Past alerts have sounded the alarm about a wide variety of threats, including Ebola, bird flu and Covid. "It's our early-warning system," said Dr. Georges Benjamin American Public Health Association exec dir. "It's the weatherman of public health. It gives us enormous situational awareness."

People need to stop using PTSD as a synonym for nervousness in daily conversation. This is a serious disease. I see public figures, including journalists, speaking this way at least once a day.

“The social media discourse around this (the Epstein files) has been particularly difficult to bear, mainly because it is so disappointing to see how people grapple with the pervasiveness and permissive structures that enable and actually encourage sexual violence.”

“Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina — the Senate’s only Black Republican — wrote on X that he hoped the post was fake ‘because it’s the most racist thing I’ve seen out of this White House. The President should remove it.’”

I am not exaggerating: Removing this webpage warning against fake autism "treatments" will kill autistic people. www.medpagetoday.com/neurology/au...

NEW: A government attorney who was detailed to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Minnesota is no longer on that detail after telling a judge “this job sucks” and asking to be held in contempt so she could get 24 hours of sleep: www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

BREAKING: The Department of Justice left multiple unredacted photos of fully nude women or girls exposed as part of Friday’s dump of more than 3.5 million pages of files related to the investigations and prosecutions of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislane Maxwell.

The gambling advertisements during award shows is in the poorest taste. More than a third of boys try gambling before age 18. The industry aims to turn them into lifetime customers every day, just like the tobacco industry used to. www.commonsensemedia.org/research/bet...

Sick and tired of seeing people make jokes and viral content about Epstein at the expense of victims. When your only reaction to sexual abuse is to laugh you contribute directly to a rape culture that trivializes and minimizes these crimes

The full impact of the Medicaid cuts in the Big Beautiful Bill won’t be realized until next year. These cuts will hurt some of the most vulnerable families in this country. The cruelty of every representative who supported this bill continues to trouble me. youtu.be/hoiDdYN1BRY?...

Lemon’s arrest is a five-alarm fire moment. Americans love the First Amendment. Time to stand up for it again. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Agents lean “heavily on biometric surveillance and vast, interconnected databases … Civil liberties experts warn the expanding use of those systems risks sweeping up citizens and noncitizens alike, often with little transparency or meaningful oversight.” apnews.com/article/digi...

Health Care Costs Are the Top Household Expense the Public Worries About. (@kff.org) www.kff.org/public-opini...

Just… wow. Trump is telling people who are desperately trying to achieve the American dream and own their first home that, actually, they are the problem, they don’t work very hard, and should be kept out of the housing market in favor of the wealthy. This is not a winning message.

“According to the John Hopkins Arthritis Center, around 60 percent of rheumatoid arthritis patients currently are on or have been on methotrexate.”

Latinas for Trump cofounder "worried for the first time that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents might stop her son, a young adult, because he looks Hispanic" www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/u...

In response to announcement that he will be a new CBS contributor, Andrew Huberman tweeted “I’ve always gone issue-by-issue on health & science, spoken to experts w/a range of takes & presented where I see the center of (data) mass pointed. I’ll do the same with @CBSNews”. In Sept he posted this:

“The latest round of cuts comes as the company reported higher quarterly profit and guided for slightly higher revenue in the coming year. The shipper eliminated 48,000 positions in 2025, comprising 14,000 management positions and 34,000 jobs in operations.”

DHS has shot 12 people during immigration enforcement operations since September:

“Created…in 2021 as a one-year lifeline during the pandemic, the tax credit has since been extended three times and expanded by $300 million. That’s despite complaints from watchdogs that the program often funds big, well-resourced hit shows…that they say do not need taxpayer money to survive.”

“Tyrants generally get drunk on their own power, which progressively reduces restraint, increases entitlement and self-focus and amps up risk taking and overconfidence while escalating social isolation, corruption and defensive paranoia.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/o...

“President Donald Trump and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum ordered content at national parks that ‘inappropriately disparage’ the U.S. to be reviewed and potentially removed.”

“The DEFIANCE Act allows targets of deepfake abuse to sue the creators, distributors or commissioners of explicit nonconsensual images. The House has yet to schedule a vote.” Mike Johnson spoke favorably of the bill after it passed in the Senate last week. 19thnews.org/2026/01/pari...

“In the past six months, two babies in Louisiana have died of pertussis, the disease commonly known as whooping cough. Washington state recently announced its first confirmed death from pertussis in more than a decade. Idaho and South Dakota each reported a death this year.”

At the end of Donald Trump’s first year back in office, roughly 300,000 fewer Americans worked for the government. Franklin Foer spoke with 50 federal employees who were either fired or forced out: theatln.tc/XfKtWRqe

Do you appreciate @nws.noaa.gov's posts on Bluesky? Did you know that this account is a pilot program that may or may not be continued and even expanded to NWS field offices? NWS is soliciting comments here! www.surveymonkey.com/r/PrototypeN... Press release: www.weather.gov/media/notifi...

