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Stephen Miller tried to claim only real "Americans" built the Empire State Building, but he left out the true stories of the Indigenous ironworkers who actually did. The Mohawk Skywalkers helped shape America's skylines—and shatter the lie behind Miller’s whitewashed nostalgia.
Mohawk Skywalkers: The History Stephen Miller Whitewashed
The Kanien'kéhá:ka Haudenosaunee ironworkers were vital to building Miller's favorite monuments to modern America
thinkbigpicture.substack.com
August 12, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Stephen Miller tried to claim only real "Americans" built the Empire State Building, but he left out the true stories of the Indigenous ironworkers who actually did. The Mohawk Skywalkers helped shape America's skylines—and shatter the lie behind Miller’s whitewashed nostalgia.
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August 2, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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We've arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science and technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces.
~ Carl Sagan
~ Carl Sagan
July 19, 2025 at 6:09 PM
We've arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science and technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces.
~ Carl Sagan
~ Carl Sagan
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It’s a good day to remember what we were once capable of, and why it’s a really bad idea to abandon science.
July 20, 2025 at 11:25 AM
It’s a good day to remember what we were once capable of, and why it’s a really bad idea to abandon science.
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Measles 🧵
As of July 9th we’ve had 1,288 confirmed measles cases from 27 outbreaks across 38 states, the highest number of cases in one year since 1990 (when we had 27,808 cases).
Measles will continue to spread until >95% of vulnerable people in an outbreak are either infected or vaccinated
As of July 9th we’ve had 1,288 confirmed measles cases from 27 outbreaks across 38 states, the highest number of cases in one year since 1990 (when we had 27,808 cases).
Measles will continue to spread until >95% of vulnerable people in an outbreak are either infected or vaccinated
July 16, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Measles 🧵
As of July 9th we’ve had 1,288 confirmed measles cases from 27 outbreaks across 38 states, the highest number of cases in one year since 1990 (when we had 27,808 cases).
Measles will continue to spread until >95% of vulnerable people in an outbreak are either infected or vaccinated
As of July 9th we’ve had 1,288 confirmed measles cases from 27 outbreaks across 38 states, the highest number of cases in one year since 1990 (when we had 27,808 cases).
Measles will continue to spread until >95% of vulnerable people in an outbreak are either infected or vaccinated
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Trump destroyed 60 years of American generosity—
aid that fed families, kept girls in school, saved 26 million from AIDS, and now puts 14 million lives at risk.
He wants your tax dollars for raids, cages and terrorizing our communities.
If you mean it, don’t just like it.
Repost it!
aid that fed families, kept girls in school, saved 26 million from AIDS, and now puts 14 million lives at risk.
He wants your tax dollars for raids, cages and terrorizing our communities.
If you mean it, don’t just like it.
Repost it!
July 14, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Trump destroyed 60 years of American generosity—
aid that fed families, kept girls in school, saved 26 million from AIDS, and now puts 14 million lives at risk.
He wants your tax dollars for raids, cages and terrorizing our communities.
If you mean it, don’t just like it.
Repost it!
aid that fed families, kept girls in school, saved 26 million from AIDS, and now puts 14 million lives at risk.
He wants your tax dollars for raids, cages and terrorizing our communities.
If you mean it, don’t just like it.
Repost it!
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www.theatlantic.com/health/archi... @jvl.bsky.social @altusaid.altgov.info @thelastmileusaid.bsky.social @wofava.bsky.social More lives lost needlessly and carelessly by Elon Musk and Marco Rubio.
The Trump Administration Is About to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food
Federal workers warned for months that the high-energy biscuits would go to waste.
www.theatlantic.com
July 15, 2025 at 12:25 PM
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi... @jvl.bsky.social @altusaid.altgov.info @thelastmileusaid.bsky.social @wofava.bsky.social More lives lost needlessly and carelessly by Elon Musk and Marco Rubio.
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Thanks @jessicavalenti.bsky.social for breaking this down.
The GOP’s latest bill would criminalize abortion providers for providing standard healthcare by punishing how fetal remains are disposed—based on false water contamination claims. It’s disinformation and it’s invasive.
