John Henderson
@johnhenderson.bsky.social
Baltimorean. Opinions and typos are mine. @[email protected] on mastodon
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The Trump administration has been pursuing a quiet immigration crackdown strategy: limiting access to health care and public services. The American Academy of Pediatrics is sounding the alarm about the impact on children. n.pr/4j86NXt
Pediatricians raise the alarm on the effect of Trump's immigration crackdown on kids
The Trump administration has been pursuing a quiet immigration crackdown strategy: limiting access to health care and public services. The American Academy of Pediatrics is sounding the alarm about the impact on children.
n.pr
September 18, 2026 at 4:10 AM
The Trump administration has been pursuing a quiet immigration crackdown strategy: limiting access to health care and public services. The American Academy of Pediatrics is sounding the alarm about the impact on children. n.pr/4j86NXt
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Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
September 14, 2026 at 12:14 AM
Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
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A recurrent theme in this excellent story about China’s progress is that people there regard Trump as essential to their success, including his ability to drive scientific talent from the US www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
September 13, 2026 at 12:32 AM
A recurrent theme in this excellent story about China’s progress is that people there regard Trump as essential to their success, including his ability to drive scientific talent from the US www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Thousands of immigrants did the hard, dirty work of clearing rubble and toxic dust and debris from Ground Zero. Many were undocumented laborers sent to work every day with no special PPE, and got cancer as a result. Now some of those same people are living in fear of ICE.
www.npr.org/2026/09/11/n...
www.npr.org/2026/09/11/n...
They cleaned up ground zero. Now many are hiding from ICE
After 9/11, thousands of rescue and cleanup crews went to work at ground zero. They were exposed to toxic debris and experienced psychological trauma. Today, many say they live in fear of deportation.
www.npr.org
September 11, 2026 at 5:55 PM
Thousands of immigrants did the hard, dirty work of clearing rubble and toxic dust and debris from Ground Zero. Many were undocumented laborers sent to work every day with no special PPE, and got cancer as a result. Now some of those same people are living in fear of ICE.
www.npr.org/2026/09/11/n...
www.npr.org/2026/09/11/n...
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Always a good time to remind ourselves that the US Confederacy was, even judged in historical context, evil -- a pathetic, morally repellant movement led by some the smarmiest narcissists ever known. It had no redeeming features & should forever be regarded with disgust & contempt.
Trump officials strip military language criticizing Confederate memorial
A new sign at Arlington National Cemetery omits wording that said the 32-foot bronze statue “mythologized” the Confederacy and gave “sanitized” depictions of slavery.
www.washingtonpost.com
September 8, 2026 at 12:12 AM
Always a good time to remind ourselves that the US Confederacy was, even judged in historical context, evil -- a pathetic, morally repellant movement led by some the smarmiest narcissists ever known. It had no redeeming features & should forever be regarded with disgust & contempt.
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Like an estimated 350,000 Haitian immigrants, Pierre Damas Bel had recently lost temporary protected status, which is given to people fleeing nations experiencing disaster.
He was recently run over and killed in what his family believes was a suicide. https://wapo.st/4cmZ8AJ
He was recently run over and killed in what his family believes was a suicide. https://wapo.st/4cmZ8AJ
September 1, 2026 at 9:15 PM
Like an estimated 350,000 Haitian immigrants, Pierre Damas Bel had recently lost temporary protected status, which is given to people fleeing nations experiencing disaster.
He was recently run over and killed in what his family believes was a suicide. https://wapo.st/4cmZ8AJ
He was recently run over and killed in what his family believes was a suicide. https://wapo.st/4cmZ8AJ
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1/ Just in: An anonymous federal worker has filed a whistleblower disclosure warning that the U.S. Postal Service's attempt to create a system to regulate mail voting for the midterms has been "rushed, chaotic, and fundamentally flawed."
@propublica.org has the details 👇
@propublica.org has the details 👇
September 1, 2026 at 12:27 PM
1/ Just in: An anonymous federal worker has filed a whistleblower disclosure warning that the U.S. Postal Service's attempt to create a system to regulate mail voting for the midterms has been "rushed, chaotic, and fundamentally flawed."
@propublica.org has the details 👇
@propublica.org has the details 👇
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I appreciate that Dolly Parton refused to participate in "dress respectability" and, by her own account, modeled her aesthetic after a town "tramp," who she thought was beautiful. She separated aesthetics from character and understood "classiness" to be about how you treat people, not how you dress.
August 26, 2026 at 7:02 AM
I appreciate that Dolly Parton refused to participate in "dress respectability" and, by her own account, modeled her aesthetic after a town "tramp," who she thought was beautiful. She separated aesthetics from character and understood "classiness" to be about how you treat people, not how you dress.
One of the greatest songwriters and humanitarians in American history-what very sad news.
Breaking News: Dolly Parton, the country singer, songwriter, entertainer and entrepreneur known for her outsize persona and prodigious vision and talent that placed her in a class by herself, has died at 80. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/a...
August 25, 2026 at 7:00 PM
One of the greatest songwriters and humanitarians in American history-what very sad news.
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Breaking News: Dolly Parton, the country singer, songwriter, entertainer and entrepreneur known for her outsize persona and prodigious vision and talent that placed her in a class by herself, has died at 80. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/a...
