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Refugees in Kenya have died at food distribution centers, officials noted, including a pregnant woman crushed to death during a stampede. Aid workers said they expected more people to get hurt “as vulnerable households become increasingly desperate.”

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The head of the department of homeland security announced that she planned to use military force to take over a democratically elected government in the state of California and we are arguing about whether a California Senator properly identified himself at the door.

submitted 13 days ago • 104 comments

Well, I had an interesting Sunday night, how 'bout you?

submitted 52 days ago • 1727 comments

Black defendants RARELY receive not guilty verdicts when they shoot white people in self-defense.

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submitted 63 days ago • 2 comments

New preprint finding that eliminating US global health funding over the next fifteen years would cause: - 15.2m deaths from AIDS - 2.2m deaths from TB - 7.9 additional child deaths

submitted 69 days ago • 94 comments

I hate to be that guy, but this is the five-alarm fire, and every elected Democrat and frankly, every Washington reporter should be ringing the bell. If it can happen to him, it can happen to anyone. Nobody with a voice should give this administration a moment’s peace about it.

submitted 73 days ago • 122 comments

Not Antisemitism (according to MAGA): - Firebombing a Jewish governor‘s house during Passover - Doing a Sieg Hitler salute - Eating dinner with neo-Nazis Antisemitism (according to MAGA): - Saying Israelis and Palestinians deserve rights and dignity - Using freedom of speech on campus

submitted 73 days ago • 40 comments

3 facts that should drive the news: 1) DOGE has committed, rather than found, fraud. 2) A bunch of antisemites are using a claim to police antisemitism to take over universities. 3) In spite of claims they're cracking down on China, Trump's FP & financial policies have vastly helped China.

submitted 73 days ago • 35 comments

THREAD: The Trump administration's DOJ has removed a study from the NIJ website that found that immigrants, and particularly undocumented immigrants, commit crimes at significantly lower rates than U.S. citizens. The study is at odds with the Trump regime's propaganda about immigrants & crime. (1)

submitted 73 days ago • 137 comments

Two weeks ago I did a thread on how the Founding Fathers declared independence from the crown for behaving literally the same way as the Trump administration. It's getting worse and Americans need to connect today's events to this founding document.

submitted 74 days ago • 41 comments

IDF says it shot 14 Palestinian medics from afar, mistaking them for militants. Our investigation finds: - Shooters were close enough to see the crews: 40m at the start; later, just 12m. - Soldiers said they initially fired on a Hamas vehicle; dispatcher records indicate it was an ambulance.

submitted 74 days ago • 15 comments

“The stench of corruption around these policies keeps getting stronger. There’s a lot of circumstantial evidence for massive insider trading around last week’s tariff announcement; the big beneficiaries from the latest move are companies that made big donations to Trump.”

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This is a concession by the U.S. government that its “arrangement” with El Salvador is irrevocable. To me this has to be grounds to argue that the arrangement itself is unconstitutional under the Fifth and Eighth Amendments

submitted 74 days ago • 470 comments

I am a professor at Columbia University. All of the student NIH training grants have been canceled and now there are reports that ALL funding will be frozen. Why are Universities not banding together and speaking out publicly and forcibly about governmental attacks on biomedical research?

submitted 75 days ago • 56 comments

Just showing how true the joke about lawyers and the bottom of the sea really is

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As a general matter, transcripts aren't prepared during removal proceedings before the immigration judge. Everything is recorded and then, if the noncitizen files for an administrative appeal (meaning they lost their case), a transcript is ordered.

submitted 76 days ago • 3 comments

You can tell who the Good Guys are because they're the ones smashing a car window to drag a mother away from her child while wearing ski masks.

submitted 77 days ago • 434 comments

Nikki created this reformatted version of "Some Actions that Are Not Protesting or Voting" and it looks great. Feel free to share. Thanks Nikki. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

submitted 77 days ago • 29 comments

A devastating roof collapse at a popular nightclub in the capital of the Dominican Republic has claimed at least 184 lives, authorities said, as the search for survivors turned increasingly grim reut.rs/4iaxWFg

