RFK Jr. rolled out that old chestnut again about how healthy Americans were in the 60’s, so here’s a fact check.

In 1965:

-42% of American adults smoked; it’s 11% now.

-The infant morality rate was 24.7/1000; it’s 5.6/1000 now.

-Overall life expectancy was 70 years; it's about 77 years now.

WTF? FBI agents arrested a Milwaukee county judge on Friday, accusing her of shielding an immigrant from federal authorities. The allegation? That Judge Hannah Dugan “intentionally misdirected federal agents away from” someone they were pursuing, according to a now-deleted post by Mr. Patel.

When I say you don’t have to worry about microplastics in your brain I mean that there is much stronger evidence that you should be worrying about other things that you don’t ever think about, like the draining of peatlands for agriculture, and things that you think about all the time, like fascism.

Drowning is the leading cause of death for children 1 to 4 years old.

The CDC'ers working on drowning prevention? Fired.

Apparently, Trump couldn't care less about keeping our kids safe.

www.cdc.gov/drowning/abo...

Handy graphics for tracking the crumbling of democracy. Time to impede some progress!

www.project2025.observer

The full Project 2025 report is available here, if you’re feeling brave or would like to induce nausea.

static.project2025.org/2025_Mandate...

Ok so this is some insider F1 baseball, but uhh Dave Richards, head of Motorsport UK, has just spilled some tea re FIA and MBS governance that I kinda regard as shots across the ole bow... revolution.motorsportuk.org/full_page_im... gotta hit the link to read it but will give TLDR following 1/n

Imagine DOGE opens your mail and finds your household electric bill. To eliminate this cost, they burn your house down without warning. Then they total up the bills that, as a homeless person, you will never again pay. On its website, DOGE boasts about the money it has saved you.

So - I've actually led Ebola outbreak response at USAID.

This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC.

What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.

Farmers express concerns about chaos from Trump tariffs and budget cuts; GOP electeds fail to show up via @henry-redman.bsky.social wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/02/21/r...

This is insanity. No impact on the fires in SoCal and less water available this summer for agriculture. Just so he could “turn on the faucets”

This is both scary and hilarious.

Full story is more complicated, but still: This concludes 5 Dem presidential terms, 20 years, with zero recessions. Over the same period, 6 Republican presidential terms, 24 years, with five recessions - only Reagan's second term didn't have one.

What a cool study and a powerful demonstration that Tuberculosis is largely a disease of poverty. In Brazil a large scale intervention which provided cash monthly to families living in poverty led to profound reductions in TB cases. Up to 50% among the poorest groups.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

All through the race I was thinking “what will Missed Apex have to say about this?”