Victoria Palikir
@sofiacastries.bsky.social
Reposted by Victoria Palikir
This is what every institution he threatens with frivolous defamation suits should be doing
President Trump’s spiteful defamation suit against the Pulitzer Prize Board may backfire, as the latter is now demanding Trump’s psychological records, prescription medication records, and tax returns in the discovery process. trib.al/LUCScTR
December 26, 2025 at 2:06 AM
This is what every institution he threatens with frivolous defamation suits should be doing
Reposted by Victoria Palikir
To put this in context, what they did is about the same as changing the font to Wingdings to keep it secret and hoping no one knows how to switch it back.
Ok. Now had a chance to check and, well, at least some docs do appear to be straight up classic redaction fail. And there are some *interesting* bits here.
www.justice.gov/multimedia/C...
www.justice.gov/multimedia/C...
December 23, 2025 at 8:13 AM
To put this in context, what they did is about the same as changing the font to Wingdings to keep it secret and hoping no one knows how to switch it back.
Reposted by Victoria Palikir
DOJ briefly uploaded this letter from Jeff Epstein to serial child molester Larry Nassar:
"Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to 'grab snatch,' whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system."
"Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to 'grab snatch,' whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system."
December 23, 2025 at 6:03 AM
DOJ briefly uploaded this letter from Jeff Epstein to serial child molester Larry Nassar:
"Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to 'grab snatch,' whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system."
"Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to 'grab snatch,' whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system."
Reposted by Victoria Palikir
By Hiroshi Yasuda:
A COVID wave kills selected vulnerable people while making healthy people vulnerable.
You may be selected in the next wave.
Source: x.com/Yash25571056...
A COVID wave kills selected vulnerable people while making healthy people vulnerable.
You may be selected in the next wave.
Source: x.com/Yash25571056...
December 18, 2025 at 7:20 AM
By Hiroshi Yasuda:
A COVID wave kills selected vulnerable people while making healthy people vulnerable.
You may be selected in the next wave.
Source: x.com/Yash25571056...
A COVID wave kills selected vulnerable people while making healthy people vulnerable.
You may be selected in the next wave.
Source: x.com/Yash25571056...
Reposted by Victoria Palikir
When I was a medical student 45 years ago, I clerked in a 13 year old girl with deep jaundice and an abdominal mass. She was Hepatitis B positive. That had led to a primary liver tumour. In a 13-year-old. She was dead within the month. Avoidable with vaccination.
The CDC has endorsed ACIP’s decision of revoking universal access in USA to hepatitis B vaccines at birth. The policy had been in place for 34y and was changed despite no new evidence emerging of any risk of vaccination. #HealthPolicy 🧵
CDC accepts ACIP’s hepatitis B vaccine recommendations for babies
The CDC also said if a baby is not receiving a birth dose of vaccine, the initial dose should be administered no earlier than 2 months of age.
www.cidrap.umn.edu
December 18, 2025 at 8:14 AM
When I was a medical student 45 years ago, I clerked in a 13 year old girl with deep jaundice and an abdominal mass. She was Hepatitis B positive. That had led to a primary liver tumour. In a 13-year-old. She was dead within the month. Avoidable with vaccination.
Reposted by Victoria Palikir
If you are a renter and your home has smoke/fire/etc damage from the LA fires and your landlord hasn’t addressed it you need to file a remediation complaint w/county by 12/31! The cool cats at the Altadena Tenants Union have more info and a template you can use, it’s super easy. (In Spanish also.)
🚨 Has your landlord remediated?
Get your remediation complaints filed by 12/31!
link.mail.beehiiv.com
December 17, 2025 at 5:24 AM
If you are a renter and your home has smoke/fire/etc damage from the LA fires and your landlord hasn’t addressed it you need to file a remediation complaint w/county by 12/31! The cool cats at the Altadena Tenants Union have more info and a template you can use, it’s super easy. (In Spanish also.)
Reposted by Victoria Palikir
The great Dionne Warwick turns 85 today.
In addition to being a six-time Grammy winner, she spearheaded in 1985 the song “That’s What Friends Are For”.
It raised $3m for AIDS research — at a time, she said, when people didn’t want to “be seen giving money or being heard TALKING about the crisis.”
In addition to being a six-time Grammy winner, she spearheaded in 1985 the song “That’s What Friends Are For”.
It raised $3m for AIDS research — at a time, she said, when people didn’t want to “be seen giving money or being heard TALKING about the crisis.”
December 12, 2025 at 5:40 PM
The great Dionne Warwick turns 85 today.
In addition to being a six-time Grammy winner, she spearheaded in 1985 the song “That’s What Friends Are For”.
