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HoliticallyPomeless
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Saying the quiet part out loud. People Have the Power. Radical Freedom & Radical Solidarity. Call me old-fashioned, but I believe in the fundamental equality of all people.
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catharticchaos.bsky.social
Remember: Epstein #epstein Epstein #epstein
December 24, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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eric-reinhart.com
“The reality is that the violence against Palestinians has not stopped, and we must not deceive ourselves into thinking that our ethical obligations in relation to it have ended.”

A sadly timely OpEd with Dr Mary T. Bassett: www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
After US weapons ravaged Gaza’s hospitals, US doctors can’t remain silent
Gaza’s health care facilities have been targeted repeatedly, including with US-made 2,000-pound bombs. We must speak up.
www.aljazeera.com
February 5, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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oniblackstock.bsky.social
Dr. Mary T. Bassett is one of the bravest people I have met in my lifetime - her moral compass and commitment to justice are unmatched. Shame, shame, shame on Harvard. Her ouster is shocking yet unsurprising and on brand for the University.

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Harvard Dismisses Director of FXB Center for Health and Human Rights | News | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard forced out the director of the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights — another shakeup at a center whose programming on the Israel-Palestine conflict has been a flashpoint...
www.thecrimson.com
December 10, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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dropsitenews.com
Harvard is removing Mary T. Bassett as director of the FXB Center for Health & Human Rights amid sustained pol'l pressure over the center’s work on Israel & Palestine, the Harvard Crimson reports.

FXB became a flashpoint after Oct. 7 for its Palestine Program & an academic partnership with....
Harvard is removing Mary T. Bassett as director of the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights amid sustained political pressure over the center’s work on Israel and Palestine, the Harvard Crimson reports. FXB became a flashpoint after Oct. 7 for its Palestine Program and an academic partnership with Birzeit University in the occupied West Bank, which critics including Republican lawmakers and former Harvard president Larry Summers falsely framed as Hamas-linked. The Trump administration later demanded an external audit and froze federal funding after Harvard refused. Harvard then suspended the Birzeit partnership and placed FXB under review, while an internal antisemitism task force accused its work of “demonizing” Israel. Bassett, a physician and former NYC health commissioner whose work centered humanitarian public health and global inequality, is the latest leader pushed out as Harvard has also removed or sidelined leaders at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and the Divinity School’s Religion, Conflict, and Peace Initiative. An example of some of her writing 👇 Eric Reinhart @_Eric_Reinhart What does it look like when one of the most respected senior figures in US medicine and public health is more devoted to justice than to climbing career ladders by catering to billionaires and politicians? They speak truth to power like Dr. Mary T Bassett. https://thenation.com/article/society/new-england-journal-gaza-medical-establishment/
December 12, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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pnhpnymetro.bsky.social
Sign the Petition to Reinstate Dr. Mary Bassett as the FXB Center Director, here: tinyurl.com/reinstatemarybassett
The NY Metro chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) is outraged by the recent news of the termination of Dr. Mary T. Bassett, MD, MPH, from her role as Director of the François-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University. As a former board member and current advisory board member of our chapter of PNHP, Dr. Bassett has been central to the work of the organization and to the movement for single payer healthcare for decades. She is a well respected and admired leader in the fight for health equity and racial justice. No employer should retaliate against a worker for their beliefs, especially when those beliefs are a principled expression of their professional ethics and human rights values. We stand with Dr. Bassett and condemn her harmful, politically motivated termination. Pictured: Dr. Mary Bassett at center in black and mother Priscilla Bassett in brown, speaking at the press conference announcing the 2018 NYC Council resolution in support of the NY Health Act with retired Assembly Member Richard Gottfried and supporters behind them.
December 16, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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eric-reinhart.com
Universities like to do their dirty business just before the winter holiday break.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
A Harvard scholar’s ouster exposes a crisis of institutional integrity | Eric Reinhart
The dismissal of a a renowned health leader who refused to ignore Palestine highlights false claims of universality in human rights, global health and academia
www.theguardian.com
December 25, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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juddlegum.bsky.social
Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house

Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse;

