I checked with Bluesky-famous shark biologist @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and he declined to rule out with certainty that Congressman Kean was swallowed by a shark.

FIFA painted over a beloved Wyland mural of whales, one of just 100 in the world, to advertise for the World Cup. Apparently without talking to anyone before doing so. www.espn.com/soccer/story...

Brilliant story on RFK's push for an unethical study that withholds vaccines from 7000 children in Guinea-Bissau, based on a "house of cards." Guinea-Bissau says they never approved of this. And yet HHS calls it an "opportunity." By Arthur Allen @kffhealthnews.org www.wired.com/story/a-dani...

NEWS: Trump's stock trades included up to $680,000 in Eli Lilly as his administration was preparing policies that would benefit the drug company's GLP-1 business. #$LLY Trump personally signed the disclosure. By @dariustahir.bsky.social kffhealthnews.org/health-indus...

A growing number of states are using their health agencies as arms of immigration enforcement, requiring them to report recipients of Medicaid to DHS if their legal status is in question. @arjonesreports.bsky.social has the story⤵️

Pope Leo XIV gifted Marco Rubio a plant of peace. In return, Marco Rubio gave the pope a crystal football. The pope’s response? “Wow. Okay.”

GLP-1 medications like Wegovy and Zepbound will be available to some Medicare enrollees for weight loss for the first time. The program will cap the monthly cost of the popular drugs at $50. bsky.app/profile/kffh...

Amid plenty of hantavirus headlines... The official leading CDC’s cruise ship program has retired, according to an internal announcement obtained by STAT www.statnews.com/2026/05/07/l...

NEWS: Medicaid work requirements begin in Nebraska *tomorrow* -- nine months ahead of the One Big Beautiful Bill's deadline. But the state published a list of thousands of health conditions that will exempt people as "frail." Via @kffhealthnews.org kffhealthnews.org/medicaid/neb...

The Trump administration rejected all four women farmers chosen by their peers to represent them in an industry group called the United Soybean Board earlier this year, a rare intervention by the U.S. Department of Agriculture that three of the women suspected was because of their gender.

A lot of people choose their health insurance the same way they shop for a flight - sort by the lowest monthly price and click “buy.” If you have a high-deductible plan, we've got tips to make it work better for you. @kffhealthnews.org @npr.org

Introducing over 11,000 new members of the Solar System...and our main survey hasn't quite started yet! ☄️ Using pre-survey observations from 2025, NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory scientists have reported more than 11,000 new asteroids and comets! 🔭🧪 🔗: rubinobservatory.org/news/11000-n...

NEWS: After an unexplained delay, the CDC has begun publicly releasing taxpayer-funded sequences of genomes from measles outbreaks. The data will help determine whether we've lost our status as a measles-free country. By @amymaxmen.bsky.social kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

UPDATE: Two hours ago, Nurul Amin Shah Alam's death was ruled a homicide by the Erie County Medical Examiner.

Adam means that she is the daughter of immigrants, but it is worth emphasizing that *every* U.S. citizen who has not been naturalized is a birthright citizen, either by the 14th Amendment or by statute.

This is so wrong. Great reporting, as always, by @kffhealthnews.org ’s Elizabeth Rosenthal.

President Trump showed a classified map from his first term to passengers on a 2022 private plane flight and retained another record so sensitive that only six government officials had access to it, according to a prosecution memo released to Congress.

One of the great things about my job at @kff.org is coming up with innovative survey designs. In a rare instance of longitudinal survey data, we went back to our 2025 ACA Marketplace Enrollees to see how they fared during open enrollment. www.kff.org/public-opini...

An investigation by The New York Times found extensive evidence that Cesar Chavez, the United Farm Workers co-founder, groomed and sexually abused young girls who worked in the movement.

Kristi Noem is out at DHS. Here's a TV commercial of her on a horse, filmed five months ago at Mount Rushmore, for an ad campaign that cost more than $200 million

Kind of strange that in 1993, the president was someone who was born in 1946. And in 2026, the president is someone who was born in 1946.

Hi — new to BlueSky! I’m a journalist covering how health policy and systems impact people. Lately I’ve reported on federal cuts hitting a rural bioscience hub, a town recovering from meth, and a man who said he had to break Medicaid rules. Based in Montana, I write for both 📰 and 📻

CBO finds after passage of Trump's tax cuts and recent economic adjustments, the Medicare hospital trust fund will be exhausted in 2040, "12 years earlier than in our most recent estimate.. which was published in March 2025." www.cbo.gov/publication/...

