Crime rates in all three cities have gone down, and in Baltimore at astounding levels, in part by treating crime as a public health crisis, rather than a "need more cops" crisis. popular.info/p/the-secret...

For everyone who has ever asked, on seeing my Baltimore homicide charts, "How did they do that?"

🌱 "During uncertain times, like the current moment, we can either retreat or move forward and plant seeds of change. This moment calls on us to plant seeds." 🌱 Honored to share my blog post in @idsainfo.bsky.social's #HealthEquity Series where I outline key practices and strategies...

I read about this here, along with a ton of other great news stories about species being saved, environments being protected, people living healthier lives, and so much more. Do yourself a favor: bsky.app/profile/fixt...

"[It's] as if we’ve collectively agreed that fiscal responsibility is best taught through the ritual humiliation of second graders." This is an excellent piece, not just about school lunch debt, but how we manage the relationship between working for systemic change and mitigating immediate harm.

This is scandalous. The El Paso SPC is one of the few ICE detention centers owned by ICE itself. Members of Congress cannot legally be turned away from ICE facilities when conducting oversight. Yet these emails say Noem herself is deciding when and how Members can conduct oversight.

I would have preferred to quietly conduct my oversight responsibilities as I always have, but ICE chose not to follow the law. These ‘guidelines’ are illegal, and that deserves public scrutiny.

This week, ICE illegally denied me entry into a processing facility in my district, and today, they released a statement saying I “[gave] the appearance of a political stunt intended to generate publicity rather than pursue genuine oversight.” I have some thoughts.🧵

It doesn't matter if they are ever coming for you. It was always ever already too much that they were coming for anyone.

Smart move, and not surprising; the litigators surely knew this was an option and had the amended complaint ready to go.

(5/5) 🚨 It’s time to flood the zone. NIH scientists just took a huge risk speaking out. Now it’s our turn. 📜 Read the Bethesda Declaration ✍️ Sign the Public Letter of Support 👯‍♀️Follow NIHers doing the work: @nihvigils.bsky.social Read and sign here 👉 www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec...

🚨ATTENTION MOMS🚨 Friday, May 30th at 3pm Meet me outside of the CDC with your pregnant bellies, your babies, your toddlers, your strollers, your signs, and your baby gear. We are standing up for science and vaccines! @standupforscience.bsky.social RSVP: actionnetwork.org/events/moms-...

Care about suicide research? Then you should care about how we measure suicide-related constructs! Very proud to share this viewpoint led by @kirstenchristensen.bsky.social, recently accepted at J Psychopathology and Clinical Science 🥳 osf.io/preprints/ps...

👉 Today, the Trump administration filed a motion in court to end the Flores Settlement - an agreement that provides basic safeguards for the treatment of children in federal immigration custody. Why does this matter? Let’s break it down: 🧵👇

The NIH Director continues to misunderstand (or mischaracterize) the extent to which research is being gutted. I appreciate this program officer for speaking up.

The argument in the piece cited is that ChatGPT cannot do college level coursework better than a deride because - and I’m taking this slowly — college level coursework is designed to accrue learning to the student…not the machine.

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Nobody exists exclusively through the lens of struggle. Pick the worst eras, the most oppressed people. You will find rich heritages of art, music, fashion, and games that survived it. Were pioneered during it. Thrived in the midst of it. Why? Because these things give our survival *meaning.*

We, along w/ 14 other immigrants’ rights organizations, submitted urgent reports to the United Nations & IACHR, raising the alarm over systematic & grave human rights violations against migrants & asylum-seekers by the U.S. government during the first months of the Trump admin. bit.ly/CHRCLpress

Grant cancellations of any kind are terrible and disruptive, but I've been thinking a lot about the compounding effects that cancelling trainee grants will have - so many promising young people left discouraged and (rightfully) contemplating careers outside of science.

Please help us correct misinformation! Our hotline is being incorrectly shared as "Canada's national suicide hotline open toll free for Americans". We are not a general crisis hotline, we exist exclusively to support the trans community. Find out more @ translifeline.org

Barry Blitt’s cover for this week’s issue, “The First Hundred Days.” #NewYorkerCovers nyer.cm/ysrCZ47

Maintaining funding for 988's LGBTQ+ services ensures continued effective and lifesaving work. “Suicide prevention is about risk, not identity.” – @trevorproject.bsky.social “These crisis response services are effective and save young lives.” – @afspnational.bsky.social afsp.org/story/trump-...

Our team’s first presentation is during the Data Blitz at 4:45 pm EST today - newly minted PhD Dr. Grecia Vargas Meléndez will present “The Paloma Intervention: A Systematic Health Literacy Review of Parent Educational Materials” #SRS25

A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond. I hope you’ll read and share the piece. stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...

