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literary + visual art • reading relict • academic manquée • walking nor riding • the body remembers • raindrops on suede • caught somewhere between carelessness & cruelty • for now, still (me). #whenandwhereIenter davis square, somerville

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 01/10/2026
Pete Hegseth revealed that the men will help direct a project to determine the future of the military. trib.al/f1wvZVY
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Hegseth Announces Elon Musk and Newt Gingrich Will Help Lead Military
Pete Hegseth revealed that the men will help direct a project to determine the future of the military.
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Lynn Stahl @msbtterswrth.altgov.info · 30/09/2026
Soooo why is the... checks notes... Military... setting up an office of religious affairs... checks again to make sure I'm reading correctly...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
Hegseth: "Today, at my direction, I'm establishing the Office of Religious Affairs. It will report straight to the top -- a direct line to the secretary ... as Psalm 33:12 extolls us, blessed is the nation in which God is the Lord"
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kim hébert @kimberlyhebert.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Education Department has rescinded the Biden-era Title IX interpretation that gave sex-based discrimination protections to students on the basis of sexual orientation & gender identity. thehill.com/homenews/edu...
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Education Department formally rescinds Title IX protections for LGBTQ students
The Education Department announced Monday it has formally rescinded the Biden-era Title IX interpretation that gave sex-based discrimination protections to students on the basis of sexual orientati…
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The Hill @thehill.com · 28/09/2026
Thousands of protesters gathered in Madrid's historic Puerta del Sol plaza, outraged by Spain's housing crisis amid the eviction of an 87-year-old woman.
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Albumism @albumism.com · 27/09/2026
Massive Attack released ‘Protection’ 32 years ago on September 26, 1994 album.ink/MAProtection
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Rediscover Massive Attack’s ‘Protection’ (1994) | Tribute
Each track featured on the group’s second studio affair stands alone as a vignette but collectively builds a rich, textural tapestry of sounds that blend into one another effortlessly.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Sierra Nevada Graziers raw milk cheese has been recalled for E. coli. 13 illnesses identified in 9 states, with 8 hospitalizations so far.
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Outbreak Investigation of E. coli O26:H11: Raw Cheese (September 2026)
Do not eat, sell, or serve recalled Sierra Nevada Graziers grass-fed raw milk cheeses.
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City of Cambridge @cambridgemass.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
We are expecting some strong wind gusts over the coming days. Prepare now. If you see downed lines/wires, please report them directly to Cambridge Emergency Communications at 911 or 617-349-3300. Report power outages to Eversource: 800-592-2000. Plan ahead with batteries and flashlights.
Text that says weather advisory alert
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The Harvard Crimson @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Harvard Management Company quietly scrubbed diversity data from its internal investment-tracking system in May 2025 as the Trump administration zeroed in on Harvard's diversity programs, according to a person familiar. Megan L. Blonigen reports. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
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HMC Quietly Removed Diversity Data from Internal Investment Tracker Weeks after Trump Demands | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard Management Company quietly scrubbed diversity data from its internal investment-tracking system in May 2025 as the Trump administration zeroed in on the University’s diversity programs,…
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Truthout @truthout.org · 24/09/2026
New federal rules likely will force three dozen states to reduce their annual Medicaid payments to doctors and hospitals by a total of more than $50 billion — potentially shrinking the number of providers willing to see Medicaid patients.
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Doctors and Hospitals in 3 Dozen States to See Lower Medicaid Payments
“It’s going to make it more difficult for people who are on Medicaid to get essential care,” warns an expert.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 23/09/2026
The CDC raised its benchmark for levels of the Covid virus in wastewater, adjusting a key metric for assessing the disease’s transmission. As a result, officials may now classify a level that once counted as high transmission as moderate instead.
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Why the CDC edited a key Covid metric, and what it says about the state of the virus
Covid infection counts are increasing in more than half the country.
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Data Report @datareport.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Folks, please take note of Covid in the UK it is EXPLODING.
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Data Report @datareport.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
BREAKING: NYC COVID hospitalizations have passed the peak of the 2025 summer wave.
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Gothamist @gothamist.com · 18/09/2026
NYU Langone strikes deal with Trump DOJ to end gender-affirming care for minors gothamist.com/news/nyu-lan...
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NYU Langone strikes deal with Trump DOJ to end gender-affirming care for minors
The hospital system will pay $8.5 million, similar to the “monetary penalty” paid by Mount Sinai earlier this month.
