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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 19h

"Freedom of speech has a point. It is there so people can speak truth to power. Often that truth is spoken first by young people."
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Gaza and Protest

Why freedom of speech matters

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Bryant Furlow @bryantfurlow.bsky.social · 12h

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Scientists Completed a Toxicity Report on This Forever Chemical. The EPA Hasn’t Released It.

Agency scientists found that PFNA could cause developmental, liver and reproductive harms. Their final report was ready in mid-April, according to an internal document reviewed by ProPublica, but the ...

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 1d

We are an independent, nonprofit newsroom with more than 150 dedicated journalists.

For those who want to read the facts of our reporting — and the documents on which it is based — here’s the full story:

Trump Is Accusing Foes With Multiple Mortgages of Fraud. Records Show 3 of His Cabinet Members Have Them.

The White House has targeted opponents, including a Fed governor, for having more than one primary residence on their loan papers. ProPublica found that, in one case, a Trump cabinet secretary got two...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

STEPHANOPOULOS: ProPublica reported that several members of the Trump administation have similar questions about their mortgages

VANCE: ProPublica is basically a left-wing blog

S: Do you dispute the facts they reported?

VANCE: I haven't read it. I have no idea. I certainly question the source

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 2d

Here is a reporter who deserves to be remembered.
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Ukrainian journalist Roshchyna posthumously named Press Freedom Hero

The IPI said Roshchyna's death on Sept. 19, 2024 "exposed the brutal treatment suffered by the dozens of Ukrainian journalists unjustly held by Russian authorities, and brought new urgency to the need...

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 3d

An update from WGN on Debbie Brockman: "Earlier today, a WGN-TV creative services employee was detained by ICE. She has since been released, and no charges were filed against her. Out of respect for her privacy, we will have no further statements about this incident.”

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 3d

This morning, masked Border Patrol agents violently pinned a longtime WGN-TV producer to the ground after detaining another unidentified male in Chicago, eventually arresting her and hauling her off in an unmarked silver van.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

WGN-TV producer violently detained during Chicago ICE enforcement action

A DHS spokesperson said that Debbie Brockman was placed under arrest for ‘assault on a federal law enforcement officer,’ claiming the WGN employee threw objects at the agent.

www.independent.co.uk

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 3d

CDC workers have been terminated tonight

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 3d

ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi.

David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.

Here's their story.

ICE Stranded a 17-Year-Old on I-20 After Arresting His Father. The Mississippi Dad Now Faces Deportation.

A 17-year-old watched as ICE arrested his immigrant father, Hector, on I-20 in June. The family faces mounting legal fees and the risk of deportation.

www.mississippifreepress.org

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 3d

My quote of the day

Nobody ever thanks you for saving them from the disease they didn't know they were going to get.

William Foege

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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 2d

From NBC News:
153 measles infected kids are in quarantine in South Carolina.

118 kids in Minneapolis.

If this continues, We will likely lose our official measles elimination status.

This is the outcome of antivax rhetoric.

🧪 www.statnews.com/2025/06/24/u...

A grim milestone: U.S. is on the cusp of losing its official measles elimination status

We have had the ability to prevent nearly all cases of measles for more than 60 years. Yet the number of cases keeps growing.

www.statnews.com

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Bryant Furlow @bryantfurlow.bsky.social · 2d

Apparently biosecurity is “Democrat oriented”? The CDC Epidemic Intelligence Service staff was reportedly fired last night.

Bryant Furlow @bryantfurlow.bsky.social · 2d

Informal regional networks of state and local public health agencies, and the Vaccine Integrity Project, are trying to fill the gaps.

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 3d

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 3d

The New York Times says that their journalists will not sign the Pentagon's new press pass policy:

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 3d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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J. Offir, PhD @joffirphd.bsky.social · 3d

Why you - & your kids! - need a flu shot:

I hate to platform Leena Wen, so I'll summarize rather than share a link:

🔹️Last year was very bad, & it could happen again. More people were hospitalized for flu in 2024-5 than in each of almost 15 years prior.

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www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | Thinking of skipping your flu shot? Here’s why you should reconsider.

Four recent CDC studies highlight the necessity of getting this year’s vaccine.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 3d

This is not a border crossing.
There’s no law that any of us have to show our papers on the interior.

This is a blatant civil rights violation. How is anyone supposed to know whether this man is a real ICE agent or just pretending to be one?!

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Prof Sheena Cruickshank @sheencr.bsky.social · 4d

Excellent op Ed about the issues with single vaccines published in response to Trumps Statement about single shots for Measles, mumps and rubella as well as CDC call for single vaccine manufacturer 🧵🧪#HealthPolicy

CIDRAP Op-Ed: Why the CDC director is wrong about the MMR vaccine

www.cidrap.umn.edu

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 6d

INBOX: The Chicago News Guild joined others in suing ICE for attacking journalists at the Broadview facility.

“Our members have a right, protected by the First Amendment, to do their jobs and report the news. They should not be targeted, injured or arrested for doing their jobs.”

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Center for Media and Democracy @exposedbycmd.bsky.social · 5d

"A group of Chicago press associations, journalists, nonprofits and unions sued the Trump administration and its top officials Monday, saying federal agents had used 'extreme brutality' at local protests to silence both the press and civilians."

Chicago journalists, protesters sue Trump administration, alleging ‘extreme brutality’

The organizations are urging the court to protect the First Amendment rights of protesters to peacefully protest and journalists to “observe, record, and report on the federal agents’ activities and t...

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 6d

My quote of the day

If you want to preserve democracy as we know it, you have to have a free and many times adversarial press. And without it, I am afraid that we would lose so much of our individual liberties over time. That's how dictators get started.

John McCain

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Algernon D’Ammassa @algernonwrites.bsky.social · 6d

A notice for tomorrow’s federal register designates a project area across most of New Mexico’s international boundary for border wall and related construction, including a new north-south stretch in the Bootheel.

DHS clears way to build border wall across New Mexico

LAS CRUCES — The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is once again waiving a raft of laws protecting wildlife, archaeological preservation and environmental protections in order to expedite border wa...

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Liz Szabo @lizszabo.bsky.social · 6d

"Many mental health professionals and patient advocates say treating this as First Amendment speech could set a precedent under which any counseling is claimed to be free speech and no longer subject to professional standards, even if it's dangerous or inappropriate."

Adriel Bettelheim @abettel.bsky.social · 6d

Supreme Court justices appear skeptical of Colorado conversion therapy ban. www.axios.com/2025/10/07/s...

Supreme Court seems skeptical of conversion therapy ban

A decision could force more than 20 states to revisit their bans on the practice.

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 6d

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio insisted “no one has died” as a result of U.S. foreign aid cuts. In Myanmar, the grieving father of a 2-year-old boy who died after their food rations were cut calls such claims a lie.

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Climate Tracker @climate.skyfleet.blue · 8d

The EPA is ending greenhouse gas data collection. Who will step up to fill the gap? #Climate

The EPA is ending greenhouse gas data collection. Who will step up to fill the gap?

With the agency no longer collecting emissions data from polluting companies, attention is turning to whether climate NGOs have the tools—and legal right—to fulfill this EPA function.

www.wired.com

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