Bryn Nelson

a slurring Trump in new video on American troops killed by Iran: “Sadly, there will likely be more before it ends. That's the way it is. Likely be more.“

This is so horribly sad and cruel. In the rush to disappear people, ICE basically left the families’ pets to fend for themselves in abandoned cars and homes.

This is madness. And for what? How are we any safer? Just monstrous.

The Washington Post sacked all of its Middle East correspondents a couple of weeks ago. Useful.

Elite Doctors Served Jeffrey Epstein While Treating His ‘Girls’

NEW: I and colleagues reviewed 15,000 documents to illuminate how Jeffrey Epstein used VIP doctors to control and manipulate young women* — and how the doctors helped him, treating his needs as more important than the patients'. Gift link.

*see next post in thread

I Don’t Actually Have to Sell This War With Iran, Do I? Let me cut straight to the chase: I’m tired. You’re tired. The world is overwhelming. We all have stuff we’d rather be doing. There are tons of bra...

"I get it. I had to lie about every other war since Vietnam. And some of them were good lies that took pains to cover up. But I’m getting older, and I don’t have the energy anymore. I’m practically falling asleep on these cable news shows where I have to talk about war with Iran."

ICYMI — an exiting news producer essentially confirmed everyone’s suspicions about what Bari Weiss is doing to CBS.

www.thewrap.com/media-platfo...

The real story is that foreign govts try to "interfere" all the time. In 2020 and 2024 we had mechanisms to catch them, call them out, & mitigate damage. Now, those mechanims are gone & the Trump admin would prefer to exploit "foreign interference" to justify a federal take-over of elections.

The real story is that foreign govts try to "interfere" all the time. In 2020 and 2024 we had mechanisms to catch them, call them out, & mitigate damage. Now, those mechanims are gone & the Trump admin would prefer to exploit "foreign interference" to justify a federal take-over of elections.

OFFS. When Iran tried to interefere in 2020, researchers caught them and called them out. Then the Benz-Weiss-Taibbi-Musk-Jordan-Trump axis labeled those researchers "censors" ... and set about defunding them and dismantling their organizations.

this is extremely dangerous.

Private money cannot replace public funding of science Who should pay for American science? In the current political climate, many are looking to the private sector to compensate for cuts in public funding. At the Harvard School of Public Health—particula...

A response to the opinion that private $ can replace the NIH.

Businesses are not charities. They work on profit margins. Decades of $ is essential for research to progress from an initial discovery to treatment. Most of the dirty work goes on in academic labs.

🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The nuclear nightmare at the heart of the Trump-Anthropic fight Should we trust Claude to stop a  missile attack?

The nuclear nightmare at the heart of the Trump-Anthropic fight
My latest for @vox.com www.vox.com/politics/480...

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.

What do Congress's top appropriators say?

“This is a drastic departure from historical practice,” @delauro.house.gov told @nature.com.

DeLauro and @murray.senate.gov demanded that OMB release funds, as is required by law.

(The top Republicans, Rep Tom Cole & Sen Susan Collins didn't respond.)

The impact is already hitting science agencies hard. The NIH—the world's largest public biomedical research funder—has had to rely on leftover stopgap funds.

New grant awards have slowed to a trickle — exacerbating the effects of a record-long shutdown in October.

(h/t @jeremymberg.bsky.social)

Back to science agencies.

Normally, agencies get a 30-day chunk of their funding right after a budget is signed.

Not anymore. The OMB tweaked the rules, restricting early payments to just essential expenses like salaries to assert more control over the cash.

It's all a part of OMB Director Russ Vought playbook.

He has called this apportionment process an “indispensable statutory tool” to force agencies to adhere to White House priorities — even arguing that the OMB can legally provide less funding than Congress explicitly appropriated.

Why is the White House involved?

Congress might write the checks, but OMB actually has to allow agencies to spend money. This legal step is called "apportionment."

It’s supposed to pace funding so agencies don't overspend, but this past year, it’s been acting as a major chokepoint.

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. 🧵👇

Refugee released by Border Patrol found dead, sparking outrage Surveillance video obtained by The Post shows Border Patrol agents releasing the partially blind refugee, who went missing for days before being found dead.

We obtained footage showing a man who appeared to be refugee Nurul Amin Shah Alam being dropped off by Border Patrol outside a Buffalo coffee shop after 8pm. The shop locks its door at 7pm. He never made it inside, and was found dead five days later:

Columbia President with NEW details:

5 DHS agents entered a residency with no warrant.

They said they were police looking for a missing kid.
Security camera even captures them showing pictures of the "kid."

A campus officer asked for a warrant & their boss.

They ignored him & took the student.

US accused of ‘shameless exploitation’ over proposed Zambian health aid deal Leaked draft reveals US health aid deal with Zambia includes mining concessions & long-term health d...

Leaked draft reveals US health aid deal with Zambia includes mining concessions & long-term health data access for Washington. Civil society groups express concern over exploitation. Agreement deadline: April 1st. #GlobalHealth #News

They beat a blind refugee who speaks no English for failing to obey police commands he could not understand. Then instead of apologizing, they charged him with possession of a “weapon”—HIS WALKING STICK. Then they dumped him miles from home without notifying anyone, after which he was found dead.

Blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol dies in Buffalo. A nearly blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol miles from his home dies in Buffalo after having been missing for nearly a week.

This blind man - a refugee from Burma - was dropped off by Border Patrol at a Tim Horton's in Buffalo, NY.

In the middle of February.
A mile from a home where he no longer lived.
While his relatives were searching for him.

Cops found his body 5 days later

www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/25/b...

josh barro: The appeals to "the science" to support youth gender medicine were thin as hell, which is why the medical societies are backing away, and it was reckless to burn their credibility here when they needed it for things like vaccines that do have strong scientific backing

there's so much elite media denial that it was the exact same group of people promoting vaccine denial as were promoting the trans panic. reading tweets like this or singal's ny times op-ed, you'd think they were two separate and opposed groups.

Dozens of FBI records apparently missing from Epstein files, including Trump accuser interviews | CNN Three interviews related to a woman who accused President Donald Trump of sexually assaulting her decades ago appear to be among the missing files in the DOJ release.

NEW: CNN also confirms my reporting — and furthers the story — that the DOJ withheld at least 3 FBI interviews with a woman who accused Trump of sexually assaulting her when she was a child

www.cnn.com/2026/02/24/u...

CNN follows NPR and Politico in finding that DOJ scrubbed the Epstein files of evidence related to a woman who accused Trump of sexually assaulting her when she was 13 years old.