Sandy Laping
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Sandy Laping
@sandylaping.bsky.social
· Oct 26
The Trump Action Tracker has an update!
Main change is to break down the five authoritarian domains into ten - this allows for easier understanding of why actions have been logged and more tools for searching / filtering the now 1621 actions.
www.trumpactiontracker.info?
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Main change is to break down the five authoritarian domains into ten - this allows for easier understanding of why actions have been logged and more tools for searching / filtering the now 1621 actions.
www.trumpactiontracker.info?
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Check out the updated Trump Action Tracker with more domains and greater functionality to help make sense of what's happening in the US.
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1/ #RSV immunizations are keeping lots of babies out of the hospital. 👇
This is a collaboration with Data for Health @drjenndowd.bsky.social , Those Nerdy Girls & the Dartmouth International Vaccine Initiative (sites.dartmouth.edu/divi/).
@lindsleininger.bsky.social
This is a collaboration with Data for Health @drjenndowd.bsky.social , Those Nerdy Girls & the Dartmouth International Vaccine Initiative (sites.dartmouth.edu/divi/).
@lindsleininger.bsky.social
RSV immunizations are keeping lots of babies out of the hospital
Some good news for parents and for tiny lungs
jenndowd.substack.com
February 6, 2026 at 1:58 PM
1/ #RSV immunizations are keeping lots of babies out of the hospital. 👇
This is a collaboration with Data for Health @drjenndowd.bsky.social , Those Nerdy Girls & the Dartmouth International Vaccine Initiative (sites.dartmouth.edu/divi/).
@lindsleininger.bsky.social
This is a collaboration with Data for Health @drjenndowd.bsky.social , Those Nerdy Girls & the Dartmouth International Vaccine Initiative (sites.dartmouth.edu/divi/).
@lindsleininger.bsky.social
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6 things about ICE that have flown under the radar
YouTube video by Professor Christina Pagel
youtube.com
February 6, 2026 at 6:30 PM
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Q: Why are people sharing their pronouns?
A: Using correct names and gender pronouns can make a significant difference in someone’s life.
@emkayhey.bsky.social @sandylaping.bsky.social
thosenerdygirls.org/sharing-pron...
A: Using correct names and gender pronouns can make a significant difference in someone’s life.
@emkayhey.bsky.social @sandylaping.bsky.social
thosenerdygirls.org/sharing-pron...
Q: Why are people sharing their pronouns?
Q: Why are people sharing their pronouns? A: Using correct names and gender pronouns can make a significant difference in someone’s life. Pronouns are the
thosenerdygirls.org
February 5, 2026 at 2:49 PM
Q: Why are people sharing their pronouns?
A: Using correct names and gender pronouns can make a significant difference in someone’s life.
@emkayhey.bsky.social @sandylaping.bsky.social
thosenerdygirls.org/sharing-pron...
A: Using correct names and gender pronouns can make a significant difference in someone’s life.
@emkayhey.bsky.social @sandylaping.bsky.social
thosenerdygirls.org/sharing-pron...
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We deserve to live until we are old.
substack.com/home/post/p-... #publichealth #demography #epidemiology #healthpolicy
substack.com/home/post/p-... #publichealth #demography #epidemiology #healthpolicy
Live Free and Die: US Life Expectancy Has a Problem (But It's Not Seed Oils)
We deserve to live until we are old
substack.com
January 29, 2026 at 9:58 PM
We deserve to live until we are old.
substack.com/home/post/p-... #publichealth #demography #epidemiology #healthpolicy
substack.com/home/post/p-... #publichealth #demography #epidemiology #healthpolicy
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Beyond Minnesota - four other ways the Trump administration has furthered its far-right agenda in the last few weeks
youtube.com/shorts/HL3X7...
youtube.com/shorts/HL3X7...
Beyond Minnesota - 4 other ways the Trump administration promoted its far-right nationalist agenda
YouTube video by Professor Christina Pagel
youtube.com
January 30, 2026 at 5:24 PM
Beyond Minnesota - four other ways the Trump administration has furthered its far-right agenda in the last few weeks
youtube.com/shorts/HL3X7...
youtube.com/shorts/HL3X7...
Today the UK lost its measles elimination status.
If enough folks are vaccinated, it can also protect those who are vulnerable and/or can't get the vaccine. Here is a post about community immunity I wrote for @thosenerdygirls.bsky.social about last year.
thosenerdygirls.org/vaccination-...
If enough folks are vaccinated, it can also protect those who are vulnerable and/or can't get the vaccine. Here is a post about community immunity I wrote for @thosenerdygirls.bsky.social about last year.
thosenerdygirls.org/vaccination-...
What do vaccination and umbrellas have in common?
Community immunity (aka “herd immunity”) is a really important factor in preventing the spread of infectious diseases… and just like an umbrella can
thosenerdygirls.org
January 26, 2026 at 6:28 PM
Today the UK lost its measles elimination status.
If enough folks are vaccinated, it can also protect those who are vulnerable and/or can't get the vaccine. Here is a post about community immunity I wrote for @thosenerdygirls.bsky.social about last year.
thosenerdygirls.org/vaccination-...
