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The Trump admin, in its quest to eliminate the entire concept of asylum from the law and get rid of all asylum applicants without hearing their cases, wants to deport a Chinese dissident to Uganda, despite the fact that he has a slam-dunk asylum claim.
December 15, 2025 at 8:59 PM
The Trump admin, in its quest to eliminate the entire concept of asylum from the law and get rid of all asylum applicants without hearing their cases, wants to deport a Chinese dissident to Uganda, despite the fact that he has a slam-dunk asylum claim.
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Hating Real Madrid is a moral duty.
❗ La ONU incluye la ACS de Florentino Pérez en la lista de empresas que hacen negocio en la Cisjordania ocupada ilegalmente
La ONU incluye la ACS de Florentino Pérez en la lista de empresas que hacen negocio en la Cisjordania ocupada ilegalmente
La Oficina de las Naciones Unidas para los Derechos Humanos publicó este viernes una actualización de su lista de empresas que operan en asentamientos ilegales israelíes en la Cisjordania ocupada, ...
www.publico.es
September 26, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Hating Real Madrid is a moral duty.
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New details on the abuse Andry Hernandez Romero described suffering while in confinement at CECOT.
Everything about reporting this story makes me sick. www.advocate.com/news/andry-h...
Everything about reporting this story makes me sick. www.advocate.com/news/andry-h...
Gay makeup artist Andry Hernández Romero describes horrific sexual & physical abuse at CECOT in El Salvador
He called it "an encounter with torture and death."
www.advocate.com
July 26, 2025 at 3:20 PM
New details on the abuse Andry Hernandez Romero described suffering while in confinement at CECOT.
Everything about reporting this story makes me sick. www.advocate.com/news/andry-h...
Everything about reporting this story makes me sick. www.advocate.com/news/andry-h...
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Incredibly sobering article on a mass deportation campaign much further along than the U.S. one.
As Iran Deports a Million Afghans, ‘Where Do We Even Go?’ www.nytimes.com/2025/07/16/w...
As Iran Deports a Million Afghans, ‘Where Do We Even Go?’
www.nytimes.com
July 22, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Incredibly sobering article on a mass deportation campaign much further along than the U.S. one.
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Refugees in Kenya have died at food distribution centers, officials noted, including a pregnant woman crushed to death during a stampede.
Aid workers said they expected more people to get hurt “as vulnerable households become increasingly desperate.”
Aid workers said they expected more people to get hurt “as vulnerable households become increasingly desperate.”
Death, Sexual Violence and Human Trafficking: Fallout From U.S. Aid Withdrawal Hits the World’s Most Fragile Locations
Exclusive State Department records show: As the Trump administration abandons its humanitarian commitments, diplomats are reporting that the cuts have led to violence and instability while…
www.propublica.org
June 23, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Refugees in Kenya have died at food distribution centers, officials noted, including a pregnant woman crushed to death during a stampede.
Aid workers said they expected more people to get hurt “as vulnerable households become increasingly desperate.”
Aid workers said they expected more people to get hurt “as vulnerable households become increasingly desperate.”
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not the main issue here but i'd really appreciate it if democratic politicians spoke out in support of big-city life and culture with the same energy and reverence that all politicians have for small towns
los angeles is "real america" and so are all the other big cities the president hates
los angeles is "real america" and so are all the other big cities the president hates
June 8, 2025 at 10:48 PM
not the main issue here but i'd really appreciate it if democratic politicians spoke out in support of big-city life and culture with the same energy and reverence that all politicians have for small towns
los angeles is "real america" and so are all the other big cities the president hates
los angeles is "real america" and so are all the other big cities the president hates
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New preprint finding that eliminating US global health funding over the next fifteen years would cause:
- 15.2m deaths from AIDS
- 2.2m deaths from TB
- 7.9 additional child deaths
- 15.2m deaths from AIDS
- 2.2m deaths from TB
- 7.9 additional child deaths
April 17, 2025 at 8:32 PM
New preprint finding that eliminating US global health funding over the next fifteen years would cause:
- 15.2m deaths from AIDS
- 2.2m deaths from TB
- 7.9 additional child deaths
- 15.2m deaths from AIDS
- 2.2m deaths from TB
- 7.9 additional child deaths
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This Tufts student was grabbed off the street, cuffed and taken out of state solely because she co-wrote a completely respectful oped in the student paper.
