Dana Gitell
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Speaking of health care — and the impact of NIH cuts — I just saw this @zeteo.com John Harwood column
The medical research that saved his life is very literally the kind of research Trump is wrecking
A must-read zeteo.com/p/trump-cut-...
The medical research that saved his life is very literally the kind of research Trump is wrecking
A must-read zeteo.com/p/trump-cut-...
Trump Wants to Cut the Kind of Cancer Research that Saved My Life
More than 600,000 Americans will die from cancer this year. Trump's cuts to medical and other scientific research will have devastating consequences for millions more.
zeteo.com
August 24, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Speaking of health care — and the impact of NIH cuts — I just saw this @zeteo.com John Harwood column
The medical research that saved his life is very literally the kind of research Trump is wrecking
A must-read zeteo.com/p/trump-cut-...
The medical research that saved his life is very literally the kind of research Trump is wrecking
A must-read zeteo.com/p/trump-cut-...
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The Trump administration has moved to end temporary protected status for immigrants from Honduras and other countries. Among them are health care workers tending to older and disabled people.
She's cared for America's elderly for decades. Trump wants her gone by Sept. 8
The Trump administration has moved to end temporary protected status for immigrants from Honduras and other countries. Among them are health care workers tending to older and disabled people.
n.pr
August 24, 2025 at 9:31 PM
The Trump administration has moved to end temporary protected status for immigrants from Honduras and other countries. Among them are health care workers tending to older and disabled people.
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Still waiting for someone of prominence to admit it was not about eggs.
Kamala Harris at her closing campaign rally:
"Donald Trump intends to use the United States Military against American citizens who simply disagree with him."
"Donald Trump intends to use the United States Military against American citizens who simply disagree with him."
August 25, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Still waiting for someone of prominence to admit it was not about eggs.
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After media reports & experts warned for months that drastic & sudden cuts at the Nat Weather Service by Trump could impair their forecasting ability & endanger lives during the storm season, TX officials blame an inaccurate forecast by NWS for the deadly results of the flood.
July 5, 2025 at 10:19 AM
After media reports & experts warned for months that drastic & sudden cuts at the Nat Weather Service by Trump could impair their forecasting ability & endanger lives during the storm season, TX officials blame an inaccurate forecast by NWS for the deadly results of the flood.
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Social media displaces TV as the top way Americans get news. www.niemanlab.org/2025/06/for-...
For the first time, social media overtakes TV as Americans’ top news source
Plus: The pivot to video is really happening, digital subscriptions may have peaked, and other findings from RISJ's 2025 Digital News Report.
www.niemanlab.org
June 16, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Social media displaces TV as the top way Americans get news. www.niemanlab.org/2025/06/for-...
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At least 20 senior Iranian commanders killed in Israeli attack on Iran, two sources say reut.rs/3SL6iEC
At least 20 senior Iranian commanders killed in Israeli attack on Iran, two sources say
At least 20 senior Iranian commanders including the head of the revolutionary guards, Aerospace Force Commander Amir Ali Hajizadeh, were killed in Israel's strikes on Iran on Friday, two regional sources told Reuters.
reut.rs
June 13, 2025 at 11:01 AM
At least 20 senior Iranian commanders killed in Israeli attack on Iran, two sources say reut.rs/3SL6iEC
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If this is how this administration responds to a Senator with a question, you can only imagine what they're doing to farmworkers, to cooks, and to day laborers throughout California and across the country.
We will hold this administration accountable.
We will hold this administration accountable.
June 12, 2025 at 10:19 PM
If this is how this administration responds to a Senator with a question, you can only imagine what they're doing to farmworkers, to cooks, and to day laborers throughout California and across the country.
We will hold this administration accountable.
We will hold this administration accountable.
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LINE-DANCING INVASION!!
The are line dancing in the middle of the protest while shouting Fuck ICE
June 8, 2025 at 11:43 PM
LINE-DANCING INVASION!!
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At 1:34 AM Trump called for DOJ to investigate Kamala Harris, Beyoncé, Springsteen, Oprah and others for crimes, he then made another deranged post about it at 9:11 AM, and the lead story of the day on MSNBC and CNN continues to be Joe Biden in 2023.
May 19, 2025 at 1:48 PM
At 1:34 AM Trump called for DOJ to investigate Kamala Harris, Beyoncé, Springsteen, Oprah and others for crimes, he then made another deranged post about it at 9:11 AM, and the lead story of the day on MSNBC and CNN continues to be Joe Biden in 2023.
