Fifteen years ago today, October 3, was the Battle of COP Keating, the deadliest day for the U.S. in Afghanistan in 2009. It starts with an outpost built in Nuristan in 2006 at the bottom of three steep mountains. 1/

Toxicology: the excuses must stop (A lighthearted rant) buff.ly/4f3y7AU

More than half of the living US recipients of the Nobel prize for economics signed onto a letter that calling Harris’ economic agenda “vastly superior” to Trump’s. 23 Laureates, including two of the three most recent recipients.

If your response to Gen John Kelly, gold star father & Trump’s WH chief of staff, confirming that Trump praised Hitler & called members of our military “suckers and losers” is to defend Trump, you need to look in the mirror and realize your dishonor will live forever.

1/10 The pieces are coming together: the richest man in the world backs Trump in every possible way, including illegal ones, while both of them promote Kremlin talking points and have secret communications with the Kremlin at the same time. Coincidence? I don't think so!

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This is how dictators destroy free nations. They threaten those who speak against them with death. We cannot entrust our country and our freedom to a petty, vindictive, cruel, unstable man who wants to be a tyrant. #Womenwillnotbesilenced #VoteKamala

RFK Jr. says that among Trump's first acts would be to “advise all US water systems to remove fluoride from public water,” a stunning reversal of one of the most important public health interventions of the past century. becca ling Sheryl Gay Stolberg nytimes.com/2024/11/02/us/…

We don’t deserve the love they give us. Hold your own close this evening. For Ben.

MedTox Fellows: Antimicrobial matching board review. Match the effect with the antimicrobial so that each antimicrobial is used only once. The Tox And The Hound Jerry Snow

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Trump’s tariffs on Mexico and Canada will make your life more expensive.

Alina Habba on veterans who have been fired from government jobs: "Perhaps they're not fit to have a job at this moment."

My final paper as a full-time academic neuroscientist, published this week in Science Advances... A model of the complete synaptic vesicle at unprecedented levels of spatial and molecular detail in a realistic synaptic bouton derived from electron microscopy imaging…

No, this isn't North Korea you're seeing.

These life changing, cutting edge institutions have saved lives. Forecasting advances and lead time warnings would not be where they are today without them. This is a big step backwards.

Well, the conspiracy theories have started. BTW, the 3 weather satellites that DoD used to provide data to NOAA would have been instrumental while this was developing. They operate in the microwave range and can see torrential rains and floods directly through the clouds.

American College of Medical Toxicology on acetaminophen and autism. acmt.net/news/acmt-posi…