Big protests going in Iran, and the state is trying to put them down with force, already killing 3. I don't know where this is going, and the Iranian government has survived big protests before. But whatever happens, it's admirably brave when people take on violently repressive regimes.

Protests in Iran enter the fifth day with the confirmed killing of at least one demonstrator, who was shot dead by security forces in Fooladshahr. Reports also emerge of more deaths in clashes elsewhere, marking a sharp escalation in the state's crackdown. www.iranintl.com/en/liveblog/...

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

It's also worth noting here that the *minimum* salary for these ICE positions is $52,205. While the *median* salaries for childcare workers and home health aides are less than $35,000 per year.

Learning loss? There was a worldwide emergency that changed everything. They didn’t change the tests to reflect the reality because that would’ve taken work from non-teachers. A lot of sectors were obviously hurt by shutdowns but we don’t blame them.

August 2020 I was back in the classroom with no vaccine, no cure, no testing, buying my own masks, teaching in person and online at the same time, and listening to a constant barrage of stories from the media about how teachers weren’t working and were failing kids. They were all writing from home.

A revealing look at the psychological profile of the kind of person ICE is consciously seeking to recruit, speaking volumes about their internal culture and politics.

A group of Buddhist monks is persevering in their peace walk across much of the U.S. even after two participants were injured when a truck hit their escort vehicle.

A leaked DoJ memo calls for prosecutors to charge people who film ICE with “domestic terrorism” They don’t want their atrocities documented. They don’t want a historical record. They don’t want the world to know. That’s why we have to keep filming. Keep speaking out.

“Car bloat”—increasingly oversized automobiles—worsens road safety, affordability and the environment. Here are some of the stories I wrote in 2025 examining the trend and proposing solutions. 🧵 In @vox.com, I likened car bloat to secondhand smoke (which helped bring down the US tobacco industry).

Part of the standard playbook: underfund something for years, claim it is failing and needs a takeover, then shower it with money under new leadership (which just happens to align ideologically with politicians in charge)

Just curious: where would the Gazans live?

32-slide Power Point deck, not a single one of them about where the Palestinians will live.

NY is having a bad flu season. More hospitalizations last week than any week on record. Health authorities are encouraging everyone aged 6mo+ to get the flu vax (it's not too late). Find a provider here: on.nyc.gov/getvaccinated. You can filter for sites where there's no cost for the uninsured.

It really is crazy that the president has engineered a situation where the US government pays his companies tons of money whenever he goes on vacation, and now he just goes on vacation endlessly www.howtoreadthisch.art/president-ho...

I’ve seen no serious engagement from senior Dems about what, exactly, they plan to do in terms of reasserting congressional power, as in identifying the available tools and thinking seriously about ways to use them to dig us out of the current state of total constitutional collapse.

"Martin" sent this pic from CA's Imperial Valley where they are harvesting rappini broccoli. "It's raining which makes the work harder. We are harvesting and making small bunches of rapini which we feed into the machine to pack it into boxes. It is very tiring work." #WeFeedYou

I think a lot about this graph of deaths in New York City a lot. In April 2020 we didn't mask and we didn't know to flip people over and we didn't know a lot of things and we were losing close to two 9/11s worth of people a week. How do you handle that situation?

The thing that bothers me about our post-pandemic COVID discourse is how much of it isn't about how to do things better next time, it's playing Monday morning quarterback. It's not about learning, it's about spending years trying to win arguments that people had online from March 2020.

Just wow. @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy came out swinging in this article. He's right though and that's the coolest part.

Side note: Sinatra’s mom Natalina “Dolly” Garaventa, a midwife by trade, ran an underground free abortion clinic, chained herself to a fence to fight for women’s suffrage and was an extremely influential organizer for the Democratic Party www.irishtimes.com/opinion/eamo...

“.. We need to get better at treating this like a business,” ICE acting director Todd M. Lyons said .. as efficiently as Amazon moves packages: “Like Prime, but with human beings.” @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

85% of CEOs are white men. All but one US President has been a white man. 65% of all elected offices are held by white men. Roughly 30% of the population is white men. WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS TOPIC EVEN???

You might be thinking, "CPSC, does a dry Christmas tree really burn that much faster than a well-watered tree?" Friend, let's find out together by watching this PSA.

surprise, surprise. DOJ will release docs over a rolling production over a few weeks -- violation of terms of Epstein law but who's to stop them. Big point is timing -- remember first spin of Mueller Report by Bill Barr? What comes out first will be big influence on public perception.