And Rubio’s State Dept now admits they have nothing more damning than that.
Gift link wapo.st/4j8d5Uh
And Rubio’s State Dept now admits they have nothing more damning than that.
Gift link wapo.st/4j8d5Uh
No evidence linking Tufts student to antisemitism or terrorism, State Dept. office found
An internal memo, prepared before Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk was detained by ICE, raises doubts about the Trump administration’s claims that she supports Hamas.
wapo.st
April 14, 2025 at 12:37 AM
This Tufts student was grabbed off the street, cuffed and taken out of state solely because she co-wrote a completely respectful oped in the student paper.
And Rubio’s State Dept now admits they have nothing more damning than that.
Gift link wapo.st/4j8d5Uh
And Rubio’s State Dept now admits they have nothing more damning than that.
Gift link wapo.st/4j8d5Uh
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It's getting a lot of attn today. But even before today most of the country had very little idea of what has happened at NIH or through it the entire ecosystem of biomedical research in the US. Simply put, Musk, Kennedy & Trump exploded a bomb right in the middle of cancer cure research in the US.
April 2, 2025 at 1:26 AM
It's getting a lot of attn today. But even before today most of the country had very little idea of what has happened at NIH or through it the entire ecosystem of biomedical research in the US. Simply put, Musk, Kennedy & Trump exploded a bomb right in the middle of cancer cure research in the US.
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For years I justified my twitter habit by saying, "I need to be here to promote my books and stuff like the Project for Awesome."
Without twitter, this year's p4a raised a record $3,700,000.
Without twitter, Everything Is Tuberculosis (a history of tuberculosis!) is outselling my previous book...
Without twitter, this year's p4a raised a record $3,700,000.
Without twitter, Everything Is Tuberculosis (a history of tuberculosis!) is outselling my previous book...
March 5, 2025 at 3:42 PM
For years I justified my twitter habit by saying, "I need to be here to promote my books and stuff like the Project for Awesome."
Without twitter, this year's p4a raised a record $3,700,000.
Without twitter, Everything Is Tuberculosis (a history of tuberculosis!) is outselling my previous book...
Without twitter, this year's p4a raised a record $3,700,000.
Without twitter, Everything Is Tuberculosis (a history of tuberculosis!) is outselling my previous book...
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Just received this photo from a friend of a warehouse in Kinshasa. These are tuberculosis medications--ALREADY PAID FOR--that aren't being distributed due to the Trump Administration's stop work order.
TB treatment is being interrupted in SO many patients around the world. What does that mean? (1/2)
TB treatment is being interrupted in SO many patients around the world. What does that mean? (1/2)
February 7, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Just received this photo from a friend of a warehouse in Kinshasa. These are tuberculosis medications--ALREADY PAID FOR--that aren't being distributed due to the Trump Administration's stop work order.
TB treatment is being interrupted in SO many patients around the world. What does that mean? (1/2)
TB treatment is being interrupted in SO many patients around the world. What does that mean? (1/2)
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Global Refuge condemns, in the strongest possible terms, the false accusations lodged against our humanitarian work.
Read our full statement concerning misinformation around our mission.
www.globalrefuge.org/news/misinfo...
Read our full statement concerning misinformation around our mission.
www.globalrefuge.org/news/misinfo...
February 3, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Global Refuge condemns, in the strongest possible terms, the false accusations lodged against our humanitarian work.
Read our full statement concerning misinformation around our mission.
www.globalrefuge.org/news/misinfo...
Read our full statement concerning misinformation around our mission.
www.globalrefuge.org/news/misinfo...
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2/ First, this isn't a funding pause. It's a STOP WORK ORDER to almost all aid. Unprecedented.
So today we just stopped feeding babies and housing refugees and mediating conflicts all around the world. Aid orgs are laying off staff and many programs will not restart.
So today we just stopped feeding babies and housing refugees and mediating conflicts all around the world. Aid orgs are laying off staff and many programs will not restart.
