We Need to Prepare for the Mammoth Task of De-Trumpification The damage he and his cronies have wrought could take decades to repair, particularly when it comes to science and public health.

The task of de-Trumpification of science and public health will take a generation and a "Marshall Plan" to rebuild. Without a bold, expansive vision to guide us, there is no coming back. Small-bore, poll-tested versions of the future will not help us. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Who Is Breaking International Law in the Strait of Hormuz? It’s Not Iran, Says Scholar While many Western countries have condemned Iran’s restrictions on shipping in the Strait of Hormuz as a breach of international law, reaction has been relatively muted about the “clearly unlawful” wa...

Western countries have condemned Iran’s restrictions on shipping in the Strait of Hormuz as a breach of international law, yet have stayed quiet on the United States' actions in the region.

Automatic Draft Registration Would Expand U.S. Surveillance State: Antiwar Activist The federal government is preparing to begin automatically registering eligible U.S. men ages 18 to 26 for the military draft pool. The U.S. hasn’t had a military draft since 1973, but it still mainta...

The federal government is preparing to begin automatically registering eligible U.S. men ages 18 to 26 for the military draft pool, according to new rules that were tucked into the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act.

“Into the Wood Chipper”: Whistleblower’s Inside Story of DOGE Shredding USAID, 14 Million May Die A new book tells the inside story of the second Trump administration’s dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development, USAID. Its author, Nicholas Enrich, worked at USAID for over a deca...

An estimated 14 million people are projected to die “unnecessarily” over the next five years due to the Trump administration's slashing of USAID.

This week, we published two stories highlighting the right-wing project of deliberately dismantling public health in America.

Here’s the first (second is below):

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Thank you @washingtonpost.com editorial board for showing us just who you are. AmazonCare anyone? "market-driven care will need to fill the gaps created by the inevitable failures of government..."

Investigating Networks: How Viktor Orbán Bankrolled the Network Around Reform UK Promoting my latest piece for Byline Times and explaining how the radical right is made up from a coalition of overlapping networks

Investigating Networks: How Viktor Orbán Bankrolled the Network Around Reform UK

Promoting my latest piece for Byline Times and explaining how the radical right is made up from a coalition of overlapping networks
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“You suggested that Black children on ADHD medication should be re-parented.”

Democratic Rep. Terri Sewell calls out Health Secretary RFK Jr. for saying Black children should be taken away by the federal government from their families.

Then, he denied reality.

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Why do they do this?! There seem to be some disturbing victim-abuser dynamics at play between university faculties and right-wing-agenda pushers animating the pandering and self-flagellation (and, frankly, the unwarranted lack of self-confidence, dignity, and integrity).

I’m sorry but the faculty who wrote this report should be ashamed of themselves for a pandering, self-flagellating performance. A few good ideas but too much playing to the conservative critique and bending to the current political winds.

NAACP Sues Elon Musk’s xAI for Polluting Black Neighborhoods In Tennessee, the NAACP is suing Elon Musk’s xAI, accusing the artificial intelligence company of polluting Black neighborhoods with toxic emissions from its makeshift power plant fueling its data cen...

NAACP Sues Elon Musk’s xAI for Polluting Black Neighborhoods

U.S. to add thousands of troops in Middle East; Israel continues to batter Lebanon, Gaza; Four killed in yet another Pacific boat strike Drop Site Daily: April 15, 2026

⚡️Drop Site Daily | April 15, 2026

U.S. to add thousands of troops in Middle East; Israel continues to batter Lebanon, Gaza; Four killed in yet another Pacific boat strike

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The U.S. is “not in a position right now where Iran is begging for a deal because it wants to avoid an escalation,” says Robert Malley, former U.S. negotiator for the Iran nuclear deal. “They believe, rightly or wrongly, that they could sustain the pain longer than the U.S. can.”

Seyed Hossein Mousavian, former nuclear negotiator for Iran, questions what the U.S. and Israel’s real aims in Iran are, noting that Iran “was ready to go to the maximum level of cooperation” with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in 2025.

So it seems like Magyar built a big tent with the goal to topple the corrupt autocrat and boost the economy. @nytimes.com suggests that Hungarians were voting for his social conservativism though he didn’t center this in his campaign. A bit of ideological projection going on at the editorial board.

Exclusive: Former American & Iranian Negotiators on Ceasefire Talks & How War Could End After the first round of ceasefire negotiations in Pakistan collapsed over the weekend, we speak to two former nuclear negotiators about prospects for ending the ongoing U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, including what another nuclear deal might look like. Robe...

After the first round of ceasefire negotiations in Pakistan collapsed over the weekend, we speak to two former nuclear negotiators about prospects for ending the ongoing U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, including what another nuclear deal might look like.

Vaccination rates for measles and polio in kindergarten children, by Red vs Blue states. Anti-vax rhetoric is endangering children. RFK Jr’s “MAHA” is endangering our future generations.

The capacity of vaccine induced immunological memory, a stellar open-access review by @profshanecrotty.bsky.social www.cell.com/immunity/ful...

It’s beyond nuts. Millions of people will die and suffer because of this.

