KareSF
@karesf.bsky.social
Public Health: Infectious Disease, fr Litigator, Housing Policy, Unions, History, Architecture, Science, Art, Photography, Design, Orioles, Other Rabbit Holes.
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Wait. Middle East Peace isn’t solved?
Israeli military launches attacks on Gaza, ceasefire under strain reut.rs/3KVkES5
Israeli military launches attacks on Gaza, ceasefire under strain
Israel's attacks were the most serious test of an already fragile ceasefire, which took effect on October 11.
reut.rs
October 19, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Wait. Middle East Peace isn’t solved?
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In 2020, when I told people that I was building a pro-democracy media outlet, people thought I was kidding.
When I told them that the fight for democracy was the fight of our time, they thought I was being overly dramatic.
Well...here we are.
Subscribe to Democracy Docket now. hubs.ly/Q03jcjqP0
When I told them that the fight for democracy was the fight of our time, they thought I was being overly dramatic.
Well...here we are.
Subscribe to Democracy Docket now. hubs.ly/Q03jcjqP0
August 18, 2025 at 1:12 AM
In 2020, when I told people that I was building a pro-democracy media outlet, people thought I was kidding.
When I told them that the fight for democracy was the fight of our time, they thought I was being overly dramatic.
Well...here we are.
Subscribe to Democracy Docket now. hubs.ly/Q03jcjqP0
When I told them that the fight for democracy was the fight of our time, they thought I was being overly dramatic.
Well...here we are.
Subscribe to Democracy Docket now. hubs.ly/Q03jcjqP0
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And, uh, some personal news: This is also my last column for The Post. I was offered and accepted a buyout.
To answer one possible next question, I'm not sure what's next save taking some time off. If you want, you can enter your email at pbump.net and I'll let you know when I figure it out!
To answer one possible next question, I'm not sure what's next save taking some time off. If you want, you can enter your email at pbump.net and I'll let you know when I figure it out!
For my column today, I wrote about how Trump leveraged America's collapsing trust in institutions — and how his second term has accelerated that collapse. Gift link: wapo.st/3IzN4QA
Opinion | When institutions crumble, strongmen step in
Trump wants to be the sole authority. With trust in institutions cratering, he sees his opportunity.
wapo.st
July 17, 2025 at 1:15 PM
And, uh, some personal news: This is also my last column for The Post. I was offered and accepted a buyout.
To answer one possible next question, I'm not sure what's next save taking some time off. If you want, you can enter your email at pbump.net and I'll let you know when I figure it out!
To answer one possible next question, I'm not sure what's next save taking some time off. If you want, you can enter your email at pbump.net and I'll let you know when I figure it out!
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Thank you for @kgandersen.bsky.social for writing this. Sadly it’s is all the rage among liberal publications (see @bostonreview). It’s irresponsible garbage.
One of the most bonkers articles I have ever read @theatlantic.com - outright disinformation and revisionist history top to bottom.
Myth making at its best, so deeply irresponsible of @theatlantic.com to publish this.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Myth making at its best, so deeply irresponsible of @theatlantic.com to publish this.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
How Public Health Discredited Itself
To earn back the respect of Americans, the profession needs to return to its original principles.
www.theatlantic.com
July 8, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Thank you for @kgandersen.bsky.social for writing this. Sadly it’s is all the rage among liberal publications (see @bostonreview). It’s irresponsible garbage.
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Where is the business community?? In addition to the obvious humanitarian consequences here, this would mean something like a quarter of a million people who currently have legal permits to work would be forced out of their jobs. That is something employers will notice www.cnn.com/2025/06/25/p...
Exclusive: New Trump administration plan could end asylum claims and speed deportations for hundreds of thousands of migrants | CNN Politics
The Trump administration is planning to dismiss asylum claims for potentially hundreds of thousands of migrants in the United States and then make them immediately deportable as part of the president’...
www.cnn.com
June 26, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Where is the business community?? In addition to the obvious humanitarian consequences here, this would mean something like a quarter of a million people who currently have legal permits to work would be forced out of their jobs. That is something employers will notice www.cnn.com/2025/06/25/p...
