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This Is What Destroying the Vaccine Market Looks Like A shocking move by RFK Jr.’s team has the industry spooked—for good reason.

A Trump administration official said Moderna might have more luck with its vaccine application if it resubmitted with a little “humility”

Does that sound like the “gold-standard science” RFK Jr. promised?

Or a mob boss threat?

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huh, was there any time recently when a reconciliation bill devoted a giant amount of money towards investments like that

Doctors: There's growing evidence that microplastics are harmful

Nutritionists: Don't even eat food or drink water that has touched plastic

Dentists: We made a plastic mold of the inside of your mouth, keep it in there 8 hours a day, 23 if you have crooked teeth, you don't want to look poor do you

Just don't get me started on the French Republican calendar, 6-day week, the Peirce Quincuncial map projection, or the base 12 number system :)

Jon Finer, one of the negotiators of the JCPoA: "To people who say, how can you trust Iran? You didn't have to trust Iran under [the JCPoA]. There were weapons inspectors... all over Iran's facilities, and they were saying right up until the minute that Trump pulled out that Iran was complying."

You have time to argue with me about it

Sure, but to create a numerical scale to measure something linear, you need a unit of scale and an anchor point... or two anchor points, with the unit of scale then defined relative to the distance between them. I'm just saying that if I were to create a new system, those are the two points I'd pick

Boiling temperature is something we can conceive of, but can't really feel. The difference between 70 C and 110 C is something we're going to measure with a thermometer and not something we can actually distinguish by sensation. Freezing temperature and body temperature are on a very human scale.

My point is not that people need help remembering what human body temperature is, it's that when most people in their daily lives discuss temperature, it's usually regarding the weather or things that feel warm/hot to a person. Freezing temp and body temp are perfect goalposts; they're palpable.

While defending itself from the many, many legal challenges to its actions, this administration has consistently acted as though district court orders are suggestions at most. With this order, the Court basically says: yes, we agree. You can defy the lower courts all you want until we’ve weighed in.

It's also quite the message to send to district court judges: don't even bother trying to hold this government accountable to due process - we are not there to back you, no matter how egregious the DOJ has been in your court.

This decision is bad enough on the merits. But it also gives the government relief in a case in which it defied the district court at least *twice.* That’s quite a message to send to the government with respect to the costs of its litigation behavior in other cases—or the complete lack thereof.

SCOTUS majority not deigning to give *any* reasons for staying the injunction of the district court - in the highest-possible stakes context & where the executive branch has acted appallingly - evincing real contempt for both district courts & the rule of law

Trump Says Iran’s Nuke Sites Are “Obliterated.” The Military Isn’t So Sure. Defense officials say his claims are “overblown” — and the intelligence community said Iran wasn’t building a bomb.

Trump Says Iran’s Nuke Sites Are “Obliterated.” The Military Isn’t So Sure.

Defense officials say his claims are “overblown” — and the intelligence community said Iran wasn’t building a bomb.

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DISASTROUS. This means they will send people to horrific situations with no due process — in direct violation of promises the Solicitor General made to the Court in previous cases.

This greenlights sending people to be enslaved in Libya or tortured in any random foreign country.

Do you really use a thermometer every time you boil water?

Also, have you raised kids? Because they get sick allllll the time, I've definitely taken kids' temperature much more often than I have used a thermometer in cooking.

Sotomayor: "Given its conduct in these proceedings, the Government’s posture resembles that of the arsonist who calls 911 to report firefighters for violating a local noise ordinance."