Critics fear 'hostile takeover' as Trump sets his sights on San Francisco's Presidio A grudge against former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and an overall contempt for the environment may motivate President Donald Trump’s war against the Presidio Trust, a 1,500-acre northern California recreation hub that includes Disney Family Museum, Industrial Light & Magic and many non-profits. Yet according to the San Francisco Gate's Travel Editor Silas Valentino, Trump’s grudge will primarily hurt the more than 9 million people who visit the Presidio annually. “The 1,500-acre recreation hub is one of the country’s greatest public parks,” Valentino wrote on Monday. “It deserves better than neglect from its federal leaders, who now stand to answer for any service disruptions impacting the more than 9 million people who visit each year.” Valentino specifically criticized Trump for firing the Presidio Trust’s board of directors, which was widely expected after he pointedly refused to appoint a scheduled seventh member. “All six members, who happened to have been appointed by President Joseph Biden, were excused effective immediately last week; three of them had terms that already expired, but the other three were not set to term out until 2027, according to the San Francisco Chronicle,” Valentino explained. “No new appointees were announced to replace any of the seats on the seven-person board. This puts the independent federal agency that manages the national park site in limbo.” Valentino added, “The president’s playbook is familiar; after his hostile takeover of the Kennedy Center board, its members voted to shut it down for two years. No one can outright close the Presidio, however. It was established through the Omnibus Parks and Public Lands Management Act of 1996 and doesn’t rely on federal funding to operate. The Presidio Trust will still operate without the board, since its members serve in an advisory capacity, but will nevertheless lack leadership — especially with its CEO stepping down this year and the ongoing search for a replacement.” Despite opposing one San Francisco-area complex worth billions of dollars and that attracts millions of visitors, Trump is quite fond of another that few have any interest in — the abandoned island prison Alcatraz. After a May social media post arguing that Alcatraz should be reopened, in April Trump’s proposed budget included $132 million to “rebuild Alcatraz as a state-of-the-art secure prison facility." In his May post on the social media platform he owns, Truth Social, Trump wrote that America should "REBUILD, AND OPEN ALCATRAZ! For too long, America has been plagued by vicious, violent and repeat Criminal Offenders, the dregs of society, who will never contribute anything other than Misery and Suffering. When we were a more serious Nation, in times past, we did not hesitate to lock up the most dangerous criminals, and keep them far away from anyone they could harm. That’s the way it’s supposed to be[.]"

Critics fear 'hostile takeover' as Trump sets his sights on San Francisco's Presidio

Arijit Chakravarty @arijitchakrav “Welp. The verdict is in from the first country to "let it rip", and it's not looking good.” Eurostat HLY figures showing dramatic decline for Sweden since 2020, start of Covid pandemic.

Sweden’s pre-pandemic HLY (healthy life years) figure of ~73 years of age was exceptionally high by European standards: roughly 7–9 years above the EU average.

They were an outlier allowing COVID to “burn through the population,” and this is a dramatic decline that warrants serious investigation.

Kim Scheppele has been studying autocratic legalism, the flipping of liberal democracies to autocracies, and the case of Hungary for many years. This is a good discussion of how key to the defeat of the global far right this moment is—I would argue, in conjunction with the calamitous war on Iran.

“A Moral Obscenity”: White House Demands $1.5 Trillion Pentagon Budget, Largest Increase Since WWII The White House is seeking a record-shattering Pentagon budget of $1.5 trillion for the next fiscal year, the largest year-over-year increase in a presidential military spending request since World War II. The United States already has the world’s large...

The White House is seeking a record-shattering Pentagon budget of $1.5 trillion for the next fiscal year, the largest year-over-year increase in a presidential military spending request since World War II.

Fight the right everywhere.

This is a huge victory for freedom and democracy!

Also a major slap in the face to the Trump administration.

Take Big Money Out of Our Politics British politics is awash with money from super rich donors. In 2023, two-thirds of all private donations came from just 19 people. These so-called ‘mega donors’ enjoy privileged access to political p...

A crypto investor just donated £9 million to the Reform Party. Right now, billionaires can pour unlimited money into our elections, effectively buying our democracy. Think that's wrong? Add your name to call for a cap on donations today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...

JD Vance visits Hungary as Orban trails in the polls Orban is the third leg of the US and Russian network developed by Epstein, Thiel and Bannon. A look at the upcoming Hungarian election and a selection of recommended reads

JD Vance visits Hungary as Orban trails in the polls

Orban is the third leg of the US and Russian network developed by Epstein, Thiel and Bannon. A look at the upcoming Hungarian election and a selection of recommended reads
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The International Committee of the Red Cross warned the council that “we are losing our humanity in war.”

www.democracynow.org/2026/4/9/hea...

UN top aid coordinator to UN Security Council:

326+ aid workers killed in line of duty across 21 countries in 2025

Bringing 3-year death toll to 1,000+

560+ occurred in Gaza & occupied West Bank

130 in Sudan

60 in South Sudan

25 in Ukraine

25 in Democratic Republic of the Congo

Reason number 632 why #JayBhattacharya is not a serious scientist and is an ideological hack (and has been this way since at least 2020). His politics drives his thinking and his politics is now all in with MAGA.