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Pantéa Javidan, JD, PhD.
@pjavidan.bsky.social
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Faculty & Research Fellow @ Stanford Center for Human Rights & International Justice + Human Rights in Trauma Mental Health Lab. Views mine.
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eric-reinhart.com
Medical AI is not intrinsically bad. Imagine universal US public healthcare designed not to increase profits but to improve public health and individual freedom from preventable disability. Imagine a public AI tool as part of this, where data is not owned, stored, or used by private companies. 1/
November 27, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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eric-reinhart.com
Medical AI is not intrinsically alienating or harmful. It is alienating and harmful when it is designed and deployed within health-capitalist systems to augment their capitalist goals. It will remain so until we force major structural changes. 3/
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
What we lose when we surrender care to algorithms | Eric Reinhart
A dangerous faith in AI is sweeping American healthcare – with consequences for the basis of society itself
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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eric-reinhart.com
“The political tragedy of our time is not that people have stopped believing in democracy or socialism or any particular creed. It is that so many have stopped believing politics can deliver anything that feels real at all.”

I’ve another essay out.
www.newglobalpolitics.org/when-power-t...
When Power Turns Itself Into a Joke - New Global Politics
How to make politics real again by anchoring it in the material ground of everyday life.
www.newglobalpolitics.org
November 27, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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acog.org
With whooping cough on the rise, ob-gyns should be ready to recommend the Tdap vaccine to pregnant patients in their third trimester. Get the latest on #MaternalVaccines, co-administration strategies, respiratory illness season preparation, and more in the #LaborOfLovePodcast: bit.ly/47CvdSZ
November 26, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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eric-reinhart.com
I don’t think most patients nor doctors realize that their conversations are now often being recorded by AI scribes with their default consent, permanently stored and used by AI companies, and are accessible to hospitals and practice groups and also easily searchable for sensitive information.
November 26, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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dropsitenews.com
⚡️ In a new Drop Site investigation, Ryan Grim and Murtaza Hussain reveal that Jeffrey Epstein quietly helped Alan Dershowitz orchestrate the smear campaign against John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt’s 2006 paper “The Israel Lobby,” newly obtained emails show.

The scholars had argued in the paper...
The scholars had argued in the paper that a network of pro-Israel donors and advocacy groups routinely pulled U.S. Middle East policy away from what was truly in America’s interest. Their analysis triggered a fierce backlash: institutions denounced them as antisemites, The Atlantic killed the article, and the Kennedy School stripped its logo from the paper. Emails from Epstein’s Yahoo account show him reviewing early drafts of Dershowitz’s attack piece, accusing the authors of recycling “neo-Nazi trash,” and agreeing to distribute it through his network. The cache also highlights Epstein’s influence at Harvard and his role managing the finances of billionaire Leslie Wexner, whose foundation poured nearly $20 million into the Kennedy School. The covert effort to smear the scholars mirrored the very dynamics the paper described: wealthy, well-connected actors mobilizing elite institutions to police criticism of Israel. The emails also show Epstein, during that same week, working with his lawyer on strategies to discredit a young woman who had accused him of sexual abuse. 🔗 Read: https://dropsitenews.com/p/jeffrey-epstein-aided-alan-dershowitz-mearsheimer-walt-israel-lobbym @ryangrim | @MazMHussain
November 25, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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rightwingwatch.bsky.social
If you're ever tempted to think MAGA can't get any more ridiculous...
November 25, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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gregggonsalves.bsky.social
This Administration’s policies will spur millions of new infections and deaths from AIDS. Today’s announcement is simply to rub all of our noses in this. It is to say: we know what we’re doing; we don’t care. It is pure sadism. It’s a descent into barbarism once again.
altcdc.altgov.info Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 2d
1/ ⚠️ Breaking: At CDC, we've been told the US Government will not officially commemorate World AIDS Day this year. No explanation given.
Photograph of a printed guidance memo stating that the U.S. Government will not be commemorating World AIDS Day this year. Key points include: USG funds should not be used for related events, personnel should refrain from public promotion via social media or other channels, and CDC and other USG staff may attend local events but cannot speak or promote attendance. The memo notes this guidance supersedes previous blanket approval and may require adjustments to planned activities.
November 25, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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jessicaelgot.bsky.social
Three more school contemporaries who claim to have witnessed Nigel Farage’s alleged teenage racism have rejected the Reform UK leader’s suggestion that it was “banter”, describing it as targeted, persistent and nasty.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Three more ex-pupils at school with Nigel Farage reject ‘banter’ claims
Exclusive: Dulwich college contemporaries ‘rubbish’ Reform UK leader’s suggestion alleged racist taunts not intended to hurt
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:13 PM
pjavidan.bsky.social
UN report:

Israel has destroyed 69 years of human development in Gaza, “the worst economic collapse ever recorded.”
UN Special Rapporteur for oPT Francesca Albanese: “BREAKING: A new UN report finds that Israel's assault on Gaza - with the destruction of health care, education, infrastructure, even the banking system - has erased 69 years of human development, marking the worst economic collapse ever recorded. This is not war: it is genocide.”
November 25, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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democracynow.org
Jeffrey Epstein's newly-publicized emails implicate the entire elite class that he operated in.

"These circles that he moved in, if they have any superpower, it is the ability to hear the cries of people without power and close their ears."
November 25, 2025 at 3:00 PM
pjavidan.bsky.social
This is one way a media outlet can declare moral bankruptcy.
theatlantic.com The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 4d
Over many interviews, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Michael Scherer about how he plans to remake America’s public-health system. Can he lead the scientific establishment he’s spent much of his life crusading against?