🔊New paper: coral reef #fish #calls exhibit consistent acoustic characteristics across different bioregions! #bioacoustics @timlamont.bsky.social @profstevesimpson.bsky.social @andyradford.bsky.social www.frontiersin.org/journals/rem...

The 6 richest men in the world are all Trump allies. They control your algorithms and data on X, TikTok, Twitch, Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, Threads, and YouTube. Just in case you’re wondering why more isn’t done to stop right-wing bots and misinformation on social media.

This is the sort of artistic genius that genAI will never, ever replicate.

“A randomized trial withholding a proven, life-saving intervention from newborns would not be approved by an institutional review board in the United States or Europe. Ethical standards do not become optional because the participants are African. African children deserve the same protections”

New publication 🐋 fresh out of our #bioacoustics lab! Congratulations to our dedicated colleague @beeden.bsky.social & co-authors 🥳 HIGH FREQUENCY #VESSELNOISE 🛥️ MASKS ECHOLOCATION AND COMMUNICATION 🔉 IN #HARBOURPORPOISES 🐬 Read the full article here: doi.org/10.1121/10.0...

It's a shell game. Trump is taking money from soldiers' housing subsidies to "give" them $1,776 "warrior dividend" checks.

It’s so bananas that we don’t know whether this dingdong will declare war in forty minutes or whether he’ll tell us all some random story about a conversation he had in 1982 and how much he hated Gene Kelly or something and then tell us he’s sending us all thousand dollar checks

"From climate science to maternal healthcare, research labs to ocean innovation, people across the world have felt the shockwaves of political and financial upheaval..." "For Labe, though, his concerns for the future lie with the next generation of scientists." via @geographical.co.uk

"No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law" Article 1, Section 9.

All the centers they’re cutting add up to less than $7 million in spending. UNC athletics budget is $185.4 million for the 2025-26 fiscal year.

Looking forward to the day when good things will be “distracting” us from other good things

Denaturalization is a prime example of psychological warfare against immigrants. A likely smallish number of actual cases will cause anxiety and fear for a disproportionately large number of others. But … In this case the targets are eligible vote.

You roll into Ohare one week before Christmas and cause chaos in the rideshare lot for only one reason and it's not to keep people safe.

The arts and humanities are often seen as a luxury, yet they build essential skills such as critical thinking, creativity and communication. This collection highlights how they benefit students, universities and society alike: www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/makin... #AcademicSky #EduSky

Trump’s ballroom went from $200 million to $250 million to $300 million to $350 million to $400 million to …

The US Administration has banned Americans from *adopting babies* from much of the African continent. Adopting. Babies. What trait do those babies have that, when they grow up as fully American adults, would make them a threat to our country in any form?

Not for nothing but federal law contains several statutory provisions that restrict, if not outright prohibit, this unilateral action by the senile dementia patient in the Oval. War Powers Act. War Crimes Act. Anti-Piracy Act. Neutrality Act. All still on the books.

the idea machine is the brain you weirdos

Love this! Congratulations and welcome to your client!

I lived thru the end of public smoking. Early in my career I presented to city councils who were smoking, in front of audiences who were smoking. Smoking in restaurants, airplanes, hospitals… All of that seems insane now, but it was very controversial when we DID change it. We CAN change things.

I'm not sure if people realize the murder strikes are taking place across a large region. It's quite staggering. www.newsweek.com/map-us-strik...

During his first term, Trump’s White House dispensed fentanyl freely to staffers www.businessinsider.com/white-house-...

We gave Jay Bhattacharya an opportunity to clarify his vaccine stance: does he REALLY believe that the vaccine is worse than the disease? Instead, he launched into a defense of MAHA as the future of scientific inquiry, and never really gave us a straight answer... @repauchincloss.bsky.social

@cdelawalla.bsky.social: “The version of you that I am hearing rn is a little bit different than the version I heard speaking at the MAHA action event…I wanted to give you an opportunity to dissent“ Bhattacharya: *does not dissent*

As the US faffs about with declining fossil fuels, China has leapt forward to become the uncontested global leader in clean energy -- and not just on the cheap labor/commodity side, either. They're beating us on research, startups, & patents. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...