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Deputy AG Blanche justifies this extreme action because "the ABA filed a lawsuit against the United States." What he doesn't say is that it's the lawsuit over USAID/State contracts that were illegally frozen/canceled — a lawsuit that has led to payments being made.

submitted 77 days ago • 12 comments

We need to talk about this. The regime's un-uniformed secret police are snatching people off the streets of U.S. cities, detaining, disappearing and deporting them based on the color of their skin, their tattoos (sometimes mistakenly); even sending some to foreign gulags. www.cnn.com/2025/04/01/p...

submitted 85 days ago • 78 comments

Trump Says He Won’t Rule Out Third Reich

submitted 86 days ago • 271 comments

- Rumeysa Öztürk has never been charged with a crime. - Mahmoud Khalil has never been charged with a crime. - Momodou Taal has never been charged with a crime. - Badar Khan Suri has never been charged with a crime.

submitted 89 days ago • 116 comments

Also, a woman was handcuffed at a subway station in NYC (Franklin Ave) when she intervened asking why a delivery man was asked to show work permit by undercover agents. There is a video of that.

submitted 88 days ago • 436 comments

This. This right here

submitted 91 days ago • 29 comments

Among the USAID award terminations are a fair number of World Bank and IFC trust funds. Adds up to over $1 billion in obligations (much of which will have already been paid over, though). docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

submitted 90 days ago • 2 comments

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

submitted 91 days ago • 1900 comments

Dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since the state banned abortion, our analysis shows. As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.

submitted 93 days ago • 420 comments

Im not helping an illegal coup of an administration do a goddamn fucking thing

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Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women. More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications. I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.

submitted 96 days ago • 874 comments

Tonight, hours after the Paul Weiss news broke, an associate at Skadden Arps sent a firm-wide email: "Please consider this email my two week notice, revocable if the firm comes up with a satisfactory response to the current moment...We do not have time. It is now or it is never..."

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My dear friend’s niece, who in October developed sepsis when a Georgia hospital refused her a D&C after a miscarriage, will be taken off life support tomorrow. I don’t know the names of the countless others who have suffered and will suffered because of anti-abortion laws. But her name was Haley.

submitted 99 days ago • 301 comments

This is why due process matters. If the government says someone is a dangerous gang member, we just can't take their word for it.

submitted 100 days ago • 30 comments

mRNA vaccines are the biggest breakthrough in disease prevention and treatment in decades. We're curing cancer with mRNA vaccines. To eliminate research in this field, at this moment, is fall-of-the-empire-grade stuff.

submitted 101 days ago • 33 comments

NEW: There’s a massive Agent Orange site in Vietnam. USAID was funding a cleanup. Then Trump stopped work. Now the rainy season is about to start, and the runoff could poison hundreds of thousands. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

submitted 101 days ago • 23 comments

Vinod's team's work could have saved my wife's life, and I hope this and others like it will make a huge difference with patients with seemingly untreatable deadly diseases. This needs to be able to continue. www.mskcc.org/news/can-mrn...

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HAPPENING OVERNIGHT: @ACLU & @DemocracyFwd cite "serious" Qs "govt may have chosen not to abide by the Court’s Order" re Venezuelan deportees, ask Judge Boasberg demand "sworn declarations" on potential defiance. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/25... Earlier: www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

submitted 101 days ago • 7 comments

Brown Medicine professor and doctor deported to Lebanon despite having valid visa, court filings claim www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

submitted 101 days ago • 19 comments

This is not a drill. Many will die because of aid cuts. The pace and the scale of the funding cuts are a seismic shock to the humanitarian sector. But we will not retreat from our mission. Grateful for opportunity to brief UN press corps.

submitted 105 days ago • 2 comments

Too bad Uvalde Elementary didn’t sell Teslas.

submitted 107 days ago • 2802 comments

ICE’s arrest of Mahmoud Khalil is an unconstitutional and egregious violation of the First Amendment, and a frightening weaponization of immigration law. (1/4)

submitted 108 days ago • 15 comments