Oona Palumbo

Y’all remember all the COVID funding that was funneled into police budgets? I do.

I have a friend who is an exvangelical and she put it very succinctly: “We don’t believe anyone else is human. You are not people to us.”

Once you understand this CORE BELIEF and put it into context with the fact that these folks are running our country you can understand clearly their motivations.

This is literally how the Holocaust started, and honestly I'm tired of saying so

Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

It is genuinely your moral duty, if you’re in the sciences, to violate the terms of your contact and take as much of the research home with you as you can. Today, tomorrow, every day your lab’s still open.

Contribution of vaccination to improved survival and health: modelling 50 years of the Expanded Programme on Immunization Since 1974 substantial gains in childhood survival have occurred in every global region. We estimate that EPI has provided the single greatest contribution to improved infant survival over the past 50...

Nothing will kill more children than the ongoing decimation of CDC, NIH, and USAID work to lift vaccine uptake in the US and world.

Child survival rose 75% in the last 50 years. Vaccines account for 40% of that. Measles vax alone was 60% of the benefit. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Long Island man is first in New York history to be cured of sickle cell anemia A patient on Long Island is the first in New York to be cured of sickle cell anemia, doctors say.

Looks like we've got a cure for sickle cell. www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...

Yes. If DHS can barge in, say your visa was revoked, be told you have a green card, say it's revoked too, and then disappear you so that neither your lawyer nor your family can find you, then all the guardrails are gone. There is no policy, practice, or law protecting anyone.

Uh oh!

Wait till they find out about Mercedes during WW2

It’s 2025 and I’m starting to think everyone has a very strange understanding of how bingo cards work

Musk says DOGE ‘restored’ Ebola prevention effort. Officials say that’s not true. USAID’s initiatives to fight Ebola and other diseases have been gutted, current and former agency officials said.

Every news outlet reporting Elon Musk's comment about accidentally canceling Ebola prevention efforts and quickly restoring them should also say they haven't been restored, they're still canceled, the outbreak-fighting teams are dismantled, the money is gone

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

I feel like someone who is not me needs to educate social media gays as to what “gay panic” actually is.

“We’re Living Through Hell”: What Trump’s Anti-Trans War Really Means When hospitals suddenly stop treatment for trans patients, real people are harmed immediately. “I was sent links to suicide hotlines instead of a prescription,” one person told us.

'I was sent links to suicide hotlines instead of a prescription'

Transition care is not illegal. Health care facilities ending their affirming gender care programs in an act of cowardice absolutely have blood on their hands.

James Webb Satellite took a fantastic shot of the Planet Saturn with it's Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) and the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI). This is just an Amazing shot that shows the planet and the rings in brilliant detail.

All 50 States Have Now Introduced Right to Repair Legislation The legislation hasn't yet passed everywhere, but all 50 states introducing some form of right to repair legislation is a "tipping point” for the right to repair movement.

New: All 50 states have now introduced right to repair legislation. A really amazing milestone for a grassroots movement. Wisconsin just became the last state to do it:

www.404media.co/all-50-state...

A second North Carolina county has decided to abandon public water fluoridation.

Lincoln county commissioners decided that they'd just abandon fluoridation altogether, despite strong opposition from the county health department.
www.wunc.org/health/2025-...

Map of the gulf of mexico

Y’all map quest has an app 👀

Federal judge blocks Trump order on health care for transgender youth A federal judge in Baltimore blocked executive orders signed by President Donald Trump that targeted transgender people and their health care, giving temporary relief to LGBTQ individuals and their fa...

The gender affirming care ban executive order has been blocked in court!

www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

I want to be cautious generalizing my experience, but a lot of elder millennial uterus-havers started coming up against bio clock stuff and started making our decisions about having kids right around the time COVID hit.

Which meant...

You have to reset it every couple weeks. It really wants you to use it.

Hey. We’ve been Lemkin-ed fyi

Can’t stop reading this paragraph over and over.
open.substack.com/pub/newmeans...

Where is Jared Kushner? I haven’t heard his name lately.

4th Circuit To Weigh Whether NC Supreme Court Election Challenge Should Proceed in State or Federal Court Read more here.

Please pay attention to this case being argued in the 4th Circuit tomorrow. It could determine whether the GOP succeeds in stealing a NC Supreme Court seat by disenfranchising 60,000 voters.

Follow @democracydocket.com for full coverage of this critical case.
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

The ovulation tracking app, "Ovia", now mandates you identify what state you live in. Delete immediately and warn other women.