Abolish ICE. Now. www.newsweek.com/ice-detentio...

Here's my comment--join me. This would effectively remove foreign PhD students and postdocs from our labs. please share

Comment period ends on Monday for a proposed rule change that would terminate student visas after 4 years. It also puts limits on exchange visitors and reps of foreign media, and shortens the length of time at the end of the visa from 60 days to 30 days. www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

This sort of thing can permanently blind or kill with a shot like this. She was clearly shot directly in the face, and then he saunters away. This police officer needs jail time. And needs to pay restitution for the rest of his miserable life. “Less lethal” munitions are not non-lethal.

More than 1800 detainees who were interned in Trump's shuttered Alligator Alcatraz concentration camp have now disappeared without a trace. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

“He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. “He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.” -Declaration of Independence

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🏛️ 🧪 Scientific Societies Respond to Executive Order Requiring Approval of Federal Research Grants by Political Appointees

What we might refer to as a "Kavanaugh Stop"

Many people and institutions that fight back are winning. This is a large part of the reason to scorn the people and institutions that have caved. When this is over their lives should be made miserable. More, I mean.

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Health care chaos. Reckless cuts. Rising costs. Michiganders and families across the country are paying the price for RFK Jr.’s agenda. Enough is enough, which is why I’m drafting articles of impeachment.

WIRED spoke with more than 200 federal workers in dozens of federal agencies to learn what happened as the Department of Government Efficiency tore through their offices. This is the oral history of DOGE, as told by federal workers:

Incredibly proud to have played a small role in this journey alongside so many incredible scientists like Annette von Delft and Peter Sjö!

What a well-deserved prize! Congrats and may many more discoveries await, @franknoe.bsky.social! 🎉

Telling a bunch of foreign leaders you might kidnap and disappear their citizens AT THE U FUCKING N is wild

Instead of the promised "answer to autism," Trump offered families distorted science, false hope, and dangerous medical advice. My latest @opinion.bloomberg.com (gift link):

ICE inspectors confirm the concentration camp being built in El Paso run by private contractors already racked up 60 violations: ▪️contaminated water ▪️no access to family or lawyers ▪️ no telephones ▪️failure to treat medical conditions ▪️no access to ICE deportation officers Reports @npr.org

Certiorari "before judgment" is how #SCOTUS takes up a full appeal *before* the intermediate federal courts have heard it. It used to be exceedingly rare. For instance, there wasn't a *single* grant of such expedited review b/w August 2004 & February 2019. This is the *23rd* such grant since then.

Student visas dropped to a four year low. Trump also cuts spending on research by hundreds of billions on college campuses. This is how you end American exceptionalism. I gifted this article so you can read it www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

WHO says Ebola outbreak in DR Congo kills 31 just as Trump dumps USAID | News | Al Jazeera share.google/FDabGYTRmguF...

The top 1% of Americans (1.3 million households in total) have a net worth of $52 Trillion. The bottom 50% (66 million households) have a net worth of $4 Trillion. #EconSky

Hakeem Jeffries voted for Charlie Kirk Day but still isn’t sure if he’ll endorse Zohran Mamdani. This is why the approval rating of the Democratic Party is lower than Trump’s or the GOP.

Apparently, the testimony of 40 minors was not enough to convince then U.S. Attorney Alex Acosta (later a Trump appointee) to prosecute Jeffrey Epstein. This is one of the biggest cover-ups of our generation. @oversightdemocrats.house.gov won't stop until the truth comes to light.

Remember that time when we lived through the three hottest years in around 125,000 years & no one was talking about it?

⚠️California it’s time. ▪️Stand for democracy. ▪️Vote YES on prop 50. ▪️Maps are temporary. ▪️Theirs are not.

🧵This is a serious use of force violation. The violent attack of this woman must be prosecuted by Chicago/Illinois for violation of state’s rights. I’m going to break this down. You see her blocking the ICE van. Agents violently push her to the ground. Then you see 1 guy target her & choke her.

