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Canada loses its measles elimination status — as it happened | CBC

It could take years, if ever, for Canada to regain its measles elimination status. Next up, the US of Disease, thanks to Brainworm Booby.

Kids have a right to vaccinations. Let's bring in the lawyers Children suffering from diseases that should have been consigned to history is a moral failure. Access to vaccines is a human right.

"The fact that children in 2025 are suffering from diseases that should have been consigned to history is not just a public health failure. It is a moral failure." — @stefanswartpet.bsky.social & @madhupai.bsky.social argue children have the right to be vaccinated. www.statnews.com/2025/11/12/c...

Note to writers: when I encounter perspicacious and perused I stop reading

Wow I am so surprised /s

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:

- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.

9/ ISW is not currently forecasting an imminent Russian attack on the Baltics.
Officials reported aerial incursions in French and Lithuanian airspace.

Russian forces advanced in the Kostyantynivka-Druzhkivka tactical area and near Pokrovsk.

Read the full update: isw.pub/UkrWar111225

The administration has fired everyone who can hold anyone accountable for anything, from economic indicators to public health measures. How can you be judged on your record if there’s no record?

A bunch of folks have asked me what this looks like in local currency terms. Here's the chart.

It's a similar story: The performance of the U.S. stock market during the Trump presidency is... ~~meh~~

Some simple shutdown math: $7–$15 billion per week sounds huge. In context, the U.S. produces ~ $538 billion per week. So the hit is roughly a couple of percentage points of a week’s output, or a few hundredths of a percent of annual GDP. Painful waste, yes. Economic catastrophe, no.

The market for health care isn’t at all like the market for apples or oranges. It’s life-and-death, with info gaps, emergencies, and insurance market failures. That’s why we regulate and subsidize. Pretending the market works isn't a plan, just as a “plan in 2 weeks” isn’t a plan.

nice work, Chuck

Kids have a right to vaccinations. Let's bring in the lawyers Children suffering from diseases that should have been consigned to history is a moral failure. Access to vaccines is a human right.

Access to vaccines is not a privilege — it is a human right.

In @statnews.com today, Stefan Peterson and I write about using a human rights-based approach to deal with vaccine denialism and the return of measles, whooping cough and diphtheria

www.statnews.com/2025/11/12/c...

Attn @violetblue.bsky.social

Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. "
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...

This lab is key for tracking deadly waves. Its sensors are about to go offline. After NOAA cut funding to the lab that’s been monitoring seismic activity for more than 25 years, nine stations tracking tsunami-causing earthquakes for the agency will go offline by the end of the mo...

NOAA cut funding for critical parts of the tsunami and earthquake detection system in Alaska, primarily in the Aleutians. I spoke to Wash Post about negative impacts. But, hey, what are the chances of a deadly tsunami being triggered in Alaska? (Gift article, not behind paywall) ⚒️ wapo.st/4qKvavQ

What burgers and burrito bowls tell us about the economy right now McDonald’s, Cava, and Chipotle all reported earnings recently, and a similar story emerged.

QSRs reported earnings last week, including Cava and McDonald’s, while Chipotle reported the last week of October.

Taken together, they paint a portrait of a cash-strapped consumer, particularly on the lower end of the earnings spectrum, as job growth weakens.

www.cfobrew.com/stories/2025...

View Lawfare’s new Domestic Deployments Tracker here:

Counting the Boots: Tracking Domestic Deployments, One Missing Report at a Time A monthlong effort to track domestic deployments revealed a troubling lack of transparency on why and how military forces are used on U.S. soil.

Loren Voss introduces Lawfare's new resource tracking how and where National Guard and military forces are being used on U.S. soil and discusses the troubling lack of transparency surrounding domestic deployments. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/coun...

NOw we’ll never know. But the GOP now knows that seige politics works. Starve them, snarl transportation, and the Dems, including my Senator @kaine.senate.gov don’t have the stomach for the fight.

Senate Dems, do not cave. Ensuring healthcare premiums don’t surge is an 80-20 issue. They want to gut the ACA because their disdain for Obama far outweighs their concern for anyone’s health.

YouTube video by Saturday Night Live Oval Office Press Conference Cold Open - SNL

Not bad. youtu.be/oUDwGI0KW5Y?...

NIH cancels participation in Safe to Sleep campaign that decreased infant deaths NIH has cancelled its participation in Safe to Sleep, a 30-year campaign to prevent babies from dying in their sleep

99.9% of Americans won’t hear that Trump killed this program. And at 2,000 additional dead kids or so each year, most people will have no idea what was lost.

It has taken medical science 200 years to advance humans to the point where people are so healthy and living so long that they can deny that science and medicine is what got us here.

Why next year's flu shot might not be as good as it should be America's withdrawal from the World Health Organization is affecting the ability of U.S. scientists to track flu and other pathogens. That could be a blow to the development of the 2025 flu vaccine.

The US withdrawal from WHO could impact the flu shot.

Flu samples sent to CDC from around the world are down 60% this year, as of July.

"When those viruses are not coming in, we don't know what to put in the vaccine, and you're going to have less effective vaccines."
www.npr.org/sections/goa...

Bird flu surges among poultry amid a scaled back federal response Migrating wild birds are spreading the virus to domesticated flocks, increasing the risk of eventually seeing a human outbreak. Scientists are troubled by the muted federal response.

Bird flu surges among poultry amid a scaled back federal response www.npr.org/sections/sho...

No major flu deaths surge expected in Scotland after 80% vaccine uptake and in cleaner hospitals The national flu immunisation programme for 2025 to 2026 slideset Professor John Robertson OBA The above is from the Over 5 million under 65s with a long-term health condition could miss out flu va…

No major flu deaths surge expected in Scotland after 80% vaccine uptake and in cleaner hospitals talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/11/07/n...

What’s the best sandwich to use to defend against ICE? I’ll start. A meatball sub with cheese.

Who writes your mom’s lines? She’s a comic genius.

The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

Which sandwich is the best defense against ICE? I’ll start: meatball hero with cheese.