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I know that I sound like a broken record but I think once this society was ok with accepting mass covid deaths just to be able to eat at Applebees then all bets were off.

Community members, public officials push back against ICE expansion into metro Detroit - WDET 101.9 FM The Southfield office and planned detention center in Romulus come as the Trump administration massively increases the budget for ICE.

“Cut the utilities, condemn the building, demo it, take it under eminent domain, whatever you can do. Make it impossible for them to use our neighborhood for a concentration camp,” he said.

“This will not be solved by a harshly worded letter or resolution. We need action.”

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So the plan was to keep the regime in place, got it.

All rape, these girls can’t consent and there will be deaths. These are, extremely, high risk pregnancies. A abomination.

Fix your headline.

Amid the turmoil, Sam Beyda, a 24-year-old who has never previously worked in public health, has assumed a prominent role at the agency, according to current and former officials. While at the CDC, O'Neill was often absent, those officials said, and he deputized Beyda to run much of the agency's day-to-day operations for him, people familiar with the matter said. Beyda, a 2023 graduate of Columbia University, is based in Washington, D.C., but frequently travels to the CDC's Atlanta headquarters. An internal document in November listed Beyda as leading five of 16 new strategic initiatives, including updating the CDC's agencywide response to outbreaks and crises, downsizing animal research and enhancing surveillance of novel pathogens. Some longtime CDC staffers have credited Beyda with being a quick study and making an effort to ask questions and learn on the ioh Ona coninr novear And ofniol enid Pando

But others say Beyda isn't qualified for a senior role that is often filled by someone with a master's in public health or years of experience in the federal government. Beyda executed January's widespread grant cuts to state and local health departments that the CDC then quickly rescinded, people familiar with the matter said. The administration moved forward about two weeks later with roughly $600 million in grant cuts to four states led by Democrats, a move now held up in court. Beyda was also deeply involved in a chaotic wave of firings at the CDC during the October government shutdown, according to people familiar with the matter, which saw more than a thousand employees laid off only for hundreds to later be reinstated. Beyda is one of at least a dozen political appointees at the agency, representing a larger number than in previous administrations, according to two current employees. The new political appointees wield significant power over the CDC's

Letting a 24 year old lead hundreds of millions of grants cuts at CDC…

Many people seem to think “It is not antisemitic to criticize Israel” means that it is impossible to be antisemitic so long as you are critical of Israel.

Well, that's unsurprising but depressing: I was preparing for my students' brief in-class research project on gender non-conforming terms & identities among ~50 Native American tribes & decided to double check that the links I provided for research still work. They don't: www.ihs.gov/lgbt/health/...

If you asked most people in 2024 what absolutely needed to change in America, no one who isn’t a professional grifter would have put gutting the CDC at the top.

I can’t get over how 2 criminals - who could have been sent to jail before but were lucky - managed to stay in or regain power… And now are willing to blow up the whole world to avoid any focus on punishment for their own crimes. And are fine with killing the Other’s humans - & their side’s too.

I just don’t think the opposition party should feel it necessary to be more careful in criticizing a war than the party in power is in starting one.

As a historian, I'd just like to remind the politicians who follow me that it is not, in fact, 2003 anymore and the current GOP war in the Middle East is not, in fact, even remotely popular.

So if you're a weathervane who just tries to do what's already popular, full-throated opposition is it!

Also, the firing of so many journalists, even with a slower news cycle! 😭

You and @joelhs.bsky.social are doing hashem's work today, that's for sure!

so the podcast that Platner went on as a guest last month and called himself a “longtime fan” of isn’t just antisemitic, it’s also full of anti-Black racism and promoted the racist and xenophobic GOP attacks on Somali immigrants in Minneapolis?

And we also need to stand up for the non-citizens that ICE is murdering.... and the adults that they're terrorizing.

"That's the way it is," says the five-time draft dodger to our military families who fear their loved one in uniform could be next.

What a disgrace.

Even if Platner isn’t an antisemite (he absolutely is), if your judgement is so fucking bad that you REGULARLY do an antisemitic whoopsie because it has never occurred to you to just fucking look something up then you ARE NOT FIT FOR OFFICE.

Folks, some of you are following our friend below (I don't mean Alex) who likes Nazi conspiracy theory podcasters who say things like Soros installed Mamdani as an Israeli puppet. Be careful who you are following!

"Anti-Zionism is not antisemitism" is a true statement, that needs to be made when groups like the ADL try to claim all anti-Zionism is antisemitism. "Anti-Zionism is not antisemitism" also functions for some people to get out of thinking about when something is actually antisemitic. Both are true.

I don't understand this coordinated response of Dems going, "Trump owes us an explanation for attacking Iran!"

Do they expect his failure to provide one will produce a politically advantageous gotcha? Come on. Just say the war is stupid, wasteful and it should cease. Stop being weak and terrible.

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The horror of Israel’s atrocities in Gaza has enabled me to convince many of my Boomer Jewish relatives to be more critical of Israel, and not to reflexively assume pro-Palestine activism is antisemitic.

If Platner becomes the leading anti-Israel voice in the Senate, that work disappears overnight.

Opinion | Thanks to President Trump, the hour of Iran’s freedom is at hand Our path forward is a new constitution followed by free elections under international oversight.

The defunct Washington Post gave a column to the son of the Shah. It is as self-serving as you could possibly imagine.

But the comments are so worth it.

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Amen, Alan!

I am still SO sleepy from staying out late partying with the artists and audience from the #LegendsOfHipHop show on Friday night & Sat. morning. As a student, yes - as a professor, I am not use to this anymore! 🤣 I'll eventually post some pics once I get more sleep & catch up on work!

💯 from my perspective also as a scholar of Jewish Studies and of European colonialism! Raoul Peck nailed this too in #ExterminateAllTheBrutes, linking the Shoah and colonial atrocities.

I mean....

Spending our short time on this earth trying to divine the sincere heartfelt political intentions of a guy with a Nazi tattoo. This one is so easy! Am I having a stroke?

Oberfuhrer Oysterfarmer strikes again.

In isolation, it’s possible the Nazi tattoo, talking about both the right and left waking up to an elite conspiracy, and RTing a neo-Nazi were accidents. But to echo one Nazi may be regarded as a misfortune; to echo two looks like carelessness. To echo three looks like something more.