Vaccines for the few but Salmonella for all. www.cidrap.umn.edu/foodborne-di...

You can't have vaccines or cancer research but RFK definitely wants you in a wearable that can transfer your health data to unsecure databases or have it shared with third parties, as Charlie McGill writes. prospect.org/health/2025-...

The Social Security chief data security officer says we may all need new SS numbers. Who could possibly have seen this coming?? Now I want to know who is going to jail. MSNBC: Whistleblower accuses DOGE team of endangering critical Social Security data whistleblower.org/in-the-news/...

I'm can't believe people are talking about Newsom as some sort of political savior. He's been completely owned by his handful of elite donors forever. That's how he'll govern. He's just more of the same. www.latimes.com/projects/la-...

Media is suddenly silent after years of reporting as though sexual assault is only a Muslim phenomenon. Where is the outrage??

USA: For the first time in 30 years, the American Academy of Pediatrics issued vaccine guidance that differs from U.S. government advice. "The AAP is “strongly recommending” COVID-19 shots for children 6 months–2 years, while shots for older kids are advised but left to parents."

The Trump administration’s detention system is undergoing rapid expansion, with plans to more than double capacity to over 107,000 beds nationwide. Read the full story: www.wired.com/story/senate...

Does anyone else dislike the taste of chicken now? It started about six months ago for me. I assume it's because of bird flu? I've never had COVID, so it's not a change in my taste or smell since everything else tastes the same as always.

BREAKING: Scientists Develop Sugar-Coated Nanoparticle That Blocks COVID-19 Virus From Binding to Human Cells Reduces Infection by ~99% in Lab Experiments

Not to worry. The Democrats are probably working on another strongly worded letter right now.

We're way past this. Just 'Trump is bad' and Ds standing for nothing but vibes? It's insulting. The message from anyone viable is we have two right wing parties, both representing business and the rich. No one represents you. It's not red vs blue. It's workers against the oligarchs.

More women have nearly bled to death during miscarriage under Texas’ abortion ban. Experts say the trend paints a troubling picture of the harms of unnecessary delays in care. “This is striking,” one doctor said. “The trend is very clear.”

PFAS are everywhere and stubbornly stick around, but this research points to a practical, low-cost way to nudge them out: take gel-forming soluble fiber like psyllium or beta-glucan with meals to trap PFAS in the gut and send them out of the body www.earth.com/news/common-...

He said before he was killed: “All of this is happening because my coverage of the crimes of the Israeli occupation in the Gaza Strip harms them and damages their image in the world. They accuse me of being a terrorist because the occupation wants to assassinate me morally.” cpj.org/2025/08/isra...

This one kind of broke me. I have followed him for years. Anas Al-Sharif was a compassionate and courageous young man and a talented journalist.

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

Stopping the mRNA vaccines and "shifting that funding toward safer, broader vaccine platforms that remain effective even as viruses mutate". Really? The Army vaccine for all variants disappeared in 2021. Probably because it would have been free. What others exist? mrdc.health.mil/index.cfm/me...

kennedy is going to kill a lot of people

The SEC's latest crypto giveaway is to bless the same type of rehypothecation that cratered Lehman Brothers - only in crypto it's worse because you can do it without any SEC or Fed oversight. So what's going on? (thread) www.sec.gov/newsroom/spe...

The question is not how 27 Senate Democrats defied AIPAC and voted against new offensive weapons sales to Israel, writes Harold Meyerson. The question is how the other 17 could possibly vote for them. prospect.org/blogs-and-ne...

I need work, quickly. If you know of someone hiring in Portland or remotely, please let me know. I'm an experienced content marketer with recent graduate certificates in sustainability and energy policy & management. Temp & project work welcome. [Please, no lumberjack work; the axe was for show.]

NEW: Bob Geldof lets rip over Gaza genocide. PRESENTER: "Isn’t it a bit unfair to say this is the Israelis as a whole?" GELDOF: "Stop it Trevor. If Israelis want to protest, get in your cars. Stuff your cars full of food & drive through that border. Let your own army stop you. Shame on you.”

