Less than 14% of those arrested by ICE in Trump's 1st year back in office had violent criminal records, document shows - Camilo Montoya-Galvez www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-arr...

We had devastating cuts to @washingtonpost. Our health team of 14 lost 9 reporters yesterday despite it being listed as part of the Post’s new focus. But I still have my job. Along w/a core team, we are still dedicated to covering public health, holding the powerful to account.

An enjoyable read by Joseph Howlett www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

“Public health officers are being asked to facilitate a man-made humanitarian crisis.” A noteworthy scoop from @amymaxmen.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/public...

Convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein paid for genetic testing in an apparent bid to harness his own genetic material for regenerative medicine, according to newly released emails in the Epstein files. https://cnn.it/4rx9jaG

Great profile

Rio de Janeiro state banned shark meat in 1,200 schools after a @mongabay.com investigation found 10 Brazilian states procured more than 5,400 tons of shark meat since 2004. Environmental and health concerns drove the ban. Impact by @bykarlamendes.bsky.social reporting. bit.ly/3OkgKDP

"Freezing rain isn’t vanishing—but it is shifting in location and timing." - @hannah-richter.bsky.social www.science.org/content/arti...

"Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell, king of congressional earmarks, steers $165 million to his alma maters" 👀 📝: Jeff Mervis www.science.org/content/arti...

If you're hoping their argument is due to innumeracy, guess again ...

More details from CNN, including a link to their indictment www.cnn.com/2026/01/30/p...

Welp ...

Note: Don Lemon isn't alone. "Journalists Don Lemon, Georgia Fort arrested in connection with church protest against ICE" 📝: Samantha Fischer "Nekima Levy Armstrong, a Minneapolis civil rights attorney and racial justice advocate, was also arrested" www.kare11.com/article/news...

Bird flu detected on Pennsylvania egg farm; 1.5 million birds affected. 👀 www.aphis.usda.gov/livestock-po...

This week, the Trump administration finalized a new sweeping rule that broadens the Mexico City Policy. @spsaki.bsky.social explains how the policy represents the most expansive—and potentially disruptive—version of ideological restrictions on foreign aid to date.

“Sorkin-ing”

"No test, no case" ...but also "no case, no case"

SCOOP: Palantir Defends Work With ICE to Staff Following Killing of Alex Pretti WIRED obtained Slack conversations + an updated internal Palantir wiki defending the company's work for ICE to outraged workers. More here: www.wired.com/story/palant...

Bird flu antibodies found in cow in the Netherlands, a first outside of U.S. - Jon Cohen www.science.org/content/arti...

As the United States marks one year since a measles outbreak began in Texas, cases are still climbing. South Carolina reports 212 new cases in the past week, raising its total to 646. Elsewhere, Mexico's outbreak has recorded 7,131 cases and 24 deaths.

That's all! Read my full story below. If I've missed anything or there's anything else that should be on my radar, reach out to me on Signal at mkozlov.01. You can stay anonymous. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

And the winner of best quote reply goes to...

mRNA cancer vaccine shows protection at 5-year follow-up, Moderna and Merck say arstechnica.com/health/2026/...

“He, who has set up an independent lab in south Beijing, recently started talking again about human embryo editing—this time to prevent Alzheimer’s.” 👀 📝: Emily Mullin www.wired.com/story/china-...

Call me when they can lead to more leg room ... www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/t...

Senior CDC official: Loss of measles elimination status in U.S. would be ‘cost of doing business’ 👀 📝: @helenbranswell.bsky.social / STAT

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"New research indicates Americans bear 96% of U.S. tariff costs, with foreign exporters absorbing only 4% by lowering prices." - 📝: Tom Fairless / WSJ www.wsj.com/economy/trad...

New U.S. Childhood Vaccine Schedule Creates Legal Peril www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/the-... @monscience.bsky.social @thinkglobalhealth.org

Come to learn about the legal quandaries surrounding the new U.S. vaccine schedule (courtesy of @doritreiss.bsky.social). Stay for the comparison of vaccine schedules by country population size. www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/the-...

You get a Substack, and you get a Substack ... pressgazette.co.uk/media-audien...

Kudos to Melody for sticking to the hunt and verifying this one!

The turns table ...

“A Trump administration official has confirmed to NPR that sweeping cuts to mental health and addiction programs worth more than $2 billion are being reversed.” - 📝: Brian Mann www.npr.org/2026/01/14/n...

You can either have Medicaid or Greenland. You can't have both. 📝: Gordon Lubold, Courtney Kube, Abigail Williams and Monica Alba www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...

FBI executes search warrant at Washington Post reporter’s home - 📝 Perry Stein and Jeremy Roebuck www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

"She's like, I have great insurance — why don't we get married?" he says. "And I said, 'Well, that's so weird because I'm gay.'" 📝: Selena Simmons-Duffin www.npr.org/2026/01/12/n...

The next viral app should be "do you know if you're alive?" ... www.bbc.com/news/article...

This week’s rhetoric over Greenland makes “more” sense if one considers this 📝: Alexander Ward, Lara Seligman, Dustin Volz www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

This short, two-part conversation about the changes to U.S. vaccine policy is worth your time.

1. #CDC posted new #flu data today. A 🧵 Another pediatric death was reported in the 2024-25 flu season, making it the deadliest flu season for kids since CDC started collecting this data point 20 years ago. 2024-25 has surpassed the 2009 H1N1 pandemic. 9 kids have died from flu so far this year.

No paywall: "The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Monday an unprecedented overhaul of the childhood vaccine schedule that recommends fewer shots to all children." Berkeley Lovelace Jr., Erika Edwards and Mustafa Fattah / NBC News www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Very cool news for a change! HHS recommends home HPV testing for women for the first time. Insurance will be required to pay for self-collected HPV tests and follow-up tests by Jan. 1, 2027. www.cidrap.umn.edu/human-papill...

Eight years ago, the US govt's malaria program took over the fight against the disease in northern Cameroon, one of the worst-affected places in the world, and went at it with all guns blazing. In March, it shut down overnight. I traveled there to see what came next. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/h...

Trump administration suspends 5 wind projects off the East Coast - 📝: Matthew Daly apnews.com/article/trum...

Imagine if just by refusing to comment, you could stop any story from running. You would literally never find out anything unflattering about anybody. It amounts to asking people for their blessing to publish your reporting about them.

🗺️📝: Will Merrow www.cfr.org/article/mapp...

📝: Greg Ip

“exports have been curtailed to major trading partners; Canada has been boycotting American spirits since March in retaliation for President Trump’s ongoing trade war and U.S. whiskey sales to that country are down by more than 60% through October.” 📝: Janet Patton and Karla Ward

CDC awards $1.6 million for hepatitis B vaccine study, likely to controversial Danish researchers @LizSzabo The agency is paying the University of Southern Denmark to conduct a single-blind clinical trial of hepatitis B in Guinea-Bissau www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...