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University of Michigan Regents come out squarely and publicly in defense of academic freedom against political coercion and the role of higher education and research in making America prosperous, secure ... and well ... maybe even Great? www.michigandaily.com/opinion/op-e...
In defense of our institutional independence
This University is a proud public university that belongs to all of us and generations to follow. It is a place to test ideas, shape futures and pursue, not prescribe, truth.
www.michigandaily.com
April 23, 2025 at 3:17 AM
University of Michigan Regents come out squarely and publicly in defense of academic freedom against political coercion and the role of higher education and research in making America prosperous, secure ... and well ... maybe even Great? www.michigandaily.com/opinion/op-e...
Framingham, MA - Rally for Democracy, April 19, 2025 #nokings #protest #resist #democracy @50501movement.bsky.social @maindivisible.bsky.social @indivisiblema5.bsky.social @indivisible.org
April 20, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Framingham, MA - Rally for Democracy, April 19, 2025 #nokings #protest #resist #democracy @50501movement.bsky.social @maindivisible.bsky.social @indivisiblema5.bsky.social @indivisible.org
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Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro says he hasn't heard from Trump since the arson attack
“After the assassination attempt on Trump in Butler, Pa., last summer, Shapiro quickly condemned the violence and worked with the Trump campaign on the investigation.”
www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
“After the assassination attempt on Trump in Butler, Pa., last summer, Shapiro quickly condemned the violence and worked with the Trump campaign on the investigation.”
www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro says he hasn't heard from Trump since the arson attack
After the assassination attempt on Trump in Butler, Pa., last summer, Shapiro quickly condemned the violence and worked with the Trump campaign on the investigation.
www.nbcnews.com
April 17, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro says he hasn't heard from Trump since the arson attack
“After the assassination attempt on Trump in Butler, Pa., last summer, Shapiro quickly condemned the violence and worked with the Trump campaign on the investigation.”
www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
“After the assassination attempt on Trump in Butler, Pa., last summer, Shapiro quickly condemned the violence and worked with the Trump campaign on the investigation.”
www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
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We’re all going to be described as terrorists once they get us in the camps
Bondi on Abrego Garcia: "This is an extremely disturbing case. Every American tonight should be thanking Donald Trump for making America safer by getting this guy out of our county. I'm going to call him a terrorist ... this illegal alien terrorist."
April 17, 2025 at 1:28 AM
We’re all going to be described as terrorists once they get us in the camps
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The data was being funneled to the Russians using Musk's Starlink uplift, just like data from other agencies. newrepublic.com/post/194012/...
DOGE Seems to Be Stealing Sensitive Labor Data, Whistlebower Says
Elon Musk’s DOGE minions appear to have stolen sensitive data—and then tried to hide their tracks.
newrepublic.com
April 16, 2025 at 3:18 AM
The data was being funneled to the Russians using Musk's Starlink uplift, just like data from other agencies. newrepublic.com/post/194012/...
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"Within minutes after DOGE accessed the NLRB's systems, someone with an IP address in Russia started trying to log in. The attempts were 'near real-time'...
"Whoever was attempting to log in was using one of the newly created DOGE accounts..."
www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
"Whoever was attempting to log in was using one of the newly created DOGE accounts..."
www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data
A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.
www.npr.org
April 15, 2025 at 6:32 PM
"Within minutes after DOGE accessed the NLRB's systems, someone with an IP address in Russia started trying to log in. The attempts were 'near real-time'...
"Whoever was attempting to log in was using one of the newly created DOGE accounts..."
www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
"Whoever was attempting to log in was using one of the newly created DOGE accounts..."
www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
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www.rawstory.com/doge-nationa... within minutes of DOGE personnel creating service/user accounts in NLRB systems – someone or something within Russia appeared to attempt to login using all of the correct credentials (eg. Usernames/Passwords) on several occasions,"
'This is very bad': Whistleblower reveals 'brazen' DOGE team looting sensitive labor data
A whistleblower has revealed that engineers with the Department of Government Efficiency had smuggled out highly sensitive data they had accessed from the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).The DOG...
www.rawstory.com
April 15, 2025 at 4:39 PM
www.rawstory.com/doge-nationa... within minutes of DOGE personnel creating service/user accounts in NLRB systems – someone or something within Russia appeared to attempt to login using all of the correct credentials (eg. Usernames/Passwords) on several occasions,"
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Musk’s DOGE goons looted the NLRB like state-sponsored hackers, exfiltrating union data, case files, and corporate secrets—then scrubbed the logs. Russia tried logging in with the stolen credentials. This isn’t efficiency; it’s espionage. Authoritarian rot now has root access to democracy.
