This is incredible! #HistPubHealth "As one public health official lamented, public health staff were frequently treated as the 'disquiet step-children' of local government, consigned to makeshift quarters that neither reflected nor supported their expanding mission."

It’s March 1st—rent is due and Olson Middle School in North Minneapolis is $25k short of their goal. All funds raised will be used to directly support students and keep their families safe, together, and housed. Please chip in or share if you can 🖤

New — I spoke to eight trans people in Kansas about the new state law that invalidated their driver’s licenses overnight, what’s it’s like to live there right now, plus details of two DMV emails exclusively obtained by The Handbasket that shed light on the law’s chaotic and cruel rollout:

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Had my first experience today verbally speaking with an ai bot. Yep, to pay a medical bill. It was terrible, e.g., couldn’t properly say letters when it was reading my email addy back to me. After “speak to a rep”, it informed me I called (MO area code) after business hours (3p ct). 🤦🏻‍♀️

NEW: A hobbyist has created Nearby Glasses, an app that warns you if someone close by is wearing smart glasses. 404 Media spoke to the creator who said he was inspired by our coverage that uncovers how men are wearing Meta's Ray-Bans to covertly film massage parlor workers.

They will be warehousing people. And treating them as objects. These are concentration camps.

But, as they say, there is no time like the present [OK, maybe the 1930s if you want to nitpick] But, with some data wrangling, my first NSF Funding Curves! 2/3

this is a wicked man who knows he is being wicked and does it anyway

Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”

Yes! The practical metadiscourse of public health! This is my whole thing!!!!!!

ICE are running around in the streets using facial recognition on random people and telling anyone filming them they're a domestic terrorist and Democrats solution is to equip every ICE agent with their very own body-worn surveillance camera

A legal asylum-seeker who works at Chipotle and plays music at a church in Maine went missing. His pastor searched and searched, eventually finding his abandoned car with the keys on the floor. ICE grabbed him. No criminal record. No explanation.

Holy moly this chart: Cumulative US measles cases

Strength. Power. Resistance.

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Unrivaled co-founder and WNBA MVP Breanna Stewart held up an “Abolish ICE” sign during player intros ahead of Mist’s game this afternoon. Photo via @unrivaledwbb.bsky.social

Man shot by federal agent in south Minneapolis www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

My god

The White House posted an edited photo of the activist involved in the Minneapolis church protest, made to look like she was crying.

a heavily armed paramilitary force with legal immunity is occupying a city and going door to door kidnapping non-white adults and children in furtherance of an explicitly white nationalist political project

New— An American citizen boarding flight from Boston to Lisbon just now told me after showing boarding pass, every passenger stopped on jetway by two ICE agents demanding to take their photo. When passenger asked why, ICE threatened to detain them. If they said no photo, couldn't board/TBD detained.

Top of the charts at my house today

Remembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome.

WHY WAS THIS EVEN AN OPTION

His wife says they were refusing to properly treat his diabetes. The facility where he died is a private prison.

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

I frew up

This is a really humbling write-up of my work from @cobioethics.bsky.social but what I want to draw attention to is how excellent the #sci and #public #comms are in explaining key ideas in #LegalEpi and #StigmaStudies #YouShouldntHave #YouReallyShouldntHave

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WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.

A roving ICE patrol chased down an Olathe man with no criminal history, wrapped him in chains, detained him without a warrant and deported him to the country he fled at age 16 as an asylum seeker. His experience is typical of ICE activity in Kansas City. #ksleg kansasreflector.com/2025/12/10/r...

Map mix-up sends Missouri Republican spiraling into George Soros rant https://heartlandsignal.com/2025/12/08/map-mix-up-sends-missouri-republican-spiraling-into-george-soros-rant/

Abedini posted on LinkedIn: “I’m relieved to share that I was released from custody tonight. It was a deeply distressing experience, especially seeing those without the support I had. My sincere thanks to my friends and colleagues at the University of Oklahoma, the Middle East Studies Association”

This is horrible news. www.oudaily.com/news/ou-prof...

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Worth 1,000 words. This picture is so revealing about so much about this “administration.” Step back five feet from the dram of any photo about any Trump action or policy, and you’ll see the boom arms, the rigging, the floodlights…

My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far

congress sounds so cool i wish it was real

"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something

An interesting tidbit about the new director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) I stumbled across. Kyle Walsh apparently consults (or has consulted) for BP America. 1/2

KU alumni—sign here!

UPDATE: More donors funding the demolition of the East Wing for Trump's $250M ballroom have been identified

They found some asbestos in the east wing demo

ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase. The President is building an army to attack his own country.

University of Kansas alumni, sign this letter to Chancellor Girod. Tell him to reject the federal compact! forms.gle/v3EyYyybrHhe...

Just a point about the CA insulin program: it’s awesome! But it doesn’t include insulin aspart. The only insulin it covers is insulin glargine, which is long-acting. Lack of access to fast-acting insulin is what kills type one diabetics and still costs hundreds to thousands without insurance.

Wow. NHANES js incredibly for population health surveillance, and is nationally representative as well. What a loss.