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@JanelleAnthro

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Applied medical anthropologist. #GlobalPublicHealth #SociologyofLaw. Supporting research in gerontology & geriatric medicine. Disaster preparedness mindset.

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@JanelleAnthro @janelleanthro.bsky.social · Mar 30

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Raise awareness about the threats to our social security in the purple areas around Pittsburgh, PA. @realclaudetaylor.bsky.social

I just gave to MAD DOG PAC!

Show your support with a contribution.

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 49m

Remarkable effort to note where DC neighbors are being grabbed by ICE

CM Janeese Lewis George @cmlewisgeorgew4.bsky.social · 2d

Every sign in DC marks the loss of someone’s neighbor, someone’s loved one, someone’s friend.

Every sign marks yet another step in the march toward authoritarianism.

Signs popping up around D.C. note: ‘ICE kidnapping happened here’

The signs range in style and mark numerous locations where people have been taken by federal agents.

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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 51m

Photos coming out of Western AK are devastating.

Hardest hit are indigenous villages off road system, many miles by air from supplies. Most built on river deltas w/ no high ground to which to escape.

Cuts to NASA/NOAA mean worse weather data. Cuts to EPA mean no grants for erosion control. Etc.

News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 1h

These are mostly indigenous communities in Alaska that have been slammed by the storm.

The local manager of a small airline fleet says he is the only one doing evacuations right now!

Defund FEMA and people are abandoned. Defund public media and no-one knows.

FYI, today is Indigenous Peoples Day.

Flooding seen with water up to the crash barriers of local roads

Sheds and debris lie scattered in the storm

A small blue house has been blown onto its roof

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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 6h

ICE goons have detained the parents of a Marine serving his country as they tried to visit their pregnant daughter on the Camp Pendleton base.

ICE Barbie’s Goons Detain and Deport Dad of Marine

Family says stop at Camp Pendleton gate led to their father’s deportation.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 7h

My quote of the day

Science is the search for truth, that is the effort to understand the world: it involves the rejection of bias, of dogma, of revelation, but not the rejection of morality.

Linus Pauling

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Claude Taylor @realclaudetaylor.bsky.social · 54m

We are Mad Dog Pac. We do anti Trump billboards and fund them by selling Union Made in the USA tee shirts and other merch. Get a tee. Fund a billboard. Piss off a Fascist.
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 2h

Special education isn't a "nice thing to have." It isn't "charity" or doing something to make us feel better. It is a right. The right to a Free Appropriate Public Education is codified in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, signed by a Republican president.

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 8h

U.S. Department of Education fired nearly everyone in the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services in a wave of new layoffs that began Friday, according to the union representing the agency's employees. www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

www.usatoday.com

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@JanelleAnthro @janelleanthro.bsky.social · 39m

Serious protestors? These ICE guys are itching to shoot. The silly response is protective and shows what liars they are about left-wing aggression. Why does this concern troll want us to be in danger?

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1h

The human costs of Trump's war on government

For many disabled workers, federal jobs were decent, human, and accommodating: everything the president hates.

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The Borowitz Report @borowitzreport.bsky.social · 23h

Trump’s rhetoric about people attacking law enforcement officers rings a little hollow from someone who pardoned the criminals who killed police on Jan 6

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 7h

Hamas has released all 20 remaining living hostages.

The Israeli military says it has taken custody of them and will transport them onward to Israel. Follow AP's live updates.

Live updates: Israel says Hamas hands over first 7 hostages to Red Cross as part of Gaza ceasefire

The key exchange follows a breakthrough ceasefire after two years of war. U.S. President Donald Trump was also arriving in the region along with other leaders to discuss the U.S.-proposed deal and postwar plans.

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Guardrails of Democracy @demguardrails.bsky.social · 1d

MO & OH Dems need us to help Rally support!

A commissioned poll shows nearly 1/2 of MO voters oppose the maps

The Dem committee needs over 100,000 valid signatures across multiple congressional districts before the state’s 90-day window expires on Dec. 11 to let voters decide on the maps.

Missouri Democrats have an opportunity to block a new congressional map. They say they’re largely on their own.

Despite relatively little investment from Washington, Missouri and Ohio Democrats are looking to block new Republican-drawn maps through uncertain avenues.

