Prosecutors are ignoring judicial rules, clerks are requiring new court orders for documents already ordered unsealed, and judges are rubber stamping excessive redactions. Our Sunday story about the state of transparency in the U.S. judicial system. courtwatch.news/p/the-rabbit…

Wait Americans only get about 14 days of annual leave in a CALENDAR YEAR???? We get over 25 in the UK!

Oregon is objectively an amazing place for a road trip. Some people apparently refuse to see the truth.

Oh dear

Federal investigation finds Medicare Advantage insurers block rehab care for older adults, only to reverse denials on appeal. trib.al/zzcXzO0

I’m so excited. My secret (not so secret) observational experiment is about to begin. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity for wastewater surveillance. FIFA World cup. 1/ @SecureBio scientificamerican.com/artic…

Endorse

At long last, the UN Human Rights Council has formally acknowledged that Hamas in Gaza carried out executions, torture, improperly used medical facilities for terror purposes, and engaged in violent abuses against women and children after October 7. The report captures only a fraction of what actually occurred, in part because documenting these crimes is extraordinarily difficult and because Gazans fear retaliation if they report anything to the UN or other investigators. The findings on Hamas were buried beneath a long section on Israeli settler abuses in the West Bank, but even so, this marks a significant shift for an international body that has long struggled to speak plainly about Hamas’s brutality in Gaza. Most importantly, the report acknowledges but barely scratches the surface of how extensively Hamas has weaponized Gaza’s medical infrastructure, embedding fighters in hospitals, using patients as shields, and turning civilian facilities into operational hubs. The UN even notes that Doctors Without Borders evacuated non-essential staff from Nasser Hospital because Hamas was interfering with the hospital’s operations. When I shared this information, including testimonies from Gazans who documented Hamas’s fascistic behavior inside hospitals, and photos of fighters emerging from Nasser Hospital after the ceasefire, the online “pro-Palestine” chorus had nothing to offer except accusations of Zionist collaboration, accusations of betrayal, and personal insults. This UN report is an indictment not only of Hamas, a violent extremist terror organization responsible for immense suffering, but also of every activist, journalist, and academic who chose to look away. It shows that Hamas’s crimes were so egregious, so undeniable, that even a slow, hesitant, and often ineffectual body like the UNHRC could no longer pretend not to see them. Shame on anyone who still defends Hamas or ever believed its violence constituted “resistance” on behalf of the Palestinian people.

Amazeballs, Knicks

Holy moly Knicks

Peak meet cute.

L - GOP Rep and MI senate candidate Mike Rogers actual photo from the campaign trail. R - Photo put out by staffer.

I've spent a lot of the last week speaking to people across government, media, and other actors involved in the Ebola response. Some reflections:

Read the last paragraph.

The longer you look at this, the worse it gets

State-level abortion restrictions are creating substandard medical management of miscarriages, the most common complication in early pregnancy. news.ohsu.edu/2026/05/18/abo…

Reminder: Long COVID's disability & suffering will be the pandemic's most devastating long-term global legacy. Neither GBD supporters nor critics anticipated its scale or included it in their policy calculus -and “let er rip” strategies prioritizing widespread exposure clearly worsen the toll. Millions affected, with real costs in lives and productivity (on top of 20 million direct deaths globally, which we should never forget or minimize). nature.com/articles/s43856-0…

CNN’s @KFILE reveals the man leading the hantavirus response in the U.S. is a specialist in penile implants with little public health experience and hosted a podcast called “Erection Connection.”

New: FDA's top drug regulator Tracy Beth Høeg is departing the agency following Marty Makary's exit earlier this week. CDER deputy director Mike Davis will serve as acting director bloomberg.com/news/articles/…