curated news excerpts & citations
… trying to ‘unbury the lede’
27 Mar 2015:
Kai Kupferschmidt @ Science:
Why NIH’s Anthony Fauci is treating Ebola patients himself
As head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), Anthony Fauci wields a $4.4 billion research budget and has a punishing schedule. But the past 2 weeks, Fauci, 74, has reserved 2 hours on most days to put on a protective plastic suit and help treat a U.S. health care worker who became infected with Ebola in Sierra Leone.
“I now have a much, much more profound respect for the seriousness of this illness in some patients,” says Fauci, who talked about his experiences at a filovirus meeting here yesterday. “Even when you have optimum facilities for replenishment of fluids and things like that, the disease itself is truly devastating.”
A medical doctor who has headed NIAID for 30 years, Fauci has treated countless patients at the Clinical Center of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)—of which NIAID is a part—in Bethesda, Maryland. “I do believe that one gets unique insights into disease when you actually physically interact with patients,” he says. In the case of Ebola, Fauci says he also wanted to show his staff that he wouldn’t ask them to do anything he wouldn’t do himself; in addition, “it is very exciting and gratifying to participate in saving someone’s life,” he says. Fauci also helped treat Dallas nurse Nina Pham, who was hospitalized at the Clinical Center for 8 days in October and visited President Barack Obama after she recovered.
(27 Mar 2015: Kai Kupferschmidt @ Science more…)
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Allison Gill:
ICE Seized Drawings from Children in Detention. I Sued, and Today I Got Them.Five months ago, I filed a Freedom of Information Act Request for papers seized from children at the Dilley ICE Detention Center. Today, I got a heartbreaking response.
…You’ll also notice that all the drawings with words have been entered into “evidence”, and have the “evidence” stamp on them. Evidence of what? What could drawings from children possible be evidence of?
I’d like to add that we are VERY skeptical of the government’s claims that of the 91 responsive documents, only 9 could be released. We are going to fight them on their claims of non-responsive and duplicative pages. They’ve earned no presumption of good faith here.
My lawyer is doing this work pro-bono.
(Allison Gill more…)Emma Bussey , Bill Melugin @ Fox News: ICE detainee who illegally re-entered US after deportation dies at Delaney Hall
Hannah Critchfield, Shane Shifflett @ WSJ: How ICE Is Weaponizing Social Media Against Its Critics
Agency says its surveillance program searches for threats to agents, but critics see free-speech infringements
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Akshat Rathi @ Bloomberg:
Solar Power Quietly Crossed a New Milestone as Deployments RiseInstallations of panels are rapidly advancing worldwide
The rapid deployment of solar power is one of the greatest stories of the 21st century.
After crossing the 100-gigawatt mark in 2012, it took the world 10 years to deploy 1 terawatt of solar power. An additional 1 terawatt, enough to meet all of US power demand at its peak, took less than three years to build. Not even two years later in 2026 — the precise timing is subject to debate among analysts — the 3-terawatt threshold was reached.
No one really noticed.
(Akshat Rathi @ Bloomberg more…)
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Joe Wilkins @ Futurism:
It Appears That the US Military Accidentally Killed Everybody on Board a Civilian Medevac Flight in New Mexico…
The horrifying incident happened in May, the publication reports, when a small twin-engine medevac aircraft carrying two pilots and two medical workers departed from Roswell, New Mexico. Heading West for the small mountain village of Ruidoso, the crew became the victim of an electronic warfare exercise being conducted at the nearby White Sands Missile Range, a test which rendered their navigational system inoperable.
(Joe Wilkins @ Futurism more…)
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Phillips Payson O’Brien @ Atlantic: Why Is the U.S. Running So Low on Weapons?
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Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – August 3, 2026
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What Blanche’s order did not do was to change the terms of the nonprosecution order providing that the Department of Justice would not prosecute Trump, his sons, the Trump Organization, or their associates for crimes related to tax returns filed before May 19, 2026. Last night, Blanche reiterated that the nonprosecution order applies “only retroactively,” but that was always the case.At stake is at least $100 million it appears Trump owes to the American people from previous tax shenanigans that turned up in audits. It’s possible there are other irregularities, but if so, under this order, we would not know: the order says that the IRS will not audit the tax returns of Trump and his associates before the May 19 date. Ron Filipkowski of MeidasNews noted: “Pretty convenient that Trump gets immunity from IRS audits for the year where he made, by far, the most money of his entire life in shady deals all over the globe.”
(Heather Cox Richardson more…)Joyce Vance: The $1.776b Slush Fund Isn’t As Dead As Senators Cornyn And Tillis Seem To Be Willing To Believe
Mitch Jackson: Blanche Cannot Rescind What He Never Had the Power to Modify
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Jason Koebler @ 404 Media: Why a Flock Worker Quit: ‘They Lied’
Brockovich AI Data Center Reporting
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Apocalypse Early Warning System
Al Jazeera Death toll and injuries live tracker
Mike Ludwig @ truthout: ICE Says 51 People Died in Custody Under Trump. Experts Say That’s an Undercount.
ICE Accountability Project
Sergio Martínez-Beltrán, Ximena Bustillo, Jasmine Garsd @ NPR: Deaths of migrants in ICE custody hit record high under Trump
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GriftMatrix
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