Listen, I just cannot say this loudly enough: if there is a detention center near you or planned to be near you, please get trained immediately in rapid response and get connected to your local immigration action network. It is the primary way to know exactly what's happening and how you can help.

There were clergy on the ground at Delaney Hall trying to help those who were gassed. This is an all out community effort to shut down Delaney Hall in Newark.

Noem or Mullin, la misma porquería. Instead of being held accountable, DHS continues to spread fear, chaos, and lies. Read the hunger strikers’ letter: www.lahuelga.com/sos

A masked man in an armored vehicle, dressed as if he is in the middle of a war zone, training a weapon on unarmed protestors. This is simply incompatible with democratic expression.

1. Caste. Most people in the west don’t understand that the waves of engineers and doctors who immigrated out of India in the 70s and onwards were ‘high’ caste folks, who resented the Indian equivalent of affirmative action for caste. Caste solidarity is very powerful…/

We haven't had to fire any shots so it's not obvious but a blockade of this magnitude would generally be considered an act of war. We did not do this in the 1962 missile crisis, we allowed ships not carrying weapons to proceed to Cuba

Katrina needs to start being recognized as a modern day Black massacre

Many of his voters are fine with this as long the people they hate are suffering. It's actually important to understand this.

Let’s be clear about something: COVID-19 vaccines saved millions of lives. It is deeply cynical, corrupt, and frankly immoral to fearmonger about them. The biggest scandal of my lifetime is the right-wing war on public health because pandemic control efforts cut into corporate quarterly profits.

The longer I am a parent, the less parenting advice I have.

Yeah, this is the stuff.

A US-born woman born was confronted by sheriff deputies in Louisiana who were convinced her ID and social security card were fakes. They turned her over to ICE, who shackled her & took her an hour away. Even after a lawyer convinced ICE of the woman's citizenship the sheriff says they did no wrong

Another reminder: if there exists *any* class of people who don't have due process rights, then *nobody* actually has due process rights because the government can always just say you're in that class.

Suzanne Vega releases “Luka” 39 years ago this weekend. She said she once received a fan letter about it: “Dear Suzanne, Luka is the most compelling piece of music I’ve heard in a long time. There are no words 2 tell U all the things I feel when I hear it. I thank God 4 U, Prince”

Sharing a real time request sent by a friend. MASS CALL FOR BODIES AT DELANEY HALL. ICE IS ATTEMPTING TO TRANSFER THE HUNGER STRIKE ORGANIZERS OUT OF THE FACILITY.

Just adding this for sourcing/cause it doesn't get talked about enough. They killed people who were just trying to get to safety.

I mainly write my papers for myself and others in academia, because it's fun & I find value in it, but there's something extra lovely when non-academics find value in this stuff too. Knowledge production is kinda weird (good) in the age of the internet because it makes talking to readers very direct

The same administration that killed actually useful tech products - like free digital tax reporting - is directing its tech resources to impose a Trump propaganda app on federal employee phones

Whether you like him or not, it's bad the federal government is targeting Hasan Piker, actually www.foxnews.com/politics/fed...

As I was bitten by a tick just yesterday(😱), this is welcome news!

Not enough people are talking about this. A Florida airport was renamed after Donald Trump. He walked away with the trademark, the licensing rights, and a deal that lets him profit off every piece of merchandise sold there. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The NIH is demanding that it's grantees cease collaborations with foreign scientists. Wait until NIH director Jay Bhattacharya hears about this! His stated top priority in the director role is to prevent government interference with or censorship of scientific researchers.

Actually we simply shouldn't have businesses that are based around collecting and surveilling user's personal data, and it's crazy we are still pretending that there is any way to do that which is at all responsible from a cybersecurity, trust and safety, or pro-democratic perspective.

Went to an anti AI datacentre protest march today and a friend of mine got a picture that summed it all up

Yup. Sitting on a 3% scored R01 since Jan and I still don’t know if it’s getting funded. This is just not sustainable. How is the NIH going to spend its mandated budget?!

Senator Andy Kim confirms inhumane conditions, bad food and water and lack of due process in Delaney Hall. Says there are pregnant women not getting medical care. Asks for his Republican colleagues to also visit and press ICE and GEO Group on these issues. @north.dsanj.org

Did you know the new Fed Chair Kevin Warsh’s father-in-law, Ron Lauder is mentioned over 900 times in the Epstein files? Well, now you do.

I’d like to add something else to this convo: many of people who qualify for permanent residency in the United States would no longer qualify if they went home — because their existing visa is on the basis of refugee status (fear of home) or a job they’d lose. Like it’s absurd at every level.

I remember when my family became permanent residents we spent a year in Cairo & and we were questioned when we came back for spending too much time outside of the country. Permanent residency is designed to settle people here to stay. Just nonsense unless your goal is ethnic cleansing.

This! Exactly this!

Deporting people into an Ebola outbreak that we caused/exacerbated is unfathomably evil

Trump (or Trump Jr) seemingly mistakenly invested $1M-5M in Kura Sushi (sushi restaurant chain) instead of Fujikura that is related to AI industry. Previously, all their investments were related to AI. This is now one of the trending stories in Japanese media.

While we slept the DOJ deleted all press releases about charges against January 6 defendants: www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

first, "technical" teams I've worked with who had more women (& more diversity overall) were straight up better than those without, & the exclusion of women from tech is a disaster for industry & academia. second, hate to be reductionist but... prob explains a lot about how we got modern "AI".

sometimes I wonder if people in other fields have any clue what we go through as women in computational fields... (graph from: www.npr.org/sections/mon...)

Ebola is a "Blacks" disease. COVID is a "Whites" disease. All the analysis needed.

An audience member asked me about leftist pronatalism.

“During previous Ebola outbreaks, U.S. residents exposed to the virus were evacuated back to the US for observation or treatment.[..]”If we don’t repatriate Americans in an emergency, what does citizenship mean? I think it’s going to erode confidence in government.””🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/u...

They are going beyond what public health experts say is needed. Especially ironic from people who claim to stand for medical freedom and who rode into power over anger over COVID-19 measures. Reminder: Secretary Kennedy is the boss, and responsible. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/u...

This is an absolute overkill. It happens when you put non-experts at the top of our institutions. They have no idea what they’re doing. Signed, a long retired biochemist who worked in virus research. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/23/w...

Anthropic is very much not our friend.

Political is when a black quarterback silently kneels Not political is when a white quarterback introduces the president’s speech at a campaign rally

They need to be held responsible for adding to the catastrophic problem of plastic and misleading the public

When politicians say they can't hold corporations accountable, remember: they can. They just choose not to.

Do yourself a weekend favor and watch Colbert in Monroe. Pure art! Just fantastic!

Yes, that was Stephen Colbert on Monroe County public access television.

Do yourself a weekend favor and watch Colbert in Monroe. Pure art! Just fantastic!

congrats to jared polis for getting played like a chump

So, it turns out that when you abandon your principles to mollify bad-faith actors, it doesn't help. Indeed, it may hurt because you are perceived (accurately) as being weak. Surviving as weak and unprincipled (and I do hope that NASEM survives) is only slightly better than not surviving. 3/3

The push to cut funding from the National Academies of Science will involve illegally impounding funds on the claim that fringe Republican lawmakers understand what constitutes the “gold standard” for science better than the best scientists in America. www.aip.org/fyi/republic...