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History is a really good teacher.
If we pay attention to her, she reminds us that populations don't become monstrous overnight, that nations don't abandon humanity in a single moment.
Collective sickness usually follows a pattern and we’re seeing it now.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/fascism-is...
If we pay attention to her, she reminds us that populations don't become monstrous overnight, that nations don't abandon humanity in a single moment.
Collective sickness usually follows a pattern and we’re seeing it now.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/fascism-is...
Fascism Isn't Coming To America, It's Here. Do Americans Have the Strength to Drive it Out?
Fascism isn’t coming to America, it’s already here.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com
March 15, 2025 at 11:15 PM
History is a really good teacher.
If we pay attention to her, she reminds us that populations don't become monstrous overnight, that nations don't abandon humanity in a single moment.
Collective sickness usually follows a pattern and we’re seeing it now.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/fascism-is...
If we pay attention to her, she reminds us that populations don't become monstrous overnight, that nations don't abandon humanity in a single moment.
Collective sickness usually follows a pattern and we’re seeing it now.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/fascism-is...
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From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University.
www.chronicle.com/article/were...
www.chronicle.com/article/were...
March 15, 2025 at 7:17 PM
From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University.
www.chronicle.com/article/were...
www.chronicle.com/article/were...
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Donald Trump is lying to you.
March 5, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Donald Trump is lying to you.
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If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general.
If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.
If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.
February 17, 2025 at 2:17 PM
If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general.
If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.
If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.
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If you're attending a protest, make sure to save this post or the graphics in the thread.
Knowing your rights, staying safe, & protecting others is essential.
Be prepared, look out for each other, and keep fighting for what’s right.
Stay safe out there!
Credit meganthuy & blmlouisville IG
If you're attending a protest, make sure to save this post or the graphics in the thread.
Knowing your rights, staying safe, & protecting others is essential.
Be prepared, look out for each other, and keep fighting for what’s right.
Stay safe out there!
Credit meganthuy & blmlouisville IG
February 16, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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If you're attending a protest, make sure to save this post or the graphics in the thread.
Knowing your rights, staying safe, & protecting others is essential.
Be prepared, look out for each other, and keep fighting for what’s right.
Stay safe out there!
Credit meganthuy & blmlouisville IG
If you're attending a protest, make sure to save this post or the graphics in the thread.
Knowing your rights, staying safe, & protecting others is essential.
Be prepared, look out for each other, and keep fighting for what’s right.
Stay safe out there!
Credit meganthuy & blmlouisville IG
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Fact check: nearly 70 percent of US money for Ukraine actually went to US defense industry to replenish the stocks of OLD stuff that went to Ukraine to use.
Much of which we would have paid to destroy as their lifespan expired.
Much of which we would have paid to destroy as their lifespan expired.
February 16, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Fact check: nearly 70 percent of US money for Ukraine actually went to US defense industry to replenish the stocks of OLD stuff that went to Ukraine to use.
Much of which we would have paid to destroy as their lifespan expired.
Much of which we would have paid to destroy as their lifespan expired.
And so the anti-vax campaign begins. The flu vaccine saves countless lives every year. That is a fact. They want to harm us.
On Friday night, HHS ordered CDC to take down all flu vaccine campaign materials from its website. Materials are starting to come down.
For example, a campaign explaining that flu shot can reduce flu severity from "wild to mild" is now offline. Left image is from Friday, right is now
Meanwhile...
For example, a campaign explaining that flu shot can reduce flu severity from "wild to mild" is now offline. Left image is from Friday, right is now
Meanwhile...
February 16, 2025 at 7:15 PM
And so the anti-vax campaign begins. The flu vaccine saves countless lives every year. That is a fact. They want to harm us.
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A lot of us feel like we've been in a horrifying wreck. Shocked, hurt, facing loss. In fact, we've been deliberately hit.
Read @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social's explanation of what the PsychoPOTUS & Musk are doing to us, how and why.
A short 🧵.
lucid.substack.com/p/out-of-cha...
Read @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social's explanation of what the PsychoPOTUS & Musk are doing to us, how and why.
A short 🧵.
lucid.substack.com/p/out-of-cha...
Out of Chaos and Corruption, a Revelation and a Reckoning
Welcome back to Lucid
lucid.substack.com
February 15, 2025 at 11:23 PM
A lot of us feel like we've been in a horrifying wreck. Shocked, hurt, facing loss. In fact, we've been deliberately hit.
