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So RFK Jr canceled the CDC’s flu shot campaign but approved the action figure video.

new term “post facto strike”, as in a strike you always wanted to do and find a justification for it after you’ve decided

Does the FIFA Peace Prize mean nothing anymore?

Does Nobel make a Piece of Shit Prize? Because that’s the only kind of peace prize this man deserves.

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The lack of consequences for Caribbean boat murders and the operation against Venezuela brought us to this point. Trump pushed the envelope and paid no price for it. (In fact, elected officials and the press were mesmerized by the Maduro raid.)

Many of us said this would happen and it did.

Tell Your Representative: No War With Iran | Indivisible Demand your Representative do everything in their power to stop Trump’s military escalation in Iran

FIFA Peace Prize winner Trump is threatening another devastating war of choice in the Middle East over a nuclear program he claims to have obliterated last year.

Don’t let your elected officials dodge responsibility for what’s next. The Constitution puts the power to declare war in Congress’ hands.

New analysis from the Common Health Coalition et al highlights the widespread consequences of declining childhood vaccination coverage / good graphics

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measles

Federal judge blocks new DHS policy that would allow arrest of thousands of legal refugees "The new policy turns the refugees’ American Dream into a dystopian nightmare," Judge Tunheim wrote.

BREAKING: Federal judge blocks new DHS policy that would allow arrest of thousands of legal refugees.

"The new policy turns the refugees’ American Dream into a dystopian nightmare," Judge Tunheim wrote.

Tonight, at Law Dork:

The 75 Elections to Watch This March - Bolts The 2026 midterms really are starting. Five states hold all of their primaries for federal and state offices in March, and voters there face high-profile choices. They’ll decide which Democrat... Read...

in just four days is one of the busiest election days of the year,

and my guide to all that you should be watching contains literally dozens of elections that combined are getting less attention as Crockett-Talarico, and that’s a shame boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...

How Brothel Workers in Nevada Just Made Labor History The courtesans at Sheri’s Ranch were staring down a horrifying new contract. So they did what workers everywhere do: They got organized.

When faced with a shockingly exploitative new employment contract that would’ve forced them to sign away their IP, their likeness rights, and their power of attorney, Jupiter Jetson and her coworkers at Sheri’s fought back—fast.

They organized a union in SIX DAYS. www.thenation.com/article/econ...

Opinion | RFK Jr.’s war on vaccines is coming for the elderly The miseries of aging are more linked to late-life infections than was previously understood.

"Kennedy and his advisory panel have not actively attacked the CDC’s recommendations for adult vaccines, but there are plenty of hints that they could."

Nice column by Don McNeil.

COVID vaccine is on the next ACIP meeting agenda.

#IDsky #vaccines #immunology #publichealth #healthpolicy

How America Chose Not to Hold the Powerful to Account Our national project of elite impunity

After the arrests of powerful men across the world, you might be asking why the US has so much trouble holding its leaders accountable for lawbreaking. Since Nixon, all three branches of government have worked hard to ensure they can break the law with impunity www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The attorney general also says that Congress failed to pass its disapproval resolution within the 30-day window for these types of moves. Because of that, what passed cannot act as a repeal of the D.C. bill, but rather "an expression of Congress’s unfavorable view."

AG Opinion Tax Bill Decoupling

New: AG Brian Schwalb is out with an opinion that Congress' disapproval of tax decoupling has no effect. He thinks Congress missed its 30-day deadline...and didn't apply changes to the 2025 tax year.

They say the CFO can leave current rules in place. Will he?
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The…the caucasity. I shouldn’t be surprised, but wow.

Why do I have to pretend that I'm going to print something in order to save it as a PDF. Why do I have to engage in a little ruse.

Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues.

Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).

Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.

Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
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We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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The virus killed my uncle in just four days during the initial wave. He died alone in the ICU on a ventilator because nobody was allowed in the room. These trolls want to make a “comedy” out of it.

thinking about how Savannah Guthrie had to cancel her trip to work the Olympics because of her mom’s kidnapping but the guy who heads up the investigative body handling the case was posting pictures of himself in the US hockey locker room today lol

1/ Trump says he's imposing tariffs under Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974 (19 USC 2132) on the basis of "balance of payments deficits" between the US and the rest of the world. It's a law that has never been used.

There's only one problem: the US doesn't *have* a balance-of-payment deficit.

something abled people don't get is you can have just one day a week where you are too sick to work, and that's enough to disqualify you from nearly all full-time jobs. it doesn't take a lot

Incredible opinion. It holds that the common ICE tactic of jumping out of an unidentified rental vehicle and seizing suspected noncitizens while masked violates the Fourth Amendment because the *manner* of the seizure is incompatible with a free society governed by the rule of law.

Side note: the Winter Olympics should have the equivalent of a decathlon. Make someone do biathlon, downhill snowboarding, curling, an ice hockey penalty shot, and the luge.

I am positive everyone would die and equally positive it would be worth it

A Fatal ICE Shooting Occurred in Texas Months Before Renee Good’s Killing

A Fatal ICE Shooting Occurred in Texas Months Before Renee Good’s Killing

A 23-year-old American was shot last March in South Padre Island. ICE’s involvement in the shooting was not disclosed until this week.

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...

Children are suffering in a for-profit prison.

Send them home. Abolish ICE. And ban private, for-profit prisons forever.

As I say in this article, I think the DC government should vindicate its rights here. Any bill Congress tries to pass in response to this would be subject to a Senate filibuster. Every Democrat voted against the disapproval resolution. We have the votes to maintain a filibuster

Stacy Bradley voted for President Trump because of his border policies, and she likes that he has restored “law and order.” But she is unsettled by one aspect of his immigration agenda. Last month, the federal government bought a warehouse next to her cheerleading gym in Surprise, Ariz., which the administration plans to convert into a detention center for up to 1,500 immigrants. Ms. Bradley, the co-owner of Woodlands Elite Cheer, said she worried that a detainee could escape, or that protests could break out. The children who train at her gym are as young as 3 and could see “people in shackles” next door, she said.

“my children might see the children I voted to put in shackles, how shall they grow up”

Exclusive: Senior DHS officials double down on arresting and detaining refugees in new memo Hours after DOJ filed the new memo in court in Minnesota, a magistrate judge denied Law Dork's request for greater public access in the case — including remote electronic docket access.

EXCLUSIVE: Senior DHS officials double down on arresting and detaining refugees in new memo.

Hours after DOJ filed the new memo in court in Minnesota, a magistrate judge denied Law Dork's request for greater public access in the case — including remote electronic docket access.

DHS axed its civil rights staff—and opened the door to a major lawsuit The agency is now barely pretending to follow disability law. Its former civil rights head says that makes ICE vulnerable.

A recent Congressional letter accuses DHS of not being compliant with a major civil rights law due to the mistreatment of disabled ICE detainees. As I reported for @motherjones.com, this is worsened by the fact DHS' office for civil rights has TWO EMPLOYEES now.

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