Bryant Furlow

This is not a border crossing.
There’s no law that any of us have to show our papers on the interior.

This is a blatant civil rights violation. How is anyone supposed to know whether this man is a real ICE agent or just pretending to be one?!

CIDRAP Op-Ed: Why the CDC director is wrong about the MMR vaccine

Excellent op Ed about the issues with single vaccines published in response to Trumps Statement about single shots for Measles, mumps and rubella as well as CDC call for single vaccine manufacturer 🧵🧪#HealthPolicy

INBOX: The Chicago News Guild joined others in suing ICE for attacking journalists at the Broadview facility.

“Our members have a right, protected by the First Amendment, to do their jobs and report the news. They should not be targeted, injured or arrested for doing their jobs.”

Chicago journalists, protesters sue Trump administration, alleging ‘extreme brutality’ The organizations are urging the court to protect the First Amendment rights of protesters to peacefully protest and journalists to “observe, record, and report on the federal agents’ activities and t...

"A group of Chicago press associations, journalists, nonprofits and unions sued the Trump administration and its top officials Monday, saying federal agents had used 'extreme brutality' at local protests to silence both the press and civilians."

My quote of the day

If you want to preserve democracy as we know it, you have to have a free and many times adversarial press. And without it, I am afraid that we would lose so much of our individual liberties over time. That's how dictators get started.

John McCain

DHS clears way to build border wall across New Mexico LAS CRUCES — The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is once again waiving a raft of laws protecting wildlife, archaeological preservation and environmental protections in order to expedite border wa...

A notice for tomorrow’s federal register designates a project area across most of New Mexico’s international boundary for border wall and related construction, including a new north-south stretch in the Bootheel.

"Many mental health professionals and patient advocates say treating this as First Amendment speech could set a precedent under which any counseling is claimed to be free speech and no longer subject to professional standards, even if it's dangerous or inappropriate."

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio insisted “no one has died” as a result of U.S. foreign aid cuts. In Myanmar, the grieving father of a 2-year-old boy who died after their food rations were cut calls such claims a lie.

The EPA is ending greenhouse gas data collection. Who will step up to fill the gap? With the agency no longer collecting emissions data from polluting companies, attention is turning to whether climate NGOs have the tools—and legal right—to fulfill this EPA function.

The EPA is ending greenhouse gas data collection. Who will step up to fill the gap? #Climate

1/ In August 2020, the president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, made an extraordinary request to President Trump’s ambassador, Ronald Johnson. A previously undisclosed report tells what happened next, according to a new ProPublica investigation. 🧵 ⬇️

Former 'Daily Lobo' editor victorious after 2-year records battle with UNM Lily Alexander, now a reporter for The New Mexican, settled a lawsuit with UNM for $195,000 over its refusal to hand over police weapons records.

www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_n...

CBS News staffers are ‘literally freaking out’ about Bari Weiss taking over newsroom EXCLUSIVE: ‘People are using words like depressing and doomsday – feels like some sort of doomsday,’ one source told The Independent about the mood inside CBS News right now.

“'The fact that we don't have money to pay journalists, but we have money to pay Bari Weiss between $100 and 200 million is indicative of what the Ellisons' true goal here is,' a network correspondent said. 'And it's not journalism.'"

The 280 pediatric flu deaths are the highest number reported in the U.S. since the 2009-10 H1N1 pandemic and the highest for a non-pandemic flu season since child deaths became nationally notifiable in 2004. The mortality rate was highest overall in infants under 6 months of age

State files Yazzie/Martinez draft action plan; plaintiffs say it falls short The New Mexico Public Education Department has not yet released the plan or commented on what it has filed.

The New Mexico Public Education Department filed an initial draft of a remedial action plan in a landmark education lawsuit by a court-ordered deadline Wednesday, plaintiffs said. sfnm.co/4nUNcJA

CDC's vaccine information no longer entirely trustworthy, former director says The former CDC director says vaccine information on CDC website is no longer entirely trustworthy and urges people to get vaccine guidance elsewhere.

Sickening to see this happen to CDC.

