California’s growing mushroom poisoning outbreak is the biggest-ever in U.S. www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...

They're still riding putin's antivax train tho

This is a common sentiment. Without Covid disinformation to unite it, MAHA is imploding.

Alligator teeth aren't especially sharp: they're optimized for high-force BITING, not chewing. There's no serrated edge for cutting/severing. So to get bite-sized pieces from larger prey, they use their 'death roll' behavior to pull off chunks small enough to swallow. Nature's blender goes brrr!🐊

V concerning to have it spread in populated cities with airports. Glad it is not airborne, but still...no vaccine.

And yet you can hardly find a mention of this in the U.S. press and nothing from our health authorities: W.H.O. Declares Ebola Outbreak a Global Health Emergency www.nytimes.com/2026/05/17/w...

Reposting one of my faves, from 2019, on The Booster Shot, the substack I've joined with @epiren.bsky.social and Robert Wack open.substack.com/pub/boosters... #Trump #DetentionCenters #MigrantHealth

Spoke recently to a friend of mine who runs a lab. This administration is profoundly, maybe irreversibly, undermining the foundations of scientific research in the US. We won't feel the effects right away but they're coming

“This is exactly the kind of pathogen that's going to test whether the global health security infrastructure is functioning.” https://scim.ag/4duhS0G

🚨Trump just named Marc Andreessen’s wife to the SF Presidio Trust board, along with other MAGA allies & ultra-wealthy tech figures. Meanwhile, the Tech Bros have made it clear that they want to build a “Freedom City” in the Presidio. sfstandard.com/2026/05/14/t...

LOUISIANA: find your location to sign the petition for recalling Gov. Jeff Landry. LouisianaDeservesBetter.com NO ONLINE SIGNATURES. ALL IN PERSON.

In type 2 diabetes, GLP-1 receptor agonists lowered glucose, body weight, and lipid measures. 🧵 3/7

A Russian diplomat working as an undercover SVR officer who spent years infiltrating the Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC) and other think-tanks tied to the Orbán government was quietly expelled from Budapest. Szabolcs Panyi

Great how @donnagaffney.bsky.social and @nurseteria.bsky.social link #voting rights to health and #SDOH www.aol.com/articles/opi...

WHO: Epidemic of Ebola Disease caused by Bundibugyo virus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda determined a public health emergency of international concern bit.ly/49BaOy8 @who.int

#Kayaking again! First time in a tandem, aka "divorce boat." I prefer being by myself. Pretty tree I couldn't identify and early spring flowers. #Duckpuddle stream and #Pemaquid pond. An eagle came very close by us! Also saw 2 loons and heard osprey. Stunning day. Very high water. #Maine

"“It’s possible that we’re starting to see the consequences of severe and sudden cuts to global health programs that have eroded surveillance and allowed deadly viruses to spread undetected...” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/w...

HUGE breaking news about sexual misconduct at ICE and CBP, and the investigative report that just forced CBP head Michael Banks to resign. 👏👏

Everyone needs to be paying attention to Alabama and Minnesota today. Minnesota house Dems are on their second day of a sit in demanding a vote on a gun restriction bill And activists have launched the all roads lead to the south voting rights campaign in Alabama. 1/

#genealogy now perceived as dangerous? 🤦‍♀️

We just landed a huge endorsement — captmarkkelly.bsky.social is officially on Team Annie!

The U.S. government requires visa applicants to make all of their social media accounts fully public or risk being denied entry. This is straight out of 1984. Your right to privacy doesn’t just disappear at the border for millions of people, it disappears before they ever set foot here.

Rep. @brotherjones.bsky.social in Montgomery: “We’re here united to take on this new confederacy, 60 years after the Selma March… because we know their intent is to dismantle everything gained during the civil rights movement.”

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Change starts at the local level. If you want to fight back against the chaos happening in Washington, it’s just as important to hold state Republicans accountable at the ballot box and elect state Democrats who are working to strengthen their communities.

Nebraska Democrats outpolled Republicans in three legislative districts in the all-candidate primaries this week. They want to flip at least one in the fall to break the GOP supermajority, which in this state matters a ton. nebraskapublicmedia.org/en/news/news...

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Actually sad @hcrichardson.bsky.social time capsule. He got played in China, & all his clear corruption still leaves him as a two-bit con man out of Queens in a world of obscene wealth. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/may-15-2026

Study finds no link between first trimester pain reliever use and birth defects bit.ly/4nCg9eE

The headline is misleading as covid = flu He wants $1.7B taxpayer 💰for ANYBODY "harmed by Biden's "weaponization of the legal system", incl ~1,600 charged/pardoned J-6ers & entities linked to Trump himself (who'll pocket $100/millions) abcnews.com/US/trump-poi...

There’s actually a chance that the next president could be elected by popular vote in 2028 rather than by the fundamentally undemocratic Electoral College.

Nature: Exclusive: NIH ousts infectious-disease leaders as COVID scientists face US charges by Max Kozlov @nature.com @maxkozlov.bsky.social Will be hard to replace them. Good people. go.nature.com/4nt9YJy

Listening to @npr.org on use of AI on education. Amanda Cooper, TECH REPORTER, is incredibly naive re: academic integrity of average students/employees. She believes everyone has the integrity to do the right thing & not cheat. 1/3

And more bad news at #NIH, via @maxkozlov.bsky.social Exclusive: NIH ousts infectious-disease leaders as COVID scientists face US charges www.nature.com/articles/d41... Trump and his minions destroying the US bit by bit...