Honestly, this is just the beginning. As we get closer to the election stuff like this will ramp up. And on November 3rd, and the days following, it's going to be bad
Nathan Myers
The MAHA Administration's hypocrisy, yet AGAIN:
It urges families to eat healthy food but then cuts $141 million from "the part of the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants & Children that lets low-income families buy fruits & vegetables"
www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...
This is accurate & not hyperbole from @jfallows.bsky.social
With support from USAID, the DRC had built an outbreak preparedness & response system “ready to go,” e.g., surveillance, labs, health workers, & stockpiles of personal protective equipment
When Musk killed USAID, that system collapsed 😢
Go on, you’ll never guess
Yup, there are socioeconomic disparities in who gets harmed when coal plants are allowed to spew methylmercury into the air
This shows, of course, a “lack of distributional justice”
2/2
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
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To make America healthy, produce in a poor child's diet should be the last thing to go
This is accurate & not hyperbole from @jfallows.bsky.social
With support from USAID, the DRC had built an outbreak preparedness & response system “ready to go,” e.g., surveillance, labs, health workers, & stockpiles of personal protective equipment
When Musk killed USAID, that system collapsed 😢
Hazardous air pollutants emitted by United States (U.S) coal-fired power plants have been controlled by the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) since 2012. Sociodemographic disparities in traditio...
A Congolese aid veteran on the Ebola response: “like hyenas on a dead body.” $1B last time, big salaries for outsiders, almost no local hires—so people started calling it a business.
https://www.celinegounder.com/p/ebola-congo-fear-indexed-aid-localization
Bradley Perry
The 7th cholera pandemic has been going on for 65 years, and no one notices: Global Cholera Control Efforts--June 2026
open.substack.com/pub/johnacar...
news.cgtn.com/news/2026-06...
www.medicaldaily.com/hepatitis-ou...
In our open letter to Trump/Rubio/RFK Jr we say:
“The strategy of quarantining at-risk US citizens at a new facility in a foreign nation poses a threat to US health security & represents a fundamental breach of the government’s duty of care and & constitutional right of US citizens to return home”
The CDC issued a hepatitis A travel notice for Manitoba, Canada on June 4, 2026. The outbreak has grown to 658 cases, 142 hospitalizations, and 4 deaths since April 2025. Winnipeg restaurant exposures...
www.medicaldaily.com
The number of confirmed Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has risen to 710, including 149 deaths, the country's health ministry said Saturday, while dismissing social media rum...
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
