Margaret McCarthy
@mccarthymargaret.bsky.social
Public defender, developmental psychologist, LGBTQ activist
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A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social
ICE Arrested and Separated Chinese Father From 6-Year-Old Son, Advocates Say
The father and son were detained at an ICE check-in on Nov. 26, advocates say. The son’s location is currently unknown, while the father is being held at an upstate ICE facility.
www.thecity.nyc
December 2, 2025 at 5:42 PM
A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social
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“US Regime Deploys Troops, Arrests Citizens, and Detains Opposition Amid Mass Pro-Democracy Protests”
What if we wrote about events in Trump’s America in the way that Western media describe African and Middle Eastern countries?
Brilliant stuff, from @premthakker.bsky.social
What if we wrote about events in Trump’s America in the way that Western media describe African and Middle Eastern countries?
Brilliant stuff, from @premthakker.bsky.social
US Regime Deploys Troops, Arrests Citizens, and Detains Opposition Amid Mass Pro-Democracy Protests
What if we wrote about events in Trump’s America in the way that Western media describe African and Middle Eastern countries?
zeteo.com
June 13, 2025 at 6:17 PM
“US Regime Deploys Troops, Arrests Citizens, and Detains Opposition Amid Mass Pro-Democracy Protests”
What if we wrote about events in Trump’s America in the way that Western media describe African and Middle Eastern countries?
Brilliant stuff, from @premthakker.bsky.social
What if we wrote about events in Trump’s America in the way that Western media describe African and Middle Eastern countries?
Brilliant stuff, from @premthakker.bsky.social
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The Trump administration. Famous for starving the entire world.
The Trump administration has cancelled more than $1.3 million in federal emergency grants awarded to a Brooklyn food pantry to feed migrants.
Brooklyn Food Pantry Loses Federal Migrant Aid Grants — for Feeding Migrants
The Federal Emergency Management Agency yanked $1.3 million in funds from the Campaign Against Hunger, accusing the group of aiding “illegal aliens.”
buff.ly
April 27, 2025 at 2:50 PM
The Trump administration. Famous for starving the entire world.
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RFK, Jr. Laying Off the entire OIDP - Office Of Infectious Disease And HIV/AIDS Policy
Problem is: general public not aware of what OIDP stands for, let alone what it does - and why this vision, strategy and organization is crucial
Here's just a small segment of what OIDP:
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Problem is: general public not aware of what OIDP stands for, let alone what it does - and why this vision, strategy and organization is crucial
Here's just a small segment of what OIDP:
🧵
RFK, Jr. Laying Off Entire Office Of Infectious Disease And HIV/AIDS Policy
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the Secretary of Health and Human Services is reportedly laying off the entire Office Of Infectious Disease And HIV/AIDS Policy. Here's the impact
www.forbes.com
March 30, 2025 at 11:58 AM
RFK, Jr. Laying Off the entire OIDP - Office Of Infectious Disease And HIV/AIDS Policy
Problem is: general public not aware of what OIDP stands for, let alone what it does - and why this vision, strategy and organization is crucial
Here's just a small segment of what OIDP:
🧵
Problem is: general public not aware of what OIDP stands for, let alone what it does - and why this vision, strategy and organization is crucial
Here's just a small segment of what OIDP:
🧵
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As these lawyers write, lawyers have a special duty to defend the rule of law. Bowing to an extortionist only brings more extortion.
Opinion | For God’s Sake, Fellow Lawyers, Stand Up to Trump
If law firms won’t defend the rule of law, who will?
www.nytimes.com
March 30, 2025 at 1:26 PM
As these lawyers write, lawyers have a special duty to defend the rule of law. Bowing to an extortionist only brings more extortion.
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...Vance/Trump "use the same language as fascist mass murderers. I’ve witnessed this process of normalization over the last 8 years as a reporter covering the far right, seeing neo-Nazi talking points, especially around immigration, enter the mainstream discourse with horrifying, accelerating speed"
Wrote about how the camps will come for the rest of us www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Opinion | Don’t think ‘it can’t happen here’ — it’s already happening
Demonizing rhetoric from the White House, arrests without due process, deporting immigrants to a brutal prison in a foreign country. This is America today.
www.msnbc.com
March 30, 2025 at 2:34 PM
...Vance/Trump "use the same language as fascist mass murderers. I’ve witnessed this process of normalization over the last 8 years as a reporter covering the far right, seeing neo-Nazi talking points, especially around immigration, enter the mainstream discourse with horrifying, accelerating speed"
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As of Friday, there have been 46 cases in which federal judges have blocked Trump policies.
