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mludwig.bsky.social
I'm the senior staff reporter at Truthout.org.
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Three have died in ICE custody as Trump rapidly expands capacity to incarcerate immigrants, including at Gitmo and mainland jails. “His family says he entered completely healthy, no history of health conditions, and within three weeks he left the facility brain dead." truthout.org/articles/law...

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Republicans have good reason to be nervous about cutting Medicaid to pay for tax cuts. Analysis by @epi.org finds that cutting Medicaid by $880 billion would dig deep into the pockets of low-income families while boosting incomes for the 1% by 3.9 percent. truthout.org/articles/hou...

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

I spoke with a physician who described how Trump's assault on public health is already causing disruptions at the doctor's office as CDC webpages with the latest guidelines for HIV prevention, contraception, STI testing and LGBTQ care disappear under executive orders. truthout.org/articles/doc...

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

“If the Trump administration actively ends this pipeline to resettlement...it will be another stab in the back of those left behind, our allies in Afghanistan, another deep betrayal by America for our community.” - Arash Azizzada truthout.org/articles/bet...

submitted 41 days ago • 3 comments

What I am hearing from the ground: Israel is still bombing Gaza and will likely intensify attacks until the ceasefire goes into effect on Sunday.

submitted 49 days ago • 3 comments

Instead of fighting over policies set by self-interested billionaires, we need to make deep structural change to the internet by breaking up Big Tech monopolies and giving users more privacy and autonomy over their data, says Evan Greer at FFTF. @evangreer.bsky.social truthout.org/articles/met...

submitted 53 days ago • 3 comments

Another example of my reporting, from December 10. I was on a call with Hussam Abu Safieh, director of the Kamal Adwan Medical Complex in Gaza. Just two weeks later Israel raided and destroyed the hospital, ejected patients and arrested Safieh. He's still in custody. truthout.org/articles/doc...

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

Thanks for following me! I'm a radical muckraker covering climate, rising authoritarianism, the genocide in Gaza and Palestinian liberation, and other stuff. Here's my latest story. It's on the glaring holes in Biden's offshore drilling "ban." truthout.org/articles/bid...

submitted 56 days ago • 2 comments