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After leaving WHO, Trump officials propose more expensive replacement to duplicate it HHS proposes spending $2 billion a year to re-create systems the U.S. accessed through the WHO at a fraction of the cost, according to officials briefed on the matter.

US to spend billions to re-create labs, data-sharing networks and rapid-response systems that America abandoned when it withdrew from WHO and dismantled USAID.

#Medsky #healthpolicy #IDsky #Episky #surveillance #pandemic

This is a great analysis! Thanks for so clearly laying it out. Hope you and your doggo enjoyed your walk!I

How ridiculously far we've fallen.

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.

Hundreds of kids are still detained.

We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

Masking is an "extreme" health measure? GTFOH. This kind of reporting is not only ignorant, but actively harmful.

A photo of a WMATA Metro train interior, with a poster over one seat with a photo of Rosa Parks on a bus: “Rosa Parks Day, February 4, Today this seat is reserved to honor Rosa Parks” -written in English and Spanish.

Washington DC’s Metro is honoring Rosa Park’s today by reserving seats in her memory. Parks didn’t refuse to relinquish her seat out of exhaustion—she was a fierce advocate for justice who organized with her community to engage in civil disobedience. Her deliberate act was courageous and meaningful.

This is disgusting. I didn't know. It must be hard to be so close to the inequity and inhumaneness of it all. 💔

Rice students create nationwide ICE tracker to monitor immigration enforcement The students had been teaching weekly children's classes as volunteers. One day, the kids stopped showing up.

ICYMI, Rice University students have developed a free online map to track ICE activity throughout the country.

Find it here: www.icemap.dev.

Gift link to @houstonchronicle.com story about it:
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

This is great. Thank you for the gift link!

ICE Begins Buying ‘Mega’ Warehouse Detention Centers Across US Plans for such centers and jails in nearly two dozen communities have sparked protests over suitability, proximity to homes and schools.

BIG news from @bloomberg.com, which confirms that ICE has gone ahead and *purchased* multiple commercial warehouses with the aim of converting them into mass detention camps.

This is likely to be the big detention story of 2026 — literal warehousing of people.
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

It’s too cold in NY even for penguins. The Long Island Aquarium brought 20 penguins indoors due to frigid temperatures. South African black-footed penguins prefer milder weather, so when temperatures drop below 30 degrees, they’re moved inside. (ABC News)

I'm so sorry. I hope you can soon have time to grieve. And sleep. It is such a significant and unexpected loss. Sending good thoughts. 💔

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

One of the best things I’ve read in a while:

It appears that this legend owns a little bookstore — and you can order books from him instead of Bezos. Link in next post.

"They say they're coming to save us from some evil? They're talking about our neighbors who take care of us ... Alex was murdered while he was helping. Mr Rogers said look for the helpers, & right now the helpers have a target on our forehead ... Mr Rogers would be here right now too, so I'm here."

“I asked if we could just go home,” Amundson said. “I said, ‘We just saved his life. Is that cool with you?’ And they said no.”

No words.

This.

photo of march, signs for renee good and against ICe, crowded street.

this photo. minneapolis. 💜

📷️ Alex Kormann/Star Tribune

❤️❤️❤️

INBOX: “Today, the United States withdrew from the World Health Organization…”

Superb article! (And use of "logorrhea" is perfection)

National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation.

Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.

Just saw on KARE 11 that this boy was sent to a detainment facility in Texas and that his family didn't know his whereabouts for almost 24 hours.

The choice is impeachment and removal or calamity for the United States. I don't see how anybody watching Trump's speech in Davos can draw any other conclusion. He's a senile madman.

DISCONCERTING?

Speaking as a Jewish faculty member: FUCK THIS TO THE MOON AND BACK

(Sorry…)

The moment it was crystal clear we were in the worse case scenario, was exactly a year ago when Trump pardoned every single Jan 6 perpetrator, including the ones that beat the crap out of cops and were convicted of seditious conspiracy.

The cake is wild. Didn't know but very on-brand.