Judges Fired After Blocking Deportations of Pro-Palestinian Students

BREAKING: the judges who dismissed high-profile cases in immigration court against two international students who have advocated for Palestinian causes, Rümeysa Öztürk and Mohsen Mahdawi, were fired yesterday, alongside four other judges.

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Is PEPFAR about to run out of money? Though U.S. officials are extending HIV programs funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for three more months, they have not obligated new funding to cover the services.

Global HIV programs run by the CDC that were supposed to shut down at the end of this month, have been given a three-month extension. But the State Dept has told CDC to pay for the programs with contingency funds, resulting in further cuts to lifesaving services: www.devex.com/news/is-pepf...

What I Saw at a Maternity Ward in Kenya After the U.S. Cut Off Food and Foreign Aid Photographs tell a story of two mothers determined to help their babies gain enough weight to leave the hospital — only to face little to no food again.

A maternity ward doctor donated his own blood during surgery to keep a pregnant patient alive.

One woman gained fewer than 10 pounds over her entire pregnancy.

Another collapsed and had seizures during labor.

(Published Dec. 2025)

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HIV Criminalization in Pennsylvania: Enforcement of "Prostitution and Related Offenses" Crimes

Read the full report at tinyurl.com/HIVCrimPA. Learn more about HIV criminalization at tinyurl.com/WIHIVcrim #LGBT #LGBTQ #HIV #Criminalization #Report #Research #Pennsylvania

Millions of Americans are at risk of losing food stamps next month amid shutdown | CNN Politics Roughly 42 million people are at risk of losing critical food assistance in November amid the federal government shutdown. And it’s not clear whether the Trump administration will step in to find the ...

More than 2 million LGBT adults in the U.S. rely on federal food assistance benefits. Learn more in our report at bit.ly/LGBTSNAP

From Haven to Exodus: Trans Americans Are Fleeing The U.S. As restrictions on trans rights mount under the Trump Administration, more transgender Americans are emigrating.

More than half of the transgender people in the U.S. we surveyed have moved or are planning to move to another state they believe to be more welcoming to gender-diverse individuals.

Here you can find the new Model lists of Essential Medicines.

A huge turning point: CF medicine’s Trikafta/Kaftrio added to WHO Essential Medicines List Today marks a historic breakthrough in the fight for global access to lifesaving cystic fibrosis (CF) treatment.The World Health Organization (WHO) has officially added elexacaftor/tezacaftor/ivacafto...

The WHO just published its new Model List of Essential Medicines list. Pleased to see cystic fibrosis meds included. Thanks to the great work of the Right to Breathe campaign. However, Vertex's high prices will continue to be a barrier. www.righttobreathe.net/post/a-huge-...

What Georgia’s Medicaid Work Requirement Tells Us About the Costs of Trump's Spending Bill GOP lawmakers want to nationalize Medicaid work requirements to offset Trump’s proposed tax cuts. Yet Georgia’s example shows that this could threaten health care for nearly 16 million Americans and…

Arkansas is the only state other than Georgia to have implemented work requirements.

GOP state lawmakers later changed their minds after data showed that red tape associated with verifying eligibility resulted in more than 18,000 people losing coverage within the first few months of the policy.

'A very, very small number' of teens receive gender-affirming care, study finds A new analysis of private insurance claims data finds less than 0.1% of youth accessed puberty blockers or hormones for gender transition. This small group has garnered a huge amount of attention from...

Harvard researchers pulled 5 million teens' health insurance claims for 2018-22:
18,000 were diagnosed with gender dysphoria. (0.36%)
<1,000 took puberty blockers (0.02%)
<2,000 used hormone therapy (0.04%)

Really puts the political haymaking into perspective.
www.npr.org/sections/sho...

Shield laws protect patients and providers of reproductive and gender-affirming health care. Currently, 23 states and D.C. have reproductive health shield laws, and 17 states and D.C. have gender-affirming care shield laws. bit.ly/Shieldlaws

Top Ten EFF Digital Security Resources for People Concerned About the Incoming Trump Administration In the wake of the 2024 election in the United States, many people are concerned about tightening up their digital privacy and security practices. As always, we recommend that people start making thei...

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Respondents confused national demographics with my address book

Americans Have One Very Strange Cognitive Bias Or: How I learned to stop worrying and love The People.

“In 2022, YouGov asked “What percentage of Americans do you think are ___?”

The results were hilarious.

Trans: 21%
Muslim: 27%
Jewish: 30%
Black: 41%
Live in NYC: 30%
Gay or lesbian: 30%

The errors are off by orders of magnitude. The trans estimation by 2,000%.”
www.thebulwark.com/p/americans-...

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