#Cyclospora “The outbreak (cyclospora) comes as state and local health departments — which rely on C.D.C. funding to respond to food-borne illness outbreaks — face budget cuts and staff layoffs.” NYT

#Culture “So curious that such a wealthy man never posts anything that indicates that he enjoys or is even aware of what virtually everyone appreciates – scenes from nature, pet dog or cat, praise for a movie, music, a book (but doubt that he reads)..” Joyce Carol Oates on Elon Musk The Guardian

#Obama “And a belief, he (Obama) continued, that qualities of character, honesty, integrity, kindness, compassion, a sense of duty and honor, those things matter in our public dealings, just as they do in our private lives.” These values, Obama concluded, are “our greatest inheritance.”

What kind of peace do I mean? What kind of peace do we seek? Not a Pax Americana enforced on the world by American weapons of war.” ..We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s future. And we are all mortal.” JFK, June 10 1963 commencement address at American University.

#Democracy www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

#Science An observation about 2026 is that many breakthroughs are being made from combinations of fields rather than isolated discoveries — especially AI + biology, AI + physics, and quantum computing + chemistry.

#HIV “AIDS Creeps Back in Parts of Zambia, a Year After U.S. Cuts to H.I.V. Assistance A once-robust H.I.V. treatment and prevention system, credited with saving hundreds of thousands of lives, has begun to crumble. Saulo Kasekela died of AIDS on March 7, in a small town called Mpongwe..” NYT

#Vaccines A Stanford research team reported a vaccine approach that protected animals from multiple respiratory viruses, bacteria, and allergens. It works by stimulating a broad immune response in mucosal tissues. It is sometimes described as a step toward a “universal respiratory vaccine.”

#Knitting Known as “Melt the ICE” caps, the pattern for the knitted hat — selling at $5 — has been ordered more than 85,000 times since being offered online in mid-January, according to the Minneapolis-area shop behind its creation. NYTimes

#USA “Masked thugs, sneering elites and terrified citizens: a picture of the US today. We used to have a name for this.” Marina Hyde The Guardian

#ICE The administration is urging Americans to reject the evidence of their eyes and ears. Ms. Noem and Mr. Bovino are lying in defiance of obvious truths. They are lying in the manner of authoritarian regimes that require people to accept lies as a demonstration of power. NY Times

#Trump Trump seems to have never learned about our revolutionary war with England. Taxation without representation. He is glad to take the Venezuela oil and be a distant King. Although not mentioned by the media he markedly risks increasing terrorist attacks in our own country.

#Trump “Every time people or corporations or countries that are richer and more powerful attack and exploit .. the fabric of civilization frays. If such aggression is not contained, the fabric unravels, the world can descend into chaos and war. It has happened before.” Robert Reich The Guardian

#Trump “An anti-Trump political group organized a letter signed by more than 200 mental health professionals, warning that Donald Trump is dangerous because of “his symptoms of severe, untreatable personality disorder – malignant narcissism”, which makes him “grossly unfit for leadership”. Guardian

#Diabetes “People with prediabetes who get their blood sugar under control may cut their risk of death from heart disease or heart failure by half, according to new research.“ NY Times — Early treatment should have major effect on the reduction of cardiovascular diseases!

#Vaccines “[Prasad] says he has evidence that this vaccine (Covid) killed 10 children, but that’s not the way it works,” Offit said. “.. you should back it up with extraordinary evidence. He should have submitted it to an excellent journal .. reviewed by subject matter experts.” The Guardian

#University Northwestern’s deal with the Trump administration, while being a response to extortion, is, for Northwestern, ethically compromised and especially so for the medical school. Interfering with scientific medical research on transgender patients, which follows the law, is not acceptable.

#Vaccines “A study published last year in the medical journal The Lancet estimated that since 1974 when the WHO launched its global vaccination program vaccines had averted ..146 million children deaths worldwide, iThe C.D.C. has cited vaccines as one of the 10 great public health achievements..”NYT

#Hunger “ U.N. Sounds Alarm On Catastrophic Hunger Crisis Following Trump Aid Cuts. Some 318 million people are expected to face crisis levels of hunger or worse next year, more than double the number in 2019.” H. Post

#Comey “In his ruling, he pointed out that she told grand jurors that they did not have to rely solely “on the record before them” to return an indictment against Mr. Comey, but instead “could be assured the government had more evidence perhaps better evidence that would be presented at trial.” NYT

#Immigration ”.. two human rights groups had found that “more than 252 Venezuelans expelled to El Salvador under Donald Trump’s mass deportation policy suffered systematic and prolonged torture and abuse, including sexual assault,” ..at the notorious El Salvadoran prison named CECOT.” Guardian &NYT

#SNAP “They would rather go door to door, taking away people’s food, than do the right thing and fully fund SNAP for November so that struggling veterans, seniors, and children can keep food on the table,” she said. Rep.Angie Craig Minnesota NY Times

