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Elaine Silverstrim

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Retired Episcopal priest, living in Ohio. Reading books and enjoying cats and family

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Elaine Silverstrim @elainelee71.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
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Elaine Silverstrim @elainelee71.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
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Opinion | Doctors Have Lost Their Mount Olympus of Medicine
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Another victory for Team Cancer in the War on Cancer
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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 01/05/2025
U.S. President Donald Trump's first 100 days in office have featured an unapologetic assault on diversity and inclusion efforts, unraveling decades-old policies to remedy historical injustices for marginalized groups in a matter of weeks.
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Trump's first 100 days target diversity policies, civil rights protections
U.S. President Donald Trump's first 100 days in office have featured an unapologetic assault on diversity and inclusion efforts, unraveling decades-old policies to remedy historical injustices for marginalized groups in a matter of weeks.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 01/05/2025
Make sure you’re following @maddowblog.msnbc.com :: an incredible source for important news.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
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.
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Molly Crane-Newman @mollycranenewman.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Mahmoud Khalil’s wife, Dr. Noor Abdalla, gave birth to their first child today, a baby boy. In a statement, she said, “My son and I should not be navigating his first days on earth without Mahmoud. ICE and the Trump administration have stolen these precious moments from our family…”
I welcomed our son into the world earlier today without Mahmoud by my side. Despite our request for ICE to allow Mahmoud to attend the birth, they denied his temporary release to meet our son. This was a purposeful decision by ICE to make me, Mahmoud, and our son suffer.
Mahmoud remains unjustly detained in an ICE detention center over 1,000 miles away from his firstborn child. My son and I should not be navigating his first days on earth without Mahmoud. ICE and the Trump administration have stolen these precious moments from our family in an attempt to silence Mahmoud’s support for Palestinian freedom.
I will continue to fight every day for Mahmoud to come home to us. I know when Mahmoud is freed, he will show our son how to be brave, thoughtful, and compassionate, just like his dad.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 22/04/2025
In fields where expertise is often highly specialized, the loss of talent could have dire consequences globally for the future of medicine and scientific discovery.
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New images could change cancer diagnostics, but ICE detained the Harvard scientist who analyzes them
Without scientist Kseniia Petrova’s expertise, no one can fully unlock the data’s potential, putting crucial advancements in early cancer detection at risk.
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Olivia of Troye @oliviaoftroye.com · 11/04/2025
Are you kidding me?! Think twice before you take that cruise. I worked the COVID cruise evacuations—they scarred me for life. And now? They’ve gutted the CDC unit that inspects cruise ships for norovirus, E. coli & other outbreaks. This is how preventable disasters happen. Again.
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CDC's cruise ship inspectors laid off amid bad year for outbreaks
The steep cuts to the cruise ship inspection team baffled officials in the program, which is not paid for by taxpayer dollars.
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The Independent @the-independent.com · 09/04/2025
Trump administration accused of ‘market manipulation’ with tariff reversal: ‘WTF! Who’s in charge?’
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Trump accused of ‘market manipulation’ with tariff pause: ‘WTF! Who’s in charge?’
Democratic lawmakers want answers after critics blast the president’s alleged insider trading and ‘pump and dump’ scheme
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 06/04/2025
More than 130,000 government pages have gone dark in a purge that one scientist likened to a “digital book burning.” A group of librarians and archivists is fighting back.
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The Volunteer Data Hoarders Resisting Trump’s Purge
Can librarians and guerrilla archivists save the country’s files from DOGE?
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 06/04/2025
⚡️President Volodymyr Zelensky said on April 6 that Russia is refusing to accept an unconditional ceasefire in order to keep launching missile strikes from the Black Sea.
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Russia rejecting ceasefire because it wants to keep launching strikes from Black Sea, Zelensky says
President Volodymyr Zelensky said on April 6 that Russia is refusing to accept an unconditional ceasefire in order to keep launching missile strikes from the Black Sea.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 06/04/2025
People packed the streets across the U.S. on Saturday to protest against President Trump, his administration's cutbacks, financial turmoil and more. nyti.ms/43GRvS7
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
The Mad King.
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Pete Rice @nightsky99.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
San Diego. This lady for the win.
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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
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Elaine Silverstrim @elainelee71.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Hands Off, Wilmington, Ohio
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Willamette Week @wweek.com · 04/04/2025
A Thursday night order from the Trump administration and the U.S. Department of Education orders states to scrap DEI programs for K-12 students or risk losing federal funding.