Read the full piece:
The GOP’s latest bill would criminalize abortion providers for providing standard healthcare by punishing how fetal remains are disposed—based on false water contamination claims. It’s disinformation and it’s invasive.
Read the full piece:
Republicans Propose National Ban on Flushing Abortions
HR 4131 would outlaw common disposal of fetal remains
jessica.substack.com
July 15, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Thanks @jessicavalenti.bsky.social for breaking this down.
The GOP’s latest bill would criminalize abortion providers for providing standard healthcare by punishing how fetal remains are disposed—based on false water contamination claims. It’s disinformation and it’s invasive.
Read the full piece:
The GOP’s latest bill would criminalize abortion providers for providing standard healthcare by punishing how fetal remains are disposed—based on false water contamination claims. It’s disinformation and it’s invasive.
Read the full piece:
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Almost like actions have consequences. In this case, the cost of those consequences are human lives.
They gutted and neglected the FAA and the planes started crashing.
They defunded the NIH and the CDC and Measles came back from extinction.
They dismantled the weather service, NOAA, and FEMA and a flood killed 250+ people.
They defunded the NIH and the CDC and Measles came back from extinction.
They dismantled the weather service, NOAA, and FEMA and a flood killed 250+ people.
July 15, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Almost like actions have consequences. In this case, the cost of those consequences are human lives.
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Our colleague created a Substack dedicated to stories of public health workers, The Public Health Workforce is Not OK. Go read a story or two and tell a friend about them. Maybe submit your own story!
More stories coming. Subscribe here: phworkforceok.substack.com
More stories coming. Subscribe here: phworkforceok.substack.com
July 15, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Our colleague created a Substack dedicated to stories of public health workers, The Public Health Workforce is Not OK. Go read a story or two and tell a friend about them. Maybe submit your own story!
More stories coming. Subscribe here: phworkforceok.substack.com
More stories coming. Subscribe here: phworkforceok.substack.com
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The State Department has informed employees that layoffs are set to begin soon.
July 11, 2025 at 1:23 AM
The State Department has informed employees that layoffs are set to begin soon.
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An issue I don’t believe has been addressed regarding the deep cuts to SNAP, is how many grocery stores in low income areas will go out of business. Mom and pop, family owned markets. For many, almost all of their customers are on food assistance. The Krogers will just close their doors and move on.
July 4, 2025 at 12:08 AM
An issue I don’t believe has been addressed regarding the deep cuts to SNAP, is how many grocery stores in low income areas will go out of business. Mom and pop, family owned markets. For many, almost all of their customers are on food assistance. The Krogers will just close their doors and move on.
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Joe Neguse now wants to know why Mike Johnson continues to leave votes open indefinitely for hours every time they don’t have enough votes.
July 2, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Joe Neguse now wants to know why Mike Johnson continues to leave votes open indefinitely for hours every time they don’t have enough votes.
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the destruction of the government, the economy, and -- especially -- the dollar isn't necessarily an unintended consequence
today:
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/b...
october, before the election: www.vanityfair.com/news/story/s...
today:
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/b...
october, before the election: www.vanityfair.com/news/story/s...
April 30, 2025 at 7:00 PM
the destruction of the government, the economy, and -- especially -- the dollar isn't necessarily an unintended consequence
today:
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/b...
october, before the election: www.vanityfair.com/news/story/s...
today:
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/b...
october, before the election: www.vanityfair.com/news/story/s...
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subarus for the canadian market will now go there directly from japan instead of being made by american autoworkers in indiana. more trump tariff genius.
www.carscoops.com/2025/04/suba...
www.carscoops.com/2025/04/suba...
Subaru Pulls Canadian Production From US As Trump’s Tariffs Deal A Heavy Blow | Carscoops
The automaker will now build more cars for Canada in Japan rather than in Indiana
www.carscoops.com
April 30, 2025 at 9:12 PM
subarus for the canadian market will now go there directly from japan instead of being made by american autoworkers in indiana. more trump tariff genius.
www.carscoops.com/2025/04/suba...
www.carscoops.com/2025/04/suba...
