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Lauren Wolfe

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Journalist. Former NYU J-school prof, current and forever dog parent. Chills.substack.com

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Lauren Wolfe @laurenwolfe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The Supreme Court just let third-country deportations resume. UN experts warn of torture and disappearance. A look back at a 1940 deportation to France shows how "temporary" can become a pipeline, and where the comparison to Nazi Germany stops. New on Chills: chills.substack.com/p/what-nazi-...
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What Nazi Germany’s First Deportations Can, and Can’t, Tell Us About Third-Country Removals
As the Supreme Court lets the Trump administration resume sending migrants to countries they have no ties to, a 1940 deportation to France shows how “someone else’s problem” can turn deadly.
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Lauren Wolfe @laurenwolfe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The Supreme Court just let third-country deportations resume. UN experts warn of torture and disappearance. A look back at a 1940 deportation to France shows how "temporary" can become a pipeline, and where the comparison to Nazi Germany stops. New on Chills: chills.substack.com/p/what-nazi-...
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What Nazi Germany’s First Deportations Can, and Can’t, Tell Us About Third-Country Removals
As the Supreme Court lets the Trump administration resume sending migrants to countries they have no ties to, a 1940 deportation to France shows how “someone else’s problem” can turn deadly.
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Lauren Wolfe @laurenwolfe.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
One of these things is not like…WHERE THE FUCK ARE THE WOMEN www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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He spent 11 months inside DOGE. Now he wants to set the record straight.
In his first major interview about his tell-all memoir, Tyler Hassen describes the culture clash surrounding DOGE’s mission and the backlash that followed.
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Dennis "dejay" Koch @dennisjkoch.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Remembering It Wrong, and How to Get It Right A lesson from Jim Dwyer, one of the greats of journalism @laurenwolfe.bsky.social #USA #Trump #uspoli chills.substack.com/p/rememberin...
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Remembering It Wrong, and How to Get It Right
A lesson from Jim Dwyer, one of the greats of journalism
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Lauren Wolfe @laurenwolfe.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Re-upping this post because we are living in an age where the people in charge are constantly revising history. This was a critical lesson I learned along the way in my career: chills.substack.com/p/rememberin...
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Remembering It Wrong, and How to Get It Right
A lesson from Jim Dwyer, one of the greats of journalism
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Lauren Wolfe @laurenwolfe.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
48 Hours That Broke Me — And What Came After I lost both my mentors in 48 hours, right before the 25th anniversary of 9/11. Grief doesn’t wait its turn. New on Chills chills.substack.com/p/48-hours-t...
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48 Hours That Broke Me — And What Came After
I lost both my mentors in 48 hours, right before the 25th anniversary of 9/11. Grief doesn’t wait its turn.
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Lauren Wolfe @laurenwolfe.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Gloria Steinem has passed away. For many years, she was my brilliant mentor, always showing how to listen to others in ways I never would have learned if not for her. Let her legacy be as consequential as her incredible life. www.gloriasfoundation.org
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Gloria's Foundation
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Lauren Wolfe @laurenwolfe.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Every 10 years or so, I pick up my charcoal. Tonight I found notes in my kit from my college drawing prof (long gone). He said to get more sketchy because my work was turning into chrome. A good lesson for me right now. Sketch, don’t obsess on perfection.
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Lauren Wolfe @laurenwolfe.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Frosting. Flowers. Now perfume. I’ve spent years being told which of my obsessions were too frivolous to matter — and which one was too dark. New on Chills: chills.substack.com/p/nobody-get...
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Nobody Gets to Tell Me What’s Small Enough to Leave Undescribed
Frosting. Flowers. Now perfume. I’ve spent years being told which of my obsessions were too frivolous to matter — and which one was too dark.
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Lauren Wolfe @laurenwolfe.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I’d be happy if I never heard the word “ballroom” ever again in my life
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Lauren Wolfe @laurenwolfe.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
For 25 years, I reported on the darkest things people do to one another. Wars. Rape. Atrocities. Now I’m discovering something harder: how to tell stories about ordinary life. New on Chills: chills.substack.com/p/cant-you-w...
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‘Can’t You Write Something Lighter?’
For 25 years I said no — even as men handed me phones in a tent to watch stabbing videos, even after meeting three little girls raped the night before. Then I landed in Auschwitz.
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Lauren Wolfe @laurenwolfe.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Trump used reporters as bait on that plane, pure and simple. Zero care for their lives.