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Iran’s nuclear agency confirmed that attacks hit its Fordo, Isfahan and Natanz atomic sites, but insisted that its work will not be stopped.
US steps into war between Israel and Iran, strikes 3 Iranian nuclear sites
Iran’s nuclear agency confirmed that attacks hit its Fordo, Isfahan and Natanz atomic sites, but insisted that its work will not be stopped.
www.oregonlive.com
June 22, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Iran’s nuclear agency confirmed that attacks hit its Fordo, Isfahan and Natanz atomic sites, but insisted that its work will not be stopped.
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“‘If a fire occurs in the cabin, if we land on water, don’t check on the immigrants. Just make sure that you and the guards and the people that work for the government get off," one flight attendant was told.
“It was as if the detainees’ lives were worthless,” said another.
(Published April 2025)
“It was as if the detainees’ lives were worthless,” said another.
(Published April 2025)
Inside ICE Air: Flight Attendants on Deportation Planes Say Disaster Is “Only a Matter of Time”
Current and former flight attendants for GlobalX, the private charter airline at the center of Trump’s immigration crackdown, expressed concern about their inability to treat passengers humanely and…
www.propublica.org
June 11, 2025 at 3:15 AM
“‘If a fire occurs in the cabin, if we land on water, don’t check on the immigrants. Just make sure that you and the guards and the people that work for the government get off," one flight attendant was told.
“It was as if the detainees’ lives were worthless,” said another.
(Published April 2025)
“It was as if the detainees’ lives were worthless,” said another.
(Published April 2025)
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In photos: Trump deploys National Guard to LA as ICE raid protests flare for 3rd day https://www.axios.com/2025/06/08/la-protests-immigration-ice-national-guard-photos https://www.axios.com/2025/06/08/la-protests-immigration-ice-national-guard-photos
June 8, 2025 at 11:22 PM
In photos: Trump deploys National Guard to LA as ICE raid protests flare for 3rd day https://www.axios.com/2025/06/08/la-protests-immigration-ice-national-guard-photos https://www.axios.com/2025/06/08/la-protests-immigration-ice-national-guard-photos
Did @bencollins.bsky.social take this photo?
TRUMP appoints 22 year old grocery worker to lead U.S. Terror Prevention.
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TRUMP appoints 22 year old grocery worker to lead U.S. Terror Prevention.
www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...
June 5, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Did @bencollins.bsky.social take this photo?
TRUMP appoints 22 year old grocery worker to lead U.S. Terror Prevention.
www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...
TRUMP appoints 22 year old grocery worker to lead U.S. Terror Prevention.
www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...
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Trump is the Taco 🌮 Toddler
May 29, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Trump is the Taco 🌮 Toddler
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FYI to media outlets, you're misleading your readers if you repeat this at face value.
There's no lawful way for him to redirect these grants elsewhere. It's a lie to distract from how the GOP budget guts educational funding, including Pell Grants at trade schools.
There's no lawful way for him to redirect these grants elsewhere. It's a lie to distract from how the GOP budget guts educational funding, including Pell Grants at trade schools.
May 26, 2025 at 1:32 PM
FYI to media outlets, you're misleading your readers if you repeat this at face value.
There's no lawful way for him to redirect these grants elsewhere. It's a lie to distract from how the GOP budget guts educational funding, including Pell Grants at trade schools.
There's no lawful way for him to redirect these grants elsewhere. It's a lie to distract from how the GOP budget guts educational funding, including Pell Grants at trade schools.
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JUST IN: A federal judge has ordered the reinstatement of an education grant supporting long-running desegregation efforts in southern schools.
The Trump administration canceled funds for the program under its anti-DEI policy.
