Kevin J. Black

Trump says that foreign countries pay tariffs but here's who actual experts say pay them.

Amen

I suppose in order to qualify as a lie, the speaker has to know what truth means. Mr. Trump's relationship with truth has been fleeting and contradictory. And self-serving.

After pointing at Democrats and saying they are "crazy," Trump says, "We’re lucky we have a country, with people like this. Democrats are destroying our country, but we stopped it, just in the nick of time."
Just insanely destructive. Indefensible — but Republicans stood and clapped.

From your lips …

… the goal is good, and maybe the authors have sidestepped that issue.

The problem is that where dopamine is—where it hits receptors on postsynaptic neurons—is not where brain energy utilization or blood flow (hence BOLD signal) are affected by dopamine. Those effects are where the axon termini are, or downstream. Anyway, I'll be reading the paper carefully because …

WATCH — “Per the Heritage Foundation’s own data, out of 2 billion votes cast since 1982… just 10 (!!) involved undocumented immigrants.”

Republicans are dismantling voting rights over a fake problem. The “SAVE” Act will only save Trump.

We've let the wrong people define masculinity. It’s time we take it back. Real masculinity is doing what's right, and doing it with kindness, empathy and compassion. @principlesfirst.bsky.social

Justice Department withheld and removed some Epstein files related to Trump An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump.

Justice Department withheld and removed some Epstein files related to Trump www.npr.org/2026/02/24/n...

The ICE surge in Minnesota cost $280M, to detain 4k people of whom only 30 were accused of violent crimes.

$9 million per capture of the "worst of the worst". Plus two citizens murdered.

~ Veterans for Peace

Yeah, just-so. Or maybe He's just giving people what they didn't realize they were asking for: "you want to escape this world? OK, you can each have your own (social) world)." Justice.

👀The federal judges in West Virginia, where ICE has been pulling over and detaining people on the freeway, are literally screaming about ICE's tactics.

"It is an assault on the constitutional order," Judge Goodwin says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Marie Curie, right?

Ouch!

Screenshot from an NIH website reading: "Table 1 shows the number of principal investigators (PIs) applying for or receiving an R01-equivalent grant in FYs 2021 to 2025, disaggregated by career stage. NIH supported 1,423 and 1,144 ESIs in FYs 2024 and 2025, respectively. The decrease seen in FY 2025 may likely be due in part to NIH implementing a requirement to use 50% of its remaining competing Research Project Grant (RPG) funds (starting in June 2025) for full-year funded competing RPGs, which was expected to lead to fewer awards and support fewer researchers overall."

Check this out straight from the NIH website, acknowledging that multiyear funding was likely responsible for a 20% decrease in early stage investigators.

And that it was expected.

A strange approach for someone so committed to the next generation of scientists.

grants.nih.gov/news-events/...

Finally we can peel off the rind and get down to the important part of the brain.
:)

"You see what you look for, and you look for what you know."

We are proud to release FOCUS: a 100 μm deformable human subcortical atlas precisely registered to MNI space.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Remember that time the Pentagon's National Defense Strategy declared that the US had "obliterated Iran's nuclear program"? That was **checks notes** January 23, less than 30 days ago.

Think of how bad things must be for a Supreme Court Justice to feel he has to explain why it's a good idea to have laws enacted by legislators instead of decreed by wannabe dictators

When you put it like this, a $75 million bribe to Melania and gutting the Washington Post seems like a small price to pay.

In-network behavioral health access is limited: only 17% of adults get timely care, often facing 2-3x longer wait. PMID:41563784, JAMA Psychiatry 2026, @JAMAPsych https://doi.org/10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2025.4344 #Medsky #Pharmsky #RNA #ASHG #ESHG 🧪

sown

Risk of type 2 diabetes may be higher up to 3 years after COVID infection in unvaccinated, severely ill

Higher risk of diabetes after Covid in the unvaccinated but not those who are vaccinated.
#Medsky

www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/ris...

Elana Meyers Taylor holding up the American flag after winning her first gold medal. she's overcome with joy

Meyers Taylor said her children's disabilities — both of her sons are deaf and Nico has Down syndrome — have created some "unique challenges" on the road. Nico experiences sensory overload at times and becomes overwhelmed, she said. The boys don't particularly sleep well on planes and then there's keeping up with their specialized treatments and medical equipment while on tour."

"I thought it would get much easier as they got older and it has not," Meyers Taylor, 41, said at the USOPC media summit in October. "Bigger children, bigger problems. Now that they're both walking, they're both up. They don't want to sit on planes, they don't want to stay still. They don't want to sit for meals or anything like that. So it is absolute chaos."

Meyers Taylor hugging her two sons after winning the gold medal

Elana Meyers Taylor.
Wins medals in 4 Olympics (bronze in 2010, silver in 2014/18/22)
In 2020 & 2022, she has kids. Both have special needs. She lives on the road with them, flying around the world for months at a time to compete in bobsled.
And THEN! At 41! She wins her first gold.
American hero.

Everyone knows things are dire inside #NIH, this makes it look even worse. Staff can't speak openly about problems for professional reasons, even as they see systems breaking down. A worrying moment for the future of US biomedical research.
#ScienceMatters #StandUpForScience #USPol #ResearchSky

Born #OTD, #LaskerLaureate Pierre Deniker was recognized for the development of chlorpromazine as a therapeutic agent in schizophrenia. 🧪
#psychiatry
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Herrings are red,
Judicials are true, ...

(ok, I'm not even a weak poet, but I know "red herring")

I was thinking, "incredible!" But then I realized, not anymore.

How to register to vote and check your registration status For the 2026 primary elections, NPR has collected deadlines and information on how to register to vote — online, in person or by mail — in every U.S. state and territory.

For the 2026 primary elections, NPR has collected deadlines and information on how to register to vote — online, in person or by mail — in every U.S. state and territory. n.pr/4ayRPUJ