The #Ebola outbreak exposes consequences of global health funding cuts. 🇺🇸 U.S. assistance to DRC reportedly fell from $1.4 BILLION in 2024 to $21 MILLION in 2026. At the same time: 🧪 labs lost capacity 👩🏽‍⚕️ health workers lost jobs 🚑 surveillance + preparedness programs were dismantled

Recep Tayyip Erdoğa decides that democracy is too much of a bother. He doesn't want to take the sort of risk his buddy Viktor Orbán did with contested elections.

It’s an abject failure of Congress to have not added automatic adjustments for inflation into the national minimum wage

I wrote this in 2012: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc... ✍🏾📃🗳️⚖️ (friendly reminder to register to vote, especially if you have moved homes recently).

“The presidential hopefuls include some of the party’s best spokespersons…Let’s put them to work helping Dems’ candidates win the midterms. Where they have been invited by a midterm candidate—an essential condition—they could go to town halls, help design ads, offer briefings on issues & meet voters

This is the work @kenmartin.bsky.social @dscc.bsky.social @electdemocrats.bsky.social should be doing. Every district counts!

How Crypto & prediction markets are becoming nothing but grift with no regulators able to stop the fraud & insider trading.

This is approximately 15 times more than the $1.7 billion that Obama released to Iran in 2016 (which was owed to the country) that Trump hasn't shut up about and cited as a prime reason to scuttle the JCPOA.

"I witnessed a 26-year-old male who presented after simply hitting a pothole during his morning commute, sustaining a deep abrasion to the left half of his face along with an open left clavicle fracture and a dislocated left shoulder." www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...

If I’m not evolved enough to understand it, then why did they have to steal my writing to train it?

Went to an anti AI datacentre protest march today and a friend of mine got a picture that summed it all up

omg this is insane

The World Health Organization says more than 170 deaths are thought to be linked to this Ebola outbreak, with nearly 750 suspected cases so far and the WHO is warning that they know that the scale of the epidemic is much larger. www.cnn.com/2026/05/22/a...

A message from Mary, a 72-year-old Amazon worker from North Carolina projected onto Jeff Bezos’s $120 million penthouse before tonight’s #MetGala, chaired by Bezos.

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

I grew up in public housing. When I finally purchased a home, it meant breaking cycles of poverty for my sons. Rising costs are putting that dream further out of reach for Massachusetts residents. My office created a Housing Affordability Unit because we know how critical fighting this crisis is.

A patient with type 1 diabetes has begun producing his own insulin after receiving a transplant of pancreatic cells. For the first time, islet cells have been edited so they wouldn't be rejected by the patient, removing the need for immunosuppressant drugs. www.sciencealert.com/first-of-its...

Protests in south coast of Albania in recent days near site where Jared Kushner/Ivanka Trump with help from Qatar-based billionaires plan a multi-billion seaside resort, according to local families. Barbed wire fence went up in recently as it appears project starting to move ahead.

In normal times, the fact that government officials at HHS blatantly lied to the public and got caught would be a scandal of unusual size. Everyone involved in this disinformation scheme against the people of the United States should be held accountable.

@AnnieForTruth The Trump administration re-approved continued use of atrazine, a controversial pesticide banned in 60 countries over health and environmental concerns. Trump and RFK Jr are certainly Making America Healthy Again. 🙄😡😡 #MAHA

Where my MAHA folks at? Where's RFK Jr. at? Didn't he build his entire fucking career on CLEAN WATER? Didn't he found a clean water non-profit? Crickets.

🧵 This is a BOMBSHELL story—and one that makes my blood boil. To encourage forest regrowth, the USFS is opting for the cheapest solution: Spraying Roundup—a weedkiller that contains glyphosate, which has been linked to harmful health impacts—on anything that could compete with conifers. (1/3)

Scientists are wary of glyphosate. MAHA loathes it. And our yearlong investigation shows California is spraying it everywhere.

“Spraying glyphosate in such an environmentally sensitive and pristine place is ludicrous.”

If you use TalkSpace or any chat bot for therapy, be aware that they can use your transcript to develop new products like an auto therapist. Your conversations are not private.

My colleague Nora Freeman Engstrom has put together a guide for bringing tort suits against ICE law.stanford.edu/wp-content/u...

Under Trump, more than 145,000 US kids have been separated from their parents, a study shows

"Meetings are held, emails are sent, phone calls are made, and something like 520,000 children die of malnutrition, diarrhea, tuberculosis, malaria, and HIV." prospect.org/2026/05/22/w...

🚨BREAKING: Several prisoners released from Delaney Hall ICE prison in NJ overnight after hundreds of prisoners launch hunger/labor strike. Prisoners have been fed worms in food, black mold inside, Covid/flu spreading. Our @jordanchariton.bsky.social will be live from DH soon. LIVE link below🔽

The American-led negotiations in Ukraine prolonged the war by encouraging Putin. The Russians dangled ludicrous business"deals" in front of Witkoff and Kushner who were too gullible to understand that they were being manipulated. Good to hear the US has abandoned this failed policy.

“to identify the most damaging bugs before they cross the ocean.” This is a great use of research $$

Jamie Raskin says Trump’s $1.8B slush fund “is, quite simply, a scam. Only Congress has the power to appropriate federal dollars. Article I, Section 9 of the Constitution states that “no money shall be drawn from the Treasury but in consequence of appropriations made by law.” 1/2

Media disinformation. It's not like Senate Republicans are actually DOING anything to stop Trump's slush fund (e.g., passing legislation to bar it or suing to argue he's violating appropriations clause) or denying him a reconciliation bill to hand his domestic gestapo $75 billion.

Trump’s DOJ proudly admits they’re deleting info about the insurrection, rewriting history right before our eyes as they prepare to reward the attackers with mountains of cash.

That part

Officer Fanone on Jan 6, after being tased 3 times in the neck by Trump terrorists, beaten with his gun and dragged unconscious down the stairs. He had a heart attack.

Oh look another instance of Trump doing something that would have sunk a previous president.

Why isn’t the latest in manufacturing technology being supported in the US? Is it because some idiot thinks windmills are ugly so blames cancer on them? 150,000 good paying jobs at risk! While US employs fewer than 40,000 in coal mining. China is winning the race to wind energy.

About $50 billion in wind-farm investments and 150,000 jobs are at risk from the Trump administration’s effective halt to approvals for new projects, a trade group said.

Nothing to see here, move along.

For decades, the IRS has been required to audit every sitting president annually; a critical safeguard to ensure no president has a secret financial stake in betting against the American people they swore to serve. Every president accepted those audits without question. - Until now.

The Great Society: “Johnson proposed rebuilding the cities, protecting the countryside, & investing in education to set “every young mind…free to scan the farthest reaches of thought & imagination.” Thanks Pres. Johnson for making my life better. This is what we are fighting to keep. Read it all 👇👇

May 22, 2026

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“We will do everything in our power to make whole those who were persecuted for political purposes. This includes stripping DOJ’s website of partisan propaganda.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

3°C warming by 2100 doesn’t mean your grandchildren’s beach trips will be 3° hotter & they’ll get slightly warmer winters. It means huge areas of the planet where humans currently live will become *unsurvivable*, and our delicate global agricultural systems may partly or completely collapse. 10/12

⚠️ The previous CMIP releases weren’t “wrong” ⚠️ They modelled a potential future path - realistic at the time - of practically no political intervention to prevent climate change. But since then we have taken enough action that the *worst* possible outcome is now not as bad as it used to be. 7/12