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Brazil's LGBTQ+ candidates are winning millions of votes and challenging the far right. VoteLGBT's Gui Mohallem explains what their success could teach Americans ahead of the midterms. advocate.com/opinion/brazil-…
Just an another reason in the loonnnnngggg list of why NOT to elect Marsha next week…
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Read the report that laid the groundwork for new @60Minutes reporting on the cost of the Trump Administration's secret third country deportation deals ➡️ foreign.senate.gov/press/dem…
Texas dad deported by ICE to Ghana was then forced to go to Mali, a country that's unsafe for him, he says cbsn.ws/4yErJcQ
Keifer Buckingham, MPH retweeted
The Trump admin is weaponizing anti-gender rhetoric to expand its influence in the Americas. In a new
@Volcanicas article, CGE’s Victória Dandara Toth examines how the Geneva Consensus Declaration advances an authoritarian anti-gender agenda.
Read ⬇️
volcanicas.com/la-declaracio…
We told y’all more of this was coming. They can’t win fair and square… so authoritarians have to do something.
Trump Administration Sues California Over Voter Rolls nytimes.com/2026/10/15/us/po…
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It is hard to believe that Helen Branswell has passed away. Just heartbreaking.
On January 4, 2020, Helen wrote STAT's first story on a mystery pneumonia outbreak in China. She saw the pandemic coming well before anyone was paying attention.
Helen was a journalist who knew more than most of the experts she interviewed. She understood the science, the history and the politics of every outbreak she covered. She asked the hardest (and best) questions and never let me get away with a vague answer
Experts learned from her. I certainly did
It's hard to imagine a world of pandemics, biological threats and so much more without a Helen Branswell to explain it all.
statnews.com/2026/10/13/hele…
Keifer Buckingham, MPH retweeted
Lots of overlapping hazards. Here’s a simple graphic to show which hazard(s) will affect you:
ISAIAS ON FINAL APPROACH: Alrighty gang... this is the final call on what to expect hazards-wise. The hazards overlap. Find yourself on the map, and then see which box(es) you're in.
PINK: The eyewall will affect you. Winds. gusting 80 to 100 mph, commensurate with Category 2 impacts. Power outages likely. Tree damage possible to hardwoods; palms should be mostly alright. Loose outdoor objects are tossed around. Scattered to numerous power outages. (In Pensacola, there could be a secondary burst of winds on the back side of the system out of the west-northwest... perhaps stronger than the initial side of the eye. As dry air sneaks into the circulation and erodes part of the eyewall, a "stinger" could form. While not technically a sting jet, somewhat similar processes could help make a nasty backlash of wind.)
RED: Winds gusting 56 to 80 mph. Some of that is on the east side of the eyewall but outside the eyewall itself. The rest, especially in Alabama as far north as Montgomery and south of Birmingham, is from the remnant eyewall. Scattered power outages likely, and tree damage is probabkle.
GREEN: This is where rainfall could overachieve, but uncertainty abounds. Confidence is high in widespread 6 to 10 inch totals, but a narrow strip of a LOT more is possible IF the feeder band swirls over the same areas for long enough. In that case, downpours would train, or move repeatedly over the same areas.
BLUE: Surge. A hazardous storm surge is likely on the right side of the system, with a broad 3 to 7 feet of inundation. If you live on the immediate coastline within 7 feet of sea level, move up or inland.
YELLOW: Scattered tornadoes are likely either Friday afternoon/evening or Saturday. Downpours in Isaias's feeder bands will tap into shear, or changing winds with height, associated with the overall circulation. That means some of the cells will rotate and could produce tornadoes. An isolated significant (EF2+) tornado can't be ruled out.
Keifer Buckingham, MPH retweeted
2026 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Navi Pillay’s commitment to universal legal principles and her firm moral compass are constants in a long career. Born into a family of Indian Tamil origin under apartheid in Durban, South Africa, Pillay became a lawyer and legal pioneer, confronting deep structural discrimination, segregation and exclusion. A common thread runs from her early work defending Nelson Mandela and others who stood up against apartheid to her service as a judge in some of the key international court cases of our time.
This year’s laureate has significantly enlarged the scope and impact of international law. She has served as a judge on the High Court in South Africa, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the International Criminal Court. She was the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and, until recently, she chaired the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory. Today Navi Pillay is a judge on the International Court of Justice in the case where Myanmar stands accused of genocide.
In historic international court cases, she has shown that legal measures can help prevent acts of war and violence. Navi Pillay has also contributed to strengthen the institutions of international law. Her independence, expertise and steadfastness have made her one of the most respected international jurists of our time.
