If you missed this superb conversation between two of the best respected physician scientists/science communicators, @boghuma.bsky.social and @jeremyfaust.bsky.social, I did a live thread here:

Gonna try live post on this terrific live conversation, which kicked off 9 mins ago! @boghuma.bsky.social says she thinks of the Andes hantavirus outbreak in 2 phases: on the ship, & post-embarkation She feels much more comfortable that containment is possible now we're in the post-ship phase 1/n

Thanks so much @gavinyamey.bsky.social for live posting my conversation with @jeremyfaust.bsky.social hopefully it was helpful amidst the prevailing anxiety ridden reporting on this outbreak. Will keep following this closely with the hope this is fully behing us in 6 weeks .

“HHS is punishing a world-class scientist who was working to protect people against pandemics, and if he had been listened to more thoroughly, we might have been better prepared for SARS-CoV-2” This might be the most insane thing yet. www.science.org/content/arti...

NEW: The Trump Administration is quietly rewriting federal gun regulations to create the legal framework for an “Amazon for Guns” — and Donald Trump Jr. could profit from it.

The original cost estimate for Trump's tacky ballroom was $200 million. It is now estimated to cost $1 billion. That's a 500% cost increase. So even if the vulgar ballroom was doubled in size, that doesn't justify the cost increasing FIVE TIMES. No wonder Trump went bankrupt in real estate.

Apparently.

It’s very simple: the 6 republican Supreme Court justices are functionally no different than klansmen

SCOTUS is not legitimate and is solely an authoritarian arm of the Republican party. They deserve no respect.

The president of these United States has difficulty reading and thinking at a very basic level and displays that flaw in public nearly every single day.

SCOTUS is an arm of the Republican party, not a legitimate judicial body.

very much of the view that a democratic congress should wield the guarantee clause against ad hoc, mid-decade redistricting, a practice which is an end run against representative government itself

Taxes have become more regressive thus exacerbating inequality

University: Faculty, please take our survey to help us better understand if you're thriving! All confidential! Survey: Gender? Race? Years at Institution? Rank? College? I should've just put my name on the survey

Well this aged terribly

MacFarlane: There’s a sense that these court rulings—which have tried to disenfranchise or dilute the power of Black voters—will backfire. That a wave already forming on behalf of Democrats is going to grow stronger and fiercer because of the court rulings.

Removing the gas tax doesn't target fossil fuel companies. If anything, it helps them by making it more likely consumers buy gas.

Epstein/Maxwell survivor Annie Farmer says survivors were "shocked" by Melania Trump's bizarre press conference denying any ties to Jeffrey Epstein.

Remember the "Trump Mobile" golden smartphone? Over a half million people paid a collective $59M+ in deposits to get one — and a year later not a single phone has shipped. Yet another Trump grift. https://popular.info/p/we-were-promised-a-gold-plated-trump

Yet we don't have money for health care, SNAP, or other programs that help the most needy. It's always the GOP policy to hurt the needy and enrich the fortunate. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/05...

To be clear, this guy thinks 9/11 was an inside job!

We need an amendment to take money out of politics. All citizens must have equal power to influence policy.

"I feel that there's a need for accountability... by investigations and ultimately impeachment and removal of this criminal president. And, that's where I come in. As a lawyer who's litigated and conducted investigations for 3 decades here in New York, I think I have a special talent for that.

While you can’t afford a trip for your family this summer, you just paid for Sean Duffy’s 7-month road trip at $4.55 per gallon of gas.

for, uh, world-historical reasons I am putting this back out there

we absolutely can get rfk jr. fired

RFK Jr has a brain lesion, heart issues, vocal cord problems, substance abuse, and mercury poisoning. So he’s talking about people like him dying. And to be clear: healthy people died of COVID. I saw it. It was awful. I had tears of joy when I received the vaccine because I knew how close death was

BREAKING: A U.S. trade court has ruled AGAINST Donald Trump’s sweeping 10% global tariff, finding the administration overstepped its authority. The court said the across-the-board ⁠tariffs were not ​justified ​under ⁠the ​1970s ​trade ⁠law invoked by the administration.

What I wish for everybody to remember when Canvas comes back online: The reason OUR data can be held for ransom is because Instructure, their owners (KKR private equity & Dragoneer venture capital), & our own employers (see ASU Atomic) monetize it. It's Canvas that hacked education & stole our IP.

Question: Why would the Super Bowl ever come to a Jim Crow state that intentionally strips representation from Black people? cc: NFL

People need to start to understand what happens when you fire the inspectors.

Breaking NEWS!! Federal judge rules DOGE illegally terminated NEH grants last year in a summary judgment in favor of plaintiffs AHA, ACLA, and MLA, and orders the restoration of 1400 terminated grants

I (thankfully) do not work on biothreats anymore, but some of y’all know me from Covid-era twitter and before that (!) from Ebola-era twitter so if it is helpful to you: I don’t think you need to be concerned about hantavirus

Some really good news from Inside Medicine: the flight attendant who developed symptoms has tested negative for hantavirus on both PCR and serology. Some relevant points here 🧵

It’s all falling apart.

"Looking back now, it’s clear that the desire to undo the Civil Rights Era — and even restore the Confederacy to a place of honor — never disappeared. It was sometimes set to the side and reshaped, but they kept the fire burning with unwavering attention."

Because Jay Bhattacharya is a censor.

Same

Platner hits the Epstein class in his first ad. Treating Collins with kid gloves hasn’t worked before, Platner is taking them off. Video: @grahamformaine.bsky.social via X (@grahamformaine)

No one can hack a piece of paper. Computers are useful but not the best option in all cases.

🇪🇸 Spain's electricity in 2000: 56% fossil, 2% solar & wind. By 2026: 44% solar & wind, just 17% fossil. The crossover came in 2023. Gas now sets the price only 15% of the time vs 89% in Italy. More in my forthcoming Substack newsletter 👇 janrosenow.substack.com

Gas stations in Ohio are running out of gas. I feel like that should be an important story.

I keep forgetting to share this with the amazing @unlawfulentries.bsky.social I love getting books written by my amazingly talented Bluesky friends.

Fascism.

horrible. this country’s turn away from science based medicine in the name of “wellness” is killing children and will kill a lot more. www.propublica.org/article/more...

This is it how he begins to stay in power by testing the waters as to how he can manipulate mid term elections. Starting with redistricting.

There is a huge difference between demonizing an ethnic group and requiring the lucky to contribute to the society that allows their privilege. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/n...

THIS WAS ALWAYS THEIR PLAN Gut the Voting Rights Act… then move fast to erase majority-Black districts across the South completely. 📌 Louisiana, 1 in 3 people are Black 📌 Mississippi, 2 in 5 people are Black 📌 N Carolina, 1 in 5 people are Black 📌 Tennessee, 1 in 6 people are Black