Shouldn't the DOJ be looking into this obvious waste fraud & abuse? And that ballroom is suddenly a billion dollars of tax payer money. Where is all the donated money? fortune.com/article/who-... @housedemocrats.bsky.social

Donald Trump has unveiled a golden statue of himself at his Florida golf club, raising concerns about the Obamas' uppityness.

Case study of the Nov2018-Feb2019 Andes virus outbreak in Argentina is heart breaking to read. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.... 5 infected at a birthday party. One of whom infected 6 others during his “early prodromal” phase (initial, non-specific symptoms such as fatigue, before illness onset). Etc.

Happy Monday Bluesky

The one other thing I would say: I’ve never seen a better example of how NOT to do public health & infectious disease communications Bhattacharya broke literally every single rule of Comms 101 & we’re going to be using this interview for teaching purposes for generations Utter train wreck 🤦‍♂️

This graduation speaker probably has nothing to fear from AI: She's already established in her career, perhaps tenured. Her 401K is soaring. The graduates know that AI has made their college education largely a charade-- and will shut them out of meaningful employment. That's why they're booing.

Contemplating my content parasitism. Have to do some of it, but I can't live in the belly of the beast full time. #DigitalParasitism, #ContentEconomy, #Debunkosphere, #CommunicativeCapitalism, #QualityOverMetrics youtube.com/shorts/3KRRA...

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

My human sings best songs!

Here's what I want from the next Democratic president: someone with zero fucks left to give and someone who will promise to do this, right now. open.substack.com/pub/saltypol...

💔🕯️RIP... Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. #RIP #LincolnMemorialReflectingPool

Let’s not bury the lede here. The President of the United States thinks vaccines cause autism. We are going to pay dearly for this. But he doesn’t care. Your baby getting meningitis ain’t his problem. It’s your problem.

The Pike’s Peak Humane Society has a social media manager who is very good at their job

Extremely worth noting - the Black Zine Fair was a masks-required event! And hundreds of folks came and wore masks and had a great time! This is a doable thing, y'all!

Protesters staged noise demo through the rich Seattle neighborhood of #Laurelhurst that lobbied against noisy helicopters flying sick and injured kids over their mansions to Children's Hospital. 🤪 It got a bit noisy.

Like every Mother's Day today I am asking that you consider a donation to @nationalbailout.bsky.social to help free mamas who are separated from their families by the injustices of pretrial detention systems. secure.actblue.com/donate/freeb...

You can tell me this isn't the cutest shit you've ever seen. LOOK AT THAT LITTLE GUY GO! 🥞🐙📷NOAA Ocean Exploration

When the law protects pedophiles but persecutes fathers fighting for clean water, the system isn't broken; it’s working exactly as intended. There is no 'upholding justice' in a uniform that shields the elite and punishes the vulnerable.

This is why they wanna keep high school kids uninformed and reliant on AI to do the thinking for them.

Wellness influencer virus playbook: 1. Immediately claim it was planned 2. Forced vaccines are imminent 3. Bill Gates and/or Anthony Fauci 4. Healthy people™ are naturally immune 5. Repurpose supplements on your downline

Here’s how Vinay Prasad’s “leaked” memo gave ammunition to cranks and quacks like this.

Shut down Trump’s Gestapo. Arrest and prosecute these terrorists. www.nbcnewyork.com/bronx/teen-w...

“Nearly 150 people from 23 countries have been at sea for weeks, some of them grieving, all of them frightened, all of them longing for home. Tenerife has been chosen because it has the medical capacity, the infrastructure, and the humanity to help them reach safety.”

Consider this prediction time stamped. by mid-2027, RFK Jr will say something like: "Don't worry, people. Hantavirus only kills lazy and/or old slobs with pre-existing conditions. The rest of us will be fine."