SCOTUS' intervention "expos[es] thousands to the risk of torture or death." www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

Here, in violation of an unambiguous TRO, the Government flew four noncitizens to Guantanamo Bay, and from there deported them to El Salvador. Then, in violation of the very preliminary injunction from which it now seeks relief, the Government removed six class members to South Sudan with less than 16 hours’ notice and no opportunity to be heard. The Government’s assertion that these deportations could be reconciled with the injunction is wholly without merit. Notice at 5:45 p.m. for a 9:35 a.m. deportation, provided to a detainee without access to an attorney, plainly does not “‘affor[d]’” that noncitizen with “‘a reasonable time’” to seek relief. A. A. R. P. v. Trump, 605 U. S. ___, ___ (2025) (per curiam) (slip op., at 4). Even if the Government’s overnight notice had been adequate, moreover, DHS also did not provide the required “meaningful opportunity . . . to raise a fear of return” under the Convention. ECF Doc. 64, at 46. The affected class

members lacked any opportunity to research South Sudan, to determine whether they would face risks of torture or death there, or to speak to anyone about their concerns. Instead, they were left in their cells overnight with no chance to raise a claim and deported the next morning. The Government thus openly flouted two court orders, including the one from which it now seeks relief. Even if the orders in question had been mistaken, the Government had a duty to obey them until they were “‘reversed by orderly and proper proceedings.’” Maness, 419 U. S., at 459 (quoting United States v. Mine Workers, 330 U. S. 258, 293 (1947)). That principle is a bedrock of the rule of law. The Government’s misconduct threatens it to its core. So too does this Court’s decision to grant the Government equitable relief. This is not the first time the Court closes its eyes to noncompliance, nor, I fear, will it be the last. See Trump v. J. G. G., 604 U. S. ___ (2025) (per curiam). Yet each time this Court rewards noncompliance with discretionary relief, it further erodes respect for courts and for the rule of law.

In dissent, Sotomayor accuses the Trump administration of openly defying a lower court order, and says SCOTUS now "rewards" it.

"Each time this Court rewards noncompliance with discretionary relief, it further erodes respect for courts and for the rule of law." www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

ICE detains Marine Corps veteran's wife who was still breastfeeding their baby U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers detained the wife of a Marine Corps veteran in Louisiana during a routine immigration appointment in New Orleans.

ICE has imprisoned the wife of a Marine veteran who was still breastfeeding a 3-month-old baby because her *mother* failed to attend a hearing in 2018 apnews.com/article/ice-...

0 being freezing is the one thing Celsius absolutely gets right. Once again I point to my ideal temperature scale, where 0=freezing and 100=human body temperature. These are the most intuitive points of reference in most people's lives bsky.app/profile/cole...

I should have predicted the eventual betrayal bsky.app/profile/cole...

can't believe it's 2025 and i'm stressed about tariffs and measles, like am i a character in an american girl book

Look, folks, this is it. The entire ballgame. Either we're a Republic of laws & the Constitution, or we have a dictator. This is fascism, & the impeachment vote should be happening today. Every single university president in the country should be out, in front of microphones, condemning this.

Again, if the Mad King can just disappear legal residents on personal whim, he can do it for any citizen of the Republic. And if he can do that, without consequence, then I have no idea why you still believe the 2026/28 elections are going to be free, fair, & competitive.

For those not aware, ICE has always been able to arrest, detain, and deport lawful permanent residents who (usually through a criminal conviction). They are not immune from deportation. Thousands lose their status every year.

What's so outrageous about this incident is the targeting due to speech.

So Vader is Musk, basically?

It was enriching trump insiders. Plain and simple. He can manipulate the market at will now. I’m not sure that’s a good thing for confidence in the us stock market.

They're going to pretend that this was all "The Art of the Deal" and not a tail-between-the-legs last-minute reversal after it was clear that Trump single-handedly set the global economy on fire.

But we all know what was being said just yesterday.

there's no amount of lying from the press secretary that will get the media to stop covering them. the fact that no one knows what trump will do from day to day just makes parsing every fart and lie even more urgent and valuable, by their estimation.

the thing about this presidency is that there is zero doubt he is letting all his friends and family know before any trade move he makes, which would be in a top 10 presidential scandal of all time, but it doesn't even register with Trump because he does so many crimes & media gives him a pass