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We are losing sight, in all the domestic chaos, of what is happening in Gaza right now. Starving and dehydrating the civilian population is murderous and contrary to international law.
open.substack.com/pub/closerto...
open.substack.com/pub/closerto...
Choking Gaza: Starvation, Dehydration, and the Politics of Suffering
It feels like watching someone choke a wounded man and calling it diplomacy.
open.substack.com
March 11, 2025 at 1:26 AM
We are losing sight, in all the domestic chaos, of what is happening in Gaza right now. Starving and dehydrating the civilian population is murderous and contrary to international law.
open.substack.com/pub/closerto...
open.substack.com/pub/closerto...
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Strong statement from ACLU on the detention of Mahmoud Khalil:
"The federal government is claiming the authority to deport people with deep ties to the US and revoke their green cards for advocating positions that the government opposes."
"The federal government is claiming the authority to deport people with deep ties to the US and revoke their green cards for advocating positions that the government opposes."
March 10, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Strong statement from ACLU on the detention of Mahmoud Khalil:
"The federal government is claiming the authority to deport people with deep ties to the US and revoke their green cards for advocating positions that the government opposes."
"The federal government is claiming the authority to deport people with deep ties to the US and revoke their green cards for advocating positions that the government opposes."
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This.
Among American Jews, a Schism Over ICE Arrest of Columbia Activist ... @ADL reprehensible on this. We still have a Constituton. Jews of any group should know about knocks in the middle of the night and disappearing people. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/n...
Among American Jews, a Schism Over ICE Arrest of Columbia Activist
Some organizations applauded the move. But the raid chilled other American Jews, even some who consider themselves supporters of Israel.
www.nytimes.com
March 11, 2025 at 2:04 PM
This.
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Today, a broad coalition of scientific professional societies who represent over 92,000 scientists are speaking out against the politicization and demonization of Federally funded science and government scientist jobs.
It was an honor to help the Union of Concerned Scientists with this! 🧪🌎
It was an honor to help the Union of Concerned Scientists with this! 🧪🌎
48 Scientific Societies Representing Almost 100,000 Scientists Ask Congress to Protect the Future of Science
48 scientific societies representing almost 100,000 scientists signed on to a letter asking Congress to protect the future of science
www.ucsusa.org
March 3, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Today, a broad coalition of scientific professional societies who represent over 92,000 scientists are speaking out against the politicization and demonization of Federally funded science and government scientist jobs.
It was an honor to help the Union of Concerned Scientists with this! 🧪🌎
It was an honor to help the Union of Concerned Scientists with this! 🧪🌎
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It would be poetic justice if it’s Ukraine that brings down those horrible men. Keep it up folks!
🚨 BREAKING: After torpedoing yesterday’s meeting with Zelensky, JD Vance fled to Vermont for vacation—only to be met by hundreds of furious protesters.
Couldn’t have happened to a better guy!
Couldn’t have happened to a better guy!
March 2, 2025 at 10:26 AM
It would be poetic justice if it’s Ukraine that brings down those horrible men. Keep it up folks!
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You might not see it in the mainstream media, but over 10,000 people protested today at Tesla showrooms across the country, another 10,000+ rallied in support of national parks, and more than 1,000 gathered in Vermont to protest Vance’s visit.
March 2, 2025 at 4:24 AM
You might not see it in the mainstream media, but over 10,000 people protested today at Tesla showrooms across the country, another 10,000+ rallied in support of national parks, and more than 1,000 gathered in Vermont to protest Vance’s visit.
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War on Women & Children: New Assault.
CDC Shutters PRAMS Program on Maternal and Infant Health talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/cdc-s...
CDC Shutters PRAMS Program on Maternal and Infant Health talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/cdc-s...
February 24, 2025 at 4:12 PM
War on Women & Children: New Assault.
CDC Shutters PRAMS Program on Maternal and Infant Health talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/cdc-s...
CDC Shutters PRAMS Program on Maternal and Infant Health talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/cdc-s...
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If this reporting stands up (and it appears confirmed by multiple sources): devastating.
The EIS is the front-line SWAT team of disease detection in the US and globally, and also the training ground for new generations of public health workers.
No EIS, no boots on the ground for outbreaks. ->
The EIS is the front-line SWAT team of disease detection in the US and globally, and also the training ground for new generations of public health workers.
No EIS, no boots on the ground for outbreaks. ->
Major news:
Entire first-year class of the Epidemic Intelligence Service must be out by 5pm, sources say.
Also: a major CDC contractor "just let go." Others may follow.
This is an attack on our ability to detect outbreaks.
More, with quotes from CDC officials:
open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
Entire first-year class of the Epidemic Intelligence Service must be out by 5pm, sources say.
Also: a major CDC contractor "just let go." Others may follow.
This is an attack on our ability to detect outbreaks.
