child law? Would you be interested in working in a vibrant city and an amazing law school with wonderful faculty, students, and staff? Come be my colleague!

"Here in Minnesota, . . . . We’ve protected abortion rights, made historic investments in child care and written protections for transgender Minnesotans into our Human Rights Act. But laws can be repealed. That’s why we won’t stop until equality is written into the Minnesota Constitution. . . ."

"The president said the task force would meet later in the afternoon. It will be chaired by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Susie Wiles, the White House chief of staff, who was recently treated for breast cancer."

One of my great TAs will be in New Haven for a competition. I know the city is a bounty of pizza & treats, so I said I would get recommendations. YALIES: Now is the time to say that you (1) went to Yale, but more importantly, (2) have recommendations you're generously willing to share. Thank you!

My new article is finally out.

Pre-tenure in six words: stressed out on a Friday night.

"What we’ve found is that all these worries, these fears, these uncertainties mean nothing to a team of magnificent stallions galloping along the dust-strewn plains."

I didn't "know" Judith, but she sat at my table during my admitted students’ luncheon, and I remember her being sharp and funny.

What a loss for public health journalism. I frequently searched "Helen Branswell" to get back up to speed on all things infectious disease.

"This wrecks some of our lives," Dylan told me about his experience w/the peptide BPC-157. He wasn't alone. There are entire chat rooms of people who say they've been harmed. Their voices are muffled in MAHA hype. My latest @kffhealthnews.org / @washingtonpost.com kffhealthnews.org/public-healt...

That's right: I've been indicted for health care fraud and I party with Ken Paxton. Is that a crime? Turns out "Yes."

Massive outbreaks and death aren't the only fallout from anti-vaxxers' rhetoric. Now they're going after the doctors who treat measles patients, reporting them to the state medical board. Thrilled to team up with @walkerbragman.bsky.social on this one! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

As I've written in the @nycpolicyforum.bsky.social, NYC should offer financial compensation to private property owners to open toilets to the public, building off of the city's strategic plan (Law 58). Cities rely on owners to carry out the functions of government, and they should be compensated.

A New Tower Will Have Lots of Public Space but No Public Bathrooms

Not sure how much longer I can stand social media, but I will use it on occasion for adorableness. Therefore, let us never forget about baby toucans.

Proud to have signed up for today's Twin Cities Marathon and bailed on training in May. #passiton

Here's a little tip: If you ask your parents "Is MS NOW on 24/7?" and your parents say "No," they're lying to you.

"By deleting the body’s memory of earlier infections, measles causes a condition called 'immune amnesia.' . . . That leaves people newly vulnerable to bacteria and viruses against which they were once protected, either through infection or vaccination."

To anyone who doubts the genetic/biological hardwiring of chronotypes, it's 12:59 A.M. in Charleston, S.C. I'm working, and my parents are up and watching TV.

Confession: I do not understand sweater crop tops.

Simple people living simple lives. “Oh, my dad? He invented SOUND.” “Me? I’m a novelist, director, stand-up comedian, film producer and principal in Water’s End Productions, a film development and production company.”

I didn't realize Flowers was a judge now. He comes up every year in my Public Health Law course because he argued against OSHA's temporary emergency standard for workplaces (requiring either COVID vaccination OR testing and masking) while sick with COVID. He had to give his argument virtually.

My go-to source about anything AI-related is @wired.com, so this week's Big Interview was informative.

Interested in my plans to live forever & never age? Then I have the symposium for you. Join the Beazley Inst. and Annals of Health L. & Life Sci. on Friday, Oct. 9th for our Symposium: Biohacking: Risk, Regulation & the Future of Longevity Medicine. reg.planetreg.com/E8310124030343

"Corporate law, although always far from perfect, was supposed to ensure that the titans of industry acted lawfully and in the best interests of not only the stockholders, but their companies. Now, it seems, Delaware has opted for backsliding."

I can't believe summer is almost over.

This "beehive" used to be located just a few blocks from where I grew up. There were still lots lilac bushes in the area, too.

Can payment make an otherwise permissible act wrong? Jason Brennan and Peter Jaworski join me and @uvalaw.bsky.social co-hosts Joe Keys and Jake Ross on Taboo Trades to discuss Markets without Limits: organ markets, corruption, rescue duties, and the law. www.buzzsprout.com/1227113/epis...

Today's random moment of joy: Seeing nuns playing volleyball. Had I not been on a 10-mile run, I would've snapped a picture.

Nothing nerdily warms my heart like a tribute or remembrance of a fantastic editor.

NEVER forget: RFK's "associates . . . have also been allowed direct access to senior CDC staff members. Dr. Ben Edwards, a physician in Lubbock, Texas, who treated children WHILE HE WAS INFECTED WITH MEASLES . . . , asked senior CDC officials to look into cod liver oil as a treatment for measles"

"'Imagine losing a third of a city’s firefighters and then wondering why downtown is burning,' said Dr. Jonathan Mermin, who led the agency’s center for H.I.V. and sexually transmitted infections till April 2025 . . . ."

I love a Christmas movie.

Public spaces for the public. Big if true.

As I tell my students, "Always be polite and kind. It costs you nothing, yet it's priceless." Apparently more faculty need to hear this, too.

If my personal life is ever described in a national publication, I want it to include the phrase "showered him with gifts."

I don't know anything about psychedelics or churches, but this is a great read.

"U.S. government launches new weight loss program that consists of improperly inspected meat."

What a great program! Opera is the best.