If enough folks are vaccinated, it can also protect those who are vulnerable and/or can't get the vaccine. Here is a post about community immunity I wrote for @thosenerdygirls.bsky.social about last year.
thosenerdygirls.org/vaccination-...
The UK has lost its measles elimination status - this is terrible news.
Not good.
WHO meeting notes that the UK has lost its measles elimination status.
www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/n...
WHO meeting notes that the UK has lost its measles elimination status.
www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/n...
Rapid Reaction: UK loses measles elimination status | LSHTM
The World Health Organization (WHO) announced today (26 January 2026) that the UK has lost its measles elimination status.The decision is based on data showing 2,911 laboratory confirmed measles cases
www.lshtm.ac.uk
January 26, 2026 at 6:15 PM
The UK has lost its measles elimination status - this is terrible news.
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Please please vaccinate your child against measles.
This is from our @independentsage.bsky.social report from last year, led by @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social & @helensalisbury.bsky.social
independentsage.org/wp-content/u...
This is from our @independentsage.bsky.social report from last year, led by @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social & @helensalisbury.bsky.social
independentsage.org/wp-content/u...
January 26, 2026 at 5:55 PM
Please please vaccinate your child against measles.
This is from our @independentsage.bsky.social report from last year, led by @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social & @helensalisbury.bsky.social
independentsage.org/wp-content/u...
This is from our @independentsage.bsky.social report from last year, led by @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social & @helensalisbury.bsky.social
independentsage.org/wp-content/u...
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The killings in Minneapolis didn’t come out of nowhere.
Funding, legal cover, weakened oversight, and dehumanising rhetoric ramping up over a year. This started on 20 Jan 2025 with Trump's executive orders on immigration.
I lay it out in my latest post.
christinapagel.substack.com/p/the-ice-st...
Funding, legal cover, weakened oversight, and dehumanising rhetoric ramping up over a year. This started on 20 Jan 2025 with Trump's executive orders on immigration.
I lay it out in my latest post.
christinapagel.substack.com/p/the-ice-st...
The ICE Storm: a year-long escalation
Funding, law, rhetoric, violence. How each has fed the other to lead here
christinapagel.substack.com
January 26, 2026 at 11:39 AM
The killings in Minneapolis didn’t come out of nowhere.
Funding, legal cover, weakened oversight, and dehumanising rhetoric ramping up over a year. This started on 20 Jan 2025 with Trump's executive orders on immigration.
I lay it out in my latest post.
christinapagel.substack.com/p/the-ice-st...
Funding, legal cover, weakened oversight, and dehumanising rhetoric ramping up over a year. This started on 20 Jan 2025 with Trump's executive orders on immigration.
I lay it out in my latest post.
christinapagel.substack.com/p/the-ice-st...
This is a great new way of keeping up to date with authoritarian actions in the US ⬇️⬇️
🗞️ Some news!
The Trump Action Tracker now has a bot that automatically posts new actions to Bluesky, along with link to news story & authoritarian categories.
Follow to stay up to date! We are adding about 10 actions a day at the moment 😢
bsky.app/profile/trum...
The Trump Action Tracker now has a bot that automatically posts new actions to Bluesky, along with link to news story & authoritarian categories.
Follow to stay up to date! We are adding about 10 actions a day at the moment 😢
bsky.app/profile/trum...
January 26, 2026 at 9:17 AM
This is a great new way of keeping up to date with authoritarian actions in the US ⬇️⬇️
Don’t buy the lies - Bovino has nothing
Dana Bash grills Bovino to provide any evidence that Alex Pretti "assaulted law enforcement" and Bovino has absolutely nothing
January 25, 2026 at 2:35 PM
Don’t buy the lies - Bovino has nothing
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Worth remembering when looking at the horrific scenes in the US right now that both Reform and the Tories have pledged to bring in ICE-style organisations to the UK if they win power
January 24, 2026 at 10:33 PM
Worth remembering when looking at the horrific scenes in the US right now that both Reform and the Tories have pledged to bring in ICE-style organisations to the UK if they win power
Please share widely
This statement from an eyewitness to the Minnesota murder of Mr. Pretti is gut wrenching, from beginning to end. Please disseminate it as you see fit.
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
TincherSealedWitnessDec012426.PDF
www.documentcloud.org
January 25, 2026 at 11:48 AM
Please share widely
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Man kann Sport und Politik nicht trennen. Das Private ist politisch. #WMBoykottjetzt
Ein Land, das öffentlich Menschen hinrichtet, kann keine Fußball-WM ausrichten. #WMBoykottjetzt
www.zdfheute.de/panorama/deu...
www.zdfheute.de/panorama/deu...
WM-Boykott? Das Bild von den USA wandelt sich
In einer Hamburger Fußballkneipe ist WM-Boykott Thema. In Grönland in der Gemeinde Sommerland in Schleswig-Holstein herrscht Trump-Misstrauen.
www.zdfheute.de
January 25, 2026 at 11:34 AM
Man kann Sport und Politik nicht trennen. Das Private ist politisch. #WMBoykottjetzt
This ⬇️⬇️
The story is not that there are two conflicting versions of what happened.
