Daniel Littlewood
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1/ For six months, I've been traveling the world on Pulitzer Ctr & Fund For Investigative Journalism grants investigating Trump's effect on HIV & LGBTQ health. On World AIDS Day, @theintercept.com is publishing an overview essay of Afeef Nessouli & my findings. theintercept.com/2025/12/01/w...
Trump Gutted AIDS Health Care at the Worst Possible Time
By the first World AIDS Day of his second term, Trump gutted LGBTQ+ employment globally and put humanity at greater risk of AIDS.
theintercept.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:03 PM
1/ For six months, I've been traveling the world on Pulitzer Ctr & Fund For Investigative Journalism grants investigating Trump's effect on HIV & LGBTQ health. On World AIDS Day, @theintercept.com is publishing an overview essay of Afeef Nessouli & my findings. theintercept.com/2025/12/01/w...
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This is heartbreakingly cruel and hypocritical. The same admin that has redefined refugee status to cover white South Africans is now going to drown thousands of refugees already approved for their status in red tape, potentially even seeking to strip some of their status and deport them.
Trump Admin planning a rule to re-decide whether *every* refugee who entered under Biden meets their criteria for a refugee. That’s 230,000 people! And no appeals!
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
www.reuters.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:46 AM
This is heartbreakingly cruel and hypocritical. The same admin that has redefined refugee status to cover white South Africans is now going to drown thousands of refugees already approved for their status in red tape, potentially even seeking to strip some of their status and deport them.
Heartfelt in all the ways that word can mean.
"Remembering Alice Wong: Writer, Advocate, Friend"
Steven W. Thrasher on Meeting and Collaborating with the Outspoken Founder of the Disability Visibility Project
published by @literaryhub.bsky.social | art by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social lithub.com/remembering-...
Steven W. Thrasher on Meeting and Collaborating with the Outspoken Founder of the Disability Visibility Project
published by @literaryhub.bsky.social | art by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social lithub.com/remembering-...
Remembering Alice Wong: Writer, Advocate, Friend
Though we were in frequent conversation for a decade, I only got to meet my friend Alice Wong in person just once. And when I did, I was a bundle of nerves—and that was before she cussed me out wi…
lithub.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Heartfelt in all the ways that word can mean.
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1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
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It literally took decades of advocacy to pass these reforms, which would have prevented prison phone and teleconferencing companies from ripping off inmates and their families to the tune of hundreds of millions annually
F.C.C. Changes Course on the Price of Prisoners’ Phone Calls
www.nytimes.com
October 29, 2025 at 1:26 AM
It literally took decades of advocacy to pass these reforms, which would have prevented prison phone and teleconferencing companies from ripping off inmates and their families to the tune of hundreds of millions annually
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EXCLUSIVE: Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down.
Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down.
The FBI and Justice officials closed the investigation, which a Justice Department appointee had called a “deep state” probe in early 2025.
www.msnbc.com
September 20, 2025 at 8:03 PM
EXCLUSIVE: Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down.
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HUGE: The Trump administration will no longer permit any solar or wind projects on federal lands unless they produce more energy-per-acre than coal, gas or nuclear power plants.
Solar and wind literally produce less energy per acre, so simply this may just kill off any project on federal lands.
Solar and wind literally produce less energy per acre, so simply this may just kill off any project on federal lands.
Interior Order Chokes Off Permits for Solar and Wind on Federal Lands
The department creates a seemingly impossible new permitting criteria for renewable energy.
heatmap.news
August 2, 2025 at 2:18 AM
HUGE: The Trump administration will no longer permit any solar or wind projects on federal lands unless they produce more energy-per-acre than coal, gas or nuclear power plants.
Solar and wind literally produce less energy per acre, so simply this may just kill off any project on federal lands.
Solar and wind literally produce less energy per acre, so simply this may just kill off any project on federal lands.
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"In Allentown, he lived a quiet life, raising four children and enjoying retirement after years working at a leather manufacturing plant. It all fell apart, Nataly said, when he lost the wallet holding his green card and made the fateful appointment to replace it."
July 19, 2025 at 6:34 PM
"In Allentown, he lived a quiet life, raising four children and enjoying retirement after years working at a leather manufacturing plant. It all fell apart, Nataly said, when he lost the wallet holding his green card and made the fateful appointment to replace it."
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The Blazers drafted the guy I wanted and are trading him. Incredible stuff.
June 26, 2025 at 1:28 AM
The Blazers drafted the guy I wanted and are trading him. Incredible stuff.
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Nothing sums up the state of affairs for transgender Americans quite like the US Supreme Court denying trans people life-saving healthcare at the same time that the Trump administration shuts down suicide prevention programs for LGBTQ people.
These bastards want us all dead.
These bastards want us all dead.