January 28, 2025 at 3:09 PM
2/ First, this isn't a funding pause. It's a STOP WORK ORDER to almost all aid. Unprecedented.
So today we just stopped feeding babies and housing refugees and mediating conflicts all around the world. Aid orgs are laying off staff and many programs will not restart.
So today we just stopped feeding babies and housing refugees and mediating conflicts all around the world. Aid orgs are laying off staff and many programs will not restart.
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BREAKING: The Trump administration has instructed organizations in other countries to stop disbursing HIV medications purchased with U.S. aid, even if the drugs have already been obtained and are sitting in local clinics.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/h...
Trump Administration Halts H.I.V. Drug Distribution in Poor Countries (Gift Article)
PEPFAR’s computer systems also are being taken offline, a sign that the program may not return, as Republican critics had hoped.
www.nytimes.com
January 27, 2025 at 11:19 PM
BREAKING: The Trump administration has instructed organizations in other countries to stop disbursing HIV medications purchased with U.S. aid, even if the drugs have already been obtained and are sitting in local clinics.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/h...
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Benfica 4-5 Barcelona
Benfica 4-5 Barcelona
January 21, 2025 at 10:00 PM
🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯
Benfica 4-5 Barcelona
Benfica 4-5 Barcelona
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Genuinely the funniest, most insane game of the season.
RAPHINHAAAAAAAA
January 21, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Genuinely the funniest, most insane game of the season.
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🧵 THREAD: Our reporter spent the past year reporting inside the State Department, trying to answer the central question of Biden’s foreign policy:
How did the U.S. let Israel get away with widespread horrors in Gaza?
How did the U.S. let Israel get away with widespread horrors in Gaza?
January 16, 2025 at 12:00 AM
🧵 THREAD: Our reporter spent the past year reporting inside the State Department, trying to answer the central question of Biden’s foreign policy:
How did the U.S. let Israel get away with widespread horrors in Gaza?
How did the U.S. let Israel get away with widespread horrors in Gaza?
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Perhaps he was just extremely prolific and successful and in a small town that needed him to work very hard.
That story started to unravel when it turned out that stage 4 lung cancer patient, who would eventually die of his treatments, probably never had cancer.
www.propublica.org/article/thom....
That story started to unravel when it turned out that stage 4 lung cancer patient, who would eventually die of his treatments, probably never had cancer.
www.propublica.org/article/thom....
A Hospital Helped a Beloved Doctor’s Practice Flourish Even as It Suspected He Was Hurting Patients
Hailed as a savior upon his arrival in Helena, Dr. Thomas C. Weiner became a favorite of patients and his hospital’s highest earner. As the myth surrounding the high-profile oncologist grew, so did th...
www.propublica.org
December 15, 2024 at 4:44 PM
Perhaps he was just extremely prolific and successful and in a small town that needed him to work very hard.
That story started to unravel when it turned out that stage 4 lung cancer patient, who would eventually die of his treatments, probably never had cancer.
www.propublica.org/article/thom....
That story started to unravel when it turned out that stage 4 lung cancer patient, who would eventually die of his treatments, probably never had cancer.
www.propublica.org/article/thom....
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David Leonhardt ignored the advice of his New York Times colleague, Carlos Lozada, who last year, in a passage discussing my essay “White Backlash,” warned about the dangers of this kind of framing in his review of the book MYTH AMERICA edited by @kevinmkruse.bsky.social and @zelizer.bsky.social.
December 12, 2024 at 12:23 PM
David Leonhardt ignored the advice of his New York Times colleague, Carlos Lozada, who last year, in a passage discussing my essay “White Backlash,” warned about the dangers of this kind of framing in his review of the book MYTH AMERICA edited by @kevinmkruse.bsky.social and @zelizer.bsky.social.
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As we all watch some of #Syria’s horrific prisons being opened up, let's remember the systematic torture inside them under Assad’s rule: www.hrw.org/report/2015/...
Survivors & families have been bravely seeking justice for years: www.hrw.org/feature/2024...
Survivors & families have been bravely seeking justice for years: www.hrw.org/feature/2024...
