Why is the RSV vaccine restricted to people 75 and older? Why was my husband able to get it a month ago and I am prevented from doing the same now? Anyone?

Pritzker: When did we become a country where it's okay for the president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything, especially something we don't want? Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?

On a per capita basis, Wichita as more dangerous yesterday - YESTERDAY - than was Chicago over the weekend. Where in the breathless national broadcast/cable news coverage of that?

Will national broadcasters breathlessly report the gun violence in my hometown today - just today - the same way they breathlessly reported the shootings in Chicago over the weekend? Or will they pretend it didn’t happen b/c that won’t satisfy the machine? www.kake.com/home/two-cri...

And, predictably, national broadcast news sensationalizes crime in Chicago as a means of boosting coverage of threats of military occupation there. Tell me, where is the context here? How many shootings /capita were there in Memphis? Dallas? Wichita? Oklahoma City? www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

In a 2025 submission to the Defense Department, Microsoft didn't mention its use of employees based in China, the top cyber adversary of the U.S., to work on highly sensitive department systems, according to a copy obtained by ProPublica. @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/micr...

Goliath vs. David: Optum Rx invokes open meetings law to fight Kentucky counties on opioid suits kentuckylantern.com/2025/08/19/g...

Federal employee health plans barred from covering gender affirming care “regardless of age” www.opm.gov/healthcare-i...

The National Science Foundation will stop operating the Nathaniel B. Palmer icebreaker and slash polar science funding by 70 percent, devastating Antarctic research

Rep. Nicole Collier files a state court application for a writ of habeas corpus concerning her detention in the Texas State Capitol. www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/u...

Going on vacation tomorrow so spent Saturday night making maps of all the places in Ohio, West Virginia and South Carolina with higher violent crime and murder rates than D.C. Perhaps better places for those governors to focus resources! www.pbump.net/o/more-peopl...

Judge Rejects Trump’s Attempt to End Standards of Care for Detained Migrant Children www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/u...

This is hideous.

Ah, i usually do. Sorry! www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

VIDEO POSTED: A recent purchase by out-of-state investors on the Celina town square has some Clay County TN residents preparing for a possible battle with people they consider to be political extremists. www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...

@apnews.com A “U.S. tourist who flew to Puerto Rico … ?” Puerto Rico *is* the United States. apnews.com/article/puer...

An update from us here at PBS 💙

Brutal stuff from @swin24.bsky.social on the former children's hospital chaplain whose friends says he's been "tortured" in isolation as the Trump administration tries to deport him www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

A group of former lawyers from the U.S. Justice Department and major law firms launched a new nonprofit on Monday to take on cases for free opposing actions by the Trump administration @davidjthomas.bsky.social reut.rs/4lgJTLc

how much of the money from the ICE/tax cuts bill is just going to go to scammers, do you think? www.richmonder.org/this-tuckaho...

Advocates warn that if the Trump administration’s push to end the decades-old Flores Settlement Agreement is successful, outside oversight of the conditions in which immigrant youth are detained would end. My latest for @kffhealthnews.org www.cbsnews.com/news/immigra...

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Alternatively, California should NOT redistrict to underrepresent the currently red counties. Gerrymandering & refusing representation (from either side!) is absolutely NOT acceptable. Don’t stoop to their level. Let’s just take our chess piece off their playing board. @votecnp.bsky.social

People did not die solely because of forgetfulness but because this amnesia allowed succeeding generations to erase the past and their responsibilities to the future. When they could have enacted post-flood, life-saving interventions, they chose not to act on their progeny’s behalf.

In Texas, a woman has been fighting in court for nearly three years to keep her parental rights and get her son back. Her opponents? The family who fostered the child through a private agency. This is my first story for the @texasobserver.org. www.texasobserver.org/private-adop...

Many of the policy changes involving transgender people stem from an executive order that Trump signed on his first day back in office.

1/ Remember the "eugenicist hacker" that got the NYT to bite on the Zohran Mamdani Columbia application leak? @nlanard.bsky.social dug deep into his social and chat history, and it is so much worse than previously reported www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Of the $165bn allocated to the Department of Homeland Security in the BBB, $45bn of that will be spent on new detention centres.

The death toll from the floods in Texas is now more than 100 people. The bodies of 28 children have been found so far, and ten more campers and one teenaged counselor from Camp Mystic are still unaccounted for. apnews.com/live/texas-f...

GoFundMe has set up a page for the Texan flood victims. Each campaign has been verified by the company's Trust & Safety experts, which means you know your money is going directly to families. Please consider donating if you can. Their stories are heartbreaking. www.gofundme.com/c/act/flood-...

2/ First, some background: A pig butchering scam is a sophisticated, long-term con in which scammers present themselves as attractive, successful people to befriend you, win your trust and get you to deposit huge sums to fake online brokerages.

Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. So we published a guide to the evidence-based vaccine recommendations in place *before* all 17 members of the advisory panel were abruptly dismissed by the new admin. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-... 🧪

Excited, and a little nervous, to see my first story for the Texas Observer publishing soon.

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Seeing video and photos of LASD deputies and vehicles - the modified trucks they're all hanging onto - mislabeled as National Guard. These are the sheriff's deputies, not the guard. Wrong uniform and vehicles.

real bummer finding out that literally everything was on the honor system this whole time

Ice OFFICERS are not “agents.” Education, experience and qualifications for hiring is lower than for federal agents and they do not have the same training. Federal AGENTS have to meet higher standards in ever possible way. Could we please try accuracy? It’s important.

🚨 My latest: Former biosecurity officials say Trump's actions are gutting America's defense against pandemics. Axing mRNA vaccines agst bird flu is just the latest step. "No other country will come to our rescue and we will suffer greatly,” one of them told me. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

Ran across this normal seeming pamphlet from the 1940s in the archive today...but because I research the US right, you'll probably be unsurprised by the truly bizarro, proto-MAHA direction it goes. 1/x

Who does power mapping? We really need someone to create a nice visual that includes Russell Vought, Curtis Yarvin, and other names that should be known in households across America as people who should have no power over them

This isn't good: "BLS is reducing sample in areas across the country. In April, BLS suspended CPI data collection entirely in Lincoln, NE, and Provo, UT. In June, BLS suspended collection entirely in Buffalo, NY." #EconSky www.bls.gov/cpi/notices/...

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