CDC’s vaccine information no longer entirely trustworthy, former director says www.statnews.com/2025/09/05/f... @statnews

"She encouraged people looking for answers to go to those medical organizations, hospitals, or their health care providers."

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated' The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

My god.

“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

Listeria Outbreak to include more Prepared Foods A CDC food safety alert regarding a multistate outbreak of Listeria infections has been updated and expanded: https://www.cdc.gov/listeria/outbreaks/chicken-fettuccine-alfredo-06-25/index.html Key Points: Three additional illnesses and one additional death have been reported in this outbreak. Another product has been added to this...

Listeria Outbreak to include more Prepared Foods
->Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | #Food | More from BigEarthData.ai

Veteran U.S. attorney in California insisted Border Patrol follow a court order. Then she was fired Michele Beckwith, U.S. attorney in Sacramento, said she was let go after warning the border patrol's Gregory Bovino not to violate a court injunction.

"The acting U.S. attorney in Sacramento has said she was fired after telling the Border Patrol chief in charge of immigration raids in California that his agents were not allowed to arrest people without probable cause in the Central Valley." Source: Los Angeles Times
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National Defense Ministry Honors 11 Soldiers for Refusing Illegal Orders National Defense Ministry Honors 11 Soldiers for Refusing Illegal Orders Honored for rejecting illegal orders during martial law, Marine death probe

The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy.
www.chosun.com/english/nati...

Medical Groups Warn Against Visa Fees for Foreign Doctors

“Doctors from abroad make up nearly one quarter of the physician work force in the United States. They provide much of the staffing in rural and underserved areas of the country, and many fill positions in important areas of medicine that are often shunned by U.S.-trained physicians”

Six books to read to understand Europe’s hard right They help explain the movement

The hard right is dominating European politics. Our recommendations help explain the movement, its beliefs and its bugbears

4 vaccines linked to a lower risk of dementia Some vaccine-preventable diseases are linked to accelerated brain atrophy and increased dementia risk years down the line.

Get a shot, protect your brain? Maybe so!

🔹️The 4 vaccines for which research notes an association w/ lower rates of dementia: flu, shingles, RSV & Tdap (tetanus, diphtheria & pertussis)

🔹️Causality isn't confirmed, b/c "people who get vaccines may be...

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The world is hot — and only getting hotter. Here's what places around the globe are doing to keep cool, from repainting surfaces and installing outdoor showers to planting trees and going underground. nyti.ms/46CXyqn

“Kennedy's approval has dropped… Only 17% of those polled in the current survey said they were very confident in medical information from Kennedy. Twenty-two percent said they were somewhat confident, 11% said they were not so confident, and 46% were not confident at all.”

A New Era of Vaccine Federalism As confidence in the C.D.C. wanes, states are asserting more control over their vaccine policies, creating a fragmented public-health system.

“With the federal government in retreat, vaccine wars have shifted to the states.” @dhruvkhullar.bsky.social writes about how states are abiding by, enforcing, or fighting against Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.,’s vaccine-policy rollbacks.

I deleted my original post, deciding it was irresponsible to weigh in so early after the shooting. But my first instinct was to check who actually uses that specific phrase.

Time magazine graph depicting number of politically motivated terrorist acts since 1975. The majority of these incidents were committed by political-right perpetrators.

The Guardian headline: US DOJ removes study showing right-wing extremists commit much more terrorism and political violence than others.

Our executive director Stephanie Ettinger de Cuba is quoted in a new article on the health impact of Medicaid and SNAP cuts from @bryantfurlow.bsky.social in @lancetchildadol.bsky.social: "We can’t food bank our way out of this." Read the article: childrenshealthwatch.org/medicaid-foo...

Trump ends annual report on U.S. hunger amid rising food insecurity The Trump administration is ending a decades-long report on U.S. hunger, calling it “politicized.” Last year, the USDA report warned of rising food insecurity.

But the Trump administration is taking steps that will obscure the impacts. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

Lost access to food aid will impact low-income communities across the US, increasing strain on food pantries. “We know that for every meal a community food pantry provides, SNAP can provide nine”, Ettinger de Cuba said. “We can't food bank our way out of this.”