🇪🇺🇮🇷 Kallas: The death of Khamenei is a defining moment in Iran’s history.

There is now an open path to a different Iran, one that its people may have greater freedom to shape.

I’m in contact with partners, including those in the region, to find practical steps for de-escalation.

That was nonsense

Mia Valentina Paz Faria A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas Detained for 70 days “I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by @micarosenberg et al for ProPublica:

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.

Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.

www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

Prasad/Makary/Hoeg still haven't released a shred of evidence to support this claim.

“Never” will be? Surely he must mean “not while I’m president” or “not over the remainder of my term”, right?

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One of the best things I’ve read in a while:

John Mitnick @JohnMitnick I helped to establish DHS in 2002 and 2003 and later had the homeland security portfolio as a White House Counsel and served as General Counsel of the Department. I am enraged and embarrassed by DHS’s lawlessness, fascism, and cruelty. Impeach and remove Trump—now. George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d The deadly shooting in Minneapolis today was a straight-up execution of a protester by Trump's federal brownshirts. The thugs wrestled him to the ground. They pistol-whipped him, then shot him multiple times. They murdered him.

Beyond helping establish DHS itself in 2003, Mr. Mitnick was a senate-confirmed Trump choice for General Counsel for DHS in his first term. I've talked with him a few times, and he's not a man for hyperbole. So bear that in mind when you see him calling out DHS's "lawlessness, fascism, and cruelty."

So important. What they say is not the story. That is never the story. What happened is the story. Write what happened.

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Screenshot from STAT article that says "What we're going to have is a real-world experience of when unvaccinated people get measles," he said. "What is the new incidence of hospitalization? What's the incidence of death?"

RFK Jr. appointee Kirk Milhoan has just clearly stated, out loud, that he wants to experiment on the people of the United States by seeing what happens as vaccination coverage plummets and infectious diseases spread.

Worth every second

Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of mankind their minds are early poisoned by importance; and the world they act in differs so materially from the world at large, that they have but little opportunity of knowing its true interests, and when they succeed to the government are frequently the most ignorant and unfit of any throughout the dominions.

Common Sense, published 250 years ago today.

Kevin you’ve done good work here. Hope to “see you” back and soon.

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🧵 Essential ID Papers for 2025: A Clinician’s Guide

Each year brings a flood of amazing ID literature.

Here are candidates for some of the most important ID papers of 2025, spanning guidelines, trials, antimicrobials, and vaccines.
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Read the full email Sharyn Alfonsi sent her team about CBS pulling their segment on the Trump admin’s deportations of Venezuelan migrants

Romeros first yellow was for dissent after he got shoved in the box on Liverpool’s gifted second goal.

No prob, understood!

A merger from the Galaxy Zoo: Hubble project, classified by 49 volunteers.

A merger, observed with the Hubble Space Telescope in the COSMOS survey.

It is at redshift 0.63 (lookback time 6.09 billion years) with coordinates (149.93327, 2.11485).

49 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo: Hubble.

Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…

I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!

What are the odds that Mike Johnson never reconvenes Congress, and just cedes all government functions to Trump and his administration?

🔥 COACH SULLY: “Let’s see what $4.3 TRILLION looks like when each party gets their hands on it… the oligarchs are laughing all the way to the bank (with Republicans)…”

Trump Is Breaking Americans’ Trust in Doctors "The President riffed on claims so easily disproven that they bordered on absurd," writes Dr. Craig Spencer.

After yesterday’s rambling press conference on acetaminophen and autism, I wrote for TIME about the disastrous medical guidance offered by the president and why this was even worse than the ‘inject bleach’ press conference during Covid

OpEd and accompanying video interview👇
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Like his hedge fund owns soy bean farms throughout the Midwest?

We will need laws to prevent it from being rented out to people and corporations who will pay exorbitant fees as a way to get access and favors from the president.

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Proud papa moment: my son J published a letter in the @nytimes.com today (in print tomorrow) on the need to think our definitions of autism.

Not sure Robert, will have to see how the Washington Post or social media frames it!

Headline should cut out “many” and instead state that “almost all (if not all) experts disagree”