The IRS lost so many people. We are literally struggling to maintain the mission. We were always understaffed and underfunded since Reagan.
But hey we can put your financial information in ChatGPT. Fuck your privacy.
I need a drink.
www.tigta.gov/sites/defaul...
Let's start the week with an idyllic timeline cleanse.
Kazuki Ikeda captured this footage in Nara Park in April 2020.
Let's talk about the weird confluence of Nara Park deer & the tradition of 花見 'hanami' (flower viewing) that originated in the Nara Period (710–794 CE).
(📷: Kazuki Ikeda)
One reason i think everyone should take an archaeology class is to internalise with tangible examples that there is no pure, natural past utopia and that antibiotics and vaccines are what stand between us and a 50% child mortality rate and scores of women dying needlessly during pregn and birth
Tayor & Francis is investigating two papers about the weed killer Roundup following claims the articles were ghostwritten by the company that developed the herbicide.
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Mike Mozart/Flickr (CC BY 2.0) Tayor & Francis is investigating two papers about the weed killer Roundup following claims the articles were ghostwritten by the company that developed the herbic…
Leeds is now the subject of a major inquiry into maternity. I previously reported on its decade long pursuit of 'normal birth' ideology that saw it have the lowest number of caesareans while stillbirths and baby deaths soared to the worst nationally www.thetimes.com/article/f3af...
Anti-vaccine misinformation harms people in multiple ways.
"* ...there was a 38.7% increase in vitamin A overdoses between January and March 2025...exposure to vitamin A is most likely due to the spread of misinformation..."
www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/vit...
Secretary Kennedy attacked journalist Sheryl Gay Stolberg for criticizing him, claiming people could look at his public calendar.
The problem: his calendar is not public. StatNews, and Ms. Stolberg, FOIAed it over a year ago.
arstechnica.com/health/2026/... Via Beth Mole, @arstechnica.bsky.social
It is pretty ridiculous that the US has been dealing with a national benzathine penicillin shortage now for a year with no resolution in site. There already too many cases of congenital syphilis and not having ready access to treat pregnant women leads to this.
www.statnews.com/2026/06/15/p...
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www.thetimes.com
In the period that Leeds maternity unit had the lowest number of caesareans, its rate of stillbirths and newborn deaths became the worst nationally
There was a 38.7% increase in vitamin A overdoses between January and March 2025, likely due to misinformation about measles treatment. Two experts explain how to tell fact from fiction.
www.medicalnewstoday.com
NYT reported Kennedy is disengaged. Kennedy's response seems to show NYT is right.
Notable to me in the story about the admin weighing suspending habeas corpus & invoking the Insurrection Act-what moved the needle against the Insurrection Act was concern about "public relations."
Public pushback, agitation, & outcry can work. Even now. Keep it up.
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/15/u...
BK. Titanji
US Strikes Tankers in Persian Gulf: Week 15 Blockade Recap
⚓US Strikes Three Ships
⚓The "International Law of Blockade."
⚓Impact of Indian seafarer casualties.
⚓AIS "ghost" structures and navigation challenges
⚓Draft peace terms...AGAIN!
Video: youtu.be/xosw8iFTzsc
Leah Litman
Congenital syphilis should be preventable. An Arizona case shows how drug shortages and procedural hurdles are fueling a growing public health crisis.
