Gillian Leichtling
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Gillian Leichtling
@gillianleichtling.bsky.social
Reposted by Gillian Leichtling
Along with our online guide, we also have a new How to Clean Up Copaganda poster, which sums up key ways media makers can cut through authoritarian and pro-police propaganda by getting to root causes, avoiding sensationalizing, and refusing to repeat cop lies.

Check it out and order prints here:
How To Clean Up Copaganda Poster — Interrupting Criminalization
Size 12x18” museum-quality poster made on thick matte paper. This poster, modeled after workplace safety posters that give advice on how to clean up vomit and other hazards, sums up ten key ways journ...
www.interruptingcriminalization.com
October 15, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Reposted by Gillian Leichtling
Sen. Warnock called Georgia’s Medicaid work requirement program “the real waste, fraud, and abuse.”

“This report shows that Pathways is incredibly effective at barring working people from health coverage and making corporate consultants richer.”
Georgia’s Medicaid Work Requirement Program Spent Twice as Much on Administrative Costs as on Health Care, GAO Says
Republican lawmakers cite Georgia’s Pathways to Coverage as a national model for federal Medicaid work requirements that are set to take effect in 2027. A new report shows the program has spent at lea...
www.propublica.org
September 28, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Reposted by Gillian Leichtling
CNN: “At least 47 killed in Gaza City on Saturday, 6 children… footage showed a row of dead children shrouded in floral blankets… Video from after the attack showed numerous children wandering dazed, covered in blood and dust…” www.cnn.com/2025/08/30/m...
August 31, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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RFK Jr. and his toady Jay Bhattacharya have just dismantled the Advisory Committee to the NIH Director, an outside group of advisors who provide guidance on a range of topics.

They will be likely be replaced with another layer of toadies. Toadies all the way down.
NIH director is replacing his top outside advisory board
Some worry new members of the long-running Advisory Committee to the Director will mirror agency chief Jay Bhattacharya’s views
www.science.org
July 12, 2025 at 2:31 PM
‘I heard them take their last breath’: survivor recounts Gaza paramedic killings
April 4, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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“'We’re digging them out in their uniforms, with their gloves on. They were here to save lives. Instead, they ended up in a mass grave,'Whittall said. 'These ambulances have been buried in the sand. There’s a UN vehicle here, buried in the sand. An Israeli forces bulldozer has buried them.'"
April 1, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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“the body of one of the dead had been found with his hands tied”
Israel killed 15 Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers one by one, says UN
Workers on a mission to help colleagues were buried in mass grave in southern Gaza, says humanitarian office
www.theguardian.com
April 1, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Reposted by Gillian Leichtling
A war that destroys hospitals and does not allow for the establishment of a suitable alternative is a war against a civilian population, one that is now plagued by disease and starvation.

www.972mag.com/health-syste...

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December 29, 2024 at 1:56 PM
Reposted by Gillian Leichtling
Democrats never pass up a crisis in which they can try to get more expensive surveillance to local cops, and New York Times never passes up a chance to quote them without providing context about the enormous social costs, ineffectiveness, and widespread waste and abuse it brings.
December 14, 2024 at 2:39 AM