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Lauren Wolfe @laurenwolfe.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
“In the morning, you’re joking together, and by the evening, it’s the gates of heaven calling,” a soldier records himself as saying in one of the most intimate and harrowing accounts of frontline warfare I’ve ever seen. New on Chills: chills.substack.com/p/326-days-u...
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326 Days Underground
A Front-Line Soldier’s Raw Account of Modern Warfare
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Lauren Wolfe @laurenwolfe.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Los Angeles is full of cheerful delivery bots and driverless Waymos. The unsettling part isn’t the machines themselves. It’s what it says about us — that we’ve begun to trust robots more than people. open.substack.com/pub/chills/p...
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The Robots Were Never the Scary Part
Los Angeles is full of cheerful delivery bots and driverless Waymos. The unsettling part isn’t the machines themselves. It’s what it says about us — that we’ve begun to trust robots more than people.
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Lauren Wolfe @laurenwolfe.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
If you've been thinking about subscribing to Chills, now’s the time. Your support helps make independent, unabashed journalism possible. chills.substack.com/p/chills-is-...
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Chills Is 75% Off This Summer
If you've been thinking about subscribing, now’s the time. Your support helps make independent journalism possible.
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Lauren Wolfe @laurenwolfe.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
If you've been thinking about subscribing to Chills, now’s the time. Your support helps make independent, unabashed journalism possible. chills.substack.com/p/chills-is-...
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Chills Is 75% Off This Summer
If you've been thinking about subscribing, now’s the time. Your support helps make independent journalism possible.
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Lauren Wolfe @laurenwolfe.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
The alleged trafficking operation behind Washington’s “OnlyFans house” borrowed its playbook from influencer culture, Andrew Tate and the internet’s economy of misogyny. New on Chills by Lily Turner: chills.substack.com/p/the-digita...
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The Digital Pimp
The alleged trafficking operation behind Washington’s “OnlyFans house” borrowed its playbook from influencer culture, Andrew Tate and the internet’s economy of misogyny.
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Billie Jean Sweeney @billiejsweeney.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Get to know the ADF. The nyt loves these radical right wingers and has been laundering their bigoted propaganda for some time. assignedmedia.org/breaking-new... 🧵
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“A Shameful Chapter”: How Anti-Trans Disinformation Drowned Out Science and Gripped the Mainstream - Assigned Media
A pipeline of pseudoscience funded by powerful right-wing hate groups has undermined medical truths with the help of big media.
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Lauren Wolfe @laurenwolfe.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Every finished story hides dozens of small editorial decisions. Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at how I rewrote an opening three times before the rest of the essay finally began to flow. New on Chills: chills.substack.com/p/the-art-of...
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The Art of the Lede: How a Story Finds Its Opening
Every finished story hides dozens of small editorial decisions. Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at how I rewrote an opening three times before the rest of the essay finally began to flow.
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Lauren Wolfe @laurenwolfe.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Every finished story hides dozens of small editorial decisions. Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at how I rewrote an opening three times before the rest of the essay finally began to flow. New on Chills: chills.substack.com/p/the-art-of...
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The Art of the Lede: How a Story Finds Its Opening
Every finished story hides dozens of small editorial decisions. Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at how I rewrote an opening three times before the rest of the essay finally began to flow.
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Lauren Wolfe @laurenwolfe.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
“In the morning, you’re joking together, and by the evening, it’s the gates of heaven calling,” a soldier records himself as saying in one of the most intimate and harrowing accounts of frontline warfare I’ve ever seen. New on Chills: chills.substack.com/p/326-days-u...
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326 Days Underground
A Front-Line Soldier’s Raw Account of Modern Warfare
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Lauren Wolfe @laurenwolfe.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
While women like Rebecca can't get life-saving care after sexual violence, the U.S. is prioritizing funding for men's testosterone. Foreign aid cuts are killing the world's most vulnerable women and girls. new on Chills: chills.substack.com/p/as-foreign...
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As foreign aid collapses, women like Rebecca are left to die
Massive cuts to international assistance are forcing organizations that serve women in conflict zones to close clinics, suspend programs and abandon the world’s most vulnerable survivors of violence.
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Lauren Wolfe @laurenwolfe.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
While women like Rebecca can't get life-saving care after sexual violence, the U.S. is prioritizing funding for men's testosterone. Foreign aid cuts are killing the world's most vulnerable women and girls. new on Chills: chills.substack.com/p/as-foreign...
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As foreign aid collapses, women like Rebecca are left to die
Massive cuts to international assistance are forcing organizations that serve women in conflict zones to close clinics, suspend programs and abandon the world’s most vulnerable survivors of violence.
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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Amazing that this man can perfectly execute both of the Great New York Expressions - Italian AND Jewish
Mamdani going “Eyyy”Mamdani going “nu?”
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Lauren Wolfe @laurenwolfe.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
The alleged trafficking operation behind Washington’s “OnlyFans house” borrowed its playbook from influencer culture, Andrew Tate and the internet’s economy of misogyny. New on Chills by Lily Turner: chills.substack.com/p/the-digita...
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The Digital Pimp
The alleged trafficking operation behind Washington’s “OnlyFans house” borrowed its playbook from influencer culture, Andrew Tate and the internet’s economy of misogyny.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
NEWS --> Three men who were in the van with the victim of the ICE shooting in Texas are potential witnesses, but they're now under pressure to self-deport, a rep for the families tells me. They remain in detention even as ICE's story falters. Details in this piece: newrepublic.com/article/2129...
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Texas ICE Killing Darkens: Rep Says Witnesses Pressured to Self-Deport
There were three others in the van with the man shot by ICE in Houston this week. A represenative for the families tells TNR that the government is pressuring these potential witnesses to self-deport.
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Lauren Wolfe @laurenwolfe.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
You need to understand your electorate to win elections. In utilizing the fear of “reds” to try to scare voters, I think the right is wandering lost somewhere out in left field. New on Chills: chills.substack.com/p/the-return...
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The Return of the Red Menace
Trump warned of a “communist menace” beneath Mount Rushmore. For anyone under 40, the word is a history lesson, not a threat.
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Lauren Wolfe @laurenwolfe.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
An official government website doesn't just attack journalists — it names them, invites the public to report them and creates a state-run infrastructure that could outlast the Trump presidency. New on Chills by Lily Turner chills.substack.com/p/the-white-...
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The White House Is Building a Permanent Enemies List for the Press
An official government website doesn't just attack journalists — it names them, invites the public to report them and creates a state-run infrastructure that could outlast the Trump presidency.
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Lauren Wolfe @laurenwolfe.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
An official government website doesn't just attack journalists — it names them, invites the public to report them and creates a state-run infrastructure that could outlast the Trump presidency. New on Chills by Lily Turner chills.substack.com/p/the-white-...
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The White House Is Building a Permanent Enemies List for the Press
An official government website doesn't just attack journalists — it names them, invites the public to report them and creates a state-run infrastructure that could outlast the Trump presidency.
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Nora Benavidez @attorneynora.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
All part of the current admin's erasure of essential US history: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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The Army took down its page commemorating a civil rights icon
A piece honoring Black veteran Sarah Keys Evans has been axed to "align with current guidance."
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Lauren Wolfe @laurenwolfe.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
The Russians hit a major Ukrainian ammunitions depot last night.
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Eigenseide @eigenseide.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
This perspective on the impact of AI on women by Lily Turner is thoughtful, unsurprising, and depressing.
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Lauren Wolfe @laurenwolfe.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
UN Women warns that AI is reproducing gender stereotypes, amplifying online abuse and threatening women’s economic security — because it was trained on the world we built. New on Chills by Lily Turner: chills.substack.com/p/ai-learned...
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AI Learned Our Biases. Women Are Paying the Price.
UN Women warns that AI is reproducing gender stereotypes, amplifying online abuse and threatening women’s economic security — because it was trained on the world we built.
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Abraham Gutman @abgutman.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
An iPad inside Independence Hall tells visitors that a second floor room was used in the 1850s to hold individuals “accused of crimes of the period.” Originally, the screen read “accused fugitives of slavery.” @fallonroth.bsky.social and I discover more retelling of history by Trump’s admin. 🎁 🔗
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Trump administration quietly removed mentions of slavery from Independence Hall, Thomas Jefferson portrait
The Inquirer's discovery of these changes come as Philadelphians are grappling with the Trump administration's attacks on the President's House Site.
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Lauren Wolfe @laurenwolfe.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Meta Thinks Kylie Jenner Can Fix Its Glasses Problem. New on Chills chills.substack.com/p/meta-think...
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Meta Thinks Kylie Jenner Can Fix Its Glasses Problem
The company’s latest AI glasses are marketed to women with softer frames, makeup-friendly hardware and a celebrity voice. None of that addresses the real issue, however.
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Lauren Wolfe @laurenwolfe.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Meta Thinks Kylie Jenner Can Fix Its Glasses Problem. New on Chills chills.substack.com/p/meta-think...
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Meta Thinks Kylie Jenner Can Fix Its Glasses Problem
The company’s latest AI glasses are marketed to women with softer frames, makeup-friendly hardware and a celebrity voice. None of that addresses the real issue, however.
