Emerging Crises

National Institutes of Health faces leadership vacuum as director positions sit open More than half of the NIH's institutes and centers don’t have permanent directors, giving the Trump administration an unusual opportunity to reshape the agency. The latest departure came Friday.

You can't claim to be "America First" while gutting the world's largest public funder of biomedical research. 16 of the 27 institutes that make up the NIH currently have no permanent director. The leadership vacuum is their strategy to bypass formal hiring committees to install political loyalists.

3️⃣ Changing the rules at the finish line sends a warning to the rest of the industry. Pharma companies will stop investing billions in research if the process depends on political loyalty tests instead of data from clinical trials. We're watching the deliberate destruction of the 💉 market.

This Is What Destroying the Vaccine Market Looks Like A shocking move by RFK Jr.’s team has the industry spooked—for good reason.

2️⃣ You can see why the trust is gone when you look at how the FDA operates behind closed doors. Example: Moderna spent years developing an mRNA flu shot with the FDA signing off every step of the way. At the last minute, a political hack overruled the career scientists and refused to even review it.

KFF Tracking Poll on Health Information and Trust: Trust in the CDC and Views of Federal Childhood Vaccine Schedule Changes | KFF Weeks after the Trump administration reduced the number of childhood vaccine recommended for routine use, public trust in the CDC is at its lowest since the COVID-19 pandemic, and less than half are c...

It takes decades to build public trust and one administrative term to destroy it. Public confidence in the CDC hit its lowest point since the pandemic. Fewer than ½ adults trust federal health agencies to make basic, routine childhood vaccine recommendations.
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Great summary of how the regime's "dangerous and unwarranted expansion of the executive’s investigative and punitive authorities" go way beyond the post 9/11 'Patriot Act' era. They've turned "machinery of the federal law enforcement and homeland security apparatus on civil society organizations..."

This is what authoritarians are never gonna understand: average, everyday citizens do not like watching paramilitary thugs brutalize children. All the vaporware memes in the world can't fix that for them

The grid cannot handle the load from AI data centers. ⚡ supply will fall short of safety margins by 2027. Tech giants are urged to "bring their own generation." The reality is we're stressing critical infrastructure to support predictive text models, asking ratepayers to subsidize the upgrades.

Slotkin lays out how Trump’s NSPM‑7, his administration’s habit of calling peaceful protesters “domestic terrorists,” and ICE agents threatening to put people into “terrorist databases” have shattered public trust in federal law enforcement. #holdfast

The Trump regime's lawlessness "undermines social order by making Americans distrust their own government." Fed. agents ignore court orders and bypass warrants signaling to the public that the law is optional. How can we possibly maintain a stable society when govt is the main source of instability.

Trump Administration to Cut $600 Million in Health Funding From Four States

2️⃣ Simultaneously, the administration plans to rescind $600 million in public health funds from four Democratic-led states. Targeting funding based on politics during overlapping outbreaks makes the entire country more vulnerable.

What to Know About Measles as the Virus Spreads

There is no sign of measles slowing down in 2026. Data show more than 700 cases since the start of the year. The vast majority are in unvaccinated people.

We're seeing the results of a sustained campaign to undermine confidence in public health interventions.

the deployment of mRNA vaccine technology was a monumental leap in medical advancement and the crowning achievement of Donald Trump's first presidency but now his administration is scuttling it because their political coalition exists in opposition to the concept of expertise

Homeland Security Spying on Reddit Users Leak show feds tracking anti-ICE Reddit users like "Budget-Chicken-2425"

"Homeland security field agents are scouring the social media site Reddit, monitoring the communications of law-abiding Americans critical of the agency."

We pay GS-13 government salaries for agents, not to track terrorists, but to scroll through comment sections.

Why Trump’s Attack on Refugees Could Hurt Grandma It’s immigrants from ‘shithole’ countries who care for our elderly, and nobody’s lining up to take their place.

Very few ppl are talking about this. Their "mass deportation" policy of targeting anyone with a heartbeat impacts elder care since immigrants make up the vast majority of this workforce. We are removing the primary caregivers for millions of American seniors without a replacement plan.

YouTube video by 8 News Now — Las Vegas Video shows inside of suspected Las Vegas biolab raid; here's what we know

3️⃣ This video shows the interior of the Las Vegas location during the raid, giving you a visual of the "residential" setup mentioned in the reports.

2️⃣ Sheriff McMahill said the motive is unclear but insisted the location is "safe" with "no known danger" to neighbors.
Hopefully that doesn't change since they've yet to identify the 1,000 biological samples.