These posts from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social pop into my head at least once a week

On March 15, 238 people were rushed onto a plane with almost no warning. Without any chance to see a judge or plead their case, the Trump admin sent them (and a metaphorical briefcase of cash) to El Salvador to be indefinitely imprisoned for no crime. We can’t forget them.

This week! Excellent talks, symposia, and poster presentations - 100% virtual and free #SRS25

Latest podcast is out: Get in everyone, we are going to Resistance Summer School! Thank you to everyone who indicated they would like to take my course on Race, Media and International Affairs 101. Please fill out this quick interest form to begin to sign up! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Trump’s cronies said we “wasted Easter Sunday” in discussing Mr. Abrego Garcia & their violation of his constitutional rights. We were in good company w/ Pope Francis, who on Easter decried “contempt” for immigrants & has called on them to do better. apnews.com/article/pope...

🚨SCOOP: Four More U.S. Lawmakers Touch Down in El Salvador migrantinsider.com/p/breaking-f...

"But while both humanization and dehumanization are real alternatives, only the first is the people’s vocation." I first underlined it when I was in my early 20s. I still cling to it today. Humanization is our work. And that's a principle worth living, fighting & dying for.

Total federal U.S. R&D spending is about $194B. The whole thing, the whole country, all the government & all the universities & the national labs. Half of that, is for national defense. www.aaas.org/news/final-f.... All the rest of non-defense: $92B. And it went down this year. We should double it.

Finally, big numbers need to be put into context. $60 billion, what the government spends on university research, is just about the same amount Americans spend on video games ($57b), or on pet food and treats ($64b). 5/x americanpetproducts.org/news/u.s.-pe... www.prnewswire.com/news-release...

Amid shifting immigration policies, reliable information is more critical than ever. Our new UC Legal Rights Library offers free, fact-based resources to help advocates stand up for unaccompanied immigrant children. Learn more at uclegalrightslibrary.org

Did you know? 99% of all new medications resulted from federally-funded university research through #NIH Learn more about #ResearchSavesLives: hub.jhu.edu/research-sav....

Updated the story to reflect three additional TROs issued on Tuesday by judges in Arizona, California and Minnesota.

This is the second video of ICE agents shattering a window in the last week rather than have some patience. And in this case, they're allegedly detaining someone who already has asylum through his wife, with no reason given at all! www.borderreport.com/news/video-s...

Family separations cause intense stress that hurts kids' long-term health. Kilmar #AbregoGarcia is a dad who must come home. And all family separations must end if we want to protect our children for their future & ours. #KidsHealth #KeepFamiliesTogether

Letter from Dem Senator Chris Van Hollen (MD) requesting a meeting with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele To discuss MD father Kilmar Abrego Garcia's return "If Kilmar is not home by midweek – I plan to travel to El Salvador this week to check on his condition and discuss his release."

weird how “religious liberty” means freedom from baking a queer cake but not protecting migrants seeking sanctuary

In a sharp concurrence, Sotomayor—joined by Kagan and Jackson—condemns the Trump administration's "egregious error" and spells out the steps that, in her view, the government must now take to afford Abrego Garcia the due process he was denied earlier. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

NEW: The Supreme Court directs the Trump administration to "facilitate" the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia from a prison in El Salvador, where he was sent due to an "administrative error." It also somewhat narrows the district court's order. No noted dissents. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

“…17% are related to COVID-19, and 29% to HIV/AIDS (see ‘Terminated grant tally’) — although this represents less than 4% of all the grants awarded to each of those topics that the agency funded in 2024.”

📢 Update!📢 I'm sharing my recent op-ed in @thehill.com, a platform I chose to reach policymakers, judges, & key decision-makers 🌟 I explain the reasons behind my lawsuit against #RFKJr at #HHS for the reckless &—I believe—illegal terminations of #NIH research contracts 🔗 👇 1/

The courts *should* put an immediate and unequivocal halt to all use of the CECOT prison in El Salvador, with or without due process. They may not do that. But the *people* of the US still can. Don't lose of sight of this atrocity amidst the other outrages. Make this a key focus of resistance.

The thing about ACT UP, as Sarah Schulman notes, is that there wasn’t time for protracted disagreements over strategy; people were dying of AIDS left and right. SO, if some folks want to do X strategy for a protest but you wanted to do Y, ACT UP’s approach was to say “you do X and I’ll do Y.”

Sackets Harbor, NY is so small that there’s one pre k-12 school with 475 students. Three of those students were disappeared by ICE. Here is a statement published today by school principal Jaime Cook:

Appreciate @tressiemcphd.bsky.social’s advice recently (I’m paraphrasing): 1) It is as bad as you think it is. You are not crazy. 2) Listen to what they say. They are serious and they mean it. 3) Get offline and go do something real in your community. Onwards.