It raised $3m for AIDS research — at a time, she said, when people didn’t want to “be seen giving money or being heard TALKING about the crisis.”
In addition to being a six-time Grammy winner, she spearheaded in 1985 the song “That’s What Friends Are For”.
It raised $3m for AIDS research — at a time, she said, when people didn’t want to “be seen giving money or being heard TALKING about the crisis.”
Reposted by Victoria Palikir
Watch our reporter Lizzie Presser discuss Tierra Walker's story on @msnowreports.bsky.social:
“What I want to be clear about is that this isn’t a bug in these [abortion ban] laws, this is a feature ... Anti-abortion activists have fought hard to keep health exceptions outside of these laws.”
“What I want to be clear about is that this isn’t a bug in these [abortion ban] laws, this is a feature ... Anti-abortion activists have fought hard to keep health exceptions outside of these laws.”
November 21, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Watch our reporter Lizzie Presser discuss Tierra Walker's story on @msnowreports.bsky.social:
“What I want to be clear about is that this isn’t a bug in these [abortion ban] laws, this is a feature ... Anti-abortion activists have fought hard to keep health exceptions outside of these laws.”
“What I want to be clear about is that this isn’t a bug in these [abortion ban] laws, this is a feature ... Anti-abortion activists have fought hard to keep health exceptions outside of these laws.”
Reposted by Victoria Palikir
EPSTEIN BOMBSHELL: my staff is releasing a new report showing JPMorgan Chase executives – all the way to the top – enabled Epstein's sex trafficking operation. You're going to want to read this.
Wyden Presses for Investigation Into JPMorgan Chase and Epstein
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:26 PM
EPSTEIN BOMBSHELL: my staff is releasing a new report showing JPMorgan Chase executives – all the way to the top – enabled Epstein's sex trafficking operation. You're going to want to read this.
Reposted by Victoria Palikir
Exclusive: The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, nooses and the Confederate flag as hate symbols.
Instead, the military service will classify them as “potentially divisive” under its new guidelines, which take effect next month. https://wapo.st/4p2HnKY
Instead, the military service will classify them as “potentially divisive” under its new guidelines, which take effect next month. https://wapo.st/4p2HnKY
November 21, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Exclusive: The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, nooses and the Confederate flag as hate symbols.
Instead, the military service will classify them as “potentially divisive” under its new guidelines, which take effect next month. https://wapo.st/4p2HnKY
Instead, the military service will classify them as “potentially divisive” under its new guidelines, which take effect next month. https://wapo.st/4p2HnKY
Reposted by Victoria Palikir
In Chernihiv region overnight, Russia struck the border town of Horodnia, killing two women.
Murderous bastards.
Murderous bastards.
November 18, 2025 at 9:28 AM
In Chernihiv region overnight, Russia struck the border town of Horodnia, killing two women.
Murderous bastards.
Murderous bastards.
Reposted by Victoria Palikir
Great news. This is what an ICE agent looks like in a mugshot. Meet Gerardo Rodriguez, 45, of Temecula, courtesy of the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office. Arrested for "illegally detaining a minor at gunpoint while off duty last week." 🧵
November 17, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Great news. This is what an ICE agent looks like in a mugshot. Meet Gerardo Rodriguez, 45, of Temecula, courtesy of the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office. Arrested for "illegally detaining a minor at gunpoint while off duty last week." 🧵
Reposted by Victoria Palikir
Enraging.
Back when I was still on Facebook, I asked my (mostly liberal) friends why they had stopped masking. Most said because their doctor weren't masking, so they know COVID's not a big deal. If medical settings required everyone to mask, people would get the message.
Back when I was still on Facebook, I asked my (mostly liberal) friends why they had stopped masking. Most said because their doctor weren't masking, so they know COVID's not a big deal. If medical settings required everyone to mask, people would get the message.
Alice Wong died of an infection 💔
Thinking of all the healthcare workers over time who failed to protect her
www.npr.org/2025/11/15/n...
Thinking of all the healthcare workers over time who failed to protect her
www.npr.org/2025/11/15/n...
Disability rights activist and author Alice Wong dies at 51
The MacArthur "Genius" Award-winner was best known as the founder of the Disability Visibility Project, which highlights disabled people and disability culture through storytelling projects, social me...
www.npr.org
November 16, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Enraging.
Back when I was still on Facebook, I asked my (mostly liberal) friends why they had stopped masking. Most said because their doctor weren't masking, so they know COVID's not a big deal. If medical settings required everyone to mask, people would get the message.
Back when I was still on Facebook, I asked my (mostly liberal) friends why they had stopped masking. Most said because their doctor weren't masking, so they know COVID's not a big deal. If medical settings required everyone to mask, people would get the message.
