A severe bout of COVID-19 can wake up an army of dormant viruses hiding inside the body, like Epstein-Barr virus. This reactivation is linked to especially intense bouts of COVID-19 and to the development of long COVID. Published today in @nature.com:

COVID can wake up a slew of dormant viruses inside you

Reactivation of typically harmless anelloviruses, in particular, seems to be linked with developing long COVID, study finds.

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">900 people in Washtenaw County, MI, have been sickened with cyclosporiasis since mid-June. Linda Kim, a public health nurse, has called >100 of them. Almost everyone has said the same thing: It’s excruciating, and one of the worst illnesses they’ve experienced." kffhealthnews.org/public-healt...

Nurses Chase Cyclospora, Aided by Interviews, Fast-Food Receipts — And the Messy Details - KFF Health News

Yes, they’ve heard all the poop jokes. Public health staffers are painstakingly tracing the sources of this massive outbreak, combing through fast-food orders and lettuce purchases as they listen to p...

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Okay I'm ready to talk about the Odyssey. My TL;DR: I thought it was fine, but I think it suffered from the need to have a neat ending. Spoilers ahead... 1/

1.5 million of those were children www.cbpp.org/blog/number-... There is no job data showing 5 million people, or anywhere close, found new jobs because work requirements don't work and many of these people were already working. www.cbpp.org/blog/work-re...

Number of Children Receiving SNAP Continues to Drop Under Harmful 2025 Republican Reconciliation Law

In the 19 states with publicly available data or that have shared unpublished data, the harmful Republican reconciliation law has taken SNAP food assistance away from more than 1 million children...

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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 22h ago

Rollins: "For those who love work and celebrate work and want people to work and not be on food stamps, it's a pretty big win when we've moved 5 million people off food stamps, y'all."

Kansas voters rejected a ballot measure that would have made members of the state’s Supreme Court electable by popular vote — a seemingly technical issue that had become a proxy battle for the future of abortion rights in the state, Decision Desk HQ projects. https://bit.ly/4c3fG0d

Kansas voters reject another attempt to reshape the state’s abortion landscape

Reproductive rights supporters framed the ballot measure to elect state justices as an attempt to weaken abortion rights.

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I checked with a gastroenterologist because that's just how I am and this man appears to be EXTREMELY constipated and, in those conditions, pooping can actually lead to orgasm in men

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 19h ago

Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.

When Trump said he would take our tacos, I didn't think he'd mean like this

Physicians for a Healthy Democracy@physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 19h ago

www.cbsnews.com/news/chipotl...

The best metric I have for how widely read an article is: the quantity and quality of emails I receive about it

If you have a "public health agency" that you only fund to test for bacteria & viruses but not parasites, you don't have a public health agency! 🥲 Now we all know!!

this is really good

Lauren Theisen@laurentheisen.bsky.social · yesterday

on Sophie Cunningham and a trans controversy that doesn't involve any actual trans people: defector.com/the-right-ha...

RFK Jr.’s recent comments risk rewriting what happened during COVID. We should examine public health’s failures, but accountability is not misinformation.

"On May 1, Smith was arrested at the hospital. Less than a week later, his son was taken off life support and died." He wasn't even able to say goodbye.

The Appeal@theappeal.org · yesterday

Danyel Smith has spent more than 20 years in prison for a crime that likely never occurred. Last month, a Georgia judge ordered a new trial in his case, ruling that the evidence used to convict him of shaking his son to death lacked a scientific basis. theappeal.org/danyel-smith...

The U.S. State Department, under both Democrats and the GOP, contributed to the awful crisis in #Haiti. So we have a strong additional moral obligation to stop deporting #Haitians to where they may be murdered. My report @newrepublic.com. @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2138...

How Washington Failed the Haitians It Promised to Protect

Years of misrule and misdeeds conspired to break the island nation and serve up its endangered refugees to the despicable predations of the Trump administration.

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Spoilers for the Odyssey... "...Sinon was not a great deceiver, but a kid who was used by powerful forces to execute a plan that intentionally kept him in the dark. If there’s a villain here, it’s Odysseus, who uses Sinon as bait and sacrifices him to win a war." www.pivot-club.com/p/actually-n...

