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Unemployment among Black workers has reached severe recession levels at 8.3% in Nov, while white worker unemployment has barely risen.
@deanbaker13.bsky.social suggests that Trump’s removal of discrimination protections likely played a role in this sharp jump. https://bit.ly/4qhIZAZ
@deanbaker13.bsky.social suggests that Trump’s removal of discrimination protections likely played a role in this sharp jump. https://bit.ly/4qhIZAZ
December 20, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Unemployment among Black workers has reached severe recession levels at 8.3% in Nov, while white worker unemployment has barely risen.
@deanbaker13.bsky.social suggests that Trump’s removal of discrimination protections likely played a role in this sharp jump. https://bit.ly/4qhIZAZ
@deanbaker13.bsky.social suggests that Trump’s removal of discrimination protections likely played a role in this sharp jump. https://bit.ly/4qhIZAZ
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🧵 🧪 This is my 3rd thread on the incarceration of computational scientist and microscopist Kesenii Petrova, and it’s intended for journalists covering the story. I want to say more about the frogs she’s accused of smuggling. Other biologists please chime in.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Harvard scientist facing deportation is charged with smuggling
Federal prosecutors allege Kseniia Petrova violated customs law by failing to declare preserved frog embryos in her luggage, in a case that's raised questions over her detention.
www.nbcnews.com
May 16, 2025 at 5:02 PM
🧵 🧪 This is my 3rd thread on the incarceration of computational scientist and microscopist Kesenii Petrova, and it’s intended for journalists covering the story. I want to say more about the frogs she’s accused of smuggling. Other biologists please chime in.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Her microscopy is stunning. I’ve never seen anything like it.
Her lab essentially brings a Hubble telescope inside the universe of tissues and cells so we can see not just cellular machinery but how it works.
Amazingly, she can show us the activity of lipid molecules:
Her lab essentially brings a Hubble telescope inside the universe of tissues and cells so we can see not just cellular machinery but how it works.
Amazingly, she can show us the activity of lipid molecules:
May 16, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Her microscopy is stunning. I’ve never seen anything like it.
Her lab essentially brings a Hubble telescope inside the universe of tissues and cells so we can see not just cellular machinery but how it works.
Amazingly, she can show us the activity of lipid molecules:
Her lab essentially brings a Hubble telescope inside the universe of tissues and cells so we can see not just cellular machinery but how it works.
Amazingly, she can show us the activity of lipid molecules:
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She wrote about her research at Harvard Med School in an op ed published earlier this week. Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/o...
Opinion | I Came to Study Aging. Now I’m Trapped in ICE Detention.
www.nytimes.com
May 16, 2025 at 5:02 PM
She wrote about her research at Harvard Med School in an op ed published earlier this week. Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/o...
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If you're wondering why you should be concerned about ICE and deportations under Trump, I made a short explainer (6 and a half minutes) which you can watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xITS...
We Need To Talk About ICE
YouTube video by Kat Abughazaleh
www.youtube.com
April 26, 2025 at 8:28 PM
If you're wondering why you should be concerned about ICE and deportations under Trump, I made a short explainer (6 and a half minutes) which you can watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xITS...
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We need to talk about ICE. Because what is happening right now is NOT normal: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xITS...
April 26, 2025 at 8:28 PM
We need to talk about ICE. Because what is happening right now is NOT normal: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xITS...
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I'm Kat Abughazaleh and I'm running for Congress.
March 24, 2025 at 1:30 PM
I'm Kat Abughazaleh and I'm running for Congress.
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Tesla earned $2.3 billion in the United States in 2024.
You'd think it paid a lot in taxes, right?
Well it paid precisely $0 in federal income taxes last year.
You want waste and fraud? Look at what some big corporations and the rich are getting away with.
You'd think it paid a lot in taxes, right?
Well it paid precisely $0 in federal income taxes last year.
You want waste and fraud? Look at what some big corporations and the rich are getting away with.
Tesla Paid Zero Federal Income Tax in 2024, Despite $2.3 Billion in Income
This brings Tesla’s average tax rate over the past three years to 0.4 percent.
truthout.org
February 7, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Tesla earned $2.3 billion in the United States in 2024.
You'd think it paid a lot in taxes, right?
Well it paid precisely $0 in federal income taxes last year.
You want waste and fraud? Look at what some big corporations and the rich are getting away with.
