I really cannot emphasize enough how surprising this is for Social Circle.

“If political actors can determine which fields of established science are disfavored and off-limits to judicial education, every scientific discipline relevant to complex litigation becomes vulnerable to the same tactic.“ arstechnica.com/science/2026...

“I think what ICE is doing is the worst thing America has probably done since the internment camps during World War II.” One of the nation's top "justice facility" architecture firms will no longer work on ICE detention centers or deportation facilities after its employees staged a revolt.

just plainly evil.

He can say this isn't racist. It is. He can say fomenting hatred against Muslims will protect Jews and Christians. It won't. All who are interested in a pluralistic United States should speak out against it. 2/2

It wasn't too long ago that members of Congress said Jews were 'incompatible' with America. It was wrong then. This is wrong now. That a sitting senator feels he can call Islam a death cult with impunity speaks to something very broken in our politics. 1/2

Hey Speaker Johnson: Muslim Americans are not a “serious issue.” This hateful trash coming from the GOP has no place in America or modern society.

A better world *is* possible. We know this because other rich countries do better on almost every public health metric. We just need policymakers who want to prevent needless deaths and for some reason, they are a rare breed.

Yes, because congestion pricing famously turned NYC, London, and Milan into ghost towns

“Public health is to protect everybody by the participation of everybody in preventing disease from spreading,” Plotkin said. “And that principle has been abandoned. And the principle now is ‘I will accept what I’m willing to accept and to hell with everybody else.’” www.statnews.com/2026/03/02/s...

To be clear: the SAVE Act does not simply require the identification voting ALREADY requires. It demands proof of CITIZENSHIP— a birth certificate with a name that matches yours now (bye, bye, married women), or a passport— both of which are expensive and take a long time to obtain.

“Mohammed, five, Othman, seven, who was blind and had special needs, their mother Waad Bani Odeh, 35, and father Ali Bani Odeh, 37, were driving through their hometown of Tamoun late on Saturday when Israeli forces opened fire.” Shot in the head and face. Executed with their parents. No words.

There are four pillars of US vaccine policy … and they are under unprecedented strain. 1) schedule 2) vaccine safety oversight 3) injury compensation 4) vaccines for children Our new piece in @jamahealthforum.com With Sarah Despres jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

"The Iran War Is Creating a Public Health and Environmental Crisis" by @thorbenson.bsky.social for @rollingstone.com (via @yahoonews.com): uk.news.yahoo.com/iran-war-cre...

The SAVE Act is voter suppression, plain and simple. And by not only effectively imposing a poll tax, but imposing documentation reqs that may require schlepping or make it harder to vote by mail, I argue it will also widen participation gaps between healthy & unhealthy. substack.com/@mirandayave...

"We're not seeing Jewish people continue to be violently attacked out of a motivation against Zionism. We're seeing Jewish people violently attacked because they're Jewish."

I've given to @51st.news before, but never become a member: what better reason to change that than for their big campaign to expand local coverage? If you care about local DC news, join me!

EXCLUSIVE: A dark money group is offering influencers $1,500 for posts attacking Chicago Democratic primary candidate @katmabu.bsky.social www.ms.now/news/kat-abu...

HOLY SHIT. A dark money group, hidden behind a bunch of shell companies, is paying influencers thousands of dollars PER POST to attack @katmabu.bsky.social on social media a month before her election. Thank you to the people who declined the money and went forward with this. So who's behind this?

#VisibilityBrigade #washington #vote #democracy #epsteinfiles #PeacefulProtest @visibilitybrigade.bsky.social @rosaliewong.bsky.social @jesscraven101.bsky.social @emmatk.bsky.social @hcrichardson.bsky.social @roberthubbell.skystack.xyz #epstein #iran #war #hegseth #distraction #files #lobster

This is truly nuts. Brought to you by the creators of the federal antisemitism taskforce who also fancy themselves arbiters of what counts as authentically Jewish. Let me guess… ADL & AIPAC? Ugh…

Some women on the right are realizing that they were being "used." Their inclusion in the MAGA movement was contingent. Sexism wasn’t the price of entry; it was the theme of the party. nymag.com/intelligence...

I can't even find the words to express how repugnant and despicable this post is. People who spew such Islamophobic bile don't belong in the United States Congress. The job of elected officials is to combat hate, not fan its flames. (1/2)

(a) This isn't a surprise; I believe ADL's CEO called Khalil a "Hamasnik" last year. (b) As for your long read, try this one for size: nymag.com/intelligence...

The average Minnesota childcare teacher makes $16 an hour.

Sorry ladies Palantir has a message for you and it’s that Rosie the Riveter also had to eat it and go back to her husband’s kitchen newrepublic.com/post/207693/...

After Tennessee Congressman Andy Ogles called for removing Muslims from America, it’s worth remembering: Muslims have been part of this country since its earliest days—building, contributing, and even fighting in its wars. Read the latest article on my platform Islam Today:

President Trump wants more classical architecture in D.C. But that desire recently reached a strange new place: a soon-to-be modernized elementary school on the eastern edge of Ward 7. Federal officials are stepping deep into local design decisions: 51st.news/dc-schools-f...

