Not preparing for the next pandemic doesn't prevent pandemic from happening. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"CDC confirmed that they have cancelled about $38 million in public health investments for Minnesota...107 health departments across all 50 states received this funding, but only Minnesota and three other states are having these funds cancelled." www.health.state.mn.us/news/pressre...

STEM Black History Fact 9/28 Dr. Jane Cooke Wright pioneered chemotherapy techniques and helped establish personalized cancer treatment as a scientific discipline.

I’m on the scene at Franklin and 1st. A convoy of about a couple dozen ICE/HSI agents broke the entryway into an apartment building at 6am. No warrant presented. Less than 24 hours ago, Tom Homan announced the end of large convoys in Minnesota… Bullshit.

STEM Black History Fact 5/28 Dr. Ruth Ella Moore was the first Black scientist to earn a PhD in microbiology and conducted key research on tuberculosis when TB was a leading cause of death.

Please stop saying the bill allows "no more multi-year funding" - or at least be clear the 'more' is in reference to disastrous FY25 levels. The bill allows 39% MYF, same as in FY25, which contributed substantially to a 24% drop in new research. The bill has some wins. MYF is not one of them.

STEM Black History Fact 2/28 Dr. Patricia Bath invented laser cataract surgery, restoring sight to people who had been blind for decades. cfmedicine.nlm.nih.gov/physicians/b...

STEM Black History Fact 1/28 Dr. Alice Ball developed the first effective treatment for leprosy in 1915, well before antibiotics were known. Her work went uncredited for years. Dr. Ball - "I work and work and still it seems that I have done nothing." www.womenshistory.org/education-re...

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Can confirm. Nothing has changed on the ground. ICE still attacking people, kidnapping, all that stuff—and the city is still out protecting and helping neighbors

Video from this morning shows ICE agents deploying tear gas outside a Minneapolis preschool as parents shout, “This is a preschool! There’s kids here!”

Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days. His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.

It's not ICE out. It's dismantle ICE. It's abolish ICE. Don't just get them out of MN and make them someone else's problem. No city or state should be next. Make them non-existent.

Want to help folks in Minneapolis/St. Paul? Follow the link to various mutual aid groups who are supporting our community members. linktr.ee/mplsmutualaid #ItTakeAVillage #NoICE

Alex Pretti's gun is like Renee Good's car: irrelevant to the central fact that they were murdered by ICE. ICE wants us to debate whether Pretti should have been carrying because that avoids the central fact. Pro-carry, anti-carry--that has as much to do w/ his murder as his fashion choices. Zero.

Ways to Support Minnesota mspmag.com/arts-and-cul...

The man murdered by ICE was an ICU nurse at the VA who also worked on research studies, including one on infectious disease, a treatment study on C. difficile in veterans. bsky.app/profile/dimi...

the nba postponed a game because the united states government is killing its citizens

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

We had 50K people downtown yesterday, no ICE and zero incidents. ICE is the fucking problem.

The Star Tribune reports that federal agents "attempted to order local police from the scene" where a man was shot and killed by feds this morning, but Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara refused and "instructed his officers to preserve the scene."

I am watching what is happening in Minneapolis on Ali Velshi and one of the ICE officers (off camera) literally says, “It’s like Call of Duty. Pretty cool huh?” as they shoot whatever it is they are shooting. Agents walking around, guns unholstered for no reason. This is insanity

I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening. The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.

Today in two photos. Proud to march with all my fellow Minnesotans!

Just saw on KARE 11 that this boy was sent to a detainment facility in Texas and that his family didn't know his whereabouts for almost 24 hours.

Hundreds of anti-ICE protesters in Minneapolis chased off a small group of far-right activists, pelting them with water balloons in the freezing cold

Stunning photos from Minneapolis, including this one by John Locher for the Associated Press. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...

"Officers threw flash bangs and tear gas in my car. I got six kids in the car" "His wife, Destiny Jackson, told FOX 9 their 6-month-old infant stopped breathing and lost consciousness. She then performed CPR on her baby."

We need help keeping the world’s largest living library of mycorrhizal fungi alive. The INVAM mycorrhizal culture collection is at risk due to federal funding cuts. Its loss would be catastrophic. Link to donate: 🔗 invam.ku.edu/donate Read @theguardian.com article: 🔗 buff.ly/hkEGXgu

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Minnesota investigators say they can't access evidence after fatal ICE shooting and FBI won't work jointly on probe. @reuters.com

A mother, a Minnesotan, a US citizen was killed today by ICE. The video shows my friend & fellow physician being denied trying to give her care. ICE allowed her to die without help… This is a god damn travesty and injustice happening on our streets… #MedSky www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-sh...

Kristi Noem, a bald-faced liar, needs to be removed from office. She is an extreme danger to public safety.

It’s a war crime to prevent someone from rendering medical aid to an enemy combatant in war. I would hope it would be illegal for federal troops to prevent someone from rendering medical aid to a civilian in a public place. But it is also illegal to execute civilians without due process.

This is the ninth shooting by ICE since September (I did not know that). All of them were into vehicles.

Hey here’s a policy from Denmark we (and others) SHOULD be emulating:

INBOX: Statement from Senator Kelly

Donald Trump is spreading dangerous, disgusting lies about the murder of our dear friend and colleague, Melissa Hortman. Our full statement from House DFL Leader Zack Stephenson:

The people who most loudly complain "Why can't these immigrants just stay in their country???" are the same ones who most loudly celebrate American military and CIA interventionism in these countries to overthrow their governments. And they lack the self awareness to understand their own hypocrisy.

An appalling headline about the appalling actions by our appalling government.

I know many of you know Joe James (of Binning Singletons) Joe and his family had a terrible tragedy occur on Christmas. If you can give, this is a good family to help out gofund.me/5cbfe22fe

"It would be nice to go to work every day at an adult Disneyworld, where I could make 3x as much money and, more importantly, wouldn’t have to find it myself. The problem is: I’ve never wanted anything other than what I have. I love this job because this is where I know I can do something useful."

I believe this meme speaks for most in healthcare, science, public health, global health, research, and anyone wanted a return to precedented times.

A Trump administration change to how the National Institutes of Health awards grants has sharply reduced early-stage investigators’ odds of securing funding, new data from the agency show. Teamed up with @aniloza.bsky.social for this @statnews.com story www.statnews.com/2025/12/18/n...

Late job posting: My department is hiring a tenure-track faculty member in microbiology! Please share with anyone interested in working at a PUI. We have a preference for someone who can teach Medical Microbiology, but other than that the focus is open-ended. Happy to answer qs.

👏👏👏the biggest congratulations to super postdoc Ruth on her faculty position at Macalester!! Ruth is so terrific as a researcher, educator, mentor, and all around good person. Future Macalester students...you're in luck!! #proudPI

Melissa Hortman Died in a Shocking Act of Political Violence. This Is the Story of Her Life The Minnesota Speaker’s closest friends and family open up for the first time. Read @stephenrodrick.bsky.social's exclusive: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Me for the last month: let's touch base about this after Thanksgiving! Me this week: hmmm