If the Dead Could Speak
This report lays out new evidence regarding the authenticity of what are known as the Caesar photographs, identifies a number of the victims, and highlights some of the key causes of death. Human Righ...
www.hrw.org
December 8, 2024 at 10:25 AM
As we all watch some of #Syria’s horrific prisons being opened up, let's remember the systematic torture inside them under Assad’s rule: www.hrw.org/report/2015/...
Survivors & families have been bravely seeking justice for years: www.hrw.org/feature/2024...
Survivors & families have been bravely seeking justice for years: www.hrw.org/feature/2024...
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Let me tell you a story – one of the more haunting I’ve seen in 20 years of journalism. It’s about greed, death and denial. It took two years to unravel one doctor’s myth, a hospital’s complicity in creating it, and a documented trail of suspicious deaths…🧵
December 7, 2024 at 3:52 PM
Let me tell you a story – one of the more haunting I’ve seen in 20 years of journalism. It’s about greed, death and denial. It took two years to unravel one doctor’s myth, a hospital’s complicity in creating it, and a documented trail of suspicious deaths…🧵
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NEW: “Eat What You Kill”
Hailed as a savior upon his arrival in Helena, Dr. Thomas C. Weiner became a favorite of patients and his hospital’s highest earner. As the myth surrounding the high-profile oncologist grew, so did the trail of patient harm and suspicious deaths. @davidmcswane.bsky.social
Hailed as a savior upon his arrival in Helena, Dr. Thomas C. Weiner became a favorite of patients and his hospital’s highest earner. As the myth surrounding the high-profile oncologist grew, so did the trail of patient harm and suspicious deaths. @davidmcswane.bsky.social
A Hospital Helped a Beloved Doctor’s Practice Flourish Even as It Suspected He Was Hurting Patients
Hailed as a savior upon his arrival in Helena, Dr. Thomas C. Weiner became a favorite of patients and his hospital’s highest earner. As the myth surrounding the high-profile oncologist grew, so did…
propub.li
December 7, 2024 at 3:00 PM
NEW: “Eat What You Kill”
Hailed as a savior upon his arrival in Helena, Dr. Thomas C. Weiner became a favorite of patients and his hospital’s highest earner. As the myth surrounding the high-profile oncologist grew, so did the trail of patient harm and suspicious deaths. @davidmcswane.bsky.social
Hailed as a savior upon his arrival in Helena, Dr. Thomas C. Weiner became a favorite of patients and his hospital’s highest earner. As the myth surrounding the high-profile oncologist grew, so did the trail of patient harm and suspicious deaths. @davidmcswane.bsky.social
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On this date in 1941, Pearl Harbor was attacked by the imperial forces of Japan. The loss of life and destruction was horrific, and it pulled the U.S. into the war.
For Japanese Americans, it was a terrifying time. Overnight, we became the “enemy within” because we were of Japanese descent. /1
For Japanese Americans, it was a terrifying time. Overnight, we became the “enemy within” because we were of Japanese descent. /1
December 7, 2024 at 10:57 PM
On this date in 1941, Pearl Harbor was attacked by the imperial forces of Japan. The loss of life and destruction was horrific, and it pulled the U.S. into the war.
For Japanese Americans, it was a terrifying time. Overnight, we became the “enemy within” because we were of Japanese descent. /1
For Japanese Americans, it was a terrifying time. Overnight, we became the “enemy within” because we were of Japanese descent. /1
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Scoop: After the LA Times published a piece about Elon Musk that carried a headline owner Patrick Soon-Shiong didn't like, a new rule was implemented: Prior to publishing opinion stories, headlines must be emailed to Soon-Shiong, where he can then choose to weigh in. www.status.news/p/los-angele...
The Times They Are A-Changin’
Staffers at the Los Angeles Times described to Status a demoralized publication depleted of its spirit in which employees are "confused," "offended," and "frustrated."
www.status.news
December 5, 2024 at 4:38 AM
Scoop: After the LA Times published a piece about Elon Musk that carried a headline owner Patrick Soon-Shiong didn't like, a new rule was implemented: Prior to publishing opinion stories, headlines must be emailed to Soon-Shiong, where he can then choose to weigh in. www.status.news/p/los-angele...