Excited to have this short Analytic Essay in @AMJPublicHealth — for a forthcoming special section on global antiscience, now out ahead of print. I discuss how MAHA leaders use digital media and health-influencer tactics to spread antiscientific messages to the US public

AI is going to turn me Catholic

A man in a wheelchair threw tear gas back at police during the protests in France. What an absolute fucking legend!

Good morning. Tree sit is still up, wall is still blocked ❤️‍🔥

One of the only existing groves of American Chestnut trees is scheduled to be destroyed next month to make room for a datacenter. I made an entire video about what this tree meant and the efforts to bring it back that have lasted decades. Consumption knows nothing of sacrament.

Ils sont tellement émouvants ces jeunes

Since the first media reports, @WHO has been actively following up on the reported death of a laboratory worker at the Irkutsk Antiplague Research Institute in Irkutsk oblast, Russian Federation. The individual died on 2 October 2026 after being hospitalised with severe pneumonia. Initial media reports suggested pneumonic plague following an alleged accidental laboratory exposure. In response to WHO’s verification request under the International Health Regulations, the Russian health authorities reported that no case of plague had recently been registered in Irkutsk oblast. They informed WHO that an epidemiological investigation had been conducted, preventive and control measures implemented, and identified contacts placed under medical observation and tested. They reported that no high-threat pathogens had been detected among the contacts and that medical observation of all identified contacts had been completed. WHO has remained in contact with the Russian health authorities and has offered technical support. WHO has requested further information to clarify the cause of the severe pneumonia, the pathogen that prompted the public health measures, and media reports of a second employee with pneumonia of undetermined cause. Timely, complete and transparent information sharing under the International Health Regulations is essential to clarify conflicting reports and enable an accurate assessment of potential public health risks.

it’s so beautiful to know that crusty white dogs have been around for ages

Just brutal to see. DHS contractors just plowed through the last of the four ancient cottonwood trees in Arizona--a tree older than the border itself--to make way for a double border wall through critical jaguar habitat. A dozen protestors were arrested today trying to stop this travesty.

WE WON AN INJUNCTION AGAINST THE BORDER WALL!!! I still can't quite believe that after 21 years of litigation and more than a dozen lawsuits, our incredible attorneys finally cracked the code. All wall construction is now stopped across the entire Big Bend region. While construction pushes on in the Rio Grande Valley, in Arizona and elsewhere, I hope this victory can prove that DHS's authority to strip away legal protections from border communities and wildlife is not boundless. Enough harm has been done. It's time to restore environmental, public-health and cultural-preservation protections across the entire borderlands. Great coverage here from KVIA journalist Mia Tricarico

Hundreds of students demonstrated at Cornell University, demanding the school expel or revoke the degrees of several fraternity members after allegations of gang rape have brought withering national criticism to the administration. wapo.st/3TjTcCg

Breaking News: Gov. Kathy Hochul declared a health emergency in New York State as measles cases increased dangerously across rural counties. nyti.ms/4zhFzmd

I wrote about the raid here [link in bio]. Please donate to the legal fund if you can.

BREAKING: Bulldozers and excavators are being trucked out of Big Bend after our historic legal victory halting construction across the region on Friday.

'Hazardous heat' forecast across Bay Area and California this week sfgate.com/weather/article/h…

RT @manelmarquez: "El verdadero fascismo no lleva camisas negras, vende progreso. La sociedad de consumo logró lo que el fascismo no pudo h…

I split the G (train) with the Prime Minister of Ireland, Michéal Martin. Sláinte!

My satirical woodcut of your station in life has taken the parish by storm

KNEECAP standing with the people of Garvaghy Road today. “After 28 years of peace this change isn't about rights, but pushing conflict and supremacy. ¡No pasarán!”

Horrifying lede in this @ahofschneider story

Yesterday’s historic win stopping wall construction across the whole Big Bend region still hasn’t quite settled in, but we figured we’d get right back out in the field today anyway. Got a tip that a section of wall outside of El Paso had been severely flooded over the last two weeks of hurricane rain, so headed out to investigate this morning with Natalie Newman. What we found was an geomorphological nightmare where erosion had cut 10-15 deep into a hillside, while also piling up a ton of earth against the wall—so much that it basically overtopped the wall itself. The border wall always seems so surreal, so ridiculous and so futile. At times like this, up against the persistent force of nature, it’s also just comedic in its absurdity. We will keep doing every single thing in our power to make sure these ridiculous, destructive barriers are kept out of Big Bend for good.