Liz Borkowski

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Public health researcher at George Washington University (Jacobs Institute of Women's Health), managing editor of Women's Health Issues. She/her, views are my own.

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Was scrolling and then saw...myself!! Aaah! The @washingtonpost.com calls The Originalism Trap a "timely" and "strongly argued book" that "offers a trenchant, sharply worded critique of originalist theories---and a call for a popular revolt against them" www.washingtonpost.com/books/2024/0...

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Project 2025: We're going to stop EPA from monitoring dangerous air pollution from oil and gas wells and have HHS monitor people who seek legal abortions instead

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We made some quick explainers on Project 2025's impact on bookbans for Authors Against Book Bans-- please feel free to share with your own networks.

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Project 2025 just got some shiny new jackboots: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agenda_47

Agenda 47 - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org

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This project requires countless hours of research, data collection, and creation of visualizations—Your support will ensure I have the time, focus, and resources to complete the project. Mapping Project 2025: Investigating the GOP's Authoritarian Playbook

Mapping Project 2025: Investigating the GOP's Authoritarian Playbookfundrazr.com Mapping Project 2025: Investigating the GOP's playbook for a far right authoritarian takeover of American government.

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I'm hiring an associate attorney! If you know a relatively new attorney who wants to litigate against the federal government for all the right reasons, send them here: debgoldenlaw.com/workwithus/

Work With Us - The Law Office of Deborah M. Goldendebgoldenlaw.com job openings Work With Us job opportunities The Right Place For You Associate Attorney The Law Office of Deborah M. Golden is Hiring an Associate Attorney I’m looking for the office’s first full-time ...

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Oh look! Another “standard”medical test that turns out to be biased. My question is why all fields haven’t systematically reviewed all evaluations for bias, and changed practice to minimize it. #4s2024 #EASST2024 www.nytimes.com/2024/07/13/h...

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It's hard to rank the absurdities in Project 2025, but the plans for NOAA are pretty high up there: "the NWS should eliminate its public-facing forecasts...and otherwise 'fully commercialize its forecasting operations'...Then, NOAA’s scientific-research arm...should be aggressively shrunk."

They have such winning ideas like “why don’t we charge people who want to know if that tornado is gonna hit their house.”

The MAGA Plan to End Free Weather Reportswww.theatlantic.com Project 2025 would all but dissolve the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

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FYI (from the CDC Covid-19 wastewater monitoring site, www.cdc.gov/nwss/rv/COVI...). It's a good time to take precautions if you don't want to catch covid (or risk giving it to someone else).

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One thing we know now about the mass deportations, the abortion bans, and the executive crimes, which was less clear in 2016, is SCOTUS won't stand in the way.

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Whistleblower who exposed Tuskegee syphilis study dies aged 86. In a world where it’s very easy to be quiet, let’s be Peter Buxtun. www.theguardian.com/us-news/arti...

Peter Buxtun, whistleblower who exposed Tuskegee syphilis study, dies aged 86www.theguardian.com Buxtun, who had Alzheimer’s, revered for role in bringing to light one of worst medical research scandals in US history

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They have such winning ideas like “why don’t we charge people who want to know if that tornado is gonna hit their house.”

The MAGA Plan to End Free Weather Reportswww.theatlantic.com Project 2025 would all but dissolve the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

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“In any other country, we would recognize Cannon’s actions—dismissing a major criminal case against a presidential candidate on the first day of his party’s convention—to be part of an ongoing constitutional coup.” Michael Podhorzer www.weekendreading.net/p/oops-they-...

Oops! … They Did it Againwww.weekendreading.net And they are not so innocent

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So people are talking about the fake version of the JD Vance sparkling water. Here’s the real one. And you know, as someone who had kind of a crash-course introduction to the world of the American elite, let me tell my very similar and extremely different story.

J. D. Vance: What I didn’t know how the world of the American elite workswww.foxnews.com I went to Yale to earn a law degree. But that first year at Yale taught me most of all that I didn’t know how the world of the American elite works.

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Former DCist reporters just announced that they are launching a worker-run local news site for DC called the 51st, operating on reader donations:

A serious loss for local DC news. What's fucked up is that this is the SECOND time DCist has been shuttered, after Gothamist, the group of city-based sites which included it, was bought up & shut down by a billionaire mad that they reported on him. They stay brazenly dismantling journalism.

WAMU lays off 15 staffers, shuts down DCist to focus on audiowww.axios.com The station plans to add new audio products.

Former DCist staff launch the 51st, new local news site for Washingtonwww.washingtonpost.com The 51st is a worker-run newsroom that will attempt to fill a niche its founders say opened when WAMU closed DCist.

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The US is into state & county fair season — locales where #H5N1 #birdflu could spread, if infected cows are brought to show. @statnews.bsky.social's Eric Boodman went to Iowa's Winneshiek County Fair to see if farm folk are fussed. In the main, they are not. www.statnews.com/2024/07/16/b...

At an Iowa county fair, a tradition carries on despite bird flu anxiety in the dairy barnwww.statnews.com Fair season is a yearly sacrament for farm families. They were mindful of the risks of bird flu, but had faith in their neighbors, their vet, and the official process for maintaining biosecurity.

