Journalist. Contributing Ed, Scientific American. Senior Fellow, Emory Univ Center for the Study of Human Health. Books: BIG CHICKEN, SUPERBUG, BEATING BACK THE DEVIL. Stories: https://authory.com/marynmckenna. Location: points on the 44th parallel.
Maryn McKenna
Loading...
Incredible headline: No walking allowed in heart of Midtown for Monday's Knicks game
“It is a certain kind of person who sees early and easy access to books as a bad thing.”
And we can all be very clear what kind.
This is *insane*. How do you close down one of the busiest parts of one of the busiest cities in the world.
Still naive enough to be shocked when a national-level political leader admits he has no evidence to back up an assertion of catastrophic corruption. Even McCarthy pretended to have a list of communists somewhere.
Because narrative moves people and policy mostly doesn't, journalists search endlessly for people whose personal stories embody issues.
This story accomplishes that brilliantly: The most expensive house in the UK, and the quirky unhoused man on its porch.
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Oh.
Well.
USDA's own analysis: In the last TX outbreak (in 1976, crossing from Mexico, before coordinated action pushed the infection border down into Central America), the cost to the TX cattle economy was $329mm.
That's $1.8 BILLION in current dollars.
www.aphis.usda.gov/sites/defaul...
New World screw worm has now crossed a state border from Texas to New Mexico. Five total identifications now.
farmpolicynews.illinois.edu/2026/06/scre...
The Trump admin claims recent screw-worm infestations are because Biden let migrants across the border.
Screw worm flies live about 20 days. The larvae live about 7 days. Human infestation is rare.
Biden left office 1.4 years ago.
DOGE gutted #USAID which had a program for preventing #screwworm.
Sorry, Knicks fans: No Madison Square Garden watch party tonight. You won’t even be able to walk close. The NYPD and U.S. Secret Service announced another spate of street closures and security measure...
The USDA confirmed an additional three cases of New World screwworm — including the first outside of Texas, in New Mexico — bringing the total number of detections in the US to five and raising concer...
farmpolicynews.illinois.edu
We are so used to the idea that antibiotics are there to protect us. But that protection is precarious and antibiotic resistance is a global problem. New @nature.com, @smjyoti.bsky.social explains how antibiotics developers are using #AI to design new weapons. 🦠🤖🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Striking graphic in this latest Reuters piece, which finds that while President Trump and his family have profited by at least $2.3 billion since he retook the presidency, their more than a million investors have suffered $2.3 billion in net losses.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
2-8A Rutland Gate had jewel-encrusted bathroom suites and gold wastepaper bins in its 45 rooms, but has lain empty for years. With many people desperate for secure housing, what does the abandonment o...
RAJU: But what evidence is there to prove the California election is rigged?
MIKE JOHNSON: Look, some of these efforts are so diabolical and so far upstream it's impossible to prove. But I think everybody knows instinctively that something is wrong here.
Arty-san
www.aphis.usda.gov
Video
Aaron Rupar
Jeffrey Perkel (he/him)
Molly White
Update; now no pedestrian or vehicular traffic between 30th and 35th between 5th and 8th Avenues starting at 4pm, 4.5 hours before tipoff and includes the busiest train station in the country and 100’s of businesses. Heart of Midtown.
He ruins everything for everyone every time.
www.nature.com
A suite of artificial-intelligence tools is helping to speed up the process of discovering new antibiotics.
“Missouri Republicans are taking an ax to Dolly Parton’s signature initiative.
The state’s decision to freeze enrollment in Parton’s Imagination Library, which offers free books to kids, comes at a perilous time for children’s literacy.”
www.ms.now/opinion/doll...
Trump's Agriculture Secretary dismisses the deadly, flesh-eating New World Screwworm as "just a little pest"
www.ms.now
The state’s decision to freeze enrollment in Parton’s Imagination Library, which offers free books to kids, comes at a perilous time for children’s literacy.
Trump attending the #Knicks game means every fan and employee in MSG, along with Penn Station commuters, inconvenienced, huge New Year’s Eve-sized watch party outside MSG canceled, thereby severely hurting businesses catering to the partygoers. If you want him there to hear him being booed… (1/2)
