Note: The pastor being thrown to the ground and arrested here while protesting outside an ICE facility here — who police single out — appears to be Rev. Michael Woolf, a Baptist pastor (he’s ordained by both American Baptist Churches USA and Alliance of Baptists).

Scoop: I have learned Trump went after wind farms for eagle deaths during the government shutdown. Thousands and thousands in fines over birds that died at least a year ago or more. Via @heatmap.news heatmap.news/plus/the-fig...

It's time for #FishOfTheWeek and today I want to talk about a really cool fish that has become much maligned (not without reason) in North America. That's right, today we're gonna talk about the so-called Frankenfish. The snakehead 1/7

UHHHH so apparently the House release on drive is being scrubbed for the more damning files, YOU WILL WANT TO USE THE TORRENT COPY OR USE BITTORRENT TO VERIFY THE INTEGRITY OF YOUR DOWNLOAD IF YOU WANT ALL THE FILES bsky.app/profile/lamp...

youngkin serving the commonwealth by conspiring with the white house to destroy one of its flagship educational institutions

Abigail Spanberger was just elected Governor of Virginia by a wider margin of victory than any Democratic gubernatorial candidate there since 1961, on a campaign explicitly repudiating Platner's brand of anti-minority white populism.

lol

Yeah Spanberger is going to need to clean house on the UVA Board. There are grounds here for dismissing some of them. Also some people should lose their law licenses.

We are left with a series of question by Ryan. How is Youngkin implicated? How is Miyares implicated? What is going on with the Board of Visitors? Is DOJ or the BoV lying? Was there a written agreement?

Here is Governor Youngkin threatening to destroy the state flagship university if Ryan didn't resign.

Here Ryan notes Attorney General Miyares refused to allow UVA to bring on anyone other than conservative friendly attorneys in order to defend itself. "I do not know if they were exercising their independent judgment or receiving directions from a Board member and/or the Attorney General’s office".

This letter from former UVA President Jim Ryan recounting his ouster implies a level of corruption and malfeasance I didn't expect, and Youngkin and Miyares are directly implicated along with several others.

Here is the letter from Jim drive.google.com/file/d/1rgFz...

everything else aside, oh boy do I always appreciate it when someone maintains contemporaneous notes in situations of organizational malfeasance

When Youngkin lies about protecting state universities from political interference, understand he is doing so as the federal regime is threatening to “bleed UVA white”. He would rather let the state flagship university die than allow it be anything other than a finishing school for white men.

The DOJ told UVA’s former President, Jim Ryan, that if he didn’t resign, they would “bleed UVA white.” An apt phrase. It seems the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division has prioritized perceived discrimination against white people about all else. We should be clear-eyed about that. That’s their #1 priority.

Glenn Youngkin sent this smarmy, impotent letter to Spanberger re: UVA. While Youngkin is correct there is only one Governor of the state at a time, this is evidence he knows his signature “education” issue is a failure that will be wiped away before his eyes.

This isn't 20/20 hindsight, as some of us (@chaznuttycombe.bsky.social @samshirazi.bsky.social etc.) called it out *at the time*; should have been obvious that the 2025 VA electorate wouldn't be like 2021. Just bizarre that any pollster weighted their poll that way. bluevirginia.us/2025/11/frid...

Along with this being a bad idea for a number of reasons explored in a number of science fiction stories already the tech isn't there yet to do what this implies.

Hendershot et Ouchi: Neuropalliative Care in the Emergency Department: Three Roles, One Goal Link: link.springer.com/ar... @neurocritical #neurocritcare

new Normal Men! @haydonmp.bsky.social joins us for strokes, diagnostic sequencing, and DC modern medicine. @peark.es and @ed3d.net talk shutdown-- Senate voted while we were recording, so probably fun artifacts there-- and @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social talks elex. www.podbean.com/eas/pb-wnnek...

These rescuers do this every single day, in horrible conditions. I can only imagine the way that wears on them, and the ghosts that will follow them around for the rest of their lives. They’ll never be far.

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THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent sheep I have met on walks. You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.

Hard to keep up with the absurd news coming out of Kyrgyzstan. Tashiev, the head of national security, just unilaterally banned cafes and restaurants from being open past 10pm. Anyone who doesn’t respect these quiet hours will have their electricity cut off kaktus.media/doc/535201_p...

So much of what is anchored in geoeconomic dysfunction today goes back to particular dynamics in the 1980s and early 1990s that allowed dubious figures from all kinds of states and backgrounds to rapidly accumulate huge amounts of cash with no accountability

Side note: there's this tendency to Other pedophiles as inherent to particular unpopular castes like priests or billionaires, whereas really any opaque culture of empowered men and powerless kids, can produce it

After having followed papers on the gut microbiome and mental health problems for a few years, I would not be surprised if conceptual and methodological flaws undermine most claims in this literature.

Materials science guys, can I cast a mini desktop cannon, that will fire a steel .177 BB without blowing up, out of aluminum? or is that a hard no I must use brass?

Low energy.

My latest piece for @damemagazine.bsky.social on the Trump shadow presidency, what happens as autocrats grow old and infirm, and what it means for the rest of us.

Really grateful for the opportunity to chat with Normal Men! We were supposed to record this the previous week but my wife went into labor when we were due to record. So thank you @proptermalone.bsky.social @ed3d.net @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social @peark.es for being understanding and accommodating!

The idea of encountering someone who went into vfib, resuscitating them in the field and then taking them to the hospital only “out of an abundance of caution” is extremely surreal. I think Fetterman’s comms folks misheard or let auto correct go.

Maybe not the thing other folks caught onto but I'm really stuck at the "does the eye tranmsit (sic) information" It's a really great distillation of "not understanding multiple foundational concepts of the thing you are describing" in five words.

My wife studied the British monarchy in grad school and we’ve always talked about the unified intellectual project we should undertake is the unified theory of neurological damage and politics. Henry VIII was notoriously kicked in the head by a horse and… that did stuff to him.

I want to make sure I share the Cavalier Daily article about Spanberger’s letter to the Rector at UVA. Student journalists continue to be the best sources for what’s going on in higher ed right now, and the sourcing here is great. Clearly directly working with the state senator to get answers.

The Spanberger Revolution of Dignity is already delivering for the University of Virginia Community, and is restrained only by its ambition to wipe away the stain of the Youngkin regime.

Jeffrey Epstein every time he sent an email.

Real sign of the times here.

But, black dynamite, *I* live in Babylon!!!

But Black Dynamite, I live in Gomorrah!

...we were wrong. A trial in this month's NEJM confirms what many cardiologists had already come to realize: beta blockers don't help most of the time in the reperfusion era. (2/2) www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck? It's the Pope in 1982.

Thomas Massie is a lunatic but nevertheless isn’t this the first Republican house member to call the president a pedophile?

THE PRESIDENT IS ANGRY RUPERT

RUPERT.

this is a very reasonably worded litigation threat, good for her

Hell yeah she did.

Governor-elect Abigail Spanberger sent a letter to the UVA Board of Visitors on Wednesday, saying it should wait to pick a new president until after her inauguration in January.

Alright yeah for different reasons than the one in the thread below I think the latter scenario is the one we’re on.