Learn more about the 2026 #NobelPeacePrize: bit.ly/4xjOJ03
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Keifer Buckingham, MPH retweeted
The #Ebola outbreak in DRC isn't getting much attention these days. It should be. statnews.com/2026/10/02/ebol…
Keifer Buckingham, MPH retweeted
Human rights advocates warn that the Supreme Court ruling could put more LGBTQ+ asylum seekers at risk. Legal protections mean little if people can simply be moved to another country where they face the same danger. The US must respect its duty to protect people fleeing persecution, and countries receiving deportees must not become a route back to harm.
US Deports Three LGBTQ+ Ghanaian Women to Cameroon, Where Being Gay Is Also a Crime, as U.S Supreme Court Tuesday Ruling Allows Trump's Third-Country Deportations
Three Ghanaian women who fled persecution for being LGBTQ+ are stranded in Cameroon after the United States deported them there, even though a US court had granted them protection from being sent back to Ghana. Their story is a warning of what could happen to more vulnerable people after Tuesday's US Supreme Court ruling.
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court said the Trump administration can resume quickly, deporting immigrants to "third countries," meaning countries that are not their home country, without giving them a chance to challenge their removal. As is common with emergency orders, the justices did not explain their decision. The ruling takes effect while the court considers the wider case, with oral arguments set for December.
The three women arrived in the US in 2024. Instead of being allowed to stay safely, they were sent to Cameroon under a secret US agreement with more than 30 countries to accept deportees who can not legally be returned home. At least 36 migrants with no ties to Cameroon have been sent there under this arrangement.
The women say in an August 2026 interview with DW News that they were shackled "like terrorists" during the transfer. In Cameroon, they were held in a government compound in Yaoundé for two months and were only allowed out during the day after going on a hunger strike. They can not work, live under restrictions, and are still waiting for asylum decisions.
Like Ghana, Cameroon criminalises same-sex relationships and can imprison people for being gay. This means the women have escaped one country that punishes who they are, only to be placed in another.
Their case is not the only one. In September 2025, a bisexual man from The Gambia, named in court documents as K.S., was deported from the US to Ghana and then forced back to The Gambia, despite US protection against being returned there. His case shows that people sent to third countries can be pushed onward to the very places they fled.
Human rights advocates warn that the Supreme Court ruling could put more LGBTQ+ asylum seekers at risk. Legal protections mean little if people can simply be moved to another country where they face the same danger. The US must respect its duty to protect people fleeing persecution, and countries receiving deportees must not become a route back to harm.
Video credit: DW
Keifer Buckingham, MPH retweeted
Thanks @RepYassAnsari @RepDinaTitus & the 60+ colleagues for demanding the State Depart. protect LGBTQI+ people, human rights defenders, & civil society orgs in Türkiye amid the gov’t crackdown.
Whether in the U.S. or Türkiye, we must stand up for the human rights of all people.
I led 65 @HouseDemocrats in urging @SecRubio to confront Turkish President Erdogan and the Turkish government over its escalating campaign of repression against LGBTQI+ people, human rights organizations, and advocates.
I stand proudly with the LGBTQI+ community here and abroad and will continue to fight for their right to live openly, freely, and without fear, anywhere and everywhere.
Thank you @RepTitus, @HRC, @PlannedParenthood, and @Global_Equality for supporting and helping lead this effort.
Keifer Buckingham, MPH retweeted
Tennessee’s attempted, but botched, execution of Christa Pike was an extreme display of cruelty and the latest reminder that the death penalty is the ultimate cruel, inhuman, and degrading punishment. Gov. Lee must grant all those on death row clemency and commute their sentences. bit.ly/3VmCBOQ
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The US Supreme Court allows the Tennessee execution of Christa Gail Pike to go forward, overturning a last-minute stay. cnn.it/4AEexHj
The fact that Schmitt cannot possibly fathom Smith watching a * women’s * basketball game that night though. Heavens why would he do such a thing?
Eric Schmitt's false accusation was utterly reckless.
The text messages he posted referred to "Row 1." The Atlanta Hawks' arena does not have numbered rows.
Then Schmitt told HuffPo - after the hearing! - that he wasn't sure if Smith was lying because the Hawks' game was "the only NBA game or men’s college basketball game that night at 7:30." But the Iowa-Maryland game (where Smith was) started at 8 pm, not 7:30, so the 7:30 thing was a total red herring.
Schmitt publicly accused a former special prosecutor of perjuring himself before Congress, without having done even a modicum of fact-checking to ensure the accusation was true. Embarrassing and disqualifying.
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US Supreme Court denies Christa Pike's last-ditch bid to halt execution bbc.in/4hm5X8x
Just so sad. What was once a lobby that greeted diplomats, advocates, human rights defenders from around the world with their flag amongst all the others, a sign of welcome. Now just American flags. Yet another sign of this regime’s attempted retreat from the world.
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The US State Department lobby used to display the flags of the roughly 200 countries with which the US maintains diplomatic relations. Now, it displays 200 American flags, to remind State Department employees who they work for.