Read @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social's explanation of what the PsychoPOTUS & Musk are doing to us, how and why.
A short 🧵.
lucid.substack.com/p/out-of-cha...
Read @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social's explanation of what the PsychoPOTUS & Musk are doing to us, how and why.
A short 🧵.
lucid.substack.com/p/out-of-cha...
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/do...
Don't cut NPR and PBS funding!
Millions of Americans rely on public media for their news and educational programming. In many rural areas in our country, public broadcasting is their main avenue for receiving news, emer...
sign.moveon.org
February 15, 2025 at 2:13 PM
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/do...
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In a reckless move that could put countless Americans at risk, CDC cuts are expected to devastate the Epidemic Intelligence Service, a ‘crown jewel’ of public health EIS officers tasked with investigating disease outbreaks and health threats in the U.S. and abroad.
CDC cuts expected to devastate Epidemic Intelligence Service, a ‘crown jewel’ of public health
Members of the CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service were warned Friday that many of them were about to be fired
www.statnews.com
February 15, 2025 at 2:23 AM
In a reckless move that could put countless Americans at risk, CDC cuts are expected to devastate the Epidemic Intelligence Service, a ‘crown jewel’ of public health EIS officers tasked with investigating disease outbreaks and health threats in the U.S. and abroad.
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American medical association is doing daily updates on their YouTube channel,since our govetment seems to be silent about it.
Please share...
Please share...
February 12, 2025 at 6:57 PM
American medical association is doing daily updates on their YouTube channel,since our govetment seems to be silent about it.
Please share...
Please share...
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Thank goodness for the American Medical Association. Here is their YouTube page. Please share far and wide. Right now bird flu is spreading throughout our country and most people have no clue. Please stay updated and bookmark this page for your health and well-being.
www.youtube.com/@americanmed...
www.youtube.com/@americanmed...
February 12, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Thank goodness for the American Medical Association. Here is their YouTube page. Please share far and wide. Right now bird flu is spreading throughout our country and most people have no clue. Please stay updated and bookmark this page for your health and well-being.
www.youtube.com/@americanmed...
www.youtube.com/@americanmed...
This is a public health catastrophe. And Mitch - you are responsible for ALL that has come to pass. Your votes now are nothing burgers, you traitorous, power hungry, soulless F! There will be a big picture of you in the history books as the chief enabler of fascism setting root in America.
Breaking News: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a vaccine skeptic, was confirmed as health secretary. Mitch McConnell, a polio survivor, was the lone Republican opposed. nyti.ms/3EDJeE0
February 13, 2025 at 4:54 PM
This is a public health catastrophe. And Mitch - you are responsible for ALL that has come to pass. Your votes now are nothing burgers, you traitorous, power hungry, soulless F! There will be a big picture of you in the history books as the chief enabler of fascism setting root in America.
Forcibly removing people from their homeland - very “majestic”. What utter monsters they all are.
Leavitt: "The president feels it would be much better and more majestic if these Palestinians could be moved to safer areas."
February 12, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Forcibly removing people from their homeland - very “majestic”. What utter monsters they all are.
Horrifying. NOT my country.
www.aol.com/treated-crim...
www.aol.com/treated-crim...
‘Treated like criminals’: Shackling of Indians aboard 40-hour migrant flight sparks new outrage against Trump
US officials kept around 100 deported Indian migrants in shackles for their 40-hour flight home, including during bathroom breaks, in the latest incident to spark anger overseas at President Donald Tr...
www.aol.com
February 7, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Horrifying. NOT my country.
www.aol.com/treated-crim...
www.aol.com/treated-crim...
This is corrupt, shameful and an utter embarrassment for the US. We should be leaders on global health initiatives. Instead we are actually causing harm.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...
Dozens of Clinical Trials Have Been Frozen in Response to Trump’s USAID Order
The stop-work order on U.S.A.I.D.-funded research has left thousands of people with experimental drugs and devices in their bodies, with no access to monitoring or care.
www.nytimes.com
February 6, 2025 at 8:17 PM
This is corrupt, shameful and an utter embarrassment for the US. We should be leaders on global health initiatives. Instead we are actually causing harm.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...
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Officials involved in Jan. 6 prosecutions say the Trump administration isn't protecting them from threats. "We don't think they'll care — unless and until one of us gets killed," an official told NPR.
FBI agents, prosecutors fear retribution from Jan. 6 rioters pardoned by Trump
Officials involved in Jan. 6 prosecutions say the Trump administration isn't protecting them from threats. "We don't think they'll care — unless and until one of us gets killed," an official told NPR.
www.npr.org
February 6, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Officials involved in Jan. 6 prosecutions say the Trump administration isn't protecting them from threats. "We don't think they'll care — unless and until one of us gets killed," an official told NPR.
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ICE is manipulating search engines to generate panic over raids, many of which were held years ago. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
US immigration is gaming Google to create a mirage of mass deportations
Thousands of press releases about decade-old enforcement actions topped search results, all updated with a timestamp from after Trump’s inauguration
www.theguardian.com
February 6, 2025 at 1:49 PM
ICE is manipulating search engines to generate panic over raids, many of which were held years ago. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Three of Trump’s most controversial nominees were on Capitol Hill yesterday, and their hearings were anything but smooth. But will that be enough to derail any of them? Maaaaaybe. open.substack.com/pub/statusku...
The Three Stooges
RFK Jr., Kash Patel and Tulsi Gabbard were in the hot seat this week as votes on their confirmations loom.
open.substack.com
January 31, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Three of Trump’s most controversial nominees were on Capitol Hill yesterday, and their hearings were anything but smooth. But will that be enough to derail any of them? Maaaaaybe. open.substack.com/pub/statusku...
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It’s a very common question these days in light of all these attacks upon our Republic: Is somebody doing something?! The good news is, they are. I break it down and discuss the four kinds of responses that are happening today. Link in the replies.
February 3, 2025 at 6:50 PM
It’s a very common question these days in light of all these attacks upon our Republic: Is somebody doing something?! The good news is, they are. I break it down and discuss the four kinds of responses that are happening today. Link in the replies.
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Fighting for justice doesn’t have to be a big dramatic act. It can be small | Rebecca Solnit
Fighting for justice doesn’t have to be a big dramatic act. It can be small | Rebecca Solnit
But it’s important to not limit our sense of what resistance looks like
All those lists and instructions and editorials on how to resist authoritarianism and stand up for human rights, the rule of law and climate are good, and I both wholly support them…
www.theguardian.com
February 2, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Fighting for justice doesn’t have to be a big dramatic act. It can be small | Rebecca Solnit
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These are the dems that voted to confirm the guy that just handed the Treasury to Musk:
Blunt Rochester
Booker
Cantwell
Coons
Fetterman
Gallego
Gillibrand
Hassan
Hickenlooper
Kaine
Kelly
King (Independent)
Peters
Shaheen
Slotkin
Warner
Blunt Rochester
Booker
Cantwell
Coons
Fetterman
Gallego
Gillibrand
Hassan
Hickenlooper
Kaine
Kelly
King (Independent)
Peters
Shaheen
Slotkin
Warner
February 2, 2025 at 1:51 AM
These are the dems that voted to confirm the guy that just handed the Treasury to Musk:
Blunt Rochester
Booker
Cantwell
Coons
Fetterman
Gallego
Gillibrand
Hassan
Hickenlooper
Kaine
Kelly
King (Independent)
Peters
Shaheen
Slotkin
Warner
Blunt Rochester
Booker
Cantwell
Coons
Fetterman
Gallego
Gillibrand
Hassan
Hickenlooper
Kaine
Kelly
King (Independent)
Peters
Shaheen
Slotkin
Warner
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“Many of those interviewed broke down in tears as they described the rapid destruction of decades of work.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/h...
Health Programs Shutter Around the World After Trump Pauses Foreign Aid
www.nytimes.com
February 1, 2025 at 11:33 PM
“Many of those interviewed broke down in tears as they described the rapid destruction of decades of work.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/h...
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This amounts to the most significant data leak in cyber history. Private individuals in the data business now have access to your Social Security information.
This violates privacy laws in every state. Hopefully, state AGs will file suit & pursue criminal charges.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...
This violates privacy laws in every state. Hopefully, state AGs will file suit & pursue criminal charges.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...
Elon Musk’s Team Now Has Full Access to Treasury’s Payments System
www.nytimes.com
February 1, 2025 at 11:45 PM
This amounts to the most significant data leak in cyber history. Private individuals in the data business now have access to your Social Security information.
This violates privacy laws in every state. Hopefully, state AGs will file suit & pursue criminal charges.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...
This violates privacy laws in every state. Hopefully, state AGs will file suit & pursue criminal charges.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...