NBC: Under intl law, hitting civilian infrastructure is prohibited. Why is POTUS threatening war crimes?
LEAVITT: POTUS has made it quite clear to the Iranian regime their best move is to make a deal or else
N: Which objectives would destroying a desalination plant help?
LEAVITT: Haley, go ahead
More than 1,500 mathematicians are demanding that their field’s most prestigious meeting be moved from the U.S.
Jaysus Effin' Christ. I hope this leads to a better policy of scrutiny. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/b...
I showed this graph in class yesterday on how measles cases in the United States plummeted dramatically after the vaccine was licensed in 1963. It’s not subtle and I could not resist observing: “This stunning design in measles cases was not thanks to vitamin A. It was not due to beef tallow.”
“We have long challenged Gilead’s pricing practices, but their outright refusal to sell lenacapavir is deeply troubling,” Doctors Without Borders officials wrote in an open letter…It also called the restrictions “unconscionable,” given public funding contributed to the development of the medicine”
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More than 1,500 mathematicians are demanding that their field’s most prestigious meeting be moved from the U.S.
The move came after months of talks in which Doctors Without Borders asked Gilead Sciences for a “limited” supply of lenacapavir.
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Jeff VanderMeer
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Aaron Rupar
Great graph. It reminds me of this classic by the Wall Street Journal's graphics team: graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d...
“Typewritten, with edits in Miller’s own hand, it is a fascinating glimpse... (One line, in which Willy Loman complains about the cheese Linda bought, was changed from “Why are you always contradicting me?” to “Why am I always being contradicted?,” turning a marital gripe into an existential cry.)”
“Blocking humanitarian organizations from accessing a medical breakthrough puts vulnerable people in danger… This is a chilling echo of the policies we saw in the 1990s when antiretrovirals were provided to those in the Global North while the rest of the world was denied access”
there is only one right answer regarding birthright citizenship. that it's even being entertained as an open question legit makes me feel physically unwell