F.B.I. Investigates Links to Biological Labs in Las Vegas and California

The illegal biolab in California wasn't a one-off. New evidence connects that operation to a site in Las Vegas. Police found a "significant volume" of vials and containers with unknown liquids. They pulled over 1,000 samples for the FBI. 1/3

Northern Colorado egg facility with 1.33 million chickens experiences avian flu outbreak Veterinarians and agriculture experts are warning Colorado flock owners to be cautious as high pathogen avian influenza is making a return to the region. Commercial and backyard flocks have been impac...

An outbreak of H5N1 has been detected at a Northern Colorado egg facility housing 1.33 million chickens. Health officials say the risk to humans is low, but the impact on the poultry industry/supply chains could be significant.
The virus appears to be moving faster than our biosecurity protocols.

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Current Secretary of the Navy was on an Epstein flight list. Yanno someone with a security clearance running the Navy!

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick claimed he spent "zero time" with Epstein after 2005. The latest Epstein files prove regular contact. A cabinet official lied about his relationship with a sex trafficker. The vetting process is truly nonexistent.

Pandora Report – The Pandora Report Posts about Pandora Report written by dkellogg97

Great summary from @carmenshaw.bsky.social in Pandora Report. SC has 789 measles cases, the largest outbreak since 2000. Yet the U.S. is strong-arming Gavi to drop safe preservatives based on debunked myths. We're losing containment at home and using aid $ to force that dysfunction on everyone else.

How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are

She was monitoring an ICE agent. He stopped, scanned her face, and greeted her by name. 3 days later, her Global Entry revoked. Agents are using Mobile Fortify and Palantir to target citizens (facial rec + social media monitoring). We learned the wrong lessons from the post-9/11 surveillance state.

One month into 2026, measles cases are already at 25% of last year's total. In April, an international panel will decide if the U.S. loses its "elimination status," a designation we've held since 2000. We are watching our nation regress in real time.

The Real Reason ICE Agents Wear Masks Face coverings may work less to protect federal agents from danger than to make it easier for them to do unconstitutional things.

It's not 'doxxing' federal agents for the public to know who they are. We are supposed to know, our taxes pay their salaries.That is the only way to hold them accountable. Police wear badges. ICE is masking up because they know what they're doing is illegal. They don't want to answer for it.

Pete Hegseth Delights in Violence His first year at the Pentagon has been marked by uncomplicated celebrations of death.

Hegseth refers to domestic opponents as "lunatics." These are the same American citizens the military is sworn to protect. This gives us a glimpse of the Rules of Engagement if troops are deployed here. He is treating the American public like an insurgency.

The latest: Eight more federal prosecutors set to leave the Minnesota U.S. Attorney’s Office The recent wave of departures follows the mass exodus of six veteran prosecutors last month who quit in protest of recent directives from the U.S. Department of Justice.

BREAKING Star Tribune:

Eight additional federal prosecutors are in the process of leaving the Minnesota U.S. Attorney's Office, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the situation.

The departures follow the mass exit of six veteran prosecutors who left the office last month.

Right-Wing Gun Enthusiasts and Extremists Are Working Overtime to Justify Alex Pretti’s Killing Donald Trump has appeared to undermine Second Amendment rights in statements about Alex Pretti’s killing. Many in the firearms community are going along with it.

Wired went through the gun forums to see how they are justifying this. Rittenhouse was a hero with a rifle. Pretti was a "terrorist" (even though he had a valid permit. Guess the Second Amendment isn't a constitutional right anymore. It's just a perk for state loyalists.

...Instead, he prioritized "institutional norms" over public safety. He not only failed to charge a criminal. He handed the "Leader of the Free World" title to a man flagged in the FBI's National Threat Operations Center.

How Trump Appears in the Epstein Files

The FBI files include "salacious information" and over a dozen tips about the President and Epstein. Trump's name is mentioned 5,300 times (And imagine what they're not releasing!)

Merrick Garland had years to act, but...

‘Worst-case scenarios’: How Democratic election officials are preparing for potential Trump intrusion in the midterms | CNN Politics Democratic election officials are preparing for potential federal government intrusion in the midterms, as President Donald Trump’s appointees escalate their efforts to find evidence for his long-debu...

The MN Sec. of State spoke of a new reality: Federal intervention in state elections is now a "preparedness category, like a weather event, or bomb threat." He spoke hours after the FBI seized 2020 ballots from Fulton County. The federal govt is no longer a partner. It is a hazard to be managed.