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Homelessness is often thought of either as an issue of individual moral failings or merely of bad policy. It should instead be seen as a moral crisis for our democracy, one that demands transformative economic reforms.
The Homelessness Crisis Is a Crisis of Democracy
Homelessness is often thought of either as an issue of individual moral failings or merely of bad policy. It should instead be seen as a moral crisis for our democracy, one that demands transformative economic reforms.
jacobin.com
July 24, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Homelessness is often thought of either as an issue of individual moral failings or merely of bad policy. It should instead be seen as a moral crisis for our democracy, one that demands transformative economic reforms.
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Netanyahu loves Trump's plan to force 2 million people from Gaza & turn it into a billionaires’ Riviera. He calls it "voluntary migration.”
It's not voluntary if you bomb & starve those who stay.
It’s ethnic cleansing. It's a war crime.
No more military aid to Netanyahu.
It's not voluntary if you bomb & starve those who stay.
It’s ethnic cleansing. It's a war crime.
No more military aid to Netanyahu.
April 9, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Netanyahu loves Trump's plan to force 2 million people from Gaza & turn it into a billionaires’ Riviera. He calls it "voluntary migration.”
It's not voluntary if you bomb & starve those who stay.
It’s ethnic cleansing. It's a war crime.
No more military aid to Netanyahu.
It's not voluntary if you bomb & starve those who stay.
It’s ethnic cleansing. It's a war crime.
No more military aid to Netanyahu.
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Netanyahu's illegal war has killed 50,000 Palestinians. Now, Trump wants to force out 2 million more to build a billionaire's playground in Gaza.
That is ethnic cleansing — and it’s a war crime.
Next week, I will force votes to block $8.8 billion in new arms sales to Israel.
That is ethnic cleansing — and it’s a war crime.
Next week, I will force votes to block $8.8 billion in new arms sales to Israel.
March 27, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Netanyahu's illegal war has killed 50,000 Palestinians. Now, Trump wants to force out 2 million more to build a billionaire's playground in Gaza.
That is ethnic cleansing — and it’s a war crime.
Next week, I will force votes to block $8.8 billion in new arms sales to Israel.
That is ethnic cleansing — and it’s a war crime.
Next week, I will force votes to block $8.8 billion in new arms sales to Israel.
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This is the middle of the story. We have to fight for a better end.
www.livescience.com/health/virus...
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'We have to fight for a better end': Author John Green on how threats to USAID derail the worldwide effort to end tuberculosis
Live Science spoke with author John Green about his latest book, which explores both the history and current realities of tuberculosis.
www.livescience.com
March 20, 2025 at 2:29 AM
This is the middle of the story. We have to fight for a better end.
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“People will die, but we will never know, because even the programs to count the dead are cut.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h...
U.S. Terminates Funding for Polio, H.I.V., Malaria and Nutrition Programs Around the World
Here are some of the 5,800 contracts the Trump administration formally canceled this week in a wave of terse emails.
www.nytimes.com
February 28, 2025 at 3:24 PM
“People will die, but we will never know, because even the programs to count the dead are cut.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h...
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At the same time Elon Musk was reportedly slashing funding for the Department of Education, his company SpaceX was finalizing a deal with NASA worth an additional $7.5 million on top of the billions Musk’s company is already getting from the space agency.
Elon Musk: Austerity for Thee but Not for Me
This week, as Elon Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency” was attempting to further gut the US government, his rocket company SpaceX was cementing a NASA contract adding millions of dollars to i...
jacobin.com
February 12, 2025 at 7:24 PM
At the same time Elon Musk was reportedly slashing funding for the Department of Education, his company SpaceX was finalizing a deal with NASA worth an additional $7.5 million on top of the billions Musk’s company is already getting from the space agency.
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Even though Rubio promised life-saving aid wouldn't be interrupted, it has essentially been halted worldwide, interrupting HIV and TB treatment and threatening millions of lives. People are dying today because of these chaotic, inconsistent stop work orders. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/u...
USAID Lifesaving Aid Remains Halted Despite Rubio’s Promise
A new directive puts further exemptions on hold. Aid workers also say the U.S. government has made it impossible to pay partners around the world.