August 25, 2026 at 6:23 PM
Breaking News: Dolly Parton, the country singer, songwriter, entertainer and entrepreneur known for her outsize persona and prodigious vision and talent that placed her in a class by herself, has died at 80. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/a...
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Vought told them he was going to do this at his confirmation hearings and Republicans approved him anyway.
Congress funded the CDC's Alzheimer's work, the sickle cell and epilepsy data programs and a rape prevention unit, and Vought simply will not release the money. Grassley told him to his face he lacks the authority. The pocket rescission alone took 4.9 billion.
Republicans furious as Trump’s budget director goes 'rogue'
The director of the Office of Management and Budget is infuriating Republican lawmakers by "going rogue" on what appropriations were approved by the House and Senate.
www.alternet.org
August 25, 2026 at 7:10 AM
Vought told them he was going to do this at his confirmation hearings and Republicans approved him anyway.
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Elon Musk should never be able to show his face in public again without getting asked about this.
Because of global cuts to foreign aid, the Gates Foundation has predicted that 2025 will be the first year this century where child deaths will increase.
USAID fallout: In Nepal, when the aid workers stopped coming, the women and babies started dying
The U.S. government has repeatedly insisted that no one — and, particularly, no children — have died because of its funding cuts. But the AP has documented the deaths of women and children from Myanmar to Nigeria.
nbcnews.to
August 16, 2026 at 11:11 PM
Elon Musk should never be able to show his face in public again without getting asked about this.
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The USAID thing will eventually be talked about like a genocide
August 14, 2026 at 1:42 AM
The USAID thing will eventually be talked about like a genocide
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They never ask who is going to pay for it when they start a new war that ends up costing billions and trillions of dollars or when they give trillions of dollars in tax cuts to the wealthiest few people! Only when the rest of us want our money to help our lives! Only then!
August 9, 2026 at 4:42 PM
They never ask who is going to pay for it when they start a new war that ends up costing billions and trillions of dollars or when they give trillions of dollars in tax cuts to the wealthiest few people! Only when the rest of us want our money to help our lives! Only then!
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Another example of the lunacy of thinking discrimination against a marginalized group won't affect you if you're not part of that group bsky.app/profile/gbbr...
An initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play
August 3, 2026 at 3:03 PM
Another example of the lunacy of thinking discrimination against a marginalized group won't affect you if you're not part of that group bsky.app/profile/gbbr...
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July 31, 2026 at 1:03 PM
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“Folks, I’m telling you,
birthing is hard
and dying is mean—
so get yourself
a little loving
in between.”
“Advice”, 1959, Poem by Langston Hughes
birthing is hard
and dying is mean—
so get yourself
a little loving
in between.”
“Advice”, 1959, Poem by Langston Hughes
July 31, 2026 at 7:50 AM
“Folks, I’m telling you,
birthing is hard
and dying is mean—
so get yourself
a little loving
in between.”
“Advice”, 1959, Poem by Langston Hughes
birthing is hard
and dying is mean—
so get yourself
a little loving
in between.”
“Advice”, 1959, Poem by Langston Hughes
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you invoke your fifth amendment rights when you’re talking to a cop because he’s only there to find a reason to charge you with a crime, and you should absolutely do the same when you’re talking to a senator who’s made it very clear he’s only there to find a reason to charge you with a crime
July 29, 2026 at 6:43 PM
you invoke your fifth amendment rights when you’re talking to a cop because he’s only there to find a reason to charge you with a crime, and you should absolutely do the same when you’re talking to a senator who’s made it very clear he’s only there to find a reason to charge you with a crime
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Upwards of 200,00 people may have lost their jobs today; or will in the upcoming days.
There is a palpable sense of fear among the Haitian community right now. They need your support.
There is a palpable sense of fear among the Haitian community right now. They need your support.
My Haitian friend was just fired from his job. "They said I don't have a legal status now."
This is likely happening to hundreds of thousands of people across this country today. Sick.
This is likely happening to hundreds of thousands of people across this country today. Sick.
July 28, 2026 at 10:11 PM
Upwards of 200,00 people may have lost their jobs today; or will in the upcoming days.
There is a palpable sense of fear among the Haitian community right now. They need your support.
There is a palpable sense of fear among the Haitian community right now. They need your support.
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Rendering hundreds of thousands of people “illegal,” out of status, overnight, makes it obvious that illegality is produced by policy, an event version of something that has taken place over years and decades
July 28, 2026 at 10:36 PM
Rendering hundreds of thousands of people “illegal,” out of status, overnight, makes it obvious that illegality is produced by policy, an event version of something that has taken place over years and decades
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Citizens of voting age should be automatically registered to vote and if by some error they are removed from the rolls they should be able to easily re-register up until in person on election day at their polling place
July 27, 2026 at 10:32 PM
Citizens of voting age should be automatically registered to vote and if by some error they are removed from the rolls they should be able to easily re-register up until in person on election day at their polling place
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TPS for Haitians officially expires tomorrow. ICE is planning big operations, with Springfield, Ohio among the targets www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-hai...
ICE plans to target Haitians as Temporary Protected Status is set to end, sources say
The plans include arresting migrants in Ohio and quickly putting them on deportation flights to crisis-stricken Haiti, the internal documents indicate.
www.cbsnews.com
July 27, 2026 at 1:03 AM
TPS for Haitians officially expires tomorrow. ICE is planning big operations, with Springfield, Ohio among the targets www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-hai...