Keren Landman @landmansplained.bsky.social · 30/07/2026My latest at Landmansplained: A retired microbiologist is out-investigating the federal government on a record-breaking Cyclospora outbreak. landmansplained.com/p/you-don-t-... 010
Keren Landman @landmansplained.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Nope. CDC/FDA staffing cuts have slowed 💩 outbreak response, but didn't cause the outbreak itself. If any political dysfunction is to blame for the outbreak itself, it's pre-DOGE...and that matters. Full breakdown in my latest newsletter at @landmansplained landmansplained.com/p/how-much-o...landmansplained.comHow much of the Cyclospora shitstorm can we really blame on DOGE? ew postIt's so hard to resist a good villain narrative 071
Keren Landman @landmansplained.bsky.social · 16/06/2026Holy shit Also, "Beepthroat" lol 🤌 www.beepthroat.combeepthroat.comBeepThroat: The BeltLine FilesAn independent public-records project documenting how Atlanta's voter-approved BeltLine light rail gave way to a driverless-shuttle pilot. Every claim links to a source document. 021
Keren Landman @landmansplained.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Is anyone else having trouble with their email ending up in recipients' junk mail? All week, nearly all the emails I've sent to new contacts (from @gmail.com addresses, one newer and one very old) have gotten trapped in spam filters. Not using autosender, haven't been hacked. Just me? 010
Reposted by Keren LandmanKeren Landman @landmansplained.bsky.social · 24/05/2026SCOOP: US is sending PHS officers to Kenya to screen Americans returning from Ebola-affected areas. Will they assess individual risk, or treat everyone as high-risk like hantavirus cruise passengers? landmansplained.com/p/news-alert-the-us-government-plans-to-screen-americans-for-ebola-overseas-1d65landmansplained.comNEWS ALERT: The US government plans to screen Americans for Ebola overseasDozens of uniformed personnel are expected to deploy to the DRC to staff a field unit this week. 043
Keren Landman @landmansplained.bsky.social · 24/05/2026SCOOP: US is sending PHS officers to Kenya to screen Americans returning from Ebola-affected areas. Will they assess individual risk, or treat everyone as high-risk like hantavirus cruise passengers? landmansplained.com/p/news-alert-the-us-government-plans-to-screen-americans-for-ebola-overseas-1d65landmansplained.comNEWS ALERT: The US government plans to screen Americans for Ebola overseasDozens of uniformed personnel are expected to deploy to the DRC to staff a field unit this week. 043
Keren Landman @landmansplained.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Sorry but I just don't read a media posture into the hed/blurb here, and the article is pretty neutral and clear on who is actually beefing with who 010
Keren Landman @landmansplained.bsky.social · 20/05/2026The article doesn't seem critical of WHO; in 3rd graf it explains Tedros' defending statement was in response to criticism from Marco Rubio. 110
Keren Landman @landmansplained.bsky.social · 08/05/2026TIRED: panicking about Hot Plague Ship Summer WIRED: panicking about not having a public health infrastructure INSPIRED: panicking about not having enough Sam Greenfield in my earballs I get into it in the latest issue of Landmansplained: landmansplained.com/p/hot-plague...landmansplained.comHot Plague Ship SummerAnd more on what we’re talking about when we talk about CDC 020
Keren Landman @landmansplained.bsky.social · 04/05/2026just gave my entire night to canva and let me tell you what I didn't get is an animated logo 130
Keren Landman @landmansplained.bsky.social · 04/05/2026Return of the Obra Dinn but make it real life www.bbc.com/news/live/cj...bbc.comThree dead in suspected hantavirus outbreak on Atlantic cruise shipThe outbreak was reported aboard the MV Hondius cruise ship as it travelled from Argentina to Cape Verde. 020
Keren Landman @landmansplained.bsky.social · 01/05/2026did you know that online she is known as DELTALINA!!! 100
Keren Landman @landmansplained.bsky.social · 30/04/2026Went to a public health watch party for a big CDC conference Ate Costco snax Felt existential dread More here: landmansplained.com/p/i-went-to-...landmansplained.comI went to a CDC conference watch party and found a fight about the futureIT 110
Keren Landman @landmansplained.bsky.social · 22/04/2026no offense but how dumb are drug dealers roughdraftatlanta.com/2026/04/21/a...roughdraftatlanta.comAtlanta Police make major drug bust at marijuana 'pop-up event'Atlanta Police Department arrests 40 people and seizes over a thousand pounds of drugs and guns during a chaotic 'pop-up event.' 010
Keren Landman @landmansplained.bsky.social · 21/04/2026The CDC’s Epidemic Intelligence Service turns 75 this year. Today, its annual conference kicks off. It's a showcase, a professional speed-dating event, and a reunion for something being actively dismantled. I wrote about it in the first issue of my newsletter: landmansplained.com/p/gathering-...landmansplained.comGathering anywayPublic health Burning Man is this week, and it is not business as usual. 011
Keren Landman @landmansplained.bsky.social · 21/04/2026@sjsteimer.bsky.social 's take on the millennial feminist autobios is the only one I wanted to read, and I was RIGHT haters-guide-to-living-well.beehiiv.com/p/my-insuffe...haters-guide-to-living-well.beehiiv.comMy insufferable generationWe will probably post through our midlife crises! 001
Keren Landman @landmansplained.bsky.social · 20/04/2026I have been muttering "do you want to be nice or do you want to be what the heck?" all afternoon so I do think it has tshirt legs!! ringer in a women's medium for me pls 220