More, with quotes from CDC officials:
open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
News: Half of CDC "disease detectives" terminated. DOGE takes aim at US disease surveillance.
Entire first-year class of the Epidemic Intelligence Service must be out by 5 p.m., sources say. Also: a major CDC contractor "just let go," and others may follow.
open.substack.com
February 14, 2025 at 8:17 PM
If this reporting stands up (and it appears confirmed by multiple sources): devastating.
The EIS is the front-line SWAT team of disease detection in the US and globally, and also the training ground for new generations of public health workers.
No EIS, no boots on the ground for outbreaks. ->
The EIS is the front-line SWAT team of disease detection in the US and globally, and also the training ground for new generations of public health workers.
No EIS, no boots on the ground for outbreaks. ->
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Having passed up the opportunity years ago to run DOJ’s Civil Division, I’ve never run a large organization, let alone at DOJ.
So I’m no expert.
But I’m gonna spitball that if hundreds of your subordinates want to tell you to “go fuck yourself,” you might, perhaps, have a management problem.
So I’m no expert.
But I’m gonna spitball that if hundreds of your subordinates want to tell you to “go fuck yourself,” you might, perhaps, have a management problem.
Just to underscore the tension at DOJ at the moment, here's what one federal law enforcement official told me about the acting deputy attorney general:
"I, along with other career FBI and DOJ personnel that I’ve spoken with, really have one message for him and that is, “go fuck yourself, traitor.'"
"I, along with other career FBI and DOJ personnel that I’ve spoken with, really have one message for him and that is, “go fuck yourself, traitor.'"
Trump’s feared DOJ enforcer has a secret: He, too, investigated Jan. 6
The acting DOJ official behind a potential witch hunt against prosecutors and FBI agents who investigated the Capitol riot worked on Jan. 6 cases himself.
www.nbcnews.com
February 14, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Having passed up the opportunity years ago to run DOJ’s Civil Division, I’ve never run a large organization, let alone at DOJ.
So I’m no expert.
But I’m gonna spitball that if hundreds of your subordinates want to tell you to “go fuck yourself,” you might, perhaps, have a management problem.
So I’m no expert.
But I’m gonna spitball that if hundreds of your subordinates want to tell you to “go fuck yourself,” you might, perhaps, have a management problem.
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Elon Musk has purchased $40M on a series of Superbowl ads attacking USAID as "wasteful spending." Colleagues have created this video and are asking that it be posted across social media at exactly 5:30 pm EST today: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqUE...
www.youtube.com
February 9, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Elon Musk has purchased $40M on a series of Superbowl ads attacking USAID as "wasteful spending." Colleagues have created this video and are asking that it be posted across social media at exactly 5:30 pm EST today: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqUE...
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This is the most helpful list I've seen despite being in interview format (annoying)
www.vox.com/politics/398...
www.vox.com/politics/398...
All the ways Elon Musk is breaking the law, explained by a law professor
There are a lot of them.
www.vox.com
February 7, 2025 at 7:25 PM
This is the most helpful list I've seen despite being in interview format (annoying)
www.vox.com/politics/398...
www.vox.com/politics/398...
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"None of this is hyperbole.None of this is a political position. Rather, this is what’s happening and it is time to wake up to the reality and the threat and the damage being done.It feels like political theater. It is a national security crisis." @djrothkopf.bsky.social me+ also a personal crisis
When Political Theater Masks a National Security Crisis
DOGE is not doing a thing to help government efficiency. So, what's it up to?
open.substack.com
February 7, 2025 at 4:40 PM
"None of this is hyperbole.None of this is a political position. Rather, this is what’s happening and it is time to wake up to the reality and the threat and the damage being done.It feels like political theater. It is a national security crisis." @djrothkopf.bsky.social me+ also a personal crisis
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“The United States Supreme Court has resoundingly rejected the president’s interpretation of the 14th Amendment. In fact, no court in the country has ever endorsed the president’s interpretation. This court will not be the first.”
Federal Judge Places Indefinite Injunction Against Trump’s Order Ending Birthright Citizenship
“No court in the country has ever endorsed the president’s interpretation” in the past 125 years, the judge stated.
buff.ly
February 7, 2025 at 8:55 PM
“The United States Supreme Court has resoundingly rejected the president’s interpretation of the 14th Amendment. In fact, no court in the country has ever endorsed the president’s interpretation. This court will not be the first.”
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Simply incredible. Will Trump’s government now fire people for identifying threats to government?
SCOOP: A US Treasury threat intelligence analysis has designated DOGE staff an ‘insider threat'. An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”
A US Treasury Threat Intelligence Analysis Designates DOGE Staff as ‘Insider Threat’
An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”
wrd.cm
February 7, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Simply incredible. Will Trump’s government now fire people for identifying threats to government?
