Marcus Muench

The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023.

The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets.

https://ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3

Never give up on Ukraine 🇺🇦

At NIH, a power struggle over institute directorships deepens The research agency has 27 institute and center directors. Will those roles become politicized?

The arrival of political appointees in the kinds of positions previously held by civil servants, and apparent changes to hiring practices for other key positions, have raised concerns among current and former officials about a new era of politicization.

Two loaves of bread with various seeds on top.

German Vollkornbrot (Whole-seed-bread). Mostly Rye, but some wheat flour and lots of seeds.

#Breadsky

LIVE: Epstein Files Tipster IDENTIFIES MISSING DOCS!!! YouTube video by MeidasTouch

NEW: EXCLUSIVE: Epstein files tipster tells me about her friend who was trafficked from Trump's modeling agency to Epstein. She sat for a formal interview with the FBI, but her 302 is MISSING from the release of the files. I'll show you what I have in 20 minutes: www.youtube.com/live/xiSmcNV...

NEW: The Supreme Court just announced it will hear arguments on April 1 in our case challenging President Trump's attempt to dismantle birthright citizenship.

Hey California,
Check to make sure that you and your children are vaccinated against measles with the MMR vaccine.🧒

I'm at the Willard Hotel where I've been denied entry and kicked out of the Reclaiming Science event with NIH director Bhattacharya & other top agency leaders.

@jocelynkaiser.bsky.social and I registered for the event months ago yet were told capacity was full, even as they let in dozens of others.

The largest randomized trial of medical A.I.
—Over 100,000 women in Sweden
—radiologist + AI vs 2 radiologists, in follow-up
—AI added led to 29% more cancer detected, 44% reduced workload, and
—Less cancer dx in subsequent 2 years, and, when found, less aggressive
thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Excellent reference episode.

Honestly, what kind of person would send in money to such a request?

Reporter Raided By FBI Lost Contact With Over 1,000 Sources - PopularResistance.Org Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson says the FBI’s seizure of all of her devices has eliminated her “ability to collect information and publish news stories.” “I no longer have access to my more than 1,200 Signal contacts or communications with any of my sources. I literally cannot contact them without access to my devices. Nor can I review my past messages with them on Signal,” according to Natanson. Natanson also shares that the FBI essentially obtained “access to the Post newsroom” because she used Ellipsis on her computer. Ellipsis is a content management system that “provides an enormous window into The Post’s journalism, with all stories in progress.”

popularresistance.org/reporter-rai...

$125,000!!! Bow down before the knitters!

mRNA cancer vaccine shows protection at 5-year follow-up, Moderna and Merck say The vaccines are tailor-made to target each patient's unique cancer.

Our timing is stupidly impeccable. We are losing so many chances at great discoveries & applications for mRNA b/c of HHS.

mRNA vaccines engineered for high risk skin cancers reduced the risk of recurrence & death by 50% over 5 yrs, compared to standard treatment.
🧪 arstechnica.com/health/2026/...

NEW: Some Iranian officials have continued to leak damning information about the regime’s brutal crackdown to Western media, which indicates that some regime personnel may oppose the regime’s crackdown. (1/3)

Read the Iran Update, January 25, 2026: isw.pub/IranUpdate01...

The announcement is made on the aniversary of Roe v Wade, much like in the past when new presidents would reverse their predecessors policies on the same day - just a couple of days after being sworn in. So despite the ‘scientific reasoning’ the message is political message is clear.

🧪 science thread

NIH Announces Major Policy Shift to End Use of Human Fetal Tissue in NIH-Supported Research Agency to focus on next-generation, validated research models.

www.nih.gov/news-events/...

Just in time for the Roe v. Wade anniversary (today), funny how that is not mentioned.

Exclusive: key NIH review panels due to lose all members by the end of 2026 Thirteen of the agency’s advisory councils, which must review grant applications before funding is awarded, are on track to have no voting members.

🚨 New from me: Grant review at more than half of NIH's institutes could be frozen by the end of the year.

That's because crucial NIH grant-review panels are slated to be empty at those institutes by Jan 2027.

A wonky bureaucratic problem with big implications.

A short 🧵

Restore Our Rights: Reproductive Freedom NOW It’s past time for Congress to pass legislation that safeguards access to reproductive health care nationwide – including abortion and birth control. Take action now.

In a post-Roe world, anti-abortion politicians continue pushing their attacks on our health care and reproductive freedom — but we’re not backing down.

Urge Congress to safeguard our access to affordable, essential health care, including abortion.

What I Saw at a Maternity Ward in Kenya After the U.S. Cut Off Food and Foreign Aid Photographs tell a story of two mothers determined to help their babies gain enough weight to leave the hospital — only to face little to no food again.

Expectant mothers were left so hungry after the U.S. cut foreign food aid that one woman ate clay and charcoal.

Her baby struggled to gain weight after being born prematurely.

To Their Shock, Cubans in Florida Are Being Deported in Record Numbers

Cuban expats getting a brutal lesson in leopard biology.

22 rolls with different seed coatings.

Buttermilk sourdough rolls.

#breadsky

Putin is laughing at how easy it was to make the “Useful Idiot” DJT, carry out his plan to create chaos & potentially the dismantling of NATO.

Four long loaves of bread that almost look similar.

It is not easy making sourdough baguettes look exactly the same.

#breadsky

REPORTER: Do you commit to not militarily engaging NATO partners?

TRUMP: I don't talk about that

REPORTER: You're not willing to commit to not attacking a NATO partner?

I’m sure the originalists on the Supreme Court will remember that.

A loaf of bread with flour dusting.

A slice of bread with moderate complex crumb.

Miche made using the King Arthur recipe.

#Breadsky

The regime likely determined that the current protest movement represents an extremely dire security threat and the regime has intensified its crackdown, including by taking the rare step of using IRGC Ground Forces to suppress protests in at least one province 1/7

Read more isw.pub/IranUpdate01...

The Islamic regime has opened fire on anti-regime protesters in Fardis, Iran.

Dozens of people are reported to have been murdered.

There’s a video. I won’t post it.