The rulings in those cases have come from 39 different judges appointed by 5 different presidents (of both parties) to 11 different district courts across 7 different circuits.
Maybe it's not the judges?
The rulings in those cases have come from 39 different judges appointed by 5 different presidents (of both parties) to 11 different district courts across 7 different circuits.
Maybe it's not the judges?
March 30, 2025 at 1:15 PM
As of Friday, there have been 46 cases in which federal judges have blocked Trump policies.
The rulings in those cases have come from 39 different judges appointed by 5 different presidents (of both parties) to 11 different district courts across 7 different circuits.
Maybe it's not the judges?
The rulings in those cases have come from 39 different judges appointed by 5 different presidents (of both parties) to 11 different district courts across 7 different circuits.
Maybe it's not the judges?
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Universities must resist authoritarianism.
Nielsen: Democracy in peril — a call to action for Northwestern and beyond
Silence and acquiescence will not protect Northwestern and other universities from the Trump administration’s authoritarian attacks on democracy. The University must speak out now — or watch liberty a...
dailynorthwestern.com
March 20, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Universities must resist authoritarianism.
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Megaphone: 📢 When fascists try to take control, what do we do?
Us: STAND UP, FIGHT BACK!!!
Us: STAND UP, FIGHT BACK!!!
Steven Levitsky, a Harvard political scientist and coauthor of “How Democracies Die," compared Trump's first two months to actions in other countries that moved toward autocracy in this century and concluded it's "worse" here than any other place. “Honest to god, I’ve never seen anything like it."
‘This Is Worse’: Trump’s Judicial Defiance Veers Beyond the Autocrat Playbook
The president’s escalating conflict with federal courts is even more aggressive than what happened in countries like Hungary and Turkey, experts say.
www.nytimes.com
March 20, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Megaphone: 📢 When fascists try to take control, what do we do?
Us: STAND UP, FIGHT BACK!!!
Us: STAND UP, FIGHT BACK!!!
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One reason this government can so easily frame protesters as terrorists is that others—including some at universities—have already laid the groundwork. When we treat students engaged in constitutionally protected speech like criminals, we make it easier for authoritarian governments to do the same.
Before Mahmoud Khalil's detention last week, ICE came for a Columbia PhD student. She had nothing to do with the Gaza protests, but was arrested last spring during a roundup while trying to walk home. Charges were dismissed. The State Department still revoked her visa.
How a Columbia Student Fled to Canada After ICE Came Looking for Her
Ranjani Srinivasan’s student visa was revoked by U.S. immigration authorities. That was just the start of her odyssey.
www.nytimes.com
March 15, 2025 at 4:19 PM
One reason this government can so easily frame protesters as terrorists is that others—including some at universities—have already laid the groundwork. When we treat students engaged in constitutionally protected speech like criminals, we make it easier for authoritarian governments to do the same.
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Keeping With Kennedy’s Advice, Measles Patients Turn to Unproven Treatments. Story by @teddyrosenbluth.bsky.social Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/h...
Keeping With Kennedy’s Advice, Measles Patients Turn to Unproven Treatments (Gift Article)
In West Texas, some with severe illness have not been taken to a doctor until their conditions worsened, officials said.
www.nytimes.com
March 15, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Keeping With Kennedy’s Advice, Measles Patients Turn to Unproven Treatments. Story by @teddyrosenbluth.bsky.social Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/h...
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As the NIH expects staff cuts of up to 5,000 of its 20,000 positions, “people are scrambling and freaking out,” a researcher said.
At NIH, ‘everyone is on edge’ as they brace for deep cuts and more centralized control
As the NIH braces for cuts of up to 5,000 of its 20,000 positions, “people are scrambling and freaking out,” a researcher said.
buff.ly
March 15, 2025 at 4:48 PM
As the NIH expects staff cuts of up to 5,000 of its 20,000 positions, “people are scrambling and freaking out,” a researcher said.