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Benjamin Balthaser @blbalthaser.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It really does feel like the end of an era, the end of an institution-specific Reconstruction: embattled, incomplete & often compromised, ethnic & gender studies were nonetheless attempts to address centuries of erasure. & like Reconstruction, ppl have been waiting a long time to end it
UT Austin Axes Several Ethnic, Gender Studies
Majors
Some faculty members consider the decision the next step in a broader effort to gut what remains of ethnic and gender studies at the university.
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The Washington Sun @washingtonsun.com · 18/09/2026
The man known as the “Godfather of AI” told lawmakers they have “maybe a year” left to regulate AI before its development spirals out of control. www.washingtonsun.com/congress/godf…
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Congress Hears an Apocalyptic Prediction From the ‘Godfather of AI’
Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton told lawmakers they have “maybe a year” left to regulate AI before its development spirals out of control.
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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 18/09/2026
AI had been sitting comfortably in the “need to know more, no need to panic” part of the brain. Geoffrey Hinton’s warnings changed that. The question now is whether we act before AI gets smarter – and nastier, P&I Editor Catriona Jackson writes. #AI #ArtificialIntelligence
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AI apocalypse? – Message from the Editor
Warnings from AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton make the risks of artificial intelligence harder to dismiss – and the case for robust controls much harder to postpone.
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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Geoffrey Hinton, a Nobel laureate known as the “Godfather of AI,” issued an ominous warning to lawmakers: Congress may only have one year left to implement safeguards on artificial intelligence before it loses control of it.
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‘Godfather of AI’ warns Congress has ‘maybe a year’ left to regulate AI
There appeared to be a lot of talk about artificial intelligence and little progress on Capitol Hill this week. But members remain hopeful that Congress can act.
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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The park said euthanizing the black bear was a “last resort.”
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Park Service Kills Bear Corrupted by Humans’ Bad Behavior
The park said euthanizing the black bear was a “last resort.”
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Austin American-Statesman @statesman.com · 17/09/2026
New UT applicants can’t select Mexican American, African American and women’s studies majors - although the provost hasn’t publicly cancelled the programs.
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New UT students can't apply to ethnic, gender studies majors
New UT applicants can’t select Mexican American, African American and women’s studies majors - although the provost hasn’t publicly cancelled the programs.
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Chronicle of Higher Education @chronicle.com · 17/09/2026
From the archive: Tenured faculty represent 17 percent of college instructors. Part-time adjuncts are now the majority — and many work for poverty-level pay. This opinion essay argues this model is central to the profession. chroni.cl/471mIj9
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‘The Great Shame of Our Profession’
How the humanities survive on exploitation.
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
BREAKING: Boston University's English department (my dept) recently voted to approve new learning outcomes for the English major, including an anti-AI provision that requires students to “craft and revise writing that is sustained, original, and generated without the assistance of AI."
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New Learning Outcomes Announced | English
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Mike Hoerger, PhD, MSCR, MBA @michael-hoerger.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
-HI: Big Island is a raging inferno of COVlD w/levels seemingly unimaginable. -TX: On par w/the all-time largest national wave, BA.1 Omicron -CA: Many places at 1/2 an Omicron -NY: Suffolk is Very High (2/2)
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WIRED @wired.com · 12/09/2026
And if your tap water is undrinkable, you have no “constitutional right to truthful information” about it. www.wired.com/story/you-do...
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You Don’t Have a Right to Safe Drinking Water, Trump-Appointed Judge Rules
And if your tap water is undrinkable, you have no “constitutional right to truthful information” about it.
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CIDRAP @cidrap.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Repeat COVID infections tied to higher odds of new health conditions Adults who reported 2 or more infections had 76% higher odds of receiving a new medical diagnosis. Read more: bit.ly/4hleVmc
Sick man sitting on bed looking at thermometer
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 10/09/2026
A new Medicare program uses AI to evaluate prior authorization requests. New records obtained by EFF show that this program has resulted in widespread delays and denials of care, operational chaos, and reports of patients waiting in pain. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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New Records Reveal Problems with Medicare’s AI Prior Authorization
EFF sued the government for information a new Medicare program that uses AI to evaluate prior authorization requests for certain medical services. Today, we’re releasing approximately 1,000 pages of
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 10/09/2026
Jimmy Kimmel says that his show will not air his upcoming interview with Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico on television, citing the Trump administration’s threats against ABC.
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Jimmy Kimmel says show won’t air James Talarico interview on TV, citing FCC threats
The late-night talk show host said the interview with the Democratic Senate candidate would air instead on YouTube.