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Summer is the new winter for COVID. Unlike flu, which peaks in winter only, COVID has a summer surge, and it's happening now. See graphics that show the pattern & best theories for why this virus spreads so well in summer 🧪 by @tanyalewis.bsky.social & @unamandita.bsky.social

COVID Rates Are Rising Again. Why Does SARS-CoV-2 Spread So Well in the Summer?www.scientificamerican.com A combination of human behavior and immunity, the environment, and SARS-CoV-2 itself explains why the virus surges during both hotter and colder months

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good video on the Project 2025 plans for labor - including less enforcement of labor law, boss-run "company unions," and defunding OSHA, a massive redistribution of power away from workers and worker-led organizations to bosses - and the need to counter-organize convergencemag.com/video/projec...

Project 2025: A Warning for Laborconvergencemag.com “Project 2025 comes for everybody, It comes for LGBTQIA+ folks. It comes for folks of color and people of good will of all stripes. But it particularly comes for labor. Unions and workers and all of…

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school vouchers are designed to starve public schools and they’re working in that regard

Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, has spent so much money paying private schoolers' tuition that it's now facing hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state programs and projects.

School Vouchers Were Supposed to Save Taxpayer Money. Instead They Blew a Massive Hole in Arizona’s Budget.www.propublica.org Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, has spent so much money paying private schoolers’ tuition that it’s now facing hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state program...

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Psst: Project 2025 is terrifying for a lot of reasons but also because on page 5 it calls for teachers and librarians who grant access to books that are maligned as pornography (which just means anything LGBTQ) to be registered as sex offenders. Pass it on.

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Really great article by @amymaxmen.bsky.social here. FWIW, I side with the folks saying this vaccine needs to be available to those most at risk, now. #IDSky #EpiSky 🧪

Finland is offering farmworkers bird flu shots. Some experts say the US should, tooabcnews.go.com Finland is offering farmworkers bird flu shots. But, even with a stockpile of bird flu vaccinations, the U.S. government is not offering them to those at high risk.

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“Every $1,300 New York invested in building bike-lanes in 2015 provided benefits equivalent to 1 additional year of life at full health over the lifetime of all city residents, according to a new economic assessment.” Bike-lanes are a sound public health investment. www.reuters.com/article/busi...

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Just when I think I've seen every terrifying aspect of Project 2025, another one pops up. *This* might be one of the most terrifying. www.americanprogress.org/article/proj...

Project 2025 Compels Local Prosecutors To Enforce Extreme Right-Wing Lawswww.americanprogress.org Project 2025 seeks to impose a right-wing policy agenda by threatening federal legal action against local officials who refuse to enforce abortion bans.

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“Officials do not have the authority to compel workers to get tested, and there is no way for workers to test themselves. In the current outbreak, just four dairy workers & five poultry workers have tested positive for H5N1, the bird flu virus, but experts believe that many more have been infected”

Bird Flu Is Spreading. Why Aren’t More People Getting Tested?www.nytimes.com Even as the H5N1 virus evolves, gaps remain in the nation’s contingency plans for human testing, scientists say.

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#USDA continues to insist that the #H5N1 #birdflu outbreak in cows can be stopped. Serious question: How do you stop transmission when you don't know where the virus is? www.statnews.com/2024/07/16/b...

USDA maintains bird flu can be eliminated from dairy cows, even as doubts mount among expertswww.statnews.com Federal officials said Tuesday that they believe the country can still eliminate an outbreak of H5N1 bird flu virus among dairy cows, even as experts' doubts mount.

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“Nobody seems to have language to say: We abhor, reject, repudiate, and punish all political violence, even as we maintain that Trump remains himself a promoter of such violence, a subverter of American institutions, and the very opposite of everything decent and patriotic.“ #giftarticle

The Gunman and the Would-Be Dictatorwww.theatlantic.com Violence stalks the president who has rejoiced in violence to others.

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In all seriousness: the very idea that someone can take highly classified documents, store them in a public place, defy any number of requests, subpoenas, etc., and then face NO CONSEQUENCES AT ALL is genuinely shocking, and should terrify anyone who cares about national security.

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Northwestern's law school faculty is nearly 80 percent white and over 80 percent male Naturally the law school is being sued by some jabronis who think white guys aren't getting a fair shake in faculty hiring I wrote about it! ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...

Affirmative Action Opponents Are Saying the Racist Part Out Loud Nowballsandstrikes.org A challenge to faculty hiring practices at Northwestern’s law school translates from legalese to “There are Black people on this faculty, Your Honor.”

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"In this celebrity-driven culture, Henson did more to publicize Project 2025 than all the purposeful talking heads and their preening, pretentious colleagues." No lies detected. floridaphoenix.com/2024/07/14/f...

For Republicans, the bill is coming due for Project 2025 • Florida Phoenixfloridaphoenix.com On June 30, actress Taraji P. Henson paused her BET Awards hosting duties to warn viewers about the danger Donald Trump and Project 2025 pose to most U.S. citizens. “They are trying to bring the draft...

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Colorado is now reporting 5 #H5 #birdflu human cases among workers culling poultry on an infected farm. All had mild symptoms; no hospitalizations. ⁦‪#CDC has confirmed 4 so far. CDC is on the ground helping the state investigate. cdphe.colorado.gov/press-releas...

Health officials confirm human cases of avian flu in Colorado poultry workers | Department of Public Health & Environmentcdphe.colorado.gov CDC confirms avian flu cases that the state first reported on FridayDenver (July 14, 2024) — In coordination with the Colorado Department of Agriculture, the State Emergency Operations Center, and Cen...