Important Monday Night News Update

[littlemissmartypants]

Aaron Parnas
May 25, 2026
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A CNN report* says the Trump administration has restricted key U.S. infectious disease researchers from directly communicating with the World Health Organization during major virus outbreaks, including Ebola and hantavirus. Officials at the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases can now only attend some WHO meetings in a limited “listening” role, with follow-up routed through the Department of Health and Human Services. Critics and former health officials warn the restrictions are slowing global coordination at a time when the U.S. is also facing major leadership vacancies across agencies like the CDC, FDA, and surgeon general’s office. The report also links the administration’s pullback from global health institutions and cuts to USAID to weaker international outbreak response systems. Despite the criticism, the administration says the U.S. remains fully prepared to respond to public health threats and continues coordinating through the CDC.

The World Health Organization says the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is spreading faster than response efforts can contain it, with neighboring countries now considered at high risk. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said there have been 220 suspected deaths so far and warned that violence and attacks on health facilities are severely disrupting containment efforts. In several incidents, angry residents attacked hospitals and treatment centers after authorities refused to release Ebola victims’ bodies for traditional burials, allowing multiple infected patients to escape. Uganda has also confirmed additional Ebola cases, including infections among health workers in Kampala. The outbreak is being fueled by insecurity in eastern Congo and the lack of an approved vaccine for the rare Bundibugyo strain of Ebola.
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*https://archive.is/2026.05.25-161457/https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/25/politics/global-virus-response-trump-administration

[Nittersing]

1. And the hits keep coming...

This is is depressing.

[Walleye]

2. United States and the CDC used to be the gold standard. Not anymore.

[alwaysinasnit]

3. Taking your comment a bit further, I would say that the CDC is currently the pyrite standard.

[erronis]

10. I've felt that that "fools gold" is what trump is after.

[some_of_us_are_sane]

4. Trump's shutting himself and his cabinet off

and DENYING illnesses and threats as he did Covid in his first disastrous four years, reminds me now of Trump's DESIRING above all ELSE to build an underground fortress for himself and favored others.

He can't outrun death. Try and distract and deny all he wants, it's coming.

Reminds me of Poe's "THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH"....

Prince Prospero's futile attempt to escape a deadly plague, the "Red Death," by secluding himself and his court in a fortified abbey.

IT'S COMIN' FOR HIM!

[homegirl]

5. And sadly

for American poor, aged, handicapped. Clearing the way for AI to replace anywhere from 30 to 50% of the population if, or when Ebola arrives on a plane from somewhere in Africa.

[scipan]

6. So what if they go in a personal capacity?

How can trump forbid them to talk?

[niyad]

8. Fire them.

[scipan]

25. you used to have a reason. not sure what happened with that. nt

[yellow dahlia]

7. All of this was predictable and very dangerous.

[niyad]

9. Reduce the surplus population.

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[some_of_us_are_sane]

20. Scrooge's quote!

Perfect! (I hope sees "DONALD J. TRUMP" on a tombstone in his dreams every night.)

[niyad]

21. I would like to see that tombstone for real.

[Matthew28]

11. Being anti-science

is freaking dumb

[mountain grammy]

12. And what does America gain from this?

This feels so wrong.

[Jvp]

22. This, like everything else that doesn't make sense is all about project 2025

[spanone]

13. They are killing us.

[slightlv]

14. This is exactly along the same line as trump wanting all Covid testing stopped,

that way the numbers wouldn't show how bad it actually was in america. Denialism. trump lives off it. Being science stupid is courting disaster, but then... he doesn't care for anyone but himself. And from looking at the sun during an eclipse to dancing into the night unprotected from Covid, this is one of the most stupidest people who ever lived to be near 80.

[Figarosmom]

15. What the hell is their end game with all this crap at

Health and Human Services? Are they trying to kill off people in what they call " shithole" countries and the poor here?

[hamsterjill]

17. The more old people they can kill, the more Social Security to steal.

I don't know if that's their main objective or not, but as an older person, I damn sure don't appreciate being put in precarious situations because we have dumbasses in charge.

To cut us off from the WHO would be like not wanting the best heart surgeon to do surgery on you because you didn't like brown hair. The stupidity is just astounding. Of course, they'll all have a ballroom with an underground bunker and a bio containment unit, I'm sure.

Assholes.

[littlemissmartypants]

24. There's no endgame. It's just how they think. It's the MO of the psychopath.

Love literally translates into causing pain and suffering. That's how twisted they are. It's nothing that a normal person can readily wrap their mind around.

Characteristics of Psychopaths

1. Aggressive, callous, and cunning
2. Complete absence of conscience and empathy
3. Very adept at manipulating others
4. Willingness to engage in immoral, criminal conduct
5. Willingness to take what they want and do as they please, regardless of who is hurt or wronged
6. Deceptive ability to appear outwardly benevolent
7. Deceptive ability to behave in superficially charming ways to hide purely selfish motives
8. Willingness to use intimidation and violence to control others in order to satisfy their own needs
9. Willingness to intentionally violate the basic inherent human rights of others
10. Complete absence of any sense of guilt or remorse for the harm their actions have caused to others
11. Rationalization of their own immoral behavior
12. Will attempt to lay blame upon someone else for their own conduct
13. Denial, will deny their own wrongdoing outright
14. Utter contemptuousness toward the feelings and desires of their fellow beings
15. Pathological lying, will say anything without any concern for truth to advance their own hidden agendas
16. Ablity to feign [fake] normal human emotions and empathy
17. Distorted sense of the consequences of their actions
18. Total failure to accept any responsibility for their own socially irresponsible ways
19. Strong bellef that they will never be brought to justice for their criminal behavior

[Bayard]

16. He must have forgotten that even HE was hit by Covid,

Ebola is coming for you, Mr. Droopy Drawers!

[mn9driver]

18. MAGA wants it this way.

Any other response would send them off the deep end. Covid has been turned into a loyalty test:

If you wear a mask, or tell the wrong person you got vaccinated, you fail the test. They are setting up Ebola to be the next one. If they succeed, the death toll will be Biden’s fault. Cults are like that.

[moondust]

19. Slow, indirect genocide?

[littlemissmartypants]

23. Autogenocide...

Create confusion.
Errode confidence.
In walks Social Murder with Auto Genocide.

...keep in mind that authoritarian propagandist efforts are geared towards several things. The health care changes, removal of environmental protections etc are all part of a concept called autogenocide.

It's their push away from American values and towards Christian Nationalism. This attempts to overpower us with their unpopular and easily refuted attempts at separating us as they try pushing us away from goodness and hope towards engineered despair.

This creates a world where finding good becomes useless in one's mind and the stress it creates distracts from our ability to organize, see a better tomorrow and resist their efforts.

Awareness of autogenocide exposes how nation states and rogue governments try to drive their populations to destroy themselves. Whether through poisoned environments, collapsing healthcare, misinformation & engineered despair.

It's mass death by design...

https://democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=20988678