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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 19/08/2026

Breaking News: Israel’s military opened criminal investigations into two high-profile cases of its troops killing of Palestinians during the war in Gaza, including the deaths of Hind Rajab, a 5-year-old girl, and of more than a dozen medical workers. Convictions in such cases are rare.

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Israel Opens Criminal Investigation Into Killings of Hind Rajab and Gaza Medical Workers

Two high-profile cases that had spurred international condemnation of the country’s conduct in Gaza were transferred to the military police. Such investigations have rarely led to convictions.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

On his decision to end $500M worth of research on mRNA vaccines, RFK Jr. said: “The the data show these vaccines fail to protect effectively against upper respiratory infections like COVID and flu”. These vaccines saved 3.2M lives in the U.S. He is running a disinformation op against Americans.

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Julianne McShane @juliannemcshane.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

As I report here for @motherjones.com, a local lawmaker in LA says ICE showed up to a confidential domestic violence shelter. That’s just one of the many impacts they’ve had on shelters & survivors this past week ⬇️

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 13/06/2025

The first U.S. bishop appointed by Pope Leo XIV—a refugee himself—is mobilizing priests to accompany migrants at immigration court on June 20. (Via Christopher Hale)

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

There is one place, however, where Musk, with the help of his minions, achieved his goals. He did indeed shred U.S.A.I.D. Though a rump operation is now operating inside the State Department, the administration says that it has terminated more than 80 percent of U.S.A.I.D. grants. Brooke Nichols, an associate professor of global health at Boston University, has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year. That is what Musk’s foray into politics accomplished.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 16/05/2025

Canceled travel plans, deleted social media profiles and applications to transfer to universities in Canada or Europe. International students at U.S. colleges and universities shared how the Trump administration’s immigration policies have affected them.

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For Some International Students, U.S. Dreams Dim Under Trump

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MT Dávila @mtdavila.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Again, Christianity offers no alternative by which we can turn away from such cruelty.

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MT Dávila @mtdavila.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

We are condemned by our turning a blind eye to the need of others to food. Christianity offers no alternatives that allow such callous cruelty.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

A reminder: Both sheriffs and local police have the right to refuse ICE detainers. These requests are voluntary and not legally enforceable under federal law. Across the country, many sheriffs and police departments choose not to cooperate and that choice is fully within their legal rights.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Even *if* you accept Stephen Miller’s (textually, historically, and morally indefensible) claim that undocumented immigrants are not entitled to due process, you’d *still* need due process to ensure that the individuals at issue are, in fact, undocumented. His argument fails even on its own terms.

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California Dreamin’… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

JUST A FACT…👇 Any Questions?!

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 30/04/2025

The New York Times pieced together President Trump's deal with President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador to imprison “convicted criminals” in a feared Salvadoran prison. But many of the Venezuelan men labeled gang members and terrorists by the U.S. government had not been tried in court. nyti.ms/4jygTyl

A photo of the Terrorism Confinement Center prison in El Salvador. The text reads: "Behind Trump's Deal to Send Venezuelans to El Salvador's Most Feared Prison." Photo by Jose Cabezas/Reuters.

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Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government. No one has heard from you in 43 days. As vigil, I’m posting a photo of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Important work and coverage here by ACLU. Please support them. If US citizens are forcibly removed from their country of citizenship though it is something worse than a deportation. www.aclu.org/press-releas...

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ICE Deports 3 U.S. Citizen Children Held Incommunicado Prior to the Deportation | American Civil Liberties Union

Families disappeared and isolated without legal access; one child with cancer deported without medication and pregnant mother deported as well

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AAUP @aaup.org · 18/04/2025

“Institutions that stood up are remembered for standing up to that power & that coercion, they're remembered for their acts of bravery. Institutions that capitulated are remembered for their willingness to cave to autocratic demands.” — Risa Lieberwitz, president of the Cornell chapter of the AAUP

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'It’s a time to be brave’: Cornell professor talks federal funding freeze

Risa Lieberwitz, president of Cornell’s chapter of the American Association of University Professors, says Cornell should stand up against potential demands from the White House.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

ONE IF BY LAND TWO IF BY D.C. the north end church in boston it’s 250 years today @northendpage.bsky.social

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

boston globe editorial board: harvard is making the right decision, and universities should band together to fight. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/16/o...