The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,

And 1 million Epstein files appeared from thin air
December 24, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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newscientist.com
It's easy to assume that the most talented adults among us were once gifted children, but it turns out that talent during childhood is no guide to later success
High-achieving adults rarely began as child prodigies
It's easy to assume that the most talented adults among us were once gifted children, but it turns out that talent during childhood is no guide to later success
www.newscientist.com
December 25, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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gasp-sending-crow.bsky.social
Yes. Yes. Perfect.
ICE officials claim the couple—known only by their first names, Miryam and Yosef—had illegally entered Judea recently by camel. The woman is said to have given birth to the child a few nights ago, and the stable had been visited by suspicious persons claiming to have been led there by a star. “These people are clearly on drugs,” said an ICE spokesman. “This is exactly the kind of criminal element we want kept out of Judea.” Witnesses said that Yosef pleaded with the ICE agents to take just him and leave the mother and child. “They had him zip-tied, and he kept saying something about being in town to comply with Herod’s Census,” said a man who reported him. “He’s lying. I mean, look at them. They don’t belong here. They need to go back to where they came from.” ICE officials are also investigating the couple for other crimes. They were found with a substantial amount of gold, frankincense, and myrrh. “What are those luxury goods doing in their possession?” asked the ICE spokesman, taking a moment to adjust his mask. “We’re working to ascertain the original source, but we’re confident they were stolen.” He then leaned in. “And not for nothing, but we have it on good authority she was impregnated by another man. It’s apparently not his. Born out of wedlock. She’s an adulteress and likely a welfare queen. They’ll probably use the kid to commit fraud.”
December 24, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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joelhs.bsky.social
Here's the transcript of the report on US overseas concentration camps, which US state media did not want you to see. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Read the CBS Report Bari Weiss Doesn’t Want You to See
A transcript of the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, the notorious prison in El Salvador.
www.thenation.com
December 24, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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maxpotter.bsky.social
“If you make truth unknowable, accountability becomes impossible.

Trump built his career on fraud: cooking the books, inflating assets, falsifying ledgers. Now he governs the same way.”

Succinctly phrased, accurate. A framing that could be and should be in every piece about Trump.
eric-reinhart.com Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 1d
On Trump’s orders, the National Center for Atmospheric Research will be shut down after more than 50 years as a leader in global research on climate science and monitoring. This is what authoritarian science looks like.
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Destroy the Metrics, Destroy the Truth
Trump’s decimation of public health systems isn’t about efficiency, cost-saving, or even ideology. It’s about building a world without truth or the possibility of accountability.
www.thenation.com
December 24, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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mjfree.bsky.social
🔥🔥🔥 DO NOT BE DISTRACTED & STAY LOUD!!
🔥🔥🔥 DONALD TRUMP IS GOING DOWN!!

TRUMP & EPSTEIN ARE SEX TRAFFICKERS!!! I’m gonna post this every day so nobody forgets exactly who Pedophile Trump is and why the Epstein files have suddenly disappeared. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
December 24, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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March 1, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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pbump.com
As I explained in my newsletter, this is because Trump's team has reinvented millennia of math to invert what "percentage of change" means.
www.howtoreadthisch.art/its-beginnin...
December 22, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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riotgrlerin.bsky.social
a muppet twist on iconic art: thread
Animal in The Scream by Edvard Munch.
December 21, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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kattenbarge.bsky.social
Bari Weiss is the logical endpoint of corporate media. This is what happens when people who hate journalism are in charge of it. The only way journalism works is when it’s independent from the power it’s supposed to hold to account, which means ownership can’t have anything to do with those in power
December 22, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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crookedfootball.bsky.social
The lack of coverage is disturbing
The UK media’s silence on the Palestine Action activists’ hunger strikes is a deliberate editorial choice - Media@LSE
LSE's Professor Bart Cammaerts discusses the lack of coverage of the hunger strikes of imprisoned Palestine Action activists in the UK media.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
December 22, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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December 20, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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abigdoob.bsky.social
So they've apparently had 1000 agents working through the 300GB of Epstein files, and they've managed to release under 1% of them, and those wholly or heavily redacted.
Trump must feature in them an awful lot for the task to be so onerous.
December 21, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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December 21, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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debfly.bsky.social
I find it unusual, that Trump-the person who is most photographed with Epstein, is only releasing photos of others with Epstein?
December 20, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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mrsbettybowers.bsky.social
If Donald Trump is OK with Pam Bondi making him look *this* guilty, the Epstein Files must have lots of outrageously
damning evidence about him.
December 20, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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vermintamimarie.bsky.social
I think this woman is my long-lost sister 😂🙌🏻😂💜
maddenifico.bsky.social Bill Madden @maddenifico.bsky.social · 5d
This is the energy we need. 🙌💪👏✊️🔥🔥🔥👇
December 21, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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catherinekolkmeier.bsky.social
With respect, linking a book recommendation to Bookshop or another independent Amazon alternative has double the impact. Thank you for your work!
December 20, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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martineauseb.bsky.social
Baerbock, who was Foreign minister of Germany during the first part of the war on Gaza, is calling UN member states to "uphold their obligations under the Genocide Convention".

Important detail: Germany is accused by Nicaragua and others of violations of the Genocide Convention regarding Gaza.
jonpeaceman.bsky.social Jonathan Peaceman @jonpeaceman.bsky.social · 15d
This one belongs in a museum.
Baerbock tweet: “On the 10th Anniversary of the International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide and of the Prevention of this Crime, I call on Member States to uphold their obligations under the Genocide Convention to prevent genocide and to ensure…”
December 10, 2025 at 1:21 PM