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Just found out about this podcast series for #OpenResearch @datarescueproject.org is doing a short presentation tomorrow with the Open Fest 2025 and they've started a companion podcast. You can register at libguides.shu.ac.uk/c.php?g=7091... creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...
The Washington Post covered the story on the left, but ignored the story on the right. Luckily, Democracy Docket has you covered. Support independent pro-democracy media. Subscribe today. hubs.ly/Q03jcjqP0
One true test of reporters will be if they actually ask questions, follow up on Trump’s lies and insane ramblings and then inform the US public honestly and accurately about what transpired (instead of quoting from White House press releases) #journalism
Can anyone explain what @theatlantic.com is doing? This trashy and misleading #bothsides headline in on The Atlantic’s digital front page as #RFK dismantles US science and vaccine infrastructure. @jfallows.bsky.social
Where are America’s political journalists? Millions of readers, eager for excellent reliable reporting about whatevertheheck is happening inside the White House, are waiting for the story to break. #journalism #USnews #Whitehouse
The Trump administration used Benny Johnson's claims that his house was "burned to the ground" and that "people were murdered in my front yard" to justify its federal takeover of DC. @kenbensinger.bsky.social found out that Johnson made it all up. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/b...
Nine former CDC directors, from Bill Foege onward, speak out about the incalculable harm that RFK, Jr. is doing to public health in the US and around the world. Gift link.
From every living former director of CDC: We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
there is being alive, and there is being dead, and then there is what happened to Ariel Sharon who, as prime minister of Israel, had a massive stroke and remained comatose in a total vegetative state for eight years before dying — imagine this in a power-structure consumed by a cult of personality
A plane carrying Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the EU's executive arm, suffered from jamming of GPS navigation while flying over Bulgaria. The authorities believe that Russia was behind the operation, European officials said on Monday.
Why did he fail so badly? What was the succession of events, influences and decisions that led to his catastrophic failure?
As we begin a new month, my law firm is litigation 51 voting and election cases in 25 states. 6 in Arizona 6 in Georgia 4 in Florida 4 in North Carolina 8 involve redistricting
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This should be the lead story in all major national news outlets. Public health people prefer to stay out of the limelight unless there is no other choice. I can’t overstate how bad things have to be for 9 former CDC directors to band together and pen an op-ed in the NYT warning the entire country.
Is @newsweek planning to follow up on concerns?
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
The press could help inform readers by calling lies lies and illegal acts illegal acts and insane ramblings insane ramblings. #journalism #normal #abnormal
Looks like more research on the links between the fossil fuel industry and anti-wind groups is needed in order to understand the merits of Marzulla’s arguments #networks #disinformation #KG #energy
‘A law firm representing opponents of offshore wind farms is demanding that Brown University retract research that details links between the fossil fuel industry and anti-wind groups. Marzulla Law ‘said it would complain to Brown’s public and private funders’, incl. the Energy Dept, NSF & Mellon
‘Marzulla Law L.L.C. is representing several groups that are fighting offshore wind, including Green Oceans, a nonprofit organization that is trying to overturn federal permits for Revolution Wind, a 65-turbine wind farm off the coast of Rhode Island.’ #wind #climatechange #energy
The law firm, Marzulla Law L.L.C., is trying to use the courts to delete scientific research fossil fuel energy lobbyists don’t like www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c... #legalnews #censorship #science
Desperately searching for the words ‘illegal, politically motivated’ in the title. More normalizing of dictator moves Come on @newsweek.com
Stalin could take lesson’s from Trump’s rewriting of history www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u... #jan6 #pardon #compensation
31 August 1942 | A transport of 1,000 Jews deported from #Drancy in German-occupied France arrived at #Auschwitz. After the arrival selection, 676 of them were murdered in gas chambers. One of them was 3 y/o Jacques Zajderman.
The Brennan Center is using public reporting to track the DOJ’s requests for copies of states’ voter registration databases and how states respond. bit.ly/3JFbKaB
Did @forbes.com really write: ‘Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy’s initiative to Make America Healthy Again by scrutinizing food ingredients also resonates with the GLP-1 crowd opting to eschew junk food habits and taking a deeper interest in the quality of their meals and snacks
Yes. There seems to be a weird belief that it’s somehow impolite to bring up the destruction of democracy. So rude. A breach of etiquette.
Weird that the press doesn’t simply tell readers the guy is nuts.
trump can issue as many executive orders as he wants, perhaps coverage should reflect the fact that a lot of these have the legal force of a child's wishlist for santa
Respectfully, anyone - including white nationalist Christian Trump loving GOP voting MAGAs - can get long covid And measles doesn’t care who your parents vote for. As Aryan eugenics destroying vaccine infrastructure has some flaws
It’s easier to purchase an assault rifle in the U.S. than it is to get a COVID19 vaccine. But food dyes and wearable fitness monitors are going to fix everything.
