Mical Raz
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What’s going on with the daycares in Minneapolis?
December 29, 2025 at 11:25 PM
What’s going on with the daycares in Minneapolis?
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As a Jew, it’s fun watching the administration post Christian nationalist messages while also saying they are doing everything they can to curb antisemitism.
Here’s the U.S. government being officially religious in a country with no official religion.
December 25, 2025 at 3:37 PM
As a Jew, it’s fun watching the administration post Christian nationalist messages while also saying they are doing everything they can to curb antisemitism.
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Zohran Mamdani scares the ADL more than these guys and I think it's fair to ask why
December 19, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Zohran Mamdani scares the ADL more than these guys and I think it's fair to ask why
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The only person who didn't see this coming was Chuck Schumer.
NEW: Mike Johnson says he WON'T call a House vote on extending ACA funding this week
Weekend talks with centrist Republicans on a health care amendment collapsed.
Enhanced tax credits will expire, raising costs in 2026.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
Weekend talks with centrist Republicans on a health care amendment collapsed.
Enhanced tax credits will expire, raising costs in 2026.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
House Republican leaders ditch vote on ACA funding, all but ensuring premiums will rise
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said Republicans worked on the issue throughout the weekend but could not come to an agreement with a group of members who want the funds extended.
www.nbcnews.com
December 16, 2025 at 7:38 PM
The only person who didn't see this coming was Chuck Schumer.
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Something that what happened in Australia and the ensuing discourse has brought back in to my mind is that there are still fewer Jews in the world today than there were in 1939
December 15, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Something that what happened in Australia and the ensuing discourse has brought back in to my mind is that there are still fewer Jews in the world today than there were in 1939
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The repeated pattern (see also Washington Post) is that these choices to veer rightward are not economic decisions: they turn off the core audience. Editorial choices are loss leaders for bigger corporate goals.
Major advertisers appeared to sit out a new CBS News town hall telecast Saturday, moderated by Bari Weiss and featuring an interview with Erika Kirk.
Lack of Madison Avenue support could challenge the viability of the format, which Weiss wants to expand
variety.com/2025/tv/news...
Lack of Madison Avenue support could challenge the viability of the format, which Weiss wants to expand
variety.com/2025/tv/news...
Big Advertisers Appear Wary of CBS News’ Bari Weiss Town Hall Format
Many major advertisers appeared to sit out a new CBS News town hall format moderated by Bari Weiss and featuring a conversation with Erika Kirk
variety.com
December 14, 2025 at 4:35 AM
The repeated pattern (see also Washington Post) is that these choices to veer rightward are not economic decisions: they turn off the core audience. Editorial choices are loss leaders for bigger corporate goals.
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It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.
December 10, 2025 at 10:32 PM
It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.
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A year ago, Tracy Hoeg was selling people unproven therapies (like injecting your own blood into your knees) for cash. She is trained in physical medicine & rehabilitation, & does not have any relevant background for this position other than being a prolific & extreme antivaxxer and disease promoter
I suspect FDA no longer has qualified people willing to do this job.
"FDA Commissioner Marty Makary has appointed Tracy Beth Høeg, a longtime skeptic of Covid-19 vaccines, to be the acting director of the agency’s drug unit,...."
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"FDA Commissioner Marty Makary has appointed Tracy Beth Høeg, a longtime skeptic of Covid-19 vaccines, to be the acting director of the agency’s drug unit,...."
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Breaking: FDA to name Tracy Beth Hoeg, who helped lead Covid shot investigation, as acting CDER chief
FDA Commissioner Marty Makary has appointed Tracy Beth Høeg, a longtime skeptic of Covid-19 vaccines, to be the acting director of the agency's drug unit
endpoints.news
December 4, 2025 at 12:58 AM
A year ago, Tracy Hoeg was selling people unproven therapies (like injecting your own blood into your knees) for cash. She is trained in physical medicine & rehabilitation, & does not have any relevant background for this position other than being a prolific & extreme antivaxxer and disease promoter
I’m teaching my final health policy lecture class tomorrow including the OBBBA, and I am constantly updating my slides …
absolutely incredible -- CNN host introduces a segment about Trump's "new healthcare proposal," but less than two minutes later breaks into her script to announce "breaking news" that Trump's healthcare proposal is being postponed
November 24, 2025 at 9:32 PM
I’m teaching my final health policy lecture class tomorrow including the OBBBA, and I am constantly updating my slides …
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Antisemitism is a lot like Qanon child abuse conspiracies in that there’s this real and bad phenomenon and, parallel to that, what can only be described as a large scale mass psychosis about a mostly fictional version of the same phenomenon
November 16, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Antisemitism is a lot like Qanon child abuse conspiracies in that there’s this real and bad phenomenon and, parallel to that, what can only be described as a large scale mass psychosis about a mostly fictional version of the same phenomenon
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Former UVA president Jim Ryan, who resigned over the summer due to pressure from the Trump Administration, just shared this 12-page letter with the Faculty Senate, detailing his experience with the Board of Visitors and DOJ.
