Dan DeNoon

The CDC Data Project In the proposed FY26 budget, programs that help Americans live safer, healthier, longer lives are on the chopping block.

The astonishing assault on public health has devastated American's bulwark against disease, injury, and violence.
www.cdcdataproject.org

YouTube video by pmw8000 Murrow on McCarthy, no fear, 1954

Worth watching again and again: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEvE...

Time for some hilarity: For all, but a must-see for all my health journalist friends: www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/...

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‘This country’s gonna fall on its face. There’s nobody coming to save us’: Boston punks Dropkick Murphys take on Maga Videos of frontman Ken Casey confronting rightwing provocateurs at the band’s gigs have gone viral, attracting new fans and new safety worries. He wants to lower the temperature – and see other bands speaking out

‘This country’s gonna fall on its face. There’s nobody coming to save us’: Boston punks Dropkick Murphys take on Maga

YouTube video by Senator Elizabeth Warren How does cutting health insurance for 15 MILLION Americans makes America healthy again?

Still waiting to find out how Trump and Republicans think cutting health insurance for 15 MILLION Americans makes America healthy again.

Emily Witt · Do you feel like a failure? In the Manosphere The winners in an autocracy have little in common with the losers, but putting on aviator sunglasses or a leather jacket...

Great longform article deconstructing the manosphere:
Do you feel like a failure? www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Here’s Why I’m a Proud Godzilla Supporter Look, we tried things the old way—with a government and public safety and stuff—but it just didn't work.

www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-...

Please sign this if you care about health -- in this country and everywhere else. www.savehhs.org

Sounds like the Russian army…

Thanks, David Corn, for reminding me that Superman has always been woke:

Clearly the Brotocracy is playing Russian Roulette -- with all chambers loaded with bullets.

Jubilation in South Korea After President Who Declared Martial Law Is Ousted

Meanwhile, South Korea has successfully impeached their president
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...

Heading out tonight to see Elaine Pagels in conversation with Barbara Brown Taylor. Pagels's new book, Miracles and Wonder, is brilliant. ❤️📚

Well, I was planning a hike in the mountains on Saturday. But this walk -- along with my fellow ex-CDCers and a zillion other Atlantans -- is more important.

Wow. Still going strong -- staying strong -- at 20+ hours and counting. Along with the rest of my country, I needed this.

tension

America Is Watching the Rise of a Dual State For most people, the courts will continue to operate as usual—until they don’t.

"America Is Watching the Rise of a Dual State
For most people, the courts will continue to operate as usual—until they don’t."

This article is scary only because it is prescient:
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Opinion: Who really needs the CDC anyway? Instead of instilling “efficiency” at the CDC, the Trump administration seems only to have only injected blind decision-making and incompetence to the critical agency.

The AJC's Patricia Murphy: Why America needs the CDC
www.ajc.com/politics/opi...

Post from 'Egg Price Sufferer' user @agraybee says, "Weird how everyone with Trump Derangement Syndrome turned out to be completely correct within one month."

Turns out we “deranged” people simply saw the truth clearly.

Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance.

Democracy requires your courage.

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Sometimes it seems that Helen is the only person as alarmed as I am as the dreaded H5N1 pandemic approaches.

Hi Helen! Good to see you on Bluesky. I'm writing fiction now but very glad you're out there sounding the alarm on H5N1.

“He’s unqualified, and I daresay that everybody here knows it.” We need more principled senators like Warnock.

USDA milk testing shows different strain of H5N1 bird flu in Nevada dairy herds The USDA said four Nevada dairy herds were infected with an H5N1 bird flu strain that has circulated in wild birds, making prospects for containment in cows appear dim.

This is big because:
1. This is evidence of a 2nd avian-->cattle H5N1 introduction.
2. The D1.1 genotype was found in the severe case in British Columbia and the deadly case in Louisiana. It is possible that this genotype has an easier time adapting to human cells.

www.statnews.com/2025/02/05/u...

My short story "Dance Partner" just published in the e-zine Yellow Mama. Please check it out: blackpetalsks.tripod.com/yellowmama/i...

My short story, part of a linked volume of stories, was published today on the e-zine Yellow Mama. blackpetalsks.tripod.com/yellowmama/i...