Siva
@sivav.bsky.social
Writer. Professor. Golden retriever papa. Bylines in Guardian, Slate, TNR, many other places. Supervises VQR. Wrote a pile of books you might like.
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the nuzzi story is fun and all but at the center of it is the elevation of a man who has dedicated his life to making children catch preventable diseases to a position where he can enact harm at enormous scale
CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”
November 20, 2025 at 3:19 AM
the nuzzi story is fun and all but at the center of it is the elevation of a man who has dedicated his life to making children catch preventable diseases to a position where he can enact harm at enormous scale
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Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
November 20, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
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RFK Jr had committed to Bill Cassidy, as a condition to win his vote, that he would keep website language.
Cassidy in February: “If confirmed… CDC will not remove statements on their website pointing out that vaccines do not cause autism.”
Note the language in second photo.
Cassidy in February: “If confirmed… CDC will not remove statements on their website pointing out that vaccines do not cause autism.”
Note the language in second photo.
November 20, 2025 at 2:42 AM
RFK Jr had committed to Bill Cassidy, as a condition to win his vote, that he would keep website language.
Cassidy in February: “If confirmed… CDC will not remove statements on their website pointing out that vaccines do not cause autism.”
Note the language in second photo.
Cassidy in February: “If confirmed… CDC will not remove statements on their website pointing out that vaccines do not cause autism.”
Note the language in second photo.
“Brain worms cause measles” is an evidence-based claim.
CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”
November 20, 2025 at 10:43 AM
“Brain worms cause measles” is an evidence-based claim.
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He desired. He desired desiring. He desired being desired. He desired the unmitigated deaths of 13 million children like he was racing for the top score on Galaga at Barcade. He desired desire itself.
CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”
November 20, 2025 at 10:39 AM
He desired. He desired desiring. He desired being desired. He desired the unmitigated deaths of 13 million children like he was racing for the top score on Galaga at Barcade. He desired desire itself.
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It's kinda ironic that UK Labour are announcing that they want to destroy the human rights of refugees coming into their country when about a quarter of a million people left the UK in 2024 because the country is in economic freefall after Brexit lol.
www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
UK exodus: 257,000 Brits left country in 2024 - three times more than expected
There were 257,000 British nationals who left the country in the year ending December 2024, compared with the previous estimate of just 77,000
www.standard.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 10:08 AM
It's kinda ironic that UK Labour are announcing that they want to destroy the human rights of refugees coming into their country when about a quarter of a million people left the UK in 2024 because the country is in economic freefall after Brexit lol.
www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
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Not satisfied with just destroying their own brand goodwill, OS companies are now using AI to try to destroy the good names of the apps users install. (Scrivener taking out adds to explain how it has no AI but Apple adds some anyway.)
November 19, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Not satisfied with just destroying their own brand goodwill, OS companies are now using AI to try to destroy the good names of the apps users install. (Scrivener taking out adds to explain how it has no AI but Apple adds some anyway.)
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A federal judge has asked attorneys to identify witnesses and offer plans for how to conduct a contempt probe of the Trump administration for failing to turn around planes carrying Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador in March.
Judge to proceed with contempt probe after US flew migrants to El Salvador prison in March
A federal judge has asked attorneys to identify witnesses and offer plans for how to conduct a contempt probe of the Trump administration for failing to turn around planes carrying Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador in March.
bit.ly
November 19, 2025 at 9:31 PM
A federal judge has asked attorneys to identify witnesses and offer plans for how to conduct a contempt probe of the Trump administration for failing to turn around planes carrying Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador in March.
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Over 700,000 TPS recipients lose legal status by the end of 2025, including 550,000 who are legally working. TPS recipients contribute over $36B in annual GDP. Withdrawing their work authorization could add to labor shortages in construction, cleaning, and hospitality, especially in FL, TX, NY
550,000 Workers Lose Status by End of 2025: Potential Impact by State and Industry — Penn Wharton Budget Model
Over 700,000 Temporary Protected Status (TPS) recipients lose legal status by the end of 2025, including 550,000 who are legally working. We estimate that TPS recipients contribute over $36 billion in...
budgetmodel.wharton.upenn.edu
November 19, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Over 700,000 TPS recipients lose legal status by the end of 2025, including 550,000 who are legally working. TPS recipients contribute over $36B in annual GDP. Withdrawing their work authorization could add to labor shortages in construction, cleaning, and hospitality, especially in FL, TX, NY
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Um.... This is an actual judicial opinion (dissenting in the TX gerrymandering case)
November 19, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Um.... This is an actual judicial opinion (dissenting in the TX gerrymandering case)
New Mexico continues to be a better place to live every year.
College tuition is now covered by the State of New Mexico for residents.
Fall college enrollment increases in New Mexico for fourth consecutive year
November 19, 2025 at 9:02 PM
New Mexico continues to be a better place to live every year.
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Yesterday, Trump defended the Saudi Crown Prince in the Oval Office.
