"A key part of the strategy: amplify the disputed contention that, because vaccines sometimes contain pork gelatin, China’s shots could be considered forbidden under Islamic law." reuters.com/investigates/s…

A 🧵 about rivers, and a brilliant scientist trying to protect them. Headlines like this are grimly familiar. But a question people don't tend to ask is: why “hours”? If your boiler's leaking you want to know how much, not how long for. The answer is revealing...

Fascinating to see the breakdown of votes on the big new bipartisan nuclear bill, which just passed the Senate, 88-2, and is now headed to Biden’s desk. Only Bernie Sanders and Ed Markey voted against. heatmap.news/sparks/advance…

Exclusive report: a series of errors by HMRC let Paul Baxendale-Walker, probably the UK's most notorious tax avoidance scheme promoter, escape a £14m penalty He's threatening to prosecute me for harassment, sue me for libel *and* sue me for £500,000 if I report this. Here goes:

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I have some questions for Wes Streeting. 🧵

Over 11 years, Anna Lazos spent $3,000 banking her son's cord blood. When she finally tried to use it — her one shot at a promising clinical trial — she learned it was contaminated with E. Coli. My new The New York Times investigation into cord blood banking nytimes.com/2024/07/15/hea…

The inside story of how New York City pulled off universal preK in less than two years and to wild success: nymag.com/intelligencer/…

This piece could be summed up, “the government lied to the people for decades in order to keep a losing war going.” Just astounding stuff. Zero accountability. nytimes.com/2025/01/02/opi…

I want to try to explain in simple terms the context of this paper and what it is roughly about.

RFK's answers to Sen. Cassidy's questions about Medicaid basics underscored a lack of familiarity with the program. He described it as a fully federally funded program. The costs are actually split between states and the feds. (1/2)

I am the author of this OpEd, which was given a misleading title and from which key lines were cut—lines that made very clear that RFK Jr is dangerously ignorant, has absolutely no business near HHS, and is effectively a mass murderer in waiting.

1/ Let me explain why the total destruction of USAID - happening as we speak - matters so much. China - where Musk makes his money - wants USAID destroyed. So does Russia. Trump and Musk are doing the bidding of Beijing and Moscow. Why? apnews.com/article/trump-…

The standard advice about what to do if you're having trouble getting a passport is to contact your congressperson's constituent services. But constituent services are overwhelmed and many of the trans people I've talked to who have been denied passports couldn't reach them.

MAGA is making the claim that if you watch the entire 50 minute video, Zelensky is the antagonist. This isn't true. At all. I was with Zelensky before this meeting and it's important to know his mindset heading in. 1/ A short 🧵on how the entire ambush went down.

. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth response to the The Atlantic article…. “You’re talking about a deceitful and highly discredited “so-called journalist”

Incredibly bad (changes to N.S.F. funding for math):

How MI5 piled falsehood on falsehood in the case of a spy who abused women bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…