This is essentially Vinay Prasad, who has an MD, declaring his intent to use the government to torture children to dead via preventable disease by knowingly withholding the cure. To call this despicable is an understatement.

Same. I’m so angry about it. The US made him, granted him asylum, then threatened Afghan asylum status, and this outcome is the result. None of this happened in a vacuum.

The racism is off the charts.

this is just gutter racism

Everyone in politics, everyone in media knows what’s happening here: the White House is controlled by a repellant white supremacist who waits with bated breath for any opportunity to run nonwhite people out of America. They know who it is, what he’s doing. But they won’t SAY it.

The Trump regime granted the suspected shooter asylum earlier this year. Now they are taking his alleged crime out on all Afghan nationals seeking entrance to the US. Another ban. Another excuse for violence and deportation.

This is a good thread.

"Everyone knows data centers use a lot of water. What’s less known is how they can poison the drinking water that remains."

If a foreign adversary snuck into our Federal budget and cut Education and Science Research the way we’re cutting it ourselves — strategically undermining America’s long-term health, wealth, and security — we would likely consider it an act of war.

New limits on school loans could narrow physician and nurse pipeline, educators warn www.npr.org/sections/sho...

Humans are about 10 million times larger than viruses, yet they kill us regularly. We can’t see them. We can’t outrun them. We can’t destroy them with our guns. And yet we continue to disrespect them. Vaccinate.

Reminder: They wouldn't fund SNAP.

It’s blowing my mind that schools, universities, public services would run headlong into this. We spent 15 years documenting black boxes. This is a black box in a black hole!

We’re about to invade Venezuela because trump wants their oil. No other reason. The airspace has been cleared. Embassies are being evacuated. Flights are being canceled. He’s going to kill people for oil.

Research is incremental because it has to be, that is what it takes to isolate variables and gather strong data. I agree with @partialobserver.bsky.social, it makes me sad more than it makes me angry because good medical and scientific research ultimately makes lives better.

Major measles outbreaks have repeatedly cropped up in the Southwest this year. Yet at IHS hospitals in the region, agency officials deemed “measles” and “immunizations” a "medium risk" in internal agency emails. Staffers, including doctors, now need to get approval to use them in public messaging

The latest History of Education Quarterly has an incredible forum addressing the dismantling of the US Department of Education. I'll post non-paywalled versions of all nine contributions here. Huge thanks to the amazing scholars who participated.

This is the only way forward at this point.

The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted. If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.

Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad

ICE is going to raid mosques and synagogues in NYC as an act of revenge against Mamdani’s election. This is so deeply sick.

Lots of things in this piece I had not thought about before. Great work from @atrupar.com and his team. open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...

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Reproductive rights was one of the Biden Administration’s signature policies. And Roe v Wade had been law for almost 50 years. The Supreme Court “interfered” with it.

It's crazy how much the vice president of the united states loves nazis. Nazi chatbots, nazi group texts, nazi twitter accounts. He can't get enough! But it's simply not newsworthy, because making it a story would be biased

Amen. There is some comfort here in finding aand binding with others who have this experience but also so much sadness that a trauma and re-trauma you wish was unique (and may have thought was at one point, especially if you were a child) is anything but.

US senators will say anything. "Standing up to donald trump gave him more power." No it didn't. That isn't true.

American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.

Unfortunately still true bsky.app/profile/adam...

Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.

Senator Schumer has failed to lead this party in one of its most critical moments, and Americans will pay the price. It’s time for him to step down from leadership and make way for a new generation willing to fight for the people instead of the powerful.

The Onondaga County legislature flipping to democrats is something I honestly never thought I would see. Between that and Mayor Owens it was a good night in Central NY.

I SWEAR TO GOD SENATE DEMOCRATS DO NOT BEND FOR “STRONG ASSURANCES” LOOK AT YOUR BASE

The Onion couldn’t write a story this good.

The USDA now threatening grocery stores who offer discounts to SNAP recipients. People are going hungry. Their benefits were illegally cut off leaving them to starve. 40% of SNAP households have children. If grocery stores & local business want to step up to help… let them.

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Just finished “Who Killed the Montreal Expos?” on Netflix. If you are a baseball fan it is definitely worth watching. Thanks to @qflea.bsky.social for the recommendation.

Great series…congrats to the Dodgers on the win, and to the Blue Jays on a great season.

Ouch

What a player Vlad. Jr. is

😔 Didn’t stay up this late to watch a Dodgers win.

What are balls and strikes though?

I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.

It is not wasteful spending when it feeds kids or keeps elders warm in the winter. That is what government is for. #HumanNeeds #BudgetJustice

Everyone knows that there was a “reverse Underground Railroad” too, right? That there were gangs hunting down Black people — some self-emancipated, some born free, didn’t matter — and dragging them to a slave state? That it wasn’t just Solomon Northup, it was tens of thousands of people? Because ⬇️

Waiting for someone to explain why the announcement of a trade relationship that is worse than the one we had a year ago is received as a big success

Whether by opposing the Fugitive Slave Act, refusing Segregation, or legalizing Cannabis— States have a LONG history of opposing Federal oppression. Now, Democratic States must enact Soft Secession to oppose Trump's fascism & prevent our residents from starving. www.qasimrashid.com/p/blue-state...

It is the moral, ethical, and yes legally right for Democratic States and Cities to engage in Soft Secession by withholding federal taxes. This would not violate the Supremacy Clause, has immense precedent in US history, & the time to act is NOW. www.qasimrashid.com/p/blue-state...

Every one deserves to eat. It’s that simple.