There’s no bottom

For five months, a father waited for his 3-year-old daughter’s release from federal custody after she was apprehended by ICE while crossing the border with her mother. He just learned that the toddler was placed in a foster home where she was sexually abused.

Absolute horror. Al Jazeera confirms the Trump administration's near total fuel blockade on Cuba is causing infant mortality to surge. Doctors are literally operating blind in the dark as life saving machines shut off. This is a deliberate crime against humanity.

Socialism or barbarism

These are what get you designated as a domestic terrorist under NPSM 7, by the way.

The most likely interaction any of us will have with the police is a traffic stop. That simple fact accentuates the import of the following question: when an officer decides to pull someone over, does race play a role? It sounds like a straightforward question. It is not. And the

New reporting reveals the CDC suppressed a report showing the COVID vaccine cut hospitalizations for healthy adults by more than half.

Pantheon lol

I'm a data scientist @OurWorldinData and I need help from a botanist or someone local to Kyoto, Japan! 🌸 We present one of the world’s longest climate records: 1,200 years of peak cherry blossom dates in Kyoto. The researcher who maintained it, Professor Yasuyuki Aono, sadly

The University of Michigan has been measuring consumer sentiment since 1952. We just got the first Iran-afflicted measure for April, and it's at the lowest level ever recorded.

My former UVA colleague Tim Wilson is creating short videos of scientists describing the research that stopped when the Trump admin slashed funding for science: youtube.com/@TimothyWilson… For example, research finding more effective ways to train navy pilots and air traffic

The government won't force you to vaccinate your kids, because we have certain principles about bodily autonomy and parental rights in this country. Even when the results are awful. We still have certain principles about personal choice. But with trans healthcare, there's a huge

A perfect image of the Trump era: A grandmother has to work at DoorDash in order to get by, while the president decorates his office in gold accent pieces.

I know what I’m going as for Halloween this year.

It’s outrageous that a tiny number of absolutely revolting trash human beings can impose this upon tens of millions of people.

Any claim of heritability has to specify the population. The heritability of traits varies across populations, depending on how the environment influences phenotypic variation. This paper offers a great summary Michael Muthukrishna cambridge.org/core/journals/…

American men are more likely to have gambling debt than to have read a book in the last year.

This is very sad