Elizabeth Pathak, PhD
@bethpathak.bsky.social
Epidemiologist and program director in Bethesda; @Wesleyan_U @UNC grad; pro-labor anti-racist scholar. I stan Black radicals. Solidarity forever 👊🏼 Private, NOT official opinions.
I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.
In an unprecedented act of dissent, active-duty USAF Major Jason Watson was arrested on the Capitol steps after calling for the impeachment & removal of Donald Trump. Risking his career to uphold his constitutional oath, his arrest marks a historic moment. ✊🏻✊🏿✊🏼✊🏾✊🏽
JUST POSTED PART II A NYT ANALYSIS OF CONFLICTS OF INTERESTS EVIDENT IN TRUMP's $2.2 BILLION HAUL (free link) www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/u...
The Key Ways Trump’s Financial Interests Intersect With Government Policy
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ICE will no longer publicly report the deaths of immigrants recently released from detention. ICE frames this as "common sense," when in fact, it's an effort to obscure the true number of people who die as a result of being detained—especially now as in-custody deaths surge.
ICE will no longer report deaths of detainees who have recently been released from custody
The goal of the 2021 policy was to ensure that ICE could not avoid accountability for deaths by releasing severely ill people from custody.
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Irony is DEAD!!! U.S. launches largest-ever effort to denaturalize citizens accused of fraud - CBS News
as many of you will remember, I dug into detailed local reporting about a different ICE victim every day of Lent to meditate on their stories, and when you read them all lined up some clear patterns start to emerge. the starkest to me was that every employee of GEO Group should be sent to The Hague
Melissa Gira Grant@melissagiragrant.com · 2mo agoGEO Group (and DHS) think they have the power to forbid a member of Congress from speaking to people locked up in Delaney Hall: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Just a reminder that you can still circumvent google's ai results by typing -ai at the end of your search phrase. It may not work forever but it's still working now!
Republicans want billions of dollars for ICE funding, slush funds, and billionaire giveaways. When it comes to lowering health care costs or helping families afford groceries, suddenly there's nothing left. That's the choice they're making.
NEW: A @wired.com analysis of Meta's app for its smart glasses found that the company has been adding code for face recognition since January, while saying that it is still "thinking through" whether to deploy it. @dmehro.bsky.social and @dell.bsky.social w/ the scoop: www.wired.com/story/meta-s...
Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones
Code reviewed by WIRED uncovered an unreleased face-recognition system embedded in Meta’s smart glasses platform. It’s designed to identify people via biometric data stored on users’ phones.
wired.com
NEW: This church teaches that once an abuser is forgiven, anyone who speaks about the wrongdoing can be accused of having an unforgiving heart. The burden of sin would shift from the person who committed the act to the person who won’t let the matter rest. W/ @startribune.com
In This Church, Child Sexual Abuse Has Gone Unchecked for So Long That It Spans Generations
The church's culture of forgiving and forgetting sins has absolved abusers and silenced victims across the country.
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Imagine if a woman president crashed the economy and started a war with no end in sight, and her biggest, seemingly ONLY concern was building a ballroom and redecorating the White House.
IMPORTANT: For any artists/writers/etc etc, using Linktree to point people to their work, from 5 July, they'll be feeding all imagery you use on your landing page into DALL-E by OpenAI. I deleted my account this morning.
Arte es Ética@arteesetica.bsky.social · 2mo ago¡ATENCIÓN! 🚨 El 5 de Julio de 2026 entra en vigencia la actualización de los ToS de Linktree. Esto incluye el uso de IA generativa (Dall-E de OpenAI) con los textos, imágenes y links que el usuario suba a su cuenta. Incluso compartirán toda la info del usuario con otros proveedores externos de IA ⚠️
New Milan cohort study (n=248,176): COVID-19 raised the risk of new-onset diabetes by 13% overall, and by 31% in women aged 41 to 60. Matched design, 415-day follow-up. More evidence that PASC includes metabolic consequences. #LongCOVID #Diabetes #COVID19 #PASC #Epidemiology
NEW — I wrote about my visit to Delaney Hall, the ICE facility in Newark, NJ where detainees are on a hunger and labor strike in protest of rotten food, unpaid work, and unjust detainment, and where protesters outside have spent the last week drawing ICE's ire while keeping strikers' demands alive.
Starved, smashed and bloodied: The violence at ICE’s Delaney Hall
Brutality towards detainees and protesters continues to unfold in Newark, NJ. The Handbasket was on-site to report.
thehandbasket.co
Absolutely insane. Treasury went out of the way to hide that a SCOTUS justice’s son was working *in their office of legal counsel* and didn’t disclose this even when SOT Bessent was a litigant *in a case that went before Alito.* This would be instant disbarment for any other judge in the country.
International: Bangladesh and/or Calcutta The only truly cringe line in my fav musical Rent is about Calcutta
Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 2mo agoHands down, without a doubt, Mississippi. People use it for a shorthand for EVERYTHING they disdain. Obligatory runner-up (iykyk): Appalachia.
Bruce will be back in D.C. on Oct. 3, as a special guest of the first-ever Power to the People Festival — joining Tom Morello to play a few songs with his band for another night of music and resistance.
Just wanted to let you know that the IRS has audited every president annually for decades now to ensure there was no corruption and the reason you didn't know that was because only one president found that to be a problem
The felon's plan to pay off J6 thugs is not just corruption, it is buying their action to go to the mat for him during & after the Nov election. If Dems win, thugs lose their payday. This isn't to reward them for the past, it's to pay them in advance for future violence.
If you never read the book or saw the movie, you missed one of the greatest Pulitzer Prize winning sagas ever written. To dishonor Alex Haley like this is disgraceful.
