Christine Gorman
@cgorman.bsky.social
Retired science journalist. Writing a book about my grandmother, who joined a Franco-Polish resistance network during World War II.
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Caring is an act of resistance in a system that thrives on indifference.
December 13, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Caring is an act of resistance in a system that thrives on indifference.
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UPDATE: Another Chicago-area church has put up an immigration-themed Nativity scene.
A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”
A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”
December 7, 2025 at 10:31 PM
UPDATE: Another Chicago-area church has put up an immigration-themed Nativity scene.
A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”
A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”
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“A bailout is like putting a Band-Aid on a bullet wound. Government bailouts do not make up for our loss of income... We want markets for our crops.” —Soybean farmer John Bartman
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The Disney Heiress, the Soybean Farmer, and Trump’s Dangerous Decisions
Two views of how the president’s senseless economic and moral acts put the country at risk.
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December 8, 2025 at 8:19 PM
“A bailout is like putting a Band-Aid on a bullet wound. Government bailouts do not make up for our loss of income... We want markets for our crops.” —Soybean farmer John Bartman
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NEW: The Trump administration has been accusing political enemies of mortgage fraud for claiming more than one primary residence.
Records show President Trump himself did the same thing.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Records show President Trump himself did the same thing.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal
The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found Trump once did the very thing ...
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December 8, 2025 at 8:05 PM
NEW: The Trump administration has been accusing political enemies of mortgage fraud for claiming more than one primary residence.
Records show President Trump himself did the same thing.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Records show President Trump himself did the same thing.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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Via @fiona-ndre.bsky.social and @ulaakuzi.bsky.social: In Minneapolis, clergy mobilize to manage expected ICE raids targeting Somali immigrants —> religionnews.com/2025/12/04/i...
In Minneapolis, clergy mobilize to manage expected ICE raids targeting Somali immigrants
(RNS) — Preparing for ICE agents' presence in the city, an interfaith coalition shared best practices for dealing with law enforcement at houses of worship.
religionnews.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Via @fiona-ndre.bsky.social and @ulaakuzi.bsky.social: In Minneapolis, clergy mobilize to manage expected ICE raids targeting Somali immigrants —> religionnews.com/2025/12/04/i...
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As I have been lamenting for years, the clear erroneous standard for District Court findings of fact has been rendered null & void by this Court.
Justice Kagan in dissent:
“We are a higher court than the District Court, but we are not a better one when it comes to making such a fact-based decision.”
Justice Kagan in dissent:
“We are a higher court than the District Court, but we are not a better one when it comes to making such a fact-based decision.”
December 5, 2025 at 12:19 AM
As I have been lamenting for years, the clear erroneous standard for District Court findings of fact has been rendered null & void by this Court.
Justice Kagan in dissent:
“We are a higher court than the District Court, but we are not a better one when it comes to making such a fact-based decision.”
Justice Kagan in dissent:
“We are a higher court than the District Court, but we are not a better one when it comes to making such a fact-based decision.”
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This is extraordinary. Prasad's memo was something else, but to have 12 former FDA commissioners get together so quickly and say what a threat it is...just wow. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.... #medsky #vaccine #fda
A Threat to Evidence-Based Vaccine Policy and Public Health Security at the FDA | NEJM
Twelve former commissioners of the FDA express concern that the agency’s recent moves will undermine a regulatory model designed to ensure vaccine safety, effectiveness, and availability.
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December 3, 2025 at 10:44 PM
This is extraordinary. Prasad's memo was something else, but to have 12 former FDA commissioners get together so quickly and say what a threat it is...just wow. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.... #medsky #vaccine #fda
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The Department of Health and Human Services is a disinformation op today.
ICYMI: Yesterday, the CDC updated its vaccine safety page to say that vaccines might cause autism (they don’t) and that the science isn’t settled (it is).
For substantiation, the page links out to several studies by anti-vax allies of HHS Robert Kennedy Jr.
www.importantcontext.news/p/cdc-change...
For substantiation, the page links out to several studies by anti-vax allies of HHS Robert Kennedy Jr.
www.importantcontext.news/p/cdc-change...
CDC Updates Vaccine Safety Page to Promote Vaccine Misinformation, Cites Kennedy’s Anti-Vax Allies
It is the latest move by Robert Kennedy Jr.’s Department of Health and Human Services to undermine vaccines.
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November 20, 2025 at 10:53 PM
The Department of Health and Human Services is a disinformation op today.
