Pro-democracy. Covering disasters, public health, and extremism. Tracking how politics, misinformation, and attacks on science dismantle preparedness.

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"They ultimately believe that fewer communities, and fewer survivors, should receive less help during and after disasters." One recommended change alone could "directly lead to increased disaster deaths." disaster-ology.com/blog/fema…
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"These actions are straining a home care industry already at its breaking point...while health care fraud certainly exists, tightening restrictions on care and providers could have unintended consequences and force more disabled people into institutions and nursing homes..."
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The only Americans who could even see this mess had to be paid subscribers to Paramount . Then one of his fighters called Michelle Obama a man after he puked on himself earlier at the event. How did this bring unity to anything?
Dana White: Hopefully, we created some unity in the country and in the world and brought in some new fans. I hope that's what we walk away with tonight.
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“You’re talking about six to 12 months to be able to find some sort of equilibrium...This assumes everything comes back onstream quickly, which is challenging because some of the infrastructure has been damaged.” nytimes.com/2026/06/15/busin…
Hormuz reopened? Everyone cheered. Here's why I'm not celebrating yet. Those 300 ships finally free to move? They represent just 2 days of pre-war traffic and there are another 500 still waiting to dock and load. The world spent months running on fumes. We got lucky the crisis hit when supply was high and reserves were growing. Oil reserves are heading toward their lowest level in half a century. And Iran just learned it can bring the global economy to its knees by closing one strait. That knowledge doesn't disappear when a deal is signed. The question isn't whether Hormuz is going to open today. It's whether it stays open tomorrow and whether the attacks on ships actually stop. Traffic went from 150 transits a day to near zero overnight. Getting back to normal takes months. The damage is already done.
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120 civil rights orgs warned World Cup fans of detention risks under rising authoritarianism. A Somali referee was sent home and African fans face $15k bonds. Russia and Qatar got boycotts over human rights. Trump's America got a shrug. ms.now/opinion/world-cup-202…
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The resurgence of measles, whooping cough, rotavirus, bacterial meningitis, and severe pneumonia is an abject failure of health policy. We are relearning the lessons we have already paid the price for.
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How do you persuade people they need to take #Ebola seriously when more in their midst are dying from other diseases & armed conflict? That is the challenge #WHO DG Tedros confronted when he visited the outbreak zone in DRC this week. “Ebola is a lesser evil." statnews.com/2026/06/13/who-…
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A politically motivated council with limited emergency management expertise, stacked with Republican governors, produced exactly the report you'd expect. Excellent analysis from @SamLMontano
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A politically motivated council with limited emergency management expertise, stacked with Republican governors, produced exactly the report you'd expect. Excellent analysis from @SamLMontano
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Elon is trending for becoming a trillionaire but he should be trending for DOGE dismantling USAID prior to a historic Ebola outbreak. A whistleblower revealed unqualified DOGE bros called Ebola a scam and shredded an agency they didn't understand just to soothe Musk's ego.
Elon Musk held up a chainsaw, fed USAID into the wood chipper, and at least 600,00 people have already died as a result - two-thirds of them children. History's first trillionaire.
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"Health authorities are struggling to catch up with the mushrooming epidemic of a rare Ebola strain that kills 30-50% of those infected and has no vaccine or cure. The outbreak has caused about 635 confirmed infections and at least 127 deaths...The true toll could be much higher"
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🔊 'A local music group even recorded a song about a coffin wandering the streets of Mongbwalu.’ @cbonnerot on the Reuters World News podcast as investigators hunt for patient zero after linking a deadly Ebola outbreak to a pastor’s funeral reut.rs/4vJ1IYM
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Unsurprising that @epaleezeldin is rolling back regulations for corporate polluters. He is a politician and lawyer with zero environmental science background. Lee, our taxes fund your salary to protect our environment and health. Do your job! youtube.com/shorts/fDAEOZEbT…
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Reporting from @propublica highlights how the admin is stripping counterterrorism resources to fund the immigration agenda. As the Iran war rages on threat assessment bureaus are hollowed out by cuts. Experts warn the govt may lack tools to keep us safe. youtube.com/shorts/LcXmGS1Mt…
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The fact that any of this is even necessary says everything about where the Trump regime has dragged this country. Senate Dems ran exercises preparing for scenarios like feds seizing ballots, armed citizens patrolling polling locations, and AI deepfake influence operations.
NEW: Schumer and Senate Dems are war-gaming lawsuits and messaging strategies to combat hypothetical election-interference scenarios, including armed citizens at polls and ballot seizures in battlegrounds. Inside their strategy session (another’s being planned for July) politico.com/news/2026/06/11… @politico
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CDC's World Cup disease surveillance dashboard was still in development when games began. The agency is already stretched across Ebola and hantavirus. Georgetown MedStar built their own hub to fill the public health infrastructure gaps the current administration have created.
