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This @propublica.org piece from April, about Trump's attack on all the measurements that matter, feels particularly relevant today.
Trump’s War on Measurement Means Losing Data on Drug Use, Maternal Mortality, Climate Change and More
By slashing teams that gather critical data, the administration has left the federal government with no way of understanding if policies are working — and created a black hole of information whose con...
www.propublica.org
August 1, 2025 at 8:22 PM
This @propublica.org piece from April, about Trump's attack on all the measurements that matter, feels particularly relevant today.
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“It was a nightmare.”
“(The guards) tortured us physically and psychologically.”
“We were like chickens or rats locked up … and they shot us with rubber bullets.”
Words from Venezuelan migrants sent to a prison in El Salvador.
Unimaginable cruelty. www.cnn.com/2025/07/23/a...
“(The guards) tortured us physically and psychologically.”
“We were like chickens or rats locked up … and they shot us with rubber bullets.”
Words from Venezuelan migrants sent to a prison in El Salvador.
Unimaginable cruelty. www.cnn.com/2025/07/23/a...
‘It was a nightmare’: Venezuelans deported from US describe conditions in Salvadoran prison | CNN
For months, they say, they were beaten by prison guards, shot with pellets, deprived of adequate medical care and denied any due process inside El Salvador’s Center for Terrorism Confinement.
www.cnn.com
July 25, 2025 at 3:52 PM
“It was a nightmare.”
“(The guards) tortured us physically and psychologically.”
“We were like chickens or rats locked up … and they shot us with rubber bullets.”
Words from Venezuelan migrants sent to a prison in El Salvador.
Unimaginable cruelty. www.cnn.com/2025/07/23/a...
“(The guards) tortured us physically and psychologically.”
“We were like chickens or rats locked up … and they shot us with rubber bullets.”
Words from Venezuelan migrants sent to a prison in El Salvador.
Unimaginable cruelty. www.cnn.com/2025/07/23/a...
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The FCC had major concerns about the Paramount/Skydance merger and they all went away once Paramount pulled Donald Trump’s biggest critic off the air.
Colbert is fired and immediately the merger is approved.
These people don’t hide the corruption. They celebrate it.
Colbert is fired and immediately the merger is approved.
These people don’t hide the corruption. They celebrate it.
July 25, 2025 at 4:48 PM
The FCC had major concerns about the Paramount/Skydance merger and they all went away once Paramount pulled Donald Trump’s biggest critic off the air.
Colbert is fired and immediately the merger is approved.
These people don’t hide the corruption. They celebrate it.
Colbert is fired and immediately the merger is approved.
These people don’t hide the corruption. They celebrate it.
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Speak up for what you love. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
How the National Parks Service is struggling with drastic funding and staffing cuts
Summer is the height of the visitor season for the National Park Service. Last year, nearly 332 million people visited NPS sites, a record that is likely to be broken this year. That surge in visitors...
www.pbs.org
July 24, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Speak up for what you love. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
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My guess is all of these (1) poll 90/10 against the cuts, and (2) a good half third of the nation or more, perhaps well over 50%, and >75% of Trump supporters, just won't believe it's happening no matter what.
Summary Table of the massive defunding of biomedical research in the United States
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
July 6, 2025 at 10:30 PM
My guess is all of these (1) poll 90/10 against the cuts, and (2) a good half third of the nation or more, perhaps well over 50%, and >75% of Trump supporters, just won't believe it's happening no matter what.
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‘They’re skin and bones’: doctors in Gaza warn babies at risk of death from lack of formula
‘They’re skin and bones’: doctors in Gaza warn babies at risk of death from lack of formula
Doctors say Israel is blocking deliveries of formula urgently needed as mothers are either dead or too malnourished to feed their babies
Doctors in Gaza have warned that hundreds of babies are at risk of death amid a critical shortage of baby milk, as Israel continues to restrict the humanitarian aid that can enter the beleaguered strip.
Dr Ahmad al-Farra, the head of paediatrics at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, said his ward had only about a week’s worth of infant formula remaining. The doctor has already run out of specialised formula meant for premature babies and is forced to use regular formula, rationing it between the infants under his care. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
July 5, 2025 at 7:23 AM
‘They’re skin and bones’: doctors in Gaza warn babies at risk of death from lack of formula
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If there’s nothing to hide, why hide everything?
Five Democratic state legislators were denied entry to Florida’s new immigration “detention center” deep in the Everglades known as “Alligator Alcatraz.”
Five Democratic state legislators were denied entry to Florida’s new immigration “detention center” deep in the Everglades known as “Alligator Alcatraz.”
