Haaretz wrote Hebrew-only article re IDF soldiers with PTSD from Gaza combat experiences. Various awful testimonies, including this from a sniper who daily served at GHF aid sites, w job to shoot any of the desperate unarmed people who crossed an invisible line. www.haaretz.co.il/news/magazin...

SCOTUS allowing ICE to racially profile will embolden Trump to use ICE & military against his political opponents, potentially demanding citizenship checks at polls & intimidating Dem voters in 2026. Already seeing such tactics with occupation of LA, DC & Chicago www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Again & again, the Supreme Mullahs rule that Trump can act unlawfully & unconstitutionally & violate constitutional rights w/o restriction, at least until the courts finish the process of officially resolving the legality of these acts (and S.M.'s may well ultimately decide they're legal).

I wrote a substack article: open.substack.com/pub/youngert...

May this portion of the dissent by Ketanji Brown Jackson haunt John Roberts forever and be the final word on his tenure as Chief Justice.

For anyone wanting to contribute to get aid into Gaza: I've been told that Project Sameer is "the gold standard" for this, one of their projects: chuffed.org/project/help... & a friend tells me this is a trusted source, getting baby formula in: chuffed.org/project/1387... 1/

“A retired US special forces officer has revealed to the BBC why he resigned from his work with US- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) aid distribution centres. "I witnessed the Israeli Defense Forces shooting at the crowds of Palestinians," Anthony Aguilar told the BBC.

By the way, for anyone still on xitter: I stayed on it to read and post about Palestine/Israel/Gaza. It's still where most people living there post, so it's news you can't get anywhere else. But I've been kicked off X since June 12. It looks like someone hacked to change associated email; I got 1/

Invaluable xitter thread on famine momentum, famine response and the current disastrous state of Gaza from Jeremy Konyndyk, President of Refugees Intl and former lead for COVID (46) & disaster relief (44) @USAID: x.com/JeremyKonynd.... Note the alarming increase in starvation deaths; links in reply.

Posts from Palestine on xitter are all reporting a level of hunger & desperation they've never reported before - people collapsing on the street, no food anywhere, maybe 1 inadequate meal in 2 days or 5 days. Mass death will likely soon begin. Here is a set of posts to give an idea. 1/

NIH proposing a crazy new policy: they will not fund proposals involving only animal research, proposals must include alternative approaches such as non-invasive human, computational, or cell culture studies. They are accepting comments at link, deadline is 5pm EST TODAY! www.fda.gov/news-events/...

Just sent this as an email to my department but figured I'd share more broadly in case it is useful. This describes the procedure happening now for science funding in Congress (@davidimiller.bsky.social can correct me if I got this wrong). Importantly, there are still actions that can be taken.

This is an excellent statement of scientific values that we should all strive to uphold. 🧪🧠🤖 Sharing from @suryaganguli.bsky.social , who said this is the Stanford Med affirmation that all their PhD grads sign. 1/

Doesn't discuss NIH, but Senate Appropriating committee wants to restore NSF & NASA research funding & also National Weather Service. Good signs ...https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02171-z

Israel's defense minister is proposing a concentration camp. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

With this vote, Congress makes ICE the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency in history, with more money per year at its disposal over the next four years than the budgets of the FBI, DEA, ATF, US Marshals, and Bureau of Prisons combined.

This account of torture and human rights abuse at Trump's and Kristi Noem's behest is shocking (if not surprising).

Can we pause and reflect on the fact that this statement could be made in a Supreme Court dissenting opinion without hyperbole or exaggeration?

People vote, not polls. This is pretty damn awesome. Now gird your loins for nearly post-9/11 levels of crazed Islamophobia, brought to you by billionaires, right wing media, and “centrist”Democrats.

Her bravery helped make tonight possible.

Mamdani winning and it's not even close! Rejection of Machiavellian power-mad sex-harasser w full support of Dem establishment & $20M in PAC $$, in favor of a young fresh, guy really committed to ordinary people with a huge grassroots volunteer effort. Huge grassroots victory!

I just submitted a comment it was super easy - I urge you to as well. All of our lives depend on having serious vaccine researchers at the CDC, not RFK's crackpots.

