Flu looming, measles elimination status, botulism updates, and more open.substack.com/pub/yourloca...

Are We Losing Our Democracy? www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... Capitulation to the wannabe dictator violates higher ed independence @UniversityofVirginia. Bad call.

Treasury tells employees not to share photos of White House ballroom construction - The Wall Street Journal See no evil

The call for an ethics probe follows reporting from ProPublica that revealed a web of past business relationships involving border czar Tom Homan, his senior adviser Mark Hall, and consultants and firms seeking DHS contracts.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... #TrumpLies

We love our Marines and owe a debt of gratitude to Camp Pendleton, but next time, the Vice President and the White House shouldn’t be so reckless with people’s lives for their vanity projects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...

People gathered for pro-democracy protests across the country today. n.pr/3Jd0PoI

As the regime's brings its lies to Bluesky, it shows that no part of civil society will be spared from attack. Then the toddler President, woken from his nap, posted a video of him dropping poop on yesterday's protesters to make the message clear. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u... ~7 million of us. Stay tuned, more to come.

Acting Now to Protect the Future open.substack.com/pub/academic...

Ten Exercises You Can Do to Resist Fascism - CounterPunch.org www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/09/t...

Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n...

Thank you to the 14K people who tuned in last night for our Know Your Rights training ahead of the rallies on October 18 💪

Just as a reminder, Bondi’s origin story in Trump world is that she said she was going to investigate Trump University, Trump sent her a $25K check and the investigation disappeared. She later became Trump’s personal defense lawyer. So yeah, don’t challenge her integrity.

So he's rereleased the Epstein Files? (Kidding)

Live Updates: Sean Combs Sentenced to More Than Four Years in Prison www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10... An all too rare consequence for men's violence against women.

Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o... Yes indeed.

Routine vaccinations, sanitation, and a look back at history open.substack.com/pub/yourloca...

Trump Administration Asks Colleges to Sign ‘Compact’ to Get Funding Preference www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u... Resist this attempt to coerce bigotry.

The Road to the Camps: Echoes of a Fascist Past - CounterPunch.org www.counterpunch.org/2025/09/26/t...

The Roberts Court: Twenty Years of Democracy Undermined - CounterPunch.org www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/01/t...

www.committeeforthefirstamendment.com/home An idea whose time has come, again.

Trump-backed targeting of pro-Palestinian campus activists for deportation is unlawful, US judge rules reut.rs/42ikvOq

BREAKING: WE WON!!! 💥 💥 💥 Federal Judge William G. Young ruled today in our lawsuit against the Trump administration that the policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the 1st Amendment. Full ruling here:

Why is it that the livelihoods of federal workers or the healthcare of millions of people always end up on the chopping block, but never the trillions in tax cuts handed out to billionaires and massive corporations?

Measles outbreak growing and common cold surging, hunger survey is stopping, abortion pill watch, why we can't split up MMR, and some great news! open.substack.com/pub/yourloca...

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... ffs

www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?sto... It sure looks like it.

Give In or Fight Back? Colleges Are Torn on How to Respond to Trump. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/27/u... Fight back, or become a tool of fascism.

A government report released Friday on sexual abuse in high school Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps programs estimated that dozens, and potentially hundreds, of instructors have been accused of sexually abusing or harassing students in the past five years.

Supreme Court Allows Trump to Slash Foreign Aid www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u... SCOTUS enabling fascism.

We Must Not Look Away: Resisting Oppression and Pursuing Justice - CounterPunch.org www.counterpunch.org/2025/09/26/w...

bbc.com/news/article... Well done OfS for doing this. Now, what is to be done about it?

www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t... A victory for free speech.

Autism Has Always Existed. We Haven’t Always Called It Autism. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...

Tylenol and autism: What parents deserve to know open.substack.com/pub/yourloca...

#BREAKING: Over dissents from Justices Sotomayor, Kagan & Jackson, #SCOTUS grants a stay in the Slaughter case (allowing President Trump to remove the last Dem member of the FTC), *and* grants certiorari "before judgment" to decide whether to formally overrule its 1935 ruling in Humphrey's Executor.

No more “Democrats” like him or Sinema, please. Sell outs not welcome.

The Firing of Educators Over Kirk Comments Follows a Familiar Playbook www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/u...

Autism report prep, Covid peaking, bad ACIP headlines, falls and loneliness climbing, and more open.substack.com/pub/yourloca...

Covid-19 vaccine changes: What it means for you open.substack.com/pub/yourloca...