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TEDx Speaker, Novelist, Journalist, Editor, Photographer, Professor/Instructor, Author 16 books: education, travel, culture, human rights & more. PhD student researching tourism & conflict. NYC & Indiana. www.michaelluongo.com
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Deporting children of military veterans because they were born on an overseas military base. This man has no citizenship now.

RFK Jr. is a lunatic conspiracy theorist empowered by Trump and the Republican Party. His policy decisions will result in the DEATH of hundreds of thousands if not millions of children. The country I love and proudly served is being destroyed from within! WTF? open.substack.com/pub/epiellie...

you have to wonder - don't these men have wives and children to come home to? what do they say to them?

@b4th-cle4nser.bsky.social Gaza is crumbling again The bombing is nonstop another displacement.. every moment is a battle to stay alive💔. Please help us survive, share or Donate 🙏 ✅Link in bio

I'm actually working on a video essay rn about campaign finance and how the system creates hurdles for working people who want to run for office! That's why we need reform. We need to overturn the Citizens United decision, enact ranked-choice voting everywhere, and get dark money out of politics.

@justzuki.bsky.social After 15 displacements, we now live in a tent with no supplies😢 You can help us by donation or share, only 5$ can make difference..we need your to survive🙏❤️ ✅Link in bio

🚨BREAKING: Senator Chris Murphy after a private intelligence briefing on the Iran attacks: “It still appears that we have only set back the Iranian program by a handful of months. I just do not think the President was telling the truth when he said this program was obliterated.” It was just lies.

@peteyms.bsky.social Before the war My family had a warm home filled of love .. 💔 Now we sleep under worn-out tents and cold skies😞 You can help us by donation or share, only 5$ can make difference..we need your to survive🙏❤️ ✅Link in bio

NYT strikes right balancing in praising his journalism and reminding us of his role as LBJ's mouthpiece. People are complicated. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/b...

ICE killed a Canadian.

@hailsiez.bsky.social my family and I are living as displaced people, homeless and jobless, with no clear future for ourselves or our children. the war has stripped us of everything Our daily life has become a constant search for basic necessities.”💔 ✅Link in bio, share or Donate ♥️🙏

@takako3599.bsky.social They are deleting our accounts Please we need your voice and any Help Share or Donate we are dying here😓 ✅Link in bio

RFK Jr. is threatening the routine childhood immunization schedule. This is bad. We all need to be paying attention. Get loud. Stay loud.

don't these men have wives and children to come home to? What do they say to them?

Though so many here still loudly claim to embrace Jesus' command to love others as they love themselves, an increasingly loud army of self-identified faith-filled Americans seems incapable of asking: "What is it like to be someone else?" johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/is-america...

The Supreme Court sides with South Carolina in ruling allowing states to cut off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood.

HOT COMMIE SUMMER!! Coming to a political theater near you!! 🔔 Please subscribe and hit the notification bell so you don't miss! www.youtube.com/live/C9tr0lh...

It’s crazy how so much is going on That nobody is even talking about the DOJ filing a lawsuit AGAINST EVERY DISTRICT COURT JUDGE IN MARYLAND Seems the Chief Judge issued an order granting a 2 day stay of deportation for any immigrant who files a habeas petition And Trump didn’t like that At all

Most of this “press conference” is this lunatic yelling at the media. This guy is so obsessed with his press coverage that he can’t even function.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/u...

Grab some tissues and watch Zelenskyy being interviewed by 2 kids at the NATO Summit.

…and then a HERO comes along…

If you’re zip-tying grandmas protesting losing health care maybe you’re not the good guys in the story?

fascinating CD collection and book about when Fort Lee in Bergen County NJ was the world center of film making in film's early days, a city also made famous in Madonna's Desperately Seeking Susan - "I'm a housewife from Fort Lee...." www.msn.com/en-us/movies...

an important read on our giving up soft power in the world..... www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/b...

after five and a half years of not sending out my newsletter - I will be doing so this week - if you'd like to sign up for this every so often, gently and rarely scheduled newsletter - here is the link...... lp.constantcontactpages.com/sl/HM7kYG8

I think we keep forgetting that a Nobel Peace Prize went to Kissinger for all the people - Americans and Vietnamese and others - he killed in the Vietnam War - so, sometimes the more murderous you are, the more likely you are to get the prize - don't think Obama, think Kissinger as the benchmark

now they're going to say he is tweeting out foot fetish material

NEW: China's $1.3 trillion fund giant once bailed out Morgan Stanley. Now it's being increasingly shut out of the US as the world's two largest economies decouple. Read The Big Take. ⤵

on making movies about the monster in the family - an infamous Nazi sympathizer www.msn.com/en-us/news/w...

Budzinski: Families making over $700,000 a year will see a boost of $12,000 almost entirely from tax cuts. Shockingly, households making $23,000 a year or less are set to lose about $1600 a year, mostly due to deep cuts to Medicaid and food assistance

Jesse, show us your hard drive

on making movies about the monster in the family - an infamous Nazi sympathizer www.msn.com/en-us/news/w...

“The soft power suicide of the U.S. will be incomprehensible to future historians who will be dumbfounded in their attempts to explain why the global leader voluntarily wrecked one of its greatest national assets...” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/b...

after five and a half years of not sending out my newsletter - I will be doing so this week - if you'd like to sign up for this every so often, gently and rarely scheduled newsletter - here is the link ! lp.constantcontactpages.com/sl/HM7kYG8

this is just sick - don't the men who do this have wives and children to come home to? Do they tell them what they did at work today?

@michaelluongo.bsky.social Every night, I wonder if I'll lose another member of my family. Hunger hurts, but the fear of losing someone hurts more. G@za is fading, and so are we. If you can do anything, share, quote, help, please. This is not a story; it's our lives.💔💔🍉🕊️

if you want an idea of Mamdani's mother's work - director Mira Nair - one of her most important, layered films about race, ethnicity, persecution, refugees is Mississippi Masala, starring Denzel Washington - made before Mamdani was born, free on YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHQr...

this is a common problem - where bad military decisions at the top when rightly criticized are then re-projected back as critiques of the soldiers themselves - it's a game to deflect attention from those at the top

Rep. Maggie Goodlander on Trump's Attack on Iran and the Dangers of an Irrelevant Congress ... John McCain would be proud open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

@michaelluongo.bsky.social Hello 💔 I’m reaching out with a heavy heart. My family in Gaza has been living in a tent with no essentials after losing our home and father. If you can help or just share, it could ease our pain. Thank you 🙏 Link in bio.

NEW: Records of 911 and EMS responses to calls from ICE detention centers show a surge in emergencies the facilities are unequipped to handle, including suicide attempts, severe pregnancy complications, and alleged sexual assaults by staff. This is by @dmehro.bsky.social and @dell.bsky.social

Merkley had a pretty effective day. Or will have, if you make this go viral.