Breaking: The Trevor Project received a stop-work order last night on its contract with the national 988 suicide prevention hotline. The Trump administration is eliminating the option for LGBTQ callers to the hotline to press 3 and connect with someone who specializes in LGBTQ mental health.
June 18, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Nothing sums up the state of affairs for transgender Americans quite like the US Supreme Court denying trans people life-saving healthcare at the same time that the Trump administration shuts down suicide prevention programs for LGBTQ people.
These bastards want us all dead.
These bastards want us all dead.
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Thank you all SO MUCH for your support. Our incredible Bargaining Committee worked into the night for us and reached a Tentative Agreement at around 5am! 🙏💪🥳🎉
As of now there will be NO STRIKE! Please continue enjoying all our work, knowing you all helped us get here! #unionstrong #voxunion #1u
As of now there will be NO STRIKE! Please continue enjoying all our work, knowing you all helped us get here! #unionstrong #voxunion #1u
June 13, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Thank you all SO MUCH for your support. Our incredible Bargaining Committee worked into the night for us and reached a Tentative Agreement at around 5am! 🙏💪🥳🎉
As of now there will be NO STRIKE! Please continue enjoying all our work, knowing you all helped us get here! #unionstrong #voxunion #1u
As of now there will be NO STRIKE! Please continue enjoying all our work, knowing you all helped us get here! #unionstrong #voxunion #1u
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ok so an important thing i really think people on bluesky need to hear about the anti-trans megabill
the tl;dr is that you could actually turn the tide of trans rights in america right now
but if you don’t act now, then we’re all cooked indefinitely
please read on
🧵
the tl;dr is that you could actually turn the tide of trans rights in america right now
but if you don’t act now, then we’re all cooked indefinitely
please read on
🧵
May 23, 2025 at 1:43 AM
ok so an important thing i really think people on bluesky need to hear about the anti-trans megabill
the tl;dr is that you could actually turn the tide of trans rights in america right now
but if you don’t act now, then we’re all cooked indefinitely
please read on
🧵
the tl;dr is that you could actually turn the tide of trans rights in america right now
but if you don’t act now, then we’re all cooked indefinitely
please read on
🧵
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this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
May 16, 2025 at 3:25 AM
this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
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the new pope needs to have high sync rates so he can pilot the evangelion
April 23, 2025 at 4:13 AM
the new pope needs to have high sync rates so he can pilot the evangelion
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"In an earlier post, she wrote: "As for the inevitable death, if I die, I want a loud death, I don't want me in a breaking news story, nor in a number with a group, I want a death that is heard by the world, a trace that lasts forever, and immortal images that neither time nor place can bury."
Photographer Fatima Hassona killed ahead of Cannes documentary debut
The Palestinian photojournalist Fatima Hassona, killed along with ten family members in an Israeli air strike on her home in northern Gaza, is the star of a documentary due to be screened at the Cannes film festival next month.
www.euronews.com
April 17, 2025 at 9:43 PM
"In an earlier post, she wrote: "As for the inevitable death, if I die, I want a loud death, I don't want me in a breaking news story, nor in a number with a group, I want a death that is heard by the world, a trace that lasts forever, and immortal images that neither time nor place can bury."
I am proud to support Steven.
My statement on being denied tenure at the Medill School of Journalism drive.google.com/file/d/1BBBI...
March 21, 2025 at 7:37 AM
I am proud to support Steven.
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"The Trump administration is preparing to eliminate all federal funding for domestic HIV prevention programs, a move that health experts say will undo decades of progress in combating the epidemic."
BREAKING: Trump admin moves to end federal HIV prevention programs. ‘Catastrophic’ consequences, experts say
“This is a dangerous move,” Jirair Ratevosian, an associate research scientist at Yale University, told The Advocate.
www.advocate.com
March 19, 2025 at 2:00 PM
"The Trump administration is preparing to eliminate all federal funding for domestic HIV prevention programs, a move that health experts say will undo decades of progress in combating the epidemic."
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#intropost Hi Bluesky. I'm a freelance journalist who tries to put human faces on complex issues. I also teach at Duke and Wake Forest. I'll be posting my favorite longform narrative in all media, plus my own work and my students' too. Here's me as a baby journalist in 1990. Photo: Sadie Bridger.
January 21, 2025 at 7:29 PM
#intropost Hi Bluesky. I'm a freelance journalist who tries to put human faces on complex issues. I also teach at Duke and Wake Forest. I'll be posting my favorite longform narrative in all media, plus my own work and my students' too. Here's me as a baby journalist in 1990. Photo: Sadie Bridger.
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y'know, sonny rollins is 94 years old and it would be cool if new york renamed the williamsburg bridge for him before he dies
January 17, 2025 at 11:54 PM
y'know, sonny rollins is 94 years old and it would be cool if new york renamed the williamsburg bridge for him before he dies