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“We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed.”
A few weeks ago, we were getting on the ferry to see the Statue of Liberty. Our kid, watching the linesman on the dock catch the stern line, marveled, “Wow, he’s really skilled.” “He sure is!,” I said, “and he works hard too, all day in hot sun.” It was midday amid a heat advisory in NYC. (1/5)
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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This is Ken Paxton's mugshot. He was indicted on 3 felony counts for investment fraud. He was reported to the FBI by his own staff for bribery. He was impeached by his own party for corruption. Now he’s the Republican nominee for US Senate in Texas. Together we will stop him.
The DOJ has dropped 23,000 criminal cases — including hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime and drugs — while prosecuting 32,000 new immigration cases in just the first six months of Trump’s second term. (Published March)
Trump’s Justice Department Dropped 23,000 Criminal Investigations in Shift to Immigration
Under Attorney General Pam Bondi, the DOJ abandoned a record number of cases — including hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime and drugs — in just the first six months of Presi...
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A short term (but not actually that short) course of high dose steroids means I have not really been able to sleep for an entire week. However, despite this pervasive wired-and-also-tired feeling, it’s been remarkably productive? 🤔
Among Neighbors is as timely and important as it is a remarkable piece of filmmaking. At a time when autocrats are trying to erase history and peddle lies, @yoavpotash.bsky.social has lifted up the truth. For that, the far right government in Poland wants this film banned. You can now watch it.
@yoavpotash.bsky.social · 3mo agoMy film Among Neighbors has entered the Apple TV documentary film charts at #12. Please get the film and spread the news to help it crack the Top 10! tv.apple.com/us/movie/amo... And if you’re in the Bay Area, join me for a screening and Q&A at The Elmwood Theater this Sunday at 10:30AM.
In the midst of everything, our decades-old gardenia bushes are blooming luxuriously this spring. Each one is a wonder.
Marx dreamed of a world where you wouldn't be pigeonholed by your job. As he put it, a man could hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, and critique ideas at dinner without ever being a hunter, fisherman, or critic.
The oxygen that keeps us alive comes from natural ecosystems: half on land, half at sea. It's not complicated: we are TOTALLY dependent on the living world. Yet it's still treated as nothing but 'resources', to exploit and destroy for profit.
On May 2, agents followed Leonardo Garcia Venegas back to his home because they didn’t believe his claims of citizenship or that the REAL ID he showed them was legitimate. It was familiar territory: He’d already been detained twice. 🔗 Read more: propub.li/3Ppaufa
Thomas Massie pushed for the release of the Epstein files, and the response has been tens of millions in outside spending, smear campaigns, and coordinated attacks. If this is what they do to a sitting member of Congress, imagine what Epstein survivors face when considering whether to come forward.
#Medsky🧪 #publichealth 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙍𝙖𝙘𝙚 𝙀𝙦𝙪𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 uncovers the racist myths that led to today’s lung-function testing @nejm.org www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
Meet the Equation | NEJM
Many clinical algorithms, including the eGFR test for kidney function, have actually had race baked into them and produce different results for Black patients. Most of us assume these algorithms ar...
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President Obama: “We pulled it off without firing a missile. We got 97% of their enriched uranium out. There’s no dispute that it worked and we didn’t have to kill a whole bunch of people or shut down the Strait of Hormuz.”
Extremism expert Alexander Ritzmann warns about the Active Clubs popping up around the world. “This is not just a nationalist sports club. It’s the strategy to build a neo-Nazi militia.” You can watch my entire interview at the link below. www.hatecomestomainstreet.com/p/extremism-...
Extremism Expert Warns of Plan to 'Build a Neo-Nazi Militia'
Alexander Ritzmann warns about the Active Clubs popping up around the world. “This is not just a nationalist sports club. It’s the strategy to build a neo-Nazi militia.”
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Yes again. Last week CDC. Now FDA. Blocking evidence of vaccine safety. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/u...
F.D.A. Blocked Publication of Research Finding Covid and Shingles Vaccines Were Safe
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My favorite scene from the Bible
leftylady.bsky.social@leftylady.bsky.social · 4mo agoMy favorite scene from the Bible
Viktor Orban accomplished so much of what the Trump movement wants to accomplish here he ruled for 16 years and rewrote the rules in his favor and still, they threw him out and you know what? they did it by voting don’t let anyone tell you voting doesn’t matter
Are we watching the Artemis return while listening to Drops of Jupiter? Why, yes.
Those of us, @protectdemocracy.org included, who warned of what Trump would do and were called alarmist for it have largely been correct and our critics have largely been wrong. I wish we were wrong. But it's an important lesson to take the warnings of democracy advocates more seriously.
Niko Bowie@nikobowie.bsky.social · 4mo agoTen years ago today, in April 2016, the Boston Globe printed a satirical front page imagining a future Trump administration. The page was called "alarmist," "hyperbolic," "dystopian." But we’ve put up with so much since then it now looks like . . . a slow Thursday?
A Hawai'i state Senate bill takes a novel approach that could make the controversial Citizens United irrelevant in the islands. @civilbeat.bsky.social article:
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And if you look around and notice that joy, international teamwork and diversity really seem to stick it to you………
Katie Mack@astrokatie.com · 4mo agoA few have suggested that some aspects of this mission--joy, international teamwork, diversity--are being played up to stick it to the hateful attitude of the administration. But I don't think it's that. I think it's just that those things are essential to and inseparable from a mission like this.
things every single republican president of your lifetime has done - started a war in the middle east - completely destroyed the economy
A recent Spanish study estimated health care associated infections caused >3x as many deaths as car accidents each year We've normalized seatbelts. So why aren't N95 masks & infection control in healthcare non-negotiable? shorturl.at/EydJC
Report underscores death toll of health care-related infections
Infections acquired in health care settings kill 3 times more people than car accidents each year.
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Timothy Snyder@timothysnyder.bsky.social · 6mo agoProfessor @sarasilverstein.bsky.social is someone to whom I listen on issues of health and history. This essay helps us to situate the present American health drama in the history of health care, and thereby to see much more clearly what we face. snyder.substack.com/p/consumptiv...