Elon Musk says the destruction of USAID by DOGE didn’t cause children to die. With almost 200 children dead from Ebola during the current outbreak, me and my colleagues in Eastern Congo disagree. Here’s how to fight back: www.gofundme.com/f/support-rh... @celinegounder.com @faineg.bsky.social

Donate to Support Rebuild Hope Africa's Fight Against Ebola in Congo, organized by Sonya Stokes

I'm Dr. Sonya Stokes, an emergency physician based in Californ… Sonya Stokes needs your support for Support Rebuild Hope Africa's Fight Against Ebola in Congo

gofundme.com

The Trump administration claims no one died as a result of its slashing of USAID. Our reporters traveled to refugee camps in Africa to find out if that was true. Listen to this conversation from @revealnews.org on “Paper Trail”:

What Happened When Trump Officials Destroyed USAID (From Reveal)

Podcast Episode · Paper Trail · July 23 · 34m

podcasts.apple.com

thewire.in/rights/cockr...

Cockroach Democracy: Unarmed and Dangerous

Can all the people be fooled all the time? Can a country with a population of a billion-and-a-half be dragged around like a corpse forever? It cannot. The Cockroaches are out and about.

thewire.in

Researchers at UCLA and the Barcelona Institute for Global Health projected that the continuing absence of USAID funding will cause 4.5 million child deaths under the age of five by the year 2030 Via The Lancet

LUMUMBA IS BACK 🔥 The DR Congo superfan who stands still all game in homage to the country’s revered first prime minister, Patrice Lumumba, is back in the stands for DR Congo’s match vs. Colombia after missing their 2026 World Cup opener due to health and visa issues 🐆🇨🇩

Vinay Prasad made collages of doctors wearing masks to shame them on social media and blame them for the lack of trust. He did stuff like this constantly all the time.

public health guy@publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 3mo ago

it’s disgusting that UCSF welcomed back vinay prasad with open arms to teach public health after what he did at the FDA

Future historian department: -Front page of today's NYT reports creation of world's first trillionaire. -Lead op-ed of same NYT is about worst-ever Ebola outbreak, which *this VERY SAME trillionaire* enabled, with his "chainsaw" destruction of US public health in the world. The book writes itself

These people were in Lenin’s term: “useful idiots.” They hold tremendous responsibility for amplifying and giving credibility to those who are now destroying American science, public health and medicine. And they’ll never express remorse.

Jonathan Howard@joho.bsky.social · 3mo ago

MAHA doctors had a robust support network in medicine, the media, and academia that legitimized their COVID disinformation and promised they would restore trust at the NIH and FDA. I disagreed. Time for an update. My latest.

open.substack.com/pub/oliverko...

You Know What? Fuck You, John.

You know what?

open.substack.com

In honor of Stephen Colbert’s final show, my cartoon when first hearing his show had been cancelled: open.substack.com/pub/anntelna...

Killing satire

CBS cancels The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, claiming it was "purely a financial decision"

open.substack.com

Katalin Karikó is one of the most extraordinary scientific stories of this era. A girl from a modest Hungarian household helped develop technology that saved millions of lives worldwide. In 2023, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for discoveries that enabled effective mRNA vaccines.

New set out now Friends

Hulk Hogan is America

YouTube video by Josh Johnson

youtu.be

I used to feel a little bad that The Onion is about to surpass WaPo in print subs and stopped promoting the membership as a direct foil until today they came out with “Do POOR BABIES deserve DIAPERS???” so therefore

Join The Onion

Don’t just read the news. Feel it. Be among the first to feel the news.

membership.theonion.com

Capitalists want young marriage and many children solely for a controlled labour force. People who are educated, live comfortably and are free to make choices are unpredictable and less likely to enslave themselves to employers.

You can’t do that to an American

The @nationalacademies.org have lost the plot. As @joshuasweitz.bsky.social explains science is under siege and we are sliding towards a profound degradation of research and discovery capabilities in the US. What is wrong with these people. #VichyScientists, each and every one of them. 1/

Joshua Weitz@joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Announcement for @nationalacademies.org "State of the Science" address on 6/2 declares: "Since McNutt delivered her 2025 address, federal funding for science has held steady, but significant cuts are still being considered." Really? On what planet is funding steady & cuts being *considered*? a 🧵

Maybe it’s a bad time to eliminate epidemiology in the United States.