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The Washington Sun @washingtonsun.com · 09/09/2026
Washington journalism is in a moment of generational change. We're rising to meet it. Welcome to The Washington Sun. washingtonsun.com
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WIRED @wired.com · 10/09/2026
AI researcher Jacob Coxon announced his resignation from Anthropic over safety fears on Tuesday in an X post that went viral and sent shock waves through Silicon Valley and beyond. Read our interview with Coxon. 👇
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The AI Researcher Who Just Quit Anthropic Says It’s ‘Crunch Time for Humanity’
Jacob Coxon talks to WIRED about the “mini Manhattan project” inside Anthropic, the problem with alignment, and why AI labs have just a few years left to make their systems safe.
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Both the poster below and the man who reposted him work on safety with Anthropic. Everything I’ve seen today from people who work for the leading companies in the AI industry on alignment indicates they’re legitimately concerned or, as he says, “fucking scared.” Many are asking for AI governance.
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Drake Thomas @MaskedTorah
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I would burn my equity to the ground in a heartbeat for a 1% higher chance we make it out of this situation alive. I expect a great many of my colleagues across the industry would as well.
I promise you, we are actually just fucking scared, it's not galaxy brained marketing.
4:24 PM • 9/9/26 • 1.4K ViewsDrake Thomas @MaskedTorah
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I expect the difficulty of building superintelligence to drop over time such that if all current frontier actors unilaterally stopped we'd be in a similar position with a different (probably worse on safety) group of companies in a year or two. So I do think we're basically cooked unless the problem turns out to be pretty easy, one actor has a large lead to spend on doing a lot of good alignment research, or we get good goverance mechanisms for pacing the frontier.
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Raymond Wilton @raymondwilton.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/technology/2... Evan Hubinger, alignment science lead at Anthropic, posted the comment after Jacob Coxon, a 28-year-old researcher at the San Francisco company & previously at OpenAI, resigned, claiming “neither company acting responsibly”. They were “gambling with our lives”
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AI could kill all humans in next decade, warn experts: but how seriously should we take them?
Alarming warnings from industry insiders increase pressure for curbs on artificial superintelligence
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 09/09/2026
“A novel is not just a bucket of sentences,” the historian Leah Price once said. Still, A.I. companies are using “book guillotines” to cut the spines off of novels, scan their contents, and generate endless buckets. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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Destroying Books to Build a Mind
Anthropic is trying to “destructively scan all the books in the world.” How worried should we be?
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
imagine being a menswear writer and having to go back to writing about this fall’s best socks after reading anthropic employees say AI might destroy humanity in a few years
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 08/09/2026
Link to 9/11 air quality documents:
sept11documents.cityofnewyork.us
9/11 Document Portal
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Gothamist @gothamist.com · 09/09/2026
With rising numbers of New Yorkers struggling to afford food and thousands losing their SNAP benefits under new federal work rules, food advocates are highlighting three existing city-funded programs that help people afford healthy foods — that few know about. gothamist.visitlink.me/Y_grV5
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zellieimani.bsky.social @zellieimani.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
A black woman anarchist, Lucy Parsons, was involved in the original May Day and Haymarket Affair in 1886. Her husband along with 7 other anarchists were tried, convicted and hung for their involvement in the events. Their sacrifice is why we can have an 8 hour work day in the United States.
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Equal Justice Initiative @eji.org · 07/09/2026
On this day in 1913, eight Black men at a Texas prison farm suffocated after they were placed in an underground cell as punishment for not picking cotton fast enough.
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Sep. 7, 1913 | 8 Black Men Suffocate In Prison Cell, Punished for Not Picking Enough Cotton
Learn more about our history of racial injustice.
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The Playlist @theplaylist.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Paul Schrader Says He Turned To AI Because “No Black Actors Wanted To Play In A Movie Where There Are No Good Black People”
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Paul Schrader Says He Turned To AI Because “No Black Actors Wanted To Play In A Movie Where There Are No Good Black People”
Just days after Paul Schrader revealed that he plans to make his long-gestating crime noir “Three Guns At Dawn” entirely with AI-generated performers, the filmmaker has explained why he abandoned human actors in the first place. According to Schrader, Black actors rejected the original version because all three of its Black protagonists were criminals. His solution? Make the movie without them. Schrader has spent the past week gradually clarifying his plans for “Three Guns At Dawn.” As The Playlist previously reported, the filmmaker originally conceived the South Central Los Angeles noir around three Black brothers—a corrupt cop, a drug trafficker, and a third criminal—with Antoine Fuqua attached to produce. Continue reading Paul Schrader Says He Turned To AI Because “No Black Actors Wanted To Play In A Movie Where There Are No Good Black People” at The Playlist.