He said he had “nothing” to do with the murder of Jamal Khashoggi.
But I reviewed a call while serving on Trump’s NSC that I believe would be of interest to the Khashoggi family and the American people.
Release the transcript.
He said he had “nothing” to do with the murder of Jamal Khashoggi.
But I reviewed a call while serving on Trump’s NSC that I believe would be of interest to the Khashoggi family and the American people.
Release the transcript.
November 19, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Yesterday, Trump defended the Saudi Crown Prince in the Oval Office.
He said he had “nothing” to do with the murder of Jamal Khashoggi.
But I reviewed a call while serving on Trump’s NSC that I believe would be of interest to the Khashoggi family and the American people.
Release the transcript.
He said he had “nothing” to do with the murder of Jamal Khashoggi.
But I reviewed a call while serving on Trump’s NSC that I believe would be of interest to the Khashoggi family and the American people.
Release the transcript.
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Good news everybody: Grokipedia will contain all knowledge about the universe and will be distributed periodically throughout the solar system
November 19, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Good news everybody: Grokipedia will contain all knowledge about the universe and will be distributed periodically throughout the solar system
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Somebody who isn't a real US attorney has been proceeding against somebody in federal court with a faked indictment.
In a sane system, Halligan would be going to prison.
In a sane system, Halligan would be going to prison.
Sure. "The Grand Jury did not see the operative indictment" is the kind of fuckup where lawyers literally don't actually know what happens next because it SO fundamental a thing that it is LITERALLY possible nobody had even thought of this as a thing that could happen.
Translate for us non-law-talkers...?
November 19, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Somebody who isn't a real US attorney has been proceeding against somebody in federal court with a faked indictment.
In a sane system, Halligan would be going to prison.
In a sane system, Halligan would be going to prison.
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“‘Dangerous nostalgia’: did Spain’s ‘pact of forgetting’ after Franco leave new generation open to far right?
Events to mark the 50th anniversary of dictator’s death are intended to remind Spaniards, particularly the young, of the dangers of fascism” 11/18/25 … 1/ www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Events to mark the 50th anniversary of dictator’s death are intended to remind Spaniards, particularly the young, of the dangers of fascism” 11/18/25 … 1/ www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
‘Dangerous nostalgia’: did Spain’s ‘pact of forgetting’ after Franco leave new generation open to far right?
Events to mark the 50th anniversary of dictator’s death are intended to remind Spaniards, particularly the young, of the dangers of fascism
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:40 PM
“‘Dangerous nostalgia’: did Spain’s ‘pact of forgetting’ after Franco leave new generation open to far right?
Events to mark the 50th anniversary of dictator’s death are intended to remind Spaniards, particularly the young, of the dangers of fascism” 11/18/25 … 1/ www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Events to mark the 50th anniversary of dictator’s death are intended to remind Spaniards, particularly the young, of the dangers of fascism” 11/18/25 … 1/ www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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Apart from being obviously awful you can see from the flash of anger on his face that he is feeling *completely* out of control about this situation. Reminds me of the interview he bailed on in the ESPN 30 for 30, “Who Killed the USFL,” when he was confronted on his failures by a reporter
"Quiet! Quiet, Piggy."
November 18, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Apart from being obviously awful you can see from the flash of anger on his face that he is feeling *completely* out of control about this situation. Reminds me of the interview he bailed on in the ESPN 30 for 30, “Who Killed the USFL,” when he was confronted on his failures by a reporter
I’m no lawyer, but this looks bad for the US attorney.
Maybe she is no lawyer either. Or not for long.
Maybe she is no lawyer either. Or not for long.
NEWS: During a hearing in federal court in VA, prosecutors confirmed that the operative indictment in the case against James Comey was never shown to or voted on by the entire grand jury before it was presented in open court.
Defense counsel argued that’s a complete bar to further prosecution
Defense counsel argued that’s a complete bar to further prosecution
November 19, 2025 at 4:38 PM
I’m no lawyer, but this looks bad for the US attorney.
Maybe she is no lawyer either. Or not for long.
Maybe she is no lawyer either. Or not for long.
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BREAKING: Prosecutors in the Comey case just told the judge that they’re under orders from the Deputy Attorney Generals’s office not to disclose whether career prosecutors wrote a memo recommending *against* indicting Comey prior to Halligan going to the grand jury.
November 19, 2025 at 3:51 PM
BREAKING: Prosecutors in the Comey case just told the judge that they’re under orders from the Deputy Attorney Generals’s office not to disclose whether career prosecutors wrote a memo recommending *against* indicting Comey prior to Halligan going to the grand jury.
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NYC cop caught impersonating an ICE agent. #smh
"Federal prosecutors say off-duty NYPD Officer Atickul Islam, also known as James W. Anderson, impersonated the director of ICE’s New York Field office, demanding a migrant and their family report to an ICE location."
