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This is the Challenger Disaster of ethics in media.
November 13, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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So many questions
November 13, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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Democrats seem to believe that they can turn a big dial that says "transphobia" up and down with no consequences. But all they're doing is bolstering a fascist drive to wipe trans people off the face of the earth. It's disgusting and shameful and it needs to end www.thenation.com/article/poli...
The Right Wants to Exterminate Trans People. Liberals Are Helping.
After the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the conservative movement has accelerated its war against trans people. And too many centrist Democrats have kept up their trans bashing.
www.thenation.com
September 24, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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See what’s happening?

Trump pardoned 1500 violent J6 criminals who assaulted the police at the Capitol.

He’s brought in the military for law enforcement.

And now those with shotguns and AR-15s are free to roam DC.

He’s creating his own violent militia.

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Pirro’s office won’t pursue gun charges over carrying rifles, shotguns
A statement from Pirro on Tuesday said D.C.’s blanket prohibition on carrying shotguns or rifles “is clearly a violation of the Supreme Court’s holdings.”
www.washingtonpost.com
August 20, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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There's a handy video for this now

m.youtube.com/watch?v=tvTa...
The Problem With Left-Wing NIMBYism
YouTube video by Oh The Urbanity!
m.youtube.com
August 10, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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There is just no precedent in recent world history of an advanced industrialized country sabotaging its own scientific establishment, and destroying the base of scientific knowledge necessary for basic policymaking. An avowedly, actively anti-knowledge regime.
Head of NASA Sean Duffy intends to destroy a satellite that collects key data on carbon dioxide and plant health, by causing it to burn up in the atmosphere. The U.S. Dept of Agriculture and private agriculture firms use the data to forecast crop yield, drought conditions and more.
Why a NASA satellite that scientists and farmers rely on may be destroyed on purpose
The Trump administration has asked NASA staffers to draw up plans to end at least two satellite missions that measure carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according to current and former NASA employees.
www.npr.org
August 8, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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Read this. The whole thing. Sit with it.
Free advice for this Sunday morning:

When you see the byline “Eli Saslow,” you drop whatever the hell you’re doing and click on the link.

Gift link ⤵️

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/u...
ICE Took Half Their Work Force. What Do They Do Now?
www.nytimes.com
July 27, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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July 26, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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U.S. citizen and veteran. ICE shattered his windows, peppered sprayed him, yanked him from his car, arrested him, held him incommunicado for three days. Because he was working at a farm where undocumented people also work.

www.mediamatters.org/msnbc/msnbcs...
MSNBC's Chris Hayes interviews U.S. vet who was detained for three days after ICE raid on farm
www.mediamatters.org
July 19, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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People need to go to prison for these stories.
July 19, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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People who win "Special Immigrant Juvenile Status" are on a path to a green card. But because of visa backlogs, they may have to wait years to get it. The Biden admin created a program where they could have work permits and deportation protections in the interim. Trump killed it.
July 16, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Another gut wrenching but inspirational contribution from @gregggonsalves.bsky.social. Read it and weep and battle on
July 12, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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ICE is getting more violent, including yesterday in SF, with masked ICE agents — or ICE vigilantes/bounty hunters — assaulting protesters. ICE’s brutal violence is about to be turbocharged by Trump’s Big Ugly Bill. We need to speak out against the fascist police state they’re creating. Keep it up!
July 9, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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I can't stress enough how close U.S. science is to the cliff.

"Numbers released in May by the National Science Foundation (NSF) indicate that if Congress approves the cuts to the agency proposed by the White House, the number of early-career researchers it supports could fall by 78%" (@science.org)
‘It’s a nightmare.’ U.S. funding cuts threaten academic science jobs at all levels
“There is a lot of pressure to essentially leave the country or not pursue research,” one Ph.D. student says
www.science.org
July 8, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Every American should read this ACLU lawsuit about what is happening in Los Angeles and California. It is the stuff of dystopian nightmares. This is not immigration enforcement. It is positively stuffed with videos and articles documenting racial profiling on a scale unseen since Jim Crow.
July 9, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Hey #Nashville #Journalists 🦞: Last week, Vanderbilt University Medical Center #VUMC shut down its Program in #LGBTQ Health and fired all the staff.

This seems newsworthy, but I haven't seen any reporting on it.

www.instagram.com/p/DLahnQhOId...
July 2, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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As an aside, I'm told multiple major outlets were not interested in this story and passed on covering it. Mind-boggling.
"Despite Trump officially activating FEMA on Sunday, FEMA has just 86 total staff deployed at this point [to Texas], according to figures shared with staff Monday evening...In the past it would normally be in the several hundreds at this point in the disaster recovery process."

My latest:
FEMA response to deadly Texas floods delayed & deficient with Noem in charge
Staffers sound the alarm.
www.thehandbasket.co
July 8, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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When experts warned for months that the NWS “is being destroyed” by Trump’s personnel cuts, Howard Lutnick assured Congress that forecasting won’t be affected. Now TX officials are blaming a faulty forecast by NWS for the deadly impact of a storm. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...
Texas Officials Blame Agency Gutted by Trump for Results of Deadly Storm
Experts warned for months about cuts to NWS and NOAA
open.substack.com
July 5, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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The GOP knows who they serve:

Source: open.substack.com/pub/stephens...
July 5, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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The GOP Megabill: Largest Retraction of health insurance coverage in U.S. history

U.S. has been EXPANDING health coverage for decades, but HR1 is largest RETRACTION ever

The rise in uninsured will erase nearly all (84%) of decline in uninsured under ACA
timothymcbride.substack.com/p/big-bill-l...
Big Bill: Largest retraction of health insurance coverage in U.S. history
To date, since WWII, the U.S. has been moving to Expand health insurance coverage, but this legislation is the largest Retraction in health insurance coverage passed to date.
timothymcbride.substack.com
July 5, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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This answer that Mamdani provided in a 2020 interview shows that he has always been extremely open about the complexities of his diasporic identity and remains the perfect rebuttal to the attempted scandal the NYT is trying to create today.

africasacountry.com/2020/01/roti...
July 5, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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Laughing in front of cages designed to hold migrants and refugees, many of whom came to this country fleeing extreme violence and poverty, and hoping to raise their children in a more compassionate country. And many of whom followed all the legal procedures to enter the country.
July 2, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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“An Iranian woman who has lived in the United States for 47 years, has no criminal record, and is married to a US citizen was detained by ICE as she gardened outside her New Orleans home.”

ht: @timmiller.bsky.social
www.nola.com/news/politic...
Iranian immigrant who has lived in New Orleans nearly 50 years arrested outside Lakeview home
Federal agents arrested an Iranian woman who has lived in the United States for more than four decades outside her Lakeview home Sunday.
www.nola.com
June 30, 2025 at 3:02 AM