Abbey Gardner

Can a 3.5-Acre, $296 Million Park Save Lower Manhattan?

Lived in Battery Psrk City for 17 yrs- veru happy about this! www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/h...

In Sudan, where children clung to life, doctors say USAID cuts have been fatal — The Washington Post The Trump administration’s cuts to USAID had an immediate and deadly impact in war-ravaged Sudan, according to civilians, doctors and aid officials.

We can’t stop paying attention to these devastating stories. apple.news/A80j5sxllTxy...

Until now. For instance, the cancer scientist Kseniia Petrova, a Russian immigrant who worked at Harvard’s renowned Kirschner Lab, has been in a Louisiana ICE prison for two months now, and is facing deportation to Russia because she allegedly lied to a border control officer about carrying frog embryos for research purposes. Not only is this likely false—she told NBC News that she did tell the officers the truth—but the usual penalty for such a piddling violation is a $500 fine, knocked down to $50 for a first offense. Instead, ICE revoked her J-1 visa and threw her in prison pending a hearing to deport her back to Russia, where she might easily end up in prison or dead for criticizing the Putin regime. Petrova is not just any cancer scientist—she is perhaps the world’s top expert on analyzing the images produced by a new cutting-edge, ultra-specialized microscope that is being developed to diagnose cancer cases. Leon Peshkin, Petrova’s manager, told NBC that the task “requires a unique set of skills because you have to both be able to work as an embryologist and do applied math, modeling, data analysis and bioinformatics—all in one package.” Nobody else in the lab could do what she does, he added.

one of the world's top cancer scientists, who works for Harvard, is at risk of deportation to Russia where she might be killed for criticizing Putin, because she allegedly failed to disclose carrying frog embryos at the border. it's upending American medical research: prospect.org/health/2025-...

Mr. Abrego Garcia was illegally abducted by the Trump Admin and, by their own admission, wrongly deported to El Salvador. He shouldn’t have to spend another second away from his family.

I'm flying to El Salvador tomorrow morning to check on his condition and discuss his return.

Constituents to Chuck Grassley: "Are you bringing back that guy from El Salvador?"

Senior Citizen: “If I get an order to pay a ticket to pay $1200 and I just say ‘no’, does that stand up? Because he just got an order from the Supreme Court and he just said ‘screw it’”

“I’M PISSED!”

I Should Have Seen This Coming

When David Brooks joined the conservative movement in the 1980s, there were two types of people: those who cared earnestly about ideas, and those who wanted only to shock the left. The reactionary fringe has won, Brooks writes.

FLORIDA- ARE YOU SICK OF WHATS GOING ON..HERE YUR CHANCE TO CHANGE IT--
Help these 2 Democrats win their April 1 special elections to shock the nation! In Florida’s District 1, Gay Valimont and Josh Weil in 6th District. 👇💙🗳

SSA Ends Phone Service for New Benefit Applications Verification by phone no longer an option for those applying for Social Security

I’m not exaggerating when I say running on a platform of reopening Social Security offices, and reactivating phone service, will lead to a landslide election victory

www.aarp.org/social-secur...

Trump And Vance Ambush Zelensky In Prelude To Betrayal President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance moved to betray a...

we may be one of the few pubs that got this headline right

Trump And Vance Ambush Zelensky In Prelude To Betrayal talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-a...

BREAKING—RFK Jr’s FDA suddenly cancels meeting to update next season’s flu vaccines, with zero explanations. Any delays will jeopardize next year’s vaccine supply chain. God help us all.

@johngreensbluesky.bsky.social noted that TB meds are not being delivered. Interrupting then can lead to drug resistant TB - which is infectious and very difficult to treat. bsky.app/profile/john...

Photograph of a warehouse in Kinshasa where unboxed tuberculosis medications are going undistributed due to the stop work order by the Trump Administration.

Just received this photo from a friend of a warehouse in Kinshasa. These are tuberculosis medications--ALREADY PAID FOR--that aren't being distributed due to the Trump Administration's stop work order.
TB treatment is being interrupted in SO many patients around the world. What does that mean? (1/2)

Abolishing USAID Is Both Unconstitutional and Disastrous The State Department isn’t ready to handle vital disease-prevention efforts worldwide.

🛑Closing down USAID is illegal..

📜It's an independent agency with authorities legislated by Congress.

⚠️The president has no legal authority to unilaterally abolish or move it under the State Department.

Excellent analysis by @matthewkavanagh.bsky.social in @foreignpolicy.com

bit.ly/4i2jeAH

Greatest security breach in American history. Foreign hostile powers could start looting the Treasury, steal our money, cripple the country.

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Quote on a black background stating, "… the US cannot influence WHO if it is not at the table." - Lawrence O. Gostin and Benjamin Mason Meier.

"As global norms are set and scientific standards issued, the absence of the US [from WHO] will undermine scientific research, health security, and foreign policy," write Lawrence O. Gostin and Benjamin Mason Meier in a new #ScienceEditorial. https://scim.ag/3E74dP9

Excellent interview with Alex Soros.

Biden to Dole Out 19 Medals of Freedom, and One Unmistakable Message With a recipient list stocked with old-guard icons and political backers, the president is signaling support for the establishment his successor wants to tear down.

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/04/u...

So happy to hear that President Biden will award George Soros the Presidential Medal of Freedom- so well deserved for his dedication to making the world a more open and more equitable place.

Biden will award Medal of Freedom to Soros, Ralph Lauren and others

Effects of conditional cash transfers on tuberculosis incidence and mortality according to race, ethnicity and socioeconomic factors in the 100 Million Brazilian Cohort - Nature Medicine Participation in Brazil’s Bolsa Familia Program, one of the largest conditional cash transfer programs in the world, was associated with large reductions in tuberculosis incidence and mortality among ...

What a cool study and a powerful demonstration that Tuberculosis is largely a disease of poverty. In Brazil a large scale intervention which provided cash monthly to families living in poverty led to profound reductions in TB cases. Up to 50% among the poorest groups.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Proud to have knocked on doors for him.

Made the whole thing up

If we all find 100 posts to like every day, engagement and good will on @bsky.app grows exponentially.

Is it worth a few minutes to make the platform stronger ?

A statement from The Onion about InfoWars.

Excellent piece

HHS picks, the House subcommittee report, and pandemic revisionism Questions are important and needed, but we must not resort to rewriting history.

One of the best pieces I’ve seen on pandemic revisionism, Jay Bhattacharya, the Great Barrington Declaration & RFK Jr (who Bhattacharya campaigned for—he even spoke at his political rallies)

By @kkjetelina.bsky.social & @kmpanthagani.bsky.social
yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/hhs-picks-...

It is literally the case that NYT and WaPo are drowning out all content about Kash Patel and Pete Hegseth with coverage of Hunter Biden that completely ignores the corruption involved in the Hunter Biden investigation.

We pay too much attention to the most confident voices—and too little attention to the most thoughtful ones.

Conviction is not a sign of credibility. Speaking assertively is not a substitute for reflecting deeply.

It's better to learn from complex thinkers than smooth talkers.

It’s past time for new leadership. Pass the torch to the fighters.