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Religion has always been a part of expressions of public life here (as is someone's right to non belief) - it's why there is 1A. you are free to dislike someone invoking God and scripture in their political speeches -- but American secularism does not dictate people suppress their beliefs in public

Talarico is a religious person and his faith clearly motivates what he pushes for -- in this case its against religious nationalism and for social and economic justice. issue is whether the policies that are motivated by faith infringe upon the separation of church & state and people's rights.

RFK Jr. wants Dunkin’ to prove drinking its iced coffee is safe - The Boston Globe The warning comes as Kennedy is leaning heavily into his agenda to improve American diets.

FROM MY COLD ICE COFFEE HOLDING DEAD HANDS

www.bostonglobe.com/2026/03/04/n...

The first person in Bahrain to be confirmed to die was a migrant worker from the debris of an intercepted missile

You can be Covid-conscious (I am) but you shouldn't spread misinformation that vaccines don't prevent transmission. They do; they reduce transmission and severity, both of which appear to lower the risks of long Covid.

Here's why the messaging on Covid vaccines is still abysmal:

Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson (1889–1946). Paths of Glory (1917, oil on canvas).

somehow this feels Southern in the sense of US Southern culture and also in the sense of Global South

A highly complex website showing two betting accounts earning nearly $500,000 and $120,000 on a minimal number of positions.

In case you were wondering, Polymarket had yet another spate of likely inside traders betting that the US would strike Iran by February 28.

Per the due diligence investigation service Bubblemaps, the wallets used were created 24 hours earlier.

The Pentagon Pizza Index has been replaced.

I hope you aren’t drunk and took your staff’s advice, Rashida and I don’t know this man and feel confident he didn’t care about us. Please restrain from drinking too much as you have been warned from your staff and stay off social media when you are drunk. I pray in his holy month you find peace and respect for your self,

uhhh oh my god

Israel has closed all the crossings into Gaza and reimposed total siege.

sometimes things don’t have to be about us when bad things happen in the world

The U.S. just surpassed a grim measles milestone As the U.S. officially breaks 1,000 measles cases in 2026, experts say that the rate of infections is accelerating much faster this year than it did in years past

As the U.S. officially breaks 1,000 measles cases in 2026, experts say that the rate of infections is accelerating much faster this year than it did in years past

In bed | Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

oh my god he did the lord farquaad thing

my man i agree with you but you are not selling the argument very well here

ICE protesters keep beating Trump in Chicago court, but the battles take a toll. 'It’s about intimidation' Cases against 17 of 32 people charged with crimes during Operation Midway Blitz have already collapsed, and no one has been convicted. But federal prosecutions are daunting, they carry the threat of p...

good story from the sun-time about the consequences of criminal charges—even if those charges are later dropped.

wish they would apply the same logic more generally to people facing things like gun charges, which get dropped all the time bc they’re bogus/illegal.

How a Call From Trump Ignited a Bitter Feud Between Two U.S. Allies

The New York Times confirms what many people have speculated— Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman asked Donald Trump to sanction the UAE for its support of the RSF in Sudan.

Donald Trump, for his part, instead simply turned around and called Mohammed bin Zayed and told him about what MBS asked.

The Red State–Blue State Healthcare Divide Is Dangerous for Everyone Whether or not you have access to independent, scientifically sound public health guidance may depend on how your state voted for governor.

wrote about the growing public health divide between blue and red states in the US and how this is a problem for the entire country, for @thenation.com.

www.thenation.com/article/soci...

White House stalls release of approved US science budgets The US Congress rejected sweeping cuts to science agencies. But the NIH, the NSF and NASA have had their spending slowed.

Congress rejected massive cuts to US science budgets for 2026, but much of the money still isn’t flowing to researchers.

The culprit? The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is quietly slow-walking the release of funds. 🧵👇

i’ve been talking about public health federalism a lot. this good essay expands on some of the related concepts. and the call for training in “health mobilization” — approaching public health problems as political issues and organizing to fight for/against policy — is exactly right.

The Red State–Blue State Healthcare Divide Is Dangerous for Everyone Whether or not you have access to independent, scientifically sound public health guidance may depend on how your state voted for governor.

wrote about the growing public health divide between blue and red states in the US and how this is a problem for the entire country, for @thenation.com.

www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Below is the response to my question. The funny part of his response is that my research needed a control arm. My study actually did have a control arm (about 80% of the sample never reported discrimination).

So the answer itself makes me even more confused.

People are always like what’s something you miss from the past and one of mine is antitrust laws

fetterman looking at this like IT SHOULDVE BEEN ME NOT HIM

This idea was unfortunately boosted a LOT (the “purpose” of vaccines is “to prevent severe disease”) by about a half dozen public health twitter people in early 2021. Some of the biggest fights we had. And at the time I kept saying, “this will undermine MMR vaccination down the road”

historical detail I can't help but bring up: by some accounts, the event that instigated the British soldiers to open fire on Crispus Attacks and the rest of the crowd in the Boston Massacre was a soldier being hit by a snowball

Lawrence Summers Will Resign From Harvard After Epstein Revelations Mr. Summers, former president of the school, had stepped back from teaching after documents showed a closer relationship to Jeffrey Epstein than previously known. He will leave at the end of the academic year.

Larry Summers spent much of his career in the last 20 years talking about what is wrong with universities, what is wrong with college students, clashing with Dr. Cornel West -- doing so all from a pulpit of influence and condescension. good riddance.