“Congo’s health ministry on Thursday announced a new Ebola outbreak, the 16th in the central African country, after a case was confirmed in the southern Kasai province. ‘To date, the provisional report shows 28 suspected cases and 15 deaths, including 14 in Boulapé and 1 in Mweka, as well as four healthcare workers,’ said Samuel-Roger Kamba, Congo’s health minister. He added that the case fatality rate, estimated at 53.6%, showed the gravity of the situation. He said that the figures were provisional and research was ongoing. The suspected cases and deaths presented symptoms such fever, vomiting, diarrhoea and haemorrhage. The confirmed case was of a 34-year-old pregnant woman in the locality of Boulape, in the southern Kasai province. The World Health Organization said Thursday it dispatched its experts alongside Congo’s Rapid Response Team to Kasai Province to strengthen disease surveillance, treatment and infection prevention and control in health facilities.” (09/04/25)
“Let me start by saying that I am generally a fan of what Robert Kennedy Jr. is trying to do over at the Department of Health and Human Services. As a recovering health policy guy, I know there is a lot of room for changes and streamlining over at HHS – a lot of boats that need to be rocked, and RFK is nothing if not a boat-rocker. That being said, I agree with no one 100 percent of the time, not even myself. So there are a couple of things I’d like someone in the Senate to ask him about. First, I do want to explore the topic I’m sure Democrats will attempt to hammer him on: vaccines. I don’t know if traditional vaccines cause autism or anything else, but I do have friends who have children with autism and some swear by the idea that they do.” (09/04/25)
“A group of anonymous federal judges is criticizing the Supreme Court for overturning lower court rulings and siding with President Donald Trump’s administration with little to no explanation, NBC News reported Thursday. NBC spoke with 12 federal judges, appointed by Democratic and Republican presidents including Trump, who pointed to a trend of lower court decisions being overturned by emergency rulings from the high court. These cases often see prominent members of Trump’s administration lashing out at lower court judges before their cases are overturned. Ten of the 12 judges argued the Supreme Court should offer more explanation when overturning such decisions, saying emergency rulings in such cases imply poor work on the part of lower court judges. ‘It is inexcusable,’ one judge said of the Supreme Court. ‘They don’t have our backs.’ That judge also said they have received death threats for issuing rulings that counter Trump’s agenda.” [editor’s note: So “affirm the Constitution” is now “counter Trump’s agenda?” – SAT] [additional editor’s note: You can have “affirm the Constitution” OR “Trump’s agenda.” Pick one – TLK] (09/04/25)
“In the fall of 2021, Emma Johnson was ready to move into her new apartment and begin her senior year at UC San Diego. The school guarantees campus dorms for students’ first two years, but most juniors and seniors live off campus. When Johnson opened the door to her apartment, she found 2 inches of water inside. She and her roommates didn’t have renters insurance, and the landlord declared he’d have to gut the unit. One by one, Johnson’s roommates found friends to crash with or leased new apartments with their parents as cosigners. But Johnson, who paid for school and her living expenses with a Pell Grant — federal funding granted to students with exceptional financial need that does not need to be repaid — and federal loans, suddenly found herself homeless.” (09/04/25)
“Last month, the tech world turned with rapt attention to one man, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, for the launch of the company’s new AI model, GPT-5. The atmosphere resembled the scientists waiting to see the first atomic bomb test at Los Alamos. GPT-5 was supposed to be another great leap forward toward the promised godlike telos of artificial general intelligence (AGI), a machine smarter than any human and possibly smarter than the sum of human civilization itself. But the release of GPT-5 was a dud. Despite being relentlessly hyped for years, the most significant part of the announcement was the release of a model router that dynamically selects the correct ‘level’ of computation power spent toward answering questions.” (09/04/25)
“Florida plans to become the first state to eliminate vaccine mandates that have been a cornerstone of public health policy for decades in keeping schoolchildren and citizens safe from infectious diseases. State Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo cast current requirements in schools and elsewhere as an ‘immoral’ intrusion on people’s rights that hampers parents’ ability to make health decisions for their children. ‘People have a right to make their own decisions, informed decisions,’ Ladapo, who has frequently clashed with the medical establishment, said Wednesday at a news conference in Valrico. ‘They don’t have the right to tell you what to put in your body. Take it away from them.'” (09/03/25)
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“I’ve been lucky enough not to have anyone significant in my life who doesn’t get it, so this isn’t an issue that I personally have had to navigate. But I have seen a lot of people struggle with the question of how their interpersonal relationships should be affected by the position that their friends and loved ones take on Gaza. From where I’m sitting this doesn’t look like you’re an asshole, it just kind of looks like the natural effects playing out of learning that someone in your life is a shitty person. If you found out that one of your friends likes to torture small animals or drug women and rape them, or that someone in your family watched a child drown in a swimming pool without doing anything, that would naturally change your relationship with them in a permanent way.” (09/01/25)
“When it comes to for-profit, private corporate incarceration of immigrants, making lots of money is like drinking salt water: The more they drink, the thirstier they get. Roman proverbs say that the more money a rich man has, the more driven and addicted he becomes to accumulating even more money. Wealth addiction is at the root of giant private prison corporations’ domination of the US government as communities take a back seat to the need for private profit. Many government leaders from both political parties share the same ‘profits over people’ ideology. The industry is preparing for explosive growth. On recent earnings calls, CoreCivic executives announced plans to triple the number of beds in their facilities within a few months. That would mean an additional $1.5 billion in revenue for the corporation, more than doubling its annual earnings.” (09/03/25)
“Two United Airlines planes were involved in a minor collision at San Francisco International Airport on Labor Day, the airline confirmed. ‘Monday night, a United aircraft being pushed back from the gate at San Francisco International Airport made contact with the tail of a parked United aircraft,’ a United spokesperson said in a statement to Fox News Digital. No injuries were reported, and passengers on both planes were able to board other planes to reach their destinations. The collision between UA796 (headed to Boston) and UA1871 (headed to Denver) garnered social media attention.” (09/03/25)
“The Left [sic] wants to change America. Duh. I’m not talking about technological changes here. We’d all like to see improvements in technology, science, and medicine make life easier and healthier for all. But that has nothing to do with the eternal principles of virtue, morality, righteousness, or love thy neighbor as thyself. Those principles can, and should, apply as much in an industrial society as they do in an agricultural one. Industry and technology don’t justify murder, theft, adultery, etc. Virtuous principles are eternal and apply in whatever age man finds himself. But industrial ‘progress’ is not what the Left means by ‘progress.’ The main thing the Left wants is power. They want godless tyranny, not virtuous freedom to dominate and to rule. That’s the America they envision, one where, as in previous and current leftist societies, they dictate what the rest of us can and cannot say and do.” (09/03/25)
