Pantéa Javidan, JD, PhD.
@pjavidan.bsky.social
Faculty & Research Fellow @ Stanford Center for Human Rights & International Justice + Human Rights in Trauma Mental Health Lab. Views mine.
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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...
November 19, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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...
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“With or from starvation?”
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
“With or from starvation?”
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.
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
Thank you Sabrina of @gvrcn.bsky.social for cohosting
🎧 Listen: Links Below
#Podcast #HumanRights #ChildProtection
November 19, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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.
Reposted by Pantéa Javidan, JD, PhD.
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
Thank you Sabrina of @gvrcn.bsky.social for cohosting
🎧 Listen: Links Below
#Podcast #HumanRights #ChildProtection
August 21, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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
Thank you Sabrina of @gvrcn.bsky.social for cohosting
🎧 Listen: Links Below
#Podcast #HumanRights #ChildProtection
Please do not divulge your personal details to these companies.
Dangerous decision to give your tax/personal financial information to ChatGPT and Intuit #privacy #security
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.
TurboTax owner Intuit is also paying OpenAI more than $100 million a year to power AI agents.
November 19, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Please do not divulge your personal details to these companies.
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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...
Segal celebrated the arrests, writing “pump up...
November 17, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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...
Segal celebrated the arrests, writing “pump up...
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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
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November 17, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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...
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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
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...
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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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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"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-...
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…
lithub.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:22 PM
"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-...
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-...
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You don’t need research when your plan for infectious diseases is herd immunity through infection.
The second Trump administration’s deep federal spending cuts, including at the NIH, have halted at least 383 clinical trials, affecting more than 74,000 patients, according to a new analysis.
www.fiercebiotech.com/research/nih...
www.fiercebiotech.com/research/nih...
NIH grant cuts have disrupted hundreds of clinical trials, study finds
The second Trump administration has been defined by widespread cuts to federal spending, including at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). | The second Trump administration has been defined by wid...
www.fiercebiotech.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:52 PM
You don’t need research when your plan for infectious diseases is herd immunity through infection.
Truly terrifying, traumatising, and criminal.
⭕️ Newly shared footage from Tehran captures the aftermath of Israel’s strike on a packed intersection during the war in June:
New footage shows the aftermath of Israel’s strike on a busy traffic intersection near Tehran’s Tajrish Bazaar in the June war.
Cars & surrounding infrastructure destroyed, streets flooded, many killed or injured, people trying help each other at the scene.
Cars & surrounding infrastructure destroyed, streets flooded, many killed or injured, people trying help each other at the scene.
November 18, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Truly terrifying, traumatising, and criminal.
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The entire US political system, across both parties, often appears structured by and for rape culture.
November 14, 2025 at 8:30 PM
The entire US political system, across both parties, often appears structured by and for rape culture.
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Dive into the two worlds of neurology and vaccine misinformation with Dr. Jonathan Howard (@joho.bsky.social). We discuss the complexities of disorders like multiple sclerosis before transitioning to learn how doubt was weaponised to spread COVID #Neurology #Misinformation @bellevuehosp.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Dive into the two worlds of neurology and vaccine misinformation with Dr. Jonathan Howard (@joho.bsky.social). We discuss the complexities of disorders like multiple sclerosis before transitioning to learn how doubt was weaponised to spread COVID #Neurology #Misinformation @bellevuehosp.bsky.social
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We’re backsliding. There’s no other way to put it.
The @ama-assn.org will cease publication of its ethics journal at the end of this year.
AMA ethics journal shutters after 26 years
The American Medical Association will cease publication of its ethics journal at the end of this year. The AMA Journal of Ethics, an open access, peer-reviewed journal was founded in 1999 und…
retractionwatch.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:53 AM
We’re backsliding. There’s no other way to put it.
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This is so odious and spiteful. But par for the course for these monsters.
🚨Dept. of Education proposes to exclude public health degrees from the “professional degree” category.
That means new public health experts could lose access to key higher ed resources, like loan limits & reimbursement.
A bold strategy to let infectious diseases win! 🦠
aspph.org/department-o...
That means new public health experts could lose access to key higher ed resources, like loan limits & reimbursement.
A bold strategy to let infectious diseases win! 🦠
aspph.org/department-o...
Department of Education Proposal Excludes Public Health Degrees from “Professional Degree” Definition
Discover the new results and implications of Dept of Ed consensus regarding professional degree programs and public health education.
aspph.org
November 14, 2025 at 12:35 AM
This is so odious and spiteful. But par for the course for these monsters.
I contended with this dark reality every day of my doctoral research on the history of child trafficking laws in the US. It is all so much worse than one could ever imagine, and so much more important and telling than we are led to believe.
Chattel slavery was a pedophile economy.
November 13, 2025 at 5:12 AM
I contended with this dark reality every day of my doctoral research on the history of child trafficking laws in the US. It is all so much worse than one could ever imagine, and so much more important and telling than we are led to believe.