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April 15, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Musk’s DOGE goons looted the NLRB like state-sponsored hackers, exfiltrating union data, case files, and corporate secrets—then scrubbed the logs. Russia tried logging in with the stolen credentials. This isn’t efficiency; it’s espionage. Authoritarian rot now has root access to democracy.
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A whistleblower says Elon Musk’s DOGE minions may have looted data at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)—including sensitive info about unions, workplace complaint cases, & corporate secrets.
Right after DOGE gained access to NLRB, a Russia-based I.P. address tried to log in.
Right after DOGE gained access to NLRB, a Russia-based I.P. address tried to log in.
It Appears DOGE Stole Sensitive Labor Data—and Then Tried to Hide It
A whistleblower says Elon Musk’s DOGE minions may have looted data at the National Labor Relations Board.
newrepublic.com
April 15, 2025 at 4:59 PM
A whistleblower says Elon Musk’s DOGE minions may have looted data at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)—including sensitive info about unions, workplace complaint cases, & corporate secrets.
Right after DOGE gained access to NLRB, a Russia-based I.P. address tried to log in.
Right after DOGE gained access to NLRB, a Russia-based I.P. address tried to log in.
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A Holocaust survivor has said it is “up to us to guard against” a repetition of the Second World War atrocity, 80 years after the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
Holocaust survivor, 94, warns we must never repeat the evil failures of the past
www.mirror.co.uk
April 14, 2025 at 11:27 PM
A Holocaust survivor has said it is “up to us to guard against” a repetition of the Second World War atrocity, 80 years after the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
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"It is important to understand that there is no—none, *zero*—practical reason to imprison an American citizen abroad....The only reason America would need to use foreign prisons would be to get around the American legal system." And Trump has expressed interest in doing just that.
Concentration Camps and the Deportation of American Citizens
There is no limiting principle for disappearing people into the Bukele gulag.
www.thebulwark.com
April 10, 2025 at 2:31 AM
"It is important to understand that there is no—none, *zero*—practical reason to imprison an American citizen abroad....The only reason America would need to use foreign prisons would be to get around the American legal system." And Trump has expressed interest in doing just that.
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60 Minutes could find no criminal records for 75% of the Venezuelans the U.S. sent to a notorious mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4clubLP
Trump administration deports gay makeup artist to prison in El Salvador
A gay man with no known criminal record sought asylum in the U.S. He's since become one of 238 Venezuelan migrants deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador by the Trump administration.
cbsn.ws
April 7, 2025 at 12:34 AM
60 Minutes could find no criminal records for 75% of the Venezuelans the U.S. sent to a notorious mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4clubLP
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in fairness to the market no one could have guessed that a nearly 80 year-old ex-President with a messianic self-certainty and the hyperfixation of a toddler would enact a policy he spent each and every day of a two-year campaign promising to enact!
CNBC reacts right after Trump's "Liberation Day" tariff announcement: "And the market reaction after hours -- I’ve never seen anything like it. This -- I think, fair to say -- is worse than the worst-case scenario of the tariffs that many in the market expected the president to impose."
April 2, 2025 at 9:32 PM
in fairness to the market no one could have guessed that a nearly 80 year-old ex-President with a messianic self-certainty and the hyperfixation of a toddler would enact a policy he spent each and every day of a two-year campaign promising to enact!
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We appreciate that Senator Booker is putting in all of this work to get attention where it belongs: The Trump-Musk coup. We don’t want to see Democrats behaving like this dangerous administration is business as usual — we hope more of your colleagues will follow your lead here.
I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:
Live: Speaking on Trump, Musk, and America’s Moral Moment on the Senate Floor | Senator Cory Booker
YouTube video by Senator Cory Booker
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April 1, 2025 at 12:52 AM
We appreciate that Senator Booker is putting in all of this work to get attention where it belongs: The Trump-Musk coup. We don’t want to see Democrats behaving like this dangerous administration is business as usual — we hope more of your colleagues will follow your lead here.
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HAPPENING NOW: Cory Booker is giving a marathon speech for as long as possible to protest Trump.
Watch live here:
Watch live here:
🚨HAPPENING NOW: CORY BOOKER SPEAKING AS LONG AS POSSIBLE TO PROTEST TRUMP
YouTube video by Keith Edwards
www.youtube.com
April 1, 2025 at 1:19 AM
HAPPENING NOW: Cory Booker is giving a marathon speech for as long as possible to protest Trump.
Watch live here:
Watch live here: