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www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/p... Data shows which groups are coming back after San Francisco exodus @sfchronicle.com what caucasity is this that your article and data doesn’t even mention Black people???! #LastBlackManinSF @mayorlurie.bsky.social
June 26, 2025 at 3:13 PM
www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/p... Data shows which groups are coming back after San Francisco exodus @sfchronicle.com what caucasity is this that your article and data doesn’t even mention Black people???! #LastBlackManinSF @mayorlurie.bsky.social
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This is an official plan for ethnic cleansing. If you supported Israel for the past 18 months or so under the assumption that this was about the hostages you were taken for a ride.
If you still support Israel's assault on Gaza, you support ethnic cleansing. It's that simple.
If you still support Israel's assault on Gaza, you support ethnic cleansing. It's that simple.
Israel plans to occupy and flatten all of Gaza if no deal by Trump's trip
Trump has effectively given Netanyahu a green light to do as he sees fit, Israeli officials say.
www.axios.com
May 5, 2025 at 9:33 PM
This is an official plan for ethnic cleansing. If you supported Israel for the past 18 months or so under the assumption that this was about the hostages you were taken for a ride.
If you still support Israel's assault on Gaza, you support ethnic cleansing. It's that simple.
If you still support Israel's assault on Gaza, you support ethnic cleansing. It's that simple.
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At a hundred days into his presidency, Joe Biden had a 52% approval rating.
As we near the hundred days mark in his second term, Donald Trump has a 39% approval rating.
Here's how those numbers were framed by the media:
As we near the hundred days mark in his second term, Donald Trump has a 39% approval rating.
Here's how those numbers were framed by the media:
April 26, 2025 at 10:28 PM
At a hundred days into his presidency, Joe Biden had a 52% approval rating.
As we near the hundred days mark in his second term, Donald Trump has a 39% approval rating.
Here's how those numbers were framed by the media:
As we near the hundred days mark in his second term, Donald Trump has a 39% approval rating.
Here's how those numbers were framed by the media:
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The federal government plans to eliminate services for LGBTQ youth who call 988, the national suicide and crisis hotline, according to a Health and Human Services budget draft leaked last week.
HHS plans to cut the national suicide hotline’s program for LGBTQ youth
In February, the program received an average of 2,100 contacts per day.
www.motherjones.com
April 22, 2025 at 7:14 PM
The federal government plans to eliminate services for LGBTQ youth who call 988, the national suicide and crisis hotline, according to a Health and Human Services budget draft leaked last week.
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“30-year-old Russian-born Kseniia Pertova, worked at Harvard’s renowned Kirschner Lab until her arrest at a Boston airport…She is now being held…[and] fighting possible deportation to Russia, where she said she fears persecution and jail time over her protests against the war in Ukraine.”
New images could change cancer diagnostics, but ICE detained the Harvard scientist who analyzes them
Without scientist Kseniia Petrova’s expertise, no one can fully unlock the data’s potential, putting crucial advancements in early cancer detection at risk.
www.nbcnews.com
April 22, 2025 at 7:15 PM
“30-year-old Russian-born Kseniia Pertova, worked at Harvard’s renowned Kirschner Lab until her arrest at a Boston airport…She is now being held…[and] fighting possible deportation to Russia, where she said she fears persecution and jail time over her protests against the war in Ukraine.”
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"In an earlier post, she wrote: "As for the inevitable death, if I die, I want a loud death, I don't want me in a breaking news story, nor in a number with a group, I want a death that is heard by the world, a trace that lasts forever, and immortal images that neither time nor place can bury."
Photographer Fatima Hassona killed ahead of Cannes documentary debut
The Palestinian photojournalist Fatima Hassona, killed along with ten family members in an Israeli air strike on her home in northern Gaza, is the star of a documentary due to be screened at the Cannes film festival next month.
www.euronews.com
April 17, 2025 at 9:43 PM
"In an earlier post, she wrote: "As for the inevitable death, if I die, I want a loud death, I don't want me in a breaking news story, nor in a number with a group, I want a death that is heard by the world, a trace that lasts forever, and immortal images that neither time nor place can bury."