Aid massacres continue day after day. Desperate hungry crowds try to get tiny bits of aid allowed in, IDF shoots into crowd-"crowd control". Never admits, never explains, only ever says "investigating reports". Famine intensifies. War crime upon war crime, world yawns www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/w...

New Yorkers: remember, Mamdani and Lander cross-endorsed each other, saying whichever one you rank #1, rank the other one #2 (and don't rank Cuomo)

New Yorkers: If you haven't settled on your five candidates to rank for mayor, here's a simple metric to use: Rank the guy who was wrongly arrested for attempting to protect an immigrant from ICE, and the four people running against him who showed up to demand his release.

Pissed off about that disgraceful NYT hit piece on Zohran Mamdani and his visionary campaign? Take it to the voters! I'm kicking off a phone bank *tomorrow at 6 pm ET* with NYC's next mayor. Join us! volunteer.zohranfornyc.com/phonebank-fo... (fixed link)

Interesting article. Lots more besides this excerpt.

Wow. www.amny.com/news/brad-la...

Aid massacres continue every day. Over 300 killed in them so far.

Haaretz's @nirhasson.bsky.social writes that since the start of their operation, over 300 Palestinians were killed on the way to receive food aid in the GHF humanitarian aid compounds.

51 killed in Khan Younis as they queued for food distribution outside the "humanitarian" compound Every. Day

Now that we’ve seen the full Senate text, we can say for certain: either the House or the Senate version would be the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in history. Each have the largest Medicaid and largest SNAP cuts ever. And each give huge tax cuts to the rich.

The great land selloff in the reconciliation bill -- they are selling off huge chunks of the west and Alaska, what is now Forest service and BLM land.

read the rest of this powerful thread

BREAKING: A federal judge in Massachusetts (the Reagan-appointed William Young) has declared the Trump administration's cuts to NIH grants — ostensibly over Trump's EOs on gender ideology and DEI — are "illegal" and "void." He's ordering many grants restored.

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Another ‘aid massacre’ took place north of Nuseirat, where Palestinians had gathered near the Netzarim checkpoint to wait for food. Recap of the day in Gaza is below. 👇🏼

U.S. people: Be sure to turn out for No Kings Day protests tomorrow (Sat June 14) afternoon, google the one nearest you. With all that's happening on so many fronts, not least the movements toward authoritarian martial law amidst widespread raids of working people, it matters now more than ever.

While war with Iran sucks up all news attention, the starvation of Gaza continues, hidden in silence by Israel's cutting, a couple of days ago, of all Internet cables into Gaza; silenced except for a few people with esims who can occasionally get a connection.

For years, Boeing engineers warned about the fatal flaws in the 787 Dreamliner series—especially in planes shipped overseas. Now, one has crashed in India. From Maureen Tkacik

The House version of this bill had a loophole that might’ve let federal courts require $1 bond for civil rights plaintiffs. Senate Republicans not only closed it but beefed up the requirement to effectively outlaw preliminary injunctions for all but the richest litigants. Insanity.

And he closed it out with “BECAUSE I AM NOT YOU.”

Damaged multi-storey buildings in Tehran following the Israeli attack. No official confirmation on the targets, but some chatter suggests strikes may have targeted the homes of nuclear scientists and officials linked to Iran’s nuclear program.

Israel has begun its attack on Iran.

DOGE is now reviewing every NIH grant that goes out, I reported last week. That review is AI-driven and is screening for DEI, trans health, China, vaccine hesitancy, and the institutions to whom Trump has blocked funding, @hannahnatanson.bsky.social reports. Gift link: wapo.st/3HhnPSt

Iowa Senator Ernst shockingly, in a town hall discussing Medicaid cuts, responded to shouts "People will die" with "well, we're all going to die someday". Now a day or 2 later she issues what at 1st seems like an apology video - but then switcheroo, she doubles down & digs in deeper. Astounding.

Thread: Alito quotes a source to say black (a 'commentator observed that' habeas protections must be sought person by person, can't be done as a class) when the next sentence of the source makes clear it is saying white (in reality, it's clear it can be done as a class).

Superb and important article, pointing out that politically the best way to save biomedical research is to get communities around different diseases informed of the problem, and set them loose on their congresspeople. Right now they just don't know what's going on. How to make this happen?

This passage from @joshtpm.bsky.social piece on biomedical research is spot on.