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NPR @npr.org · 16/04/2025

A coalition of Jewish groups warns that the Trump administration stripping international students of visas under the guise of fighting antisemitism actually makes Jews less safe and undermines the rule of law.

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Trump exploiting antisemitism fears to undermine rule of law, warns Jewish coalition

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AAUP @aaup.org · 16/04/2025

Join an online session for the April 17 #DayofActionforHigherEd. Register: www.dayofactionforhighered.org/events

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AAUP @aaup.org · 17/04/2025

“If a pact is formed, the universities shall “commit meaningful funding to a shared or distributed defense fund”. The fund will be in turn used to provide “immediate and strategic support to any member institution under direct political or legal infringement.” #defendhighered

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US universities’ faculty unite to defend academic freedom after Trump’s attacks

Indiana University leads the push for a pact among 18 institutions as Donald Trump targets diversity

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MT Dávila @mtdavila.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Wishing all chapters, all members - including my chapter - a great day of advocacy abd resistance!!

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MT Dávila @mtdavila.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

This cries before God's eyes. (A phrase that does not translate well into English...)

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 16/04/2025

I’m about to board my flight to El Salvador, where I hope to meet with senior government officials to discuss the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. I also hope to see Kilmar and check on his condition — and remind him that we won’t stop fighting until he’s home.

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Headed to El Salvador to meet with government officials and discuss return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia

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MT Dávila @mtdavila.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

After my father died when I was still a youth, I received precious Social Security support. I was a child receiving Social Security checks.

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MT Dávila @mtdavila.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

BTW, if there is one Kilmar, there are hundreds more. He's just the one whose name and story we know. #nohumantraffickinginmyname

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

cnbc front page just before 3pm on friday 4.4.25 the president himself is off to a golf event.

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Congresswoman Sara Jacobs @sarajacobs.house.gov · 04/04/2025

I just introduced the Delete DOGE Act, which – you guessed it – would defund DOGE.

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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

There are 33m companies in the USA. Only 21k employe 500 or more. And they only make up 23% of workers. Trump and Elon are ignoring the more than 32m entrepreneurs that can't afford to build a new factory or pay tariffs or absorb cancelled contracts.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

I know this first hand. When I was a child, my entire community was branded as spies and sabateurs, justifying our internment inside barbed wire camps for years without due process, trial or charge.

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...), posted 6 hours ago. The post reads, "The people Attorney General Bondi is calling 'terrorists' have had no trial and no chance to defend them. We do not know they are. Ignoring the Constitution does not make us safe. It puts us all in peril."

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 14/03/2025

A second person who took part in pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University has been arrested by U.S. immigration agents after overstaying a student visa, federal officials said on Friday.

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U.S. Arrests 2nd Person Tied to Pro-Palestinian Protests at Columbia

The action came less than a week after Mahmoud Khalil, a recent Columbia graduate and a prominent figure in campus demonstrations, was arrested.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

These are the senators who collaborated with the GOP. Schumer Fetterman Cortez Masto Durbin King Shaheen Gillibrand Schatz Hassan Peters Don’t let them forget it. No peace for them.

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MT Dávila @mtdavila.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Not sure what kind of military engagement we are ramping up for (torture? War crimes? Indefinite detention? Doing away with the principle of discrimination?), but this is 125 ways to awful. ( I realize we were doing those things before, but up to now have some way to judge it and prosecute it.)

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/03/2025

We are all in the debris field of a SpaceX mishap

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Maurice J. Casey @mauricejcasey.com · 07/03/2025

Being a historian, people ask me if I think the US is living through Germany 1933. I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.

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MT Dávila @mtdavila.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

"Welcome to Science Frida... Thursday. I'm MT Dávila..." (Sorry, @scifri.bsky.social. Couldn't resist!)

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Officials at the FAA have directed staff to identify tens of millions of dollars to fund a Starlink deal for upgrading air traffic control communications. Staff has been instructed to find the funds while minimizing documentation and avoiding a paper trail.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦 ✊

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Get in good trouble, necessary trouble.

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Tris @trisresists.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Just going to leave this here should it become useful to anyone…

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MT Dávila @mtdavila.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Inhuman and unnecessary. And costly beyond belief. But the hate and the cruelty are the goal here.

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