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From study abstract: "Due to the fact that COVID deaths among students and, to a lesser extent, school staff were rare in the U.S. given school age profiles, we argue that the bulk of these deaths were from spillovers to residents in the wider community."

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Amazing. Respect the lede.

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Yunseo Chung, the Columbia student and green-card holder who has been in hiding since ICE tried to disappear her in March, wins sweeping order preventing her arrest and detention. She becomes the first of these pro-Palestinian advocates to circumvent the Trump administration policy to deport them.

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RIP Walter Brueggemann. From _Chosen? : reading the Bible amid the Israeli-Palestinian conflict_ 1/* ...it seems to me that the state of Israel, in its present inclination and strategy, cannot expect much “positive play” from its identity as “God’s chosen people.”

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www.theguardian.com/global-devel... Glad this is coming from Australia instead of the US, where such research would likely be shut down.

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"Economists Raise Questions About Quality of U.S. Inflation Data. Labor Department says staffing shortages reduced its ability to conduct its massive monthly survey" www.wsj.com/economy/cpi-...

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A federal judge ordered the government Wednesday to allow Venezuelan men who were removed from the U.S. by the Trump administration earlier this year to challenge their ongoing imprisonment in El Salvador. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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Stephen Miller is privately raging over deportation numbers he deems too low. So he's shifting huge amounts of law enforcement resources away from fighting serious crimes and into his immigration crackdown. If voters knew about this, they'd recoil. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/1961...

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“A Busy, Busy Day at the Airport” By Ruben Bolling Genius. Click in.

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"We’ve tried to improve our rockets. Many of our top technicians have been working, day and night, supplying ChatGPT with ever-more-refined queries such as 'Could you make the rocket explode less?' and 'This is a good start, but can you design a rocket that doesn’t go boom?'"

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As many of us have said many times: the weaponization of antisemitism is the tip of the spear for the fascists. They are using cases of antisemitism, real and false, to implement their illiberal agenda. The main reason being that liberals are less likely to fight it in that context.

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NEW: ICE has quietly rescinded a policy requiring agents to ensure courthouse raids don't clash with state and local laws. WIRED detected the missing language in a superseding memo posted to ICE's website this week. by me and @dmehro.bsky.social:

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NEW: Here is the travel ban. We're doing a full analysis now, but some quick takeaways: - All visas banned for 12 countries, and all immigrant visas and all B1/B2, F, M, and J visas for 7 others. - Does not apply to anyone with a current valid visa already. - Exempts immediate relatives.

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DELETED: Trump administration deleted a webpage summarizing evidence that “undocumented immigrants are arrested at less than half the rate of native-born U.S. citizens for violent and drug crimes and a quarter the rate of native-born citizens for property crimes.” 1/2

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NEW RESEARCH - FREE TO READ 2024 election: State-level support f/ Christian nationalism predicts vote f/ Trump, esp in states w/ greater working-class populations. Shows CNs role as ideological context f/ Trump's populist appeal. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @profsamperry.bsky.social

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WE KNOW. What took you so long @nytimes.com? www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/u...

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Are you a scholar of religion with a passion for public scholarship? Want to share your work with an enthusiastic, global audience hungry for deeper learning? We’re inviting scholars to give lectures in a live Zoom series hosted by Religion for Breakfast. More here! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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WHISTLEBLOWER REPORT ON SEAN FEUCHT This is wild! A full-blown website written & sourced from ex-employees & ex-leaders in Sean Feucht's various ministries detailing his abuses, financial misconduct, & general scumball-ery. Let me detail why this is important... 1/ truthandfreedomstories.com

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www.mobilize.us/nokings/ A security and safety training session to prepare you for your event. Get practical tips on safeguarding your participants, effectively managing potential risks, preparing for various scenarios, and ensuring a secure and safe day of mass mobilization across the country!

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This passage from @michelleyoung.bsky.social’s amazing book THE ART SPY, about foreign Jews being summoned by Nazi-collaborating French police for “status review”—only to be arrested and sent off to internment camps—should sound horrendously fucking familiar to all of us living in Trump’s America.

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“By exploring her classmate’s implied question — ‘Who do you think you are?’ — Jones somehow upends the question itself, making the very idea of a color line seem baffling and mirage-like.”

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This morning I’m fighting back against Donald Trump’s executive order that targeted me. And I’m calling on government watchdogs to investigate the Trump Administration — because “revenge orders” have no place in America. 👇 open.substack.com/pub/treason/...

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NEW: Frizgeralth de Jesús Cornejo Pulgar was among the 238 Venezuelans removed to El Salvador without due process in mid-March. He has no criminal history or a final order of deportation. On Friday, a US immigration judge terminated his asylum case, effectively ejecting him from the legal system.

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So this is pretty much your typical law-review-editor-goes-to-the-white-house-to-work-for-Steven-Miller-and-gives-them-docs-to-have-DOJ-investigate-the-law-review story. (Gift link.) www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/u...

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A powerful read from @franciswilkinson.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/opinion/feat...

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I’ll join Erika Lee, Kate Masur, and Tom Wolf for this conversation about BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP. Thursday June 12. Join us!

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Just released. My Nature piece: "Never before has the USA seen such an anti-intellectual, anti-science assault... History tells us that there are times when the dangers of inaction become sufficiently threatening to individuals or the planet that scientists... rdcu.be/eo3Hb

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That it Otto Richter. He was an activist in Germany and fled after the Reichstag fire. He got into the US by deserting his ship. His wife, Clara, was a U.S. citizen.

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This is just eye opening. The entire SpaceX direction is a money hole. We have got to stop thinking billionaires are geniuses. www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/starship-d...

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"Recent tests... have shown that several advanced AI models will act to ensure their self-preservation when they are confronted with the prospect of their own demise — even if it takes sabotaging shutdown commands, blackmailing engineers or copying themselves to external servers without permission."

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European Jews on Ellis Island protest against their deportation to Germany, 1936

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When Washington imposes tariffs on the European Union, that's Washington undermining the competitiveness of American companies. Let's unpack why.

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Save the Children's press release on the militarization of aid delivery in Gaza: www.savethechildren.net/news/news-qu...

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What infuriates me so much about this new operation is that it is literally punishing people for following the rules and showing up to their court hearings. It is so toxic to the basic concept of following the rules. It is an operation designed by people who hate the concept of the rule of law.

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“My friend was abducted. My university was complicit. This was done in the name of the religion I love and care about.” https://trib.al/2zK897A

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Highly recommended Israeli podcast episode in English with Francesca Albanese about Israel, Palestine, antisemitism, israeli society attitudes, genocide in Gaza, the significance of activism. Very passionate, engaging and inspiring. #NeverAgain #MustListen podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/%...

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I wrote a new thing about Bobby Kennedy's crusade against vaccines in the context of H5N1. He trashed Moderna, and if there's a pandemic, he'll cash in on that decision. rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/great-week...

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This is the kind of sweeping, truth-telling journalism we need more of. Good job, AP.

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