Republican official's ballot tossed under rules he supported www.rawstory.com/frank-larose...

The Trump administration has ousted 80% of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases' top officials. This comes as Ebola and hantavirus spread internationally.

www.msn.com/en-us/news/i... Nissan joins Toyota in warning of looming motor oil shortage

Ohio AG Dave Yost is trying to dismiss 77 cases against former Ohio State doctor Richard Strauss ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/05/15/o...

Trump said that repairs to the DC Reflecting pool would cost $1.8 Million. Now? The price tag is $13.1 million. The company doing the repairs got a no-bid contract for the project after previously working on pools at Trump's properties. Where’s the uproar about waste, fraud, and abuse now?

This a disgusting abomination. Republicans are going to make hard-working, law abiding taxpayers pay off the thugs and criminals who beat cops on J6 and were convicted of various other crimes. Vote every Republican out of office this Nov. abcnews.com/US/trump-poi...

The fact that Kash Patel is still in his job after demanding a "VIP snorkel" over the 900+ heroes entombed in the USS Arizona tells you everything you need to know about this administration.

‘No idea it was coming’: Pentagon officials stunned by Hegseth decision on troops in Poland www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

16 More People in the U.S. Are Being Monitored for Hantavirus, C.D.C. Says www.nytimes.com/2026/05/14/h...

Republicans can now tell every voter that the leader of their party is going to make them pay $1.7 billion of their hard-earned money in taxes to Oathkeepers & Proud Boys convicted of crimes on J6 as well as others convicted of beating police. All of us have to pay J6 criminals.

I’m tired of the dishonesty of this entire debate. The folks calling for “perspectives different from their own“ are shutting down Women’s and African American studies because they hate differing opinions. Marginalized folks had a small foothold, and powerful people decided to push them out.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced it is placing a six-month moratorium on new enrollment of health providers in Medicare — its latest effort to combat what it says is widespread fraud among hospice and home health providers. https://cnn.it/3R5V2VM

Broo fuck all this

🚨BREAKING: Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp called for lawmakers to redraw the state’s congressional and legislative maps for 2028, adding Georgia to the growing list of southern states poised to wipe out majority-Black districts before the next presidential election. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Roughly 49,000 Lake Tahoe residents could lose 75% of their power after their energy provider said it's directing energy to neighboring data centers. fortune.com/2026/05/12/l...

Ballmaxxing? Dude. Bro. Dudebro. Women do not care about the size of your balls. Women care about them being colourful. You need to tattoomaxx those bad boys. www.forbes.com/sites/brucel...

Acting CDC director on hantavirus: ‘This is not COVID’ thehill.com/policy/healt...

Marty Makary Set the Conditions for His Own Downfall www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/...

Chris Wright: ‘I don't know the future of gas prices' www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

US health agencies equipped to handle hantavirus, acting CDC director says www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

If your neurology group has more lawyers and MBAs than MD/DOs: 🚩🚩🚩 *Includes Patrick Dwyer the billionaire who was interviewed about New York City's billionaire tax.

A more detailed account in the Salt Lake Tribune www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

The man who bought Britiain for tuppence.

Rulemaking by editorials, announcements to journalists, podcasts. No public comment. Also not actually legal.

In the latest episode of Bari Weiss' Bibi Netanyahu tells it like it is, Bibi explains why America's war on Iran was a good idea for Bibi Netanyahu, and why American should now begin preparation to go to war on Turkey, too.

"My Classmates Thought I Was Drunk. I Had Meningitis." A child of two anti-vaccine parents ended up with serious consequences from meningococcal meningitis. www.voicesforvaccines.org/my-classmate... via @voices4vaccines.bsky.social

When I had to get the meningococcal vaccine to live in a dorm, my mom unprompted said when she was a nurse in the Army, she saw a case of it, young people who should have been very healthy, suddenly laid low and they couldn’t do anything about it as they seized, limbs turned black, and they died.

Enforcement action against Wall Street lawyers engaged in insider trading. But not commodities traders with a special cure from the White House, which is a problem on a vastly larger scale. www.ft.com/content/35d6...

Right-wing Polish kleptocrat former minister who embezzled millions flees to US after Trump grants him a visa and apparently also insures he won't be extradited to stand trial. www.politico.eu/article/ex-p...

MAGA pastor insists he doesn't worship Trump as God, but acknowledges he does have a different interpretation of the significance of the Golden Calf in Exodus. www.thedailybeast.com/pastor-mark-...

Oh my God, this is disastrous. Biographic absorbed Hakai Magazine after *their* Canadian-based backers completely cut support. Good science journalism is needed more than ever, but without philanthropies willing to step up and break free from their self-imposed 5% rule, all of us will collapse.

Passengers disembark from cruise ship with hantavirus outbreak thehill.com/policy/inter...

Health insurance marketplace feels growing tremors from GOP cuts thehill.com/policy/healt...

“American Flag Blue”? Something is very off here. Trump’s turning the Reflecting Pool into a rushed vanity project w/a no-bid contract reportedly costing taxpayers $1.5 - $6.9 mill, handed to a contractor tied to his orbit, the same company that previously worked on one of his golf club pools. 🧵

This cartoon is supposed to be Brian Hooker, science advisor for RFK Jr's old group Children's Health Defense. The problem with it is there is no medication indicated for Hantavirus other than hospital based cardiopulmonary support meds. Drug companies have kept quiet on this recent news.

"The Trump administration plans to redirect $2 billion that Congress appropriated for tackling malaria, tuberculosis, maternal and child health, nutrition, global health security, HIV/AIDS and more..." www.cnn.com/2026/05/07/w...

A top Trump appointee at the Interior Department acknowledged that she has been involved in changes to grazing policies that benefit ranching businesses like her family's, according to a video of her remarks — a claim that some ethics experts say could violate federal law.

No quick dispatching of disease investigators. No televised news conference to inform the public. No timely health alerts to doctors. Experts wonder ‘Where is the CDC?’ as hantavirus outbreak unfolds. trib.al/usTCHeU

TFW you wrote your paper with ChatGPT, and then the professor asks you to explain it…

The U.S. Forest Service isn’t managing forests anymore. It’s running a timber operation and poisoning everything else to do it. A yearlong investigation by Mother Jones found that the Forest Service and private logging companies are systematically spraying thousands of

It’s very important to note (because the people this will affect are already prone to anxiety!) per the article the FDA has no authority whatsoever to do this and in fact drug companies can simply refuse to comply - and have done so with other drugs as recently as last month.

Yeah, we don’t have hospitals, dentists, or physicians.

This

Babies who don’t get the vitamin K shot are 81 times more likely to develop severe bleeding. In many cases, oxygen can’t reach their brains and blood pools around their skulls. Yet driven by misinformation, more parents are refusing the injection.