It's a surreal--and troubling--read.
drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...
It's a surreal--and troubling--read.
drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...
November 14, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Former UVA president Jim Ryan, who resigned over the summer due to pressure from the Trump Administration, just shared this 12-page letter with the Faculty Senate, detailing his experience with the Board of Visitors and DOJ.
It's a surreal--and troubling--read.
drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...
It's a surreal--and troubling--read.
drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...
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The #1 lesson from yesterday’s blowout:
Humanities majors killed on the job market
1) Mamdani- Africana Studies
2) Spanberger -French
3) Sherill - Global History
Humanities majors killed on the job market
1) Mamdani- Africana Studies
2) Spanberger -French
3) Sherill - Global History
November 5, 2025 at 3:59 PM
The #1 lesson from yesterday’s blowout:
Humanities majors killed on the job market
1) Mamdani- Africana Studies
2) Spanberger -French
3) Sherill - Global History
Humanities majors killed on the job market
1) Mamdani- Africana Studies
2) Spanberger -French
3) Sherill - Global History
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“I didn‘t intentionally quote Hitler; I just unintentionally said things that are almost verbatim what he said” is … maybe not the defense you think it Is?
4/ “The Salient’s student leadership stood by the piece after its publication. In a statement to The Crimson this month, Rodgers wrote that the article’s author and editors did not intentionally quote Hitler and did not recognize the resemblance to the speech.”
October 29, 2025 at 2:22 AM
“I didn‘t intentionally quote Hitler; I just unintentionally said things that are almost verbatim what he said” is … maybe not the defense you think it Is?
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There were at least two ceasefires under Biden! In which more than five times as many living Israeli hostages were released in exchange for 240 Palestinians! Has everyone forgotten this?
Also, ceasefires have happened under prior Presidents! The day he gets Palestine their own country he can be told he's the most special boy deserving of a shiny prize.
October 13, 2025 at 4:08 PM
There were at least two ceasefires under Biden! In which more than five times as many living Israeli hostages were released in exchange for 240 Palestinians! Has everyone forgotten this?
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I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were
September 29, 2025 at 3:42 PM
I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were
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so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining
September 17, 2025 at 11:10 PM
so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining
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This isn't just a case of them thinking too small.
The fix they're proposing will shield their Republican colleagues from facing any blowback in the midterms over the health care cuts they voted for.
They've got one card to play and they're using it to bail out the GOP.
Unfuckingbelievable.
The fix they're proposing will shield their Republican colleagues from facing any blowback in the midterms over the health care cuts they voted for.
They've got one card to play and they're using it to bail out the GOP.
Unfuckingbelievable.
September 17, 2025 at 12:16 PM
This isn't just a case of them thinking too small.
The fix they're proposing will shield their Republican colleagues from facing any blowback in the midterms over the health care cuts they voted for.
They've got one card to play and they're using it to bail out the GOP.
Unfuckingbelievable.
The fix they're proposing will shield their Republican colleagues from facing any blowback in the midterms over the health care cuts they voted for.
They've got one card to play and they're using it to bail out the GOP.
Unfuckingbelievable.
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"I am not saying this lightly -- this will get people killed," said Mical Raz, MD, PhD, MSHP, who studies the history of medicine and health policy at the University of Rochester.
September 9, 2025 at 8:35 PM
"I am not saying this lightly -- this will get people killed," said Mical Raz, MD, PhD, MSHP, who studies the history of medicine and health policy at the University of Rochester.