Defend DC Public Education @empowereddc.bsky.social is asking DC residents to sign this petition to the Mayor & Council to oppose opting in to the federal school voucher program that was part of the big ugly bill (OBBBA). Deadline Sunday 8pm docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... cc @thehillishome.com

What a horrible fucking life philosophy. What an empty, soulless approach to existence.

Research shows that incarceration harms kids’ mental health. Immigration detention is no different and may in some ways be worse given the broader context (e.g., no due process, parents detained too, conditions that sound worse than some prisons). 👏 these hero MD moms! 19thnews.org/2026/03/pedi...

My latest for @thenation.com. For those of us in healthcare, public health, science resisting is a duty born of our commitment to serve, make the world a better place. But our institutions don't make it easy. But we still have to do it in large and small ways. www.thenation.com/article/acti...

Sunlight travels 93M miles to get to us but not one of those miles goes through the Strait of Hormuz per @billmckibben.bsky.social in a convo about solar power with KCRW’s Madeleine Brand play.cdnstream1.com/s/kcrw/press...

… and how much Medicaid, ACA subsidies, & food assistance could be provided with the billions frittered away on furniture, lobster & other luxuries by the Pentagon in September 2025 + $220 million squandered on the DHS PR campaign people.com/pete-hegseth... www.propublica.org/article/kris...

I know mainstream media sucks But there are still journalists doing good work, smaller magazines, podcasts, etc I frequently give talks to audiences at biotech companies and universities I've seen that changing minds is possible, even if it's hard and slow www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Amazing webinar from @healthbegins.bsky.social “Reimagining Financing and Capital Flows for Health Equity” Learn about challenges to and solutions (especially infrastructure) to support equitable health investments youtube.com/watch?v=SPFa...

Bier: "Over the last 30 years, we looked at all the government budgets -- federal, state, and local combined. Immigrants reduce deficits by $14.5 trillion."

“Founded by teenagers” feels exactly right. If you’ve ever had a kid tell that all you need to do to solve an intractable problem with contradictory moral frames is, ya know, “just let the phone do it!” then you actually understand today’s economic elites better than they do themselves.

They could have read (yes, I know) this piece by @proftalmadge.bsky.social from [checks notes] *2008* entitled “Closing Time: Assessing the Iranian Threat to the Strait of Hormuz”! www.caitlintalmadge.com/uploads/8/5/4/1/85419560/closing_time.pdf

"If your kid was in the armed services and you watched Pete Hegseth doing his WAR! schtick, what would you think? If it was me, I’d be sick to my stomach seeing that my child’s life was in the hands of a man with low character and lower intelligence."

And the Velodrome d’Hiver. The conditions were disgusting and many people threw themselves from the balcony rather than go on staying there or going to Auschwitz, etc.

A DOGE staffer assigned to the National Endowment for the Humanities to flag grants for "DEI" tries to explain what "DEI" is. This deposition is part of a lawsuit by the @acls1919.bsky.social, @historians.org and @modernlanguage.bsky.social.

Here's my Blooski statement that Sen. Kennedy calls hyperbolic. I will defend natural law until the day I die, Senator. People's rights come from their humanity, not their government. If ordered to act unethically, you should always refuse. Do Republicans now disagree?

We cannot build trust with people whose losses we refuse to honor. I keep coming back to that. It captures something I think we’ve underexamined. Not a policy failure or a messaging failure. Something deeper. Something about who we decided was & wasn't worthy of our compassion, & what that cost us.

This Women’s History Month and on International Women’s Day, we celebrate some of the legal pioneers who broke barriers, challenged exclusion, and re-shaped our justice system to ensure all women have a voice under the law. Their work built the path – now we must keep pushing forward.

❤️ @janeese4dc.bsky.social focus on kids & youth: need for universal child care & places and spaces for youth, after school programs, and addressing the dearth of school nurses, social workers, psychologists, & to do this leverage local universities, increase pay for caregiving jobs, etc.

Future DC mayor @janeese4dc.bsky.social highlights Black maternal mortality in DC as a problem that doesn’t need another panel. What’s needed is a birth center east of the river where women can receive quality care (incl. doulas) before, during, and after giving birth. janeesefordc.com

A DOJ lawyer argued in court today that RFK Jr. has the absolute authority to recommend (hypothetically) that people get a shot *of* measles instead of *against* measles during a hearing for the lawsuit filed against RFK Jr. by the AAP and APHA. The good side is seeking a preliminary injunction…

I hope SC voters see Graham for the corrupt and traitorous (isn’t that what conspiring with another country is?) warmonger he is

Since @defendpublichealth.bsky.social launched this effort, more than 4500 people have sent letters to their Senators. We’d love for you to join us in this effort. Will it fix everything? No. But it is an opportunity to demonstrate that the people of the U.S. are fed up with RFK Jr.’s insanity.