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The ‘diseases of crowds’ experts say could be at the World Cup. For well more than a year, public health experts have been planning how to protect fans from infectious diseases such as flu, COVID, and measles. This is part 1 in a two-part series: ow.ly/aFOz50ZayaE
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"The Will2Rise OPSEC article is not a protest safety guide. It is a tactical, lessons-learned document for violent, extremist street mobilisation." US white nationalist networks are treating Belfast as a training exercise. Essential reporting from @PhilNvestigates as always.
A warning for America: White nationalist groups—including one recently platformed in a light-handed 60 Minutes report—are openly celebrating the violent attacks on immigrants in Belfast and suggesting their followers can learn from the rioters’ tactics. (Link below.)
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Bobby. This tweet exemplifies the rambling, incoherent, completely invented way of saying NUH UH that we’ve come to expect from you and the entire Trump administration. All one needs to refute your argument is to glance at anything you’ve ever said or done.
Sheryl. Your article exemplifies the biased reporting we have come to expect from you and @nytimes. It was unfair, inimical, and inaccurate. All one needs to refute your argument is to glance at my publicly available calendar and to review my unprecedented list of accomplishments on a wide range of issues, all of which I drove. You evidently never undertook these foundational due diligences. Why let facts obscure a good story? You fault me for missing a couple of monthly counselor meetings. However, I meet one-on-one with my counselors every day to decide policy and strategy. We schedule the monthly meetings to give the divisions a chance to keep each other informed about HHS-wide policies with which I’m already intimately familiar. Had you read my calendar, you would have seen that I have back-to-back meetings all day, every day, with both career and political staff, with my counselors and with outside stakeholders, interspersed with press conferences and other policy announcements. I am knowledgeable and active on every issue in every division of my department, and I always make the final decisions. I meet with the principals at FDA, NIH, CDC, and my senior counselor every morning, something, I’m told, is unprecedented in HHS history. I try to get out of the office between 4:30 and 6:00 PM, so that I can spend three hours, in quiet, responding to emails. I normally work until 11 PM every night, mostly on phone calls to staff. In order to prove your preconceived case for my disengagement, you quote anonymous employees, some of whom I fired or who quit to avoid being fired. You also deceptively quote HHS employees without identifying whether they were among those I fired, thereby depriving your readers of the opportunity to make an independent judgment about their credibility. I came into this job to change the culture of a broken agency that has presided over the worst decline in public health in American history. Of course I fired people—lots of them! It's an easy task for even the laziest journalist, to comb that flotsam and jetsam for malevolence toward the Trump administration. And of course, this species of journalist will always be able to find disgruntled individuals among the 70,000 employees of the Department from whom to cherry pick "facts" to flesh out a preordained hit piece. All that is required for this brand of journalism is the ethical elasticity that you seem to have in spades. You had a preconceived thesis, and you set out to prove it. This is a widely accepted technique in journalism today, but I grew up in an era when it would not have been tolerated by the New York Times. Ultimately, God puts us all on this earth to search for existential truths. I've tried to instill this mission at HHS by implementing gold standard research to end the regime of politicized science that COVID exposed to the American public. There was a time that journalists were proud to be the fearless and uncompromising champions of truth. Standards have devolved, and journalism is dead. The Times now employs propagandists. Your capitulation to partisanship further compounds your journalistic challenges; since we all are aware of your predictable bias, we at HHS are unwilling to talk to you about the topics that are important. The fact that you have minimal access to decision makers leaves you covering trivia and relying on your own capacity for invention. Btw. When I took this job, the building was empty. About 90% of the employees were not coming to work. I changed that, but your newspaper never covers my reforms. Nor did you cover the fact that my predecessor almost never showed up for work here during his four years in office. When we came in, there were still artifacts from the first Trump administration in many of our office drawers because no one showed up for work during the Biden years. Just as Rochelle Walensky spent her entire term as CDC Director in Cambridge, Xavier Becerra reportedly spent most of his term as HHS Secretary in California. (I live in California, but I’ve only been there once in fifteen months). His only notable accomplishments here were losing 300,000 children, referred to HHS for custody and care, to human traffickers and drug runners, encouraging transgender surgeries, and disabling the entire program-integrity apparatus, allowing hundreds of billions of dollars of theft from my agency. I have set out to find the children Becerra lost. He is now the front-runner for the governor of California. These are not invented stories; they are genuine scandals that the Times will never cover, presumably, because the malefactors are Democrats. Finally, you criticize me for spending time with the Indian tribes in Alaska. I consider that part of my job. I run the Indian Health Services, and I’ve had unprecedented success in transforming IHS from a backwater to a top priority for this department. I’ve made more trips to Indian country and to Indian health clinics and hospitals than any HHS secretary in history, and I’ve brought Indians into high positions on the sixth floor for the first time in agency history. This is another success story that the Times will never cover.
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Working tonight on a new post to be published tomorrow on Hate Comes to Main Street about how extremists, including a group controlled by a prominent American fascist, are studying the racist riots in Belfast. Subscribe now to get notified when it posts. (Link below.)
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