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Maria is one of hundreds of children, who — like Liam Ramos — have been held at a Texas detention facility where parents say children languish as they’re served contaminated food, receive little education and struggle to obtain basic medical care.
Here's our attempt at telling their stories. 2/
Here's our attempt at telling their stories. 2/
Children trapped in Texas immigration facility recount nightmares, inedible food, no school
A photo of Liam Conejo Ramos, a scared 5-year-old, drew attention to a detention center in Dilley, Texas. Advocates say his experience reflects what hundreds of children have endured out of public vie...
www.nbcnews.com
February 6, 2026 at 6:25 PM
Maria is one of hundreds of children, who — like Liam Ramos — have been held at a Texas detention facility where parents say children languish as they’re served contaminated food, receive little education and struggle to obtain basic medical care.
Here's our attempt at telling their stories. 2/
Here's our attempt at telling their stories. 2/
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I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com
I grew up with Alex Pretti
The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.
www.theverge.com
January 27, 2026 at 4:45 PM
I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com
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Nothing says “restoring trust in public health” like RFK Jr. funding a modern-day Tuskegee-Nazi mashup study that puts the lives of Black children in a vulnerable country at risk.
December 17, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Nothing says “restoring trust in public health” like RFK Jr. funding a modern-day Tuskegee-Nazi mashup study that puts the lives of Black children in a vulnerable country at risk.
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NEW: Without USAID funding to help buy food for refugees, the World Food Program rushed to prioritize families based on need, determining that only half the population would get food.
Refugees learned which half they were in from a number stamped on the back of their ration card.
Refugees learned which half they were in from a number stamped on the back of their ration card.
After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death
“Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.
www.propublica.org
December 17, 2025 at 12:00 PM
NEW: Without USAID funding to help buy food for refugees, the World Food Program rushed to prioritize families based on need, determining that only half the population would get food.
Refugees learned which half they were in from a number stamped on the back of their ration card.
Refugees learned which half they were in from a number stamped on the back of their ration card.
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"They needed less than $20 mil to fund lifesaving health programs, including cholera response efforts, for 3 months — an eighth of what Trump recently approved to buy private jets for one cabinet secretary."
Awful, important story by @annamaria.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/usai...
Awful, important story by @annamaria.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/usai...
Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.
Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...
www.propublica.org
December 15, 2025 at 5:46 PM
"They needed less than $20 mil to fund lifesaving health programs, including cholera response efforts, for 3 months — an eighth of what Trump recently approved to buy private jets for one cabinet secretary."
Awful, important story by @annamaria.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/usai...
Awful, important story by @annamaria.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/usai...
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In the audience tonight is Charlotte Bennett, one of the 13 women that Andrew Cuomo is credibly alleged to have sexually harassed while they worked in his government.
She can't speak for herself because Cuomo's lawyers have hounded her.
So I confronted him.
She can't speak for herself because Cuomo's lawyers have hounded her.
So I confronted him.
October 23, 2025 at 12:27 AM
In the audience tonight is Charlotte Bennett, one of the 13 women that Andrew Cuomo is credibly alleged to have sexually harassed while they worked in his government.
She can't speak for herself because Cuomo's lawyers have hounded her.
So I confronted him.
She can't speak for herself because Cuomo's lawyers have hounded her.
So I confronted him.
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Experts say that some effects of starvation in Gaza can be permanent. And for the severely malnourished, simply starting to eat normal meals again can cause sickness—even death. https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/what-comes-after-starvation-in-gaza
October 19, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Experts say that some effects of starvation in Gaza can be permanent. And for the severely malnourished, simply starting to eat normal meals again can cause sickness—even death. https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/what-comes-after-starvation-in-gaza
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What I don't have in experience, I make up for in integrity.
And what Andrew Cuomo lacks in integrity, he could never make up for with experience.
And what Andrew Cuomo lacks in integrity, he could never make up for with experience.
October 16, 2025 at 11:16 PM
What I don't have in experience, I make up for in integrity.
And what Andrew Cuomo lacks in integrity, he could never make up for with experience.
And what Andrew Cuomo lacks in integrity, he could never make up for with experience.
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This Halloween I’m going as the scariest thing of all, emotional intimacy!!! ha ha just kidding I’m prion disease
October 12, 2025 at 4:57 AM
This Halloween I’m going as the scariest thing of all, emotional intimacy!!! ha ha just kidding I’m prion disease
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It cannot be made clearer.
