Chris Hendel

Dr. Oz deserves to be completely redacted. No redeeming qualities worth considering now that we’ve learned he’s a known Epstein associate.

Canning his ass would be good.

Canning, arresting and deporting his ass would be even better.

Measles spread to New York, Vermont Vermont and New York health officials are reporting their first measles cases of the year, bringing the country's total numbers of measles infections in 2026 to 910.

Measles Update: New York, Vermont confirm first measles cases of the year, bringing the total number of the USA's measles infections to 910. And it's only February.

www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/meas...

Court rebukes Trump administration for denying immigration detainees access to lawyers It’s the latest and perhaps most pointed rebuke yet from Minnesota federal judges.

ICE director Todd LYONS says the two officers involved in the Jan. 14 chase/shooting incident appear to have lied under oath and are being investigated by DOJ. This comes after DHS Secretary Kristi Noem aggressively defended them as having fired in self-defense. politico.com/news/2026/02...

Tell me again that you don’t understand the econ…oh never mind

MSC: Germany's Merz urges new 'trans-Atlantic partnership' During his speech at the Munich Security Conference, the German chancellor recognized there is a "deep rift" between Europe and the US under the Trump administration. He called for a revival of "trans...

"The culture war of the MAGA movement is not ours"

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz urged a new "trans-Atlantic partnership" during his address at the Munich Security Conference (MSC) on Friday.
per @news.dw.com
www.dw.com/en/msc-germa...

Why covid-19 is “a vascular disease masquerading as a respiratory one” Covid-19 is not just a respiratory infection. Cardiovascular symptoms are seen in both acute and long covid. Katharine Lang reports on what we’ve learnt since the onset of the pandemic Cardiovascular...

Why covid-19 is “a vascular disease masquerading as a respiratory one”
via @bmj.com
www.bmj.com/content/392/...

A crowd of people on the sidewalk hold signs reading "ProPublica Workers Love a Union Contract" and "Ready to Strike"

A crowd of several doezen people hold signs reading "ProPublica Workers Deserve Fair Pay", "ProPublica Workers Love A Fair Contract", and "We're Not Shutting Up"

1/ Our members are practicing picketing @propublica.org offices in multiple cities right now to demand job security protections and guardrails around AI. We are ready to do what it takes to get a fair contract.

Is The Trump Regime Committing Genocide? From a human rights legal perspective, the facts we know reveal a frightening conclusion we cannot afford to ignore

As a human rights lawyer, I cannot ignore this potential conclusion.

Genocide is defined in binding international law. When evidence suggests conduct falls within its scope, we have a duty to examine it, not dismiss it reflexively.

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

"Physicians have relied on that data for 40 years. Every morning before walking into the ICU, my colleagues and I checked flu activity levels, RSV hospitalizations, drug-resistant organism patterns. This wasn’t academic curiosity — it was how we kept patients alive." -- Robert B. Shpiner, M.D.

Chilling.

“Not Ready for Prime Time.” A Federal Tool to Check Voter Citizenship Keeps Making Mistakes. The Department of Homeland Security pushed out the revamped tool while it was still adding data. That led to widespread misidentification, particularly for citizens born outside the U.S.

NEW: A federal tool meant to find noncitizens on voter rolls is consistently marking citizens as noncitizens, especially if they were born outside the U.S., causing chaos as election clerks try not to disenfranchise voters, @zachdespart.bsky.social and I found. 🧵 www.propublica.org/article/save...

Exclusive: White House uses USAID funds for budget director Vought's security, documents show The White House budget office is using millions of dollars from the former U.S. foreign aid agency to pay for the security detail of Russell Vought, President Donald Trump's budget chief and an archit...

there's fierce competition, but this is one of the most stomach-turning things I've read in some time

Thanks for this link! 👊

The denaturalization project, no matter how it is cloaked in law, is inherently a politically targeted abuse of power until they go after the single most prominent case of naturalization fraud in the country: Elon Musk obtaining his citizenship by lying about his prior immigration status violations.

Dozens of researchers will move to France from US following high-profile bid to lure talent Large proportion worked at Columbia University, which had its grants cut and frozen by the administration of US President Donald Trump.