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 9h

Check out this new #MethodsPaper completely FREE: doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 17h

Sassy Broadview bee.

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 13h

Read my words. Ty.

Arrests and Protests at the Broadview ICE Facility

The Department of Homeland Security says that eleven people were arrested Saturday at a protest outside of the Broadview ICE facility.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 16h

Just voted YES on PROP 50!! Make sure to vote early! THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE!

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Alfie Kohn @alfiekohn.bsky.social · 1d

Read this thread about Russell Vought, whose power is comparable to Stephen Miller's. He believes he's "fighting a noble war to defend his 'real America' of white Christian patriarchal rule" by "bending the entire government machine to Trump's will" - while mainstream media whitewashes his evil.

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 1d

Sunday reading:

I wrote about the aggrieved extremist who is currently firing thousands of federal workers and ravaging state capacity based on conspiratorial nonsense - and about mainstream media’s infuriating tendency to sanitize Russell Vought and the regime he serves.

This week’s piece:

We need to talk about Russell Vought – But Properly

Why certain mainstream outlets insist on sanitizing Vought as a devout “small government” conservative – and what actually animates his war against pluralistic democracy

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 19h

Feeling safer now?

Trump's deportation machine has diverted some 42,000 crime fighters from other tasks

Feeling safer now?

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Dr. Samantha Montano @samlmontano.bsky.social · 18h

Some first hand accounts from Kwigillingok and Kipnuk in the thread.

Additional reporting here: alaskapublic.org/news/public-...

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Young Brolic @audaciouskay.bsky.social · 21h

I want people to understand what they contributed to when they were busy not “rewarding” Kamala or whatever tf they thought they were doing.

WIC literally kept me fed. And now Black children in AMERICA, RIGHT HERE, are going to have to do with less than what I got?!

Fuck these people.

Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 21h

WIC’s application limitations could be especially harmful for Black women living in food deserts like the Mississippi Delta, Cassandra Welchlin said.

She worries about children going hungry because they have difficulties learning and paying attention in school if they do not have access to food.

WIC Stops Accepting Some Applicants Amid Government Shutdown

The WIC program will only accept applications from pregnant women, breastfeeding women and high-risk infants during the federal government shutdown.

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@JanelleAnthro @janelleanthro.bsky.social · 1d

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PA Judicial Elections are one of the Last Lines of Defense in the US
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PA Judicial Elections are one of the Last Lines of Defense in US

It may not be intuitive, but the Pennsylvania Supreme Court is one of the last remaining lines of defense against autocracy in the US. The three Supreme Court Justices up for retention, Christine Dono...

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 1d

Shared courtesy of my Penn History colleague, Ben Nathans

Image: A variation on Benjamin Franklin’s “Join, or Die” engraving, originally published in the Pennsylvania Gazette in 1754. Each segment of the snake has the name of a university sent Trump’s “compact”: Texas, AZ, Vanderbilt, USC, Dartmouth, UVA, Brown, Penn, MIT.

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sanneru.bsky.social @sanneru.bsky.social · 2d

Also in German news

Portland: Kreative Kostümproteste gegen Trumps Einwanderungspolitik

In Oregon bieten Menschen in Spaßkostümen Donald Trumps Anti-Einwanderer-Behörde die Stirn. Das geht so weit, dass die Heimatschutzministerin Worte an ein »Huhn« richtet – und der US-Präsident die Nat...

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Klausie @klausiedaimler.bsky.social · 2d

Now I see it this for the pure genius that it is.

There were hoping for scary young men throwing molotov cocktails to fit their narrative so they could start shooting people.

Instead they got dancing cartoon characters showing the country and the world how ridiculous their nazi coslplay is.

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@JanelleAnthro @janelleanthro.bsky.social · 1d

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How Moldova voted pro-Europe despite Putin's campaign | Focus on Europe

YouTube video by DW News

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 2d

New from me at Cato: I go through the numerous and massive First Amendment and academic-freedom violations of Trump's proffered "compact" with universities and then talk about the mechanism by which it would be enforced, by way of what I describe as a "retroactive push-button guillotine."

Universities Must Defend Their Independence by Rejecting Trump's "Compact"

The Trump administration has proffered a “compact” to universities that would require them to surrender their independence and academic freedom. How many First Amendment violations can we identify in ...

www.cato.org

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