Actually, Nolan IS kind of making a point about trans people

And I have the (ancient) receipts

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has anyone unpacked christopher nolan casting a trans person to be the distraction sacrifice for a trojan horse to enter, and then destroy, civilization

There's a tweet comparing Springfield, Va., to Staten Island and I've never felt more compelled to defend a town I lived in

I HAVE BEEN SUBSIDIZING WALMART AND AMAZON STARVING THEIR EMPLOYEES FOR MY ENTIRE LIFE.

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

If I lost caregiving, I wouldn't be able to eat enough to survive.

Melody Schreiber@melodyschreiber.com · 2d ago

“Without this, people become homeless. They lose their income. They lose their stability. Whatever tiny safety net they had is gone,” @shannonrosa.bsky.social said. “It’s just cruel.” My latest: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

What do Bobby Kennedy Jr., his son Bobby Kennedy III, and Rand Paul have in common? They each wrote a book criticizing Tony Fauci, and they share the same publisher, Skyhorse, founded by a close RFK Jr. adviser who also runs the MAHA PAC. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u...

Spotlight on Fauci Said to Boost Book Sales for Kennedy and His Publisher (Gift Article)

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., his son, and Senator Rand Paul have all written books criticizing Dr. Anthony S. Fauci. All were published by a company led by a close Kennedy adviser.

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The kids are out here getting looks mogged when they could be getting books mogged, is what I’m saying

I don't even know what to say. This is real, this is true, so, like, thank you all, from the bottom of my heart. This took over 25 years to happen so if there's any lesson here it's either "keep at it, who knows" or "many people are divorced"

RFK Jr is fighting against inclusion for disabled people at home with their families or caregivers, and against his own family’s disability rights legacy. Institutionalization costs more and is cruel. www.msn.com/en-us/health...

Melody Schreiber@melodyschreiber.com · 2d ago

“Without this, people become homeless. They lose their income. They lose their stability. Whatever tiny safety net they had is gone,” @shannonrosa.bsky.social said. “It’s just cruel.” My latest: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I’ve been writing a counter narrative of shutdowns that has me revisiting media from that time. And let me tell you, the only other option was everybody die. So yeah.

Peter@notalawyer.bsky.social · 3d ago

it’s pretty obvious that a lot of people remember that COVID lockdowns were unpleasant and from there just extrapolate that they were therefore bad policy

unacceptable, especially after everything that's happened wrt taylor farms and corruption

Melody Schreiber@melodyschreiber.com · 2d ago

The FDA cyclospora page hasn't been updated in more than a week www.fda.gov/food/outbrea...

This is jaw-dropping from the administration that ordered mandatory hantavirus quarantine against CDC's advice and blocked Americans from returning home because of the Ebola outbreak

Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 2d ago

Let’s unpack this post by NIH and CDC Director and self-made victim Jay Bhattacharya. 1. This was not misreporting. This is what RFK Jr. said in his interview. 2. Free speech was not “suspended”. If it had been no one would know who Bhattacharya is.

The FDA cyclospora page hasn't been updated in more than a week www.fda.gov/food/outbrea...

Investigation of 9-State Outbreak of Cyclospora Illnesses

Do not eat recalled iceberg lettuce from Taylor Farms de Mexico. FDA’s investigation is ongoing.

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I think I might mute the phrase "I was going to respond but they turned off replies." People can do whatever brings them bliss on Beyonce's Internet (as long as they're not hurting others etc etc) and judging them for it is so petty and a waste of our one wild and precious life

The majority of benefit fraud is perpetrated by the payers, not the recipients of the benefits. This is intentional cruelty and abuse against people without power and influence who already are vulnerable.

Melody Schreiber@melodyschreiber.com · 2d ago

“Without this, people become homeless. They lose their income. They lose their stability. Whatever tiny safety net they had is gone,” @shannonrosa.bsky.social said. “It’s just cruel.” My latest: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

To quote @kaybowzie.bsky.social, "My head hurts and I'm mad at the government." Thank you, Melody, for listening to and amplifying the very real fears of our community members who need these disability benefits to keep our loved ones and selves above water. Focus on us, not overblown fraud claims.

Melody Schreiber@melodyschreiber.com · 2d ago

“Without this, people become homeless. They lose their income. They lose their stability. Whatever tiny safety net they had is gone,” @shannonrosa.bsky.social said. “It’s just cruel.” My latest: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...