Juan Carlos Lopez-Gonzalez is a US citizen by birth who was kidnapped by ICE this week.
BREAKING: Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez has been released. This is the moment he reunited with his mom.
April 18, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Juan Carlos Lopez-Gonzalez is a US citizen by birth who was kidnapped by ICE this week.
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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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NEW: The CFPB has been gutted. More than 1,400 workers received RIF notices this afternoon, agency sources tell me. Around 200 employees are left. www.wired.com/story/cfpb-h...
The CFPB Has Been Gutted
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau terminated the positions of 1,406 employees at the congressionally-mandated agency.
www.wired.com
April 17, 2025 at 9:29 PM
NEW: The CFPB has been gutted. More than 1,400 workers received RIF notices this afternoon, agency sources tell me. Around 200 employees are left. www.wired.com/story/cfpb-h...
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38 of the 43.
"38 of 43 experts cut last month from boards that review science and research in NIH laboratories are female, Black or Hispanic.
"The scientists typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal..."
www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...
"38 of 43 experts cut last month from boards that review science and research in NIH laboratories are female, Black or Hispanic.
"The scientists typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal..."
www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...
Women, minorities fired in purge of NIH science review boards
Scientists, with expertise in fields that include mental health, cancer and infectious disease, typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 17, 2025 at 7:29 PM
38 of the 43.
"38 of 43 experts cut last month from boards that review science and research in NIH laboratories are female, Black or Hispanic.
"The scientists typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal..."
www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...
"38 of 43 experts cut last month from boards that review science and research in NIH laboratories are female, Black or Hispanic.
"The scientists typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal..."
www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...
Your job is literally to use your voice and to stand up for your constituents. If you can’t take the heat get out the kitchen
Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski says the quiet part out loud: “We are all afraid… I am oftentimes very anxious about using my voice because retaliation is real.”
April 17, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Your job is literally to use your voice and to stand up for your constituents. If you can’t take the heat get out the kitchen
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Honestly I'm glad they picked Harvard to try out this novel "we're mad" legal theory of revoking tax-exempt status, given its infinite resources, deep network of powerful alumni, and law school attended by 142 sitting federal judges.
Good luck! 🫡
Good luck! 🫡
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The IRS is making plans to rescind the tax-exempt status of Harvard University, according to two sources familiar with the matter
A final decision on rescinding the university’s tax exemption is expected soon, the sources said
www.cnn.com/2025/04/16/p...
The IRS is making plans to rescind the tax-exempt status of Harvard University, according to two sources familiar with the matter
A final decision on rescinding the university’s tax exemption is expected soon, the sources said
www.cnn.com/2025/04/16/p...
IRS making plans to rescind Harvard’s tax-exempt status | CNN Politics
The Internal Revenue Service is making plans to rescind the tax-exempt status of Harvard University, according to two sources familiar with the matter, which would be an extraordinary step of retaliat...
www.cnn.com
April 16, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Honestly I'm glad they picked Harvard to try out this novel "we're mad" legal theory of revoking tax-exempt status, given its infinite resources, deep network of powerful alumni, and law school attended by 142 sitting federal judges.
Good luck! 🫡
Good luck! 🫡
I’m just responding FREE PALESTINE to every text i get from @sanders.senate.gov and @aoc.bsky.social now
April 16, 2025 at 11:40 PM
I’m just responding FREE PALESTINE to every text i get from @sanders.senate.gov and @aoc.bsky.social now
They can’t use opposition to DOGE, dismantling of the safety net etc to eviscerate human and civil rights, including the right to free speech and assembly. But they can use the pro Palestine movement bc so many of yall “liberals” and “progressives” have proven you will remain silent or be complicit
April 15, 2025 at 5:05 PM
They can’t use opposition to DOGE, dismantling of the safety net etc to eviscerate human and civil rights, including the right to free speech and assembly. But they can use the pro Palestine movement bc so many of yall “liberals” and “progressives” have proven you will remain silent or be complicit
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“The European Commission is issuing burner phones and basic laptops to some US-bound staff to avoid the risk of espionage, a measure traditionally reserved for trips to China.”