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Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
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In Idaho's Clarkia fossil beds, ~15-million-yr-old leaves are sandwiched between rock. When exposed, the leaves momentarily retain their original colors—red, copper, sometimes even a chlorophyllic hue—before oxidizing and fading.
A sedimentary scrapbook. Reverse polaroids from Earth's deep past.
A sedimentary scrapbook. Reverse polaroids from Earth's deep past.
November 19, 2025 at 5:44 PM
In Idaho's Clarkia fossil beds, ~15-million-yr-old leaves are sandwiched between rock. When exposed, the leaves momentarily retain their original colors—red, copper, sometimes even a chlorophyllic hue—before oxidizing and fading.
A sedimentary scrapbook. Reverse polaroids from Earth's deep past.
A sedimentary scrapbook. Reverse polaroids from Earth's deep past.
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Chicago Presbytery issues call to action in face of ICE raids
The presbytery seeks "creative action and stubborn hope" and vows to follow the lead of those bearing the brunt of the violence.
The presbytery seeks "creative action and stubborn hope" and vows to follow the lead of those bearing the brunt of the violence.
Chicago Presbytery issues call to action in face of ICE raids
The Chicago Presbytery has released a powerful public statement and urgent call to action addressing the ongoing, federally sanctioned violence impacting communities across Chicago and its suburbs. Unanimously approved during the presbytery’s Nov. 18 meeting and published in both English and Spani...
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November 19, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Chicago Presbytery issues call to action in face of ICE raids
The presbytery seeks "creative action and stubborn hope" and vows to follow the lead of those bearing the brunt of the violence.
The presbytery seeks "creative action and stubborn hope" and vows to follow the lead of those bearing the brunt of the violence.
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NEW: In his first interview since his arrest for protesting outside the Chicago-area ICE facility, @revdrmichaelwoolf.bsky.social tells me he has "bruises all over my body."
Even so, he said, “the cruelty that goes on that facility … must be 100 times worse." religionnews.com/2025/11/15/a...
Even so, he said, “the cruelty that goes on that facility … must be 100 times worse." religionnews.com/2025/11/15/a...
November 15, 2025 at 7:52 PM
NEW: In his first interview since his arrest for protesting outside the Chicago-area ICE facility, @revdrmichaelwoolf.bsky.social tells me he has "bruises all over my body."
Even so, he said, “the cruelty that goes on that facility … must be 100 times worse." religionnews.com/2025/11/15/a...
Even so, he said, “the cruelty that goes on that facility … must be 100 times worse." religionnews.com/2025/11/15/a...
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First Presbyterian Church of Columbus, Indiana, abolishes $1.78 million in medical debt for Hoosier families
Congregation’s bicentennial celebration helps free more than 1,450 residents three counties from burdensome debt.
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Congregation’s bicentennial celebration helps free more than 1,450 residents three counties from burdensome debt.
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First Presbyterian Church of Columbus, Indiana, abolishes $1.78 million in medical debt for Hoosier families
Congregation’s bicentennial celebration helps free more than 1,450 residents three counties from burdensome debt.
pres-outlook.pulse.ly
November 13, 2025 at 3:00 PM
First Presbyterian Church of Columbus, Indiana, abolishes $1.78 million in medical debt for Hoosier families
Congregation’s bicentennial celebration helps free more than 1,450 residents three counties from burdensome debt.
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Congregation’s bicentennial celebration helps free more than 1,450 residents three counties from burdensome debt.
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And right on schedule, I just received my first text asking for a donation from Jack Schlossberg. He only just announced he was running. Institutional Democrats really don’t understand what a huge turnoff that is.
November 12, 2025 at 11:33 PM
And right on schedule, I just received my first text asking for a donation from Jack Schlossberg. He only just announced he was running. Institutional Democrats really don’t understand what a huge turnoff that is.
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Republicans have destroyed health care in our country. Millions will go without care, and people will die. Yet again, Republicans have shown their priorities begin and end with helping billionaires. Americans won't forget it the next time they go to the polls.
UPDATE: The Senate votes 53-47 to shoot down the Baldwin amendment to extend ACA funds for 1 year. A party-line vote with every Republican rejecting it.
An important vote in this series: Tammy Baldwin’s proposal to extend ACA expiring funds for 1 year. It’s structured as a motion to table (i.e. scrap it from the amendment tree). But it’ll show the appetite (or lack thereof) in the Senate to address this issue.