Reposted by Victoria Palikir
Here's the thing. Small steps, that we might even do individually, open the doors to the big things that make a difference.
This administration is lazy. Underresourced. Cowardly. When cities stand up they bend and run away.
We can scare them out of every city and neighborhood in this country.
This administration is lazy. Underresourced. Cowardly. When cities stand up they bend and run away.
We can scare them out of every city and neighborhood in this country.
I'll just put this here. The people of the Chicago, for now, have nonviolently turned out the tyrants. Made their work too costly. Charlotte, we can teach you things; as you will surely soon have things to teach us. We shall overcome.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/08/c...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/08/c...
Inside Chicago’s growing resistance movement against Operation Midway Blitz: ‘Small acts have huge consequences’
In Chicago, the resistance to President Donald Trump’s mass deportation mission has taken many forms. A movement has grown through acts large and small.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 16, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Here's the thing. Small steps, that we might even do individually, open the doors to the big things that make a difference.
This administration is lazy. Underresourced. Cowardly. When cities stand up they bend and run away.
We can scare them out of every city and neighborhood in this country.
This administration is lazy. Underresourced. Cowardly. When cities stand up they bend and run away.
We can scare them out of every city and neighborhood in this country.
Reposted by Victoria Palikir
A siege-breaking snowstorm followed by the strongest aurora in living memory is proof that Chicago has the Mandate of Heaven and its enemies will die by her sword
November 12, 2025 at 2:58 AM
A siege-breaking snowstorm followed by the strongest aurora in living memory is proof that Chicago has the Mandate of Heaven and its enemies will die by her sword
Reposted by Victoria Palikir
Reposted by Victoria Palikir
I hate to overload this intrepid reporter but... a perfect time to tell your story.
Hi Audra, I'm a reporter with @thecut.com. I'm reaching out because I'm looking to speak with people about how increasing healthcare costs will impact them. If you'd like to chat, my DMs are open/you can email me at andrea.gonzalez@voxmedia.com. We can also protect people's identities. Thank you!
November 11, 2025 at 3:57 PM
I hate to overload this intrepid reporter but... a perfect time to tell your story.
Reposted by Victoria Palikir
Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.
They’ve had their necks kneeled on.
They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.
At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.
They’ve had their necks kneeled on.
They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.
At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
www.propublica.org
November 1, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.
They’ve had their necks kneeled on.
They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.
At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.
They’ve had their necks kneeled on.
They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.
At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.
Reposted by Victoria Palikir
Sarkozy is going to jail but he’s not the first one. In our new dataset we track modern leaders who have been prosecuted by their own states. There are 215 of them. Turns out leader prosecution is a common & healthy practice in democracies. Full access link: foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/28/d...
Prosecuting the Powerful
Historical data shows putting leaders on trial is a healthy democratic practice.
foreignpolicy.com
October 28, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Sarkozy is going to jail but he’s not the first one. In our new dataset we track modern leaders who have been prosecuted by their own states. There are 215 of them. Turns out leader prosecution is a common & healthy practice in democracies. Full access link: foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/28/d...
Reposted by Victoria Palikir
Gee, I can’t imagine why…
October 26, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Gee, I can’t imagine why…
Reposted by Victoria Palikir
It takes 30 days to grow a radish. Also 2/3 of the country is already in or entering winter.
On Threads, the usual suspects are telling ppl about to lose SNAP benefits to just start a garden. As a gardener, I had to laugh. You need at LEAST an acre of land to feed a family of 4. Start-up costs are enormous. But yes, subsistence farming on the balcony of your rental apartment is the answer
October 23, 2025 at 5:41 PM
It takes 30 days to grow a radish. Also 2/3 of the country is already in or entering winter.
Reposted by Victoria Palikir
Now is a really good time to donate to food banks, and do food runs for mutual aid groups. Also, do menstrual product runs.
I wonder how much food theft spikes with desperate people just trying to feed their families. I'm sure there will be a media panic about it.
October 23, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Now is a really good time to donate to food banks, and do food runs for mutual aid groups. Also, do menstrual product runs.
Reposted by Victoria Palikir
Records obtained by ProPublica indicate that food banks across the country were expecting more than 27 million pounds of chicken, 2 million gallons of milk, 10 million pounds of dried fruit and 60 million eggs that never arrived.
Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.
ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...
projects.propublica.org
October 23, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Records obtained by ProPublica indicate that food banks across the country were expecting more than 27 million pounds of chicken, 2 million gallons of milk, 10 million pounds of dried fruit and 60 million eggs that never arrived.
Reposted by Victoria Palikir
I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.
October 22, 2025 at 12:33 AM
I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.