Guns don’t only rob the freedom of their immediate victims - their ripple effects damage the lives of hundreds, even thousands of people Ban guns

When I was a medical student 45 years ago, I clerked in a 13 year old girl with deep jaundice and an abdominal mass. She was Hepatitis B positive. That had led to a primary liver tumour. In a 13-year-old. She was dead within the month. Avoidable with vaccination.

The Regime is slaughtering science.

everything is so fucking stupid

We did this. "Mothers had to choose which of their kids to feed. Young men took to the streets in protests, some of which devolved into violent riots. Pregnant women with life-threatening anemia were so desperate for calories that they ate mud."

Six word story: One planet. One species, Homo sapiens.

I miss the pre-doomscrolling days, when you were likely to encounter uplifting things like this in your feed. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pwe-...

I wouldn't even dream of doing this. WTF, people?

On the administration’s photographs in Vanity Fair, it’s important to remember that their physical appearance is the least objectionable part of them.

good morning holy shit www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...

Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true

This will be go-to piece on Millerism for a long time. Most media refuse to recognize that Miller's project is divorced from any attachment to "immigration law enforcement" but rather is about a narrow ethnic nationalism.

There are so many genuinely good human beings in the world. This is not one of them.

Ahmed al Ahmed, the man who tackled one of the Bondi killers, became an Australian citizen 3 years ago. His deed was "his way of conveying his gratitude for staying in Australia, for being granted citizenship." He took 5 bullets, and fears he'll lose his left arm. www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...

My kid’s school is going to have police outside all day because the Brown University shooter is still on the loose, apparently.

"Every lockdown drill is a confession of failure. Every barricaded classroom is an indictment. Every child taught to hide is proof that the adults in charge have surrendered."

13 years ago today.

We’re in that stage of the tragedy when Americans speculate on the shooter’s identity and motives and which group can be assigned blame this time.

In the midst of the darkest of times, a hero stands up for what is right. The brutal, deliberate attack against Jewish Australians celebrating Hanukkah at #Bondi Beach today is an abomination. For those murdered while celebrating the 1st day of the Festival of Lights, may their memory be a blessing.

#Breaking: Police say suspect in custody in Brown University shooting. University says shelter in place order has ended. https://bit.ly/459SJ87

Kind of hard to sleep with helicopters overhead and knowing there’s a mass murderer still on the loose.

Providence Police just released this video of the person of interest in the mass shooting at Brown University today. Call police at 401-652-5767 if you recognize him. Live updates here: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/13/m...

Officers in tactical gear were visible in a building on the East Side of Providence, near a shooting at Brown Unversity. https://bit.ly/48T6WYf

BREAKING: Providence Mayor Brett Smiley said 2 are dead and 8 are in critical but stable condition. A suspect is NOT in custody at this hour. Asking people who live near Brown to shelter in place. If you’re not home, stay safe elsewhere. www.wpri.com/news/local-n... @wpri12.bsky.social

Awful. turnto10.com/news/local/b...

“I WILL be next if I allow this to happen to other people. That’s what brings me out here, man.” (From @statuscoupnews.bsky.social )

A reminder that most Americans who are life-long citizens have nothing OTHER than a Real ID to prove their citizenship. This is CBP’s chief enforcer saying that ID doesn’t count.

Watcing “A Christmas Carol” with Kid 3, and wishing such a scenario could happen to certain people.

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.

This should be the biggest story in the country right now. The sitting US President was extorting state lawmakers from his own party by threatening to withhold public money if they didn’t gerrymander for him. I don’t know how else to say it…

Sang Hea Kil is the first tenured faculty member fired from a public university in connection to pro-Palestinian advocacy. “All faculty should be able to protest all genocides without targeted punitive actions." - Sang Hea Kil

We asked a follow-up question to learn more about those changes.️ About 1 in 10 U.S. Latinos say they now - Carry a document proving their legal status more often - Attend local community or cultural events less often Dive deeper with our National Survey of Latinos:

This is embarrassing. This guy knows it's horseshit.

Playing this before the last class of the semester. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fowH...

I’ll never forget hearing Donald Trump’s racist “shithole countries” comment in a 2018 Oval Office meeting about immigration. Tom Cotton and David Perdue claimed Trump didn’t say it and accused me of lying. The truth comes out.

It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.

WOW. So this is obviously a huge violation of this man's rights, and it illustrates a few things we're seeing broadly: - DHS officers are ignoring peoples' IDs and instead requiring screening through their own systems - Confirms @404media.co's reports of use of DHS's facial recognition app.

Just saw an online chat with people enraged about ICE and enthusiastically suggesting violent responses. We're in a powder keg.

ICE detain U.S. citizen for looking Somali—use illegal chokehold to tackle him to ground. Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse. Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.

I missed this when it happened. Why doesn't DHS want their heroic country-saving tactics on film?

I used this gif in class as a metaphor for senescence. Not one student had ever seen the movie.

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Sinister and authoritarian

Yesterday I lectured about an old project I did on Hmong people and the war in Laos. A student asked me how the project was received by my peers. Decent, I said. I added that my advisor, Mike Little, wrote on my proposal: “If you pull this off, you’ll be famous (but not rich!)” I’m neither.

It's like they are actively trying to kill the tourist industry.

So exhausted

Wow -- Russia reportedly plotted last year to plant bombs on US-bound flights (gift link) giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Brown: Autocrats don’t fear the disease or the babies dying from whooping cough — they fear the evidence of it, because evidence exposes their failures, demands accountability, and empowers the public.