You'd think it paid a lot in taxes, right?
Well it paid precisely $0 in federal income taxes last year.
You want waste and fraud? Look at what some big corporations and the rich are getting away with.
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Jennifer Vasquez Sura, wife of Kilmar Abrego Garcia who was illegally deported to El Salvador asks for the U.S. government to return him outside a court hearing on the matter.
April 16, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Jennifer Vasquez Sura, wife of Kilmar Abrego Garcia who was illegally deported to El Salvador asks for the U.S. government to return him outside a court hearing on the matter.
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DOGE cut off payments for the electricity, cell phone, and internet service of U.S. government employees who work in a high-risk area in Central America.
Meanwhile, DOGE apparently plans to spend $25,000 to install a washer and dryer for their own personal use in a federal office building in DC.
Meanwhile, DOGE apparently plans to spend $25,000 to install a washer and dryer for their own personal use in a federal office building in DC.
March 8, 2025 at 3:28 PM
DOGE cut off payments for the electricity, cell phone, and internet service of U.S. government employees who work in a high-risk area in Central America.
Meanwhile, DOGE apparently plans to spend $25,000 to install a washer and dryer for their own personal use in a federal office building in DC.
Meanwhile, DOGE apparently plans to spend $25,000 to install a washer and dryer for their own personal use in a federal office building in DC.
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“As crimes pile up, they become invisible.”
- Bertolt Brecht
- Bertolt Brecht
March 8, 2025 at 8:04 PM
“As crimes pile up, they become invisible.”
- Bertolt Brecht
- Bertolt Brecht
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In a new video presentation and post I argue that Ds need to open up a "second front" that talks to the American people about the crimes Trump-Musk are committing, their trampling of the Constitution and their ongoing betrayal of the country. Find it 👇
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/trump-musk...
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/trump-musk...
Trump-Musk Are Committing Crimes, Tearing Up The Constitution, Betraying The Country - And Dems Need To Say So, Loudly (Video)
It's time for A Letter To America that lets "Facts be submitted to a candid world"
www.hopiumchronicles.com
March 6, 2025 at 7:14 PM
In a new video presentation and post I argue that Ds need to open up a "second front" that talks to the American people about the crimes Trump-Musk are committing, their trampling of the Constitution and their ongoing betrayal of the country. Find it 👇
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/trump-musk...
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/trump-musk...
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Holy shit.
Another ominous development: The Social Security Administration is no longer allowing parents in Maine to register newborns for SSNs at hospital after birth, is instead requiring them to visit a Social Security Office to register their children.
www.pressherald.com/2025/03/06/s...
www.pressherald.com/2025/03/06/s...
Social Security now requires Maine parents to visit an agency office to register newborns
The change — immediately criticized by pediatric health advocates — eliminates a program that allowed parents to fill out a form at the hospital to secure a Social Security number for their children.
www.pressherald.com
March 7, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Holy shit.
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🤬 Journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna was tortured in Russian captivity – investigation by Slidstvo info
www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/202...
www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/202...
Journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna was tortured in Russian captivity – investigation by Slidstvo.info
Investigators of the publication Slidstvo.Info found that Ukrainian journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna, who died in 2024, had been brutally tortured in Russian captivity: she had stab wounds on her body, ...
www.pravda.com.ua
March 3, 2025 at 10:16 PM
🤬 Journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna was tortured in Russian captivity – investigation by Slidstvo info
www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/202...
www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/202...
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Rarely has so much ignorance & ahistorical BS been crammed into a single tweet. I know JD Vance & Donald Trump are busy surrendering to a KGB butcher, abandoning the cause of freedom, & destroying the security of America & her allies, but they'd do well to spend some time actually studying history.
JD Vance Goes Ballistic on Conservative Historian: 'Moralistic Garbage'
JD Vance Goes Ballistic on Conservative Historian: ‘Moralistic Garbage’
Vance unleashed a blistering response to Niall Ferguson, who invoked George H.W. Bush to condemn Trump's Ukraine stance.
bit.ly
February 20, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Rarely has so much ignorance & ahistorical BS been crammed into a single tweet. I know JD Vance & Donald Trump are busy surrendering to a KGB butcher, abandoning the cause of freedom, & destroying the security of America & her allies, but they'd do well to spend some time actually studying history.
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It is not ours by way of inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. And those in world history who have known freedom and then lost it have never known it again.”