1/ Tear gas was created to incapacitate grown men. So when I started seeing reports of kids hurt by tear gas deployed by federal immigration agents, I wondered how often it was happening. My colleagues and I started to count:

8/ Another mom in Portland told ProPublica that her 3-year-old daughter screamed and cried one night as tear gas drifted in, holding her face as it burned her eyes. The mom started taking her into the bathroom to hide from the gas.

An ICE goon pulled a gun on a New York teenager and beats him. However, they realized they had the wrong person and abandoned him injured far from home.

Keep thinking about this quote in Politico earlier this week: “He will not be missed by a single career person,” said an FDA staffer granted anonymity to discuss Makary’s tenure. “And we will only regret it when they manage to find someone worse.”

A big problem with "Joe Rogan of the Left" discourse is that underlying the discourse is an implicit "We need a Joe Rogan figure that will appeal to OTHER, less sophisticated people. Not me though. I'm too hip to need or want that." Build the ecosystems that YOU want. Anything else is paternalism.

Really tired of stories calling things a blow to Democrats when they are actually a blow to democracy

If you use Chrome on Windows, reclaim the 4GB of your SSD by creating: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Google\Chrome GenAILocalFoundationalModelSettings Type: DWORD Value: 1 Then restart Chrome and a few seconds later it'll delete the enormous, useless, unwanted slop cache.

The soldiers in the back are Western-backed and the kid in the front is just a kid. The Israeli barbed wire prevents the kid from going to a Palestinian school in the Palestinian West Bank. That’s the Israeli-Palestinian “conflict”. www.instagram.com/p/DYC4tOalYWJ/

The @pressfreedomtracker.us has recorded nearly 200 LAPD press freedom violations involving journalists. On May Day, reporters were handcuffed and struck with batons. With the World Cup coming to LA, FPF's @adamrose.bsky.social challenged LAPD to prevent an international incident. Watch ⬇️

well... well... WELL www.404media.co/ice-plans-to...

The risk of hantavirus for the vast majority of the world is extremely low. But it's serving as a warning sign of how poorly equipped the US is for outbreaks -- which is worrying, given predictions of another pandemic within decades. My latest: www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

I'll leave things here for now. Barely made it to the end of this thread because there is so much going on. We'll leave the actual plans for passengers for another day/thread. Do read the story (and share it): www.science.org/content/arti...

I think how this plays out the next few days will tell us something about the state of public health and the world. "This is a test of the emergency broadcasting system", @mtosterholm.bsky.social told me. "This is not an international crisis, but it serves as a test of international crisis response"

Yup. Your job as regular person is not to parse whether particular policies are 'realistic' or 'possible.' You are supposed to actually demand what you need to live a dignified life.

I’m seeing lots of articles congratulating Karoline Leavitt on her new daughter and not a single one mentions the 165 children that Donald Trump killed in Iran that Karoline helped try to cover up.

Wow: NBC Nightly News just reported that, when they asked four states w/ returned hanta ship passengers whether those people were quarantining, they got no response - & Arizona said their returned passenger isn't. One reason we need good public health policy is because individuals often lack sense.

Of course he did.

Kash Patel avidly pursues individuals featured in Epstein files. Sorry, my mistake. He ordered polygraphing of >24 former/current members of his security detail, as well as other staff, has walled himself off, & is in panic mode to save his job and find leakers among his team. FBI is now idiotic.

funniest thing i’ve ever seen

At least awesome ppl are still writing awesome books Check out Antifascist Dad by @matthewremski.bsky.social and the edge of space-time by @chanda.blacksky.app

From NASA: Got something weighing you down? Shake it off (like Curiosity)! The Martian explorer unintentionally picked up a rock while drilling a recent sample, but the team was able to dislodge it by having the rover move its robotic arm and vibrate the drill until the rock fell off. 1/2

Premiums are UP and people are getting pushed off their healthcare coverage because Republicans let enhanced ACA tax credits expire. But they’ve voted five times to continue Trump & Hegseth’s $200B war with Iran. Policy is about values. This tells us exactly what they value. #HealthcareNotWarfare

I'm going to watch this at least 10 more times today.