November 11, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Republicans have destroyed health care in our country. Millions will go without care, and people will die. Yet again, Republicans have shown their priorities begin and end with helping billionaires. Americans won't forget it the next time they go to the polls.
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A good time to remember that the closest thing in the US to fully funded single payer healthcare
is the healthcare that members of Congress receive.
is the healthcare that members of Congress receive.
November 10, 2025 at 2:26 PM
A good time to remember that the closest thing in the US to fully funded single payer healthcare
is the healthcare that members of Congress receive.
is the healthcare that members of Congress receive.
Rise up against this violation of First Amendment. If we can have prayer in public schools, we can have it on public streets.
UPDATE: Reached out to the Rev. Hannah Kardon, a United Methodist minister who was there that day and has been active in religious demonstrations at Broadview.
“They are making it clear that they are scared of prayer … it speaks the truth that what they are doing in that building is evil.”
“They are making it clear that they are scared of prayer … it speaks the truth that what they are doing in that building is evil.”
November 8, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Rise up against this violation of First Amendment. If we can have prayer in public schools, we can have it on public streets.
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Religion note: The first plaintiff in this case pushing the Trump admin to fully fund SNAP benefits is the Rhode Island State Council of Churches.
By my count, that makes 62 religious organizations (including denominations!) that have been part of lawsuits against the Trump admin this year.
By my count, that makes 62 religious organizations (including denominations!) that have been part of lawsuits against the Trump admin this year.
November 8, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Religion note: The first plaintiff in this case pushing the Trump admin to fully fund SNAP benefits is the Rhode Island State Council of Churches.
By my count, that makes 62 religious organizations (including denominations!) that have been part of lawsuits against the Trump admin this year.
By my count, that makes 62 religious organizations (including denominations!) that have been part of lawsuits against the Trump admin this year.
Please, please can we have an SNL skit? Writes itself.
I hope someone is writing "12 Hangry Men" about the sandwich guy jury
November 4, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Please, please can we have an SNL skit? Writes itself.
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After repeatedly requesting permission and following all the official guidelines, Catholic bishop, priests, sisters and lay people were refused permission to distribute Communion to migrants in ICE detention center, on All Saints Day. A religious freedom issue: www.ncronline.org/news/ice-aga...
ICE again prevents Chicago Catholics from bringing Eucharist to immigrant detainees
More than 2,000 faithful gathered to pray outside the Broadview ICE Detention Center Nov. 1, but the group's main request — to bring Communion to detainees — was rejected by federal immigration offici...
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November 2, 2025 at 7:55 PM
After repeatedly requesting permission and following all the official guidelines, Catholic bishop, priests, sisters and lay people were refused permission to distribute Communion to migrants in ICE detention center, on All Saints Day. A religious freedom issue: www.ncronline.org/news/ice-aga...
Jamaica still needs help www.bbc.com/news/article...
'No help, no food, no water': Hurricane-hit Jamaican towns wait for aid
Days after Hurricane Melissa hit, communities are isolated with little food, no water, and no idea of when normalcy will return.
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November 3, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Jamaica still needs help www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Case in point: staff of Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report, #CDC's critical information tool. Most MMWR staff were informed Friday they'd been RIF'd, leaving it unclear what the future of the publication would be. It appears these firings have been rescinded.
www.statnews.com/2025/10/11/c...
www.statnews.com/2025/10/11/c...
Deep cuts made to CDC's flagship MMWR publication reversed hours later
Deep cuts made to CDC's flagship MMWR publication have been reversed hours later.
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October 12, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Case in point: staff of Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report, #CDC's critical information tool. Most MMWR staff were informed Friday they'd been RIF'd, leaving it unclear what the future of the publication would be. It appears these firings have been rescinded.
www.statnews.com/2025/10/11/c...
www.statnews.com/2025/10/11/c...
Absolutely agree.
New reporting: many apparently fired at CDC in 'error'. This is a failure by design given that the admin does not care about fulfilling agency missions. This is the kind of error that should have political consequences.
Unserious people cause real-world harm.
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www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...
Unserious people cause real-world harm.
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Trump Administration Will Rehire Scores of Experts Fired in Error
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October 11, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Absolutely agree.
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More than 5,000 federal employees have received layoff notices. We’re working to ensure that the administration isn’t using state voter rolls to target registered Democrats for termination. More details soon.
October 11, 2025 at 4:54 PM
More than 5,000 federal employees have received layoff notices. We’re working to ensure that the administration isn’t using state voter rolls to target registered Democrats for termination. More details soon.