Keren Landman @landmansplained.bsky.social · 20/04/2026lol “I don’t eat vegetables because I want to stay three.” 👏 120
Keren Landman @landmansplained.bsky.social · 20/04/2026I'm launching a newsletter! Landmansplained will be about public health + other things. If you're familiar with my work at Vox, it'll sound familiar, but a little looser and more personal. 1st issue will be about a bizarro CDC conference taking place this week. Join me at landmansplained.comlandmansplained.comHome | LandmansplainedA newsletter for people who care about public health (even if they don't totally know what it is) 162
Keren Landman @landmansplained.bsky.social · 14/04/2026I use #Descript because I enjoy fixing audio transcripts and then having the AI fuck it up all over again and then fixing the audio transcript the AI fucked up and then having the AI fuck it up all over again and then fixing it one more time because 🤷♀️ and then having the AI fuck it up AGAIN and then 010
Keren Landman @landmansplained.bsky.social · 10/04/2026this is the best thing to happen in my mentions probably ever, thanks all 🤩 040
Keren Landman @landmansplained.bsky.social · 02/04/2026not sure what the people of Decatur GA did to deserve the absolute thicket of bullshit that is driving in its downtown these days but it must’ve been real bad 011
Keren Landman @landmansplained.bsky.social · 22/03/2026Why does the AJC keep reposting winter weather alerts from late January? Wrong answers only. 040
Keren Landman @landmansplained.bsky.social · 13/03/2026making friends in the bathroom line downtown the night Bridget Everett’s in town >>> 020
Keren Landman @landmansplained.bsky.social · 09/03/2026did the AJC also fire its entire social team? its gonna be 80 degrees here tomorrow (which, notably, is Monday) 030
Reposted by Keren Landmanstephen fowler @stphnfwlr.com · 11/02/2026UPDATE/SCOOP: An FBI affidavit used to seize 2020 election ballots from Georgia's Fulton County omitted key findings from state investigators that undercut many questions about wrongdoing, an @npr.org analysis finds. Read the Secretary of State's office investigative reports:npr.orgThe FBI seizure of Georgia 2020 election ballots relies on debunked claimsAn FBI investigation of the 2020 election in Fulton County, Ga., was initiated by a lawyer who aided President Trump's unsuccessful efforts to overturn that election, an unsealed affidavit says. 9625233
Reposted by Keren LandmanMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 05/12/2025“My hopes for a natural delivery were shattered all for six YouTube videos at $800 each. None of those shots aired. I was never informed [by the New York Times] why, but can only assume that it would have been a bad look to open the episodes with a sweaty, heavily pregnant woman about to pass out.”sohla.substack.comsorry about your cookiesthis is probably TMI 1024045
Keren Landman @landmansplained.bsky.social · 20/11/2025also worth noting: from my own experience, I can tell you that many aspects of CDC comms are also now controlled by HHS, so on-the-record comments/conversations with journalists are not guaranteed to represent the actual perspective of the CDC 050
Keren Landman @landmansplained.bsky.social · 20/11/2025sorry to be smug but I told y'all not to trust the CDC website two months ago www.theatlantic.com/health/2025/...theatlantic.comWhat It’s Like to Work Inside a Broken CDCAgency workers say that information on subjects other than vaccines is largely reliable—for now. 2337
Keren Landman @landmansplained.bsky.social · 18/11/2025wait so all this time all I had to be was hot and chaotic and not even a good writer? jfc 070
Keren Landman @landmansplained.bsky.social · 11/11/2025-She repeatedly corrects the use of an outdated and unrepresentative statement from an authority -She clearly explains what specifically is inconsistent about the agency’s recent actions -She ends with a clear statement of the problem anyone can understand -She doesn’t let him have the last word 1364
Keren Landman @landmansplained.bsky.social · 11/11/2025This interview by @aliroginpbs.bsky.social with FDA Commissioner Marty Makary is a masterclass. It should be taught in j-schools and she should receive a medal for it. Here are just a few of the things she does while making it all look easy: www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...pbs.orgFDA head explains decision to drop 'black box' warnings from menopause hormone treatmentThe FDA announced it would begin asking drug companies to remove so-called “black box” warnings for hormones prescribed to treat symptoms of menopause. The FDA says the warning has dissuaded generatio... 26120
Keren Landman @landmansplained.bsky.social · 27/10/2025-curse at/remove any squinting/shivering people or animals from the hallway before any of them pee on the rug -congratulate yourself and take stepladder downstairs -enjoy 5 minutes of silence before the wrong-battery-orientation chirps start (the delay is because of Obama) -burn house down 180
Keren Landman @landmansplained.bsky.social · 27/10/2025-smush the little housing door shut. there will be a click. do not allow this to reassure you. -press and hold the button labeled “test|silence” (the silence part is a lie) -there will be three loud beeps from (why??) ALL the smoke alarms in the house -at least now your partner is awake 180
Keren Landman @landmansplained.bsky.social · 27/10/2025-orient the new battery in your favorite direction (just guess, there are no clues) and smush it into the housing. there will not be a click or a snap or any other cue to tell you whether you are right or wrong 170