“The reliance on facial recognition concerns privacy experts like Jeramie Scott, a lawyer with the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a Washington-based nonprofit. Facial recognition is prone to false positives, he said, particularly for people of color and women” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/t...

Expectant mothers were left so hungry after the U.S. cut foreign food aid that one woman ate clay and charcoal. Her baby struggled to gain weight after being born prematurely.

Trump is a serial liar. If he says he wont take Greenland “by force,” this should be reported on, but it does not mean that’s off the table in his mind. He can flip on a dime and he doesn’t care about NATO, ethics, laws, norms, etc. He is a real estate guy and he wants Greenland in his portfolio.

“ICE’s failure to pay its bills for months has caused some medical providers to deny services to ICE detainees, an administration source, who requested anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the press, told Popular Information.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

“Thao, who has been a U.S. citizen for decades, said that as he was being detained he asked his daughter-in-law to find his identification but the agents told him they didn’t want to see it.” He says he “no longer feels secure to sleep in his home … ‘What did I do wrong? I didn’t do anything.’”

I feel like I’m living in the age of imperialism. It’s bad vibes.

BREAKING: Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell will attend the Supreme Court's hearing on Trump's attempted firing of Fed governor Lisa Cook, an unusual show of support by the central bank chair.

The evolution of people listening to podcasts in audio-only format to the video versions on YouTube is fascinating to me. It’s like one day we all decided we are going to watch podcasts on YouTube now.

“Ms. Goodwin was one of several legal scholars &criminal justice experts who said the conduct of ICE agents during Operation Metro Surge, the government’s name for its immigration crackdown in Minneapolis, evoked the attacks by police officers in Birmingham, Ala., on civil rights protesters in 1963”

I can’t imagine being a kid today. Adults are putting Gen Alpha though a massive, unauthorized social experiment because tech companies want to maximize profit. “There’s little evidence suggesting surveillance tech is actually lowering the levels of violence in American schools.”

Six weeks into the immigration enforcement surge in the Twin Cities, observers say federal agents are employing violence more frequently and with little apparent restraint against citizens and noncitizens alike. (1) www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

It should go without saying that women deserve health care that will preserve their health and protect them from death. This includes abortion.

🚨 In Nov., Trump's Labor Dept. lowered the minimum wage for foreign farmworkers. A month later, Trump's winery filed to hire 36 foreign, temporary workers. The rate? Almost $2/hour less than in 2025. 1/ me, for @forbes.com

In this episode, @cwarzel.bsky.social confronts the growing crisis of AI-generated sexual abuse. Then, he’s joined by @sophiegilbert.bsky.social to talk about how misogyny has been a constant throughline in the history of internet innovation. Watch “Galaxy Brain”:

UPDATE 2: A senior official in Guinea-Bissau said in a letter that the trial has been cancelled. Guinea-Bissau will continue its current vaccination schedule until the birth dose is implemented for all newborns, the letter said. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Palantir is working on a tool for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) that populates a map with potential deportation targets, brings up a dossier on each person, and provides a ‘confidence score’ on the person’s current address.” ICE has a $30 million contract with Palantir.

“The trades — some of which are disclosed more than a year late — are worth between $225,000 and $3.3 million.” I still remember when a handful of lawmakers dumped stock based on privileged info right before the pandemic crashed the market. This lawbreaking should result in automatic expulsion.

“The result is an enormous collection of Fast Pair-compatible audio devices that allow any spy or stalker to take control of speakers and microphones, or in some cases track an unwitting target’s location—even if the victim is an iPhone user who has never owned a Google product.”

I was a senior at University of Illinois during a meningococcal outbreak that killed 2 of our fellow students within days. 😢 Several of us were close contacts and given Rifampin prophylaxis. 19000 were emergently vaccinated. Pulling the recommendation for this lifesaving vaccine is indefensible.

Only 8% of Americans are in favor of the U.S. using military force to take control of Greenland. (Economist / @today.yougov.com) More, via Opinion Today: opiniontoday.substack.com/p/260114

"This cruelty will be measured in lives lost, as recovery centers shutter and the safety net we built is slashed overnight…the administration will have blood on its hands for every preventable death that follows,” said Ryan Hampton, founder of nonprofit Mobilize Recovery. www.npr.org/2026/01/14/n...

Mitchell had cancer and his medicines cost 300k per year. “It’s like extortion,” he told the medical news website @statnews.com in 2017. “It’s no different than Tony Soprano walking into a store and saying, ‘Someone may get hurt if you don’t give us the money.’” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/h...

My fav women’s looks of the #GoldenGlobes. Love Amy Poehler’s “Good Hang” podcast but good journalism is as important as ever and I would have loved to see NPR’s “Up First” win it. Maybe next year.

"When you're accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/u...