I’ve just read a report where an expert has said hantaviruses don’t spread human to human… maybe they thought super-spreading doesn’t count.

Although human to human transmission is considered rare, the exception is the Andes strain which has shown, imo, typical characteristics of spread via infectious aerosol. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Buy some fresh N-95 masks. Today. Just in case something weird happens. 😳

Polymarket is going legal in the U.S. But there is a waitlist. Pretty inconvenient when you want to bet on the next pandemic. I mean, if you were sick in the head like that. 😳 polymarket.us/2373

DON’T GET COCKY about those midterms, DEMOCRATS. Our biggest challenge won’t be winning these races. It will be making sure that the elections aren’t rigged by Trump, whose team keeps firing the people who won’t lie for him. Excellent piece from @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/trum...

People dismissed me when I warned that Tucker Carlson was going to run for president someday. I wrote a comedy pilot about it. Now even Robert Reich is saying it.

How can I avoid getting a Trump passport? …best way to avoid getting a passport featuring President Trump is to stay out of Washington, D.C. (But) It seems very likely that Trump might roll out the passport with his face printed on it after this initial run. -Gizmodo apple.news/AxVF1LOFeTpK...

Ummm. Hey. So….

Slow civil war doesn’t speed up all at once. We’re watching it advance by increments of rhetoric as well as steady escalation of systematic violence. Pay attention when the man in charge of the military says the opposition party is waging what looks like a war.

How is your day going?

WHAT'S YOUR PLAN FOR FRIDAY? indivisible.org/campaigns/ma...

"Viewing “Cut Piece” now, what struck me is how genuinely unsettling it remains. (...) how relevant, how prophetic, it feels (...) when many of the long-held gains of feminism, both legal and cultural, seem on the brink of being lost forever." GIFT ARTICLE www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/t...

The Trump administration is characterizing Cole Allen’s manifesto as “anti-Christian.” They’re dead wrong. Listen to Jeff Sharlet: (Not endorsing violence, only pointing at the ignorance and hypocrisy of the Trump team.)

People dismissed me when I warned that Tucker Carlson was going to run for president someday. I wrote a comedy pilot about it. Now even Robert Reich is saying it.

This is an excellent over view of the dangerous warming period we’ll likely be entering in the next 12 months. Share it widely. Corp news will not acknowledge this increased danger until it’s too late in order to keep markets stable. That is their sole job. open.substack.com/pub/chrisglo...

If you've heard about the coming Super El Niño, the collapsing AMOC, nationwide drought in the US, melting permafrost, crop failures, or skyrocketing insurance rates, you probably thought: "Golly, I sure hope the oil companies who did all this and lied about it will be OK!" Well, not to worry:

Technically, this is SFW. But if you're in the office, maybe don't play it with the volume too high...

Your daily affirmation: Life is what you make it. So make art, make mischief, make boozy milkshakes, and make a commotion that everyone will remember.

The replacement of employees with AI has an underappreciated impact on organizations. Oversight. People push back. They say no. They whistleblow and leak. It is the people inside organizations who push back against the worst inclinations of the capitalist drive. Not all, but some. AI never will.

Um… Gamblers Anonymous is gonna need more chairs and donuts. 😳

DON’T GET COCKY about those midterms, DEMOCRATS. Our biggest challenge won’t be winning these races. It will be making sure that the elections aren’t rigged by Trump, whose team keeps firing the people who won’t lie for him. Excellent piece from @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Is Trump spilling the beans about Dad, or is he confused?

Trump's mental state: NYT Gift Article Ty Cobb, [Trump's former] White House lawyer... [said] the president is “a man who is clearly insane.” A former White House press secretary for Mr. Trump wrote online last week that “he’s clearly not well.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/u...

Trump did NOT win by a landslide. Nixon, 1972: 520 of 538 EVs. 18 million vote margin. THAT is a landslide. Reagan, 1980 & 1984: 507 of 538 electoral votes (avg) Last to break the 500 barrier. Also arguably a landslide.

A new report from the University of California shows that the state's decision to raise the minimum wage for fast food workers to $20/hr didn’t hurt jobs, or raise prices much. Data from over 2,000 restaurants shows that the $20/hr minimum wage didn’t reduce employment. /1

The United States is being murdered, and it’s an inside job. Every department, every branch, every bureau and function of the federal government is being fatally corrupted or altogether dismantled or disabled. All this is common knowledge... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...?

That time Dolly Madison held an impromptu press conference asking everyone to stop talking about her snack cakes.

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This is propaganda.

That feeling you got when you saw Artemis II splash down safely? The exhilaration of wonder & awe & accomplishment? The goodness for goodness sake joy you felt? You can get that feeling here on earth . Go help your neighbors. Nurture something good. Become joyful Become beautiful Become unstoppable

Mobster dementia is more exciting than Normie dementia

Virginia will raise its minimum wage to $15/hr by 2028. Gov. Abigail Spanberger has now signed legislation to raise the wage. Virginia will also extend worker training programs, end the minimum wage exemption for farmers, and help federal employees find work after DOGE cuts.

Well we've certainly got nothing to lose in trying... 🤷‍♀️ Watch at instagram.com/headlinenewds or headlinenewds.com

Everyone should be calling John Thune, Mike Johson and their reps demanding trump be removed from office. Call and demand they remove trump for his illegal war & war crimes They can all be reached 202-224-3121 Need help use 5calls.org

Most people use "Christian nationalism" as a catch-all, as if there was one united movement aiming for Christian power. But there are actually 3 distinct movements competing for power in Trump's America — with different theologies, different strategies, and real tensions between them. My latest.

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

In light of the news that climate change appears to be accelerating, this song should get more play. Anohni, 4 Degrees Why is 4 degrees (c) of warming so bad? It’s not* the heat, it’s the humidity (and drought, and fire, and increased extreme weather, and) *it is music.apple.com/us/album/4-d...

A tornado touched down in my town today, revealing the power of nature and the science behind these incredible weather phenomena. Stay safe out there.

If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.

🚨 Breaking: Artemis II Astronauts captured by Zorg. 🌒 Trespassing arraignment scheduled for Bornax Eve (April 10th).

That one person can drag us into a war without consulting or even notifying Congress beforehand, or our allies, or coherently explain to the American people why this is necessary, is absolutely bonkers. Reminder that Congress has the power to stop this.

No comment. 😳

Saturday April 25 www.mobilize.us/disappearedi...

We are not the same.

Huge election wins in Florida (and another on the horizon in Wisconsin). Raising taxes on the rich in Washington. Paid family and medical leave in Virginia. Even in these Trump times, there's good news to be found.

How is everyone doing? Feeling a bit lean-y?

Here’s a gift link to the article @joshtpm.bsky.social was just talking about www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/u...

Beautiful crescent view of Earth from the Artemis II crew on April 3rd. flic.kr/p/2s5E44L

Pope Leo XIV carried the cross across all fourteen stations for over an hour. The prayers named children who had been “taken away and imprisoned during protests, deported by policies devoid of compassion, shipwrecked on desperate journeys of hope, killed in war zones, and wiped out in death camps.”

While directing ‘Schindler’s List,’ Steven Spielberg chose not to depict historically accurate scenes of a Nazi indiscriminately using a dog to attack nonviolent people—because he feared it would have been too theatrical. But that’s all the Trump administration is: a theater of cruelty.