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Alex Abdo @alexabdo.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
We're hiring! The Knight Institute is looking for a litigator to join us for a two-year position fighting for free speech in the digital age. knightcolumbia.org/page/staff_a...
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| Knight First Amendment Institute
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Lauren Wolfe @laurenwolfe.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Meta’s AI glasses make recording strangers effortless and nearly invisible. The result is a growing ecosystem of viral videos in which women are filmed without their knowledge. New on Chills by Lily Turner: chills.substack.com/p/the-men-be...
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The Men Behind the Smart Glasses Are Watching Women
Meta’s AI glasses make recording strangers effortless and nearly invisible. The result is a growing ecosystem of viral videos in which women are filmed without their knowledge.
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Lauren Wolfe @laurenwolfe.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Meta’s AI glasses make recording strangers effortless and nearly invisible. The result is a growing ecosystem of viral videos in which women are filmed without their knowledge. New on Chills by Lily Turner: chills.substack.com/p/the-men-be...
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The Men Behind the Smart Glasses Are Watching Women
Meta’s AI glasses make recording strangers effortless and nearly invisible. The result is a growing ecosystem of viral videos in which women are filmed without their knowledge.
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bijan (spooky version) @bijan.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
good job alert
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Tara Haelle @tarahaelle.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
UPDATE: The journalist explained and apologized, and I’m genuinely impressed. Here are his three Threads posts and my reply to them.
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Tara Haelle @tarahaelle.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Whoever wrote this headline should be fired and should never work in journalism again. The story has now been taken down, but the link to the archived version is in the comments for the receipts. (I didn’t even know she was married, FFS.)
A screenshot of a Yahoo! Sports headline that reads, “Breaking: NFL Wife Simone Biles Nearly Passes Away, Hospital Photos Released - What We Know”
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Lauren Wolfe @laurenwolfe.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Scott Pelley’s firing has triggered a remarkable public confrontation at CBS, with one of the country’s most respected journalists accusing network leadership of abandoning its values. On Chills: chills.substack.com/p/the-evisce...
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The Evisceration of ‘60 Minutes’
Scott Pelley’s firing has triggered a remarkable public confrontation at CBS, with one of the country’s most respected journalists accusing network leadership of abandoning its values.
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Lauren Wolfe @laurenwolfe.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Each new Ebola outbreak presents an opportunity to act differently. With deaths mounting in Central Africa, there’s still a chance to incorporate a much-needed gender lens into medical and social responses chills.substack.com/p/she-predic...
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She Predicted Women Would Die Most From Ebola. No One Listened.
A WHO statistician warned years before the 2014 outbreak that gender roles would shape Ebola transmission. The world ignored her — and women paid the price.
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Lauren Wolfe @laurenwolfe.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Having reported in Congo for years, I know why communities resist Ebola responders — it’s a rational response to decades of exploitation and broken promises by foreign powers. New on Chills: chills.substack.com/p/beyond-mis...
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Beyond Mistrust: Why Ebola Response Keeps Failing in Congo
Having reported in Congo for years, I know why communities resist Ebola responders — it’s a rational response to decades of exploitation and broken promises by foreign powers.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28/05/2026
remarkable that the State Department is amplifying Trump's insane threat to blow up one of our staunchest allies in the Middle East. we are governed by malevolent morons.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: The Strait is going to be open to everybody. It’s international waters. We’ll watch over it, but nobody’s going to control it.

Oman will behave like everybody else or we’ll have to blow them up. They understand that
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
This truly makes me sick
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Monstrous. Despicable. Authoritarian abuse of power.
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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
A former director of policy in USAID's Bureau for Global Health said D0GE team had no idea what the agency did. He recalled briefing its chief of staff, only to be met with the admission: "Wow, I had no idea that you did all this. I assumed it was just abortions". www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/...
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This is what happens when you defund Ebola prevention
One of the worst ever Ebola outbreaks is underway. Blame foreign aid cuts.
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Lauren Wolfe @laurenwolfe.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Up to 10 million Americans could lose health coverage under new Medicaid work requirements — even though most already work. At the same time, the wealthiest Americans are set to pocket average tax cuts of $311K. I wrote about the coming bureaucratic catastrophe: chills.substack.com/p/10-million...
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10 Million Americans Could Lose Health Care — While the Wealthiest Americans Pocket $311K Tax Cuts
Human Rights Watch and Oxfam America warn that new Medicaid work requirements could strip coverage from millions of low-income Americans — even as the wealthy receive massive tax breaks under the same
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