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May 21, 2025 at 10:05 PM
JUST IN: A federal judge has ordered the reinstatement of an education grant supporting long-running desegregation efforts in southern schools.
The Trump administration canceled funds for the program under its anti-DEI policy.
ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
I guess some people like gagging.
RAMAPHOSA: I am sorry I don't have a plane to give you
TRUMP: I wish you did. I'd take it. If your country offered the US Air Force a plane, I would take it
RAMAPHOSA: Okay
TRUMP: I wish you did. I'd take it. If your country offered the US Air Force a plane, I would take it
RAMAPHOSA: Okay
May 21, 2025 at 5:09 PM
I guess some people like gagging.
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The University of Utah has shuttered its popular health clinic for LGBTQ youth — fallout from the Legislature’s 2023 ban on doctors providing gender-affirming care for transgender minors.
University of Utah shuts down LGBTQ youth health clinic
The University of Utah has shuttered its popular health clinic for LGBTQ youth — fallout from the Legislature’s 2023 ban on doctors providing gender-affirming care for transgender minors.
www.sltrib.com
May 21, 2025 at 2:52 PM
The University of Utah has shuttered its popular health clinic for LGBTQ youth — fallout from the Legislature’s 2023 ban on doctors providing gender-affirming care for transgender minors.
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I am hoping—technology permitting—to live-blog this hearing at 11am for @lawfaremedia.org . Please stand-by. It relates to whether the Trump Adm violated a preliminary injunction by removing aliens to South Sudan. Backdrop below. ...
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This morning, at 11am, Judge Brian Murphy will resume a hearing on whether the Trump Adm violated his preliminary injunction by sending aliens to South Sudan (not their homes) without notice & opp to challenge. Here’s the backdrop: ...
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May 21, 2025 at 2:48 PM
I am hoping—technology permitting—to live-blog this hearing at 11am for @lawfaremedia.org . Please stand-by. It relates to whether the Trump Adm violated a preliminary injunction by removing aliens to South Sudan. Backdrop below. ...
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🚨🚨🚨 SURPRISE! GOP #MedicaidMassacre bill is also a #MedicareMassacre bill!
@repbrendanboyle.bsky.social broke the news last night: The CBO says the bill would require $535 BILLION in cuts to *MEDICARE* on top of Medicaid & the ACA being gutted.
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@repbrendanboyle.bsky.social broke the news last night: The CBO says the bill would require $535 BILLION in cuts to *MEDICARE* on top of Medicaid & the ACA being gutted.
acasignups.net/25/05/21/sur...
Surprise! GOP Medicaid Massacre bill is also a Medicare Massacre bill!
Pennsylvania Democratic Representative Brendon Boyle, on MSNBC last night: Rep. Boyle: This reminds me very much of 2017, I believe, I believed at the time and was proven correct that we won the 2018 ...
acasignups.net
May 21, 2025 at 1:17 PM
🚨🚨🚨 SURPRISE! GOP #MedicaidMassacre bill is also a #MedicareMassacre bill!
@repbrendanboyle.bsky.social broke the news last night: The CBO says the bill would require $535 BILLION in cuts to *MEDICARE* on top of Medicaid & the ACA being gutted.
acasignups.net/25/05/21/sur...
@repbrendanboyle.bsky.social broke the news last night: The CBO says the bill would require $535 BILLION in cuts to *MEDICARE* on top of Medicaid & the ACA being gutted.
acasignups.net/25/05/21/sur...
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“Target also said that customer boycotts have also done some damage during the latest quarter. The company scaled back many diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives in January after they came under attack by conservative activists and the White House.” abcnews.go.com/Business/wir...
Target sales drop in 1st quarter and retailer warns they will slip for all of 2025
Sales at Target fell more than expected in the first quarter and the retailer warned they will slip for all of 2025 year as its customers, worried over the impact of tariffs and the economy, pull back...
abcnews.go.com
May 21, 2025 at 1:17 PM
“Target also said that customer boycotts have also done some damage during the latest quarter. The company scaled back many diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives in January after they came under attack by conservative activists and the White House.” abcnews.go.com/Business/wir...
