laurieschowalter.bsky.social - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

This is the only content i wanna see

submitted 1 day ago • 99 comments

Pretty amazing graphic to go with the @financialtimes.com article about the cost of Trump's attack on US science NIH is HUGE! www.ft.com/content/67fd...

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

NEW: Mahmoud Khalil's wife gave birth to their child without him after ICE denied their request to let him be present. “This was a purposeful decision by ICE to make me, Mahmoud, and our son suffer,” Dr. Abdalla said. “My son and I should not be navigating his first days on earth without Mahmoud."

submitted 6 days ago • 137 comments

I feel like we need to keep saying this because it’s so insane: This is a legal U.S. resident who has been detained for over a month now for his political opinions.

submitted 6 days ago • 251 comments

Pronatalism is an authoritarian misogynist project.

submitted 6 days ago • 18 comments

"The most powerful people in the world are preparing for the end of the world, an end they themselves are frenetically accelerating."

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Why are children not playing in the street? An FT piece analysing the - very concerning - decline in outdoor play manages to look at every possible cause: screens, spaces, school timetable changes. Apart from one. Cars. It is simply not safe for kids to play outside on streets.

submitted 9 days ago • 248 comments

NEW: The privately held company Deployed Resources has made billions running tent detention facilities to hold immigrants entering the U.S. at the border. Now it's cashing in again on Trump’s plan to hold immigrants before deportation.

submitted 16 days ago • 23 comments

The U.S. maternal mortality rate increased 27% between 2018 and 2022, a new NIH study finds.

submitted 18 days ago • 6 comments

“anything we can actually do, we can afford” stamp this on the head of anyone who asks how we can afford universal health care or universal child care or public pensions or free college

submitted 19 days ago • 59 comments

Medicare Advantage (or DisAdvantage, as I call it) isn’t Medicare — it’s private insurance run by giant corporations that only care about profits. I wrote to the Trump admin and told them if they’re looking for waste, fraud, and abuse, they should start with Medicare DisAdvantage.

submitted 20 days ago • 33 comments

The fact Trump created a special refugee/asylum status for (white) Afrikaners has been widely reported. This is the first reporting I've seen abt just how much we're doing/spending to essentially recruit Afrikaners to resettle in the US www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/u...

submitted 28 days ago • 265 comments

civil servants matter. state capacity matters.

submitted 24 days ago • 15 comments

It's getting buried, but Houston will almost certainly not have representation in Congress until January 2027. Democratic Rep. Sylvester Turner died nearly a month ago and Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott has simply decided not to call a special election to fill the seat.

submitted 24 days ago • 219 comments

submitted 24 days ago • 119 comments

First they came for Africa and Latin America, and I did not speak out because I had internalized neoliberal paradigms and the Washington Consensus and they afforded me a comfortable salary. And then they came for Washington.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Elon might beat Strom Thurmond for longest time between posts

submitted 26 days ago • 37 comments

That’s it: “Everything looks like a conspiracy when you don’t know how anything works.”

submitted 26 days ago • 5 comments

This (false) equation of billions with brilliance isn't as surprising as you might think. In the US, dominant institutions--in media, religion, education, etc--spoon-feed us the myth of meritocracy from the time we're old enough to understand The Little Engine That Could. 🧵1/

submitted 26 days ago • 6 comments

I've created a shareable document with a list of the HHS offices gutted today that I'll be updating as often as possible. Have something to add? Message marisakabas.04 on Signal or email [email protected] docs.google.com/document/d/1...

submitted 26 days ago • 69 comments

Elon Musk has been a walking SEC violation for a decade and no one cared. The entire Trump era could have been avoided if the US took white collar crime anywhere near as seriously as it does low level drug crime.

submitted 29 days ago • 244 comments

WATCH: ProPublica is keeping a list of who works for DOGE, and we recently added 20 names to our tracker, bringing the total to 66. We’ve also been reporting on who is in charge. Is it Elon Musk and his lieutenants, or is it an obscure bureaucrat named Amy Gleason? 📽️: @josesepulveda.bsky.social

submitted 28 days ago • 32 comments

RFK, Jr. Laying Off the entire OIDP - Office Of Infectious Disease And HIV/AIDS Policy Problem is: general public not aware of what OIDP stands for, let alone what it does - and why this vision, strategy and organization is crucial Here's just a small segment of what OIDP: 🧵

submitted 28 days ago • 4 comments

Analysis: Should South Africa roll over or defy the United States? The Trump administration is reframing the country as a pariah state. Pretoria has other ideas, writes @simonallison.bsky.social.

submitted 28 days ago • 5 comments

We have had nearly two decades of panic about Free Speech on Campus and not a single case, not even the ones they made up, were as bad as what's happening now

submitted 29 days ago • 179 comments

Today in clinic a patient asked me if the DHHS cuts would affect their ability to continue to access their HIV treatment at our Ryan-White funded clinic. I was unable to offer them any reassurance that their HIV treatment and care is safe because it's not. It was a very sad moment for both of us.

submitted 30 days ago • 15 comments

Have the Harper's signatories commented yet in another letter about whether it's "intolerant" to be disappeared for co-authoring an Op-Ed?

submitted 32 days ago • 6 comments

WOW. Watch a constitutional law expert completely DEBUNK Republicans’ censorship crusade, while articulating exactly how Donald Trump is threatening freedom of speech. 🔥

submitted 33 days ago • 150 comments

I’m going to say this, not to be an asshole, but just so folks can get a clearer understanding, especially white folks. In many cities, in communities that are majority POC, “jump outs” have been part of policing for DECADES. They often are very much like this. It is new for a PhD student.

submitted 32 days ago • 7 comments

A Tufts University student has been kidnapped for ICE because a year ago, she co-authored this op-ed which criticizes Israel, calls for the adoption of non-binding faculty senate resolutions, and celebrates the end of apartheid in South Africa www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2024...

submitted 32 days ago • 7 comments

“I think we have really under-estimated this pathogen and haven’t made the strides that we needed to in a year.” One year after we first learnt of cows infected with H5N1 we still don’t know how the virus jumped into U.S. cattle - or why it keeps doing so 🧪 #IDsky

submitted 33 days ago • 2 comments