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By this time next week, the estimated deaths due to the illegal destruction of USAID and the shuttering of its aid efforts will breach 400,000.
More than 260,000 will be children.
Source: www.bu.edu/sph/news/art...
More than 260,000 will be children.
Source: www.bu.edu/sph/news/art...
Tracking Anticipated Deaths from USAID Funding Cuts
Brooke Nichols has launched online tracking tools that capture estimated increases in mortality and disease spread for HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and other diseases as a result of the near-total...
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November 5, 2025 at 10:28 PM
By this time next week, the estimated deaths due to the illegal destruction of USAID and the shuttering of its aid efforts will breach 400,000.
More than 260,000 will be children.
Source: www.bu.edu/sph/news/art...
More than 260,000 will be children.
Source: www.bu.edu/sph/news/art...
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Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
November 5, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
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It's hard to be optimistic about anything after reading this piece: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/o...
November 3, 2025 at 1:25 PM
It's hard to be optimistic about anything after reading this piece: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/o...
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One of the many bitter pills to swallow is that there will be not one single consequence for Jerry Seinfeld basically complimenting the KKK and equating them to the phrase Free Palestine. There will be little, if any, media pushback. It’s terrible.
September 10, 2025 at 4:26 PM
One of the many bitter pills to swallow is that there will be not one single consequence for Jerry Seinfeld basically complimenting the KKK and equating them to the phrase Free Palestine. There will be little, if any, media pushback. It’s terrible.
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This whole thread. 👀
Ok - so I'm going to do a real context+write up but for now, here's what some of these things look like.
To start my data reference is DCinbox which is ~208,000 official e-newsletters over the past 15 years.
To start my data reference is DCinbox which is ~208,000 official e-newsletters over the past 15 years.
August 22, 2025 at 8:24 PM
This whole thread. 👀
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Alt- and independent news sources to follow in DC.
in the occupied territory of DC:
@streetsensedc.bsky.social
@ggwash.org
@washingtoninformer.com
@51st.news
@wcp.bsky.social
@ethiopique202.bsky.social
@streetsensedc.bsky.social
@ggwash.org
@washingtoninformer.com
@51st.news
@wcp.bsky.social
@ethiopique202.bsky.social
August 22, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Alt- and independent news sources to follow in DC.
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On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout.
On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar.
This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media.
Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵
On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar.
This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media.
Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵
August 22, 2025 at 11:41 AM
On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout.
On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar.
This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media.
Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵
On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar.
This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media.
Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵
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Our government shouldn't be able to consign people to conditions in a foreign country that would be constitutional violations, and criminal too, here.
July 12, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Our government shouldn't be able to consign people to conditions in a foreign country that would be constitutional violations, and criminal too, here.
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Exactly: THe stories on what didn't get done bc Noem required her personal signature (in additional to call centers, the rescue teams) aren't stating clearly that one reason Noem is doing this is bc she's $1B over budget bc she has blown it all on kidnapping grannies.
Further context: If you’ve never dealt with FEMA after a disaster I can tell you they answer within 30 seconds. No hold times. Real live wonderful people who help while you cry and can’t even figure out what questions to ask. They walk you through it all. Every call.
NOEM
STOLE THAT $
FOR ICE
NOEM
STOLE THAT $
FOR ICE
July 12, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Exactly: THe stories on what didn't get done bc Noem required her personal signature (in additional to call centers, the rescue teams) aren't stating clearly that one reason Noem is doing this is bc she's $1B over budget bc she has blown it all on kidnapping grannies.
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My latest radio piece is a look at some of the flood victims in Orange County who lost their homes + spaces in Sunday night's storm. I'm *very* appreciative to all who spoke with me and shared their experiences, emotions and needs in the short-term.
'We Need Help': Orange County Flood Victims Beginning to Pick Up the Pieces - Chapelboro.com
Orange County residents whose homes were flooded during Sunday's storm shared their emotions and what help they need in the aftermath.