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Solidarity and a refusal to practice “anticipatory obedience” are essential. If parents, students and educators together refuse these policies, the policies will become unenforceable.
Trump’s Anti-Trans Education Order Relies on Intimidation. We Must Not Yield.
If parents, students and educators together refuse these policies, the policies will become unenforceable.
buff.ly
February 7, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Solidarity and a refusal to practice “anticipatory obedience” are essential. If parents, students and educators together refuse these policies, the policies will become unenforceable.
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They want to ban the teaching of the unpleasant facts of American history because people might conclude injustices in the past that contribute to inequalities in the present should be rectified, instead of their belief, which is that some groups of people are inherently superior to others
January 30, 2025 at 12:19 AM
They want to ban the teaching of the unpleasant facts of American history because people might conclude injustices in the past that contribute to inequalities in the present should be rectified, instead of their belief, which is that some groups of people are inherently superior to others
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Instant reaction to this news from a friend (as White as I am) who retired from the USAF as a colonel: "What the fuck?!"
The Air Force is stripping Tuskegee Airmen lessons from basic training curriculum because of our White supremacist government.
Put that in a headline.
www.expressnews.com/news/article...
Put that in a headline.
www.expressnews.com/news/article...
January 25, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Instant reaction to this news from a friend (as White as I am) who retired from the USAF as a colonel: "What the fuck?!"
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If she can do it, we can all do it.
January 22, 2025 at 10:43 AM
If she can do it, we can all do it.
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If you are providing gender affirming care or care to migrants and have questions about how to keep doing that, or generally step into your commitment to do no harm, please contact @interruptcrim.bsky.social's help desk for health care providers!
www.interruptingcriminalization.com/health-care-...
www.interruptingcriminalization.com/health-care-...
January 22, 2025 at 4:18 AM
If you are providing gender affirming care or care to migrants and have questions about how to keep doing that, or generally step into your commitment to do no harm, please contact @interruptcrim.bsky.social's help desk for health care providers!
www.interruptingcriminalization.com/health-care-...
www.interruptingcriminalization.com/health-care-...
For every Jewish voter who supported Trump, watch the Nazi salute from Musk. Shame on you and don’t you dare come after those of us who supported ending the genocide in Gaza. You have no moral standing.
January 20, 2025 at 10:47 PM
For every Jewish voter who supported Trump, watch the Nazi salute from Musk. Shame on you and don’t you dare come after those of us who supported ending the genocide in Gaza. You have no moral standing.
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This is huge. Does not erase by any means the genocide in Gaza, but it’s of immense importance.
Joe Biden has commuted the sentence of Leonard Peltier!
www.counterpunch.org/2025/01/20/l...
@ndncollective.bsky.social @counterpunchmedia.bsky.social
www.counterpunch.org/2025/01/20/l...
@ndncollective.bsky.social @counterpunchmedia.bsky.social
January 20, 2025 at 10:00 PM
This is huge. Does not erase by any means the genocide in Gaza, but it’s of immense importance.
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This is us. We are pushing back. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/sh...
RFK Jr. faces fierce pushback from coalition of health professionals, scientists
Thousands of physicians are mobilizing, hoping to derail Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s confirmation. The question is whether Republican senators will care.
www.msnbc.com
January 14, 2025 at 9:53 PM
This is us. We are pushing back. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/sh...
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We need you to call your Senators now. RFK Jr. is a clear and present danger to the health of all Americans. This is not a drill. Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and ask to be connected to your member of Congress. end/ docs.google.com/document/d/1...
DPH Press Release.docx
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 13, 2025 Healthcare, Public Health, and Scientific Experts Call on the Senate to Reject RFK Jr. Nomination to Lead HHS CONTACT: Julie Scofield, 301-455-2558, jscofie...
docs.google.com
January 14, 2025 at 11:08 AM
We need you to call your Senators now. RFK Jr. is a clear and present danger to the health of all Americans. This is not a drill. Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and ask to be connected to your member of Congress. end/ docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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As a not so irrelevant aside, America was never “great” either.
“But, historians say, the past was actually much worse.
And so, they say, the phrase “Make America Healthy Again” makes no sense.
“As a historian of health, I don’t know what ‘again’ Kennedy is imagining,” Dr. Tomes said. “The idea that once upon a time all Americans were healthy is a fantasy.”
And so, they say, the phrase “Make America Healthy Again” makes no sense.
“As a historian of health, I don’t know what ‘again’ Kennedy is imagining,” Dr. Tomes said. “The idea that once upon a time all Americans were healthy is a fantasy.”
RFK Jr.’s MAHA Movement Obscures America’s Unhealthy Past (Gift Article)
Medical historians say that the phrase “Make America Healthy Again” obscures a past during which this country’s people ate, smoked and drank things that mostly left them unwell.
www.nytimes.com
January 14, 2025 at 11:53 AM
As a not so irrelevant aside, America was never “great” either.