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I love this SO MUCH!!

State Dept. demands 'enhanced' social media vetting of student visa applicants It’s tied to Trump’s executive orders re: terrorism and antisemitism, per an official cable review by The Handbasket.

SCOOP—State Dept. now requires "enhanced" social media vetting for student visa applicants suspected of "ties to terrorist orgs/activity" or applicants who previously held a visa starting Oct. 7th, 2023.

Source: "Pretty clear immediate target is anyone who participated in pro-Palestinian protests."

Do the Musty's baby momma's and/or ex-wives have jobs? Me thinks they will be supporting those children financially solo (if they aren't already) pretty soon here.

Empathy is not a deficit. Lack of it is.

The coolest thing I’ve seen today is that a bunch of volunteer public health professionals and developers have restored the CDC website from before January 20th 2025.

This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.

Saw a post yesterday that referred to Muskrat as a car salesman, and I've been CACKLING ever since.

#InHisFeelings

One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!

I miss flirting.

Attn: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent granted representatives of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency full access to the federal payment system!

Scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were ordered to withdraw any pending publications, at any scientific journal, that mention terms such as “transgender,” “immigrant,” “L.G.B.T.” or “pregnant people.”

Please share: We’ve received word that Elon Musk’s staffers are using space characters to identify information leakers. Before sharing any information, please use a checker to detect and remove these.

Gaza faces catastrophic levels of food insecurity, with over 60,000 Palestinian children under the age of five suffering from acute malnutrition, according to Human Rights Watch.

🔴 LIVE updates: https://aje.io/au8jpi

Need masks or COVID tests in Seattle?

FDA Recall/Drug Shortage Roundup (1/28/2025) We are on day 7 of the external communications pause from the FDA. What has been recalled? What drug shortages have been announced?

Updates for recalls for food

drrubin.substack.com/p/fda-recall...

On the same day that Donald Trump freed 1,500 American criminals, people who beat up police officers, ransacked our nation's Capitol, and smeared their feces on its walls, he cancelled the flights of the same number of Afghan refugees, many who had helped translate for our troops. #Priorities

Again, the World Health Organization is the single most important global entity in preventing, tracking and controlling outbreaks, epidemics and pandemics and is especially important as climate change and deforestation allow pathogens to mutate, become more infectious and spread to new regions

ADL: Never again*

*conditions may apply

Happy MLK Day.

Holy shit.

This is real.

Watch the emotional moment as Palestinian prisoner Rula Hassanein reunited with her daughter after spending 10 months in an Israeli jail. Rula was a journalist who was among 90 Palestinian prisoners freed from Israeli jails as part of a ceasefire deal in Gaza.

Um. What did I just watch?

I’ll be posting this today

They think they've won to the point they don't have to "hide" any further.

Please make sure to check in on your peoples. Some are handling this worse than others.

#TikTok #TikTokBan #Empathy ❤️

I did not have TicTok. I did not need to have TicTok to have empathy and understanding that many of you who were able to build/maintain community, a support system, and/or revenue have experienced an immense loss.

I hold space for all of you who share in this loss. 1/2

So it goes.