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White House Orders State Education Agencies to Scrap School DEI Programs
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Elaine Silverstrim @elainelee71.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Welcome to DJT hell.
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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 04/04/2025
‘Only job I know’: tiny Lesotho’s garment workers reel from Trump’s 50% tariffs
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‘Only job I know’: tiny Lesotho’s garment workers reel from Trump’s 50% tariffs
Impoverished African country is hit with highest tariff rate, overturning decades of global trade policy The day after Donald Trump announced sweeping global tariffs, Lesotho’s garment workers feared for their jobs. Last year, Lesotho sent about 20% of its $1.1bn (£845m) of exports to the US, most of it clothing, as well as diamonds, under a continent-wide trade agreement meant to help African countries’ development via tariff-free exports. Continue reading...
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stevethdemocrat @stevethdemocrat.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
#Krasnov just said egg prices are down 50%!!! 😳 And referencing the economy from 1910!!! 🤦🏼 This bitch is f'n nuts!! Let's get in the streets! SATURDAY!! #HandsOff2025
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Elaine Silverstrim @elainelee71.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
DOGE Accesses Federal Payroll System Over Objections of Career Staff www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/u... What could possibly go wrong???
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DOGE Accesses Federal Payroll System Over Objections of Career Staff
Elon Musk’s team gains visibility into sensitive information about hundreds of thousands of government workers despite security concerns raised by IT officials.
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taz @taz.de · 30/03/2025
Die Proteste gegen Erdogan markieren einen entscheidenden Punkt. Deutsche Spitzenpolitiker müssen sich für die Freiheit von Ekrem Imamoğlu einsetzen.
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Proteste in der Türkei: Deutschland darf nicht schweigen
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Levi Anthony Luckenbach @lluck002.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
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DARK GOTHIC MAGA: How Tech Billionaires Plan to Destroy America
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
David Wojnarowicz in a leather jacket that reads "IF I DIE OF AIDS FORGET BURIAL--JUST DROP MY BODY ON THE STEPS OF THE FDA"
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 29/03/2025
JUST IN: The FDA’s top vaccine official, Dr. Peter Marks, has been pushed out. In his resignation letter, he slams RFK Jr. for rejecting “truth and transparency” and pushing “misinformation and lies.” Marks warns of an “unprecedented assault on scientific truth.”
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Exclusive | FDA’s Top Vaccine Official Forced Out
In his resignation letter, Dr. Peter Marks cited ‘misinformation and lies’ from Health and Human Services Secretary RFK Jr.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 28/03/2025
Disability experts I spoke to expressed that the decision reflected a lack of awareness of the Administration for Community Living’s crucial role for disabled and aging Americans.
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RFK Jr. moves to close Administration for Community Living
The shutdown will mean "more people forced into institutional settings."
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
"My lab is a structural virology lab..." "We’ve had conversations and are beginning to put plans into motion to gather more information," he said, about the possibility of moving abroad... www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/h...
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H.H.S. Scraps Studies of Vaccines and Treatments for Future Pandemics
Federal officials cited the end of the Covid-19 pandemic in halting the research. But much of the work was focused on preventing outbreaks of other pathogens.
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Ohio Capital Journal @ohiocapitaljournal.com · 28/03/2025
Researchers say Trump’s promise to eliminate any policy promoting diversity are threatening a decades-long effort to improve how the nation studies the health of women, shutting down studies on Alzheimer’s care, uterine fibroids and pregnancy risks.
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What happens to health research when ‘women’ is a banned word? • Ohio Capital Journal
Researchers say President Trump’s promise to eliminate any policy promoting diversity are threatening a decades-long effort to improve how the nation studies the health of women, shutting down…
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Noah Lanard @nlanard.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Grateful for the opportunity last night to talk about this reporting by me and @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social If you have information about Venezuelans sent to El Salvador, or at risk of being sent there, our info on Signal is linked here: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 21/03/2025
Decades Ago, Columbia Refused to Pay Trump $400 Million. Note That Number. A quarter century ago, the university was looking to expand. It considered, and rejected, property owned by Donald Trump. He did not forget it. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/n... By Matthew Haag and Katherine Rosman
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Decades Ago, Columbia Refused to Pay Trump $400 Million. Note That Number. (Gift Article)
A quarter century ago, the university was looking to expand. It considered, and rejected, property owned by Donald Trump. He did not forget it.