Dozens of researchers will move to France from US following high-profile bid to lure talent
via @nature.com

Large proportion worked at Columbia University, which had its grants cut and frozen by the administration of US President Donald Trump.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

You’re So Vain Trump’s obsession with his own name exposes a man chasing validation

"Federal buildings are now festooned with three-story-high banners of Donald Trump’s shadowy face. These taxpayer-funded pieces of propaganda are just one example of Trump’s self-glorification."

You’re So Vain
by @thedanrather.bsky.social

open.substack.com/pub/steady/p...

Democratic Governor Bans ICE From State Property Governor Mikie Sherill is ramping up ways to keep ICE in check.

New Jersey’s newly elected Governor Mikie Sherill is the latest Democratic state leader to take action to protect her state’s residents from ICE: barring agents from entering, accessing, or using nonpublic areas of state-owned property without first receiving a judicial warrant. trib.al/vqBrPzT

U.S. Attorney Chosen to Replace Trump Pick Is Quickly Fired by White House

The NYT credited a local paper -- the Times Union in Albany, NY -- TWICE in a story today, which is very admirable and may have set a record.

(And kudos to the Times Union for, as the NYT put it, "assiduously" covering these shenanigans.)

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/n...

Trump nominated a legit white nationalist to a top post at the State Department. I asked him some basic questions about his belief in the “erasure of white culture”. Watch this embarrassing, fumbling answer. Like he has never before been asked to explain his views.

The Yale Professor Who E-mailed Epstein About a “Small Goodlooking Blonde” Student Is No Longer Teaching After outcry from students over e-mails showing David Gelernter’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, the computer science professor is under review by the university.

Hoo boy this piece in @thenation.com today.

The Yale Professor Who E-mailed Epstein About a “Small Goodlooking Blonde” Student Is No Longer Teaching
www.thenation.com/article/society/yale-professor-gelernter-epstein-emails-review/

Trump Administration Erases the Government’s Power to Fight Climate Change

Unbelievable! 😡

"The administration repealed the bedrock scientific finding that greenhouse gases threaten human life and the environment, ending the federal government’s legal authority to control the pollution that is dangerously heating the planet."
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/c...

When Protocol Meets Reality In this narrative medicine essay, a pediatrician and former medical school dean offers 3 steps for clinicians on how to adapt their cognitive evaluations to the abilities of their patients, in this ca...

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"I have spent my entire professional life trying to protect patients from unnecessary distress. Yet in that moment, I found myself unable to protect my own wife from the kind of distress that comes not from the disease, but from the way the disease is approached."
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Performative public lying is a hallmark of far right authoritarian parties

JFC!

Cynicism is the Enemy of the Way We Should Be Doing Journalism Finding negative models in White House coverage and at WaPo

"We shouldn’t help people lie anonymously."

Excellent column today by the former president of @propublica.org, @dicktofel.bsky.social

Cynicism is the Enemy of the Way We Should Be Doing Journalism
open.substack.com/pub/dicktofe...
#JournalismMatters #Journalism

This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.

The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...

Some children in Dilley were so distraught they cut themselves or talked about suicide, parents told ProPublica.

They said kids lost their appetites after finding worms and mold on their food, had trouble sleeping, and were constantly sick.

An American cross-country skier charms Europe at a tense political moment Silver medalist Ben Ogden has drawn almost unanimous approval from teammates and opponents on both sides of the pond.

“He’s the kind of president America should have,” said Tomas Pettersson, veteran sportswriter & columnist w/ Swedish tabloid Expressen. “Nobody thinks of Donald Trump & Ben Ogden in the same moment.”

American cross-country skier charms Europe at a tense political moment
www.adn.com/sports/skiin...

Protesters in multiple states press Target to oppose the immigration crackdown in Minnesota Activists have planned protests at more than two dozen Target stores around the United States to pressure the discount retailer into taking a public stand against the 5-week-old immigration crackdown in its home state of Minnesota.

Activists planned protests at more than two dozen Target stores around the United States on Wednesday to pressure the discount retailer into taking a public stand against the immigration crackdown in its home state of Minnesota.