https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/26/elon-musk-ebola-prevention-usaid-doge/
Elon Musk on Wednesday acknowledged that the U.S. DOGE Service “accidentally canceled” efforts by the U.S. Agency for International Development to prevent the spread of Ebola — but the billionaire entrepreneur insisted that the initiative was quickly restored.

“We will make mistakes. We won’t be perfect. But when we make a mistake, we’ll fix it very quickly,” Musk said at a meeting of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet officials, defending his group’s fast-moving approach to canceling federal programs in a bid for cost savings. “So we restored the Ebola prevention immediately. And there was no interruption.”

Yet current and former USAID officials said that Musk was wrong: USAID’s Ebola prevention efforts have been largely halted since Musk and his DOGE allies moved last month to gut the global-assistance agency and freeze its outgoing payments, they said. The teams and contractors that would be deployed to fight an Ebola outbreak have been dismantled, they added. While the Trump administration issued a waiver to allow USAID to respond to an Ebola outbreak in Uganda last month, partner organizations were not promptly paid for their work, and USAID’s own efforts were sharply curtailed compared to past efforts to fight Ebola outbreaks.

“There have been no efforts to ‘turn on’ anything in prevention” of Ebola and other diseases, said Nidhi Bouri, who served as a senior USAID official during the Biden administration and oversaw the agency’s response to health-care outbreaks.

Last month’s Ebola outbreak has now receded, but some former U.S. officials say that’s in part because of past investments in prevention efforts that helped position Uganda to respond — and that other countries remain far more vulnerable.

People's Deputy from the Servant of the People David Arakhamia, at a meeting of the Verkhovna Rada, commenting on the introduction of the National Day of Prayer, instead of the word "belated" said "zapisdala(pizda = vulgar for Vagina)", which caused laughter among colleagues. The corresponding video was published on social networks on Wednesday, February 12.

The MP, not having a perfect control of the Ukrainian language, tried to say that the parliamentarians were late with the initiative, but called him a "liar", which made the deputies laugh.

"The initiative has fizzled out a bit," said Arakhamia and continued his speech, despite the laughter in the audience.

https://korrespondent-net.translate.goog/ukraine/4755435-arakhamyia-rassmeshyl-radu-znanyiamy-ukraynskoho?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=de&_x_tr_pto=wapp

https://news.asu.edu/20190409-discoveries-autism-symptoms-reduced-nearly-50-percent-two-years-after-fecal-transplant

Would /you/ try it?
Why?
Why not?

"Two years after treatment, most of the initial improvements in gut symptoms remained. In addition, parents reported a slow, steady reduction of ASD symptoms during treatment and over the next two years. A professional evaluator found a 45% reduction in core ASD symptoms (language, social interaction and behavior) at two years post-treatment compared with before treatment began."

Israel identifies remains of child hostages but says another body from Hamas was not their mother

https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-news-ceasefire-hostages-02-20-2025-4c2ffabae1771cff1a9542fddfaf7d07

European countries need to maximise their defence spending and military support for Kyiv, throwing all existing “red lines” out of their heads.

This was stated by Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen at a forum in Kyiv dedicated to the third anniversary of the start of full-scale military operations.

"I would like to call on every European country to increase support for Ukraine not tomorrow, but today! We need to get rid of any "red lines" in our heads, increase financial and military support and production. Secondly, a ceasefire without lasting peace will lead to great danger for all of us and will give Russia the opportunity to strengthen itself and attack Ukraine or another European country again. I have never believed that this war is only about Ukraine," Frederiksen said.

She added that the “cheapest and simplest” guarantee of security for Kyiv would be Ukraine’s membership in NATO, but since “there are allies who are against it,” it is necessary to develop a proportionate alternative.

