Cahir O’Doherty

I don’t know how this Pope happened. It feels slightly miraculous.

Dr. Craig Spencer is a public health professor and emergency medicine physician at Brown University who survived Ebola in 2014. He says it's not a coincidence that the world is seeing a new outbreak of the disease, as well as hantavirus and rising rates of measles in the United States. "If you recall, it was just over a year ago that Elon Musk gleefully declared that they were throwing USAID into the wood chipper. And you may recall that Elon Musk also sheepishly said at his first Cabinet meeting that he mistakenly canceled Ebola prevention but turned it back on. For many folks, the story ended there, but what actually happened was there was an Ebola outbreak, and DOGE and Elon Musk cut all the support that we normally would have been giving to respond to that Ebola outbreak. The result was that exactly USAID, who in the past would have been supporting things like airport screening in Uganda, was not providing that logistical or financial support. USAID and other partners would have been providing support to make sure testing was adequate, to make sure a vaccine rollout could have taken place, but we didn’t have USAID on the ground. "Similarly, CDC has long had relationships in this part of the continent, in Congo and in Uganda, and a lot of those relationships have broken down and withered over the past year, because we just haven’t been paying. Similarly, the U.S. has pulled out of the World Health Organization over the last year, which means that in normal circumstances our CDC folks are not able to even talk to World Health Organization people, something that is absolutely unbelievable and an incredible mistake for something that we should be able to do and be prepared for at all points. "And the result is what we’ve seen over the past couple of weeks with hantavirus, we’ve seen with the dramatic increase in number of measles cases in the U.S., and now Ebola in DR Congo and across the border in Kampala. This is not all just a coincidence. This is a consequence of us cutting back our support, not only here at home, but also abroad. democracynow.org/2026/5/18/ebol…

Farage must resign. Now.

Trump’s endgame in Iran has become clear—as has his desire to slip away without Americans noticing the magnitude of this defeat, Robert Kagan argued earlier this week. theatlantic.com/international/…

Russia has apparently used its Oreshnik Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile against the people of Kyiv tonight. This is not a sign that Putin thinks the war is going well; it is a sign of Russian desperation.

This is getting ridiculous. This is NOT the UK. It is NOT an illegal immigrant. The video is from 2018 and from America. This platform is becoming a cesspit of misinformation.

🚨 Trump's healthcare cuts are now expected to strip health insurance from over 17 million people. This would mark the largest healthcare access decline in American history.

The government erasing January 6th information from official websites is some real dictator shit.

This is ABSURD to say as the President of the United States.

NYC summers hate your weekends. I analyzed 3 years of Central Park rain data to see if the feeling was real. It was. 27 of 38 summer weekends had measurable rain. That’s 71%. Friday was the rainiest day of the week, with rain on 43.6% of summer Fridays. Basically worse than a coin flip for your evening plans. Sunday had the highest rainfall volume of any day, averaging 0.17 inches. It may not rain every Sunday, but when it does, it commits. Thursday was objectively the best day to be outside in NYC: lowest precipitation, clearest skies, least weekend-related misery. The wildest stat: 70.8% of rainy Sundays were preceded by a gross Friday or Saturday. The weekend basically telegraphs its own downfall. I built a full dashboard using NWS Central Park data with every weekend tracked and every raindrop counted:

Important reporting by @declanwalsh on the ground in an Ebola hot spot in Congo, underscoring the challenges of containing the virus -- especially when the US has slashed aid spending and cut support for @who. nytimes.com/2026/05/22/wor…

Cuatro de los españoles de la flotilla detenidos por Israel han necesitado atención médica y Free Palestine NOW ha denunciado malos tratos contra los miembros de la flotilla: “[Hay] al menos 15 casos de agresiones sexuales, incluidas violaciones" social.elpais.com/n3s_7c

Allege? Did no one at @BBCNews see the footage?

The number of gay men around town photographing this poster like it’s a precious religious artifact is sending me. Can’t wait, tbh.

USAID cuts and decimating the CDC is making the Ebola response harder And much more likely to reach the US as a result

It’s incredible how much we have regressed as a society in the last decade thanks to imported culture wars

The endgame is a White Christian nativist ethnostate. No foreigners (thus the ruse to get them out) and no one who, even if born here, is the wrong kind of person. Exception for White South Africans because co-president Musk needs that.

🚨Here is Graham Platner explaining why America went from Obama to Trump. Go listen to the whole 90 minute interview at the @LeverNews YouTube page or by searching "Lever Time" in your podcast app. And pass it on👇

Dismantling USAID, withdrawing from WHO, gutting CDC—that's a 1-2-3 punch to global health infrastructure. A health threat anywhere can reach people everywhere. Rebuilding can takes year. The time to invest in preparedness is before the outbreak. usatoday.com/story/news/hea…

Israel’s far-right national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, has long celebtrated abuse of detained Palestinians on video. The world is now reacting as he issues video of mistreatment of foreign activists. trib.al/CjwsQvb

DOJ publicly acknowledges it is deleting press releases about Jan. 6 from its website ⬇️