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CDC's acting director is a former Silicon Valley biotech investor, while the chief of staff & chief operating officer are both lawyers, & an adviser is a onetime Republican congressional aide.
They form a leadership team unlike any in CDC's history. Experts warn it reflects growing politicization.
They form a leadership team unlike any in CDC's history. Experts warn it reflects growing politicization.
September 9, 2025 at 8:35 PM
CDC's acting director is a former Silicon Valley biotech investor, while the chief of staff & chief operating officer are both lawyers, & an adviser is a onetime Republican congressional aide.
They form a leadership team unlike any in CDC's history. Experts warn it reflects growing politicization.
They form a leadership team unlike any in CDC's history. Experts warn it reflects growing politicization.
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Again, at worst, the appropriate response to course content not aligning with course descriptions at any university is to lodge a complaint with the relevant curriculum committees and get them to change the course descriptions, rather than to fire a professor, her boss, & her boss' boss.
Update on the Texas A&M professor / cell phone video situation: the professor has been fired by the A&M president
president.tamu.edu/messages/an-...
president.tamu.edu/messages/an-...
September 10, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Again, at worst, the appropriate response to course content not aligning with course descriptions at any university is to lodge a complaint with the relevant curriculum committees and get them to change the course descriptions, rather than to fire a professor, her boss, & her boss' boss.
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Federal immigration agents were seemingly forced to retreat from a roofing job site in Rochester, NY, after being confronted by more than 100 protesters
The workers stayed on the roof and agents drove away in a Border Patrol SUV on four flat tires, which had been slashed
The workers stayed on the roof and agents drove away in a Border Patrol SUV on four flat tires, which had been slashed
ICE agents in the Park Ave neighborhood spark large-scale protest
The group shouted “shame” and "Gestapo,” and applauded as agents in the ICE-led action drove a Border Patrol SUV away on four flat tires, which had been slashed.
www.wxxinews.org
September 9, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Federal immigration agents were seemingly forced to retreat from a roofing job site in Rochester, NY, after being confronted by more than 100 protesters
The workers stayed on the roof and agents drove away in a Border Patrol SUV on four flat tires, which had been slashed
The workers stayed on the roof and agents drove away in a Border Patrol SUV on four flat tires, which had been slashed
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Opposition to RFKJr is ramping up.
Joint statement from Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and 21 other organizations 👇
Joint statement from Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and 21 other organizations 👇
September 3, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Opposition to RFKJr is ramping up.
Joint statement from Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and 21 other organizations 👇
Joint statement from Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and 21 other organizations 👇
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Judge: I got a call at 2:36 a.m. because the govt chose this time on a holiday weekend to execute this plan. I have been up since then. I haven't been able to reach anyone from govt until this morning at 9:30 a.m. So absent this intervention, all children would already have been sent to Guatemala!
August 31, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Judge: I got a call at 2:36 a.m. because the govt chose this time on a holiday weekend to execute this plan. I have been up since then. I haven't been able to reach anyone from govt until this morning at 9:30 a.m. So absent this intervention, all children would already have been sent to Guatemala!
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I think people really struggle w partially consolidated authoritarianism, either understating our problem or understating our power
It's like we're in a liminal fascist space. And not recognizing how far gone we are or thinking we're simply too far gone are both grave errors we can't afford to make
It's like we're in a liminal fascist space. And not recognizing how far gone we are or thinking we're simply too far gone are both grave errors we can't afford to make
any argument that trump has fully consolidated authoritarian power has to contend with the fact that the government wants to deport kilmar abrego garcia to uganda but hasn't done so, because a judge told them not to
I find this @donmoyn.bsky.social piece helpful in clarifying why I disagree with the "America is already in competitive authoritarianism" thesis.
Don's checklist shows things that Trump has tried to do, but he hasn't *succeeded* in most areas
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-author...
Don's checklist shows things that Trump has tried to do, but he hasn't *succeeded* in most areas
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-author...
August 28, 2025 at 6:45 PM
I think people really struggle w partially consolidated authoritarianism, either understating our problem or understating our power
It's like we're in a liminal fascist space. And not recognizing how far gone we are or thinking we're simply too far gone are both grave errors we can't afford to make
It's like we're in a liminal fascist space. And not recognizing how far gone we are or thinking we're simply too far gone are both grave errors we can't afford to make