Trump just signed an illegal executive order designed to target his political opposition by designating them terrorists and using the DOJ, IRS, FBI, and the JTTF to investigate and charge liberal organizations, funders, members, and protesters. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Alejandra is not overselling this. This executive order, if weaponized by a lawless administration like Trump, could lead to the dismantling of institutional/nonprofit opposition to Trump. It can also be used for surveillance and disruption ops similar to the civil rights era and red scare.

I spent Tuesday night at a vigil for Datch in Hong Lim Park. Years ago, Singaporeans could gather outside Changi Prison for vigils for death row prisoners. These days, no matter how small the gathering outside the prison, people will be subject to police investigations and risk criminal prosecution.

I've said this before, but I feel pretty strongly that the building of concentration camps - and now, the inevitable disappearance of 1,800 people from those camps - is the biggest story in American public health right now that isn't being treated like one

“There are >3x as many people in the U.S. with sickle cell disease as cystic fibrosis- yet CF receives 10x more research funding, a disparity long fueled by race and visibility. This inequity doesn’t persist by accident; it reflects a collective comfort with certain kinds of suffering and dying.”

American Born Chinese catching strays 😭

Remembering four little girls killed on this day. September 15, 1963 – Denise McNair, Carol Robertson, Addie Mae Collins, and Cynthia Wesley

I gotta be honest, having just spent 5 years living & working in Singapore and regularly criticizing gov actions online as a foreigner, I did not have in my bingo card that I would feel a more palpable threat from my own gov (and its informants) being back home in the US...

We don't yet have any idea what the ideology of the Kirk shooter was. But we do know that the Denver school shooter was a far-right white supremacist. www.denverpost.com/2025/09/11/e...

If these turn out to be manufacturers head stamps you do not let these frauds live it down We don't have decades of "enthusiasts" popping up in every thread well-actuallying people on assault rifle nomenclature and magazine modifications, to allow them to be silent in this case

I ka ʻōlelo no ke ola, i ka ʻōlelo no ka make 一語成讖 Watch your mouth. Words can bring healing and they can bring death. Be mindful of what you say into the world.

Not to detract from this specific fresh hell, but to remind us that every past/current/future bubble is inflated specifically on behalf of technically-illiterate elites to increase resource capture & rent-seeking potential and not because of whatever they say it is for / say they "believe"

They don't actually care about your health. civileats.com/2025/09/08/e...

"The stakes in our larger struggle against this death-making system...can be less visible to us because systemic violence is more widely distributed and largely normalized. Effective organizers emphasize the connections between struggles, instead of making totalizing comparisons." 🫂 - Chapter 5

I got to talk with @lataco.bsky.social's @eltragon.bsky.social about his tireless documentation of immigration raids in LA, and how his knowledge of the city's street food scene makes him a better immigration reporter

Fred Hampton on the importance of revolutionary education

Me: Oh, it's beautiful, it's an allegory for young people coming together and defeating global fascism 🥰 13: IT'S ABOUT FIGHTING DEMONS MOM Me: I mean 13: NO!

Adorable movie 5 stars tho he lost patience with me by the end EVEN THO I THINK IT STILL WORKS AS KPOP NAZI HUNTERS 😭 U DON'T HAVE TO BE A NAZI EVEN IF YOUR DAD WAS 😭 U CAN BE RAINBOW INSTEAD

[Channeling my inner @khoavuumn.bsky.social]: Live footage of senior PIs helping to "co-author" graduate students' promising research findings.

This is one of those probability facts that drives my usual advice to people seeking intution for probability theory: Stop seeking intuition! It's not intuitive, and that's why it is so useful. You can learn examples and reform your intution in time. But better to just trust the axioms and compute.

The CDC has discontinued its surveillance program or food borne dz caused by As you friendly infectious disease physician, I regret to inform you that this decision is bad news for your food safety. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Today in AI Is Not A Good Source For Learning About The World's Most Misunderstood Body Part, meet this ChatGPT gem. Funnily enough, we're actually going to talk about how most of this is kinda sorta right (for small values of right), as a cautionary tale about generative AI.