Read more in our new cover story: theatln.tc/q9hXxlbM
November 24, 2025 at 10:39 PM
pjavidan.bsky.social
Truly vile and incorrigible.
November 24, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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maxberger.bsky.social
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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dropsitenews.com
Ryan Grim (@ryangrim.bsky.social) told Piers Morgan that “Cartel de los Soles’” is “the most obvious CIA-made-up name ever.” If the US wants to find its creators, he said, “pull up GPS and drive to Langley.” Grim explains that Marco Rubio, shut out of Ukraine & Gaza, now sees Venezuela as his...
Ryan Grim told Piers Morgan that “Cartel de los Soles’” is “the most obvious CIA-made-up name ever.” If the U.S. wants to find its creators, he said, “pull up GPS and drive to Langley.” Grim explains that Marco Rubio, shut out of Ukraine and Gaza, now sees Venezuela as his “Caribbean sandbox,” pushing long-held Cuban-right fantasies of regime change. Trump knows a Libya-style collapse is the likely outcome, and so far deserves credit for resisting the war hawks. @ryangrim | @piersmorgan
November 19, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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walkerbragman.bsky.social
“With or from starvation?”
razzball.bsky.social Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 8d
Jewish Federations applauds Olivia Reingold, a staff writer at Bari Weiss's Free Press, as she victory laps her (ghoulish and erroneous) reporting that some of the children Israel was starving to death and denying medical aid to in Gaza had pre-existing conditions.
November 19, 2025 at 7:48 PM
pjavidan.bsky.social
Resharing for some much-needed background and context to the Epstein case, which is otherwise being weaponized to score political points rather than to address systemic inequities and injustices that perpetuate the commercial-sexual exploitation of children and elite impunity.
smoothbrainsociety.bsky.social smoothbrainsociety.bsky.social @smoothbrainsociety.bsky.social · Aug 21
Dr. Pantea Javidan, @pjavidan.bsky.social of @stanford.edu joins us to expose the contradictions in trafficking laws, the Epstein case, and why children’s rights are under attack.

Thank you Sabrina of @gvrcn.bsky.social for cohosting

🎧 Listen: Links Below
#Podcast #HumanRights #ChildProtection
November 19, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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smoothbrainsociety.bsky.social
Dr. Pantea Javidan, @pjavidan.bsky.social of @stanford.edu joins us to expose the contradictions in trafficking laws, the Epstein case, and why children’s rights are under attack.

Thank you Sabrina of @gvrcn.bsky.social for cohosting

🎧 Listen: Links Below
#Podcast #HumanRights #ChildProtection
August 21, 2025 at 3:59 PM
pjavidan.bsky.social
Please do not divulge your personal details to these companies.
drjudystone.bsky.social Judy Stone @drjudystone.bsky.social · 9d
Dangerous decision to give your tax/personal financial information to ChatGPT and Intuit #privacy #security
moreperfectunion.bsky.social More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 9d
TurboTax is about to be integrated into ChatGPT, where customers will be guided through tasks tied to their tax filings or financial profile by the AI chatbot.

TurboTax owner Intuit is also paying OpenAI more than $100 million a year to power AI agents.
November 19, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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dropsitenews.com
Boston University student Zac Segal, president of BU College Republicans, bragged online that he’d been calling ICE “for months” to trigger a raid on a neighborhood car wash. Nine workers were detained. Many had valid work permits and were legal.

Segal celebrated the arrests, writing “pump up...
Boston University student Zac Segal, president of BU College Republicans, bragged online that he’d been calling ICE “for months” to trigger a raid on a neighborhood car wash. Nine workers were detained. Many had valid work permits and were legal. Segal celebrated the arrests, writing “pump up the numbers,” and claiming immigrant workers were “criminals” who were “taking American jobs.” According to his athletic bio at Boston University, Segal’s hometown is listed as London, England. Brian Allen @allenanalysis A Boston University student bragged that he called ICE to raid a local car wash. Zac Segal, president of the BU College Republicans, said he snitched because “immigrants are taking American jobs.” Then the lawyer for the workers hit back with the obvious: Segal wasn’t born in America either and he’s the one taking a spot at the university from American students.
November 17, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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thrasherxy.bsky.social
I dare you to read @thellpsx.bsky.social and @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social on their sister crip for eSims for Gaza Alice Wong and not cry llps.substack.com/p/alice-wong...
Alice Wong was Crips for eSims for Gaza, and Everything to Us
by Jane Shi and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
llps.substack.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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rightwingwatch.bsky.social
Anti-LGBTQ activist Katy Faust has launched a campaign to overturn Obergefell by convincing SCOTUS that "the ultimate victim are children who lose their right to their own mother and father because the court has enshrined a false definition of marriage." www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...
November 17, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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walkerbragman.bsky.social
The “big tent” thing was always a transparent rebuke of the growing power of the left inside the Democratic Party.

The mantra also came to embody the problems of the modern party—namely that it doesn’t actually stand for anything.

Here we have reached its logical, laughable extreme. Beyond parody.
acyn.bsky.social Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 11d
Raskin: We are a big tent. We must be a huge, vast tent. I say this is a party that’s got room for Marjorie Taylor Greene if she wants to come over.
November 17, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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thrasherxy.bsky.social
"Remembering Alice Wong: Writer, Advocate, Friend"

Steven W. Thrasher on Meeting and Collaborating with the Outspoken Founder of the Disability Visibility Project

published by @literaryhub.bsky.social | art by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social lithub.com/remembering-...
Remembering Alice Wong: Writer, Advocate, Friend
Though we were in frequent conversation for a decade, I only got to meet my friend Alice Wong in person just once. And when I did, I  was a bundle of nerves—and that was before she cussed me out wi…
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November 17, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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walkerbragman.bsky.social
You don’t need research when your plan for infectious diseases is herd immunity through infection.
November 17, 2025 at 10:52 PM