In article about Trump attacking American science, NYT apparently felt compelled to insert: ‘Few if any analysts see Mr. Trump as a Stalin, who crushed science, or even as a direct analog to this era’s strongmen leaders’ So weird. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/s... #journalism #fascism #sanewashing
That Trump and Trumpism are fascist doesn’t explain the sheer vandalism of unleashing mass murdering mayhem via RFK to replace medical/scientific institutions of immense value and prestige with medieval peasant superstitions. That is a criminal madness facilitated by but above and beyond fascism.
This “explicit” is a weird editorial choice. The constitution gives the president no power over this at all. It’s not ambiguous.
An Arizona court rejected a right-wing lawsuit seeking to make mail-in ballot signature verification harder. The ruling will help prevent wrongful ballot rejections for the nearly 90% of Arizonans who vote by mail.
‘Court rules Trump’s tariffs are illegal’ should be the headline, instead of the rush to present, not the court, but Trump’s POV. We are so tired of this.
The extent to which ICE is ignoring all civil rights and due process is astounding — and indicative of a culture where they’ve been told they can do literally no wrong. Agency and admin leaders must face sanctions and legal consequences.
"In a hotel-turned-campus on a reclaimed island in Malaysia, crypto and tech entrepreneurs are... getting schooled in a radical blueprint for creating new sovereign states from scratch." The approach entails destroying the political, social and economic infrastructure of existing states.
CHICAGO…
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Promise tariffs ⟶ faff around ⟶ announce tariffs ⟶ pause tariffs ⟶ promise deals ⟶ court rules tariffs illegal ⟶ appeal ⟶ court order stayed ⟶ make no deals ⟶ 90 days expires ⟶ delay tariffs again ⟶ announce tariffs again ⟶ appeals court rules tariffs illegal again ⟶ you are here
Is @thefireorg.bsky.social dealing with censorship on youtube?
But by far and away, the biggest priority for a Heritage Foundation-captured CDC is going to be using the agency's legal frameworks for access to medical data, and weaponizing them to control women. *Most* of the Project 2025 plan for CDC is a witch hunt against abortion on an unprecedented scale.
Trump did this
The most useful thing this protest can accomplish is to show the country that there are millions who are fed up with the criminality of Trump & his regime, millions who are willing to stand in opposition to the fascist takeover. A huge turnout will encourage more people to fight against the regime.
Congrats again, everyone
@nealkatyal.bsky.social: “You’ve got the president who's imposed the largest tax increase on American consumers since 1993 … and he did it without Congress saying one word. That is not our constitutional structure.”
The simple question ‘What does Putin want?’ Is an excellent predictor of Trump’s policies.
France needs to step up. France has what many consider to be the finest health care system in the world. France also has deep competence in scientific research and substantial industrial infrastructure. As Trump destroys US science and medicine, other countries must fill the gap. #Europe #vaccines
My favorite publications and videos are @propublica.org @wired.com @democracydocket.com @briantylercohen.bsky.social In these frightening times they courageously investigate and report on events in government, tech and law Check them out!
Excellent reporting from @wired.com on illegal events at the social security administration and the disappearing of the chief data officer whistleblower’s resignation email www.wired.com/story/charle... #whistleblower #doge #crimenews
🇺🇸 La #rougeole continue de se propager aux États-Unis, seuls 9 États n'ont recensé aucun cas cette année. Le Texas est de très loin le plus touché (plusieurs clusters dans des communautés peu vaccinées notamment). Désormais 1 408 cas cette année (dont 3 morts), plus gros bilan depuis 30 ans.
The abject awfulness of NYT headlines minimizing horrific and deadly actions by Trump is just plain weird. Did the authors Zolan Kanno-Youngs and Maggie Haberman approve of this ‘pushing the boundaries’ headline? #CDC #vaccines #RFK
Some critics say that America's rapid decent into fascism is unfortunate.
Once again, we are in the midst of the worst, most unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis in 🇺🇸 history
"Pediatric Brain Cancer Trial Group to Be Phased Out" "A network of hospitals and cancer centers dedicated to early phase trials of novel treatments will no longer receive federal funding." 🎁🔗 Nina Agrawal for @nytimes.com
More dictator moves by Trump #Unconstitutional www.washingtonpost.com/business/202... #congress #budget
⚡️ Trump is a 'Russian asset,' Portuguese president says. Questions about Trump's possibly shady relationship with Russia and the country's security services have long swirled.
Another Thiel boy joins JD Vance in the Trump power network. #CDC
If Johnson’s serious about ‘don’t die’ as a philosophy he should lobby hard against putting dangerous nutjobs like RFK Jr in charge of key lifesaving technologies like vaccines.
No scientific or medical training?
Did a Republican just realize that the children of Republicans risk illness and death from RFK Jr’s insane actions no less than the children of Democrats? The Republicans in Congress have the power to end this insanity before massive tragedy hits #Cassidy #CDC #NIH
Cassidy voted to confirm RFK after supposedly buying the lie that as HHS secretary he wouldn’t touch the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. It took him like three months to fire the whole committee.
