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submitted 59 days ago • 3 comments

The peak of seasonal influenza virus in the USA at the same time that dairy and poultry farmers are being infected with highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 virus likely increases the risk of occurrence of human-avian reassortment viruses.

submitted 59 days ago • 1 comment

Mike Coston: afludiary.blogspot.com/2024/12/texa...

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

People are developing debilitating Long Covid after covid infection no. 4, 5 or 6, even if the first few seemed mild. We need better data on how many people this is happening to, now. Governments need to stop hiding their heads in the sand and pretending it will all go away.

submitted 76 days ago • 9 comments

Wild birds, mainly Ross’s and snow geese, are dying by the thousands in Idaho, USA, from highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1. Clinical signs include coughing, lethargy, and gasping for air. Despite this virus epidemic, waterfowl hunting is still permitted. www.idahostatesman.com/outdoors/art...

submitted 81 days ago • 2 comments

I understand hating opinion columns, I say this as an opinion columnist, but reporting is good and if American democracy is going to survive we desperately need reporting to expose corruption.

submitted 86 days ago • 1321 comments

Trump will be bribed tens of millions more to have his DoJ stop this case and then he will claim he saved TikTok. Just a heads up.

submitted 88 days ago • 234 comments

submitted 87 days ago • 111 comments

Federal order to test National Milk supply for H5N1. Admittedly, given their dragging feet on this issue, I’m curious to know Why now and what do they know?

submitted 88 days ago • 3 comments

Oh, I want much more than this. I want everything any intelligence agency has on Donald Trump declassified as well as anything the Department of Justice has. Our intelligence community sat on its ass and did nothing to help us with a walking national security threat for 10 years. Let that end now.

submitted 88 days ago • 490 comments

The other day I was pitching our Gilded Age course to undergrads: “Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live in a nation where the wealthy had insane power and ordinary people were reoeatedly crushed by them until they lashed out in anger?”

submitted 89 days ago • 238 comments

I know we’re not posting bad takes from the other place here. But JFC this guy. And I’d remind everybody, Dr G knows everything about insurance and UHC from the ass end of the process when they surprise billed him after a heart attack.

submitted 90 days ago • 10 comments

The CEO of Raw Farm—whose milk is contaminated with bird flu—says RFKjr’s transition team asked him to apply for the position of FDA advisor on Raw Milk Policy and Standards Development.

submitted 90 days ago • 170 comments

I knew the name sounded familiar www.cbsnews.com/news/unitedh...

submitted 90 days ago • 22 comments

The appointments Trump made to his cabinet are a clear sign of his incompetence, and we will all suffer when he exchanges the pursuit of American greatness for unquestioning loyalty.

submitted 90 days ago • 8 comments

The #Leonardi_Effect Has withstood the test of time and... Yep... Now it's everyone's reality... @fitterhappieraj.bsky.social www.news18.com/india/long-c...

submitted 91 days ago • 7 comments

Some countries are 'superspreaders' of infectious diseases. China & the US are notably so for infleunza. This is because they're busy travel hubs, distributing infected travellers worldwide. The impact of this, if the US goes full anti-vax in 2025 will be felt by us all: ⏫harm, ⏫costs, ⏫headlines

submitted 90 days ago • 1 comment

Buckle up, folks. FAFO is coming fast. China bans export of critical minerals to US as trade tensions escalate - www.reuters.com/markets/comm...

submitted 90 days ago • 429 comments

Remember when republicans were OUTRAGED that Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin was in the hospital for two days? Now they want to nominate a perpetually drunk Pete Hegseth?

submitted 91 days ago • 286 comments

One of the purest joys in life is having a lunch of cheese and apples and nice crusty bread and feeling like a jolly little hobbit about to embark on a thrilling adventure.

submitted 91 days ago • 6 comments

TODAY’S EPISODE OF: WE F*CKING WARNED YOU Pittsburgh steelworkers who supported Trump aren’t happy that he’s opposing the US Steel-Nippon deal. “I am very frustrated with the news that came out last night…that was like a gut punch.” — United Steelworkers VP Jason Zugai

submitted 91 days ago • 1696 comments

It’s time for President Biden to truly test his full Presidential immunity by issuing preemptive blanket pardons to journalists, activists and everyone else the orange convicted felon will likely target in retaliation with bogus charges. No holding back.

submitted 91 days ago • 25 comments

Indeed, Danilo As @daniellebeckman.bsky.social has pointed out, H5N1 is more neurotrophic than other Influenza strains. You're not wrong. I share your concerns 😬😬😬

submitted 92 days ago • 0 comments

In 2021 in England, public health decided that the way to get well was to get sicker, and that the way to get rid of disease was to catch it. It's official policy. They write it down and everything. Since then...

submitted 91 days ago • 17 comments

This weekend shop bookshop.org

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments

1. For obvious reasons, there is currently a considerable amount of discussion regarding the efficacy of lockdowns as public health measures. It's very important to be mindful of a few points regarding this media discourse.

submitted 95 days ago • 8 comments

Gerrymandering in North Carolina gave Republicans the US House majority. While their margin is historically small, and chaos will soon consume Johnson’s GOP Caucus, rigged Republican maps continue tilting the balance of power away from American voters and toward right wing pols. Reform badly needed.

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments

Those who are ambivalent or even hostile about masking will feel different should H5N1 mutate into the next pandemic. The mortality rate is likely less than the 50% often quoted but is probably at least 10-15% or which is serious. www.npr.org/sections/sho...

submitted 96 days ago • 27 comments

We're going to have a lot of this going forward: Trump makes noise, accomplishes nothing, capitulates, declares victory, usually over something Biden set in motion. It'd be nice if decisionmakers at media outlets realized their job is to make sure people know the truth, but, ah, well, nevertheless

submitted 96 days ago • 23 comments

When your aunt announces that everything smells and tastes wonderful take a moment to say thank you. And when your father states that he cannot smell or taste anything take a moment to say a prayer.

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

"There’s a deep profanity in the application of Lincoln’s words—embryonic versions of the unsurpassed rhetoric of the Second Inaugural—to Trump’s dull-witted and contemptuous demand to get off yet another legal hook." open.substack.com/pub/harrylit...

submitted 96 days ago • 8 comments

“When hospital staff began masking again, the rates of hospital-onset respiratory viral infections decreased by 33%”

submitted 96 days ago • 17 comments

Incredibly powerful, must-read essay:

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

I would not put Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in charge of so much as an ant farm. Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!

submitted 96 days ago • 988 comments

Gerrymandering should be illegal and the electoral college is an antiquity that needs to be abolished.

submitted 96 days ago • 57 comments

Some good news today: Democratic House candidate Derek Tran has officially won his election in CA-45 defeating the incumbent republican and has flipped that seat from red to blue.

submitted 96 days ago • 8 comments

I’m fortunate to call Alex a friend.

submitted 96 days ago • 64 comments

The problem isn’t government waste. The problem is that billionaires don’t pay taxes.

submitted 97 days ago • 340 comments