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Chicago’s hottest club is … Seafood City? Viral pop-up dance party comes to the Filipino grocery store Seafood City usually closes at 9 p.m. But this weekend, the market stayed open all night long as DJs and party hosts transformed it into a late-night dance party.

www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/09/s...

Seafood City, an international Filipino grocery chain, brought its late night dance party to Chicago for the first time over the weekend. It was a blast. And it’s in the Tribune!

Our slow-motion catastrophes are eclipsed by our emergent catastrophes, but they're still catastrophes and we're still suffering them.

They don’t think it will kill them. I’ve seen anti vaxxers refer to measles as a “mild rash that will go away by itself.”

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Which is ironic because, as Nuzzo points out, if we could keep vaccination rates above 95% across the country, conversations about surveillance and funding would become irrelevant. Vaccination is the safest, most effective and cheapest way to keep everyone measles free.

Before, any measles outbreak would have meant regular CDC updates & advice to ensure all children get vaccinated. In the current crisis, one of the few measles related CDC posts says it’s wrong to see the outbreaks as a “public policy failure” & links to an op ed that says vaccines are unreliable.

ICE confirms a measles outbreak in the nation's largest detention facility in Texas The agency said it's closely monitoring the situation and coordinating with public health authorities while the facility

The Trump regime’s worst policies are colliding in Camp East Montana, the nation's largest ICE detention facility, and creating even more human suffering.

The cruelty is endless.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ice-confirms-measles-outbreak-nations-largest-detention-facility-texas-rcna261659

The US’s wastewater surveillance system is much more robust than it was a few years ago thanks to supplemental funding for Covid 19 tracking. That system could help estimate measles numbers as clinical data lags behind. But, guess what, the Trump admin is planning to gut that, too.

This likely means we don’t even know how severe the current US measles crisis is, according to Nuzzo. The number of deaths we have seen already suggest there might be far more cases than the approximately 1100 that have been tracked.

Haha happy to answer but also I do not know!

When the admin took a hatchet to CDC $$ last year, it affected every tier of the system that tracks diseases, including measles, says @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social. Each case of measles is reported at the hospital level and makes it way up the chain into national data. That whole system has slowed.

Alonzo Plough, chief science director at the Robert Wood Johnson foundation, pointed out that One of the leaders at CDC “referred to this dramatic and tragic increase in the cases of measles, and, in some states, deaths, as just the ‘cost of doing business.’” Which sounds flippant at best.

Trump administration is failing to address spread of measles, experts say As number of cases climbs past 1,000, experts say CDC is not taking obvious steps amid funding cuts

Measles is a highly contagious virus. It’s also one we know how to contain. But as cases in the US accelerate past 1000, the Trump admin is refusing to take obvious steps to mitigate the spread. My latest.

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I love caves, inflatables and science communication. This month is #colorectal cancer awareness month - the disease that has been ruining me the last 20 months. Get a colonoscopy folks. It’s not as fun as what I’m doing here but it ain’t that bad either.

Thank you! Your post should add the request to those feeds I believe?

Hello Bluesky, I'm working on a story about colorectal cancer in younger adults. If you're under 50 and have been diagnosed with colorectal cancer, or if you know someone else who fits this description who wants to talk about it, please reach out! DMS open. You can choose to be anonymous.

Add for firearms class taped to a door

Came home to find this ad for a conceal and carry class taped to the door of my building in my very blue neighborhood in my very blue city.

#chicago

The Lunar Eclipse starts in about 7 hours, 0844UT. Good luck everyone. Pity I won't be able to see it. 🔭 🧪

As measles is spreading domestically & abroad, the admin is still refusing to prioritize vaccine promotion. In their comment for this story, HHS was vague, didn’t mention vaccines & talked about protecting Americans foremost, when measles in particular requires international cooperation to prevent.

I would!!

Measles Find out about measles, a highly infectious viral illness that can be very unpleasant and sometimes lead to serious complications.

Measles during pregnancy can cause:

miscarriage or stillbirth
premature birth (before the 37th week of pregnancy)
your baby having a low birthweight
It's important to get medical advice if you're pregnant and have been in close contact with someone who has measles.
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Around the world, Nuzzo is worried people are relying on just getting measles “naturally” to gain immunity.

“Listen, this is a bad disease.” Nuzzo said. For those who survive, it’s thought to “bleed” the immune system, making them more susceptible to other diseases, even ones they’ve had before.

The US has also pulled funding from the Global Measles and Rubella Laboratory Network which is run by WHO. It helps identify measles cases globally and prevent travel related transmission. Measles is extremely contagious and can easily jump countries via international travel.

RFK Jr. has long promoted Wakefield’s ideas and has amplified them with renewed force in his position as health secretary. “We live in a global ecosystem, so when other countries hear the vaccine is not good enough for the Americans, they think maybe it’s not good for us either,” Nuzzo said.

The UK, one of 6 European counties that just lost elimination status, is “ground zero”, for vaccine misinformation, says Jennifer Nuzzo, of Brown’s Pandemic Center. Andrew Wakefield, a former British physician, started the vaccine/autism myth. Now the UK has lost elimination status 2x in < 10 years.

‘Viruses don’t know borders’: US anti-vaccine rhetoric could impact global measles crisis Experts say global measles vaccination rates are falling as Trump officials signal a deprioritization of the virus

The Trump administration’s global havoc is unending.

My latest story is about how the Trump admin is amplifying anti vaxx conspiracies just as measles outbreaks are spreading across the globe; many countries have just lost elimination status, and others are on the brink.

There has never been a better time to accept and vocalize that Jews and the Israeli government are not the same thing. Yes, the Israeli government has worked hard for decades to make us believe opposing its actions is inherently antisemitic. But it isn’t true. It never was.

This is the front cover of the new edition of @thelancet.com (thanks to @profstevegriffin.bsky.social for sharing) #HealthPolicy #Science 🧪🧵