Nicholson: Are you still in #despair about the world? #Baldwin: I never have been in despair about the world. I'm enraged by it. But I don't think I'm in despair, I can't afford despair. I can't tell my nephew, my niece, you can't tell the children there's no hope! ~ quoted by Christopher W Hunt

James Baldwin: That the scapegoat pays for the sins of others is well known, but this is only legend, and a revealing one at that. In fact, however the scapegoat may be made to suffer, his suffering cannot purify the sinner; it merely incriminates him more, and it seals his damnation…

Could someone please show me the specific examples where Trump’s successes were rooted in moderate, centrist policy positions? I would like to learn how centrist policy leads to such success

“Parents aren’t for telling their children who they’re supposed to be”

Donald Trump is using federal agents to stoke fear and violate constitutional rights — all with the aims of expanding his control and sending military troops to our cities. It’s unlawful and un-American. We must all stand up and speak out against fanning the flames of violence.

Thank you @atscommunity.bsky.social 🙏

The Board of Directors has signed this joint statement by the Infectious Diseases Society of America, joining more than 20 national medical and health organizations.

. @jessicavalenti.bsky.social ’s book on Abortion is heartbreaking and brilliant and inspiring and, completed mid-2024, prophetic You should read it: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/772254...

I have also reached out to colleagues in “war-ravaged Portland”’s largest ICUs, who describe the scene on the ground as “peaceful and lovely”

No one outside the U.S. is confused and no one here would be confused if they saw this happening in another country.

“ They’re making sexism aspirational “ ~ @jessicavalenti.bsky.social is a really powerful writer

Both Sinclair and Nexstar caved. There’s a lesson here for would-be leaders, including university presidents.

You have to fight.

I like Baltimore

Talk Of Fascism Dangerous, Warns Ministry Of Compliance

Trouillot talking about how the West just couldn’t think about / perceive the Haitian Revolution just feels far too relevant to the way so many of my countrymen — perhaps me — cannot see the incredible erosion of our Republic over the last months

“Built into any system of domination is the tendency to proclaim its own normalcy. To acknowledge resistance as a mass phenomenon is to acknowledge the possibility that something is wrong with the system” ~ Trouillot

“The Age of the Enlightenment was an age in which the slave drivers of Nantes bought titles of nobility to better parade with philosophers, an age in which a freedom fighter such as Thomas Jefferson owned slaves without bursting under the weight of his intellectual + moral contradictions”~Trouillot

Prof Trouillot making for uncomfortable reading: The Haitian Revolution thus entered history with the peculiar characteristic of being unthinkable even as it happened. Official debates and publications of the times… reveal the incapacity of most contemporaries to understand the ongoing revolution

Public Enemy X Jimmy Kimmel Live #JimmyKimmel #FightThePower

Raiffa’s footnotes are great: “One of the most popular paradigms in the theory of mathematics describes the case in which a researcher has either to accept or reject a so-called null hypothesis…

Teaching help request! I have a clinician mentee for whom I think building out decision trees is the right research aim. While he gets the general idea, I don’t think he has ever been taught formal decision analysis. I was taught expected values so long ago I no longer remember how to teach it.

“we estimate precise zeros” is very specific flex, and I kinda love it

Literally the authoritarian playbook: 1. Call your opponents terrorists. 2. Deploy state power against them. There's nothing subtle or confusing or complex about what's happening. The *outcome* is uncertain but the authoritarianism is right out in the open.

This is an amazing footnote

How does it keep getting stupider?

Also: when a government acts brutally and lawlessly and immorally, but tells you that pointing those things out incites violence and terrorism, that government and its agents are entitled to no respect or credence.

My colleague Prof M Hladek notes "National Association of Hispanic Nurses (NAHN) and Ashley Merida have created an immigration tool kit available here: www.nahnnet.org/policy-advoc... We have also had multiple webinars and this... is a focus of our upcoming policy summit in February 2026 in DC "

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Have a moment of Sven

Williams was a photographer for Jet magazine. He took the photo himself. The OG selfie. Iconic. Orangeburg, South Carolina, 1956

Week 5 of Death and Daring in the ICU Focus on mechanical ventilation

“Are clinicians obliged to collaborate in the deportation of their patients from the ICU?” “Absolutely not and let us tell you how to say ‘no’”

**important new paper** Privacy and Dignity for Undocumented People? Clinicians' Duties and Responses to Patient Immigration Status Inquiries David M Chooljian et al. @annalsats.bsky.social pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40986802/

Fascinating old economist quote perhaps relevant to AI: You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics. ~ Robert Solow (1987)

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I support trans kids

Over 625 Jewish health professionals have signed a letter: We cannot stay silent in the face of genocide in Gaza. Our ethics & our tradition bind us to defend life and dignity. #SilenceIsComplicity Add your signature forms.gle/TxXh39cQzL1y... See article www.haaretz.com/us-news/2025...

Executive orders cannot supersede federal law or the constitution. Federal law sets visa fees, including for H-1B visas. And the maximum fee is $4,500, according to the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2016 (Public Law 114-113). Current State Dept. site: travel.state.gov/content/trav...

okay AI controversy aside, just talking as a nerd for a second: this is such a cool paper

And my Maryland Senator @vanhollen.senate.gov has shown repeatedly that one can stand up for principles bsky.app/profile/vanh...

There is obviously no sense in which these politicians’ speech is equivalent to violence, despite DHS feeble attempts. And look at all of them Apparently it is quite common to compare DHS to un-American authoritarians in public, and people are doing so without losing their jobs #normalization

The DHS post is kind of a nice reminder and review of the many many people who are speaking up

The DHS post is kind of a nice reminder and review of the many many people who are speaking up

21,000 is not enough, it’s ridiculous how good this book is, yall need to read this, asap.

qué comemierda.

Hints of autumn

I like this. Since under RFK Jr, Covid shots are now for people with underlying conditions that put them at risk, Michigan’s chief medical executive Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian states that not having the most recent Covid shot constitutes such an underlying condition. www.michigan.gov/mdhhs/inside...

I'm getting tired of making these.

so much historical zeitgeist discourse is just like HELLO I WROTE A TOUR ABOUT THIS ALREADY rn