Just months after receiving a presidential pardon, Binance co-founder Changpeng Zhao appeared at Mar-a-Lago last week, placing himself squarely in the Trump family’s crypto orbit.

in public, the men's hockey team has been supportive of the women's team, going to games, cheering them on, saying they were inspired by the OT golden goal must be gutting to feel that support and then get first-hand evidence that behind closed doors, when it's just The Boys, they're laughing at you

When a clinical trial showed that lung cancer patients treated in the morning had a massive reduction in the risk of progression compared to those treated in the afternoon, many scientists were intrigued, if skeptical. Now that study is coming under fire.

Incredible opinion. It holds that the common ICE tactic of jumping out of an unidentified rental vehicle and seizing suspected noncitizens while masked violates the Fourth Amendment because the *manner* of the seizure is incompatible with a free society governed by the rule of law.

NEW: DOJ told a judge in New Jersey that it had violated court orders about 54 times between Dec. 5 and this week — the latest accounting of a phenomenon that used to be rare and is now rampant. www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

Moderna spent years and $1 billion studying a new mRNA flu vaccine for adults. Now, the FDA is refusing to review it. “How do we expect companies to invest in new medicines like this if the FDA is basically acting on vibes?” asks @julierovner.bsky.social. Listen for more on this week's news🎧 ⤵️

News: The top-secret whistleblower complaint against Tulsi Gabbard is related to a conversation intercepted last spring in which two foreign nationals discussed Jared Kushner, according to U.S. officials familiar with the matter. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

The fact that James Van Der Beek had to auction off memorabilia from his movies just broke me. It shouldn't be like this, not for beloved stars, not for anyone.

ICE has been tracking the names of protesters in an internal database for several months, according to two US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss operations reut.rs/46wwn1j

Here's what DHS doesn't want you to know: Working for ICE is one of the safest jobs in America — and last year was the second-safest year for the agency on record. And the doxxing? It hasn't actually happened even once. The masks are justified by a lie. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-s-mask...

ICE chief refuses to apologize for Minneapolis shooting victims being labeled terrorists

In the future we're gonna look back at online gambling and prediction markets in the same way we look now at cigarettes on airplanes and lead-based paint www.wsj.com/business/med...

NEW: The Justice Department unit responsible for pursuing potential wrongdoing by law enforcement, including during the crackdown in Minneapolis, has lost two-thirds of its prosecutors and is under orders to scale back its investigations of excessive force. www.reuters.com/world/justic...

continue to think that if instead of "raw milk" we called it "doodoo milk" people would understand the risk proposition

A retiree wrote this email to a DHS attorney. Within five hours, DHS demanded Google turn over records for his account. A Kafkaesque form of domestic surveillance, intimidating Americans for lawful speech. New from us at the Post: www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio... @johnwoodrowcox.bsky.social

Having a body cam is just the first step. You also gotta turn it on and release the footage. DHS has footage of Alex Pretti's killing. Yet it won't even say whether it's own investigators have it. www.propublica.org/article/alex...

Does your health insurance now cost more than your mortgage? Or did you drop your coverage altogether this year? We want to hear from you. Check out our new series, Priced Out, and tell us about your own experience trying to pay for health care. kffhealthnews.org/priced-out/

BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

🚨 New from me: Grant review at more than half of NIH's institutes could be frozen by the end of the year. That's because crucial NIH grant-review panels are slated to be empty at those institutes by Jan 2027. A wonky bureaucratic problem with big implications. A short 🧵

Went to Terry Black's once at the advice of the Uber driver who picked me up at the airport. Good, but overpriced even for Austin. Plenty of other choices.

The loss of enhanced ACA subsidies, coupled with the challenging economic conditions, has made health coverage unaffordable for many farmers. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

We set out to determine how many images of women and girls Grok created during its nudifying spree. What we found was “industrial-scale abuse,” experts said. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/t...

ICE says it detains the "worst of the worst." Meet Liam Ramos, age 5.

Q: Did you uncover evidence to prove Trump knew his claim the election was stolen was false? SMITH: Yes Q: And Trump claimed it was stolen while he privately acknowledged he lost? SMITH: Yes Q: Yet on the 5th anniversary of J6, Trump still promoted the stolen election theory on a govt webpage

The new chair of the #ACIP was on the Why Should I Trust You? podcast. The interview was ... enlightening. Among other things, Kirk Milhoan seemed to question whether kids still need to be vaccinated against polio & said he doesn't like “established science.” www.statnews.com/2026/01/22/v...

A thing to keep in mind here: This issue of ICE/DHS barring clergy from offering pastoral care or religious rites to detainees is triggering lawsuits, protests (with arrests of pastors) and blowback from *Pope Leo.*

Rick Pazdur, very briefly and until recently the FDA's top drug regulator, rang the alarm about political influence at the agency at a @statnews.com event. At the end, he quipped: "I hope the IRS doesn’t come and audit me now.” www.statnews.com/2026/01/13/r...