Wendy Schluchter

Six months ago today, Chartres street, New Orleans

Long-awaited results suggest that mitochondrial donation can prevent babies from inheriting diseases caused by mutant mitochondria go.nature.com/4lBeXpV

What Trump is trying to do re Epstein is a perfect example of what Hannah Arendt said about totalitarian regimes: “The totalitarian mass leaders based their propaganda on the correct psychological assumption that, under such conditions, one could make people believe the…. 1/

These plastic particles smaller than a human hair can pass through cell walls and enter the food web go.nature.com/4lLWp5M

In 2000, we declared measles eliminated in the US. Now, 2025 already has the highest number of cases since 1992. This is the opposite of progress.

Hey, Republicans get cancer, too. What will the rich and powerful in GGp do when someone they love comes down with a rare form of cancer that requires experimental treatment? Go to China? cnn.com/2025/07/08/hea…

I’ve been thinking about this “Alligator Alcatraz” concentration camp down in Florida. As a student of the Concentration Camps of WWII, I wrote an entire graduate thesis on the psychology of those working there, I see many parallels to Nazi Germany in the early 1930’s. 1/3

SARS-CoV-2 can trigger Alzheimer’s-like pathology even without genetic predisposition. New research confirms fears: even mild COVID can leave neurological footprints. The virus induces amyloid-β formation in the retina - a window into the brain.🧵

The newly discovered microbe provisionally known as Sukunaarchaeum isn’t a virus. But like viruses, it seemingly has one purpose: to make more of itself. Learn more: scim.ag/4eGtttN @NewsfromScience

This is a really important point. Most Medicaid recipients likely have NO idea that they’re about to lose their coverage.

Kiss goodbye to American leadership in medical and scientific research. Kiss goodbye to vast majority of promising cancer cures and Alzheimer’s cures. Give your thanks to Trump and the GOP led Congress

Meanwhile he pushed ivermectin during the delta wave in 2021, a drug which does absolutely nothing for Covid. My estimate: 200,000 Americans perished bc they refused Covid immunizations, believing disinformation from the wellness/influencer industry rollingstone.com/culture/cultur…

I’ve been thinking a lot about Murkowski’s vote. It contains, in one action, so much that defines our pathetic political moment: Selfishness: I’m taking care of me and mine, the rest of you can pound sand; Lack of accountability: I know the bill is bad, hopefully someone else…

Holy shit. The new Trump bill will ensure only RICH kids even have a chance at going to GRAD SCHOOL. It eliminates Grad Plus entirely (which allows full cost of graduate school to be covered.) It caps coverage at $100,000 for grad students, $200,000 for medical and law students.…

New study projects that USAID cuts could lead to 14 million additional deaths by 2030: cnn.com/2025/07/01/pol…

Cuban man who lived in the U.S for 60 years dies in ICE detention in Miami miamiherald.com/news/local/imm… For more great content like this subscribe to the Miami Herald app here: miamiherald.com/subscribe

poll after poll shows that Trump's big bill is very unpopular

I'm not sure how many committees have done this with budget--at least DOD, VA, and DHS. But there's some game here--like the right wing raises debt ceiling and then Vought just bypasses Congress entirely.

Budzinski: Families making over $700,000 a year will see a boost of $12,000 almost entirely from tax cuts. Shockingly, households making $23,000 a year or less are set to lose about $1600 a year, mostly due to deep cuts to Medicaid and food assistance