I could be wrong, but @theatlantic.com seems to have hidden my reply with this article. So here it is again.

If The Atlantic Wishes to Honestly Understand the Origins of MAHA, They Need to Investigate The Atlantic.

The Atlantic has some of the best writers around. But they were also eager to launder right-wing talking points under the guise of a being liberal, reasonable, and moderate publication, able to see a

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The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · 2w ago

A lot of people in public health believe that MAHA is “nothing more than a subversive anti-vaccine, anti-science syndicate,” but the movement is an opportunity that the public-health sector “cannot afford to squander,” Craig Spencer argues:

there is a cohort of men who resent the responsibilities and obligations of adulthood — of the fact that you owe things to other people. it is a fundamentally childish impulse that they have reconfigured as the height of masculinity, and i think it informs the parasocial attraction to platner.

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 4w ago

what a fucking asshole

There are two possibilities here. Taylor Farms paid a shit ton of money to get the FDA to say this. Or DOGE decimated the FDA so significantly that they managed to fuck up a basic sample test. Neither one is great!

Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · 2w ago

The FDA now says that Taylor Farms finding is a false positive. What a mess.

🚨 BREAKING 🚨 North Carolina legislature passes most comprehensive parking mandate reforms in the country! Water conservation groups and proponents of small businesses and main streets come together for a bipartisan success story!

Parking Reform Network@parkingreform.org · last mo.

North Carolina State Senate just passed (44-1) H.162 the PARKING LOT REFORM/STORMWATER CONTROL bill! Costly parking mandates will be prohibited in more than 90% of the entire state starting 1/1/27 (pending an expected concurrence vote). Congratulations to everyone who put in time on this!!

www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/cidr... “It took 40 years of school vax mandates, free shots for children whose families couldn’t afford them, and leaders willing to say plainly that the vaccines are safe and that people should get them. The country managed it once, which means the status is reclaimable”

CIDRAP Op-Ed: Call it what it is—the US has lost its hold on measles elimination

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Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

This is so chilling Doctors should not be *collaborating* with the authoritarian MAGA/MAHA Administration “Several of the researchers said they believed they were removed partly because the association feared repercussions from the Trump administration” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/w...

Happy Tuesday! Who's ready to hear about 1. Flesh-eating maggots (mostly go after cattle) 2. They're native to the US 3. The USDA has kept them out of the US since the 1960s 4. But the flesh-eating maggots are making a 21st century comeback. And believe it or not it may be thanks to MAGA.

Yeah, there we go. I'm a little obsessed with tracking ignored warnings from scientists as they are vindicated.

Good plan! Uh, quick question - why is CDC short on staff, anyway?

Reuters@reuters.com · 2mo ago

US CDC seeks staff for Ebola screening as outbreak response expands reut.rs/3RxgL9g

"NJ Governor Sherrill says she’s been denied entry into Delaney Hall ICE detention facility in Newark... Roughly 300 detainees had gone on a hunger strike to protest conditions they describe as inhumane." DHS denies the strike is happening. 🎥 from @nj.com: www.instagram.com/reel/DYxIJaO...

@ylepidemiologist.bsky.social ‘s article today on the costs of individualism and neglect of the poor is worth your time. open.substack.com/pub/yourloca...

Ebola: The disease of compassion, and the price of when “we” became “me”

The outbreak in Central Africa continues to spread.

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“The C.D.C.’s emerging disease center has lost about 700 staff members and contractors, including the head of the Division of High-Consequence Pathogens, which covers hantavirus and Ebola. The C.D.C.’s Global Health Center has lost hundreds more employees” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/h...

Efforts to Contain Ebola May Have Been Hindered by Lack of U.S. Involvement

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"When you pull billions out of the WHO and dismantle front line USAID programs, you gut the exact surveillance system meant to catch these viruses early"

American Doctor Has Ebola

Seven Americans have been exposed in the large outbreak, the CDC says

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Watching a series of former Confederate states rush to eliminate any vestige of black representation in the House pretty much answers the question whether the Voting Rights Act was still necessary.

yeah man, we’re all just dummies who don’t understand that you’re just judicial monks operating in a sphere of pure law [puts finger to ear] what’s this, clarence thomas gave another speech blaming progressives for hitler?

