Ross Grayson

They should have been pariahs years ago.

Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts

Your data will be used against you. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

This is what ICE does every day. Hunt little kids who are here legally. They get sent to a place called the “baby jail” in Texas. Very little of it ends up on video like this. But it’s routine. And disgusting.

Trump’s personality cult: “This spree of self-aggrandizement goes beyond mere vanity… ‘I really have a big ego.’”

— He casts himself King of the Jungle, Superman, Jedi—even pope
— A $300k gold “Don Colossus” statue is commissioned for his resort
— His name is etched 1/2

Swipe left or right? Sharing conspiracy theories in dating profiles can damage first impressions Researchers in the School of Psychology at the University of Kent have found that sharing conspiracy theories on their dating profiles can seriously damage first impressions and reduce romantic intere...

Sharing conspiracy theories in dating profiles can damage first impressions phys.org/news/2026-02...

From study: "Political orientation moderated these effects—liberals were more critical, while conservatives were more lenient and sometimes favored conspiracy-sharing profiles."

The Story of CO2 is the Story of Everything with Peter Brannen — Science Talk Post by Science Talk

buymeacoffee.com/sciencetalko...

and that is still an understatement...

Trump Administration Erases the Government’s Power to Fight Climate Change

Trump Administration Erases the Government’s Power to Fight Climate Change www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/c...

FDA won’t review Moderna application for first mRNA-based flu vaccine The decision, which shocked company officials, comes as the FDA says it will take a stricter approach to federal vaccine approvals.

So the feds ARE NOT considering an mRNA vaccine for the flu, which could save countless lives, but ARE backing research into whether horse dewormer can cure cancer, because the right views vaccines as elite and ivermectin as populist.

Cool.
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

Prasad overruled FDA staff to reject Moderna's flu vaccine application The rejection is the latest instance of Vinay Prasad overruling career FDA scientists to place vaccines under harsher scrutiny.

This is outrageous, and (though it was completely obvious he should never have held this spot), Vinay Prasad needs to go. This vaccine candidate deserves review, not ideologically motivated rejection. Lives are at stake. www.statnews.com/2026/02/11/m...

We’re Cifu and Mandrola right?

Has Vinay rebuilt lost trust?

Americans overestimate how many social media users post harmful content Abstract. Americans can become more cynical about the state of society when they see harmful behavior online. Three studies of the American public (n = 1,0

Americans overestimate how many social media users post harmful content: academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

"...overestimating the proportion of social media users who post harmful content makes people feel more negative emotion..."

Good news: Effects can be mitigated by correcting misperception. 👍

Peter Attia’s Ties to Epstein Spark a Backlash From Doctors

Peter Attia’s Ties to Epstein Spark a Backlash From Doctors www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/w...

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

“We won’t take vaccines away from anyone”

MAHA has long told a story about a chronic disease "epidemic" caused by corrupt elites, pharmaceutical products, processed food, and vaccines. It blends some real grievances-ultraprocessed food, environmental degradation, legitimate anger at real misconduct by drug companies-with discredited claims about vaccines causing autism, SSRI antidepressants as a conspiratorial plot, and so on. Now, from its foothold in the administration and perch at the helm at Health and Human Services, MAHA launders misinformation through the federal brand. The National Academies report gestures at "competing interests," "public relations," and "societal forces" as well as wellness influencers and fringe groups corrupting the information environment, but it does not fully conceptualize health populism as a political project with the explicit aim of redefining what "science" the state will endorse. "Misinformation" is the mobilizing content, not the end state; the false claims help build the army, but outside voices are delegitimized. What MAHA produces, what Children's Health Defense and the anti-vaccine movement's influencers and media have long produced, is propaganda: narratives designed to galvanize belief, build identity, and legitimate a political project. The term "misinformation" treats this as a knowledge problem. It's a power problem.

I wrote this today: MAHA understands it is playing a power politics game and everyone else countering the movement needs to wake up to that, too. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/misi...

Rejecting Decades of Science, Vaccine Panel Chair Says Polio and Other Shots Should Be Optional Dr. Kirk Milhoan, a pediatric cardiologist who leads the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, said a person's right to refuse a vaccine outweighed concerns about illness or death from infectious diseases.

Parents — you need to organize against the conspiratorial health populist movement that thinks it’s fine to give your kids polio. MAHA came to power screaming unapologetically ab protecting kids. You have both the right & the obligation to do that too.

You don’t have to be polite. Fk these people.

Same thing every time:
1. Reframe the victim as the villain

2. Make the state the injured party

3. Turn critique into complicity (“oh so you side with terrorists”)

4. Expand blame to an entire out-group

5. Fuse to a larger us-against-them story to keep any alarmed within the base from defecting

For Trump, the Truth in Minneapolis Is What He Says It Is

I would like to NYT explain this as “framing” bc the concept is so key & would be helpful to give a mass audience. Picking the term classifies the event! “Terrorist” and “assassin” are intentional signifiers. A whole lot of the mental picture completes from there.

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/u...

BREAKING: EU Commission launches investigation into:

* Grok spreading illegal content in the EU (including fake sexual images and child abuse material)

* X's recommender systems as systemic risks

ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

#DefendDemocracy
#HandsOffOurEU🇪🇺

Misinformation Studies Meets the Raw Milk Renaissance A review of National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, “Understanding and Addressing Misinformation About Science” (The National Academies Press, 2025).

"What MAHA produces is propaganda: narratives designed to galvanize belief, build identity, and legitimate a political project.

The term “misinformation” treats this as a knowledge problem.

It’s a power problem."

Superb piece on how science can fight, by @noupside.bsky.social

ICE detains family seeking emergency care for child at Portland hospital The Venezuelan parents and their 7-year-old daughter entered the U.S. legally.

they went to an emergency room seeking help for their 7 year old child.

ICE arrested the 7 year old and her parents.

the family is here legally.

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today

U.S. Formally Withdraws From World Health Organization

Don't worry, the faith-based are looking out for us... 😑🙄🤦🏻

U.S. Formally Withdraws From World Health Organization www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/u...

Sunday, at least 7 ICE agents stormed a house and took an elderly man out into the freezing cold, wearing only his underwear and a blanket.

He was a member of the Hmong community, which came to the area from Laos in the 1970s after siding with the US in the Vietnam War.

Notice the suppressors
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The ratio of circulatory levels of sphingolipids to steroids predicts asthma exacerbations - Nature Communications Asthma exacerbations remain hard to predict with routine tests. Here, the authors show that simple blood sphingolipid-to-steroid ratios predict five-year exacerbation risk and can underpin a practical...

Predicting asthma attacks up to 5 years in advance. Discovery and validation of a metabolite biomarker (sphingolipid-to-steroid ratio), via 3 large cohorts with up to 25 years of follow-up
nature.com/articles/s41...

Time to put grandpa in a home I’m sorry GOP

The superheroes who Tweeted they "would have" perfectly controlled COVID are failing to control measles now that they have power and responsibility.

sciencebasedmedicine.org/measlesfail/

Billionaires are 4,000 times more likely to hold public office | CNN Business The richest people on the planet are far more likely to be in power politically than everyone else, Oxfam's annual inequality report found.

NEW Oxfam analysis: Billionaire wealth jumps to its highest peak ever, worsening dangerous political inequality. www.cnn.com/2026/01/18/e...

Opinion | One Year of Trump. The Time to Act Is Now, While We Still Can.

One Year of Trump. The Time to Act Is Now, While We Still Can. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/o...