I’m struggling. The only reason I think that anyone would be foolish enough to quarantine people *together* for a fairly deadly disease with a long incubation period… is because they thought they would get away with it.

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An NBC News investigation finds dozens of examples of criminals imitating ICE to rob and attack people www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

And we can even follow @myra.bsky.social

Can’t believe that Andy Kim is in two of the most haunting pictures of the last few years.

This needs to be emphasized

Shocked, who would have thought it. /s

This is what leadership looks like. Thank you, Senator @kim.senate.gov

Meanwhile the California grid now boasts the equivalent of 12 nuclear power plants worth of batteries -- the total cost of which was, I suspect, less than a single nuclear plant.

ICE agents pepper-sprayed Senator Andy Kim of New Jersey.

“It is not permissible to entrust lethal or otherwise irreversible decisions to artificial systems.” - Pope Leo XIV.

STATEMENT by Gov. Mikie Sherrill: "My request for access to Delaney Hall was formally denied this morning, raising serious questions about what they are trying to hide from public view." "In New Jersey, we believe in the rule of law and that everyone deserves to be treated with basic dignity."

so dark

Aerosols are like buses. They have different passengers that like different conditions… but for the most part they behave as you’d expect particles in solution to behave. So. A lot of what we learned (or confirmed) with COVID aerosol science applies broadly to pathogens.

you opened your heart to me

Out of Gas, Cubans Cook With Charcoal and Wood to Survive www.nytimes.com/2026/05/25/w...

Is climate change change making the European heat more likely? Yup! Deep red is at least 5X more likely.

Veterans Treatment Courts have helped keep former service members out of jail for 15+ years by addressing PTSD, addiction and mental health issues. Now VA and Medicaid cuts are creating staffing shortages that threaten the programs’ ability to function. theconversation.com/special-cour... #Memoria

📸: John Kosmopoulos

🚨 "INNOVATION" EXCUSE 🚨 Big Tech calls it "innovation," but it’s really just resource hoarding. AI data centers are driving up our utility bills and draining our water. Pass the Bernie/AOC Moratorium Act NOW: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

The new Hungarian government under Péter Magyar expects to have a positive relationship with Israel. But that doesn't extend to Prime Minister Netanyahu, who will be arrested and delivered to the Hague to stand trial as a war criminal if he sets foot on Hungarian soil. www.jpost.com/internationa...

Republicans forced into a vote so brutal they canceled it and fled DC rather than defend paying Jan 6 rioters. Read it all:

This week the resistance showed up everywhere:

🤮🤬 'The "Adolf Hitler Fund of German Trade and Industry" was established on June 1, 1933. Proposed by industrialist Gustav Krupp and administered by Martin Bormann, it collected hundreds of millions of Reichsmarks from German businesses....'

🤔 An internal crisis is brewing in Russia: dissatisfaction with Putin's policies and the course of the war is growing among Russian elites and security forces, — The Guardian ➡️ Putin's inner circle is gradually losing trust in him, and the Kremlin dictator himself is becoming increasingly isolated.

🇷🇸 Police fired tear gas and clashed with protesters in central Belgrade on Saturday, as tens of thousands gathered to demand early elections and an end to the more than decade-long rule of Serbia's President ‌Aleksandar Vucic, - Reuters

"Any American who experiences tragedy followed by illness will have two thoughts: 'What is taking time off going to cost me, and how will I pay my medical bills?' Those are deeply dysfunctional thoughts, because this is a deeply dysfunctional country." Sarah Kendzior

Congratulations graduates! Be safe out there. 😷

The document they referenced was inspired by a letter I originally wrote at the request of a parent trying to persuade their daughter to mask. Sometimes small acts of science translation matter more than we realize. /2

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Clean air will be the sanitation revolution of the 21st century. Or it won’t. And we’ll pay for it for three generations.

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The most dangerous lie of the last six years was that getting it over with was a strategy. You don’t out-tough a virus that hides in your tissues.

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The immune system has a memory. So does the heart. So does the brain. Survival is not the same as escape.

The most underrated public health intervention of the next decade is going to be opening a window.

We tolerate indoor air in 2026 that would have horrified sanitation engineers in 1926. We just don’t see what’s killing us.

Self-complexity is a buffer against grief. We never teach this. We should. Lose one self and there are still nine left to walk you home.

Attention is the rarest cognitive resource we have. We are feeding it, hourly, to slot machines that don’t even pay out.

Cognitive fatigue is real. We mock it because admitting it would force us to redesign everything: schools, workplaces, classrooms, hospitals, parenting. Mocking is cheaper.

Five years in and we still treat masks like a personality. Surgeons aren’t making a statement. They’re protecting a patient. So am I.

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The Atlantic (gift link) "On the present trajectory, Iran will emerge from the conflict many times stronger and more influential than it was before the war. .. Trump no doubt hopes that he can slip away without Americans noticing the magnitude of this defeat." www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

Here’s a thought — Maybe these people don’t deserve to be handsomely rewarded? (From NPR)

"I believe an 18-year-old organized this protest with a week’s notice, and I think that really speaks to the grassroots outrage at governments charging ahead, chasing the AI bubble with no community consultation.”

is your entire newsroom too young to remember 25 years ago?

Articles describe Busch as "struggling with a sinus cold." This is such uncritical journalism. Read the Swiss Re report. Up to 150,000 Americans are expected to die as a consequence of COVlD this year (excess deaths). Swiss Re: tinyurl.com/swiss19

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PMC COVlD Update, May 18, 2026 Levels are flat in a relative "lull" with 1 in 275 people estimated actively infectious. All infographics: PMC19.com/data A video version with an instrumental background: www.instagram.com/p/DYfp2YNPn_V/