Maureen Canning

Infection Control Consultant. HIV Counsellor. Nurse Immuniser. Passionate about preventing infections. Views my own.

[💧Mary Kostakidis @MaryKostakidis]

Superb (short) speech in NSW Parliament by Stephen Lawrence - following the release of the UN Report concluding Israel’s killing of children is ‘targeted’ - urging us all to confront the reality of what Israel is doing

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Let me tell you what just got reported, because you will not believe it until you see it laid out.

The Trump administration cut a billion-dollar tungsten deal with Kazakhstan. Tungsten is the metal we need for missile warheads, fighter jets, and computer chips. Trump himself got on the phone to close it. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick worked it from the inside, sending letters, leaning on the Kazakh president, lining up as much as $1.6 billion in federal financing.

Within weeks of those negotiations, investors tied to a firm partly owned by Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump took a 20% stake in an entity connected to the very same Kazakhstan project their father was negotiating. Around that same time, Cantor Fitzgerald, the firm run by Lutnick’s own sons, raised $210 million for a partner in the deal and pocketed the fees.

The fathers set the policy. The sons cashed in.

Six days after the Trump sons and their partners moved their money, Lutnick signed the final deal.

The reporting found one or both families have financial ties to at least 14 companies working with the government on critical mining deals.

The total federal funding flowing toward those companies tops $8.9 billion.

This is your tax money.

It is supposed to secure our supply chains and protect our troops, not pad the portfolios of the President’s children and the Commerce Secretary’s children.

This is the most corrupt administration in American history. It is not close.

We must keep digging, and keep asking the questions they do not want asked. Republicans in Congress are unwilling to lift a finger. Mike Johnson is running a protection racket.

Either we will end the corruption, or the corruption will be the end of us.

https://t.co/yFOl7zvOhC

[Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @HelenBranswell]

This #Ebola outbreak has quickly become alarmingly large & will be very hard to contain. But only the 3rd outbreak of the Bundibugyo Ebola virus, it presents a rare opportunity to study this virus, @kakape.bsky.social reports. https://t.co/B6u0bb7RYk

[ABC News @abcnews]

#BREAKING: The deadly H5 variant of avian influenza has been detected in a bird that washed up on a remote beach in Western Australia's south, the first time the disease has been found in Australia.

On Saturday federal Agriculture Minister Julie Collins said further testing had confirmed the bird had the H5 strain, after a suspected positive result for avian influenza was returned on Friday.
https://t.co/CC4b5RR2m8

[𝐌𝐚𝐥𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐦 @Malcolm_Pal9]

"Israel beat, tortured, and sexually assaulted me and my fellow humanitarian peace activists for days."

Statement by Australian activist Violet Coco after her release from an Israeli prison.

Listen to every word carefully.

[CDC @CDCgov]

Effective May 20, 2026 at 11:59 PM Eastern Daylight Time (EDT), CDC initiated public health entry screening for travelers arriving from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), South Sudan, and Uganda. Effective May 22, 2026 at 11:59 PM EDT, operations have expanded to include Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL). CDC’s Port Health Protection system operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year to support these and other public health response activities at U.S. ports of entry.

Public health entry screening serves as an important part of CDC’s layered prevention approach. In combination with existing public health measures already in place to identify symptomatic travelers, these efforts help slow and reduce the potential spread of disease into the United States.

Travelers who have been in the DRC, South Sudan, or Uganda within 21 days prior to arriving in the United States will be escorted to a designated airport screening area. There, travelers will answer public health screening questions and may undergo additional assessment as needed.

https://t.co/aINGCIbFlO

[Eric Feigl-Ding @DrEricDing]

⚠️BREAKING—The @WHO has declared the Ebola epidemic a new “PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY OF INTERNATIONAL CONCERN” (PHEIC)… and for good reasons:

The sudden 2026 Ebola epidemic event is extraordinary for the following reasons:

📌As of 16 May 2026, eight laboratory-confirmed cases, 246 suspected cases and 80 suspected deaths have been reported in Ituri Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo across at least three health zones, including Bunia, Rwampara and Mongbwalu. In addition, two laboratory confirmed cases (including one death) with ***no apparent link to each other*** have been reported in Kampala, Uganda, within 24 hours of each other, on 15 and 16 May 2026, among two individuals travelling from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. On 16 May, a laboratory confirmed case has also been reported in Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, among someone returning from Ituri.