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CNN @cnn.com · 21/03/2025
The northern Italian region known as Trentino, or officially the Autonomous Province of Trento, will pay residents of Italy or Italians living abroad to renovate one of the many abandoned houses in the region where the Dolomites meet the Alps. cnn.it/41K14Nv
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
So: Russia flatly rejected one Trump envoy (Kellogg), made the next one (Witkoff) wait for eight hours, rejected the ceasefire, and instructed Trump that his job is to give Russia what it wants. That’s what Trump means by "respect" I guess.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Trying to imagine Biden withholding disaster funds from red states unless they first instituted gun control
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
DOGE cut off payments for the electricity, cell phone, and internet service of U.S. government employees who work in a high-risk area in Central America. Meanwhile, DOGE apparently plans to spend $25,000 to install a washer and dryer for their own personal use in a federal office building in DC.
Because DOGE has shut down USAID's payment system (Phoenix), our housing
electricity and the electricity in our USAID building have not been paid for. Mission
leadership has informed us that the only reason our electricity is on is because we've
asked for an extension from the electric company. The Mission asked for a waiver but
because our payment system is down, the Treasury has no way to issue money to USAID
and State Department representatives here are hesitant to make payments on our behalf
for fear of not being reimbursed.
7. Once the electricity goes out in our homes, we lose access to our security cameras and
radios. Again, I live in a high-risk post, so access to security systems is very important to
me.
8. I have been told by Mission leadership that the cell phone and internet bills are due this
week with no way to pay them. This is despite the so-called "waiver" process that has
been allegedly implemented to preserve such access.
9. Our cell phones and radios are also the only way to communicate with the Regional
Security Office about security threats. We have access to no other USAID security
systems.The agency is also considering spending about $25,000 to install a washer and dryer on the building’s 6th floor, according to a Feb. 25 invoice obtained by POLITICO. There is also a child’s play area decorated with a stuffed animal and toys, according to a photo of the room shared with POLITICO.

“People are definitely … sleeping there,” said one GSA staffer.
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Ukrainska Pravda 🇺🇦 @pravda.ua · 02/03/2025
🤝 European leaders are arriving at Lancaster House in central London, where UK PM Starmer is hosting an international security summit. Among them are French President Macron, Italian PM Meloni, NATO Secretary General Rutte, Polish PM Tusk, and Ukrainian President Zelenskyy.
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Euronews @euronews.com · 02/03/2025
European officials continue to express their solidarity with Ukraine after a highly tense meeting between Trump and Zelenskyy in the White House escalated into a shouting match. #EuropeNews
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European officials reaffirm support for Ukraine after Trump spat
European officials continue to express their solidarity with Ukraine after a highly tense meeting between Trump and Zelenskyy in the White House escalated into a shouting match.
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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 01/03/2025
I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org
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We're not done yet | 18F
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 01/03/2025
Pretty much sums it up
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 02/03/2025
Canadians loudly boo during the U.S. National Anthem at WWE in Toronto tonight to show their opposition to Donald Trump and his administration
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24Hours Ukraine @24hoursukraine.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
🇺🇸🇺🇦Crowd chants "Zelenskyy is a hero" outside of a Tesla dealership in Manhattan.
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Robertscribbler @robertscribbler.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
One of the many suits loyalty to Trump has hollowed out into a lump of demented nothing.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Gutting 18F will make pave the way for private contractors, many aligned with Musk, to fill the gap that DOGE has created, but at a much inflated cost. From Dan Tangherlini, former GSA Administrator who oversaw 18F.
DOGE by contrast appears to be a temporary wrecking crew paving the way for aligned Silicon Valley vendors to fill the gap. Removing 18F will make that easier. Dan Tangherlini, the former GSA Administrator who oversaw 18F posted that:

18F was popular among the agencies; annoying to the contracting community; and frightening to the contractors and consultants who could charge unsuspecting agencies whatever they could get away with. Small, but mighty, 18F was the OG DOGE, but with a mission to create actual efficiency, and more importantly, effectiveness. These were smart, technical, caring, dedicated, and patriotic public servants. Their dismissal with a late-night email demonstrates that this administration either doesn’t know how to effectively enhance government efficiency, or really doesn’t care. We built it from scratch before. We will just have to do it again.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
New, from me: Musk is not just destroying core government functions, he is also destroying the tech capacity of government. The people with serious tech skills who care about fixing govt have been fired. Both 18F and the US Digital Service are gone. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/skilled-te...
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Skilled technologists are being forced out of government
18F and USDS are gutted by DOGE
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 28/02/2025
Vance blew up that meeting on purpose
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