Chief Justice John Roberts says American public wrongly views the justices as ‘political actors’

In remarks at a judicial conference, Roberts bemoaned what he characterized as the American public’s misconceptions about the Supreme Court.

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Denmark's coal-to-wind transition is one of the most dramatic energy transformations of the past three decades. In 1990, coal provided 90% of Danish electricity. Today it is under 3%. Wind now covers roughly 60% of electricity generation. The last coal plant is scheduled to close by 2028.

Grid scale batteries are the future. Not having to constantly worry about generating *just* enough electricity to handle grid scale fluctuations *and* being able to store renewable energy for later, an absolutely killer smart grid combination.

Governor Newsom Press Office@govpressoffice.gov.ca.gov · 4mo ago

🔋Grid-scale batteries are replacing gas plants in CA’s evening energy peak! On 3/29, CAISO batteries delivered 12.3 GW (43% of demand) during peak hours, sustaining over 20% of the grid for hours during the evening ramp CA’s battery capacity has surged from 1.3 GW in 2020 to ~17 GW todsy

Too young for the MMR shot, babies become ‘sitting ducks’ in measles outbreaks

Too young for the MMR shot, babies become 'sitting ducks' in measles outbreaks

Babies too young to be vaccinated are among the most vulnerable in measles outbreaks like the one in South Carolina, which is the largest the U.S. has seen in decades.

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This is appalling: “Case counts [of measles] in 2026 are more than double what they were the same period of 2025 and more than ten times what they were in 2024.” 4/1/26 … 1/ www.nbcnews.com/data-graphic...

"But widespread layoffs, hiring freezes and resignations have shrunk the number of qualified scientists who can assist state labs...By July, the rabies team will be down to just one person with the clinical expertise to advise state and local officials, and the pox virus team will have none." Gift.

C.D.C. Pauses Testing for Rabies and Pox Viruses

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This is incredibly important. The Trump Administration's pullback from treating and preventing HIV at home and abroad is a travesty. So much needless suffering and death will result.

Vox@vox.com · 4mo ago

We have the tools to end the virus. The question is whether we'll abandon them. www.vox.com/future-perfe...

REMINDER: Yesterday, 49 Senate Republicans voted AGAINST funding TSA.  They are REFUSING to pay TSA agents unless they get to shovel more money at ICE with no reforms.

"Junk science and fringe beliefs are elevated without justifiable explanation. Under Kennedy's leadership, politicisation [..] is imperilling the future of US science and innovation and throttling the public health enterprise that keeps the country safe today." www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Robert F Kennedy Jr: 1 year of failure

In his first speech as Secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Robert F Kennedy Jr laid out a plan to restore trust. The COVID-19 pandemic saw public faith in Federal health...

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US health officials are trying to delay a regional World Health Organization meeting that would confirm the loss of its measles elimination status until after the midterm elections in November. This is a reckless, accountability-dodging move that puts politics over public health.

On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast. The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me. But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.

In terms of what cures are being lost: - Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis - herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis - shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease

the rollout of the mRNA vaccines was one of the greatest public health triumphs in history and the end result has been the all-around triumph of the antivax movement and I will never get over it

rahaeli@rahaeli.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I genuinely cannot believe the degree to which we are pissing away this generational breakthrough, even given the fuckmuppets who are involved www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

*Green card application in process and work permit, married to US citizen *Lived in US for 20 years, no criminal record *In detention for five months with no charge, despite judge approving release *He disputes ICE claim that he signed forms agreeing to deportation

Karlin Lillington@klillington.bsky.social · 6mo ago

And here is my story: ‘Absolute hell’: Irishman with valid US work permit held by Ice since September www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...