UPDATE—18 year old boy dying of cancer finally gets his wish to hug his parents one last time.
It took 57 hours—after federal judge ordered his parents' expedited removal from ICE detention.
Terminally ill boy had been separated from his mom and dad for a total of 5 months.
BREAKING: Spain is deploying quarantine hospitals, sealed transfer corridors and mandatory isolation for MV Hondius contacts
CDC says U.S. passengers will not be quarantined.
No vote in Tennessee (+1 GOP)
No vote in Florida (+4 GOP)
No vote in Missouri (+1 GOP)
No vote in North Carolina (+2 GOP)
No vote in Texas (+5 GOP)
Virginia’s voter-approved maps thrown out.
MAGA has rigged the system.
Hey @NIH — the American people are waking up to what’s happening behind closed doors, and we’re not going to stay silent anymore.
Thousands of dogs are still being bred into laboratories and experimentation pipelines while the world advances beyond these outdated systems.
We want transparency. We want alternatives. And we’re going to fight like hell to save these dogs.
🆘️DALE EARNHARDT #A388169
EXTREMELY URGENT 🆘️
Adorable little guy has been ravaged 😭extremely infected wound on his muzzle,face & foot!
Little guy is suffering in pain,but so tender & trusting💔
HE IS DEPENDING ON US TO SAVE HIM!
PLZ #Pledge4Rescue ⌛️ #CorpusChristiACS#TX
NEW | Leaked recordings expose U.S.-Israeli plot to destabilize Latin America
El Pais reports leaked audio recordings point to a coordinated effort involving figures including Donald Trump, Juan Orlando Hernández, Javier Milei, and Benjamin Netanyahu to interfere in Latin America through disinformation campaigns targeting governments in Mexico and Colombia.
The recordings reveals that Hernández, who is backed by Trump and supported by Milei, sought to establish a media platform from the United States to spread fake news and destabilize the administrations of Claudia Sheinbaum and Gustavo Petro.
They also indicate financial coordination and political backing for the project, while stressing that Netanyahu played a role in broader arrangements tied to Hernández’s release.
The revelations highlight a wider pattern of foreign interference aimed at influencing political dynamics and undermining governments opposing U.S.-Israeli interests in the region.
Tennessee Republicans did it.
The final vote is in. They just gutted the only Black-majority district to lock in more Republican power.
Black voters shut out, representation erased.
Call it what it is, a white supremacy power grab. And a shameful day for Tennessee, the birth place of the KKK.
Brian Harpole, the actor who pretended to be TPUSA “security” on 9/10 at UVU, served me with papers including a “demand” that I preserve my data, files, text messages, call logs, etc.
The papers also “demanded” my reply within 24 hours, so here’s my reply:
No. Fuck off.
9,000 schools across the country are being affected by a massive hack right now that is shutting down Canvas during finals week for millions of American students (including me).
It would be nice if we had an FBI Director focused on responding to things like this with the same verve he shows for abusing his power to investigate people who discuss his consumption of alcohol.
It is with a heavy heart that I share the sad news that one of my lab members, Pengli Wang, PhD student in chemical engineering, has passed away on Friday, May 1, at the age of 28, in an unexpected accident.
I’ve struggled to write this because it is hard to put into words just how much Pengli meant to our lab, his friends, the Stanford graduate student community, and of course his family.
From my own limited perspective, Pengli was any advisor’s dream student: creative, insightful, courageous, and an extraordinarily gifted experimentalist. He was a true polymath, self-taught in everything from computational protein structural modeling to high-throughput protein engineering to animal behavioral testing.
In only 3.5 years in the lab, Pengli had already made an enormous and lasting impact on the field of protein engineering. He has a co-first-author paper in press describing a new method that will transform both empirical and AI-based protein engineering. He also recently submitted a first-author paper on imaging neurotransmitters through enzymatic light emission, enabling us to observe cellular communication in living animals completely noninvasively. I expect this work will lead to new ways of investigating and understanding neurological and metabolic disease.
Arthur C. Clarke wrote that “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” Pengli was the best magician, producing eye-opening tricks, each better than the last. The loss of his future contributions is immeasurable, but the technologies he already created will continue to benefit science and medicine for years to come.
What truly made Pengli special, though, was his kindness and joy for life. He never hesitated to help others, and he generously mentored many newer lab members, all of whom spoke about what an exceptional teacher he was. He also had an unforgettable spirit — the loudest and funniest laugh in the room, and an ability to eat astonishing amounts of food while somehow remaining skinny. He is deeply missed by everyone who knew him.
Pengli, may you rest in peace and in the lasting glow of your accomplishments. You represented the very best of humanity and will forever remain an inspiration to all of us.
💔
Toddlers killed in Gaza by Israel, since October 7, 2023:
Under 1 year old (infant): 953
1 year old: 943
2 years old: 972
3 years old: 899
4 years old: 868
5 years old: 985
6 years old: 924
Ages 0–6: 6,544
This does not include the unidentified/unrecovered from the rubble.
Swiss authorities have confirmed a case of #hantavirus identified in a passenger from the MV Hondius cruise ship.
He had responded to an email from the ship’s operator informing the passengers of the health event, and presented himself to a hospital in Zurich, Switzerland, and is receiving care.
In line with the International Health Regulations (IHR), WHO is working with relevant countries to support international contact tracing, to ensure that those potentially exposed are monitored and that any further disease spread is limited.
The type of virus in this outbreak has been confirmed as Andes hantavirus by the National Institute for Communicable Diseases @nicd_sa, South Africa and the Geneva University Hospitals @hug_ge, Switzerland
The support of the Institut Pasteur de Dakar @PasteurDakar, Senegal and the Administración Nacional de Laboratorios e Institutos de Salud @ANLIS_Malbran, Argentina has also been critical in responding to this event.
As of 6 May, there are 8 cases, 3 of whom are confirmed as hantavirus by laboratory testing.
WHO will continue to work with countries to ensure that the patients, contacts, passengers and crew have the information and support they need to stay safe and prevent spread.