#University “Students, faculty and staff at more than 100 campuses across the US rallied against the Trump administration’s assault on higher education on Friday – the first in a planned series of nationwide, coordinated protests ….” The Guardian

#Trump “America has always faced hunger, yet its leaders have long shown some responsibility to help poor people meet their most basic nutritional needs. That even this small measure of decency is seemingly a thing of the past signals the dawn of an unprecedented era of cruelty” Heuvel The Guardian

#SCOTUS “Sixty-five judges responded to a Times questionnaire sent to hundreds of federal judges across the country. Of those, 47 said the Supreme Court had been mishandling its emergency docket since Mr. Trump returned to office.” NYT

#Military “Would any military leader of any experience believe for even five seconds that one of the best ways to prepare troops to deter or (God forbid) fight our nuclear-armed foes is by walking through cities, picking up trash and occasionally confronting left-wing protesters?” David French NYT

#Democrats www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...

#dictator Bill Maher issued a stern warning to Republicans with an explicit metaphor on Friday. “You’re way past flirting with authoritarianism,” the “Real Time” host said. “Flirting? Let’s be real. You’re f*in it.”

#Tylenol “There’s no credible scientific link that Tylenol causes autism,” said Dr. Nathaniel DeNicola, who advises the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists on environmental issues.The studies .. are “too deeply and fundamentally flawed to draw reliable conclusions.” NY Times

ABC Pulls Kimmel over nothing comment about MAGA using the death of Kirk. It's time to Boycott ABC. variety.com/2025/tv/news...

#USAID Lancet study developed forecasting models that predicted the Trump administration’s steep funding cuts to USAID “could result in more than 14.05 million additional all-age deaths, including 4.54 million in children younger than age 5 years, by 2030.” Thomas B. Edsall - Think about that!

#ICE The freedom “from arbitrary interference by law officers,” she wrote, is a constitutional guarantee. Yet, under Trump, it may no longer exist “for those who happen to look a certain way, speak a certain way, and appear to work a certain type of legitimate job that pays very little.” Sotomayor

#Florida “Right now, Florida mandates that students have to be vaxxed against polio, diphtheria, measles, rubella, pertussis, mumps and tetanus — also known as diseases that should only come up in ‘Oregon Trail,’” Stephen Colbert said on Thursday..common message is ‘You have died of Florida.’” —

#Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/u...

#Quantum quantumzeitgeist.com/entanglement...

#RFKjr Mr. Kennedy said he did not know how many Americans had died of Covid and whether the vaccines prevented Covid-related deaths. “The problem is they didn’t have the data,” he said, senator‘s reply: “You are sitting as secretary of health and human services. How can you be that ignorant?” FIRE

#Voting A baseball analogy to Trumps voting plan. His team all bats from the right so he moves the right field fence in and at the same time he blocks any left handed pitchers of the opposing team from getting into the ballpark. How un-American can one get! A lot worse I suspect!

#Science “Analysts say authoritarians and their students fear science in part because its feats — unlocking the universe, ending plagues, saving millions of lives — can form bonds of public trust that rival or exceed their own.“ ..He hails the wizards of tech but undermines basic research”NYTimes

#Vaccines “Between school shooters and R.F.K. Jr., children in America are vulnerable in ways they don’t have to be. Officials are endangering children instead of shielding them.” Maureen Dowd -Vax Quack Lacks Facts - NYTimes

#racism www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

#CDC “ I am unable to serve in an environment that treats CDC as a tool to generate policies and materials that do not reflect scientific reality and are designed to hurt rather than to improve the public’s health.” Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, who ran the center that issues vaccine recommendations.

#ICE “And then it flickers. My eyes refocus. And I see the evisceration of due process. I see detention centers being built where it is extraordinarily hard for lawyers and families to reach the people inside. I see men in masks refusing to identify themselves and put people into vans.” Ezra Klein

#Crime www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

#ICE #Ábrego, then, must be guilty because the Trump administration arrested him, and because they can do no wrong. He must be guilty because he is a migrant,and innocence and immigration are mutually exclusive..he has become a symbol of all the immigrants they plan to deport” Moira Donegan Guardian

#Trump “Abe Lincoln, whose top hat and rifles are in the Smithsonian, urged Americans to move past the Civil War “with malice toward none, with charity for all.” Trump has malice for all, charity toward none.“ Dowd NYT Douglas Brinkley quote

#Dictatorship Anti-MAGA coalition needs to come up with a Project 2026 which includes Restoration of Medicaid and SNAP for millions. Assault weapons ban to actually reduce violent crime and mass killings. Restoration of science research which is essential for a healthy and safe society, etc.

#Crime www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/o...

#Vaccines www.statnews.com/2025/08/19/p...