Kiefer Kofman

Global Advocacy Adviser @reprorights. Tweets my own. Baseball player and drummer in a past life.

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

.@elonmusk and others claim that no one died because of US aid cuts. Obvious nonsense. A new IAS study finds that 77,000 children were dropped from Pepfar last year (the cost of the ARV's for them is 12 cents per day), and what happens to kids who don't get AIDS medicines?

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

It is hard to overestimate how important Zohran Mamdani is for the future of the US

[Ro Khanna @RoKhanna]

What happened to me in the West Bank was an outrage. But it is nothing compared to what Palestinians face every day.

It is time to share their stories that American politics have silenced and ignored. This is our first video about Palestinians we met.

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

Israel insists that reports of rape of imprisoned Palestinians are false. So why not allow unfettered visits by the Red Cross to show there is nothing to hide?

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

I don’t think it’s possible to overstate how much of our world’s crises are the result of our culture normalizing the idea that people should have very confident opinions on things they proudly admit they know literally nothing about.

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

The manosphere influencer Andrew Tate and his brother, Tristan, moved to Romania a decade ago to build an online-pornography empire. They kept their recruits in a development north of Bucharest known as American Village. “I’ve done this with over 100 girls,” Andrew said, about compelling women into sex work. “I almost sound evil. But I’m not.” In 2022, their compound was raided by armed police, and a SWAT team was deployed to take the women in the villa into protective custody. Since then, the brothers have faced ongoing investigations into allegations of human trafficking and sexual exploitation, though they have yet to face trial.

The Tates agreed to meet with Heidi Blake for her investigation for The New Yorker. During her visit, the brothers strenuously denied that they had ever hurt a woman. “I’ve never done anything wrong in my life,” Andrew said. He insisted that none of the women he employed had accused him of crimes, adding, “They’re still my friends.” By the time police raided his properties, he said, “the webcam business—which, by the way, is not illegal—had been closed for ten years.” But that account is starkly contradicted by the accounts of more than a dozen women, who described being groomed, trafficked, or sexually assaulted by the Tates—as well as by thousands of leaked messages and the brothers’ own persistent boasts to their friends and followers. Read Blake’s report: https://t.co/MTA5oT5Vkp

[Ronan Farrow @RonanFarrow]

Studies now present a striking picture of what happens when private equity firms acquire hospitals and nursing homes: predictable increases in harm and deaths. One landmark study shows: patient deaths up about 11% after such acquisitions.

[Alonso Gurmendi @Alonso_GD]

Let this sink in: a foundational, key idea that Hitler developed in Mein Kampf, that eventually led to the emergence of Nazism (that some people come from inferior cultures and so can’t become properly German no matter what the law says) is now mainstream Western right wing lingo

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Birthright citizenship has been the understood constitutional law of the country for forever. It was that way on Monday, now it is still that way on Tuesday. I understand not liking it, but how is this the apocalypse?

[Samuel Moyn 🔭 @samuelmoyn]

Wow, only 5-4 on the constitutional holding. Trump came within one vote of successfully revising the Fourteenth Amendment almost out of nowhere. Victory for birthright citizenship -- for sure. But almost a defeat. Raising the question of why we are playing this game.

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

.@elonmusk says that no one can name a person who died from his aid cuts. In fact, I've met the kids who are dying, and I've talked to the families who lost children. In my columns, I've cited many, many names of people who have died because of Musk's aid cuts. A few examples:
*Yamah Freeman was a 23-year-old woman who died in childbirth because Musk cut funding for the diesel for ambulances in her part of Liberia. She couldn't get to a hospital and died as people were carrying her there. I talked to her parents and sister in their village.
*Gbessey Kiadu, age 1, died of malaria because of his cuts to malaria medication in Liberia. I talked to his mom in her village.
*Ibrahim Koroma, an infant, died of AIDS in Sierra Leone after he interrupted HIV supplies. I talked to health workers who cared for him.
*Achol Deng was an 8-year-old girl with HIV in South Sudan who died when Musk cut funding for the health care worker who provided her medicines. I talked to the healthcare workers.
I could go on and on. In almost every village you go to in South Sudan, Uganda, Liberia, Sierra Leone or other countries I reported in, you find people dying because of aid cuts. I challenge Musk: Come with me on a reporting trip, and we'll talk to these moms and dads, and you'll see the dying children themselves. I think if you see the kids whose lives are at stake, maybe you'll change your mind.

[Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein]

An American just got sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for moving “Antifa” zines and there’s about 1000x as much media coverage of Trump’s reflecting pool 👍

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Keir Starmer could have ended child poverty, homelessness and the grotesque levels of inequality in this country.

Instead, he abandoned those in need, destroyed our civil liberties and facilitated genocide in Gaza.

That is how this Prime Minister will be remembered - and that is the legacy of moral and political bankruptcy he leaves behind.

The crises in our society are not going away. Neither are we - and we will keep fighting for a more equal, peaceful and dignified society for all.

[Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine]

Private equity took the Red Sox from one of the greatest teams in history (just eight years ago) to the basement.

From nursing homes to thriving businesses to baseball teams, there is nothing private equity won't run into the ground if given the chance.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Nice work everyone

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Lmao

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

This is a courage and a confidence in Trump’s humanity that I frankly don’t have. Moving display.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Insane that a former president is tweeting about college sports while the current president is pledging genocide tonight at 8pm.

The inanity of top Dems in a single tweet:

[Ro Khanna @RoKhanna]

We need to invoke the 25th Amendment and remove Trump.

Threatening war crimes is a blatant violation of our constitution and the Geneva Conventions.

[Krystal Ball @krystalball]

Genuinely one of the most proudly evil men of all time. Military needs to revolt. In a sane country he would be immediately removed. This is madness.