Naomi Botkin

I guess we’ll be replacing the sugar in our diets with salmonella.

Gosh, how do we get the Salvadorans to release Kilman Abrego Garcia?!?

Um, here's an idea - STOP PAYING THE SALVADORANS.

It costs them money to detain him. Turn off the money, and they won't detain him anymore.

Anything else from the Trump administration is a total LIE.

total clarity here from @edwardluce.bsky.social

www.ft.com/content/4c4b...

This seems right, and all of this is WRONG.

To me, this stands out among the many egregious news reports this week. And that’s saying something.

This is naked corruption that uses federal policy to pour money into the pockets of the President's largest campaign donor. Forcing the nation's 70-some million Social Security recipients to sign up for the website owned by a Nazi saluting billionaire is outrageous.

For your enjoyment: here is Secretary of Education Linda McMahon talking about implementing AI in schools, but pronouncing it "A1," as in "A1 Steak Sauce"

www.youtube.com/live/lxrg28z...

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.

Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

If you need a reminder of why the tariffs are a public health issue as well:

▶️About *80%* of our active pharmaceutical ingredients are produced abroad.
▶️About *50%* of our generic drugs are manufactured overseas

This means increased costs in an inevitably strained generic drug supply. Not good

Fingers crossed

RAND PAUL: “.. When McKinley most famously put tariffs on in 1890, [the GOP] lost 50 percent of their seats in the next election. When [Smoot and Hawley] put on their tariff in the early 1930s, we lost the House and the Senate for 60 years.”

@washingtonpost.com
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It was the Dunning of tymes. It was the Kruger of tymes.

Tell me you’ve never done your own shopping without telling me you’ve never done your own shopping.

In 1828, the "Tariff of Abominations" led to a populist uprising that put Andrew Jackson into the presidency

In 1930, the Smoot-Hawley Tariff led to a populist uprising that put FDR into the presidency

In 2025, Trump's tariffs will repeat history -- We the People will RISE UP

Apparently he intentionally dehydrated himself leading up to this… thoughts and prayers for his kidneys 🙏 and thank you for standing up for us

i want to make a t shirt out of “everything looks like a conspiracy when you don’t know how anything works”

U.S. to End Vaccine Funds for Poor Countries (Gift Article) A 281-page spreadsheet obtained by The Times lists the Trump administration’s plans for thousands of foreign aid programs.

Trump administration to cut vaccination funds. "The loss of U.S. support may mean 75 million children do not receive routine vaccinations in the next five years, with more than 1.2 million children dying as a result," reports @stephanienolen.bsky.social Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/h...

Is it bad when an authoritarianism expert says he's packing his bags

I’ll repeat — if the goal ISN’T to specifically and deliberately weaken and isolate the United States as quickly as possible, how would a plan to do that look any different than what they are doing?

We are watching the pipeline of the next generation of scientists collapse in real time. Cutting opportunities for trainees doesn’t just affect them—it stalls biomedical progress for this country.

@catgyoung.bsky.social

To be crystal clear:

1. Measles is a nasty disease
2. You cannot treat measles with antibiotics or cod liver oil
3. The measles vaccine is very safe and highly effective, as shown by the ELIMINATION OF THE DISEASE IN THE US FOR 25 YEARS
4. RFK Jr. is an ignorant fool

Plan to study vaccines and autism. Sounds sensible right? Just one issue with it. It’s already been done. Repeatedly. And there is no link. It’s actually deeply unethical to waste resources when the money could be used far more wisely elsewhere. This is politics—not science.

@drneilstone.bsky.social

I'm not doomscrolling, I'm just sampling a buffet of farm-to-table panic attacks

#TeamPete: how great would it be if, instead of having to listen directly to Trump's speech tomorrow night, we could get a real-time, annotated translation from @petebuttigieg.bsky.social? It would be like having an interpreter for Those Who Want to Stay Informed But Also Can't Even.

"Developing a device that could treat severe bleeding. It seems to have caught the committee’s attention for using the words “victims” — as in gunshot victims — and “trauma.” Creating biosensors to detect infectious diseases. The grant appears to have been tagged for the repeated use of “POC,” an acronym often used for “people of color” but in this context meaning “point of care” — that is, the place where people receive medical treatment — and “barrier,” referring to a part of the biosensor itself. Designing eye-tracking technology for diagnosing and treating concussions. It appears to have gotten flagged for referencing “traumatic” brain injuries and the “status,” meaning the condition, of patients."

ProPublica looked into science grants that Ted Cruz's team flagged as "radical" and "neo-Marxist" and, uh.

This would be good comedy if it didn't matter so much www.propublica.org/article/ted-...

@ashishkjha.bsky.social
#medsky

We live in a privileged society where most people haven’t seen the devastation of many of the vaccine preventable infectious diseases. By not having this experience or memory, people can fear the prevention or treatment itself over contracting the illness.

give me your lunch money right now or ima kick your ass

lol fuck off dork

ima give you a second chance give me your lunch money tomorrow