Deborah

“To heal we must remember.” President Joseph R. Biden

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

The administration saved pennies with its Doge lunacy and other public health cuts. Now we will lose lives and billions fighting Ebola, measles and screwworm, and consumers will pay more for beef. #SelfInflictedWounds

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

Thinking of my friend Alexei Navalny and his family today. He would have turned 50 today.
Goodbye to my fearless friend, Alexei Navalny https://t.co/HYsacXcJRT

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

The whole point is that he is unqualified and will make us less safe. This isn’t a glitch. It’s the design. The US is to bend to its rivals abroad and collapse from within. For this he is the right guy!
https://t.co/76hGh4lbnA

[Jeremy Konyndyk @JeremyKonyndyk]

DOGE didn't make a dent in the deficit, but it did bring back screwworm and enable a historically large new Ebola outbreak, so it's not like they didn't achieve *anything*

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

Trump, Musk and Rubio slashed aid and scoffed that it was woke nonsense. Now they're seeing that it not only saved one life every 10 seconds but also protected us from diseases like Ebola. Their actions constituted a security failure as well as a moral one.
More broadly, their fecklessness contrasts with the courage and humanity of doctors and aid workers in Congo and Uganda, lacking adequate PPE but still risking the virus to care for fellow humans.
Trump, Musk and Rubio might learn something from them. https://t.co/kPKj7fqJFZ

[Reuters @Reuters]

Healthcare officials in the US, including former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials, warned Congress against adopting a proposed policy to treat Americans exposed to Ebola in Kenya or countries in the European Union https://t.co/1GPamEgNgt

[Dylan Byers @DylanByers]

New statement from Scott Pelley:

There has never been anything in America like 60 Minutes.

The Sunday tradition is the most successful program of any kind in history. For more than a decade, its innovative growth on every major online platform has extended its reach to countless millions around the world. This spring, at the end of our 58thseason, 60 Minutes grew rapidly with an unheard-of 9% jump in viewers on CBS.

“60” has been the number-one program in America for decades because our beloved audience finds integrity, quality, and humanity in our stories. When stewardship of the program passed to my colleagues and me, our responsibility was to expand energetically into a new age of media technology while preserving the values our audience expects. Now, the new owner of our network is casting this legend aside, apparently to curry a moment of favor with the Trump administration.

The waste is heartbreaking.

Last month, 60 Minutes lost its DNA when our entire senior leadership and two of our best on-air correspondents were cruelly fired without cause. Good people were silenced because they stood up for our audience. They stood for fairness against the forces of political bias; they stood for professionalism against chaos.

For my part, new management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified. To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them. Recently, politicians have been invited to choose correspondents for interviews on the broadcast. Giving politicians control over 60 Minutes interviews is not how this is done. Finally, incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc. In a case involving one of my stories, the entire program came within 19 minutes of not getting on the air at all.

At 60 Minutes, we have fought harder than anyone knows to save the program that became an American icon. We owed that to our millions of viewers. I am deeply moved by the thousands of wishes we have received to “keep up the good fight.” Most of the men and women of CBS News are still in that fight. But now the collapse of values at the top has become untenable. The leadership of 60 Minutes is no longer recognizable. The principles I hold dear are gone, and so I must leave as well.

I depart after 37 years at CBS with one emotion—a heart brimming with gratitude for the men and women of CBS News who encouraged and enriched my work, very often at the risk of their own lives. I pray for a day when those people and their ideals are honored again—a day when sanity, competence, and courage return.

Scott Pelley

[Ben Rhodes @brhodes]

Some guy named Nick Bilton serving an audience of 1 (Bari) service an audience of 1 (Ellison) serving an audience of 1 (Trump). This is how oligarch-authoritarian takeover of media happens

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

Truly morally sickening: that anyone should wish all of Ukraine to suffer the fate of Mariupol or Bucha. Russian occupation of Ukraine means random arrests, executions, concentration camps; the destruction of language and culture; mass kidnapping of children. All of these things have been documented in the occupied territories and continue to go on.

[Jeremy Konyndyk @JeremyKonyndyk]

Over 1000 cases barely a week past detection.

Soon to be the 2nd largest Ebola outbreak ever, and echoing the 2014 mega-outbreak in all the worst ways.

A thread outlining the huge challenge that looms, and some thoughts on what must be done:

https://t.co/Ig3tjEZsDW

[Craig Spencer MD MPH @Craig_A_Spencer]

I've spent a lot of the last week speaking to people across government, media, and other actors involved in the Ebola response. Some reflections:

[Craig Spencer MD MPH @Craig_A_Spencer]

For the @nytimes, I wrote about how cruel and horrific Ebola is, as both a provider, and as a patient.

I tried to reflect the science, and the profound sadness.

Very grateful to my editor, who pushed me to make this more personal. I usually avoid doing so. For reasons that become clear at the end of this piece.

Gift link:

https://t.co/H2BITlyawX

[Dr. Angela Rasmussen @angie_rasmussen]

The ebola situation is extremely bad. The numbers keep going up & we are not keeping up.

Today, @celinegounder, @Craig_A_Spencer, @BhadeliaMD, @DokteCoffee, @KrutikaKuppalli, & I wrote that the US has abandoned our commitments to health & security:
https://t.co/6YMiUNDLfq

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

Literal definition of Orwellian

[Craig Spencer MD MPH @Craig_A_Spencer]

I’ve read a lot of reporting on Ebola. But this by @jwgale is excellent and essential reading.

Very few pieces pull together so many threads all at once, while giving clarity on what’s happening, and what comes next.

Read and share this @business gift link below:

https://t.co/Aw0z1x8f0v

[Craig Spencer MD MPH @Craig_A_Spencer]

I joined NPR Morning Edition to talk about the Ebola outbreak in the DR Congo

We learned too much, too quickly, for this outbreak to be anything but a big problem

We talked about the challenges of the response and where this likely headed

Have a listen:https://t.co/reB6stTuaQ

[Jeremy Konyndyk @JeremyKonyndyk]

It is pretty unprecedented for WHO to declare a PHEIC so rapidly after detecting an outbreak, but it is absolutely merited in this case.

This is a scary one.

Why?

- Very late detection
- Difficult context
- Limited countermeasures
- and global response tools got DOGE-d

🧵...

[Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @HelenBranswell]

As @statnews reported yesterday, several Americans in DRC had high-risk exposures to #Ebola in the latest outbreak. One, a doctor, has tested positive. These individuals are being flown to Germany for observation and treatment as needed. https://t.co/dVFY2n9MX3

[Craig Spencer MD MPH @Craig_A_Spencer]

Just wanna say that @HelenBranswell is absolutely crushing the reporting on every aspect of this Ebola outbreak. @statnews

[Deborah @dmitchell121]

Where Was Nurul Amin Shah Alam? https://t.co/7ZvrElyc50 via @NYTimes