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“A report released last month found that nearly half of Latinos are worried that someone they know might get deported. The fear is real, even among Latino Republicans, with just 31% approving of Trump’s plan to deport all undocumented immigrants, compared with 61% of white Republicans.” https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-07-02/trump-latinos-2024-ice-raids

Trump was winning with Latinos. Now, his cruelty is derailing him

Trump risks making the mistake California Republicans made in the 1980s and 1990s: taking a political win they earned with Latinos and turning it into trash.

Los Angeles Times

Omar Wasow Jun 26

“One way to grease the groove is to just exercise whenever you think of it. Ben Greenfield, in Beyond Training, describes how he would do 3 to 5 pull-ups every time he walked under a pull-up bar in his doorway. By the end of the day, he’d have performed 30 to 50 pull-ups with minimal effort.” 🎁 https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/09/bro-do-you-even-grease-the-groove/598837/?gift=_jMXIMnqKBKBhHNaeJHdc58EOY9Z8Uco-NOSpGuUy4E

How to 'Grease the Groove' and Exercise Easy

Have you ever tried to grease the groove?

The Atlantic

Omar Wasow Jun 17

Highly recommend this interview with @chenoweth.bsky.social.

“There’s no…magic number. But there is a theory of change, which is the main function of civil resistance movements is to mobilize with sufficient mass, with sufficient momentum to effectively begin to disrupt the opponent's coalition.”

Omar Wasow Jun 17

“When Roberta Gibb tried to enter the Boston Marathon in 1966, she was told in a letter by the race director that women were ‘not physiologically capable’ of running a marathon.” https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/sports/nina-kuscsik-dead.html

Nina Kuscsik, First Woman to Win Boston Marathon, Dies at 86

Overcoming male resistance, she became the first woman to enter the New York City Marathon and the first official female winner of the Boston event.

The New York Times

Omar Wasow Jun 15

Christina Koch Jun 5

Please share this widely! ‼️ ⬇️🧵

The film "Chronically Ignored" will be available online for the first time internationally, starting Friday, June 6th, at 9 a.m (German Time). The link will be this one here:
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/chronicallyignored

"Chronically Ignored" is an investigative documentary about a dark chapter in the history of medicine.
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#ME #MEcfs #ChronicallyIgnored #greatestMEdicalscandal #chronicillness #longcovid #FQAD #MCAS #EDS #POTS #CCI #SFN #MEawareness

Chronically Ignored

Vimeo

Omar Wasow Jun 14

“Protests are an act of storytelling, at their most powerful when they draw on mythology in our culture, and what happens on the ground matters in shifting politics.” Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/opinion/ice-protests-la.html?unlocked_article_code=1.O08.We0C.CKWkLSNCWUT4&smid=url-share

Opinion | We Don’t Know Whether The ICE Protests Will Work

We can’t forget what protests are supposed to do: bring change over time.

The New York Times

Omar Wasow Jun 2

What’s the best “super food” for fighting cancer? Exercise.

Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/01/well/exercise-colon-cancer-study.html?unlocked_article_code=1.L08.iz4e.4Yfm8qt5EMe1&smid=url-share

Exercise Extends Life for People With Cancer, Study Shows

The trial, in people treated for colon cancer, showed clear evidence that an exercise program lowered the risk of disease recurrence and death.

The New York Times

Omar Wasow May 20

“Ms. Hochul didn’t mince words. She called the school, in operation from 1855 to 1957, a ‘place of nightmares’ and ‘a site of sanctioned ethnic cleansing.’” Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/nyregion/thomas-indian-school-archival-photographs.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Ik8.PtKu.YImT_grm0Ud5&smid=url-share

What It Looked Like Inside the Thomas Indian School

Archival photos show what life was like in the boarding school for Native American children.

The New York Times

Omar Wasow May 19

On the politics of seeing: “The demeaning spectacle of the human zoo comes to mind as one U.S. official after another has traveled to El Salvador for photo ops inside the notorious prison known as CECOT.” Gift link: https://wapo.st/4mobBam

CECOT prison in El Salvador is a ‘human zoo’ of immigrants

The spectacle is reminiscent of unfortunate exhibits at the 1904 World’s Fair.

The Washington Post

Omar Wasow May 9

Had the privilege of seeing Deaf President Now! at the SF Film Festival. The trailer just dropped and it’ll be out on Apple TV+ next Friday, May 16. Highly recommended. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-gIp9CDFtM

Deaf President Now! — Official Trailer | Apple TV+

YouTube