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Access to vaccines is not a privilege — it is a human right.
In @statnews.com today, Stefan Peterson and I write about using a human rights-based approach to deal with vaccine denialism and the return of measles, whooping cough and diphtheria
www.statnews.com/2025/11/12/c...
In @statnews.com today, Stefan Peterson and I write about using a human rights-based approach to deal with vaccine denialism and the return of measles, whooping cough and diphtheria
www.statnews.com/2025/11/12/c...
Kids have a right to vaccinations. Let's bring in the lawyers
Children suffering from diseases that should have been consigned to history is a moral failure. Access to vaccines is a human right.
www.statnews.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Access to vaccines is not a privilege — it is a human right.
In @statnews.com today, Stefan Peterson and I write about using a human rights-based approach to deal with vaccine denialism and the return of measles, whooping cough and diphtheria
www.statnews.com/2025/11/12/c...
In @statnews.com today, Stefan Peterson and I write about using a human rights-based approach to deal with vaccine denialism and the return of measles, whooping cough and diphtheria
www.statnews.com/2025/11/12/c...
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Powerful post reiterating right to health and medicines is accepted worldwide--except by the US. We are failing our children and future by the self-centered approach of our society. Thanks @madhupai.bsky.social and Stephan Peterson!
#vaccines #measles
#vaccines #measles
Access to vaccines is not a privilege — it is a human right.
In @statnews.com today, Stefan Peterson and I write about using a human rights-based approach to deal with vaccine denialism and the return of measles, whooping cough and diphtheria
www.statnews.com/2025/11/12/c...
In @statnews.com today, Stefan Peterson and I write about using a human rights-based approach to deal with vaccine denialism and the return of measles, whooping cough and diphtheria
www.statnews.com/2025/11/12/c...
Kids have a right to vaccinations. Let's bring in the lawyers
Children suffering from diseases that should have been consigned to history is a moral failure. Access to vaccines is a human right.
www.statnews.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Powerful post reiterating right to health and medicines is accepted worldwide--except by the US. We are failing our children and future by the self-centered approach of our society. Thanks @madhupai.bsky.social and Stephan Peterson!
#vaccines #measles
#vaccines #measles
“Community isn’t a sentiment; it’s a deliberately built social environment. It needs institutions–public health and social care, housing, childcare, schools, debt relief, neighborhood jobs–that give people time, stability, and proximity to be able to care for one another.”
My new essay: Do Democratic Party politicians believe in anything other than their own personal careers? If they want to stop fascism, or even just win, they need to start.
www.newglobalpolitics.org/neither-cult...
www.newglobalpolitics.org/neither-cult...
Neither Culture Wars nor Big Tents Will Save American Democracy - New Global Politics
Centrists call for a kinder, more connected liberal culture. But without building public systems that allow people to actually care for one another, civility is just polite sentiment to cover over the...
www.newglobalpolitics.org
November 10, 2025 at 5:12 AM
“Community isn’t a sentiment; it’s a deliberately built social environment. It needs institutions–public health and social care, housing, childcare, schools, debt relief, neighborhood jobs–that give people time, stability, and proximity to be able to care for one another.”
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Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.
November 10, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.
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A large proportion of Americans support MAHA. It‘s killing them.
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Opinion | How MAHA Is Helping Poison Americans While Claiming to Save Them
The Trump administration’s deregulatory regime is undermining MAHA’s health aims.
www.politico.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:28 AM
A large proportion of Americans support MAHA. It‘s killing them.
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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It’s time for us to reconnect with the radical, system-changing spirit that was once at the heart of our field. #publichealth #episky #medsky #activism www.thenation.com/article/acti...
Public Health Was a Place for Warriors Once. It Needs to Be Again.
It's time for us to reconnect with the radical, system-changing spirit that was once at the heart of our field.
www.thenation.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:40 PM
It’s time for us to reconnect with the radical, system-changing spirit that was once at the heart of our field. #publichealth #episky #medsky #activism www.thenation.com/article/acti...
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Enjoy this piece by @gregggonsalves.bsky.social that was a speech he gave at this years APHA!
Public Health Was a Place for Warriors Once. It Needs to Be Again.
It's time for us to reconnect with the radical, system-changing spirit that was once at the heart of our field.
www.thenation.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Enjoy this piece by @gregggonsalves.bsky.social that was a speech he gave at this years APHA!
LOL someone at NYP wasted a lot of energy on this tortured pun salad
I am offended, deeply offended… Red delicious apples are DISGUSTING. The Big Apple is a HONEYCRISP! And in Mamdani’s New York, EVERYONE will be able to afford honeycrisps—as a city owned grocery store!!!
November 5, 2025 at 3:41 AM
LOL someone at NYP wasted a lot of energy on this tortured pun salad