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Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH, SM @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social · 9h

Some of these people have now been fired and rehired TWICE since January. The current state of dysfunction is mind boggling.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 11h

OOOPS! UPDATE: Two HHS officials tell me that disease detectives, measles response officers, global health officials and the MMWR staff were laid off by mistake and will be reinstated. But Washington office is still RIFed

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Kevin Foster @kevinhfoster.bsky.social · 4h

Massive escalation at the Portland ICE facility. Worst I’ve ever seen. More pepper balls than I can count. Teargas in the middle of crowd. Violent arrests. Some type of either noise or rubber bullet shotgun fired into the air then later aimed at protesters chests/heads at near point blank range.

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Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 17h

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ICE abducted a 15-year-old autistic boy during a bathroom break and kept him hidden for nearly a week.
His mother thought he was missing. Even local police couldn’t find him because ICE never told anyone they had him.

He was selling fruit with his mom when he asked to use the restroom.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18h

an incontestable fact of the second trump administration is it is actively trying to sicken and kill as many americans as it can

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 21h

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 1d

Tens of thousands of Palestinians are walking back to Gaza City as the Israeli military begins its withdrawal from the area following the ceasefire agreement.

Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum is there, watching what he described as ‘an endless tide of humans’.

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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 19h

this piece by @workshops4gaza.bsky.social is worth reading. still profoundly disappointed with SIGCHI for having CHI in hawai`i in 2024, and a lot of this resonates across conferences and disciplines (especially the specious claims of being socially conscientious, or engaging w/indigenous knowledge)

Against Colonial Conferencing

A W4G screed against the phenomenon of academic conferences in general

workshops4gaza.substack.com

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Bilbo Yaga @bilboyaga.bsky.social · 20h

Wearing an n95 is BY FAR the single most impactful act of resistance a person can do right now.

Your maskless face is the bullet in a fascist’s gun.

Mask up to resist eugenics by protecting vulnerable groups like kids, BIPOC, trans, disability and immigrant communities.

Give/get mask mutual aid:

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 2d

Hey so about that whole elections thing and the reality that republicans are already blocking newly elected democrats from being sworn in a full year before the midterms.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 2d

Column: Democratic Rep. Adelita S. Grijalva won her special election in Arizona more than two weeks ago, but House Republicans refuse to swear her in.

She believes it has to do with her stance on the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein and her identity.

Column | Congresswoman-in-limbo Adelita Grijalva on the dilemma she faces

Democratic Rep. Grijalva won her special election more than two weeks ago, but House Republicans refuse to swear her into office.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 1d

We really really need all hands on deck to get Tarek’s mitigation letter to the judge with 10,000 signatures by Monday. Please circulate offline and here, and sign!

www.change.org/p/free-tarek...

Sign the Petition

FREE TAREK BAZROUK NOW! NO MORE JAIL TIME! SIGN HIS MITIGATION LETTER!

www.change.org

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 1d

The normalization of “public expression” causing arrest on a college campus is really something. People are blaming the Trump administration but this is the central building block of the fascist turn and it precedes Trump — the work of institutions maligned as bastions of woke. If only.

Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 1d

Found this just incredibly depressing, more than anything.

An easel sign reads, “UCLA
ATTENTION
No events are permitted in this area today. Per Policy 852, this location is NOT designated for public expression activities.
Individuals participating in an event or a public expression activity in this area are subject to discipline and/or arrest.
Scan for policy information.”

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 1d

Remember how Fisher said politics would be increasingly medicalized

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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IDF Hannibal Brigade @hannibalbrigade.biz · 1d

Another Israeli alert about there potentially being Palestinians in one of the Whites Only neighborhoods of Palestine

Tzofar alert for “Fear of Terrorists infiltration”

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my views do not represent those of my employer @zinelib.bsky.social · 1d

Today in #ZineCataloging

One Million Experiments volume 8: Making a Plan
It's an activism workbook zine by @prisonculture.bsky.social. The whole series: millionexperiments.com/zines

Read the Zine: One Million Experiments

Read the Zine from One Million Experiments, where we explore community-based projects that expand our ideas about what keeps us safe.

millionexperiments.com

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 1d

www.tiktok.com/@wizard_bisa...

A historic day that I still can't believe it happened, I am out of my mind.. it's so painful, heartbreaking, but yet inevitable.

