America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.

#Courage #DoTheRightThingAlways www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJSG...

Thank you Dr. @alyssaburgart.com for the opportunity to talk about immigrant patients & medicine on the hottest Substack in #bioethics. We discuss what it means to be in the healing professions in our current toxic climate, check it out! #immigration www.poppiesandpropofol.com/p/sanctuary-...

Join us. I love Substack but have never gone live on that platform before. Wish me luck! (11 am Pacific, 1 pm Central, 2 pm Eastern) open.substack.com/live-stream/...

TEACHABLE MOMENT Superman entered without inspection. This means that: A) He cannot get status by marrying Lois Lane. B) He is the victim of crimes, so U visa, but the wait is 15 (?) years(ish)! C) ICE will argue he is not eligible to even ask for bond. D) No DACA eligibility (it’s closed anyway)

Some state medical schools will no longer host a speaker like me who professes immigrants are people with human dignity because it might anger their state legislature. So, I now accept speaking invitations from student groups of any size. Disrupt the #spiralofsilence

". . . I fear that Congress just passed legislation hastening our transformation toward a federal police state unlike anything we’ve ever seen in our history." www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/four-fears...

NEW ACTION ALERT – Many unacceptable migration-related provisions were retained in the Senate’s version. Tell your member of Congress to address these provisions and to pursue meaningful immigration reform in their place. www.votervoice.net/JFI/Campaign...

#nokingsinamerica day in Oak Park, Illinois! Great, spirited turnout.

First a Mayor. Then a Congresswoman. Now a US Senator. Trump’s administration is trying to silence their opposition. Through threats & physical intimidation . It’s not American. We stand with Sen Padilla slate.com/news-and-pol...

"Zelensky just played . . . his trump card: Ukrainian ingenuity. The Ukrainians have consistently shown themselves to be more courageous and skilled than their enemies. . ." #StandWithUkraine wapo.st/3Hoj3lX

Silicon Valley Is at an Inflection Point #AI www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

No one is hearing about this! Science in the US is being dismantled.🧪 #science #academicsky

I will miss Pope Francis, probably for as long as I live. #PopeFrancis www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...

The cuts to #Medicaid will endanger the health of those enrolled in the program, damage our hospitals and clinics, and hurt our communities. They jeopardize all of us. www.beckershospitalreview.com/finance/medi...

Anything or anyone posting misinformation about the Pope will be immediately blocked from my social media feeds. Clearly there are those who wish to divide us by trying to persuade us that he engages in petty culture wars. Check your quotes, my friends. This is too important a moment. #PopeLeoIV

Huge turnout in Chicago for #Mayday rally for immigrant rights.

Join me on Friday! www.eventbrite.com/e/4th-annual...

“I exhort all the faithful of the Catholic Church, and all men and women of good will, not to give in to narratives that discriminate against and cause unnecessary suffering to our migrant and refugee brothers and sisters.” Pope Francis, Letter 2/10/2025

"Migrants should not be seen as a problem, but as persons who bring gifts, culture, and opportunities for mutual growth." Fratelli Tutti, 133 Pope Francis #RIPPopeFrancis

Steve Kerr: "I believe in academic freedom. I think it's crucial for all of our institutions to be able to handle their own business the way they want to. And they should not be shaken down and told what to teach, what to say, by our government. That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard."

#StandWithUkraine Russian Missile Strikes in Sumy Kill at Least 32, Ukrainian Officials Say www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/w...

Nice summary of talk on supporting patients who are immigrants that I presented to The Catholic Health Association of the United States www.chausa.org/news-and-pub...

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Our alumni and faculty showed off the colors at the #Ethics & #Theology Colloquium of The Catholic Health Association. Always a great time! www.luc.edu/stritch/bioe...

This is a high stakes moment. Can the Trump Administration deport people ILLEGALLY and with no due process with no remedy?

My neighbors who were not born in the USA Our Support for Ukraine Medicaid Social Security The VA Our Universities Free Speech USAID #letsroll

This document aims to synthesize and expand upon these discussions, incorporating insights from previous work by @bioethxmark.bsky.social Mark Kuczewski and The Hastings Center to establish a comprehensive ethical framework for healthcare institutions.

"The mission of the healing professions and healthcare institutions is the health of patients and their communities. It is not to police them. But politics sometimes creates conditions that jeopardize this mission." #bioethics #immigration @medpagetoday.bsky.social @gfriedman.bsky.social

Exactly! We've been losing the immigration argument because only the xenophobic side has engaged. If you are not sure what to do these days, holding educational sessions about immigration may be your best investment.

Insightful work by our distinguished alum, Dr. David Nantais. Our graduate programs in #bioethics don't require you to develop your #empathy by attending heavy metal concerts. But as you'll read in this essay from the @hastingscenter.bsky.social, it is clearly an option. www.luc.edu/stritch/bioe...

Deeply infuriating. A doubtmongering waste of resources (it HAS BEEN studied!) that can only do harm. And (getting paranoid) worry about integrity of proposed research. Research priorities shouldn't be framed by lies. Dark Age 2.0. CDC to study vaccines & autism www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/h...

Check out this great article on The Need for Bioethics Departments in HBCU Medical Schools in @hastingscenter.bsky.social Report by our Loyola Bioethics grad program alum Donald E. Carter III, D.Bioethics, MBA, MDiv. Important and Timely! #Bioethics #HBCU onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

My colleague Katie Wasson, PhD, is a true genius at using simulations to teach clinical ethics case consultations. I love participating in her courses,

We can help #Ukraine by directly sending money to help offset the loss of US government funding. #StandWithUkraine u24.gov.ua?fbclid=IwY2x...

🇺🇦 "If you are so generous to Russia, why not give her a piece of your country? Why should any sovereign country satisfy Russia? Let me ask, on what basis does Russia deserve anything — especially someone else's territory?" - 🇵🇱 President Duda

I owned this very poster when I was 9 y.o. (big HHH fan). My wife found a copy and framed it for me.

Check out this essay by our @kayhanparsi.bsky.social & Nanette Elster for Bioethics Today (American Journal of #Bioethics) about the kakistrocracy and its threat to #publichealth bioethicstoday.org/blog/slouchi...

Supporting Patients and Students Who Are Immigrants: What to Do and Why Most Bioethicists Won’t Do It 🤔 New Hastings Bioethics Forum essay by @bioethxmark.bsky.social, READ bit.ly/3CL5nQ0 #hastingscenter #bioethics #immigrants

In this @hastingscenter.bsky.social essay, I ask the #bioethics community to consider swerving out of our lane to meet the needs of patients and students who are #immigrants. If not us, who? #DACA #medicine www.thehastingscenter.org/supporting-p...

We were each handed one of these as we exited Mass today. It was a good day to be a #Catholic. #immigration

Hear me out: you take the hard-won products of journalism, science, art and creativity, you use vast amounts of electrical energy during a time-sensitive energy transition to re-jumble the words and sentences, and then you present the outputs as being better and more trustworthy than the original

The Catholic Health Association & US Conf of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on #Migration spoke out on the revocation of the status of #hospitals, schools, and churches as sensitive locations. The silence of other major #healthcare & professional organizations is surprising tinyurl.com/uh5zky3y

Same. This is not the one to worry about.

This definitely matters. It closes what was left of the U.S. asylum system at the border.

Elon doing a Nazi salute. Jew here, whose family escaped Nazi Germany. Glad my grandparents are not alive to see this happen here. When I watch him do that, maybe I should be scared but all I see is an idiot, one that is almost pitiable because his intellectual and emotional world is nonexistent.