If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.
If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.
October 9, 2025 at 10:14 AM
It cannot be made clearer.
If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.
If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.
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The idea of running anti-abortion Democrats is sickening to me. That means killing women! That is what that means!
September 20, 2025 at 3:49 PM
The idea of running anti-abortion Democrats is sickening to me. That means killing women! That is what that means!
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“Mohammed was born healthy but his mother was too malnourished to produce breast milk, and the family has only been able to get two cans of baby formula since.
At seven months old, he weighs just 9 pounds.”
At seven months old, he weighs just 9 pounds.”
‘We faced hunger before, but never like this’: skeletal children fill hospital wards as starvation grips Gaza
For months Israel kept food shipments to Gaza far below starvation rations. Now the death toll is rising rapidly
www.theguardian.com
July 23, 2025 at 7:10 PM
“Mohammed was born healthy but his mother was too malnourished to produce breast milk, and the family has only been able to get two cans of baby formula since.
At seven months old, he weighs just 9 pounds.”
At seven months old, he weighs just 9 pounds.”
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i cannot emphasize enough that there is no better time to mask up.
preventing illness before it happens is your best bet as the nets meant to catch you disintegrate before your eyes.
preventing illness before it happens is your best bet as the nets meant to catch you disintegrate before your eyes.
Spoke with someone who works with a public hospital system. His assessment of the effects of the GOP spending bill: “I think this is going to be a very apparent catastrophe, very quickly.”
July 3, 2025 at 7:32 PM
i cannot emphasize enough that there is no better time to mask up.
preventing illness before it happens is your best bet as the nets meant to catch you disintegrate before your eyes.
preventing illness before it happens is your best bet as the nets meant to catch you disintegrate before your eyes.
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Every word of this is depraved beyond belief.
ICE abducted a six year old with leukemia, threatened him with a gun such that he wet himself, and has denied him medical treatment.
I don’t know what to say.
www.tpr.org/border-immig...
ICE abducted a six year old with leukemia, threatened him with a gun such that he wet himself, and has denied him medical treatment.
I don’t know what to say.
www.tpr.org/border-immig...
June 27, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Every word of this is depraved beyond belief.
ICE abducted a six year old with leukemia, threatened him with a gun such that he wet himself, and has denied him medical treatment.
I don’t know what to say.
www.tpr.org/border-immig...
ICE abducted a six year old with leukemia, threatened him with a gun such that he wet himself, and has denied him medical treatment.
I don’t know what to say.
www.tpr.org/border-immig...
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My heart breaks for trans kids, who do not deserve this obsessive animus that adults are directing at them.
June 18, 2025 at 2:58 PM
My heart breaks for trans kids, who do not deserve this obsessive animus that adults are directing at them.
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“Defund the police” was in fact a great slogan.
June 7, 2025 at 9:21 PM
“Defund the police” was in fact a great slogan.
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Rubber hitting road: The elimination of US funding for programs that help countries fight neglected tropical diseases like lymphatic filariasis & river blindness is having & will have an enormous negative impact, @martinenserink.bsky.social reports. www.science.org/content/arti...
Crippling tropical diseases threaten to surge after U.S. funding cuts
Closing of programs that fought neglected diseases imperils drug donation and distribution efforts in 26 countries
www.science.org
May 23, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Rubber hitting road: The elimination of US funding for programs that help countries fight neglected tropical diseases like lymphatic filariasis & river blindness is having & will have an enormous negative impact, @martinenserink.bsky.social reports. www.science.org/content/arti...
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Just wondering if you knew that kids too young for COVID vaccines have COVID hospitalization rates that are similar to people 65-74?
Just wondering if you knew over 1000 people a week died from COVID while we were celebrating winter holidays and the New Year?
Does FDA Administrators know?
Just wondering if you knew over 1000 people a week died from COVID while we were celebrating winter holidays and the New Year?
Does FDA Administrators know?
May 20, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Just wondering if you knew that kids too young for COVID vaccines have COVID hospitalization rates that are similar to people 65-74?
Just wondering if you knew over 1000 people a week died from COVID while we were celebrating winter holidays and the New Year?
Does FDA Administrators know?
Just wondering if you knew over 1000 people a week died from COVID while we were celebrating winter holidays and the New Year?
Does FDA Administrators know?