TikTok video by wizard_bisan_official

www.tiktok.com

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 3d

"There just isn’t enough time. There’s only what we manage to make of it—what we build, what we protect, what we remember to carry to the car. The gas mask. The snacks. The question we forgot to ask. The name of the person taken." My latest.

The Emergency Is the Atmosphere

“It’s meant to exhaust us. It’s meant to destroy us."

organizingmythoughts.org

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Montréal Antifasciste @montrealantifa.bsky.social · 2d

"One thing to make clear at the outset, when describing antifascist activity, is that the vast majority of it is nonviolent. In fact, antifascism is a defensive posture—it rises as fascism rises, and falls as fascism falls, in a well-documented pattern that has lasted for decades."

Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 2d

in case you want some non bullshit about antifa here is something i wrote

buttondown.com/theswordandt...

We Keep Us Safe: On Antifa

This past Saturday, Donald Trump announced that his administration would be deploying federal troops to Portland, OR, authorizing the military to use “full...

buttondown.com

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 2d

A timely excerpt from Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis, written by my friend Aaron Goggans, who has supported many frontline activists struggling with their mental health during moments of mass protest and upheaval. Thank you, @pempem.bsky.social for uplifting.

A Letter from an Organizer on How to Fight While Feeling Broken

An excerpt from Read This When Things Fall Apart.

mentalhellth.xyz

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a fool's errand @afoolserrand18.bsky.social · 2d

youtu.be/7r0MiGWQY2g

My Body Doesn't Oppress Me, Society Does

YouTube video by Barnard Center for Research on Women

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Jamal abu hashem🇵🇸 @jamalzuhir.bsky.social · 2d

Help us get out of Gaza
let us rebuild our lives, please, my friends. share for us much as you can during this period, because there is news that the crossing will open so we can get out from Gaza.

Jamal abu hashem🇵🇸 @jamalzuhir.bsky.social · 25d

Here is Jamal from Gaza whose family lost everything and he is trying with all his might to rebuild their lives and help them with the crazy costs in Gaza and travel outside Gaza when the crossings open. I hope you support us. Your little support, even if it is $5

chuffed.org/project/1389...

Help Jamal’s family leave the war zone and rebuild their life!

Hi my loves! My name is Caroline, and I created this fundraiser to help Jamal support his family as they fight to survive the genocide in Gaza, evacuate to safety, and eventually rebuild their lives f...

chuffed.org

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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 2d

The convo we had with Beatrice @deathpanel.bsky.social clarifies how we understand universities in the imperial core and contextualizes our call for boycott of conferences like the Association for Asian American Studies next in occupied Hawai'i. (we see you too, ASA in PR!)

bsky.app/profile/deat...

Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 3d

We are calling on ppl to boycott colonial conferences and institutions that normalize settler colonialism in Palestine and beyond, and to donate their resources instead. open.substack.com/pub/workshop...

open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/w4g...

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 2d

I know it won’t make a diff right now, but man what an absolute loser Kash Patel is

mr pussy @mrpussy.xyz · 3d

>not a veteran
>wall full of challenge coins

Kash Patel wearing the corniest Christmas camo punisher skull sweatshirt with his own podcast advertised on the sleeve, wearing his own merch hat too and another behind him, in front of an American flag challenge coin holder that also contains stickers for his podcast

buster bluth in fatigues with arms full of stuffed animals. "these are my awards, mother. from army."

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 2d

Ramadan lost his account here but he’s taking care of his family since his father died and needs help

Donate to I am a human being and I love life, organized by Khaled Alqrinawi

I am Ramadan, I live in northern Gaza with my mother and my five siblings. We all… Khaled Alqrinawi needs your support for I am a human being and I love life

www.gofundme.com

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 3d

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Hadeel. Before the war Hadeel’s husband was a fisherman and they tried for 11 years before they had their first child Hani who is 10 now they also have a daughter Dana, 6 and little Adam who is just 2. They’re displaced and struggling.

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BDS movement @bdsmovement.bsky.social · 2d

Boycott, Divest, Sanction: A ceasefire today will not stop Israel’s genocide against Palestinians, only meaningful accountability will.

Our work is not done!

Read more: loom.ly/TsJOHwo

Boycott, Divest, Sanction: A ceasefire today will not stop Israel’s genocide against Palestinians, only meaningful accountability will.

Our work is not done! The BDS movement calls on our millions of supporters worldwide to escalate pressure to end Israel’s genocide and its decades-old regime of settler-colonialism, apartheid, and ill...

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