"Federal prosecutors say off-duty NYPD Officer Atickul Islam, also known as James W. Anderson, impersonated the director of ICE’s New York Field office, demanding a migrant and their family report to an ICE location."
Migrants seek safety at ROCC NYC even as ICE threats rise, including an officer charged with impersonation.
Read more: http://specne.ws/vNhPD3
Read more: http://specne.ws/vNhPD3
Advocates say migrants still vulnerable despite court ruling
Border czar Tom Homan says he plans to increase ICE operations in the city.
specne.ws
November 19, 2025 at 4:33 PM
NYC cop caught impersonating an ICE agent. #smh
"Federal prosecutors say off-duty NYPD Officer Atickul Islam, also known as James W. Anderson, impersonated the director of ICE’s New York Field office, demanding a migrant and their family report to an ICE location."
"Federal prosecutors say off-duty NYPD Officer Atickul Islam, also known as James W. Anderson, impersonated the director of ICE’s New York Field office, demanding a migrant and their family report to an ICE location."
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one thing i think is true is that republicans assumed that democrats would not respond in kind and that the forceful pushback spooked them (a lesson to learn here, perhaps)
Trump's corrupt scheme to rig 2026 is suddenly falling apart:
*Court strikes down Texas GOP gerrymander
*Indiana GOP lacks votes to redraw map
*Big Dem win in Virginia could give Ds more seats
On the pod, DLCC head Heather Williams is informative on what's next:
newrepublic.com/article/2033...
*Court strikes down Texas GOP gerrymander
*Indiana GOP lacks votes to redraw map
*Big Dem win in Virginia could give Ds more seats
On the pod, DLCC head Heather Williams is informative on what's next:
newrepublic.com/article/2033...
Trump’s Plot to Rig 2026 Is Falling Apart, and Boy Is He Mad About It
As the Trump-GOP scheme to gerrymander the midterms suddenly faces big new setbacks, a Democratic operative who’s leading in these fights explains why the battle isn’t over—and what must happen now.
newrepublic.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:13 PM
one thing i think is true is that republicans assumed that democrats would not respond in kind and that the forceful pushback spooked them (a lesson to learn here, perhaps)
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Authoritarians co-opted the term "DEI" to conflate good faith diversity and equality efforts with half-hearted corporate platitudes, cultivating the lie that their racism and attacks on civil rights are somehow about efficiency
and the press continues to help them do it
and the press continues to help them do it
Since 1981, Chicago Women in Trades has worked to promote equity by getting more women into the construction trades. Now the nonprofit faces a different challenge: Trump's efforts to erase DEI. n.pr/4pmCNr2
How a small Chicago nonprofit is resisting Trump's war on DEI
Since 1981, Chicago Women in Trades has worked to promote equity by getting more women into the construction trades. Now the nonprofit faces a different challenge: Trump's efforts to erase DEI.
n.pr
November 19, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Authoritarians co-opted the term "DEI" to conflate good faith diversity and equality efforts with half-hearted corporate platitudes, cultivating the lie that their racism and attacks on civil rights are somehow about efficiency
and the press continues to help them do it
and the press continues to help them do it
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New: Reuters has tallied job losses, suspensions and investigations stemming from the reaction to Charlie Kirk's Sept. 10 assassination. Its findings: More than 600 Americans have been punished, and the figure is likely to be an under-count.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
November 19, 2025 at 11:35 AM
New: Reuters has tallied job losses, suspensions and investigations stemming from the reaction to Charlie Kirk's Sept. 10 assassination. Its findings: More than 600 Americans have been punished, and the figure is likely to be an under-count.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
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Few things bug me more than higher ed leaders saying that we lost our mission and lost the trust of the public, when we have actually been the target of a decades-long smear campaign by the right wing that worked. The moment we’re losing our mission is right now, in capitulation.
November 19, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Few things bug me more than higher ed leaders saying that we lost our mission and lost the trust of the public, when we have actually been the target of a decades-long smear campaign by the right wing that worked. The moment we’re losing our mission is right now, in capitulation.
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But the court’s acquiescence to an antidemocratic America didn’t start in 2025.
In our latest cover issue, @pemalevy.bsky.social traces the ways in which Roberts has been embedding white-dominant authoritarianism into the country’s source code for two decades.
In our latest cover issue, @pemalevy.bsky.social traces the ways in which Roberts has been embedding white-dominant authoritarianism into the country’s source code for two decades.
This is all John Roberts’ fault
Trump owes his corrupt and abusive reign to one man.
www.motherjones.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:05 PM
But the court’s acquiescence to an antidemocratic America didn’t start in 2025.
In our latest cover issue, @pemalevy.bsky.social traces the ways in which Roberts has been embedding white-dominant authoritarianism into the country’s source code for two decades.
In our latest cover issue, @pemalevy.bsky.social traces the ways in which Roberts has been embedding white-dominant authoritarianism into the country’s source code for two decades.