Pantéa Javidan, JD, PhD.

The scholars had argued in the paper that a network of pro-Israel donors and advocacy groups routinely pulled U.S. Middle East policy away from what was truly in America’s interest. Their analysis triggered a fierce backlash: institutions denounced them as antisemites, The Atlantic killed the article, and the Kennedy School stripped its logo from the paper. Emails from Epstein’s Yahoo account show him reviewing early drafts of Dershowitz’s attack piece, accusing the authors of recycling “neo-Nazi trash,” and agreeing to distribute it through his network. The cache also highlights Epstein’s influence at Harvard and his role managing the finances of billionaire Leslie Wexner, whose foundation poured nearly $20 million into the Kennedy School. The covert effort to smear the scholars mirrored the very dynamics the paper described: wealthy, well-connected actors mobilizing elite institutions to police criticism of Israel. The emails also show Epstein, during that same week, working with his lawyer on strategies to discredit a young woman who had accused him of sexual abuse. 🔗 Read: https://dropsitenews.com/p/jeffrey-epstein-aided-alan-dershowitz-mearsheimer-walt-israel-lobbym @ryangrim | @MazMHussain

⚡️ In a new Drop Site investigation, Ryan Grim and Murtaza Hussain reveal that Jeffrey Epstein quietly helped Alan Dershowitz orchestrate the smear campaign against John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt’s 2006 paper “The Israel Lobby,” newly obtained emails show.

The scholars had argued in the paper...

If you're ever tempted to think MAGA can't get any more ridiculous...

This Administration’s policies will spur millions of new infections and deaths from AIDS. Today’s announcement is simply to rub all of our noses in this. It is to say: we know what we’re doing; we don’t care. It is pure sadism. It’s a descent into barbarism once again.

Three more ex-pupils at school with Nigel Farage reject ‘banter’ claims Exclusive: Dulwich college contemporaries ‘rubbish’ Reform UK leader’s suggestion alleged racist taunts not intended to hurt

Three more school contemporaries who claim to have witnessed Nigel Farage’s alleged teenage racism have rejected the Reform UK leader’s suggestion that it was “banter”, describing it as targeted, persistent and nasty.

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“The nightmare in Gaza is more than a humanitarian crisis. It is a crisis of humanity.”

– United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres

www.undp.org/war-gaza

joint assessment by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) + United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA). The relevant text states:

“For Gaza the HDI is projected to drop to 0.408 — a level estimated for 1955, erasing over 69 years of progress.”
(UNDP/ESCWA, 2024)

UN Special Rapporteur for oPT Francesca Albanese: “BREAKING: A new UN report finds that Israel's assault on Gaza - with the destruction of health care, education, infrastructure, even the banking system - has erased 69 years of human development, marking the worst economic collapse ever recorded. This is not war: it is genocide.”

UN report:

Israel has destroyed 69 years of human development in Gaza, “the worst economic collapse ever recorded.”

Jeffrey Epstein's newly-publicized emails implicate the entire elite class that he operated in.

"These circles that he moved in, if they have any superpower, it is the ability to hear the cries of people without power and close their ears."

This is one way a media outlet can declare moral bankruptcy.

Is there any horrific person or phenomenon that The Atlantic will not attempt to normalize, and even glorify?

Truly vile and incorrigible.

If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?

Ryan Grim told Piers Morgan that “Cartel de los Soles’” is “the most obvious CIA-made-up name ever.” If the U.S. wants to find its creators, he said, “pull up GPS and drive to Langley.” Grim explains that Marco Rubio, shut out of Ukraine and Gaza, now sees Venezuela as his “Caribbean sandbox,” pushing long-held Cuban-right fantasies of regime change. Trump knows a Libya-style collapse is the likely outcome, and so far deserves credit for resisting the war hawks. @ryangrim | @piersmorgan

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...

“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
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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 the numbers,” and claiming immigrant workers were “criminals” who were “taking American jobs.” According to his athletic bio at Boston University, Segal’s hometown is listed as London, England.

Brian Allen @allenanalysis A Boston University student bragged that he called ICE to raid a local car wash. Zac Segal, president of the BU College Republicans, said he snitched because “immigrants are taking American jobs.” Then the lawyer for the workers hit back with the obvious: Segal wasn’t born in America either and he’s the one taking a spot at the university from American students.

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...

Alice Wong was Crips for eSims for Gaza, and Everything to Us by Jane Shi and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

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...

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...

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.

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…

"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-...

You don’t need research when your plan for infectious diseases is herd immunity through infection.

Truly terrifying, traumatising, and criminal.

The entire US political system, across both parties, often appears structured by and for rape culture.

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

We’re backsliding. There’s no other way to put it.

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.

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.

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...