Posts by John Gershman
Can confirm, and can also confirm that it’s often ignored.
Flyer for the Library Propaganda Fair by NYC Public Library Action Network; asks to submit art at bit.ly/library-propos. Features a stack of books with a pink flower. Deadline March 31st highlighted at the bottom.
Submit art: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
NHeLP is seeking a full-time Health Care Project Coordinator for a three-year (36 months) term. This is a project-based position. The Project Coordinator will work primarily with the CASA team. . nationalhealthlawprogram.applytojob.com/apply/H0OwKm...
This is interesting - a new local news publication for DC?
We’ve given the TrumpActionTracker a comprehensive design refresh!
I was fortunate to receive a donation a couple of months ago that allowed me to get in some professional design expertise, courtsey of @clearleft.com who were brilliant!
check it out!
www.trumpactiontracker.info
@amtrak.com so why not have some basic customer service and inform us what the status is of empire 243 which will clearly be boarding and leaving late. So tiresome to not be treated with a basic level of respect
Rhode Island and RI-adjacent friends! want to do an objectively great, feel-good public service? sign up to judge National History Day at the Rhode Island level at CCRI on Sat. Apr. 25th starting around 9am. hope to see you there ri.nhd.org/App?f=d74d80...
“Cut ICE’s budget to restore federal health care funding” is an extremely popular message www.politico.com/f/?id=000001...
Ten years ago, some people dismissed libraries as "yesterday's" institutions.
They are *the* institutions of the moment. And tomorrow.
Deb Fallows has ongoing chronicle of them, at Our Towns site. www.ourtownsfoundation.org New dispatch coming soon.
It has now been one year since President Trump shut down all U.S. foreign aid and began wrecking the global AIDS response. I have spent that year collecting testimonies from the communities most affected by these cuts: www.forsaken.life
Juma began rationing his HIV drugs after being warned that all services had collapsed following Trump's order to halt all foreign aid. The virus rebounded and he is now in danger of developing drug resistance: forsaken.life/orals/juma-b...
Lydia stopped taking her medicine and died after the Trump administration ended a program providing her with support: www.devex.com/news/followi...
And what are they learning? Experts on the formation of internal security services in authoritarian regimes point to a sense of impunity as a warning sign. Regime officials abuse their power when they know they will be protected, and even praised, for doing so. Over the course of weeks and months, we have seen images of DHS officials abusing American citizens and immigrants alike, including killing them. What we do not hear is regime officials calling for credible investigations into such abuses, or even expressing any concerns. Renee Good’s killer was announced innocent, and both Good and her wife was instead the subject of an investigation, a perversion of justice so obvious that an FBI agent and half-dozen career Department of Justice prosecutors assigned to Minnesota resigned.
What we are watching is a paramilitary force learning that they can kill with impunity, that the regime will smear the victim and defend them. Unless politicians and the legal system exerts accountability, it will not stop. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/past-the-b...
This is so damning - ICE tried to prevent local police from gathering evidence at a murder scene. ICE executed an unarmed civilian being beaten on the ground, in broad daylight, at point blank range, on camera, and is already trying to prevent an investigation of their murder.
I've updated the Third-Country Removal Tracker with the two likely ones to Equatorial Guinea. I'll have another update tomorrow morning.
gillianbrockell.ghost.io/tracking-all...
Great opportunity this weekend for folks in NYC
Crazy good job with the best team in Climate Politics right here!
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📢Announcing the #COPOut Podcast (our first episode goes live on Sunday)!! Here's info about how to listen and why I'm doing this podcast instead of wasting all that carbon to travel to COP30:
danarfisher.com/2025/11/08/i...
Documents Reveal Exxon Funded Climate Denial Campaign Across Latin America
www.democracynow.org/2025/11/7/he...
Defend Public Health is hiring an Organizing Director (full time), and Organizing and Operations managers (part time). Apply!
www.defendpublichealth.org/jobs-defend-...
@defendpublichealth.bsky.social #jobs
And let's name names. #ElonMusk #MarcoRubio #RussellVought and #DonaldTrump (with help from #JohnRoberts). This is premeditated murder--of children. You can spin it anyway you like but you cannot escape this fact.
New Yorker: The Shutdown of USAID Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
It's hard to convey my disgust & moral outrage at Trump & Rubio for killing hundreds of thousands
My team at Duke has spent almost a decade studying the pros & cons of health aid, which has undoubtedly saved millions of live but has down sides. We have a policy paper out soon on the topic.
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The Ohio Redistricting Commission approved a new congressional map on Friday. It will improve the GOP's odds of flipping two seats currently held by Democrats. Of Ohio's 15 new districts, 12 were carried by President Trump last year, up from 11 previously. ohiocapitaljournal.c...
Higher Obamacare/ACA/Marketplace Prices (Premiums) Become Public in a Dozen States
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/h...
A GOP operative's message to colleagues:
"Today, I quit allowing my complacency to destroy America, and I urge you to quit, too."
We will not beat Trump and Trumpism until millions of additional Republicans come to the same conclusion.
FOLLOW YOUR CONSCIENCE! www.thebulwark.com/p/my-last-da...
Almost a full year after I wrote this www.avclub.com/no-other-lan...