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World Mental Health Day 2025: Access to Mental Health in Catastrophes and Emergencies - Speaking of Medicine and Health This year, the theme for World Mental Health Day is ‘access to services – mental health in catastrophes and emergencies’. Supporting those…

This #WorldMentalHealthDay we focus on service access in times of crisis.

We highlight content from our journal and across @plos.org (@plosglobalpublichealth.org and PLOS Medicine), which aims to improve well-being in the face of mass trauma

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Cops.

If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations.

If you're 45, that number is 74.7%.

If you're under 28, the number is 100%.

Happy Labor Day.

MSF Gaza report: This is not aid. This is orchestrated killing GHF-run food distributions in Gaza are sites of “orchestrated killing and dehumanisation” that must be shut down

"This is not aid. This is orchestrated killing." With US taxpayer funds hijacked from legitimate aid organizations.

@msf.org
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This.

Increasingly clear that these ICE arrest operations are gearing up not because of the actual immigrants, who in all but a tiny handful of cases go along quietly, but because they’re getting so much pushback from onlookers.

It’s a vicious cycle; the more they do this, the worst the pushback gets.

Please read this.
If you're short on time, click on the screen grab on the right.

🚨NEW from @americanprogress.bsky.social: Republican Medicaid cuts will kill an estimated 21,600 people.

These deaths are preventable—and Trump and Republicans are CHOOSING to vote to kill.

Here's a district breakdown—tell your rep to VOTE NO (202) 224-3121: www.americanprogress.org/article/hous...

The worst happened. We were DOGE’d. Our NSF funding is gone.

So now there’s nothing stopping me from sharing Expert Voices Together, a crisis response system for US-based researchers and journalists facing harassment.

It's a true passion project. 🧵 1/

expertvoicestogether.org

$100,000 per month?

Populism is a pretty lucrative gig.

wow! Clarity.

This is the right approach — speak to them as you would an especially stupid child, spell out their crimes and your contempt clearly.

PLEASE DO THIS

You and your family are being forced to pay higher prices at the store so Elon Musk can get richer

U.S. pushes nations facing tariffs to approve Musk’s Starlink, cables show Some countries have turned to the satellite internet firm in preparation for trade talks, State Department staffers wrote. The U.S. has a strategic interest in countering Chinese internet providers, b...

Great reporting by @jeffstein.bsky.social

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Don’t look away. This is what Libya’s migrant detention facilities look like. This is what Trump is doing.

Amnesty International called Libya’s migrant detention centers a “hellscape,” where beatings and sexual violence are rampant and there are many reports of trafficking and even slavery.

Trump’s Corruption Hits Next Level With Shady $2 Billion Crypto Deal An investment firm backed by a foreign government just made a massive deal using the Trump family’s crypto firm. The conflicts of interest here are unprecedented.

The Trump family’s cryptocurrency business just got a $2B investment from a firm backed by the United Arab Emirates government.

With this deal, they will be enriched beyond most people’s comprehension—and they have the UAE government to thank for it.

Secret Deals, Foreign Investments, Presidential Policy Changes: The Rise of Trump’s Crypto Firm World Liberty Financial has eviscerated the boundary between private enterprise and government policy in ways without precedent in modern American history.

"none of the Trump family’s other business endeavors pose conflicts of interest that compare to those that have emerged since the birth of World Liberty"
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ICE cannot deport US citizens. This should not even be a discussion.

Astounded Republicans voted against this.

Here it is. A timetable of 100 days of corruption.

Breathtaking. Heartbreaking.

We cannot let this stand.

Last look: How America – and Trump – became addicted to emergency powers | CNN Politics Fareed explains how President Donald Trump’s frequent use of emergency powers has exposed a deep flaw in the US constitutional structure.

Declaring a national emergency has become a way for the executive to bypass checks and balances. Congress must reform emergency powers to prevent abuse, @lizagoitein.bsky.social told CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS. www.cnn.com/2025/04/27/p...

Court Blocks GOP Bid to Seize Control of North Carolina Elections Board Read more here.

A three-judge panel in a North Carolina court blocked a Republican scheme to gain power over the state’s election board — the agency charged with running elections and enforcing campaign finance laws. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

“He is granting audiences to people who buy his meme coin. When the sitting president of the United States is selling access for what are effectively payments directly to him. There is no question that that rises to the level of an impeachable offense.”

Sen. Jon Ossoff

To put a finer point on it. Trump’s contention isn’t just that he can deport people without them appearing before a judge, but that he can render them into a life sentence in a foreign dungeon with no process whatsoever.

Retaliation front www.govexec.com/workforce/20...

🚨A U.S. born citizen was arrested in Florida for entering the state as an “unauthorized alien.” His mother and a community advocate showed his birth certificate during a hearing in Leon County. The judge said she had no authority to release him.

Q: What distinguishes a prison from a concentration camp?

The Griffin List A list of 60,273 North Carolina voters – these are registered voters who showed ID to early vote in the November 2024 election – whose votes Jefferson Griffin wants to not be counted. ...

North Carolina military and overseas voters, whose voters may be cured, don't let your vote be stolen.

Look up your names here and prepare for further action: thegriffinlist.com