We are at a breaking point. If you have any proximity to power or influence or information — anywhere — and have anything you’d like to share regarding the war on Gaza, please reach out Signal: premthakker.35 prem@zeteonews . com Your anonymity will be protected

If I were someone whose project is reviving the factional strength and electoral viability of centrist Dems, and if I was someone always banging on about meeting public opinion where it is, I think I would be counseling the centrist faction to actually be responsive to public opinion on Gaza.

“'All man-made, in total impunity. Food is available only a few kilometres away,' he wrote, adding that UNRWA has enough supplies at the border to feed Gaza for three months. But Israel has been blocking aid since March 2."

I've run out of ways to call these people despicable for their corruption, on both sides. This one is beyond blatant. Anyone who voted for it needs to be primaried.

I got a call from my bank once. It was the bank's number on my phone. I told them I'd call them back. I hung up, went to their website, got the 800 number, called, and asked for the department that claimed they'd called. Turned out it was legit, and they had called me, but better safe than sorry.

By the way if you want the backstory on this bill I wrote about it in March: prospect.org/power/2025-0...

It really tells you everything you need to know about the Democratic Party that they can't go after Trump for the most blatant corruption scandal in the history of the presidency because some of them are in bed with the same corruption coin guys.

Because he's a con artist. He's not some innovator/tech genius. He was coached by a DOD insider on how to privatize NASA and DOD tech w/ gov $, which is how he created SpaceX and Tesla. He's just a scammer, so when he was put in charge he screwed it all up except for scamming; now he's richer.

In related news: (saved to my phone on 7/30/2021) 1/

This May 22 dinner is a high crime and misdemeanor. A president of the United States can’t use the office to enrich himself in this way, from potentially anonymous donors for whom he might do favors. This is as textbook as corruption gets.

This is unusual trading by a politician. Marjorie Taylor Greene bought Palantir, $PLTR, on April 8th. On April 17th, Palantir, $PLTR, was awarded a government contract with ICE to develop ImmigrationOs. She sits on the Committee of Homeland Security Palantir is up nearly 50% since.

No masking policies are straight up discrimination against vulnerable people.

Excuseflation 2 Coming to a theater near you (and a grocery store, and...)

We may not have COVID or seasonal influenza vaccine for this fall, fat chance of one for a disease with a 50-60% mortality rate that is becoming a bigger and bigger threat. www.salon.com/2025/04/30/b...

This is the whole point of the decades long project of making people dislike government, distrust it, and expect no help from it; so companies can do whatever they want.

"Despite the termination, the 2 companies plan to forge ahead without HHS grants." Good for them. If a nasal vax came out I would definitely get it.

If you're pro life and you're OK with what this administration is doing then you have some serious cognitive dissonance going on.

🚨🚨🚨 AND SO IT BEGINS: Aetna/CVS pulling out of #ACA exchanges next year as GOP allows IRA subsidies to expire: h/t @brucejapsen.bsky.social acasignups.net/25/05/01/and...

Some days I think about all the "centrists" who spend their time punching down on the electorate instead of pushing those in power to change, and how they utterly refuse to reassess.

Resisting.

SCOOP: A young man with no government experience who hasn’t even finished his undergrad degree is working for Elon Musk’s DOGE at the Department of Housing and Urban Development and has been tasked with using AI to rewrite the agency’s rules and regulations.

It's called taxation without representation if your Congresspeople are just ignoring you and doing whatever the the hell they want.

The ongoing conflation of "small-d democracy" with "voting for the Democratic Party" is a big problem.

If you want to put pressure on your representatives with some economic talking points this was a great listen. Fadhel makes an excellent case for how and why to democratize government spending so it works for all us, keeps us competitive, and reduces the power of the 1%.

COVID is destroying healthcare systems around the world. The only reason this isn't the top item in every public health announcement is that the people who should be telling us about it are the people responsible for letting it happen. We've been sold out.

So you’re saying we could solve all the financial problems of 379 million of us and impact just 19 households. What an interesting fact. Fun little bit of trivia.