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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 4h

I’m compelled to point out that the food assistance we gave to feed children and families on the brink of starvation also helped America’s farmers make ends meet

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Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 4h

“Two weeks after Taher’s little boy died, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress & declared: ‘No one has died’ because of his govt’s decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: ‘No children are dying on my watch.’

That, Taher says, ‘is a lie.’” tinyurl.com/zfxe4v2v

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) — Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family’s food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.

On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher’s little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: “No one has died” because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: “No children are dying on my watch.”

That, Taher says, “is a lie.”

“I lost my son because of the funding cuts,” he says. “And it is not only me — many more children in other camps have also died helplessly from hunger, malnutrition and no medical treatment.”

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Meatball Rob @wrenispinkle.bsky.social · 5h

I’m a single-issue voter from now until the day I die: “hold the people who did this and all these other crimes responsible, no matter what it takes”

I’m gonna go to town halls and congressional field offices and bring it up ad infinitum

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 6h

grateful to hear him say this out loud — too few institutions have this decency and courage

AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 8h

"It is going to be disastrous if this continues"

Nobel Prize physics laureate John Clarke says Trump cuts will 'cripple' US scientific research

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 7h

LOL, she didn't bring any reference materials about what DOJ is actually doing, just a bunch of insult talking points.

Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 12h

Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in.

Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.

The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism

In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 7h

lol — I grew up as a devotee of baseball with no loyalties, but my son grew up here and rooted for the team that plays just a few miles from our home

I’m a fan of them through him

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 7h

👆🏽

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 8h

"So, Democrats have three words for this: no fucking way. It's literally life or death. We will not let Republicans blow up our health care system."

This is, hands down, the best comms work Chuck Schumer has done in YEARS. Surprisingly good.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 7h

The First Amendment explicitly guarantees:

-the right of the people peaceably to assemble
-to petition the Government for a redress of grievances
-the free exercise of religion
-freedom of speech

If this priest had also been press, ICE would have violated all five 1A freedoms at once.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 10h

Here’s video of the incident

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 7h

let's all bear witness to this incident, including the particulars:

a Presbyterian minister stood on the ground, preached his faith, and posed no harm to anyone

yet he was shot in the head by taxpayer-funded lowlifes no private employer would consider

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 8h

I agree, but the dilution effect of big numbers is even stronger –– to arrive at a situation close to equipoise becomes much more unlikely

rank-and-file Federal judges of all political stripes are doing the right thing

if they had a vote in recent SCOTUS decisions we wouldn't be where we are

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 8h

601 or 6001. The core problem is the bottleneck. If extremists don't persuade their colleagues, they should not win the day.

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 8h

😍

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 9h

did i eat this entire plate of ethiopian? yes, i did.

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 8h

WOW

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 9h

The Kavanaugh Stops will continue until we have racially segregated every middle-lower class bulding’s residential population in every major city.

Congratulations, Brett. You’ve done a Prigg v. Pennsylvania.

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 10h

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

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Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 9h

Justice Dept has 10 days left to respond to civil lawsuit filed by Jan 6 police responders who are seeking court order to require display of Jan 6 law enforcement honorary plaque at US Capitol

Plaque was required to be hung by 2023 under federal law

It hasn’t been hung

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 9h

"concrete jungle where dreams are made of, there's nothing we can't do"

Donna Benenson @donnabenenson.bsky.social · 9h

Running through October 19, Dear New York reimagines Grand Central terminal—and the subway station below—as a sweeping “visual love letter” to the people of New York.

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The Creator of ‘Humans of New York’ Has Transformed All of Grand Central Into a Public Art Installation

Brandon Stanton’s Dear New York turns Grand Central into a vast public art installation celebrating the city’s people and stories.

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Michael Piccorossi @michaelooch.bsky.social · 17h

Republican lawmakers have estimated that, this time around, U.S. farmers could need as much as $50 billion in economic support to offset the Trump tarriffs. Where that money will come from remains an open question. nyti.ms/3J2xLAh

Trump to Unveil Farmer Aid as China Shuns U.S. Crops

As it did in 2018, the White House plans to dole out relief funds to struggling U.S. farmers who have lost their biggest customer.

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National Security Counselors 🕵 @nationalsecuritylaw.org · 9h

Just referred someone to a former DOJ opposing counsel who abandoned ship after Trump took office, so for those of you still in DOJ, if you do that your former opponents will remember it.

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 9h

😍 and bonne chance

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A.J. Levin (he/him) @ajlevin.bsky.social · 9h

Thomas Hobbes met Galileo, and easily lived long enough that he could have bought medicines from the apothecary of the original Merck, which eventually developed into the pharmaceutical company we know by that name.

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 13h

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 10h

Look at how this MAGA propagandist, Benny Johnson, spins this scene: “army of Antifa.”

It’s a small group of people and a guy in chicken suit.

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 10h

I remember and still prefer letting one’s accomplishments in the field of play speak for themselves

have pride in being a professional

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 10h

hell of a lede: “Sergio Garcia built a wide following for his regional Mexican cuisine over the decades, becoming a favorite of the White House press corps visiting Waco during the Bush presidency. Then in March, ICE came looking for him.”

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 10h

Man…man.

www.texastribune.org/2025/10/07/t...

“Why Sergio?”: Deportation ends 36-year dream for celebrated Waco chef

Sergio Garcia built a wide following for his regional Mexican cuisine over the decades, becoming a favorite of the White House press corps visiting Waco during the Bush presidency. Then in March, ICE ...

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 11h

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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