July 5, 2025 at 11:53 AM
If there’s nothing to hide, why hide everything?
Five Democratic state legislators were denied entry to Florida’s new immigration “detention center” deep in the Everglades known as “Alligator Alcatraz.”
Five Democratic state legislators were denied entry to Florida’s new immigration “detention center” deep in the Everglades known as “Alligator Alcatraz.”
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I wrote about how the Everglades experiment fits into the history of concentration camps in the US and abroad, and how it will connect a domestic network of camps to an international one. We’re watching the imposition of a global concentration camp network.
Opinion | Don’t call it ‘Alligator Alcatraz.’ Call it a concentration camp.
This facility’s purpose fits the classic model, and its existence points to serious dangers ahead for the country.
www.msnbc.com
July 5, 2025 at 12:43 PM
I wrote about how the Everglades experiment fits into the history of concentration camps in the US and abroad, and how it will connect a domestic network of camps to an international one. We’re watching the imposition of a global concentration camp network.
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Because they have not studied or worked in authoritarian bureaucracy, most liberal reporters and pundits are significantly underplaying the catastrophic consequences of 100,000s more ICE agents and private contractors. Their failure to explain these provisions of the new budget is inexcusable.
July 5, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Because they have not studied or worked in authoritarian bureaucracy, most liberal reporters and pundits are significantly underplaying the catastrophic consequences of 100,000s more ICE agents and private contractors. Their failure to explain these provisions of the new budget is inexcusable.
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The newly established “Make America Beautiful Again Commission,” created under a Trump executive order, may sound harmless, or even beneficial, but beneath the surface, it represents a major threat to public lands.
July 5, 2025 at 6:27 PM
The newly established “Make America Beautiful Again Commission,” created under a Trump executive order, may sound harmless, or even beneficial, but beneath the surface, it represents a major threat to public lands.
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This is a brilliant thread of contextualization of this moment and what's praiseworthy about it amidst the atrocities.
I know we don't feel like there's much to celebrate this July 4th. It's been a rough several years.
So I want to talk about how we're making history right now.
So I want to talk about how we're making history right now.
July 5, 2025 at 7:22 PM
This is a brilliant thread of contextualization of this moment and what's praiseworthy about it amidst the atrocities.
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Donald Trump gives people permission to be their worst selves. His politics are not just representative, they are generative. His words seep into people’s souls and slowly corrode whatever potential for human decency ever resided there.
Floridians are taking pictures of themselves next to the sign for their new death camp
As I've said before, giving this concentration camp a cutesy name is reprehensible
As I've said before, giving this concentration camp a cutesy name is reprehensible
July 5, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Donald Trump gives people permission to be their worst selves. His politics are not just representative, they are generative. His words seep into people’s souls and slowly corrode whatever potential for human decency ever resided there.
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"The press was meant to be a watchdog, the Fourth Estate. Instead, it’s become a concierge service for fascism—polishing propaganda with a patina of objectivity while our democracy burns."
Lessons from the US which we would do well to observe in Australia. #auspol
Lessons from the US which we would do well to observe in Australia. #auspol
The Big Ugly Bill passing today is devastating. But we didn’t get here on accident. One big part of the problem is staring us in the face: corporate media. The press was meant to be a watchdog—the Fourth Estate. Instead, it’s become a concierge service for fascism
www.qasimrashid.com/p/corporate-...
www.qasimrashid.com/p/corporate-...
Corporate Media Is Not Failing—It is Collaborating
As the fourth estate falls, here's what we must do to stay informed and empowered
www.qasimrashid.com
July 3, 2025 at 10:39 PM
"The press was meant to be a watchdog, the Fourth Estate. Instead, it’s become a concierge service for fascism—polishing propaganda with a patina of objectivity while our democracy burns."
Lessons from the US which we would do well to observe in Australia. #auspol
Lessons from the US which we would do well to observe in Australia. #auspol
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ICE now has 3x more funding than the United States Marine Corps. Our hard-earned taxpayer money. Over $170+ billion handed over, and for what?
To rip families apart. To instill fear. To dismantle the very virtues by which this country was built. To help the rich get richer.
To rip families apart. To instill fear. To dismantle the very virtues by which this country was built. To help the rich get richer.
July 3, 2025 at 9:43 PM
ICE now has 3x more funding than the United States Marine Corps. Our hard-earned taxpayer money. Over $170+ billion handed over, and for what?
To rip families apart. To instill fear. To dismantle the very virtues by which this country was built. To help the rich get richer.
To rip families apart. To instill fear. To dismantle the very virtues by which this country was built. To help the rich get richer.
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I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
July 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
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State and local governments are our next line of defense. Make sure yours are on the side of We The People. #resist
With ICE's *enormous* new budget and its ability to hire *many* more agents, the United States is about to enter an era of brutal domestic terrorism that we've never seen before.
July 3, 2025 at 11:57 PM
State and local governments are our next line of defense. Make sure yours are on the side of We The People. #resist
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Measles Update📈
There are 1,267 confirmed cases of #measles in the US.
That's 8 shy of the total in 2019, which had the highest number of cases since the disease was eliminated in 2000.
There were 285 cases in 2024. That's a 345%, of 4.45-fold increase this year. And we're only halfway through.
There are 1,267 confirmed cases of #measles in the US.
That's 8 shy of the total in 2019, which had the highest number of cases since the disease was eliminated in 2000.
There were 285 cases in 2024. That's a 345%, of 4.45-fold increase this year. And we're only halfway through.
July 4, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Measles Update📈
There are 1,267 confirmed cases of #measles in the US.
That's 8 shy of the total in 2019, which had the highest number of cases since the disease was eliminated in 2000.
There were 285 cases in 2024. That's a 345%, of 4.45-fold increase this year. And we're only halfway through.
There are 1,267 confirmed cases of #measles in the US.
That's 8 shy of the total in 2019, which had the highest number of cases since the disease was eliminated in 2000.
There were 285 cases in 2024. That's a 345%, of 4.45-fold increase this year. And we're only halfway through.
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This is wild in light of what republicans are about to do with all that money that’s going to ICE
www.latimes.com/delos/story/...
www.latimes.com/delos/story/...
July 4, 2025 at 1:02 AM
This is wild in light of what republicans are about to do with all that money that’s going to ICE
www.latimes.com/delos/story/...
www.latimes.com/delos/story/...
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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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That's insane. I mean everyone knows that's insane – right?
With this budget, ICE alone would have nearly as large a detention operation as all 50 states' prison systems combined. Bigger budget than the Marine Corps. Police-state levels of spending
If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029:
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
June 29, 2025 at 5:11 PM
That's insane. I mean everyone knows that's insane – right?
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Actually what Americans just saw today was a prominent Republican US Senator announce he is quitting because he knows this budget is going to hurt millions of people and he was repeatedly threatened by the president and his cult for telling the truth about it.
June 29, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Actually what Americans just saw today was a prominent Republican US Senator announce he is quitting because he knows this budget is going to hurt millions of people and he was repeatedly threatened by the president and his cult for telling the truth about it.
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Everything is a “redistribution of wealth” — the only question is which direction it’s heading in.
Stop letting them convince you the only valid direction is from the bottom to the top. They’ve been selling that snake oil for decades.
Stop letting them convince you the only valid direction is from the bottom to the top. They’ve been selling that snake oil for decades.
June 29, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Everything is a “redistribution of wealth” — the only question is which direction it’s heading in.
Stop letting them convince you the only valid direction is from the bottom to the top. They’ve been selling that snake oil for decades.
Stop letting them convince you the only valid direction is from the bottom to the top. They’ve been selling that snake oil for decades.
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By the numbers, Clarence Thomas has been treated to:
• At least 38 destination vacations;
• 26 private jet flights;
• 12 VIP passes to pro & college sporting events;
• 2 stays at luxury resorts;
• 1 standing invite to an uber-exclusive golf club
(Published 2023)
• At least 38 destination vacations;
• 26 private jet flights;
• 12 VIP passes to pro & college sporting events;
• 2 stays at luxury resorts;
• 1 standing invite to an uber-exclusive golf club
(Published 2023)
Clarence Thomas’ 38 Vacations: The Other Billionaires Who Have Treated the Supreme Court Justice to Luxury Travel
The fullest accounting yet shows how Thomas has secretly reaped the benefits from a network of wealthy and well-connected patrons that is far more extensive than previously understood.
www.propublica.org
June 30, 2025 at 3:00 AM
By the numbers, Clarence Thomas has been treated to:
• At least 38 destination vacations;
• 26 private jet flights;
• 12 VIP passes to pro & college sporting events;
• 2 stays at luxury resorts;
• 1 standing invite to an uber-exclusive golf club
(Published 2023)
• At least 38 destination vacations;
• 26 private jet flights;
• 12 VIP passes to pro & college sporting events;
• 2 stays at luxury resorts;
• 1 standing invite to an uber-exclusive golf club
(Published 2023)