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Victoria Gonzalez Maltes
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PhD candidate in History - 20th c US immigration and refugee history
@ehess, living in Philadelphia
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Kind of related - a few years ago the big French far-right magazine Valeurs Actuelles ran this headline (“Has Pope Francis become the Vicar of Islamism”) lol
Headline in French: “Le pape François est-il devenu le Vicaire de la gauche immigrationniste et de l’islamisme conquérant”
April 20, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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February 17, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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The stop-work order was so immediate and sweeping that the research staff would be violating it if they helped the women remove the rings. But Dr. Leila Mansoor, a scientist with the Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (known as CAPRISA) and an investigator on the trial, decided she and her team would do so anyway. "My first thought when I saw this order was, There are rings in people's bodies and you cannot leave them," Dr. Mansoor said. "For me ethics and participants come first. There is a line." Participants were receiving bimonthly injections to maintain a sufficient level of the drug in their bodies to prevent H.I.V. infection. Without regular injections, or a carefully-managed end to use of the drug, the participants will not have enough cabotegravir to stop a new infection, but there will be enough in their systems that, if they were to contract the virus, it could easily mutate to become drug-resistant, said Dr. Kenneth Ngure, president-elect of the International AIDS Society. This is a significant threat to the trial volunteers and also to the millions of people living with H.I.V. because cabotegravir is closely related to a drug that is already used worldwide in standard treatment of the virus. Development of resistance could be catastrophic, Dr. Ngure said: "It's wrong on so many levels — you can't just stop. "We have betrayed the trust of ministries of health and the regulatory agencies in the countries where we were working and of the women who agreed to be in our studies, who were told that they would be taken care of," Dr. Hillier said. "I've never seen anything like it in my 40 years of doing international research. It's unethical, it's dangerous and it's reckless." The Times identified more than 30 frozen studies that had volunteers already in the care of researchers, including trials of: • malaria treatment in children under age 5 in Mozambique • treatment for cholera in Bangladesh • a screen-and-treat method for cervical cancer in Malawi • tuberculosis treatment for children and teenagers in Peru and South Africa • nutritional support for children in Ethiopia • early-childhood-development interventions in Cambodia • ways to support pregnant and breastfeeding women to reduce malnutrition in Jordan
February 7, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Still stunned by the NYT’s “The Daily” episode that aired a week before the election. Describes the 1965 Immigration Act as “an immigration system most Americans never wanted.” Really startling to find out where we’re at -not just on the right, but in the mainstream- on post-1965 immigration
November 12, 2024 at 11:47 PM
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Tried to make sense of the very real (and scary!) stakes of the Trump campaign’s anti-immigrant rhetoric for a French audience, published in today’s @liberation.fr

www.liberation.fr/idees-et-deb...
October 18, 2024 at 10:04 PM