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.

NEW: These are all the Education Dept. offices that staffers and managers say have been impacted by layoffs since Friday, according to the union for the agency’s employees. They include workers that supported HBCUs, tribal colleges, charter schools, civil rights reviews, special ed & more.

It looks like they're trying to kill the Epidemic Intelligence Service. I maintain this "rif" is unlawful.

it’s all just a grift

I, for one, am shocked that the same Trump who selected the CEO of Eli Lilly to serve as his HHS Secretary is now unconcerned with health insurance affordability. Shocked!

Oh my god they arrested Eman.

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Congresswoman-elect Adelita Grijalva hasn't been sworn in, so she has to roam Congress with an escort I saw her this morning going through security along visitors — something lawmakers don't need to do when walking into the Capitol More on her limbo status here: www.notus.org/congress/ade...

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For your data collection: the first time I got COVID was November 2023. The second time is now. Still not just a cold.

I again promise that the answer to winning in Kansas is not more moderation :’) you couldn’t create more moderate candidates in a lab.

Oh boy. ACIP started today’s meeting by reopening yesterday’s second vote. The measure has now passed, meaning Medicaid and federally qualified health centers can’t provide coverage for MMRV vaccines for kids under 4. American Indian infants and toddlers have also lost coverage.

FCC Chair Brendan Carr was asked last night by @status.news to comment on ABC benching Kimmel, following his demands. He texted back, “😀.”

as an undergrad from 2015-2019, this

Q: Do you think it would've been fitting to lower the flags to half staff when Melissa Hortman, the Minnesota House Speaker, was gunned down by an assassin? TRUMP: I'm not familiar. The who?

Important: Home Cooking is officially back!

Things I recommend instead of doomscrolling: -reaching out to a trusted group chat -cleaning your home -eating ice cream -playing with a pet -reading a book -donating to charity -writing in a journal -taking a hot shower -watching a standup comedy special -going to bed early

"ProPublica found at least 3 of Trump’s Cabinet members call multiple homes their primary residences on mortgages. We discovered the loans while examining financial disclosure forms, county real estate records and publicly available mortgage data." www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be

I’d like to share my (photo of) tomatoes, it’s been a brilliant year, nearly 40 varieties, but a bit of a challenge to use, share but definitely not waste…..

NEW: Last week, oil literally rained down on a Black town in rural Louisiana where 60% of folks live in poverty. The company isn’t taking responsibility & the federal + state governments are saying residents have to clean it up themselves. capitalbnews.org/louisiana-oi...