Jared Kushner yesterday on Fox: “Iran is engaging in a very strong way and that is quite positive … We are having very positive and active conversations. Probably more robust than it’s maybe ever been.”
Connie Matthiessen
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Writer, editor, mother, environmentalist, feminist, progressive, optimist, idealist, dreamer, Twitter refugee (not necessarily in that order)
@timmiller.bsky.social on a pregnant family that followed every rule, voluntarily came forward to be deported, and is now being held in conditions their lawyers describe as hell: “They did everything right. Our government is torturing them.”
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: An attorney says his client suffered a brain bleed and traumatic brain injury after a violent ICE apprehension, then woke up in a hospital with no memory of what happened. His family didn't know where he was for days. Now his lawyer is demanding answers.
Lawyer Says ICE Detainee Suffered Brain Bleed After Violent Apprehension, Was Guarded by Agents Instead of Given Private Medical Care
MeidasTouch has obtained a detailed narrative from the attorney representing Jose Mejia Hernandez, describing a violent apprehension by immigration
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Elephants have a real thank-you gesture, a head nod with the trunk curled up, seen when humans help a herd cross safely
Julia Curlee was the first CIA officer to transition openly and keep working at the agency. The Trump White House needed her—until her identity became public. She recounts her time in service in The Atlantic’s October issue: theatln.tc/siKCHgiR
I am almost without words for what has become of this once proud newspaper. I will only say this: Support independent media. Subscribe to Democracy Docket. demdock.com/4w6emld
I’d feel extremely safe on this flight because I already know they had to work twice as hard, be twice as good and make half as many mistakes just to get into those seats. Black women make up less than 1% of professional pilots. Yeah, I’d sleep good on this flight. ✈️
Because of global cuts to foreign aid, the Gates Foundation has predicted that 2025 will be the first year this century where child deaths will increase.
USAID fallout: In Nepal, when the aid workers stopped coming, the women and babies started dying
The U.S. government has repeatedly insisted that no one — and, particularly, no children — have died because of its funding cuts. But the AP has documented the deaths of women and children from Myanmar to Nigeria.
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NEW: Measles Used to Be in Our Rearview Mirror. Now Cases Are Reaching Record Highs. In other parts of the world that have let their guard down to vaccine-preventable diseases, long-forgotten scourges have roared back and killed and disabled children.
Measles Used to Be in Our Rearview Mirror. Now Cases Are Reaching Record Highs.
In other parts of the world that have let their guard down to vaccine-preventable diseases, long-forgotten scourges have roared back and killed and disabled children.
propublica.org
“Based on my very good relationship with Kim Jong Un, of N Korea, I am not happy with the fact that the United States has, long ago, agreed to participate in Joint Military Exercises with S Korea.” This man is failing to defend the United States. This man is a traitor. This man should be removed.
In Major Breakthrough, Israel and Hamas Agree that Kushner is a Dick open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...
In Major Breakthrough, Israel and Hamas Agree that Kushner is a Dick
“We don’t agree on much, but we see eye-to-eye on one thing,” the two groups said.
open.substack.com
Just another day where White House officials say the kind of shit that would've previously kicked off a months-long debate on civility
For the first time in US history, America betrays South Korea, one of our closest allies for over 75 years. These exercises in various forms have taken place every year since 1974.
🔥Senator @ossoff.senate.gov : “There’s something uniquely despicable about lying 🇺🇸 into war… and while sailors on the Lincoln fight his war, Trump sleeps through meetings, golfs, trades stocks… he wants to build his ballroom & fly with Natalie 👀 on their apparently defenseless flying palace.”
We’re seeing a lot of this around here lately
‘We were a dying little town’: How Silicon Valley data centers are reshaping rural America www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/arti...
‘We were a dying little town’: How Silicon Valley data centers are reshaping rural America
Opinion: California reaps the rewards of the AI industry while largely decrying the data centers that sustain it. In the Dakotas, however, hyperscale data centers are not an abstract concept.
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These corporations are supporting an alleged domestic abuser for Congress open.substack.com/pub/populari...
These corporations are supporting an alleged domestic abuser for Congress
Congressman Max Miller (R-OH) is facing serious allegations of domestic abuse.
open.substack.com
Miller is shocking but not surprising, but Rubio's transformation over the last decade is quite a thing to behold.
Marco Rubio and Stephen Miller, in the Original German
They keep telling you who they are.
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Although some people still refer to the HPV vaccine as "new vaccine," it actually turned 20 years old this summer! Thanks to Stephanie Desmon for talking to me about what researchers have learned about the shot since then, and the six cancers that the vaccine prevents.
Public Health On Call Podcast@publichealthpod.bsky.social · 2w agoSince the HPV vaccine was approved, women’s risk of developing cervical cancer has dropped along with the risk of other HPV-related cancers. @cidrap.bsky.social reporter Liz Szabo recounts the incredible successes of this intervention. 🎧 podcast.publichealth.jhu.edu/the-hpv-vacc...
“.. a change in rhetoric for the president, who had spent weeks falsely blaming the pool’s problems on vandals.” @fahrenthold.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/08/10/u...
NEWS: Trump has signed an executive order overhauling the childhood vaccine schedule, pushing to separate vaccines into multiple appointments and split up the MMR shot. Medical experts warn the changes could leave children vulnerable to dangerous diseases for longer.
Why is this allowed to be said in America without any accountability? Why are even Democrats so quiet about this?
