At least 999 people have died from the Ebola outbreak in Congo, according to official data, a grim toll in what’s already been declared the fastest Ebola outbreak in history.
Congo's Ebola outbreak has killed nearly 1,000 people
At least 999 people have died from the Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo, according to official data published overnight into Wednesday, a grim toll in what’s already been declared the fastest Ebola outbreak in history.
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one anecdote: I was searching for a link to one of my old papers on Google, and the automated Gemini summary attributed all of my lab's work to my husband
Mel Andrews@bayesianboy.bsky.social · 2mo agoWhen utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.
“The goal of the 2021 policy was to ensure that ICE could not avoid accountability for deaths by releasing severely ill people from custody. Detainees who were brain-dead or suffering from infection, for instance, have died shortly after ICE released them in the past.”
Mississippi Free Press@mississippifreepress.org · 2mo agoThe move rescinds a 2021 policy implemented by the Biden administration that required ICE to report to Congress and investigate deaths of detainees that occur within 30 days of their release.
With its recent rulings, the Roberts Court has now entirely perverted the purpose of the 15th Amendment, turning an outright ban on racial discrimination in voting into a right to discriminate against black voters. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
The Supreme Court Has Invented a Right to Discriminate
Alabama gambled on the Court’s partisanship, and won.
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The fall of the 14th is the fall of any semblance of a democracy.
Sherrilyn Ifill@sifill.bsky.social · 2mo agoToday SCOTUS allowing Alabama to press ahead with the use of a map that erases a majority Black congressional district makes clear clear that this Court has unashamedly set its course to dismantle the 14th Amendment brick-by-brick. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
Again, please share. In every aspect of American history you will run smack dab into the critical contributions of Black people. It’s not Black history. It’s American history. Trying to erase it is a fool’s errand. We live it every day. time.com/5836444/blac...
The Forgotten Black History of How Memorial Day Started
Historians like the Pulitzer Prize winner David Blight have tried to raise awareness of freed slaves who decorated soldiers' graves in 1865
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Dems are still favored to win the House. But we can't ignore or downplay how Republicans essentially won 10 seats IN A WEEK through gerrymandering, lawsuits, and judicial rulings. This isn't the kind of democracy we should be comfortable with. newrepublic.com/article/2102...
The Week Where Republicans May Have Stolen the Midterms
In five days last week, Republicans gained maybe 10 seats in Congress. And not a single citizen voted.
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All but three (!) of the 1,651 refugees admitted into the United States in the three most recent months we have data are white South Africans. For comparison, in 2024, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees. It's an explicit white supremacist project. www.rpc.state.gov/documents/Re...
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Micah@rincewind.run · 4mo agoit’s not surprising exactly but it is still shocking just how fast we’ve moved from “woke was excessive” framing to open and explicit white male supremacy
The way that you get another Fetterman is simply by ignoring everything right in front of your face and once you got him... he's yours once he's in power... he's empowered take seriously the character of your elected leaders
“If there is a sin superior to every other, it is that of wilful and offensive war….he who is the author of a war, lets loose the whole contagion of hell, and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.”—Tom Paine
The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 5mo agoCNN confirming the F-15 went down in Kuwait — CENTCOM says it was actually 3 of them, calling it “a friendly fire incident” At ~$350,000,000 worth of planes that’s some expensive “friendly fire”
ICE is running a “conveyor belt” of illegally detained Minnesota families. Agents are arresting entire families with legal status and immediately shipping them off to Texas to deny them legal representation and avoid the federal courts in Minnesota. The cruelty is endless.
‘ICE conveyor belt’ illegally detaining, moving Minnesota children to Texas faster than courts can respond
ICE is pulling Minnesota immigrant families with legal status out of their driveways, homes and school commutes and send
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Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days. His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.
4. The number of people in ICE detention has exploded over the last year. This has created a huge demand for new private prisons. 8 major banks have stopped working with the private prison industry. But Citizens Bank provided hundreds of millions in financing to the industry.
1. The Trump administration is not conducting its deadly immigration crackdown in Minneapolis alone Major corporations, including Amazon, Citizens Bank, and AT&T, are enabling — and profiting from — the operation. popular.info/p/the-corpor...
The corporate enablers of the ICE crackdown
How Amazon, AT&T, and Citizens Bank are profiting from the administration’s mass deportation campaign.
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Dozens are missing after a boat carrying more than 200 migrants on their way to Europe capsized off the coast of Gambia, the West African nation’s leader said, setting off a frantic search and rescue operation.
Dozens missing after boat carrying more than 200 migrants capsized off the coast of Gambia
Gambia's president says dozens are missing after a boat carrying over 200 migrants capsized off the coast.
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As SCOTUS hears another case today that could further destroy campaign finance regulation, consider this astonishing fact: political spending by billionaires has increased 160-fold since Citizens United decision www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
This is all John Roberts’ fault
Trump owes his corrupt and abusive reign to one man.
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Something I hate is when people take a beloved children’s book or TV character and make a meme out of it that perverts the nature of the character into something meant to serve their selfish purpose. It’s especially gross if the alteration makes the character murderously violent
How Many People Has the U.S. Killed in Boat Strikes? The Intercept is keeping count of all publicly declared U.S. attacks on boats in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean. 🧵🧵Mega-thread of coverage of the illegal extrajudicial killings below🧵🧵 theintercept.com/2025/11/17/t...
How Many People Has the U.S. Killed in Boat Strikes?
The Intercept is keeping count of all publicly declared U.S. attacks on boats in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean and the number of civilians killed.
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Holy ass he said it out loud. They can't make us feed hungry people. This is insane. Like insane right? This is our tax money earmarked for SNAP and he's like no it's mine now, check out the ballroom.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 9mo agoQ: A federal judge ruled that the administration has to fully fund SNAP. DOJ said they're gonna appeal. What's your message to folks as we're headed to Thanksgiving? TRUMP: *looks at JD Vance* you wanna gowithater
Amen
Perry Bacon@perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 9mo ago"Too many people think that they're the only one. That's a conceit that happens when you've been in the Senate for a long time. It's not just about age. It's about your willingness to challenge the conventional thinking and make systemic change," says @smith.senate.gov.
i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times
I love stories like this: the ingenuity, the mystery, the whimsy
huck mason@tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 10mo agoIn 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”
Nature and the environment permeate the language viscerally. Irish predates English by a millennium. Its early writing system, Ogham, written vertically as a series of lines and strokes, has an alphabet based on trees. The Irish language is a joy. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The UAE put $2B into a crypto firm largely owned by the Trumps and Witkoffs (as in Steve Witkoff, Special Envoy to the Middle East)—then got export restrictions lifted on AI chips. And let's not forget Trump's other gift from the Middle East, his private jet from Qatar. trib.al/gv1obvE
Does Anybody Care This Is the Worst Bribery Scandal Since Teapot Dome?
The UAE put $2 billion into World Liberty Financial, then got export restrictions lifted on AI chips. Nothing to see here, move along.
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Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one child per hour during Israel's war in Gaza. “A whole classroom of children killed every day for nearly two years,” UNICEF’s executive director said. Here are some of their stories: wapo.st/3UCiAjn
It’s astonishing how much protects the cruel
Sherrilyn Ifill@sifill.bsky.social · last yr.I honestly can’t believe that in real time we’re watching a besieged Trump send his fmr personal atty & Deputy AG to talk in secret w/convicted sex trafficker, abuse, & partner to Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, and is clearly heading towards pardoning her in exchange for exonerating him.