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Ethiopia confirms outbreak of deadly Marburg virus Africa CDC says at least nine cases have been detected of Ebola-like illness, which kills up to 80% of those infected

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AI’s Invasive Species The slop is winning.

Hi. I wrote an essay about AI slop: How it feels like an invasive species for the internet. How its boosters describe building a future that’s devoid of craft. How frictionlessness can be nihilistic & how this stuff seems to leach part of our shared humanity out of the world. I hope you'll read it.

No one is coming to save us. This will be a grassroots movement.

Tech industrial complex replacing the military industrial complex

IRS layoffs are costly for the U.S., redistributing wealth to the top 1% (who lie on their taxes at jaw-dropping rates).

The bottom 99% generally pay their taxes. cepr.org/voxeu/column...

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

“The agency’s human resources staff, which had been furloughed as part of the government shutdown, [was] called back to work to send out layoff notices to their colleagues.”

Not dying from the bubonic plague.

BREAKING NEWS: CDC employees terminated in apparent Friday night massacre. The Trump administration is using the shutdown to further weaken the our national public health infrastructure.

It’s considered impolite to use language like this, but “evil” is the best word for what these folks are doing. It’s bad enough to screw over workers to attack political enemies. But here, doing so will literally kill people and lead to avoidable disease.

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You Really Need to See Epstein’s Birthday Book for Yourself This time, the conspiracy theorists were right.

I wrote about what I think is a genuinely revealing document of elite depravity and impunity. It is shocking and sickening. But it's also a crucial moment. We're about to see what happens when conspiracy theorists actually get what they asked for but it turns out not to be what they want.

going to keep saying: a society that would like to keep functioning has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

Authoritarians thrive on your silence — be loud — for America.

Woo! Went to Costco to pick up meds, and was offered my COVID and flu shots while I'm here.

(Eagan, MN)

The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city.

This is not a joke. This is not normal.

Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.

PUBLIC HEALTH ORDER NEW MEXICO DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SECRETARY GINA DEBLASSIE AUGUST 29, 2025 Ensuring Availability of COVID-19 Vaccine for the 2025-2026 Season

THIS ORDER supersedes any previous order, proclamation, or directives to the extent they are in conflict. This Public Order shall take effect immediately and remain in effect until such time as it automatically expires one year from the date of issuance, or until such time as the New Mexico Department of Health Cabinet Secretary rescinds it.

New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!

Multiple leaders resign or refuse to resign

Mark 27 August 2025 as a day in history for CDC

Senator Murray Calls for Immediate Firing of RFK Jr., Commends CDC Director Monarez’s Stand for Science and Public Health - Senator Patty Murray Senator Murray: “If there are any adults left in the White House, it’s well past time they face reality… We cannot let RFK Jr. burn what’s left of the CDC and our other critical health agencies to the...

RKF Jr. is a dangerous man who is determined to abuse his authority to act on truly terrifying conspiracy theories and disinformation—leaving us unprepared for the next deadly pandemic and snuffing out potential cures while he’s at it.

My full statement.

Yes we must #FireKennedy.

True at CDC, NIH, NSF, and every science agency.

New C.D.C. Director Resists Ouster as Other Officials Resign

The Times story sets this up more as the fight that it appears to be (for now), since Monarez won’t resign.

Average life expectancy of the US versus other rich nations. We spend more and live shorter.

It just absolutely blows that RFK Jr. looked at this and said, no that’s not bad enough, we can do worse

New C.D.C. Director Resists Ouster as Other Officials Resign

I had serious doubts about CDC Director Monarez’s willingness to stand up against RFK Jr.’s personal mission to destroy public health in America—I’m glad that I was wrong.

If there are any adults left in the White House: we cannot let RFK Jr. burn what's left of CDC. FIRE HIM.

Quote tweet from @AliRogin reading: BREAKING: At least 3 CDC leaders have resigned tonight: Dan Jernigan, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases Deb Houry, chief medical officer Demetre Daskalakis, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases Possibly more TK. Quoting a tweet that reads: NEW: Following the reports of Monarez’s departure as @CDCgov director, several other leaders have just submitted their resignations: Dan Hernigan, head of the National Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases and Deb Houry, the CDC’s chief medical officer. Unclear if related.

What will it take for Republicans to understand that RFK Jr. is dangerous?

“The recent change in the adult and children’s immunization schedule threaten the lives of the youngest Americans and pregnant people.”

This should be one of the biggest scandals in America right now. And every Democrat should be loudly calling for RFK Jr’s resignation

Millennials Need a Vacation From Family Vacation Among parents determined to pass down their globe-trotting values, travel has become ever more ambitious and goal-oriented—and exhausting.

More than previous generations, Millennials determined to raise worldly kids have prioritized travel with their children. But that has turned vacation into something more ambitious, goal-oriented, and exhausting, Faith Hill reports.

YouTube video by Fast Politics w/ Molly Jong-Fast ICE’s New Look Is Terrifying w/ Andy Levy

Talked to @andylevy.net

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Gutted: How Deeply Trump Has Cut Federal Health Agencies More than 20,500 workers have left or been pushed out of federal health agencies, a ProPublica analysis found. Staffers say the cuts will leave their agencies less equipped to conduct studies, perform...

The Damage Report
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Sam Altman: I see humans achieving omnipotence using dark matter by… 2030 maybe? That’s if OpenAI is given a quadrillion dollars

Theo Von: Yeah

Altman: Or, we may become a race of slaves, genetically modified to be harvested by robot spiders. That’s if OpenAI doesn’t get the money

Von: Right