Kelly Hills, MPH

So, he impersonated a government employee while committing all of the other crimes? Sounds like extra charges to me.

NEW: The DOGE operative who gutted USAID -- firing thousands of employees and canceling lifesaving programs -- never actually signed the paperwork that's legally required for him to be employed by the agency.

Man, you know you’ve really screwed up when even the current CDC is urging you to act. 😐 #pandemic #h5n1 #mink

Hinderaker, a Trump appointee, is not playing cute here. He is stating his problems upfront and, I think smartly, focusing on Soliman now. Any contempt questions can follow his return which is, rightly, Hinderaker's priority now — even if it does not appear to be the priority of DOJ or DHS.

Here's the latest order in the case of Soliman, a gay man sent by the Trump admin to Equatorial Guinea, where he has faced abuse: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

BREAKING: In a blistering order, Judge Hinderaker details how the Trump admin only has done anything in the case of Ahmed Soliman when ordered to do so. As such, he now orders DOJ to address each of the 11 steps he sees as being needed to bring Soliman back to the U.S.

In the present moment so many people are angry (justifiably angry) about the actions taken by a certain trillionaire, but considering how the ongoing outbreak of Ebola in Congo has now exceeded 10,000 confirmed cases, people should be angrier.

So hard to pick a favorite part of this article. Pretending that sending unsolicited dick pics at 53 was a “youthful indiscretion” is good, but don’t sleep on the argument that his wife forgave him for subjecting other women to unwanted nude photos so everyone else should too

Breaking: DARPA-funded employees shocked projects now being used by federal agency for “defense”

There's no ACIP in the US right now -- and there won't be for the foreseeable future because RFK Jr isn't reconstituting the group. That is already having consequences for new vaccines, which don't have ACIP recommendations. My latest: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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"Young mayor gets caught using police gym for pickup basketball" is the plot of a kids movie where the mayor is the hero

If you’re ever in need of random entertainment, especially whilst on bedrest (yes, again, long story), I highly recommend turning the subtitles on for Bondi Rescue (or really, any Aussie TV show).

The news from Brazil and Serbia are great and show that you don't defeat the far right by copying it or trying to appeal to their supporters You do it by being uncompromising, showing the danger they pose and offering something different to the many crises people suffer from

A new survey of 1,000 American adults found that the strongest supporters of transgender sports bans are not the people who admire women most: they are the people who hold the most hostile views about women. www.helenwebberley.com/news/transge...

Meanwhile in the UK, if Burnham succeeds in holding off the far right, it will be because he understands retail politics the way only a mayor can: keep people happy in high-visibility ways while offering a broader vision of the destination. So, everyday fixes plus EU free movement.

It's remarkable to me that, even as France, Germany and Spain flirt with the temptation of far-right rule, voters with long-term experience of it in Poland, Hungary and now Serbia have gone to such great efforts to rid themselves of it.

Imagine voluntarily admitting this. To the whole world!

Some ground rules that have helped us: - Go outside your bubble, try new social media channels - Don’t underestimate the power of WhatsApp (although less so in the U.S.) - Post on the Instagram grid, not just stories - Watch every Instagram video until the end before sharing - IGNORE THEM

After the first round elections, Congressman André Janones created a WhatsApp channel titled “Lula’s Army.” It ballooned to 10 million people following his commands on how to behave online to counteract Meta’s far-right-favouring algorithms. The right knows how to use socials. We must learn, too.

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

Watch this with Trump at his side, remember the dissents in the birthright citizenship case — www.lawdork.com/p/six-opinio... — and understand there are no limits, no places they wouldn’t go.

Also, never forget: RFK Jr put together a panel of his buddies as peptide advisers, who voted to make peptides more easily available—but SEVEN of the advisers have financial conflicts of interest! MAHA is all about grifting, corruption, and ties to industry www.cspi.org/press-releas...

This is worded weirdly generically with the lede buried. “all students who wish to compete on girls’ teams would have to undergo genital exams.” Surprise, surprise. Not boys teams then? It’s the usual Handmaid’s Tale anti-women BS portrayed as anti-trans protections.

This is intended to end women's sports entirely. Because who would let their daughters play if a random man (you know it will be a man) gets to examine her naked genitals? Nobody, and that kills Title 9.

conservatives in washington state want freedom and small government in the form of state-mandated genital exams for high school students: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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I refuse to think that little of Americans.

This faux populist shit from Washington/media insiders is so obnoxious. "I'm offended on behalf of these rubes"

So in a huge surprise to absolutely no one, it turns out that NIH director Jay Bhattacharya's new journal based on the premise of letting his friends and only his friends publish essentially whatever they want is full of crackpot nonsense from retired cranks.

I Bought a Pair of Scissors, Then I Stabbed Myself in the Foot. It Nearly Cost Me My Foot.

This is why I only give to individual candidates now, never to @electdemocrats.bsky.social. No one gets thrown under the fucking bus.

Scoop: White House lawyers are weighing preemptive mass pardons for junior staff, sources says Under discussion: Pardoning everyone involved in deportation, war, or trade policy www.washingtonsun.com/whitehouse/w...

Well this is beyond a bad take. Being gifted doesn’t mean you suddenly know how to teach, it just means you’re working at a different (often grade) level than same age peers. Also? I know this is a bad take because my high school eliminated both sides of special education & ALL students suffered.

In the back of the drawer I found the watch that I lost at the start of the pandemic, and so I kept digging and so I kept digging to see if I could find the other things that I lost at the start of the pandemic, but (alas) my faith in other people wasn’t in there.

Wait, WHAT? If the Republican loses, Trump’s justice department will block certification?

The quiet part out loud.....

When I was a junior doc, I worked in Europe's first AIDS hospice (The Mildmay) It's no longer needed: highly active HIV medicines allow people with HIV to live as long as their HIV-negative peers And now we have a twice-yearly injection (lenacapavir) that's 100% effective at preventing HIV