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Eddie Smith @eddsmitty.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️™️ 🧵 The 1930 Watsonville Anti‑Filipino Riots is another forgotten chapter of American history. The violence that took place was disgusting. Pull up a seat🪑, my friends.(cont) #ProudBlue #ResistanceRoots #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory calendar.eji.org/racial-injus...
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Jan. 19, 1930 | White Mobs Attack Filipino Farmworkers in Watsonville, California
Learn more about our history of racial injustice.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 05/09/2026
You don't have a right to safe drinking water, a US court just ruled. A Trump-appointed judge also said Americans have no “constitutional right to truthful information” during a public health crisis.
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You don't have a right to safe drinking water, US court rules
A Trump-appointed judge also said Americans have no “constitutional right to truthful information” during a public health crisis.
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The Harvard Crimson @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Harvard faculty in the humanities and social sciences expressed concern over an email Harvard College Dean David Deming sent students, suggesting that AI be integrated into “writing-intensive” courses. Abigail S. Gerstein and Amann S. Mahajan report. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
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Harvard Humanities Faculty Push Back on Deming’s Call for AI Use in Writing Courses | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard faculty in the humanities and social sciences expressed broad concern over an email Harvard College Dean David J. Deming sent students Wednesday suggesting that artificial intelligence be…
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
BET Digital has permanently removed all its digital news articles from its website to 'prioritize video content,' I'm told. Years of news articles are now gone forever. Some writers were able to save their stories; some weren't
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Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 04/09/2026
Trump Administration Threatens Colleges’ Tax-Exempt Status Under the proposed rule, any college that adopts or maintains admissions policies, scholarships, loans or other programs for students of color could lose its tax-exempt status. bit.ly/46qAE6h #EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd
The gates of Harvard University and President Donald Trump.
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 05/09/2026
An anonymous account, claiming to be former staffers for Sen. John Fetterman, promised to publish their own stories and screenshots. "If you were troubled by yesterday's Wall Street Journal story... trust us, that's just the tip of the iceberg. It's even worse than you thought."
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Shockwaves in DC as anonymous account teases more Fetterman dirt: 'Tip of the iceberg'
An anonymous account claiming to be former staffers for Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) drew widespread attention with a promise to publish their own stories and screenshots.The account, posting under the name Former Fetterman Staffers, introduced itself on X on Friday and said its members had worked on ...
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DC Council @councilofdc.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Born in DC on this date in 1895: Charles Hamilton Houston. Known as “The Man Who Killed Jim Crow,” Houston battled “separate but equal” & mentored young attorneys of color, including Thurgood Marshall. He was the NAACP’s 1st counsel, taught at Howard University, & was dean of their law school
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Gothamist @gothamist.com · 04/09/2026
Mount Sinai reaches deal with Trump DOJ to end gender affirming care for minors gothamist.com/news/mount-s...
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Mount Sinai reaches deal with Trump DOJ to end gender affirming care for minors
Mount Sinai is the latest in a string of U.S. hospitals to reach similar agreements with the Trump administration, including Texas Children’s Hospital, the Cleveland Clinic Foundation and the Connecticut Children’s Hospital.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: In a win for voters, the U.S. Supreme Court has denied a right-wing group’s request to force Michigan to place a proposed constitutional amendment requiring proof of citizenship to vote on the November 2026 ballot. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Supreme Court denies right-wing group’s bid to force Michigan proof-of-citizenship measure on November ballot
The denial, issued by Justice Brett Brett Kavanaugh, likely means the measure is dead.
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WIRED @wired.com · 04/09/2026
Cortney, another South Carolina parent, says her 17-year-old daughter, though immunocompromised, doesn’t wear a mask at school because of fear of being bullied. She adds she’s concerned about being ostracized for masking in public. www.wired.com/story/measle...
“You worry that your family could be targeted. It’s unfortunate that we have to think about that.” - Cortney, a parent to a 17-year-old immunocompromised kid
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WIRED @wired.com · 04/09/2026
As students head back to school, parents of immunocompromised kids have a new worry: How to deal with the resurgence of measles.
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Measles Outbreaks Are Forcing Immunocompromised Kids to Make Impossible Choices
With the risk of infection rising, parents and young adults are facing agonizing choices about being out in public as school starts back up.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: DOJ has asked the Supreme Court to lift a temporary court order against the Postal Service’s new mail voting restriction as the federal government tries to put President Donald Trump’s anti-voting executive order into effect before the midterms. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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DOJ asks Supreme Court to lift pause on mail voting restrictions as judge weighs stronger block
The extraordinary request could be rendered irrelevant at any moment by a pending lower court ruling.
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