I'll be giving a dvar Torah tomorrow at Hinenu: The Baltimore Justice Shtiebl. (Content warning: it mentions some of the worst and most graphic images of Lamentations.) Image is of Mount Hermon (Wikipedia). *** Dvar torah Hinenu Baltimore Shabbat Chazon / Shabbat Eicha / Shabbat Devarim

“It’s just very, very sad that we are devolving into a nation of cruelty and that cruelty is becoming so normal that we sort of are living with it and accepting it, and people who are cruel depend on that. They’re wearing us down, so that cruelty becomes the norm."

nice article by @epidemiologistkat.bsky.social, who provides actual policy specifics and some important nuances. also a good reminder that surveillance is layered—CDC/FDA didn't stop tracking cyclo (also, it's nationally notifiable), but they did lose critical data/tools/staff for detection/control.

Ossoff: "Here's what's going to happen tonight: the world's most famous sore loser will deliver a prime-time presidential sour grapes address to pursue his 6-year-old grievances about the 2020 election, while his war in the Middle East spirals out of control & the cost of living continues to rise.."

When someone in ICE custody needs care, officers bring them to a hospital and stay. Training never prepared staff for that. July 23 at 1pm ET I host a live talk with the @nilc.org team behind their new guide. austinkocher.substack.com/p/event-anno...

Come shut my mouth, Tom. I dare you.

At session at the annual meeting of the Society of General Internal Medicine, we offered guidance on what to do when patients are targeted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and how to design medical practices to protect patients from ICE. bit.ly/4ppZ08T

Just three years ago, Pat Ryan was among the 22 Democrats who voted to censure Rashida Tlaib

this guy wants as many americans as possible to die of preventable diseases. he views that as preferable to vaccines or long term medication. makes us “stronger”

“I’ll pass on the salad and just have those fries. I’m trying to eat healthy.” - instant hall of fame dad joke thanks to cyclospora

The theme of this World Cup is Countries Where People Eat Dinner Two Hours Later Than I Personally Prefer

Today in the office I was talking to a little kid, I hit them with the high five, fist bump, and heart hands combination, then I said "friends?" and she looked me dead in the eyes and said "no!"

Please share this petition with doctors, nurses, healthcare workers, medical students, professional associations, labor unions, and anyone who believes job platforms should not help keep ICE detention centers staffed and operational.

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

ICE says he “weaponized his vehicle.” Same line that is already falling apart in the killing of S. Araujo. Same line that fell apart in murder of Renee Good. Same line ICE misused so often in Chicago that a Fed judge said it was “difficult, if not impossible, to believe almost” any such claim.

I checked the Somber Reflections stack and Lindsey has his own box! Can’t remember exactly what he did to earn it but it must have pissed me off but good. Milkshake time!

you do not, in fact, have to hand it to RapistHitler

The concept of what a "senator" is has changed quite a bit in the 21st century. Sometimes a senator doesn't have to be a man who is alive. A senator can be 10 dads. Just 10 dads, with no kids. Or let's say you're dead and have a sister. That's a senator.

ICE killed a random guy today.

"We murdered the wrong person" is not an answer, it's just a sneer.

Second time in just about a week when a man not targeted by ICE was killed by them

A report on the ground from the ICE shooting in Biddeford that should make every parent in this country lose their minds:

This is the link to make a comment about the proposed OMB rule change. This rule change does many things, most most centrally it effectively moves the power of the purse from the legislative to the executive branch. www.regulations.gov/document/OMB... This is incredibly dangerous.

It got muddled b/c it was mostly seen as incidental to getting at Trump himself, but Graham didn't just vaguely lean on Raffensperger. He told him to falsify the tally by not counting ballots. Straight-up criminal election fraud no different from telling a poll worker to go dump votes in the trash.

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No, this seems fine www.wsj.com/opinion/why-...

ICE kills and lies.

NEWS --> Three men who were in the van with the victim of the ICE shooting in Texas are potential witnesses, but they're now under pressure to self-deport, a rep for the families tells me. They remain in detention even as ICE's story falters. Details in this piece: newrepublic.com/article/2129...

I'm wondering what ICE reform short of abolition would stop the agency from murdering people. Maybe I need enlightening, as a crazy leftist. (Goes for cops, too. It's a bare minimum to ask that the state shouldn't murder its residents.)

In the UK, you can be arrested, charged, prosecuted and convicted if you do not disclose that you are trans before sex but a cis man doesn't have to declare if he has an STI.

Cori Bush, Mamdani, Brandon Johnson, Darializa Chevalier emerged from left social mvts & represent them; they may or may not be perfect but they are a different kind of candidate & their elections represent different kinds of victories than ones picked by consultants & campaign managers

At a time of immense technological change, Trump's attacks on research funding have forced countless projects to be paused or halted entirely.   How many more cures & advancements will the American people miss out on because of Trump's bogus political vendettas? We may never know.

Is Rahm now an "antisemite"? I just haven't seen the spew yet, but maybe I have constructed a sufficient bubble. (In which case, good on me.)

Mexico's President, Claudia Sheinbaum, implies during a press conference her government will take action after an ICE agent killed Mexican national Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.

A lot of Trump Cabinet members are evil and corrupt, but Sean Duffy just seems legitimately stupid.

Really need “content creators” to stop getting online and telling all of us how they are “discovering” an “underrated” Baltimore and it’s just Fed Hill

This is what you write if yr totally estranged from politics, its inner dynamics, its impact on people and communities, its history, what it even is & are solely in the deracinated words business and just vainly stacking them together to try to mean something. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/08/o...

how exactly does this country decide which rapist should step down as an elected official and which rapist should be president? im confused

Credit to Bluesky, “Nazi tattoo bad” managed to nail the litmus test on the first go-round.

I wrote a piece about Moraff, who worked here in Pittsburgh, and how he tried to get me to delete published quotes to help a candidate of his. Shady character paydayreport.com/platners-gur...

We can see this in the ICE flight data. Domestic “round-up” flights are spiking, and some activist flight watchers report the flights are getting fuller. But deportation and removal flights remain steady. This means the concentration camps are getting packed to the brim. It’s awful to comprehend.

As ICE captures spike across the US, re-upping this story about Habeas Flight Watch, an activist-built tool to help you know when an ICE flight is headed to your city. Can help legal teams/community members triage habeas filings, flight observations, etc. gillianbrockell.com/habeas-fligh...

I learned a lot of things about myself while packing up my books, starting with I can stop trying to impress some imaginary book critic who might one day look at my shelves. lithub.com/how-and-why-...

ICE is engaged in a very large escalation nationwide, with the agency claiming to be hitting record arrest numbers amid the return of quotas. This has gotten very little attention from the media because ICE learned lessons from the chaotic disasters of Kristi Noem’s tenure. Keep a watch.

there feels like nothing we can do to stop the state from murdering people. particularly brown and black people. does anyone really think ICE has only killed 5? No, more have died in ICE facilities. And even that number is likely underreported. What the fuck do we do.

If we need a new Maine candidate I know this lovely duck. Now he’s not one of your vat-grown perfect candidates, he’s said some things because he’s passionate about the American working class