Daniel Scheer

1/ Bird flu is one of the things that keeps epidemiologists up at night. Now, a report of bird flu spreading undetected on a Utah mink farm for months is raising serious questions about our surveillance systems. Here’s why it matters and what else we’re watching this fall. 🧵

LOL, with 28m people that would be 39 House seats.

A 2025 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, Omar Yaghi is the son of Palestinian refugees who grew up in Jordan. He just left the US to move to China after raising concerns about rising anti-immigrant sentiment, like the kind shown here. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/china-than...

El-Sayed disavows the ad. Good. Wish he also said it was bad, but I’ll take it. Cenk can go to hell. www.jta.org/2026/10/26/p...

“What did Democrats do for farmers?” Well, they didn’t pursue a disastrous trade war that cost US farmers billions, so there’s that

JD Vance: “Vivek Ramaswamy had the audacity to run a TV commercial which calls it out like it is and calls Amy Acton a liar." David French: "Vance, of course, is no stranger to malicious lies." www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/o...

“My Catholic Latina opponent wants to impose Sharia Law” is a hilariously desperate closing message. thehill.com/homenews/617...

Trump doesn’t get to tell American Jews how to vote. We don’t all think alike about Israel, and no politician gets to decide what our Jewish identity should mean to us. We’ll make those decisions for ourselves.

Here is the Israeli Minister of Diaspora Affairs, spreading the antisemitic conspiracy theory that the Soros family are the puppet masters behind the election in Brazil yesterday. The Israeli Minister of Diaspora Affairs seems to see it as his job to make the Diaspora less safe.

These racist, festering lesions don’t get to dictate what it means to be an American.

Ethics aside, this take could use some contact with reality. Biden's expanded CTC didn't motivate recipients to vote to maintain it. Trump offered $5000 checks and it hurt him in the polls. The empirical claim that welfare creates single issue voters just doesn't hold up.

This administration is just a Mad Libs filled in by the dumbest human beings on the planet. www.wsj.com/opinion/vikt...

Non-Jews telling Jews that they are doing their Jewish identities inauthentically if they have the "wrong" politics is in fact textbook antisemitism. But somehow I'm not holding my breath for the ADL to weigh in on this one, because it would require them to acknowledge many Jews support El-Sayed.

Meanwhile, one of the most harmful policy movements in America right now is a property tax revolt that is shifting us away from our most economically efficient tax, all so property owners can have a little more in their pockets next month.

No. No we are not doing that. www.upworthy.com/what-is-gen-...

70 percent of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

When you say, "This is just a stunt to attract attention," what you're really saying is, "I'm someone who does not think this cause is important enough to pay attention to."

One of the most salient aspects of today's politics is how everyone imagines a conspiratorial "them" controlling things behind the scenes. Elon Musk is literally powerful enough to affect the course of the Ukraine war, but he's still imagining faceless puppet masters who need to be unmasked.

A year after being called out for using the antisemitic term “Shylock” and claiming he didn’t know it was problematic, Trump has used it again. This is not an accident. Normalizing antisemitic tropes and conspiracy theories is deeply dangerous. www.forbes.com/sites/siladi...

Since I have criticized legacy Jewish organizations for being unwilling to call out President Trump by name for antisemitism, I also want to highlight one organization that did.

In any other admin, this would probably be the most outrageous official statement ever made by a sitting FCC director: Strongly implying that the government forbids broadcast networks from reporting on the president's falling poll numbers. (Sorry to paste from twitter but that's where he posts.)

This is somehow a combination of two of the stupidest myths out there: that Irish people were enslaved in the US, AND that Jewish people ran the transatlantic trade in enslaved people. (Some American Jews did participate in the slave trade, but not out of proportion compared to US Christians).

If Zohran Mamdani or Abdul El-Sayed had used the word “Shylock” as an insult, the ADL would be attacking them by name relentlessly. But Donald Trump used it, so we get a generic condemnation of the word without any specific reference to who actually used it, and with no assumption of intent.

Ben Shapiro is too stupid to realize how much this recapitulates the tropes of classic antisemitism - the distant foreign conspiracy to which everyone can be tied. In the 1930’s, every Ashkenazi Jew was two degrees of separation from a Communist, so it was too dangerous to let them into the US.

Emphasizing again that we cannot treat this as just business as usual. This is the President of the United States openly attacking an entire ethnic group.

If you can understand why some Black Americans do not want to maintain names forced on their families in the US against their will, and why it would be offensive to insist they did, you can understand why some Ashkenazim are uncomfortable with names forced on their families by the Russian Empire.

Oh no, how will French civilisation continue in the face of *checks notes* student protests

“I should only pay taxes for things I use” is a fun precept to adopt after you’ve stopped using services that were funded by the full tax base — you would have needed to pay much much more when your kids were in school if seniors hadn’t been pitching in with property taxes back then!

ultimately it's shit like this that makes the decline of birth rates and resulting demographic skewing towards old people self-reinforcing. Greedy, wealthy retired people voting to destroy the funding for public services they relied on throughout their life now that they no longer need them

Jewish organizations which are rightfully concerned when American Jews are suspected of having dual loyalties to Israel should be the first to condemn this demand that American Muslims all disavow the Muslim Brotherhood. And the reverse is also true.

Asking random American Muslims to disavow the Muslim Brotherhood is like asking random American Jews to disavow Israel. They’re both tropes about dual loyalties. If you can understand why one is inappropriate, you should be able to understand why the other is, too.

According to the polls even most non-witches don’t like Trump

The fall semester at Oregon Hillel started with a stolen sukkah. Days later, the director found his face plastered on flyers around UOregon’s campus, branding him “Enemy of the People." On Oct. 7, demonstrators marched to Hillel House and set fire to an American-Israeli flag on the sidewalk outside

I swear to god so much of this is literally just people confusing measles and chicken pox

A New Jersey family recreated OG Anunoby's iconic NBA Finals tip-in with their Halloween decorations

If nothing else, this is just bad economics at this point. I know some people think this is a market-based approach that makes users become more careful consumers of health, but we've added co-pays for decades and it reduces access for low income people. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/is-economi...

it’s a live question how much we should focus on infant mortality vs noninfant mortality in aid but, I cannot stress this enough, the USG’s current answer courtesy of Musk and Rubio is “lmao who cares”

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Trump: "It's interesting -- China makes the windmills, but try finding a wind farm in China. There is no such." (China has the largest wind power capacity in the world!)

Thank goodness that under President Trump the socialists and Communists have been kept at bay.

I genuinely mean this. I cannot imagine a more bleak dystopian notion than the idea of all art being turned into slop designed to coddle my exact perceived intentions. The point of literature, film, music, and art is to be exposed to the interior lives of others. Who are these people.

If you are arguing that there is no innocent [person of any nationality whatsoever] then you are making the case for genocide