NYT: C.D.C. Cancels Publication of Study Showing Benefits of Covid Vaccines

Economist Jay Bhattacharya, who has never worked as a physician or biomedical scientist, overrules CDC experts. Axe=ground.

by Apoorva Mandavilli @nytimes.com @apoorvanyt.bsky.social

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Florida's On Fire, Montana Puts Up A Column, And Severe Drought Lingers On. 99% of Florida is in drought, and the west is about to say, "hold my beer."

From Hotshot Wake Up: "If this is what April looks like, I think it will be a summer to remember. There have already been 20,100 wildfires in the United States, with 1,710,000 acres burned. The 10-year average for this time is 13,597 fires and 875,957 acres burned. We are well ahead of schedule."

Syrian Billionaires Needed a Favor in Washington. They Invoked the Trump Name.

NYT INVESTIGATION: As the Trump administration & Congress last year moved to repeal sanctions on Syria, the Qatar-based family that most stood to benefit was privately negotiating a real-estate partnership with Jared Kushner and proposing a Trump golf course in Syria www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/u...

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

The FBI Director Is MIA Kash Patel has alarmed colleagues with episodes of excessive drinking and unexplained absences.

”The problems with his conduct go well beyond what has been previously known, and include both conspicuous inebriation and unexplained absences.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

40% of the continental US is now in severe, extreme, or exceptional drought... not good.

France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces.

Equals 10 nuclear reactors
Reduces heat island, shades cars

The US -- 800 million parking spaces. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight.

Why aren't we doing this?

Dear god. Very, very serious allegations of mass civil rights violations at the State of Florida's Everglades immigration detention center (officially known as "Alligator Alcatraz").

How Silicon Valley Is Turning Scientists Into Exploited Gig Workers Tech elites are enriching themselves by plundering STEM institutions—and offering researchers scraps.

“Silicon Valley would not exist without [taxpayer-] funded research.”
www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Category 4 Typhoon Sinlaku powers through the U.S. Northern Mariana Islands » Yale Climate Connections Sinlaku is the 10th Category 4 or 5 tropical cyclone to hit a U.S. state or territory in the past 10 years — as many Cat 4 and Cat 5 landfalls as the U.S. suffered in the prior 57 years.

Typhoon #Sinlaku hit the U.S. Northern Mariana Islands this morning as a Cat 4, making it the 10th Cat 4 or Cat5 tropical cyclone to hit the U.S. in the past 10 years — an unprecedented battering by these intense storms. yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/04/cate...

Meridionally consistent decline in the observed western boundary contribution to the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation Western boundary observations in the Atlantic suggest a meridionally consistent decline in the ocean overturning circulation.

The Atlantic’s “conveyor belt” is slowing.

New observations from 16.5°–42.5°N show a two-decade, basin-wide decline in deep western overturning, the first robust observational evidence that the AMOC is weakening, confirming long-standing model predictions.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

"Google’s AI Overviews are peddling misinformation on a scale that may be unprecedented in human history."

Unprecedented corruption

With his golden pipes this is sure to be a must-listen.

Considerable precipitation totals forecast through Friday morning in Hawaii as an "increasingly moist and unstable environment will support a growing threat of heavy rainfall and flooding."

This will make 2026 the wettest year so far this century in parts of Hawaii. It is only April.

FFWHFO The National Weather Service in Honolulu has extended the * Flash Flood Warning for... The island of Maui in Maui County * Until 1215 AM HST. * At 858 PM HST, radar continues to indicate persistent heavy rain mainly between Hana and Hamoa. Rain was falling at a rate of 1 to 3 inches per hour with the heaviest rain along the slopes of east Maui. Flash flooding is ongoing. HAZARD...Flash flooding caused by heavy rain. SOURCE...Radar. IMPACT...Flooding in drainages, streams, rivers, roads, properties, and other low-lying areas. Public road closures possible in some areas. Landslides are possible in steep terrain. * Some locations that will experience flash flooding include... Hana, Hamoa and Kipahulu.

🚨 Flash Flood Warning issued April 7 at 8:58PM HST until April 8 at 12:15AM HST by NWS Honolulu HI 🚨
Additional Details Here.

As a Hawaii weather geek, 👏🤙

The House must come back into session immediately to vote to end Trump’s war. The President is unhinged, lawless and bringing global chaos and we must stop him NOW.

Our service members, Iranian civilians and our country’s national security depend on it.
Read my full statement here:

Thank you @tokuda.house.gov for speaking up. @hirono.senate.gov and @schatz.bsky.social, please join Congresswoman Tokuda in calling for the president's removal from office. Anything less than that does not meet the gravity of the situation.

it cant be said enough that all tech smart guys and billionaires thought this guy would be great and now the world economy is fucked we're like a week from gas rationing and their guy is threatening nukes.

‘Be prepared’: City warns residents ahead of third storm in weeks As communities across the state prepare for heavy rain, strong southerly winds and potential thunderstorms, Honolulu Mayor Rick Blangiardi urged residents to be proactive during a press conference Monday.

‘Be prepared’: City warns residents ahead of third storm in weeks #HNN #HINEWS #HawaiiNews

I hate having to do the "look, they're normal just like us" post, but sometimes you have to do that when American propaganda tries to convince everyone Iranians are "animals".

“You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch.” ― Edgar Mitchell Image: Earthset captured through the Orion spacecraft window at 6:41 p.m. EDT, April 6, 2026, during the Artemis II crew’s flyby of the Moon. A muted blue Earth with bright white clouds sets behind the cratered lunar surface. The dark portion of Earth is experiencing nighttime. On Earth’s day side, swirling clouds are visible over the Australia and Oceania region. In the foreground, Ohm crater has terraced edges and a flat floor interrupted by central peaks. Central peaks form in complex craters when the lunar surface, liquefied on impact, splashes upwards during the crater’s formation.

Waking up to the awe-inspiring images from NASA at the same time the US President is implying that he will commit genocide, I can't think of a better quote for the times than this one from Apollo astronaut Edgar Mitchell. I added it to today's Earthset image:

Once lost, now found: Five “missing” bird species rediscovered in 2025, offering hope Five “missing” bird species — not seen, heard or documented in the wild for a decade or more — were “found” in 2025, according to the 2026 annual update to the Lost Birds List. It’s a tally of…

Five “missing” bird species were rediscovered in 2025, including one not documented in 94 years.

These finds in Southeast Asia and Oceania offer hope for conservation as the Lost Birds List drops to 120 species, down from 163 in 2022.

@spoorthyraman.bsky.social reports for #Mongabay.

As expected, fast flood watches are going into effect for the Hawaiian Islands.

Third round of significant rain incoming to the Hawaiian Islands. As with the last storm, it won’t take a ton of rain for flooding issues to arise.

Media must cover — not cover up — Trump’s unfitness The president benefits from the failure to focus on his broken brain

After Trump's unhinged post saying "Open the Fuckin' Strait" and mocking Iran with "Praise be to Allah," I repeat what I've said for many months in my Stop the Presses newsletter:
The media betray their duty by not loudly declaring that the president of the United States is out of his mind.

WaPo Editorial: US cut aid to Africa. The continent proved resilient.

The @washingtonpost.com describes the deaths of an estimated 750,000 people to date as "messy"

U.S. Biofuels Target Could Fuel Destruction of Tropical Rainforests This article was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.

The U.S. doesn’t produce enough vegetable oil to meet a new biofuels mandate, so suppliers will have to ramp up imports of vegetable oil, putting pressure on tropical forests overseas. via @insideclimatenews.org