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Former academic historian. Based in Colorado and the Marseille region.
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The Trump administration is ending multiple HIV vaccine studies, and the NIH has been instructed not to issue any more HIV vaccine research funding in the next fiscal year, with few exceptions. People will die.

Read my full statement on Trump's dangerous Travel Ban 2.0.

Today marks #Tiananmen36th. I spoke with @matthewjbell.bsky.social at The World on the power of narrative, the role of technology in censorship, and why commemorating Tiananmen from the US feels bitterly ironic this year. Honored to be joined by @jwassers.bsky.social. 📻: theworld.org/segments/202...

Reminder that Trump, who does not care about antisemitism, just announced, bc of that antisemitic attack, by an Egyptian, a travel ban of 12 countries none of which are Egypt.

Here’s a rare member of the U.S. Senate who seems to understand how close we are to a dictatorship.

Women who miscarry in West Virginia should be prepared to face potential criminal charges, a county prosecutor warned

Candles, flowers, a banana with four apples. These things will be censored on the Chinese internet, especially today. June 4th is the anniversary of the deadly 1989 crackdown against the massive Tiananmen Square protests. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...

Dozens of companies who sponsored Pride marches last year have pulled out this year, including: Dyson Nivea Tiffany & Co. Capital One UPS Disney DoorDash Live Nation Nissan Citi Corporate Pride was always a hoax. https://popular.info/p/pride-and-prejudice-in-corporate

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The Trump administration has announced that it is revoking guidance to the nation’s hospitals that directed them to provide emergency abortions to women when they are necessary to stabilize their medical condition.

RFK Jr. wants to eliminate as many vaccines as he can. Don’t believe him when he claims otherwise and says he just wants better science and safer vaccines He’s lying. His endgame is, for all practical purposes, to eliminate access to vaccines. thehill.com/policy/healt...

Remembering Chevalière d'Éon for Pride. A transgender woman in the 1700s who was also a spy and who turned double agent, extorted an entire monarchy to get her gender marker changed, and lived her life as a woman in a time when such was thought impossible. We have always been here.

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In a healthy information environment, this would be front-page news.

I see a pattern....

I’ve never seen a dissent like this (on SCOTUS stripping away the asylum parole of nearly 500K human beings on the emergency docket) utexas.app.box.com/s/fkvbpqvf8w...

Must Read.

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I will never forget those who died from COVID-19 during pregnancy because they did not have the opportunity to get vaccinated. We should do everything in our power to help provide information and support instead of stepping back!!

The effects of Covid in pregnancy are devastating and preventable by vaccination; now we have strong data from Penn Medicine that vaccines protect children and adolescents from long Covid

New reporting shows that Elon Musk is illegally using his influence to funnel billions of dollars to himself. All while Republicans try to cut health care for millions. Musk isn’t gone yet. Fire Elon Musk.

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Trump showed a screenshot of a video taken in the Congo as part of what he falsely presented as evidence of mass killings of white South Africans. In fact, the video showed humanitarian workers lifting body bags in the Congolese city of Goma, filmed after deadly battles with Rwanda-backed rebels.

These Republicans are more willing to bend the knee to Trump than stand up for you.

Update on Republicans’ budget bill: We DON’T know when we’re voting or what they’re adding in their negotiations. We DO know that it will take away health care and food assistance from Americans to give billionaires a tax cut, and we’re going to fight it like hell.

Neguse: There’s a ridiculous contempt provision that would essentially try to stop federal courts—or limit their ability—from enforcing contempt orders. Why? Because they know the Trump administration is losing in every federal court in the land…

This is—it bears repeating—ethnic cleansing and a war crime. It feels utterly pointless to say, and roughly equivalent to screaming into the void, but the United States should not be supporting or providing any aid to a state that has ethnic cleansing as a policy position.

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Most of the country has moved on from this story Perhaps distracted by the Qatar jet scandal or the clearly unconstitutional Executive Order on birthright citizenship While hundreds of immigrants rot in El Salvadoran because the Trump administration violated their due process rights UNACCEPTABLE

Absurdity and cruelty are the themes of this administration.

NEW: Up until last November, Kash Patel was a paid consultant for Qatar. But he and the FBI still refuse to say what he did for this Arab monarchy or how much he was paid. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Hey NY Times-- It is still a "fringe theory" -- every court has rejected it. There is still a "broad consensus" -- John Eastman is a disgraced lawyer under indictment. The only thing that has changed is the Times.

I agree with @aoc.bsky.social. The math isn't adding up in the Republicans' "big, beautiful bill."

How not surprising that a lobbyist for Qatar, who took a bribe from Trump to shut down an investigation of Trump University for consumer fraud, found that it was OK for Qatar to bribe Trump.