February 20, 2025 at 10:53 PM
It is not ours by way of inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. And those in world history who have known freedom and then lost it have never known it again.”
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Start here with Ronald Reagan: “Perhaps you and I have lived too long with this miracle to properly be appreciative. Freedom is a fragile thing and it's never more than one generation away from extinction.
February 20, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Start here with Ronald Reagan: “Perhaps you and I have lived too long with this miracle to properly be appreciative. Freedom is a fragile thing and it's never more than one generation away from extinction.
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History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for.
February 28, 2025 at 6:38 PM
History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for.
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A mass of employees at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) who were evaluating Elon Musk's brain implant venture, Neuralink, were fired as the Space X boss's department continues to cull agencies and "intimidate" organisations that regulate his brands.
Elon Musk's DOGE fires FDA staff overseeing Neuralink brain implant trial
www.irishstar.com
February 19, 2025 at 1:43 AM
A mass of employees at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) who were evaluating Elon Musk's brain implant venture, Neuralink, were fired as the Space X boss's department continues to cull agencies and "intimidate" organisations that regulate his brands.
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President Trump said he will continue to restrict The Associated Press’ access to his events and news conferences until the outlet goes along with his renaming of the Gulf of Mexico in its reports. He acknowledged that the move was a presidential retaliation against AP's editorial policy.
Trump says AP will continue to be curtailed at White House until it changes style to Gulf of America
President Donald Trump says his administration will continue to restrict The Associated Press' access to cover presidential events until the news agency goes along with his renaming of the Gulf of Mex...
apnews.com
February 19, 2025 at 1:51 AM
President Trump said he will continue to restrict The Associated Press’ access to his events and news conferences until the outlet goes along with his renaming of the Gulf of Mexico in its reports. He acknowledged that the move was a presidential retaliation against AP's editorial policy.
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A proposal to abolish the boards that oversee public libraries and educational public television programs in Arkansas passed the state Senate on Monday and will go to the House next. #arpx #arleg
Proposal to eliminate Arkansas State Library and PBS governing boards passes Senate • Arkansas Advocate
Bill sponsor Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Jonesboro, said libraries and Arkansas PBS are "great resources" but poorly managed.
buff.ly
February 18, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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“It seems to be targeting all presidentially designated national monuments under the Antiquities Act.”
via @diinsilversmith.bsky.social
via @diinsilversmith.bsky.social
Trump's ‘Unleash American Energy’ order sparks concern about the Grand Canyon national monument
President Donald Trump's executive order for “Unleashing American Energy” is sparking concern for the safety of federal lands within national monuments across the U.S., but especially in the Southwest...
azmirror.com
February 18, 2025 at 1:30 AM
“It seems to be targeting all presidentially designated national monuments under the Antiquities Act.”
via @diinsilversmith.bsky.social
via @diinsilversmith.bsky.social
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Michelle King, the acting commissioner of the Social Security Administration, left her job this weekend after a clash with billionaire Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service over its attempts to access sensitive government records, people familiar with her departure said.
Top Social Security official exits after clash with Musk’s DOGE over data
Yet another top career staffer is leaving the administration amid a disagreement over a request by Elon Musk’s team for sensitive government information.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 18, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Michelle King, the acting commissioner of the Social Security Administration, left her job this weekend after a clash with billionaire Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service over its attempts to access sensitive government records, people familiar with her departure said.
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First military flight lands in Guantanamo Bay with migrants deported from US
First military flight lands in Guantanamo Bay with migrants deported from US
The first U.S. military flight deporting migrants from the United States to Guantanamo Bay landed in Cuba on Tuesday
www.live5news.com
February 5, 2025 at 2:10 PM
First military flight lands in Guantanamo Bay with migrants deported from US
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Illinois and Chicago-area politicians admitted last month they were worried about losing federal transit funding from an incoming Trump administration when the officials locked down a grant for the Red Line extension.
That fear materialized this week.
That fear materialized this week.
Federal transit money for Chicago, state of Illinois could be jeopardized via Trump administration directive
The order, issued in a U.S. Department of Transportation memo late last week, calls on the department to "give preference to communities with marriage and birth rates higher than the national…
buff.ly
February 5, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Illinois and Chicago-area politicians admitted last month they were worried about losing federal transit funding from an incoming Trump administration when the officials locked down a grant for the Red Line extension.
That fear materialized this week.
That fear materialized this week.