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White House cancels program which reduced sudden infant deaths
NIH cancels participation in Safe to Sleep campaign that decreased infant deaths. Exclusive via Ismael M. Belkoura for @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2025/04/30/n...
NIH cancels participation in Safe to Sleep campaign that decreased infant deaths
NIH has cancelled its participation in Safe to Sleep, a 30-year campaign to prevent babies from dying in their sleep
www.statnews.com
April 30, 2025 at 11:58 PM
White House cancels program which reduced sudden infant deaths
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For more than a century, believers in racial “purity” feared diversity would destroy the West. In reality, it is diversity that won wars, propelled Western civilization forward, while rigid “purity” led to blindness, stagnation, and defeat.
April 27, 2025 at 4:18 PM
For more than a century, believers in racial “purity” feared diversity would destroy the West. In reality, it is diversity that won wars, propelled Western civilization forward, while rigid “purity” led to blindness, stagnation, and defeat.
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On this day in 1947, Jack Roosevelt Robinson bravely walked through that door and changed this country for the better. Here’s my painting of the great man at Ebbets Field, August 28, 1949.
April 15, 2025 at 12:21 PM
On this day in 1947, Jack Roosevelt Robinson bravely walked through that door and changed this country for the better. Here’s my painting of the great man at Ebbets Field, August 28, 1949.
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Absolutely reprehensible. Where's the proof?
Leavitt: "Abrego Garcia was a foreign terrorist. He is an MS-13 gang member. He was engaged in human trafficking." (The White House hasn't provided evidence for any of these claims ... )
April 15, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Absolutely reprehensible. Where's the proof?
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No one should be above the law, most especially the President.
Ignoring a Supreme Court ruling to facilitate Kilmar Abrego Garcia's return isn't just cruel; it's unconstitutional.
They're saying the quiet part aloud — if they get away with it now, they'll do it to anyone.
Ignoring a Supreme Court ruling to facilitate Kilmar Abrego Garcia's return isn't just cruel; it's unconstitutional.
They're saying the quiet part aloud — if they get away with it now, they'll do it to anyone.
Trump to Bukele: "Home-growns are next. The home-growns. You gotta build about five more places. It's not big enough."
April 14, 2025 at 8:04 PM
No one should be above the law, most especially the President.
Ignoring a Supreme Court ruling to facilitate Kilmar Abrego Garcia's return isn't just cruel; it's unconstitutional.
They're saying the quiet part aloud — if they get away with it now, they'll do it to anyone.
Ignoring a Supreme Court ruling to facilitate Kilmar Abrego Garcia's return isn't just cruel; it's unconstitutional.
They're saying the quiet part aloud — if they get away with it now, they'll do it to anyone.
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Because if you don’t track it, it doesn’t exist. That seems to be exactly how Trump wanted to handle (or handled, as the case may be) COVID. And thus, if something doesn’t appear to exist then he can claim he cured it or that no other president has ever done so much to eliminate all of it 🙄
Trump orders government to stop tracking cancers in U.S. firefighters.
www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
April 14, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Because if you don’t track it, it doesn’t exist. That seems to be exactly how Trump wanted to handle (or handled, as the case may be) COVID. And thus, if something doesn’t appear to exist then he can claim he cured it or that no other president has ever done so much to eliminate all of it 🙄
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5/ Per Reuters, the Rockbridge Network (which they say is backed by Thiel & Mercer) oversees these 5 groups & one super PAC:
1. Better Tomorrow
2. Over the Horizon
3. Faithful in Action
4. Firebrand Action
5. Revitalization Partners
6. “Turnout for America” (a super PAC led by Chris Buskirk)
1. Better Tomorrow
2. Over the Horizon
3. Faithful in Action
4. Firebrand Action
5. Revitalization Partners
6. “Turnout for America” (a super PAC led by Chris Buskirk)
Tech donor network co-founded by JD Vance seeks to push America to the right
Before JD Vance began his rapid rise to vice presidential candidate, he co-founded a Silicon Valley-backed donor organization to finance right-wing news stories, voter turnout operations and election polls with a goal of spreading U.S. President Donald Trump’s brand of nationalism, according to previously unreported documents on the group.
www.reuters.com
April 14, 2025 at 7:48 PM