A must read, especially for anyone who thinks that making little concessions and keeping your head down will work:
Thank you.
The Nazi Friedrich Kadgien passed through #Switzerland where he had powerful business partners. Some of the investigative archives were declassified in 1977 www.fold3.com/image/287375... #loot #OMGUS #Argentina
If major media haven't reached the obvious conclusion that Trump is building a dictatorship, they're lousy journalists. If they've reached that conclusion but are purposely keeping it from the public, they're lousy Americans.
Thanks for the heads’ up. Do you know what OpenAI does with ChatGPT conversations?
The GOP named James Edwin Yokeley Jr chair of the Surry County Board of Elections even though he is the kind of man who would put narcotics in his grandaughters’ ice cream. The police arrested him for exactly that.
“.. democracy often erodes slowly at first .. But with each concession, autocrats become bolder.. and reversal becomes harder. Responses that, early on, can feel pragmatic—waiting it out, remaining silent, cutting a deal—only embolden ..” @dziblatt.bsky.social www.foreignaffairs.com/germany/hitl...
It's important to know what we're dealing with. Though some in the media still try to horse-race, both sides this, we're faced with psychopaths at the helm of our nation's public health, scientific and healthcare efforts. They want to inflict pain and suffering. It's a goal, not a by-product. 6/
Fortunately Trump and RFK Jr were far away and had no power when scientists, doctors, and vaccine manufacturers were fighting smallpox for the benefit of all
Time to dig deep into the legacy of #Nazis immigrants in #Argentina. Let’s bring the history of the South American Nazi looting networks up to date. (With stops in Switzerland.) #artmarket #ratlines
Abbe Lowell and I represent CDC Director #SusanMonarez. Contrary to govt statements, Dr. Monarez has neither resigned nor yet been fired. She will not resign. We have issued the following statement:
Voting should be easier than buying guns.
Makes one wonder how many old Nazi families are in Argentina.
The daughters of Hermann Göring's aide - who refused for years to talk with art-theft investigators - put their home in Argentina up for sale, and GUESS WHAT.
Does the German company Axel Springer SE still own it?
You are living through the unthinkable: the president of the United States using the military to seize domestic power. The greatest crisis of executive power in American history, at the hands of the worst, most corrupt, and most unfit president in American history.
America’s leading physician groups are now openly defying RFK Jr. www.vox.com/health/45922...
Going to be wild to have Clarence Thomas and other members of the court write that even the appearance of impropriety is sufficient to allow the President to remove Federal Reserve members from office, and then head off to Harlan Crow’s yacht
In short, the text of the Wapo article is crystal clear: raw milk is dangerous. People should not drink raw milk. It’s wrong, an error, incorrect to say it’s safe. But the headline turns this fact (well documented by the journalist) into a question #journalism #rfk
“The nation’s health agencies have warned against this claim by Kennedy, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to head the Department of Health and Human Services. “Unpasteurized milk can pose a serious health risk,” the FDA has said, and “raw milk can be a source of foodborne illness,” the CDC has
““The cow sits down, the mammary gland is outside the cow, and it sits down in the manure and in the mud,” Lucey said. Raw milk can contain bacteria such as Campylobacter, E. coli, salmonella and listeria that can cause diarrhea, stomach cramping and vomiting —what’s often considered food poisoning”
“Drinking unpasteurized milk is “a really stupid, bad idea,” said John Lucey, a professor of food science and the director of the Center for Dairy Research at University of Wisconsin at Madison. “It’s almost like a doctor shouldn’t wash their hands before they go into an operating room.””
The moron literally had a parasitic worm in his brain, yet because RFK (again, not a doctor, not a scientist) chooses personally to drink raw milk, which can carry disease-causing bacteria, viruses, and parasites, @washingtonpost.com asks how safe it is as if this were a debate
The reluctance of so many analysts to come to terms with how Trump's incompetent authoritarianism at home and strategic incoherence abroad might affect the ability of the US to sustain its global power status verges on the surreal. An Emperor's New Clothes moment.
“This is about the president of the United States and his complicit lackey, Stephen Miller, searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities, and end elections.” www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
Page One. @chicago.suntimes.com
This article just reminded me of this old tweet
Postal services around the world suspend deliveries to US: how will it affect you?
It’s not just Americans who will die and be injured because of RFK Jr’s ignorant and nutty anti-science beliefs. Everyone who relies on American vaccine and disease control infrastructure will be impacted
Supreme Courts are as good as the people on them #ruleoflaw
The answer is 'yes"
America needs FEMA. www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025... #disaster #Trump #Musk
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Yes. The question is how to prepare? America’s pre-Trump allies should also plan seriously for this eventuality.
Indeed. But in the end, few recall precisely the days January 30 (when Hitler became Chancellor), February 27 (Reichstag fire), March 22 (Dachau opened), March 23 (Enabling Act passed)—they just remember 1933. Likewise, everyone will remember 2025.
Eager to see what @thefireorg.bsky.social has to say