Police officers caught on camera shooting a protester at close range in Nairobi CBD.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/u... All dank memes, no power up

Good riddance. Musk and his Musk-rats probably caused more waste than they cleaned out. Now the job falls to the insidious fossil-fuel-funded creep Russell Vought, their henchman at OMB.

NEW: The Justice Department’s brief at the Supreme Court is undermined by the judicial record and our real time flight-tracking data. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

The only acceptable answer here should have been "absolutely not"

Trump administration says that only they can censor Americans

Got it. Harvard should add a HVAC program

reputable medical journals keep saying that RFK and his pro-disease friends are full of shit and so naturally they must be shunned www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

All successful authors go on Piers Morgan

That actually kind of raises more concerns, in my book.

What happened to ”shut up and play”? Or does that only apply to brown people?

Said it before, I’ll say it again. We shouldn’t privatize NASA. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/s...

www.statnews.com/2025/05/27/r... Or maybe a new policy that they must go on Joe Rogan and share? Is that where this is headed?

A major medical group now recommends pain-blocking treatments for IUD insertion and other procedures amid a growing recognition that women's pain should be treated.

Taxpayers — through federal infrastructure programs — have paid billions of dollars to internet companies to hook up rural Americans. Some communities have nothing to show for it, leaving medically vulnerable rural patients disconnected and without access to telehealth.

"Tapper and Thompson want to be the center of the conversation because it will help them sell books. But with daily assaults on our constitution by the current inhabitant of the White House, the rest of us have, or should have, more important things to focus on."

As temperatures rise, the US Corn Belt could see insurance claims soar. Crop insurance is a lifeline for farmers. But research shows it's not ready for climate change. grist.org/food-and-agr... #Corn #Climate #Insurance #Farms #Farmers #Agriculture

“Gasoline prices have collapsed under President Trump.” - Scott Bessent, “Meet the Press” (05/18/25) 🤡

"I find it paradoxical, having risked my life for the BBC in so many war zones, that its World Service’s funding is apparently at risk of being confiscated, among other sources, to pay for an increase in defence spending.” - Martin Bell www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05... “Gift”

nation.africa/kenya/counti... Journalism is not a crime

Gender-based violence experts predict incidents to surge in Kenya as the United States cuts foreign aid. Frank Burkybile details how the funding drop threatens programs that provide shelter, medical care, legal aid, and education to women and girls.

FRONTLINE has received a new grant from the Knight Foundation aimed at continuing the series' Local Journalism Initiative, a project that has supported more than a dozen local newsrooms around the country since 2019. Local reporters can submit proposals to join the next LJI cohort by June 2, 2025.

The Senate voted Thursday to overturn an EPA rule limiting the seven most hazardous air pollutants emitted by chemical plants, oil refineries and other industrial facilities, reversing one of President Joe Biden’s major environmental regulations.

www.kqed.org/news/1203808... Sad but not shocking

Free and fair elections are under attack. "Political appointees have also instructed career employees to dismiss all of their active cases without meeting with them and offering a rationale – a significant break with the department’s practices and norms." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Experiments show that when bees are exposed to microplastic pollution, their memory gets so muddled they may forget the scents associated with sugary rewards. As a result, pollination may fail — which is bad news for flowers and crops.

Beijing seizes tiny sandbank in South China Sea

www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/f... Trump Administration’s HHS Cuts: Creating Waste And Inefficiency, Not Eliminating Them

Haunted by hopelessness: 12 Zambians share their stories as HIV drugs run out : Goats and Soda www.npr.org/sections/goa...

Trump-appointed prosecutor intimidates medical journals over alleged bias, raising First Amendment fears (𝗚𝗶𝗳𝘁 𝗔𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗹𝗲) www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/h... @teddyrosenbluth.bsky.social 𝗦𝗲𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀: CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁

Top Producer of ‘60 Minutes’ Quits, Saying He Lost Independence www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/b...

WHO To Shrink Its Geneva Headquarters Down To Just Four Programme Divisions - With Health Systems A Key Pillar - Health Policy Watch healthpolicy-watch.news/who-to-shrin...

Malaria is poised for a devastating comeback in Africa’s “worst moment in 25 years” www.bmj.com/content/389/...

President Trump dialed back his trade war—but not on tomatoes. New fees will hit fresh tomatoes imported from Mexico in July unless a new agreement is reached.

If you ask the average person if they are more interested in seeing the JFK assassination files or knowing if their lettuce is going to kill them, killer lettuce is going to win. We need to re-frame the way we think of secrecy and what information should be declassified/disclosed.

"On February 4, we sued the Department of Health and Human Services on behalf of Doctors for America, to reverse the unlawful deleting of critical health information from government websites." www.citizen.org/news...

Funny how you rarely hear the MAHA “experts” talk about a couple of things that would really help reduce chronic diseases: a living wage for all, and equity in access to healthcare.

A delegation of 7 House Republicans went to CECOT—2 posted photos, while others kept quiet. But a photo from the US Embassy in El Salvador blew their cover. I reached out to their offices & got this response from one: "We cannot confirm or comment on the Congressman’s location for security purposes"

DEADLINE ALERT: The Walrus is accepting applications for an Editorial Fellowship for BIPOC journalists until 11:59 p.m. ET tonight. This is a remote, paid 12-month position, with a June 2025 start date. thewalrus.ca/about/careers/

“It’s amazing that others in this room underwrote electing a man who, in the last week, single-handedly destroyed all of American science. It’s amazing how much good science you can destroy with $320 million and RFK Jr, very fast.” — Seth Rogen’s censored remarks presenting the Breakthrough Prize

Even as U.S. government agencies rush to wipe climate change information from their websites, others are racing to reconstruct lost data elsewhere. Case in point is a rescued database on climate risks preserved by @theguardian.com. #SEJournalReportersToolbox www.sej.org/publications...

Speaking now from El Salvador, Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) says he was denied access to Kilmar Abrego Garcia by El Salvador leaders. And was denied a phone call to him Van Hollen: "The Trump Administration is lying about Abrego Garcia"

The gap between wages and housing prices is widening, fuelling the affordability crisis

A chief U.S. District Judge in Washington, D.C. said he would launch proceedings to determine whether to hold the Trump administration in criminal contempt for defying his order not to remove Venezuelan migrants based on the wartime Alien Enemies Act. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...