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The Covid inquiry’s findings are shocking but unsurprising now, so the main thing it left me thinking is that without a vaccine we wd’ve been utterly screwed. & if you worked round the clock to make a thing that saved millions of lives globally, to see that legacy trashed by anti-vaxxers…
November 20, 2025 at 5:50 PM
The Covid inquiry’s findings are shocking but unsurprising now, so the main thing it left me thinking is that without a vaccine we wd’ve been utterly screwed. & if you worked round the clock to make a thing that saved millions of lives globally, to see that legacy trashed by anti-vaxxers…
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I want to take a moment to thank the entire Elias Law Group team who worked on the Texas redistricting case as well as our fearless clients. The thirteen Black and Latino voters we represented stood up to challenge Texas's unprecedented mid-decade redistricting. We all ow them a debt of gratitude.
November 18, 2025 at 8:11 PM
I want to take a moment to thank the entire Elias Law Group team who worked on the Texas redistricting case as well as our fearless clients. The thirteen Black and Latino voters we represented stood up to challenge Texas's unprecedented mid-decade redistricting. We all ow them a debt of gratitude.
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The next time someone tells you that America isn’t a sick & racist country, just remind them that this nation is willing to accept treason, rape, and child abuse from a white president but not healthcare from a Black one.
November 13, 2025 at 11:25 PM
The next time someone tells you that America isn’t a sick & racist country, just remind them that this nation is willing to accept treason, rape, and child abuse from a white president but not healthcare from a Black one.
‘Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney wrote, sometimes the “longed-for tidal wave of justice can rise up, and hope and history rhyme.”’
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Why I Am Resigning
A federal judge explains his reasoning for leaving the bench.
www.theatlantic.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:02 PM
‘Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney wrote, sometimes the “longed-for tidal wave of justice can rise up, and hope and history rhyme.”’
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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And now, if you read the devastating piece about what Venezuelan deportees endured at the El Salvador torture prison, read what incarcerated U.S. citizens endure in Alabama prisons.
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
‘How is this possible?’: a new film looks inside the appalling abuses of the Alabama prison system
In the year’s most shocking documentary, The Alabama Solution, prisoners share astonishing footage in a plea for help
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:38 PM
And now, if you read the devastating piece about what Venezuelan deportees endured at the El Salvador torture prison, read what incarcerated U.S. citizens endure in Alabama prisons.
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
To whom it may concern: here’s an urgent message from 1939
November 9, 2025 at 9:48 AM
To whom it may concern: here’s an urgent message from 1939
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The Times editorial board has compiled a list of 12 markers of democratic erosion. The sobering reality is that the United States has regressed, to different degrees, on all 12.
Opinion | In Trump’s America, Are We Losing Our Democracy?
Donald Trump has wielded power as no previous president has.
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November 8, 2025 at 1:40 PM
The Times editorial board has compiled a list of 12 markers of democratic erosion. The sobering reality is that the United States has regressed, to different degrees, on all 12.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I’m pleased I work in a country that has free public transport for all. It can be done!
I’m pleased I work in a country that has free public transport for all. It can be done!
Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’
Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given
www.theguardian.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:58 PM
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I’m pleased I work in a country that has free public transport for all. It can be done!
I’m pleased I work in a country that has free public transport for all. It can be done!
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There's a man on the radio saying deportment should be compulsory for foreign criminals.
November 6, 2025 at 3:03 PM
There's a man on the radio saying deportment should be compulsory for foreign criminals.
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"Pope Leo said Scripture emphasizes the question that will be posed at the end of the world:
'How did you receive the foreigner, did you receive him and welcome him, or not? I think there is a deep reflection that needs to be made about what is happening'..."
chicago.suntimes.com/pope-leo-xiv...
'How did you receive the foreigner, did you receive him and welcome him, or not? I think there is a deep reflection that needs to be made about what is happening'..."
chicago.suntimes.com/pope-leo-xiv...
Pope Leo calls for ‘deep reflection’ about treatment of detained migrants in U.S.
“Many people who have lived for years and years and years, never causing problems, have been deeply affected by what is going on right now,” Chicago-born pope says.
chicago.suntimes.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:02 AM
"Pope Leo said Scripture emphasizes the question that will be posed at the end of the world:
'How did you receive the foreigner, did you receive him and welcome him, or not? I think there is a deep reflection that needs to be made about what is happening'..."
chicago.suntimes.com/pope-leo-xiv...
'How did you receive the foreigner, did you receive him and welcome him, or not? I think there is a deep reflection that needs to be made about what is happening'..."
chicago.suntimes.com/pope-leo-xiv...
www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...
Who would have thought it?
Who would have thought it?
FBI Warns of Criminals Posing as ICE, Urges Agents to ID Themselves
In a bulletin to law enforcement agencies, the FBI said criminal impersonators are exploiting ICE’s image and urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.
www.wired.com
November 4, 2025 at 8:32 PM
www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...
Who would have thought it?
Who would have thought it?
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘in every executive order …, the administration would have one sentence correctly identifying the problem, followed by a “batshit crazy solution”’
That sentence stuck with me.
‘in every executive order …, the administration would have one sentence correctly identifying the problem, followed by a “batshit crazy solution”’
That sentence stuck with me.
‘They take the money and go’: why not everyone is mourning the end of USAID
The long read: When Donald Trump set about dismantling USAID, many around the world were shocked. But on the ground in Sierra Leone, the latest betrayal was not unexpected
www.theguardian.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:39 AM
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘in every executive order …, the administration would have one sentence correctly identifying the problem, followed by a “batshit crazy solution”’
That sentence stuck with me.
‘in every executive order …, the administration would have one sentence correctly identifying the problem, followed by a “batshit crazy solution”’
That sentence stuck with me.
Help Aya and her family in Gaza chuffed.org/project/help...
Help Aya and her family in Gaza
This fundraiser is for Aya and her family who are in Gaza. Hosted by Lene Nystuen Sorkness.
chuffed.org
November 2, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Help Aya and her family in Gaza chuffed.org/project/help...
Burnin’ Down the House www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/o...
Opinion | Burnin’ Down the House
www.nytimes.com
October 26, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Burnin’ Down the House www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/o...
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October 14, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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Alex Soros, the son of George, says his family's philanthropic organization will not cave to pressure from Trump — telling a group it had done nothing wrong and would back away from its human rights work "over my dead body." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...
Trump’s Targeting of Soros Foundations Elicits Fear and Defiance on Left
www.nytimes.com
September 29, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Alex Soros, the son of George, says his family's philanthropic organization will not cave to pressure from Trump — telling a group it had done nothing wrong and would back away from its human rights work "over my dead body." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...
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🤬 The aftermath of Russian strikes on Kostiantynivka in Donetsk region.
September 27, 2025 at 10:07 PM
🤬 The aftermath of Russian strikes on Kostiantynivka in Donetsk region.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/w...
This will make you weep
This will make you weep
Rifts Grow Between Netanyahu and His Security Chiefs
www.nytimes.com
September 20, 2025 at 8:39 PM
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/w...
This will make you weep
This will make you weep