People on the right and left are sick of big corporations - like media companies - having become such a dominant force in our economy and our culture. Whichever party offers a vision to break up concentrated economic power has the potential to capture a new alignment of voters.

God fucking dammit

On the latest episode of It Could Happen Here, Robert and I discuss the memes, misinformation, and conflicting theories on the politics of the suspected Charlie Kirk shooter. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

“Cutting off hundreds of millions of research funds will do nothing to make UCLA safer for Jews nor diminish antisemitism in the world.” This is a courageous letter that bravely stands up to Trump's weaponization of antisemitism to attack higher education. www.latimes.com/california/s...

Oh so it does have phd level intelligence

Clean power- built by working people, owned by us all. It’s that simple.

Prolly they shouldn’t’ve done that I think

Trump on CNN: "They may be prosecuted also for having given false reports on the attack in Iran."

In silico modeling is an incredible tool that will push the bounds of what we can learn about biology but it's not even close to ready to replace preclinical in vivo drug testing. This whole administration is anti-science and it's trying to blind people to that with a bought-and-paid-for AI sheen.

Military personnel, acting in their military capacity (here as JAG members) to decide civil claims in a civilian bureaucracy in the name of “efficiency.” This is an absolute hallmark of a police state. I am so sick of saying this, but we keep seeing new examples. Stop pretending this is normal.

This is an excellent article that contextualizes and explains why AB 130 is so important for housing in California.

They're not just going after criminals... or undocumented immigrants... or immigrants... They're going after any of us who don't fit into their vision of America, an America where there is no place for diversity or the American Dream. Fuck these guys. www.npr.org/2025/06/30/n...

VEO 3 is why I said you should now view any video with no cuts under 8 seconds to be inherently suspicious unless proven otherwise.

This is legit. Consider sharing far and wide.

With everything LA has gone through in the last few months (and couple of years), let's celebrate the hatching of: TEN CALIFORNIA CONDORS!!!!!!!!! Congrats to the team at the Los Angeles Zoo!!!

One of my favorite things about Zohran Mamdani is that he can't be president so his political career will necessarily be focused around representing and serving his local and state communities.

Los Angeles belongs to the people of our City — and the people are speaking very clearly.

This is about authoritarianism and our willingness to stand up to it. This President is not a dictator and cannot rule by force & fear. True power is always in the hands of the people.

They rolled up at car washes in my district and violently kidnapped two dozen people. One didn’t even work at the car wash and was just profiled while getting his car cleaned with his children. Today I joined the devastated families and our traumatized community.

They won’t let us in to the public arraignment of David Huerta. This is what authoritarianism looks like

This is the spirit of Los Angeles. This is California. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. #FreeDavidEndRaids

The sense of sadness and despair that many of us who left countries, where science and research were not valued or that simply there were no resources, feel about the wanton and deliberate destruction of US science (a beacon for the world) is immeasurable.

Sometime there are guys that create art that makes you feel a lot more connected to the world you live in. I’m very grateful for these guys.

Wild to watch it all fall so quickly like this. You’d have thought it’d be a gradual decline instead of almost overnight.

Congrats to Dr. Bo Li and James Elsten-Brown on earning second place in UCLA TDG's #LABEST2025 poster competition for their work on SERT regulation of serotonin-dependent antitumor immunity, based on their research in doi.org/10.1016/j.ce... Way to go, boys!

Guys this is getting really bad

Trump admin halted Harvard University’s ability to enroll international students.

Congressional Republicans continue to attack California's state rights www.notus.org/congress/sen...

we need a jar jar binks for the left

‼️ @uclaupdates.bsky.social Reports: Who's the team behind identifying serotonin transporter as a tumor immunotherapy target? Dr. Bo Li leads a team of post-docs, grad students and undergrads in identifying immune checkpoints. And of course our lab manager Jie Huang! newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/anti...

The bill is still a mess but this is a win. Thank you, America. They heard you. House Republicans have dropped the provision that would’ve sold off 500,000 acres of public land in Utah and Nevada.

A UCLA study suggests that common antidepressants could enhance the immune system’s ability to fight #cancer and suppress tumor growth. Repurposing these existing FDA-approved drugs could speed up the process of bringing new cancer treatments to patients. stemcell.ucla.edu/news/common-...

Now online! Serotonin transporter inhibits antitumor immunity through regulating the intratumoral serotonin axis

I’m a very lucky person 👍

Can serotonin and SSRIs help T cells kill cancer? Our @cp-cell.bsky.social article by Dr. Bo Li, doctoral candidate James Elsten-Brown and their team reports "Serotonin transporter inhibits antitumor immunity through regulating the intratumoral serotonin axis!" www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Did you know your T cells use serotonin to help them fight cancer? I did, but only because I'm unbelievably smart (i.e. have awesome mentors who taught me how to figure it out). Check out our publication in Cell @cellpress.bsky.social on how SSRIs can help fight cancer: doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...

More than the freezing of individual grants at Northwestern, I hope it breaks through that all NIH money to Northwestern is stopped even for grants that have not been frozen or terminated. The university has received $0 from NIH since March.

Important work, but not a story of hope. This is a story of desperation. A recognition that the trees that weren't planted 20 years ago still aren't being planted now. The archiving of our natural world as the Sixth Mass Extinction burns it to ash. Unless.

We will not back down 🗣️

You'll be shocked to learn that mainstream media, amid its frenzied coverage of that Biden book and cancer diagnosis, is missing the story that matters most to Americans A vengeful Trump has shot down Biden's cancer 'moonshot,' with funding down 31%. My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

“The breast cancer research cannot be done without European partners. The work relies on detailed cancer registries that have tracked patients for decades and samples from tumors that have been preserved in wax — resources that the United States does not have, and Denmark does.”

It is incredibly difficult to run large-scale statistical studies on health in the United States because of our decentralized health system and HIPAA. Until many of the voluntary large-cohort studies have matured, collaboration with foreign researchers is one of the only feasible options we have.

This is the greatest injustice of our time

Time to take California back.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faced questions from lawmakers in a pair of hearings Wednesday and did not directly answer whether he would vaccinate his own children against chicken pox and polio. He paused before answering, “Probably.”

Thanks assemblymember Petrie-Norris and the members of the CA State Senate and Assembly for meeting with me and UAW members to discuss support for SB 787, SB 829, and AB 694. Together we can make CA more research, industry, and energy independent 🐻

He’s chillin’

$218,000 income needed to buy a California home, up 82% since 2019