"We must support Ukraine and we must support our continent. That is why we must scale up as Europeans, accelerate, to protect ourselves from Russia. And 3% [of GDP for defense] will not be enough. Not enough! I think we only have a few months to make all the important decisions, or it will be too late," the Russophobe scared her colleagues.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14429629/Furious-Zelensky-screamed-Trumps-envoy-trying-make-sign-500billion-mineral-deal-loud-heard-door-left-treasury-secretary-shaking.html

Of the top 10 states where people are moving to in the US, only a single state is blue, Colorado.
Nearly every Democrat State is expected to lose congressional representation as these trends continue
It turns out normal working people don't like having their city streets strewn with illegals and hobos smoking fentanyl and crack out in the open, or having their cars broken into weekly
https://www.newsweek.com/colorado-only-blue-state-10-places-americans-moving-2036075
Only One Blue State Among Top 10 Places Where Americans Are Moving

Nine of the 10 states with the strongest net migration numbers in 2023 voted for President Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential race, according to a new report.

Why It Matters
Democrats are facing a looming crisis in the 2030 congressional reapportionment if current trends hold through the end of the decade, as Republican-leaning states like Florida and Texas are the two growing at the fastest rate. Meanwhile, Americans are moving out of the largest blue states like California and New York.

This means Democratic-leaning states are poised to lose seats in Congress next decade, giving Republicans an advantage in presidential races as the Electoral College number for each state is made up of its entire congressional delegation.

What To Know
Texas and Florida are joined by North Carolina, South Carolina, Arizona, Indiana, Colorado, Tennessee and Oklahoma in having the strongest net migration numbers in 2023, according to the report from StorageCafe.

Of those, only Colorado voted for former Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential race and is viewed as a solidly Democratic state.

Arizona and Georgia are purple states that backed former President Joe Biden in 2020 but flipped back to President Donald Trump in November.

On the other hand, California and New York were followed by Illinois, New Jersey, Maryland, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Louisiana, Michigan and New Hampshire as the states that lost the most residents.

Basically there was a 4chan thread about a guy putting a grenade in the toilet, apparently he died and it was on the news, but its fucking fake. I found the real website and its an entirely different case.

The real thing that happened:
https://www.publico.es/espana/violenta-explosion-gas-granada.html

The fake 4chan version of the grenade guy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4c8uTVaB9Ow

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A school-age child has died of measles in West Texas, the first death from the disease in a decade in the United States. The child had not been vaccinated against measles, according to the city of Lubbock's health department.

The death, confirmed by Katherine Wells, the Lubbock health department's director of public health, is part of a fast-moving outbreak that's infected at least 124 people — mostly children — in rural West Texas.

The official tally of people who have been hospitalized is 18, according to the Texas Department of State Health Services.

That number isn't up to date, said Dr. Lara Johnson, a pediatrician and the chief medical officer at Covenant Children’s Hospital in Lubbock.

Johnson said in an email that her team has cared for "around 20" kids with measles so far.

All of those kids, she said, were admitted because they were having trouble breathing. None had been vaccinated against measles.

The outbreak has been limited so far to parts of Texas bordering New Mexico. That state has also reported nine measles cases, but officials have not said whether they are connected.

>https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/person-dies-measles-west-texas-outbreak-rcna193812

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/house-budget-vote-speaker-johnson-trump-agenda-rcna193626

Still, at least four GOP rabble-rousers — Reps. Victoria Spartz of Indiana, Tim Burchett of Tennessee, Warren Davidson of Ohio and Thomas Massie of Kentucky — emerged from a closed-door meeting of House Republicans on Tuesday morning and said they would vote against the budget plan over concerns it doesn't cut spending enough.

"I am not voting for this," Davidson said as he left the meeting.

"I'm still a no," Burchett told NBC News, adding that he wouldn't mind a call from Trump. "I'd like to express to him some of my concerns, which is that his tax cuts aren't permanent, the trillions of dollars in debt by our own numbers that we're showing. We talked about reducing the debt — that's what we ran on."

Those four votes could be enough to kill the measure. The GOP's 218-215 House majority means Johnson can afford only a single GOP defection, unless lawmaker absences change the math. He expressed confidence about passing the resolution on Monday, asking a conservative crowd to pray for it.

Addressing reporters after the meeting, Johnson said he plans to call a vote on the budget resolution "as early as" Tuesday, buying himself extra time to flip some of the detractors. Earlier, Johnson had said the House would vote Tuesday at 6 p.m. ET.