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Struggling to contain a raging measles epidemic in West Texas, public health officials increasingly worry that residents are relying on unproven remedies endorsed by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, and postponing doctor visits until the illness has worsened.
Keeping With Kennedy’s Advice, Measles Patients Turn to Unproven Treatments
In West Texas, some with severe illness have not been taken to a doctor until their conditions worsened, officials said.
www.nytimes.com
March 15, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Struggling to contain a raging measles epidemic in West Texas, public health officials increasingly worry that residents are relying on unproven remedies endorsed by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, and postponing doctor visits until the illness has worsened.
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President Trump’s freeze on international aid has hampered Uganda’s ability to respond to an Ebola outbreak, U.S. officials said in private.
As Ebola Spreads in Uganda, Trump Aid Freeze Hinders Effort to Contain It, U.S. Officials Fear
Two more people are reported dead from the disease, and dozens are in isolation, as the outbreak grows.
www.nytimes.com
March 7, 2025 at 3:01 AM
President Trump’s freeze on international aid has hampered Uganda’s ability to respond to an Ebola outbreak, U.S. officials said in private.
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REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.
ICE Prosecutor in Dallas Runs White Supremacist X Account
The Observer has identified the operator of “GlomarResponder,” an overtly racist social media account, as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.
www.texasobserver.org
February 19, 2025 at 10:04 PM
REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.
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“Far from harmless, the crusade against DEI has been a way of laundering racist policies into the mainstream. The anti-woke right’s public focus on hollow cultural signifiers obscures their actual goal: undoing the gains made by the Civil Rights Movement.”
www.theverge.com/politics/613...
www.theverge.com/politics/613...
The war on DEI is a smoke screen
MAGA’s attacks on “wokeness” and “diversity, equity, and inclusion” are a thinly veiled attack on the Civil Rights Movement itself.
www.theverge.com
February 18, 2025 at 3:40 AM
“Far from harmless, the crusade against DEI has been a way of laundering racist policies into the mainstream. The anti-woke right’s public focus on hollow cultural signifiers obscures their actual goal: undoing the gains made by the Civil Rights Movement.”
www.theverge.com/politics/613...
www.theverge.com/politics/613...
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He mocked Hedtler-Gaudette’s blindness in a tweet that reached 21 million views, unleashing a wave of harassment—including calls to expose his bank account.
Juvenile bigotry at its finest.
Juvenile bigotry at its finest.
February 18, 2025 at 3:39 AM
He mocked Hedtler-Gaudette’s blindness in a tweet that reached 21 million views, unleashing a wave of harassment—including calls to expose his bank account.
Juvenile bigotry at its finest.
Juvenile bigotry at its finest.
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Breaking News: Gov. Kathy Hochul, who could remove Mayor Eric Adams, said the resignation of 4 aides raised concerns about his “long-term future” at City Hall.
4 Top Officials to Resign Over Adams’s Cooperation With Trump
Gov. Kathy Hochul said the resignations raised “serious questions about the long-term future of this mayoral administration.” She planned meet with elected officials to discuss “the path forward.”
www.nytimes.com
February 18, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Breaking News: Gov. Kathy Hochul, who could remove Mayor Eric Adams, said the resignation of 4 aides raised concerns about his “long-term future” at City Hall.
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Rally in Union Square against the destruction of America.
February 17, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Rally in Union Square against the destruction of America.
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So…Trump wants rare earth mineral rights in Ukraine in exchange for ground troops?
www.msnbc.com/deadline-whi...
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Trump administration asked Ukraine for 50% of its minerals, signals openness to deploying troops
Axios Senior Political reporter Alex Isenstadt, "Fast Politics" host Molly Jong-Fast, and Puck News Chief Political Correspondent John Heilemann join Nicolle Wallace to discuss the breaking news that ...
www.msnbc.com
February 14, 2025 at 11:30 PM
So…Trump wants rare earth mineral rights in Ukraine in exchange for ground troops?
www.msnbc.com/deadline-whi...
www.msnbc.com/deadline-whi...
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Members of the CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service were warned Friday that many of them were about to be fired
CDC cuts expected to devastate Epidemic Intelligence Service, a ‘crown jewel’ of public health
Members of the CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service were warned Friday that many of them were about to be fired
buff.ly
February 14, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Members of the CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service were warned Friday that many of them were about to be fired