We are now viewed as a security threat, to our once closest allies.
Enraging & heartbreaking.
www.ft.com/content/20d0...
We are now viewed as a security threat, to our once closest allies.
Enraging & heartbreaking.
www.ft.com/content/20d0...
EU issues US-bound staff with burner phones over spying fears
European Commission officials heading to IMF and World Bank spring meetings advised to travel with basic devices
www.ft.com
April 15, 2025 at 1:13 AM
“The European Commission is issuing burner phones and basic laptops to some US-bound staff to avoid the risk of espionage, a measure traditionally reserved for trips to China.”
We are now viewed as a security threat, to our once closest allies.
Enraging & heartbreaking.
www.ft.com/content/20d0...
We are now viewed as a security threat, to our once closest allies.
Enraging & heartbreaking.
www.ft.com/content/20d0...
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“The Senate committee’s demand [for pro-Palestinian students’ names and records] was disclosed in a court filing this week connected to a lawsuit filed by seven anonymous students at Columbia and Barnard, its affiliated women’s college, along with Mahmoud Khalil”
Senate Panel Demands Information About Gaza Protest Group at Columbia
Lawmakers want the university to turn over all its records about Students for Justice in Palestine. At Northwestern University, two professors sued over a separate request.
www.nytimes.com
April 15, 2025 at 4:15 AM
“The Senate committee’s demand [for pro-Palestinian students’ names and records] was disclosed in a court filing this week connected to a lawsuit filed by seven anonymous students at Columbia and Barnard, its affiliated women’s college, along with Mahmoud Khalil”
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republicans are disappearing people under the guise of fighting antisemitism and can’t even pretend to give a fuck when a jewish governor’s house gets firebombed on passover
April 14, 2025 at 1:55 AM
republicans are disappearing people under the guise of fighting antisemitism and can’t even pretend to give a fuck when a jewish governor’s house gets firebombed on passover
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THREAD: The Trump administration's DOJ has removed a study from the NIJ website that found that immigrants, and particularly undocumented immigrants, commit crimes at significantly lower rates than U.S. citizens.
The study is at odds with the Trump regime's propaganda about immigrants & crime. (1)
The study is at odds with the Trump regime's propaganda about immigrants & crime. (1)
April 13, 2025 at 6:30 PM
THREAD: The Trump administration's DOJ has removed a study from the NIJ website that found that immigrants, and particularly undocumented immigrants, commit crimes at significantly lower rates than U.S. citizens.
The study is at odds with the Trump regime's propaganda about immigrants & crime. (1)
The study is at odds with the Trump regime's propaganda about immigrants & crime. (1)
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The bipartisan belief that America would be a better place if *other people* worked in a factory.
www.ft.com/content/8459...
www.ft.com/content/8459...
April 13, 2025 at 5:44 PM
The bipartisan belief that America would be a better place if *other people* worked in a factory.
www.ft.com/content/8459...
www.ft.com/content/8459...
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A look at the new polling from Quinnipiac. Not good for Trump.
April 11, 2025 at 12:13 AM
A look at the new polling from Quinnipiac. Not good for Trump.
The inhumanity and injustice is breathtaking www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...
April 10, 2025 at 11:25 PM
The inhumanity and injustice is breathtaking www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...
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Ex-Biden State Department official says even the Israeli military expected the US to only let them bomb Gaza for weeks, rather than unconditionally for a year and a half:
April 9, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Ex-Biden State Department official says even the Israeli military expected the US to only let them bomb Gaza for weeks, rather than unconditionally for a year and a half:
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BREAKING: House Republicans just voted to move forward with $880 BILLION in Medicaid cuts — threatening care for 70+ million Americans.
April 10, 2025 at 3:29 PM
BREAKING: House Republicans just voted to move forward with $880 BILLION in Medicaid cuts — threatening care for 70+ million Americans.
You didn’t really think they were risking their own money, right?
April 10, 2025 at 2:38 PM
You didn’t really think they were risking their own money, right?