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Even though Rubio promised life-saving aid wouldn't be interrupted, it has essentially been halted worldwide, interrupting HIV and TB treatment and threatening millions of lives. People are dying today because of these chaotic, inconsistent stop work orders. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/u...
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Weak men cannot compromise. Weak men cannot build consensus. Weak men think that leadership means force. Weak men build nothing that lasts.
February 8, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Weak men cannot compromise. Weak men cannot build consensus. Weak men think that leadership means force. Weak men build nothing that lasts.
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Amazon helped fund Donald Trump’s inauguration.
The retail giant and the insurer UnitedHealth waited less than a day to start begging the new administration to shut down their shareholders’ calls for transparency.
The retail giant and the insurer UnitedHealth waited less than a day to start begging the new administration to shut down their shareholders’ calls for transparency.
Big Companies Are Already Asking Trump for Favors
Amazon helped fund Donald Trump’s inauguration. The retail giant and the insurer UnitedHealth waited less than a day to start begging the new administration to shut down their shareholders’ calls for ...
jacobin.com
February 7, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Amazon helped fund Donald Trump’s inauguration.
The retail giant and the insurer UnitedHealth waited less than a day to start begging the new administration to shut down their shareholders’ calls for transparency.
The retail giant and the insurer UnitedHealth waited less than a day to start begging the new administration to shut down their shareholders’ calls for transparency.
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When TB treatment is interrupted, patients are far more likely to develop drug-resistant TB, which is a catastrophe both individually (the disease becomes harder to cure) and societally (we're allowing the bacteria millions of new opportunities to develop further resistance). Many people will die.
February 7, 2025 at 5:18 PM
When TB treatment is interrupted, patients are far more likely to develop drug-resistant TB, which is a catastrophe both individually (the disease becomes harder to cure) and societally (we're allowing the bacteria millions of new opportunities to develop further resistance). Many people will die.
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We worked for months with USAID to build an $85,000,000 project to end TB in two regions of the Philippines.
The project is funded by private money, the Philippine government, and matching USAID funds.
It could provide a blueprint for eliminating TB worldwide--except it's...not happening.
The project is funded by private money, the Philippine government, and matching USAID funds.
It could provide a blueprint for eliminating TB worldwide--except it's...not happening.
February 3, 2025 at 10:13 PM
We worked for months with USAID to build an $85,000,000 project to end TB in two regions of the Philippines.
The project is funded by private money, the Philippine government, and matching USAID funds.
It could provide a blueprint for eliminating TB worldwide--except it's...not happening.
The project is funded by private money, the Philippine government, and matching USAID funds.
It could provide a blueprint for eliminating TB worldwide--except it's...not happening.
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This is not normal, or natural, or inevitable. youtu.be/ZfBkw0j-QIs?...
This Is Not Normal
YouTube video by vlogbrothers
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January 28, 2025 at 3:55 PM
This is not normal, or natural, or inevitable. youtu.be/ZfBkw0j-QIs?...
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What is it about the vikings that makes everyone, fan or not, reflexively reject everything they do? Nothing can be accomplished. Nobody gets a hero moment. We always have to stick our nose up and say “yea but betcha can’t do it again”
December 3, 2024 at 5:33 AM
What is it about the vikings that makes everyone, fan or not, reflexively reject everything they do? Nothing can be accomplished. Nobody gets a hero moment. We always have to stick our nose up and say “yea but betcha can’t do it again”
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I’m glad my criticism of Bob Geldof’s Band Aid charity single for Africa caused a storm. Here’s why I did it | Fuse ODG
I’m glad my criticism of Bob Geldof’s Band Aid charity single for Africa caused a storm. Here’s why I did it | Fuse ODG
Band Aid was well meaning, but it has done more harm than good. Now the diaspora is taking back control of the narrative
* Fuse ODG is a British-Ghanaian Afrobeats artist
This Christmas, something significant is unfolding. I believe that in decades…
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2024 at 9:17 AM
I’m glad my criticism of Bob Geldof’s Band Aid charity single for Africa caused a storm. Here’s why I did it | Fuse ODG