There's gotta be even the local historical society that can stop this. I mean, in our town they drive people nuts with what they can't do to their vaguely-historic homes.

Masked ICE agents hauled workers out of a pizza place in my Massachusetts town today.

Do I feel safer? No, the opposite. Do I feel wealthier? Not a bit. Do I feel that justice is being served? No, not that, either.

I’m mostly infuriated by armed, masked men roaming around and grabbing people.

Cambridge startup develops a pill for sleep apnea 30 million Americans suffer from sleep apnea, a condition that makes it hard for patients to breathe when they sleep.

Listening to @wbur.org a story about a pill for apnea. At the end where they talked about killing off US research. It takes 15 years to get this from lab to the marketplace. We won't see it yet but we'll be in a hole for years after they kill academia.
www.wbur.org/news/2025/08...

Shot. Chaser.

I thought it was ok to decline service because you don't like someone's lifestyle now. #SCOTUS

Antivaxxers have always been all about eugenicist thinking. Their worldview is that if you die of measles, flu, COVID, etc., it’s because there must have been something defective about you, not because these diseases can kill healthy people. They’re just more than happy to let nature do the culling.

If Trump properties are trafficking sites, they should not be used for political visits, foreign dignitaries should avoid them, and major sporting events should drop them. Quite simple.

#Epstein #EpsteinFiles

Hell yeah I love this "calling-the-footnotes" genre of reporting

#FirstClassLoser.

Go, Dropkick Murphys. Go.

How conspiracy theories about COVID’s origins are hampering our ability to prevent the next pandemic The COVID pandemic likely began when the virus jumped from animals to humans, and didn’t start in a lab. But false narratives continue to circulate.

Our research has been engulfed by an endless torrent of lab leak conspiracy theories about the origin of the pandemic - even as the evidence for zoonosis has only grown stronger.

This fuels anti-science agendas and erodes public trust.

Now, we respond 👇

theconversation.com/how-conspira...

Great Earthquake mainshock. Making the already big earthquakes over the last few days big foreshocks.

Look at that.

Love to see more of it

M 8.0 - 133 km SE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia

That means the M7.4 9 days ago can now be considered a foreshock to this event. 🧪

earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

Big Papi, a 3 year old cat

never before has a cat embodied his name so well. yes, of course this is Big Papi. who else could he be

Thank you for stepping up and actively being on the front lines of democracy. It gives me hope to see it.

I can't help send any more Dems from here in MA, but you guys can help us.

The Peabody Sisters.

meganmarshallauthor.com/books_peabod...

To all those who wondered why the SSCP spent two yrs harassing me and other scientists - this is why - to use the phony narrative they created as an excuse to demolish NIH. Wake up America - you’ve been had!

Screenshot of the text from a newsletter in my inbox. It says: "Colombia: Trump threatened to place 50 percent tariffs on Colombian imports after President Gustavo Petro refused to accept deportation flights. In a rebuke, Petro responded: “I don’t shake hands with white enslavers.” " I have highlighted the last sentence in yellow.

Huh. I never heard this mentioned elsewhere in the media. I would have thought it would catch some notice.

From the NYT newsletter (I am not a subscriber but still on some lists). This newsletter is called The Morning.

Stand firm, Colombia. This is true.

#ICE #Immigration

Hello, I’m a food/sustainability expert in a film. Although actual changes to agriculture & food systems are often filled with tradeoffs, nuances, and political disagreements, the film makes it seem like One Weird Trick will heal farmers, consumers, communities, animals, soils, water, & ecosystems.

Word.

So tired of the chattering classes now making much hay out if blaming scientists for loss of trust in science, never looking at well-funded and organised anti-science & merchants of doubt groups, politicial ideologues, or self-serving media all playing a much more influential role.

Sinking deeper into the abyss every day now.

Or they are just now waking up to the threat they legitimatized and enabled.

It’s like watching a baby take its first steps.

I am not an Adams historian, but I am local history buff and I thought it was worthwhile. One of my favorite local sites is the Adams homes NPS here.

Worth your time. And now I always hear Paul Giamatti and Laura Linney's voices when I read letters from the Adams now.

oh

"fossilized fuckwads" is the phrase of the day

Today's reading included Lysenkoism and concentration camps.

This timeline is going down a really dark path.

I used to play this for my students, along with the Neanderthal voice video. Always great for an educational laugh!

Stitches in the air: celebrating Dubin's history through lace Sínann Fetherston chats with visual artist and lace maker Fiona Harrington to learn about the history of lace making in Ireland, and how she is using the practice to celebrate Dublin's tangled past.

Nice piece about a #lace artist from #Ireland and her residency at a museum in #Dublin.

The Irish have been very good at celebrating their lace traditions, IMHO.

#needlelace #bobbinlace

www.rte.ie/lifestyle/li...

Making America Healthy Again: Remedies for Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Campaign against Chronic Disease Chronic diseases impose enormous health and economic burdens in the United States, especially on marginalized populations, and demand evidence-based, equity-focused interventions. To combat chronic d....

Making America Healthy Again: Remedies for Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Campaign against Chronic Disease

"#MAHA Commission appears to be both ideologically driven and scientifically unsound"

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

It's been a little disheartening to hear so much confusion in the reporting on Trump's new trade deal with Japan. So let me try to clarify.