The story is that the federal government is lying about what happened.
There is plenty of evidence.
Your job, our job, is to sift that evidence and describe what actually happened ffs.
The story is that the federal government is lying about what happened.
There is plenty of evidence.
Your job, our job, is to sift that evidence and describe what actually happened ffs.
January 25, 2026 at 11:35 AM
This ⬇️⬇️
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This just highlights how important the video testimony is of the brave Minnesotan civilians observing. It is crucial resistance - without those videos we'd be even more lost.
The BBC coverage is absolutely terrible.
It leads on "sharply contested narratives"
It has a dramatic skew to the US government
It has posted the video but has failed to report on what it shows: it shows the US govt account is untrue
It leads on "sharply contested narratives"
It has a dramatic skew to the US government
It has posted the video but has failed to report on what it shows: it shows the US govt account is untrue
January 24, 2026 at 11:47 PM
This just highlights how important the video testimony is of the brave Minnesotan civilians observing. It is crucial resistance - without those videos we'd be even more lost.
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The shooting of Alex Pretti was (US) state sanctioned murder and has been followed up by attempts to destroy evidence and stop local police (and even the FBI) from investigating.
Minnesota police are trying to counter the lies and illegality.
Terrifying
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
Minnesota police are trying to counter the lies and illegality.
Terrifying
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
open.substack.com
January 25, 2026 at 8:46 AM
The shooting of Alex Pretti was (US) state sanctioned murder and has been followed up by attempts to destroy evidence and stop local police (and even the FBI) from investigating.
Minnesota police are trying to counter the lies and illegality.
Terrifying
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
Minnesota police are trying to counter the lies and illegality.
Terrifying
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
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Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.
White. Hot. Rage.
White. Hot. Rage.
January 24, 2026 at 7:31 PM
Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.
White. Hot. Rage.
White. Hot. Rage.
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Footage taken moments before a struggle shows that the man was filming, holding a phone in his right hand, backing up. His left hand is up, visible, palm facing out, as he backs away from the area. An agent uses his right hand, on the torso of the victim, pushing him back, while the man complies.
January 24, 2026 at 7:01 PM
Footage taken moments before a struggle shows that the man was filming, holding a phone in his right hand, backing up. His left hand is up, visible, palm facing out, as he backs away from the area. An agent uses his right hand, on the torso of the victim, pushing him back, while the man complies.
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ANOTHER ANGLE. This man was NOT brandishing a firearm. He was holding his phone. He then put his body between ICE thugs and woman. He was then sprayed with a chemical agent, tackled, disarmed, and executed. Plain as day. DO NOT let them tell you otherwise.
January 24, 2026 at 7:39 PM
ANOTHER ANGLE. This man was NOT brandishing a firearm. He was holding his phone. He then put his body between ICE thugs and woman. He was then sprayed with a chemical agent, tackled, disarmed, and executed. Plain as day. DO NOT let them tell you otherwise.
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Frey: "I'm done being told our community members are responsible for the vitriol in our streets ... the invasion of these heavily armed masked agents roaming around on our streets of Minneapolis, emboldened with a sense of impunity, it has to end"
January 24, 2026 at 6:03 PM
Frey: "I'm done being told our community members are responsible for the vitriol in our streets ... the invasion of these heavily armed masked agents roaming around on our streets of Minneapolis, emboldened with a sense of impunity, it has to end"
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Who in their right mind believes statements from the Department of Homeland Security?
Who believes anything Kristi Noem or Stephen Miller or Trump might say about what has just happened in Minneapolis?
They no longer have any credibility. That should be clear by now.
They lie like they breathe.
Who believes anything Kristi Noem or Stephen Miller or Trump might say about what has just happened in Minneapolis?
They no longer have any credibility. That should be clear by now.
They lie like they breathe.
January 24, 2026 at 7:40 PM
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Sayre: "My background is in international humanitarian response in conflict zones in Yemen, Haiti, Syria, Iraq, and Ukraine. What I've seen here is what I've seen there. A powerful entity violently and intentionally terrorizing people."
January 24, 2026 at 6:06 PM
Sayre: "My background is in international humanitarian response in conflict zones in Yemen, Haiti, Syria, Iraq, and Ukraine. What I've seen here is what I've seen there. A powerful entity violently and intentionally terrorizing people."
there is so much happening in the US right now, including the killing of a 2nd person by ICE in MN today.. and much is flying under the radar.. we will continue to capture the authoritarian actions of the US administration. Looking away is not an option.
www.trumpactiontracker.info?start=2025-0...
www.trumpactiontracker.info?start=2025-0...
January 24, 2026 at 6:31 PM
there is so much happening in the US right now, including the killing of a 2nd person by ICE in MN today.. and much is flying under the radar.. we will continue to capture the authoritarian actions of the US administration. Looking away is not an option.
www.trumpactiontracker.info?start=2025-0...
www.trumpactiontracker.info?start=2025-0...