The cruise ship hantavirus outbreak is a warning sign to the U.S.

Leaving the WHO means the U.S. lacks access to necessary information about infectious disease.

statnews.com

"a massive standoff occurred for the next several hours between police and the impromptu protesters until the early hours of the morning..." www.amny.com/news/ice-age...

ICE at hospital: Masked agents drag man from medical center in Brooklyn, New Yorkers and cops injured in pepper spray chaos

An investigation is underway Sunday after chaos erupted outside a Brooklyn hospital where masked ICE agents brought a man after arresting him.

amny.com

Doctors & researchers close to UCSF are circulating a petition to block Vinay Prasad's return to the university. They cite: -suppression of scientific findings -allegations of abuse -harmful rhetoric attacking public health -conflicts of interest form.jotform.com/260836126659...

At the time of its release, in April '88, Tracy Chapman's debut sounded like nothing else on rock radio. You'd hear Led Zeppelin, Tom Petty, Eagles. And then, Fast Cars. It was a breath a fresh air and reminded me of Joan Armatrading's work. The whole LP has aged well and remains relevant, powerful.

Same energy:

Political appointees wanted a quiet drawdown, the whistleblower says. DOGE wanted an execution.

USAID Whistleblower Says It Was Even Worse Than People Knew

Political appointees wanted a quiet drawdown, the whistleblower says. DOGE wanted an execution.

wrd.cm

"Palantir is not just a problem of profiteering from our national healthcare system— it's a fundamental threat to the democratic control of our public infrastructure + the privacy of every citizen. By giving our taxes to this company, we are aiding their operations everywhere." tinyurl.com/3ejuyv89

We can’t trust Palantir with our NHS data

Is this really the company we should be entrusting with our health service’s digital architecture?

tinyurl.com

Thank you for your courage to publicly address abusive language.

A worker died at an Amazon warehouse in Oregon last week. For more than an hour, workers were instructed to continue working as the man lay dead. One worker wanted to help, but a manager told them to “Just turn around and not look. Let’s get back to work," according to @thewesternedge.bsky.social.

‘Everyone is Replaceable’: Death Rattles Oregon Amazon Facility

A worker died at Amazon’s Troutdale warehouse last week. Employees were told to look away.

thewesternedge.media

What else am I doing to help Gaza? Well, I’m currently doing research and advocacy work around protecting civilians from being murdered by small drones (which is horrifyingly common today). Here’s a map I’ve made of verified drone attacks in Gaza: map.faineg.com/public/index...

Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Yes, I have donated and fundraised for friends from Gaza before in case you’re wondering, but I don’t talk about it much on here because those people are human beings and not advertisements for my own morality. Anyway, please donate to these genuine charities today:

"The Alabama Solution" director Andrew Jarecki explains how inmates used contraband cellphones to bear witness to corruption and abuse in Alabama prisons

"As a woman, to speak first, or even early, in the effort to push against injustice or to expose an ugly truth, is to risk scorn and, almost certainly, to undergo scathing attacks."

Sinead O’Connor Was Right: It’s Time to Revisit Some of Pop Culture’s Most Maligned Women

Sinead O’Connor was right: An excerpt from Allison T. Butler's The Judgment of Gender: How Women Are Centered and Silenced in Pop Culture

msmagazine.com

The Sharper Image really DOES sell everything! A brand NEW episode with Journalist @ari-shapiro.bsky.social and Comedian-Writer @harikondabolu.bsky.social is exclusively available to stream on the CNN app RIGHT NOW.

20 years ago today, Jack Dorsey posted the first tweet. A lot has happened since then, and Twitter isn't really Twitter anymore, literally and figuratively. That's why we created an archive to preserve the funniest, weirdest, and most memorable tweets in the site's tumultuous history.

The greatest tweets of all time

Twitter’s best hits, preserved before it all goes down in flames.

theverge.com