Wake up, @statsepi.bsky.social you're gettin a Wendy's www.irishtimes.com/business/202...

My heart breaks into 10,000 pieces once again.

His status is unknown at this time but he's married to a US citizen and presumably also a citizen. I keep warning people that being legal or being a citizen (birthright or not) will not protect you from ICE if you don't look white.

"Mapping Abundance for a Planetary Future: Kanaka Maoli & Critical Settler Cartographies in Hawai'i" by Candace Fujikane beautifully describes Native Hawaiian cartography that is premised on abundance, and contrasts it with capitalism's requirement of scarcity. From @dukepress.bsky.social

Source: "A Randomized Control Trial of a Cash Rental Assistance Program in Philadelphia, PA" Link: housinginitiative.org/uploads/1/3/...

For the first time in over a century, sockeye salmon are able to return to Okanagan Lake #BritishColumbia Syilx Nation has been working to restore sockeye salmon in Okanagan waters for decades www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

We are outraged and deeply distressed that armed federal agents came onto our campus—making arrests on the very ground where, in 1942, Japanese American families were forced to board buses bound for concentration camps. It was a deliberate act of provocation and intimidation.

2025 Confederacy.

Happy statehood day www.tiktok.com/@mizuonthemi...

Go figure that decades of green-washing by industry and conflating lifestyles of the wealthy with optimal health and ethical behavior would lead most to have a very skewed sense of effective climate action www.consumeraffairs.com/news/want-to...

This whole thread 👇🏽 Clustering = Sacrificing granularity in order to make discrete groups What you actually want = Use the granularity to provide the best possible information about the outcome

"Golden" is great and all, but y'all are sleeping on Ejae's first animated smash hit: youtu.be/tnEGiLcJyTA?... (Absolutely only 3 people will get this reference.)

Yes. This message is sorely needed. But from my experience trying to convince smart people that prediction is different from causation in even non-AI settings, it will continue to be a tough hill to climb.

I'm going to be honest, this is tipping the scales for me to buy Cyberpunk 2077. I've wanted to, but I have no time to play it. I might just stop in to stare at the manhole covers.

Intelligence is such a bullshit concept, anyway. "PhD-level intelligence" is meaningless. A PhD is gained through completing a rigorous program of education, not getting some sort of score on a test of cognitive functions that is called an "intelligence quotient" for eugenicist reasons.

Frankly it's a shame that they made cyberpunk 2077 unplayable

The number of Americans receiving unemployment benefits for at least a week rose to the highest level since late 2021, according to Labor Department data.

Trump and Hegseth screwing over trans veterans on retirement benefits is an easy slam dunk politically for Democrats to flip the narrative on trans folks and that's exactly why they'll continue going on podcasts talking about how bigots have a point about sports.

This is Bad, don't get me wrong, but the main effect IMHO is to continue to sap the outrage & attention of a politically powerful bloc & their lawyers. As long as the consultancy class (ac/ac-adjacent) does this dance, they remain distant from the rampant human rights abuses that truly threaten us.

The APA put out a guidelines report on men and boys that was compassionate, kind, linked to tons of research from people who study and work with men and boys, and it was absolutely sabotaged by the right. Every social scientist who tries to speak on these topics is attacked, constantly

42.5% of OBGYN #doctors in #Idaho left or stopped practicing after Idaho's total abortion ban. They were only able to recruit to 7.5% of those slots.

Gaza Freedom Flotilla has released statement that Black labour leader Chris Smalls (Amazon Labour Union) faced violence that no one else on Handala did. He has been severely beaten in Israeli custody. Smalls follows in legacy of Black radical tradition for Palestine. Labour must stand for Smalls.

Oahu folks, Tsunami evacuation order is in effect. First wave expected 7 PM. member.everbridge.net/779294972314... If you're near the coast (Primary Evacuation Zone), you need to go Up, Up, Up (into the hills).

Put this on every billboard. The discomfort of the safest people is endangering all of us.