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Susan Dooha
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Advocate. Health policy. Civil rights. Asian art. Detroit. “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
I’m suggesting that my friends follow Robert Hubbell on Substack.
The coup rolls on, but we will prevail.
February 2, 2025
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February 2, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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February 1, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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It is Friday afternoon of a wild, wild week. And yet for me a reassuring one. My greatest fear was not of what they would do. It's that we would let them. And I'm seeing a lot of beautiful intransigence. From federal workers. From people all over the country obstructing ICE....
January 31, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Europe has a message for Elmo.
January 24, 2025 at 10:46 AM
From the New Yorker magazine, NYT:

Trump is halting work on all civil rights cases. Are they reviewing to determine whether any charges relate to diversity, equity and inclusion? Is this prelude to shutting down the civil rights efforts at Justice and other federal agencies?
January 23, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Sorry, this is little bit belated (as alternatives to the inauguration) but there's still plenty of time to avoid watching any inaugural day news and watch films that honor Dr Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr King would have turned 96 years old on January 15. 🕯🫶 #MLKDay #DrKing #MartinLutherKingJr
10 Movies to Watch in Honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. | Academy Newsletter
To celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day, we put together a collection of films to watch to honor his profoundly important legacy.
aframe.oscars.org
January 20, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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It is beyond Trump's announcement that "there are only two genders."

Trump's executive orders threaten to detransition up to 1,500 incarcerated trans women and jeopardize the medical care of 276,000 trans adults on Medicaid.

@msjpauly.bsky.social reports what we know so far.
Trump declares war on transgender people
"We are not going anywhere, and we will fight back against these harmful provisions with everything we’ve got."
www.motherjones.com
January 20, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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‘My arrest was unjustified’: released Palestinians decry their imprisonment
‘My arrest was unjustified’: released Palestinians decry their imprisonment
Palestinian prisoners describe being held in poor conditions after their release as part of ceasefire deal In the dead of night on Sunday, after hours of waiting, a white bus carrying dozens of Palestinian prisoners, released in exchange for three…
www.theguardian.com
January 20, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Contemplating the nature of heroism as we remember the life of Martin Luther King today. Thank you Heather Cox Richardson

January 19, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
January 19, 2025
You hear sometimes, now that we know the sordid details of the lives of some of our leading figures, that America has no heroes left.
open.substack.com
January 20, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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New report from @GeorgetownCCF shows Medicaid’s critical role in supporting rural populations. Federal #Medicaid cuts would harm rural Americans. Learn what’s at stake in your community: bit.ly/RuralReport25
January 16, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy talk a big game about cutting trillions of dollars in "federal waste." Well, what's more wasteful than giving away billions of dollars to people who already have billions?

Here are 7 ways the DOGE bros could actually cut TRILLIONS in pro-wealthy tax policy.
7 Ways to Cut TRILLIONS in Wasteful Government Spending
YouTube video by Mother Jones
youtu.be
January 16, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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NEW: Lawmakers in at least seven states are filing more than a dozen bills to expand abortion access.

Some were introduced in direct response to ProPublica’s reporting on the fatal consequences of abortion bans.

By @zivabranstetter.bsky.social & @cassandrajaramillo.bsky.social
Lawmakers in at Least Seven States Seek Expanded Abortion Access
Some of the bills were filed in direct response to ProPublica’s reporting on the fatal consequences of abortion bans.
propub.li
January 17, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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The Biden administration announced new protections for 1.3 million acres in the North Slope of Alaska, a final effort to shield it from oil companies eager to drill in the ecologically sensitive Arctic environment. nyti.ms/4jvm1Uu
January 17, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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A ceasefire agreement has been announced between Israel and Hamas, but what will displaced Palestinians come back to?

We look at what’s left of Gaza and its people aje.io/l2jnor
January 16, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Bhairavi Ragini in Attitude of Renunciation with Ladies-in-Waiting https://collections.artsmia.org/art/108871/
January 15, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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In his farewell address, Joe Biden warned against what is “taking shape” in America: an oligarchy that threatens the country’s democracy. Read David Remnick on what we can take away from the outgoing President’s alarming remarks: nyer.cm/faHlB38
January 16, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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As of Dec. 1, 2024, we recorded 29,322 visitors and stamped well over 81,000 names in the Ireichō. Each stamp brings us closer to our goal of honoring every former incarceree. This could not have been done without the help of each of you who visited and and left a stamp on history.
December 11, 2024 at 5:52 PM