Maggie Fox

Opinion | Casey Means' Cringey Senate Hearing Should Sink Her Surgeon General Bid The nominee revealed her fundamental confusion between individual healthcare and public health

“Before even getting to her views on public health issues, there is absolutely nothing in Means' background to suggest she would be qualified to serve as surgeon general. No clinical experience, no public health training - just a large social media presence with a sketchy business background”

At least 148 dead after reported strike on school, Iran says Iran has blamed the US and Israel for the strike; the US is looking into reports of the incident, while the IDF says it is

The mass murder of civilians in Gaza, the brazen attacks on hospitals and schools, without any accountability has created a new kind of warfare that should terrify and enrage all of us.

Every child lost is someone’s whole world. Every life lost matters www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"How can you oppose war when Khamenei was evil?"

Simple. If you killed Donald Trump by nuking Washington DC, I would not mourn Trump but I'd still say you're an evil war criminal who belongs in the Hague. It's really not hard.

And if you don't understand that this will make people all over the world hate Americans, then you do not understand.

To everyone just logging on and seeing an image of a bloody child’s backpack, this time it isn’t from an American school.

Bombing is never the answer. If you have never been bombed or shelled or shot at, you need to shut up about what you think people or countries deserve. War is horrible. Remember that today a whole school full of little girls got bombed in Iran.

Killing a bunch of elementary school girls to distract from having raped a bunch of middle- and high-school girls is pretty fucking grim.

US-Israeli strike on girls' school kills at least 85 students, Iran's judiciary says At least 85 students have been killed in US-Israeli strikes that hit an Iranian girls' school in Hormozgan province, Iran's judiciary said on Saturday. Washington has not commented on the reported str...

Remind me, when you slaughter 85 young school children, are you the Good Guys?

A new report found 129 journalists were killed in 2025, the deadliest year since the Committee to Protect Journalists began collecting these data in 1992. Israel was responsible for 2/3. I spoke with CPJ's CEO Jodie Ginsberg on the latest @onthemedia.bsky.social: www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

‘Meatheads Are Hijacking America’: Vegans feel betrayed by RFK Jr.’s beef boosting | CNN Some vegans saw an unlikely ally in Robert F. Kennedy Jr. thanks to his stance against vaccine mandates and animal testing, as well as his campaign against processed foods. But new nutritional guideli...

A beef in MAHA-land.

He eats beef twice daily.
Wife (and hostage?) Cheryl Hines gets up at 6 am to cook him steak.

At the beef industry convention, Kennedy urged cattle farmers to “increase the size of the herd to ramp up beef production".

www.cnn.com/2026/02/26/u...

The NIH Restructuring Congress Rejected Is Happening Anyway (I used Gemini Nano Banana 2 to create this fictional image.)

"What is being lost is not merely funding or staffing. It is the architecture that makes American biomedical research work at national scale."
#medsky #nih #congress #budget

open.substack.com/pub/elizabet...?

For those of you who don't know how TV works: Producers are FAR more important than many of the folks whose faces you actually see on air. They do most of the work and make the real decisions.

Indeed. New grants are not getting funded, already funded grants are not getting paid, and non-competitive renewals are being held up.

Focusing on the top line budget, instead of looking at what is really happening on “the ground” is deeply misguided.

Cover of The Lancet:

@thelancet.com
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awwwww!

No wait, isn't strep the best one because you can actually give them antibiotics and they work and the child will get better? And now you can run an experiment using your OWN KIDS by masking them and seeing if there is cross infection and that would't be unethical or anything.

Check this out. Doesn't this sound like what NIH is?
(Can you guess the source without searching?)

"the Congressional intent to create a body of experts who shall gain experience by length of service — a body which shall be independent of executive authority except in its selection, and free..."

Oprah cursed us with both"doctors" Oz and Phil.

I am very much for it

All right but also porn is also extremely popular, yes? People will watch absolute crap. Just because Faux 'News' is popular does not mean it is any good. It is bad, wrong, awful stuff. Also. it ruined a perfectly good name.

"Affairs" is definitely not the right word.

This is not a dude thing. Girls would do the same thing.

Seriously - wtf

An old door in an old wall which is so arrogantly great, it’s almost disgusting.

Here's our @onehealthtrust.bsky.social podcast about this onehealthtrust.org/news-media/p...

Opinion | I Was a CDC Senior Leader. From What I Saw, No One Should Run Two Agencies. Placing Jay Bhattacharya in charge of both NIH and CDC raises concerns

I Was a CDC Senior Leader. From What I Saw, No One Should Run Two Agencies. www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...

Dentists still write millions of prescriptions a year for an antibiotic with life-threatening risks

“When you lose your mother,” Flournoy said, “it feels like part of you dies too.”
Dentists wrote 2.3 million prescriptions last year for an antibiotic with a black box warning because of its high risks. One of those prescriptions went to Dolores Owens.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/antimicrobia...

Nature: COVID’s origins: what we do and don’t know

By Marietjie Venter et al

go.nature.com/4l3WZNh