Josh Gluck

You can’t live your life on a bus...

[Brynn Tannehill @BrynnTannehill]

Hey, if an NBA player is willing to take two years of testosterone suppression plus take estrogen, grow boobs, lose their manhood, be absolutely ridiculed for the rest of their life, and take a 95% pay cut, sure.

They've paid the toll.

Not gonna happen, though.

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

BREAKING: The Supreme Court rules 6-3 in favor of the Trump admin on Temporary Protected Status, blocking the lawsuit on jurisdictional grounds, allowing DHS to strip over 350,000 people of legal status even though they utterly failed to follow the required legal procedures.

[Fr. Parrish @FrParrish]

Me getting ready for wedding season (and receptions)

[Alec MacGillis @AlecMacGillis]

This is quite an exchange with @DavidAFrench about whether we are witnessing the emergence of a "dual state."

[Jake Tapper 🦅 @jaketapper]

Physician testimony

[ProPublica @propublica]

The Tate brothers, who have been accused of sexual misconduct in three countries, had their devices seized by law enforcement when they arrived in the U.S.

Days later, a White House official told DHS to return them.

(Published Nov. 2025)
https://t.co/PxNZt32KL5

[Kris Cromwell @IngleWitch]

Alex Jeffrey Pretti. White male born in Illinois. University of Minnesota graduate, medical professional employed at the US Dept. of Veterans Affairs, avid outdoorsman & dog dad, legal gun owner with no criminal record.

Murdered by his government 01/24/2026

[matt bernstein @mattxiv]

“a tiktok disinformation campaign”

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

BREAKING: The Justice Department's acting deputy chief was caught on a hidden camera saying that the government will "redact every Republican" from an Epstein client list and "leave all the liberal, Democratic people," per Axios

[subscribe to the state of the league patreon @JoestarJokic]

it really is hard to contextualize the hubris it’s taken for americans to develop this insane relationship with medicine. for all of human history you were essentially flipping a coin on wether or not you’d see your kid turn 10

[Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @PeterHotez]

The actual reality: those “bought/paid for” were the corrupt wellness/influencer industry pedaling ivermectin other drugs available in bulk as low-cost generics that do zero for Covid. They jacked up the price, bilked customers via expensive telehealth visits. They killed Americans

[evan loves worf @esjesjesj]

Trans people commit 0.11% of mass shootings and are 0.8% of the population.

C!s men commit 98% of mass shootings and are 50% of the population.

And at least one of those 98% of the mass shooters was inspired by Libs of TikTok.

Who’s really the epidemic?

[Prem Thakker @prem_thakker]

New Quinnipiac Poll — 50% of voters say Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.
Includes *77%* of Democrats, 51% of independents, and 20% of Republicans.

60% of voters oppose sending more aid to Israel.
Includes 75% of Democrats, 66% of independents, and 37% of Republicans.

[Cameron Bradford @camerobradford]

I’m sure Israel wasn’t trying to kill these journalists. Sounds like they were just caught in the crossfire of a routine hospital bombing.

[evan loves worf @esjesjesj]

This chart basically explains all of American politics and I think about it all the time

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🚨 BREAKING: After far-right influencer @lauraloomer raged online about a few severely injured Palestinian children arriving in the U.S. for life-saving medical interventions, the State Department announced it has suspended all visitor visas for individuals from Gaza.

On Twitter, the State Department indicated no more children in urgent need of medical treatment will be allowed into the U.S. “while it conducts a full and thorough review of the process and procedures used to issue a small number of temporary medical-humanitarian visas in recent days.”

Loomer had tagged Secretary Rubio and the department in a series of frenzied posts yesterday, demanding wounded Palestinian children be barred from receiving medical care in the U.S. The videos she highlighted shared the work of HEAL Palestine, a U.S.-registered nonprofit that arranges specialized, life-saving care for severely injured children from Gaza—children who cannot receive adequate treatment locally—and has brought dozens to U.S. hospitals so far.

[River Page @river_is_nice]

Americans want so badly to believe that you can eat like a pig and still be healthy if you remove the one secret bad thing like artificial dyes, seed oils, or whatever. No other country would try to "make Steak and Shake healthy again". It's kind of beautiful.

[Dr. Catharine Young @DrCatharineY]

Absolutely unbelievable: the sitting HHS Secretary tried to pressure the Annals of Internal Medicine to retract the major Danish study of 1.2 M kids that found no harm from aluminum in vaccines. The journal refused. This isn’t just anti-science it is political interference.

[Brandon Stanton @humansofny]

“When I entered Gaza the Israeli military had a rule: I was only allowed to bring in three kilos of food. As I was weighing out protein bars, trying to get under the limit, I said to my husband: ‘How sinister is this?’ I’m a humanitarian aid worker. Why would there even be a limit on food? I’ve worked in many places with extreme hunger, but what’s so jarring in this context is how cruel it is, how deliberate. I was in Gaza for two months; there’s no way to describe the horror of what’s happening. And I say this as a pediatric ICU doctor who sees children die as part of my work. Among our own staff we have doctors and nurses who are trying to treat patients while hungry, exhausted. They’re living in tents. Some of them have lost fifteen, twenty members of their families. In the hospital there are kids maimed by airstrikes: missing arms, missing legs, third degree burns. Often there’s not enough pain medication. But the children are not screaming about the pain, they’re screaming: ‘I’m hungry! I’m hungry!” I hate to only focus on the kids, because nobody should be starving. But the kids, it just haunts you in a different way. When my two months were finished, I didn’t want to leave. It’s a feeling I haven’t experienced in nearly twenty years of humanitarian assignments. But I felt ashamed. Ashamed to leave my Palestinian colleagues, who were some of the most beautiful and compassionate people that I’ve ever met. I was ashamed as an American, as a human being, that we’ve been unable to stop something that is so clearly a genocide. I remember when our bus pulled out of the buffer zone. Out the window on one side I could see Rafah, which was nothing but rubble. On the other side was lush, green Israel. When we exited the gate, the first thing I saw was a group of Israeli soldiers, sitting at a table, eating lunch. I’ve never felt so nauseous seeing a table full of food.”

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Aqsa Durrani is a pediatric doctor and board member of Doctors Without Borders USA, with nearly twenty years of experience in humanitarian projects. During our interview Aqsa repeatedly expressed a desire to center the voices of her Palestinian colleagues. To this end I’ve spent the past week collecting stories from the Palestinian staff of Doctors Without Borders in Gaza. I will be sharing these stories over the next several days. I’m so grateful for the time that these people gave me; they were sleepless, hungry, traumatized, and often working 24-hour shifts. Because of the unreliable internet connection their images are sometimes grainy. Their words, however, will be crystal clear.