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July 9, 2025 at 9:31 PM
My latest radio piece is a look at some of the flood victims in Orange County who lost their homes + spaces in Sunday night's storm. I'm *very* appreciative to all who spoke with me and shared their experiences, emotions and needs in the short-term.
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BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.
July 8, 2025 at 3:31 PM
BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.
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We were sent this list of resources from Triangle Free Bicycle Repair - mutual aid and community resources for Durham, Carrboro, Chapel Hill. Please share. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Resources we know of:
Bit.ly link for this document bit.ly/TMAChantalResources PLEASE: Include (date/time/location) of your update. Also happy to hear positive or negative feedback about any resource - we haven’t all chec...
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July 8, 2025 at 11:51 AM
We were sent this list of resources from Triangle Free Bicycle Repair - mutual aid and community resources for Durham, Carrboro, Chapel Hill. Please share. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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We were downtown Chapel Hill right when the main part of the storm hit. East Franklin St., near Cholinad restaurant, flooded significantly so that it was impassible w/ cars stalled in the flood waters.
July 7, 2025 at 7:58 PM
We were downtown Chapel Hill right when the main part of the storm hit. East Franklin St., near Cholinad restaurant, flooded significantly so that it was impassible w/ cars stalled in the flood waters.
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Not sure the magnitude of the disaster here in Orange-Chatham-Alamance is getting through. Just saw the gov’s update and that may help, but there are a lot of lives turned upside down here
July 7, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Not sure the magnitude of the disaster here in Orange-Chatham-Alamance is getting through. Just saw the gov’s update and that may help, but there are a lot of lives turned upside down here
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Northbound 15-501 is blocked from Southern Village, Bennet Road to Culbreth road. Hospital workers will need to take an alternate route
July 7, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Northbound 15-501 is blocked from Southern Village, Bennet Road to Culbreth road. Hospital workers will need to take an alternate route
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By a 50-50 vote +1 by Vance—MAGAs voted for
•$5T deficit increase
•Cut Medicaid for 16M
•Gut SNAP & food access
•Ban AI regulation for 10 years
•Cut taxes for wealthy & raise taxes for working people
•$8B for ICE, $50B for a wall, $59B for concentration camps, $150B for war
MAGA Is Fascism. Period.
•$5T deficit increase
•Cut Medicaid for 16M
•Gut SNAP & food access
•Ban AI regulation for 10 years
•Cut taxes for wealthy & raise taxes for working people
•$8B for ICE, $50B for a wall, $59B for concentration camps, $150B for war
MAGA Is Fascism. Period.
July 1, 2025 at 4:29 PM
By a 50-50 vote +1 by Vance—MAGAs voted for
•$5T deficit increase
•Cut Medicaid for 16M
•Gut SNAP & food access
•Ban AI regulation for 10 years
•Cut taxes for wealthy & raise taxes for working people
•$8B for ICE, $50B for a wall, $59B for concentration camps, $150B for war
MAGA Is Fascism. Period.
•$5T deficit increase
•Cut Medicaid for 16M
•Gut SNAP & food access
•Ban AI regulation for 10 years
•Cut taxes for wealthy & raise taxes for working people
•$8B for ICE, $50B for a wall, $59B for concentration camps, $150B for war
MAGA Is Fascism. Period.
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I’m tired of my Republican colleagues telling me in private how they feel about this terrible bill… it’s time to vote like it.
June 30, 2025 at 5:57 PM
I’m tired of my Republican colleagues telling me in private how they feel about this terrible bill… it’s time to vote like it.
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Warnock: If I'm honest, there are days when I have to ask people of my faith tradition as a Christian, are we reading the same book?
The book I know says I was hungry and you fed me. I was sick, I was in prison and you visited me, I was a stranger and you welcomed me….
The book I know says I was hungry and you fed me. I was sick, I was in prison and you visited me, I was a stranger and you welcomed me….
June 30, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Warnock: If I'm honest, there are days when I have to ask people of my faith tradition as a Christian, are we reading the same book?
The book I know says I was hungry and you fed me. I was sick, I was in prison and you visited me, I was a stranger and you welcomed me….