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The GOP pushes America off a fiscal cliff: "For me, the real panic" was when Moody’s said nearly a third of our federal money will go solely to interest payments on the debt by 2035, writes @byheatherlong.bsky.social. Interest amounts to less than 2% in a typical AAA-rated nation. 🎁 wapo.st/4j7PFhb
Opinion | Why Moody’s picked now to downgrade the United States
Moody’s was trying to tell Republicans in Congress: Don’t do the big tax bill
wapo.st
May 20, 2025 at 11:15 AM
The GOP pushes America off a fiscal cliff: "For me, the real panic" was when Moody’s said nearly a third of our federal money will go solely to interest payments on the debt by 2035, writes @byheatherlong.bsky.social. Interest amounts to less than 2% in a typical AAA-rated nation. 🎁 wapo.st/4j7PFhb
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BREAKING: The interim U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey says she has charged Democratic Rep. LaMonica McIver — a sitting member of Congress — over the incident at the Newark ICE facility "for assaulting, impeding and interfering with law enforcement."
May 20, 2025 at 12:25 AM
BREAKING: The interim U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey says she has charged Democratic Rep. LaMonica McIver — a sitting member of Congress — over the incident at the Newark ICE facility "for assaulting, impeding and interfering with law enforcement."
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THREAD: We’ve reported that Veterans Affairs officials have warned that Trump’s cuts are hurting veterans.
VA Secretary Doug Collins called our story a “false narrative,” but did not say anything was inaccurate.
Here’s what our story revealed and how we engaged with the VA.
VA Secretary Doug Collins called our story a “false narrative,” but did not say anything was inaccurate.
Here’s what our story revealed and how we engaged with the VA.
May 12, 2025 at 8:53 PM
THREAD: We’ve reported that Veterans Affairs officials have warned that Trump’s cuts are hurting veterans.
VA Secretary Doug Collins called our story a “false narrative,” but did not say anything was inaccurate.
Here’s what our story revealed and how we engaged with the VA.
VA Secretary Doug Collins called our story a “false narrative,” but did not say anything was inaccurate.
Here’s what our story revealed and how we engaged with the VA.
Apparently, beclowning ourselves across the world is the new American hobby.
Despite seeing several people I totally trust say this was real I still felt I had to verify it with my own eyes. And having done so I still can't believe it's real.
April 29, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Apparently, beclowning ourselves across the world is the new American hobby.
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New: “Agriculture isn’t nearing trade war tariffs crisis, ‘it is full blown crisis already’ farmers say”
CNBC
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CNBC
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Agriculture isn't nearing trade war tariffs crisis, 'it is full blown crisis already' farmers say
U.S. agriculture exporters say global backlash to President Trump's tariffs are already resulting in canceled orders and farm layoffs.
www.cnbc.com
April 28, 2025 at 1:25 PM
New: “Agriculture isn’t nearing trade war tariffs crisis, ‘it is full blown crisis already’ farmers say”
CNBC
www.cnbc.com/2025/04/28/t...
CNBC
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Holy shit, they’re arresting JUDGES now for daring to treat immigrants as humans
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FBI arrests Wisconsin judge for obstruction of ICE agents, Kash Patel says
Patel said that Dugan obstructed "an immigration arrest operation last week."
www.axios.com
April 25, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Holy shit, they’re arresting JUDGES now for daring to treat immigrants as humans
www.axios.com/2025/04/25/f...
www.axios.com/2025/04/25/f...
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The message from Baltimore, where Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s detention odyssey began
April 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
The message from Baltimore, where Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s detention odyssey began
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This isn’t going to work
April 16, 2025 at 9:26 PM
This isn’t going to work