📌Unusual clusters of community deaths with symptoms compatible with Bundibugyo virus disease (BVD) have been reported across several health zones in Ituri, and suspected cases have been reported across Ituri and North Kivu. In addition, ***at least four deaths among healthcare workers in a clinical context suggestive of viral haemorrhagic fever have been reported from the affected area raising concerns regarding healthcare-associated transmission***, gaps in infection prevention and control measures, and the potential for amplification within health facilities.

📌There are significant uncertainties to the true number of infected persons and geographic spread associated with this event at the present time. In addition, there is limited understanding of the epidemiological links with known or suspected cases.

📌However, the high positivity rate of the initial samples collected (with eight positives among 13 samples collected in various areas), the confirmation of cases in both Kampala and Kinshasa, the increasing trends in syndromic reporting of suspected cases and clusters of deaths across the province of Ituri all ***point towards a potentially much larger outbreak than what is currently being detected and reported, with significant local and regional risk of spread***.

[Abraar Karan @AbraarKaran]

The WHO has declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern regarding the #Ebola outbreak in DR Congo which has spread to Kampala, Uganda, as well as DRC’s capital city of Kinshasa.

“The event is extraordinary for the following reasons:
As of 16 May 2026, eight laboratory-confirmed cases, 246 suspected cases and 80 suspected deaths have been reported in Ituri Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo across at least three health zones, including Bunia, Rwampara and Mongbwalu. In addition, two laboratory confirmed cases (including one death) with no apparent link to each other have been reported in Kampala, Uganda, within 24 hours of each other, on 15 and 16 May 2026, among two individuals travelling from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. On 16 May, a laboratory confirmed case has also been reported in Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, among someone returning from Ituri.”

[T. Bernadetti @MrsRoyKeaneo]

Aww man this is SO well done!!

The movie Hollywood would NEVER Greenlight!!

This deserves to be retweeted until the end of time!!

Turn it up!! #Israël #Trump #EpsteinFiles

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

America told Europe to spend more on defence for 30 years. Europe finally listened. Then built its own industry, cancelled the contracts, and stopped returning Washington's calls.

https://t.co/LczHwGx4LO

Rheinmetall up 323%. Saab up 284%. €38 billion gone from American order books in a single year.

This is the story of the greatest self-inflicted industrial catastrophe in modern history, told with the numbers, the contracts, and the names of every country that quietly walked out the door.

[Maureen Canning @CanningMaureen]

@DavidB9715 @charise_lee Great biggie with the world watching for the US economy to collapse, USD losing traction to the Yuan, tourism and trade tanking whilst America funds terrorism with Israel. America is the terrorist BTW.

[Maureen Canning @CanningMaureen]

@callander1012 @MiddleEastEye As opposed to Palestinian’s being tortured, raped (including by dogs) and killed by Israel!

[Maureen Canning @CanningMaureen]

@ccrn1955 @realgerhardtvdm What gives America the right to do this? It’s illegal just like their illegal war. Piracy too!

[Maureen Canning @CanningMaureen]

Another LEGO drop

[Catholic Arena @CatholicArena]

The US Conference of Catholic Bishops has released a response to JD Vance's comments about Pope Leo XIV:

'For over a thousand years, the Catholic Church has taught just war theory and it is that long tradition the Holy Father carefully references in his comments on war. A constant tenet of that thousand-year tradition is a nation can only legitimately take up the sword ‘in self-defense, once all peace efforts have failed’

That is, to be a just war it must be a defense against another who actively wages war, which is what the Holy Father actually said: ‘He does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war.

When Pope Leo XIV speaks as supreme pastor of the universal Church, he is not merely offering opinions on theology, he is preaching the Gospel and exercising his ministry as the Vicar of Christ. The consistent teaching of the Church is insistent that all people of good will must pray and work toward lasting peace while avoiding the evils and injustices that accompany all wars'

[Maureen Canning @CanningMaureen]

@tjbenc @SDGMasterglass

[Maureen Canning @CanningMaureen]

@1BN18THFA @KerryBurgess Antichrist you mean! There is nothing Christian in Trump or his Administration nor Christian Nationalists. It’s the polar opposite to Christ’s teachings.

[Maureen Canning @CanningMaureen]

@Relic2022 @RickSanchezTV @RT_com The Pope is having a global prayer praying for peace tonight at 6pm Rome time. So yes he is calling out for peace!

[Maureen Canning @CanningMaureen]

@green_eye_haver @Amockx2022 Far sadder to see America collapsing as it alienates the world. USA is the bigger loser in this.