The book I know says I was hungry and you fed me. I was sick, I was in prison and you visited me, I was a stranger and you welcomed me….
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99% of amazon packages ever delivered were delivered by a government system that lets me mail a letter to the grand canyon for a quarter
“You can still be rich even if you’re not a billionaire!” Sure—and if you strip billions from someone like Jeff Bezos, he’ll invest less in building things that actually improve people’s lives. Amazon has done more for the average person than the government could dream of.
June 30, 2025 at 3:29 AM
99% of amazon packages ever delivered were delivered by a government system that lets me mail a letter to the grand canyon for a quarter
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Really impossible to overstate how completely this guy has failed at every aspect of being an opposition leader over the past six months. Jeffries is a truly inspiring example for every soulless careerist who would rather be king of nothing than stand for anything decent in the world.
Hakeem Jeffries on Mamdani: "'Globalizing the intifada' by way of example is not an acceptable phrasing. He's gonna have to clarify his position on that as he moves forward."
June 29, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Really impossible to overstate how completely this guy has failed at every aspect of being an opposition leader over the past six months. Jeffries is a truly inspiring example for every soulless careerist who would rather be king of nothing than stand for anything decent in the world.
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Hakeem Jeffries is so skilled at being a disappointment. The worst opposition leader possible. I am so sick of rank careerism and incompetence.
June 29, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Hakeem Jeffries is so skilled at being a disappointment. The worst opposition leader possible. I am so sick of rank careerism and incompetence.
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so a long while ago i said the reconciliation bill impacts on renewable energy disturbed me more than what it would do to my own health care.
a bold statement, to be sure! but on the potential eve of the senate passing some pretty aggressive attacks on renewable energy, i wanna explain…
(🧵)
a bold statement, to be sure! but on the potential eve of the senate passing some pretty aggressive attacks on renewable energy, i wanna explain…
(🧵)
June 28, 2025 at 7:02 PM
so a long while ago i said the reconciliation bill impacts on renewable energy disturbed me more than what it would do to my own health care.
a bold statement, to be sure! but on the potential eve of the senate passing some pretty aggressive attacks on renewable energy, i wanna explain…
(🧵)
a bold statement, to be sure! but on the potential eve of the senate passing some pretty aggressive attacks on renewable energy, i wanna explain…
(🧵)
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Medicaid is the primary payer for 63% of nursing home residents. That's your mom, dad, grandma and grandpa.
So when the Senate Republicans cut nearly $1 trillion from Medicaid this weekend, think: are YOU going to be paying those nursing home bills, or are you going to be changing dad's bedpans?
So when the Senate Republicans cut nearly $1 trillion from Medicaid this weekend, think: are YOU going to be paying those nursing home bills, or are you going to be changing dad's bedpans?
June 28, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Medicaid is the primary payer for 63% of nursing home residents. That's your mom, dad, grandma and grandpa.
So when the Senate Republicans cut nearly $1 trillion from Medicaid this weekend, think: are YOU going to be paying those nursing home bills, or are you going to be changing dad's bedpans?
So when the Senate Republicans cut nearly $1 trillion from Medicaid this weekend, think: are YOU going to be paying those nursing home bills, or are you going to be changing dad's bedpans?
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We’ve seen this repeatedly. QAnon. COVID denial. Election lies. War crimes denial. In each case, the problem wasn’t just what people believed, it was how those beliefs hardened into identity and made correction impossible.
June 27, 2025 at 6:57 AM
We’ve seen this repeatedly. QAnon. COVID denial. Election lies. War crimes denial. In each case, the problem wasn’t just what people believed, it was how those beliefs hardened into identity and made correction impossible.
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We don’t live in a neutral marketplace of ideas. We live in an attention economy shaped by algorithms, tribal identity, outrage incentives, and profit models that reward engagement over accuracy.
June 27, 2025 at 6:58 AM
We don’t live in a neutral marketplace of ideas. We live in an attention economy shaped by algorithms, tribal identity, outrage incentives, and profit models that reward engagement over accuracy.