He isn’t right often, but Rand Paul is right about Venezuela policy.

The European Union Drugs Agency’s Drug School is a jam-packed educational session covering all things drugs and drug policy. The Winter session is online in early March. Registrations are open! www.euda.europa.eu/event/2026/0...

This week, I officially started my study visit at the European Union Drugs Agency in Lisbon, Portugal. This is a three-month collaborative research effort between Drug Checking Los Angeles at UCLA and EUDA, focusing on opioids.

i love that a significant portion of the population of the world believes in demons and the devil and satan. they just think this stuff is real and it genuinely scares them

“I brought this horrid creature into the world, and now I must take him out!” Winfrey said

Max Huntsman, the inspector general tasked with holding the LA Sheriff’s Department to account, is retiring… and going out with a bang in this letter 🔥

The Supreme Court, Presidency, Senate and two party system are all quite anti-democratic institutions as presently constructed. Our institutions are not only incapable of preventing tyranny—they’re currently enabling it. When democracy returns, we need to reform our political system.

Read this: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...

“After they broke up, Ferreira said in court records that Michael Leavitt had in the past threatened to try to get her deported.”

My colleague, the brilliant @colincarlson.bsky.social posted this on LinkedIn. This is devastating for Colin and his group, but also for science, for the future of the human race. #NSF is starving scientists of resources. This will not get better until we all rise up.

My teen, who had dreamt of being an astrophysicist, just told me he wants to go to law school because, “Science isn’t going to be a priority in the US in the future…I don’t want a job where I’ll be constantly worried my funding will be taken away.” Gutting. How many future scientists have we lost?

Loving war crimes is not a sustainable policy in a democracy

160 years ago, the 13th Amendment was ratified, ending slavery. But that amendment came with a sinister loophole: a Slavery Clause that allowed for slavery “as punishment for crime.” We need to pass @repnikema.bsky.social’s and my Abolition Amendment to #EndTheException once and for all!

“The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.” - Garry Kasparov

More of this nationwide please!

“We’re broken and we’re being poached by ICE,” one official with the prison workers union told ProPublica. “It’s unbelievable. People are leaving in droves.” By @keribla.bsky.social

holy shit www.advocate.com/politics/hhs...

Thinking a lot about this moment from literally the first chapter of "1984."

NEW: www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

41 minutes of watching two shipwrecked men trying to flip a boat and signaling for surrender/help before firing on them again reminds me of the 9.5 minutes Derek Chauvin knelt on George Floyd’s neck, in that it’s an agonizingly long time to be killing helpless people who clearly posed no threat.

COUNT I Kat Abughazaleh did, while law enforcement was in heated pursuit, paint what appeared to be the entrance to a cave on a sheer rock wall, causing law enforcement to forcibly bonk into said wall. COUNT II The same thing on a different wall, but then a train came out and ran us over???

So they’re admitting more cops don’t keep us safer, right? Washington DC and Chicago are number one and two, respectively, for police officers per capita. Chicago has 4.7 officers per 1,000 people — double the US average. But what they need is… more cops? www.wweek.com/news/2022/09...

Drug Checking Los Angeles makes a guest appearance in this great piece in the NYT today about the misguided war on harm reduction, where the casualties will be your kids and neighbors. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/h...

TRUMP IS COMING FOR YOUR GUNS “According to the White House… 59 firearms have been seized since the start of the operation Aug. 7…” www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Everyone wants to talk about the cost of doing business in America. But no one is mentioning that anything “Made in the USA” didn’t just pay to make the item, but also for the *healthcare costs* of workers’ entire families. We will never be able to compete.

BREAKING: Drug cartels are feared to be among those that obtained sensitive court data due to a sweeping breach of the federal judiciary’s case filing system.

Thank you, everyone who came out to hear the brilliant @maxjordan.bsky.social, @morgangodvin.bsky.social @chelsealshover.bsky.social, and me chat about #LiberateMethadone. It shouldn't be easier to get the poison than the cure. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/781015...

Is anyone tracking the percentage of cars on the road with Trump bumper stickers?

Trump’s DOJ is an unabashed bringer of vengeance, and no one pretends otherwise: “‘After what they did to me, and whether it’s right or wrong, it’s time to go after people,’ Mr. Trump said on Tuesday of his desired Obama prosecution.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/u...

Impersonating an officer, ain't that a crime?!

“Mother of Methadone” book talk this Thursday in Culver City. I’m a panelist and finishing the book and loving it, it’s going to be a great talk. Learn how history shaped policy, and why we are so dysfunctional, hear me rant, and more! 7/24 at 7pm www.eventbrite.com/e/opioid-cri...

We knew cops could lie. But did you know ICE agents can lie and say they’re city cops, there to investigate the crime you reported? How naive of me to be shocked at the depravity, but damn. This is low. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Come here me, a methadone patient, rant as a panelist this Thursday in Culver City! www.eventbrite.com/e/opioid-cri...

Los Angeles people: Come see me speaking at a book talk with @maxjordan.bsky.social and “Mother of Methadone” author @melodyglenn.bsky.social. I’m on methadone, it’s gonna be a lively chat! Thursday July 24, register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/opioid-cri...

A little math about that prison camp in Florida. $450 million per year for 3,000 people is $150,000/person per year. The cost for one person receiving SNAP for one year is $2256, yet they're telling us that's too expensive.

ah the small government libertarian utopia realized

The Kremlin also didn’t want to have to explain what happened between 1939-41 under the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact when they allied themselves with the Nazis to carve up Poland & other countries. That’s why Russian war memorials say WWII happened between 1941-45 instead of 1939-45. They lied in stone.

Harm reduction works! A “bad batch” of what I infer to have been sold as fentanyl caused 27 overdoses in Baltimore, ZERO DEATHS. Everyone was reversed with naloxone. A few years ago, this would’ve been a very different story. www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/pu...

The fascist dictatorship that ruled Portugal until 1974 had a favorite tactic: deporting people to places they’d never been, specifically chosen because they were so hostile and disease-ridden they’d surely never return. The tried and true tactics of tyrants, from Tarrafal to Florida.

mi gente

A group in San Diego is patrolling neighborhoods to identify potential ICE presence. They keep watch for vehicles that may belong to federal agencies, and use livestreams, radios, and social media to keep communities informed. boltsmag.org/how-vol...

Dear Americans: Medicare for All is not nationalized healthcare, it’s single payer, like Canada. The government pays for private doctors to provide care via fee-for-service. National healthcare is the VA system, where payer and provider are both the govt, and doctors are salaried govt employees.

The Dunning Kruger effect on full view today while simultaneously demonstrating all that is wrong with the American “Left.”

on the last day of the United States, when this country has finally descended into civil war, i will do a thread on how to dress for summer

Happy 249th Birthday America. You don’t look a day over 1938 Germany.

My sophomore year roommate at UT was a white girl born in Malawi to her white missionary parents. She checked “African American” on her app. Does the Times want to blow the lid off of this scandal? DM me booboo

Celebrated my freedom to shoot people and go into medical debt (but not my freedom from being shot or going into medical debt) by going to a political-prison-turned-museum documenting the fascist dictatorship in Portugal. The “unquestionable certainties” that undergirded the regime are familiar.1/