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World Central Kitchen has run out of food to serve in Gaza. Its bakery ("recently the last working bakery in Gaza") is out of flour. There are 100,000+ tons of food in staging areas within driving distance of Gaza, and Israel refuses to let them in wck.org/news/gaza-up...
World Central Kitchen | WCK Forced to Halt Cooking in Gaza as Supplies Run Out
After serving more than 130 million total meals and 26 million loaves of bread over the past 18 months, World Central Kitchen no longer has the supplies to cook meals or bake bread in Gaza.
wck.org
May 7, 2025 at 7:13 PM
World Central Kitchen has run out of food to serve in Gaza. Its bakery ("recently the last working bakery in Gaza") is out of flour. There are 100,000+ tons of food in staging areas within driving distance of Gaza, and Israel refuses to let them in wck.org/news/gaza-up...
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Today: I talked to one of my absolute heroes, @deborahb.bsky.social, about RFK Jr., how the US got food purity laws, the wild west of American food in the 19th century... and how to avoid going back to the days of formaldehyde milk and brick-dust spices.
buttondown.com/theswordandt...
buttondown.com/theswordandt...
How to Not Get Poisoned in America
The minute I saw that Robert Kennedy Jr., a notorious disease-loving health crank, was going to be responsible for the nation’s health—and the health of its...
buttondown.com
April 30, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Today: I talked to one of my absolute heroes, @deborahb.bsky.social, about RFK Jr., how the US got food purity laws, the wild west of American food in the 19th century... and how to avoid going back to the days of formaldehyde milk and brick-dust spices.
buttondown.com/theswordandt...
buttondown.com/theswordandt...
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For nearly 60 days, no food, fuel, medicine or other items has entered the Gaza Strip, blocked by Israel.
Aid groups are running out of food to distribute. Markets are nearly bare.
Palestinian families are left struggling to feed their children.
Aid groups are running out of food to distribute. Markets are nearly bare.
Palestinian families are left struggling to feed their children.
For nearly 60 days, Israel has blocked food from Gaza. Palestinians struggle to feed their families
For nearly 60 days, no food, fuel, medicine or other item has entered the Gaza Strip, blocked by Israel.
bit.ly
April 27, 2025 at 5:00 PM
For nearly 60 days, no food, fuel, medicine or other items has entered the Gaza Strip, blocked by Israel.
Aid groups are running out of food to distribute. Markets are nearly bare.
Palestinian families are left struggling to feed their children.
Aid groups are running out of food to distribute. Markets are nearly bare.
Palestinian families are left struggling to feed their children.
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1️⃣ Maryland's GOP sheriffs are rushing to join an ICE program that's one of the most visible funnels into the deportation machinery.
State Democrats were on the verge of banning the program in Maryland—but chose to stand down.
@burness.bsky.social reports on what happened, & why it matters:
State Democrats were on the verge of banning the program in Maryland—but chose to stand down.
@burness.bsky.social reports on what happened, & why it matters:
“A Betrayal in Slow Motion”: Maryland Democrats Forgo Banning ICE Contracts - Bolts
The clock neared midnight on Monday, April 7, the final day of Maryland’s 2025 legislative session, and immigrant rights advocates, who’d been at the statehouse all day, and for many... Read More
boltsmag.org
April 27, 2025 at 4:22 PM
1️⃣ Maryland's GOP sheriffs are rushing to join an ICE program that's one of the most visible funnels into the deportation machinery.
State Democrats were on the verge of banning the program in Maryland—but chose to stand down.
@burness.bsky.social reports on what happened, & why it matters:
State Democrats were on the verge of banning the program in Maryland—but chose to stand down.
@burness.bsky.social reports on what happened, & why it matters:
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The Trump-Vance admin just deported two families, including three US citizen kids ages 2, 4, and 7.
Both families were detained and then blocked from communicating with attorneys or family members.
One of the moms is pregnant. One of the citizen kids has cancer. Both deported without medical help.
Both families were detained and then blocked from communicating with attorneys or family members.
One of the moms is pregnant. One of the citizen kids has cancer. Both deported without medical help.
April 26, 2025 at 5:54 PM
The Trump-Vance admin just deported two families, including three US citizen kids ages 2, 4, and 7.
Both families were detained and then blocked from communicating with attorneys or family members.
One of the moms is pregnant. One of the citizen kids has cancer. Both deported without medical help.
Both families were detained and then blocked from communicating with attorneys or family members.
One of the moms is pregnant. One of the citizen kids has cancer. Both deported without medical help.
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