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Associate Professor at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London. Popular culture, humour, literature, cinema. https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/2561
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This is a travesty & a nightmare. The US was a founder of @gavi.org. It lowers global vaccine costs, has vaccinated 1B children, & averted 19M deaths. This pull out will cost 100s of thousands of children's lives a year - and RFK Jr will be personally responsible. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

Hope and solidarity won tonight, and will win again in November. Congratulations, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

AOC can stand tall. She did what was right. They just don't know right from wrong.

FWIW I’ve heard of tons of incidents where people are afraid to report DV, afraid to access medical care, or otherwise petrified to engage with the state in any way. It’s entirely understandable, and it will kill people, and that’s probably the point.

This INFURIATES me, and this is what us survivor advocates have been saying for years. Keeping local police and ICE separate is a domestic violence issue. Victims won’t call the police if they fear deportation, which emboldens their abusers and escalates risk. This isn’t public safety.

HUGE: Senate Parliamentarian says that Mike Lee's public land sell-off violates the Byrd rule, requires 60 votes in the Senate. A bunch of other terrible anti-environment provisions do too. This isn't over, but this is a huge win. www.budget.senate.gov/ranking-memb...

This is good and important www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Even though they’re in the minority, Congressional Democrats have a lot of tools they can use here. In addition to showing up at detention centers etc, Dems can grind the Senate to a halt, push impeachment articles against Noem in the House, and more. Flood the zone.

20-year-old U.S. citizen Adrian Andrew Martinez was swarmed by ICE in Pico Rivera while defending someone. He never hit back—just struggled—before being slammed into a CBP van. No records. No lawyer. His mom can’t find him. This is abuse of power. Keep recording. Don’t stop.

The federal government imposing a stop work order on Trevor project for the national 988 suicide hotline on the same day that the Supreme Court greenlit a ban on care despite the risk of suicide sends a clear message: The United States government officially wants trans youth to kill themselves.

Plessy v. Ferguson for trans people

Nothing sums up the state of affairs for transgender Americans quite like the US Supreme Court denying trans people life-saving healthcare at the same time that the Trump administration shuts down suicide prevention programs for LGBTQ people. These bastards want us all dead.

Literally the Russian flag in the post. Two of them

Inasmuch as the Trump admin has any consistent tactical approach to policy, I think they just get up in the morning and say to themselves, what’s the most evil, destructive, and stupid thing I could do today? Then they do it. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/u...

Trump Calls Shooting Victims To Rant About Tim Walz

We have revamped our catalog of Trump's atrocities. Now, each month gets its own entry, which we hope will make it easier to read and share. Here's the list for May 2025. buff.ly/MRA3S0l

NEW: Senate Republicans quietly stripped the provision from the House GOP's "big, beautiful bill" that would have allowed Trump to circumvent the courts and essentially serve as a king. www.huffpost.com/entry/senate...

Kristi Noem should resign in disgrace.

"Nobody’s going to spit on our police officers," says Trump, who four months ago pardoned people who beat police officers with pipes, flagpoles, baseball bats and 2-by-4s at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

And there you have it. ICE didn't target migrant workers in Kristi Noem's farms or Sarah Huckabee Sanders' meatpacking plants because they wanted to create a riot in LA as a pretext to declaring martial law. They don't care about undocumented migrants, they only care about controlling US citizens.

British surgeon Victoria Rose, who's just returned from Gaza: "They're coming through the doors like a conveyor belt... really small children with massive injuries.. bits of their bodies blown off... every day at least half [of my cases] were under the age of 11.. its barbaric"

Democrats lose to this www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Russia has launched a massive air attack on Kyiv, which is ongoing right now. So much for peace talks.

1/11 There’s a reason the far-right lies move fast & hit hard. It’s not random, it’s a team effort. While researching the top 50 influencers, I found a 2nd tier driving this machine. Meet 10 key players on the RW disinfo team you need to know. #Voices4Victory #DemVoice1 #USDemocracy #ProudBlue

ICE is arresting the people who work within the system because they have insane quotas to meet and the people who work within the system are the easiest to capture. Shameful, predatory behavior. www.huffpost.com/entry/kasper...

Rep. Jason Smith: "And then you can look at Medicaid cuts -- Medicaid reforms, I should say." Oops.

We didn’t forget about journalist Jamal Khashoggi, did we? Murdered inside a Saudi consulate. Dismembered. Then a full-on coverup, sanctioned at the highest levels.

If Trump's "big, beautiful" reconciliation bill goes through, 13.7 million people will lose their health insurance & even more will become underinsured. Make no mistake, thousands of low-income & working class Americans will die unnecessarily if it passes. We must not allow it.

1/2 Just-dismissed Librarian of Congress, Dr. Carla Hayden, has a PhD from U Chicago, is in numerous scholarly societies, has wide acclaim. She is also first African-American to lead LoC. The dismissal note did not say "Dear Dr. Hayden" or "Dear Madame Librarian" or even "Dear Carla."

When you're so desperate to be Putin you create Victory Day

The list could go on and on….and on. But here are 5 diabolical, disastrous, deplorable, detrimental dumb decisions by Don.

Two former Wells Fargo executives were fined $8.5M by the Biden administration for covering up the bank's infamous fake account scandal. Trump just slashed those fines to a paltry $150,000 after Wells Fargo gave $1M to his inauguration. See how this works?

It's funny how when you ask them why they think Pope Francis was "too woke" and request specific examples, they always wound up describing Christ's teachings without a hint of self-awareness.

Today in Marhanets, russіаns struсk a civilian bus with a drоne, kіІling nine people. Meanwhile, Rubio cancеled his visit to the summit because Ukraine refused to recognize Crimea as Russia. So it turns out that for kіІling us every day, Russia is to be rewarded. Strange times, strange "values"1/2

Russian drone strike on a bus full of people in Marganets, Dnipropetrovsk region: nine people killed, 30 injured. People were going to work. Russian strikes on Ukrainian civilians do not stop.

DOGE is a criminal conspiracy to defraud the people of the United States

House Republicans just passed a sweeping anti-voting bill that historians are saying is the most anti-voting piece of legislation to come out of Congress in the nation's history. Paige and I explain. youtu.be/XS8aePRgFU4

Sure, Kamala Harris would have have preserved our global power and domestic prosperity. But she would have done so as a Black woman. by Pete Hegseth and Stephen Miller

GOP court decision overturning Democratic victory in North Carolina Supreme Court race is 5 alarm fire for democracy. It’s January 6 without the insurrection. Make no mistake, if GOP succeeds in stealing election in NC, they’ll use that playbook everywhere www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

What a day. What a country! 💪

Petabytes of critical government research that is marked for possible deletion cannot be archived because of technical and legal restrictions, meaning it is very likely to be lost forever: www.404media.co/nih-archives...

US Call to Action against the Trump regime and its fascist coup d'état, if you have breath in your lungs take to the streets on Saturday, April 5. Events and numbers are rapidly growing. Join now. #3E #FiftyFiftyOne 1. rally.co/hands-off-ma... 2. theblop.org 3. events.pol-rev.com/search?conte...

Donald Trump has committed the most profound, harmful and unnecessary economic error in the modern era. Almost everything he said—on history, economics and the technicalities of trade—was utterly deluded econ.st/3YbbFjq