Michael E. Lee
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Michael E. Lee
@meleeprof.bsky.social
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Tuberculosis, the deadliest infectious disease on the planet, kills more than 1.25M people a year. New infections are expected to surge by 30% as a result of closing USAID, a memo says. The increase will inevitably lead to cases in the U.S.
Internal Memos: Senior USAID Leaders Warned Trump Appointees of Hundreds of Thousands of Deaths From Closing Agency
One million children will go untreated for severe malnutrition, up to 166,000 people will die from malaria and 200,000 more children will be paralyzed by polio over the next decade, the memos…
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March 10, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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There are moments in these deportation fights when I can just FEEL how pissed off they are that I’m Puerto Rican 😂 they want to threaten me with it so bad 😂
February 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Cardinal McElroy decried the White House crackdown on undocumented immigrants as a "war of fear and terror," speaking at a service on Sunday just days after federal cuts forced the U.S. bishops’ conference to lay off 50 employees in its migrant resettlement office. www.ncronline.org/news/cardina...
February 10, 2025 at 8:10 PM
El Salvador will always be the Achilles heel to claims about Carter’s human rights presidency.
December 31, 2024 at 2:39 AM
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Catholics shouldn't be a sure bet for either party. Our votes should be a matter of a conscientious decision that involves judging candidates, issues and effects on the common good across a range of issues. bit.ly/4f8d0NM
Editorial: Catholics are politically homeless. That's not what's lamentable.
Catholics shouldn't be a sure bet for either party. Our votes should be a matter of a conscientious decision that involves judging candidates, issues and effects on the common good across a range of i...
bit.ly
December 9, 2024 at 4:09 PM
As we remember the UCA martyrs of El Salvador 35 years ago, let’s think about the persecution in Nicaragua today.
November 16, 2024 at 8:33 PM
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Some English language books about the Jesuit martyrs of #UCA, #ElSalvador. (Details in ALT-TXT.)

The book "La Verdad: A Witness to the Salvadoran Martyrs" by Lucia Cerna, was the basis of the 2022 feature movie "What Lucia Saw" / "Llegaron de noche" about the 1989 massacre of the Jesuits.
November 15, 2024 at 11:03 PM