“.. The broadly worded proposal, which would legally authorize the president to kill people he deems narco-terrorists and attack countries he says helped them ..” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/u...

Man this dismissal of Trump’s NYT lawsuit is quite the read: “…a complaint is not a public forum for vituperation and invective — not a protected platform to rage against an adversary.” storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

When journalism was cool. And risked everything to challenge power.

Democratic New York lawmakers — as well as City Comptroller Brad Lander — were arrested by Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officers Thursday after demanding access to an alleged detention facility run by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at 26 Federal Plaza.

Measles cases hit record highs with RFK Jr. in charge. Now, his hand-picked vaccine panel just voted to make it harder for little babies to get vaccinated for measles and other diseases. How does that keep our kids safe?

Maria A. Castellanos (@mariacastel.bsky.social) is a superstar!

@mskcancercenter.bsky.social - Join us at 3 PM to hear about outstanding research from #MSKpostdoc fellowship winners: @mariacastel.bsky.social (@jchodera.bsky.social lab) @almudenachaves.bsky.social (Lowe lab) Adriana Mujal (Sun lab) Followed by a keynote from Dr. @lydialynch.bsky.social.

Western States Issue Their Own Vaccine Recommendations to Counter Kennedy www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/h...

“Kennedy told Monarez the ‘childhood vaccine schedule would be changing starting in September’ & she ‘needed to be on board.’” ACIP is scheduled to review recommendations for measles, mumps, rubella, varicella & Hepatitis B. If Cassidy is serious, he needs to act now www.npr.org/sections/sho...

Trump's deployment of federal troops against peaceful protesters is a blatant abuse of power. Join the #NoKings protests on October 18 & stand up for our constitutional rights. We won't be silenced. We won't be intimidated. Find an event: www.nokings.org

🧵 The United States stands at the brink of one of the most productive eras in cancer research. Decades of steady federal investment have driven survival rates up from 49% in the 1970s to nearly 70% today. Breakthrough vaccines, targeted therapies, and less toxic treatments are finally within reach.

ICE threw me and other protestors to the ground on Friday because we dared to stand up for our neighbors. I’m okay, but our communities aren’t. We can't afford apathy or inaction from our leaders right now. Abolishing ICE is a moral necessity.

🧪You don’t have to be surprised but you do have to keep up: In a shift of longstanding precedent, political appointees, not scientists, will ultimately decide who gets grant money from the world’s largest biomedical research funder: National Institutes of Health. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."

“Supporters of the proposal said it would effectively create a state version of the National Institutes of Health or the National Science Foundation, two of the nation’s largest institutional funders of scientific and public health research.” 🧪 #giftarticle

UC Berkeley has given the Trump administration the names of 160 students, faculty, and staff as part of an investigation into antisemitism on campus. One of them is Judith Butler. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

We're close to reaching a chilling moment; the first time in history where the single largest group of people arrested by ICE in the interior and held in detention are people with no criminal record. The gap is now down to fewer than 300 people.

The scientific community must value mentorship, enforce accountability, and make graduate students’ well-being central. cen.acs.org/education/Op... #chemsky 🧪

BREAKING: Susan Monarez, forced out by RFK Jr as CDC director, to testify in front of Senate panel next week. Monarez has said RFK Jr pressured her around vaccines. RFK Jr has said she was untrustworthy. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

This is pretty fucked up in lots of ways.

Read about the scientists on the front lines working tirelessly to make antivirals to prevent future pandemics in the Kris White lab at Mount Sinai: health.mountsinai.org/blog/stories...

📌"NO KINGS' isn't just a slogan...Written on posters and cried in chants, it echoes from city blocks to rural town squares, uniting people across this country to fight dictatorship togerher." Here's the WHY, the WHAT, & the WHEN. Please help spread the word! www.digitaldrumbeat.com/p/no-kings-n...

I'm kinda resigned to the fact that most people don't really give a shit about how millions globally will die horrible deaths directly due to Musk and Trump's decision to gut USAID - I guess it's too abstract to comprehend, or something - but it is HAPPENING, and nobody is swooping in to stop it.