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Top White House pandemic preparedness official resigns, officials say, in sign of broader disarray Exclusive: A top White House pandemic preparedness official has resigned, officials tell STAT, in a sign of broader disarray.

Lights out at the White House pandemic preparedness office? As Katherine Eban reports for STAT, Gerald Parker, who was heading WH preparedness work, has resigned. www.statnews.com/2025/07/30/w...

A Tiny Company Is Vouching for Risky Insurers in Hurricane Country As major home insurers flee storm-ravaged markets, Demotech’s ratings enable smaller ones to step in. A string of failures has left homeowners in the lurch.

Should insurer ratings companies judge whether the insurer scientifically assesses risk? It's not clear they do, because they seem to focus more on the financials of the insurers. Is that a recipe for .. disaster?
How do we trust insurer ratings? Who Watches the Watchmen?
www.wsj.com/finance/smal...

Hundreds warned they may need to "relocate temporarily" The alert comes as people in other states have been told to monitor themselves for symptoms such as unusual fatigue and coughing.

Wildfire doesn't need to be near people's homes to cause dangerous effects. But what happens if you usually take transit, bike, or walk, and are thus exposed? How can you "relocate temporarily" if you don't have reliable transportation (let alone somewhere to go)?
www.newsweek.com/colorado-wil...

"we thought only the poor people would suffer"

One of the best pieces of writing this year. If you've ever gone for a jog to feel just a bit better mentally, this is for you.

A runner’s highs and lows in escaping Cuba "Going for a jog at dawn wouldn’t fix anything, I knew that, but it would stretch the horizon."

The Spanish version of this story comes from the wonderful org Periodismo del Barrio; here's the English translation by our fantastic Latin America editor, @melissavida.bsky.social. As the daughter of a Cuban refugee, and someone who has on occasion done running-as-therapy, this story means so much.

I somehow missed or forgot that US funding for GAVI vaccine alliance has also been cut. That's not in the Lancet estimate of deaths attributable to USAID cut. www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/us-ma...

As of today, all current NOAA Climate and Global Change postdoctoral fellows have been furloughed due to the Dept of Commerce not releasing the funding for the program. In addition no new Fellows were awarded this year. cpaess.ucar.edu/cgc

Exclusive | HHS to Stop Recommending Routine Covid Shots for Children, Pregnant Women CDC currently recommends that everyone six months and older receive the vaccines

This decision is antithetical to public health. COVID-19 in pregnancy, particularly in the third trimester, is extremely dangerous and aside from the elderly infants younger than 6 months have the highest risk of hospitalization from COVID. They are critically dependent on maternal antibodies.

Millions of People Depend on the Great Lakes’ Water Supply. Trump Decimated the Lab Protecting It. The Trump administration’s slashing of budgets and staff have Great Lakes scientists concerned that they have lost the ability to protect the public from toxic algal blooms, which can kill animals…

Data generated by the Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory has helped to successfully avoid a repeat of a 2014 crisis in Toledo, Ohio, when nearly half a million people were warned to not drink the water or even touch it.

By @annaleighclark.bsky.social‬

Planet Detroit | An independent, nonprofit newsroom in Michigan. Planet Detroit produces news about local climate, environment and public health issues in Detroit and Michigan.

Just shared this post w/ Nina Misuraca Ignaczak at Planet Detroit (planetdetroit.org). Don't think she's on bsky but we're connected on LI.

Photo of Senator Chris Van Hollen with Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.

"Measles/therapy"[Mesh] "clarithromycin" - Search Results - PubMed "Measles/therapy"[Mesh] "clarithromycin" - Search Results - PubMed

#medsky #idsky 🧪

just for the record- there is literally 0 evidence for either budesonide or clarithromycin for the treatment of measles. I'm not exaggerating.

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What Susan Crawford’s Wisconsin Supreme Court win means The Dane County Circuit Court judge’s victory guarantees that liberals will control the court until at least 2028.

The results are in for Wisconsin's Supreme Court election. @byjackkelly.bsky.social on what Susan Crawford’s victory could mean for some key issues.

New Utah Law Seeks to Crack Down on Life Coaches Offering Therapy Without a License Some therapists who lose their licenses transition to the unregulated life coaching industry, an investigation by The Salt Lake Tribune and ProPublica found. A new law makes it clear that only license...

NEW: Dozens of life coaches advertised their ability to treat mental health issues, despite not having the training or permits to do so, Utah researchers found.

A new law aims to crack down on the practice by clearly defining what only a therapist can do.

With @sltrib.com

Fact briefs - Wisconsin Watch Wisconsin Watch is partnering with Gigafact to produce fact briefs — bite-sized fact checks of trending claims.

Our latest: Yes, an Elon Musk-founded PAC has spent more in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race than any outside group has spent cumulatively in supreme court races; and Yes, most federal spending is mandatory. wisconsinwatch.org/series/fact-...

As part of my book deal, I arranged a final chapter on the future: what the world may look like without organizations like USAID, the United Nations, the entire constellation of humanitarian aid and development agencies, who work to make a better world for the least advantaged among us.

This is why you don’t use vitamin A unsupervised. Especially in children (who are at higher risk of toxicity). The vitamin A toxidrome is AWFUL and there is no reversal agent.

This could have been avoided with a strong, clear communication about the importance of measles vaccination.

Comic with people in two panels texting on their phones. Woman in panel: "You up?" Man in second panel: "We're bombing Yemen tomorrow"

as anyone with relatives in their 80s knows, it's also a decade when aging happens *fast* - you can be much the same as ever one year, and have lost a lot of capacity the next.

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

The fight going on in the Democratic Party right now is not between hard left, left and moderate. It’s between those who want to fight and those who want to cave. And Team Fight stretches across all ideological aspects of the Party. Misread this at your own peril.

This goes back to the thing of: it's massively helpful to do something you suck at. To experience the experience of not being good at something, starting it from scratch, struggling to improve at it over a long time.

People who don't do this, tend to suck shit.

Avarua protestors demand transparency in the China-Cook Islands agreement "The Cook Islands is small, and when you sign deals with economic giants like China, you have to question the long-term consequences."

"The Cook Islands is small, and when you sign deals with economic giants like China, you have to question the long-term consequences."

The whole thing is important, but listen until the end: the US depends a lot on the flow of capital into the country because it is perceived as the safest port in a storm. Once that is no longer true, a lot of things Americans take for granted go away.

Ten years ago if you had written a dystopian SF story in which the person in charge of U.S. public health did a press event at a fast food joint to say that fried food is good but measles vaccines cause measles the ghost of Philip K. Dick would have said that you were being too bleak and unrealistic

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Large patches of black mold can be seen on the yellow ceiling of a school hallway in Alaska. The walls of the hall are orange and the door ahead is blue.

Over the past year, KYUK and ProPublica crawled under buildings and climbed into attics in schools across Alaska and found black mold, bat guano and a pool of raw sewage — health hazards that can cause respiratory problems, headaches and fatigue.

Read the full story: propub.li/4if0iPr