Someone on the ground is reporting that ice agents are picking up amazon flex drivers at whole foods where he works in West Bloomfield Michigan. He doesn't have social media and I don't know who to share this info with. Anyone in Michigan who can help please? 🙏

New, from me: The self-proclaimed "Most Transparent Administration in History" wants to compel all federal employees to sign Non Disclosure Agreements. The purpose is to vastly expand the culture of secrecy in government, undermining accountability. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trump-want...

This is the most recent letter from hunger/labor striking prisoners at Delaney Hall ICE facility in Newark, NJ. "We appreciate the support of everyone who is protesting outside the facility. We want you to know that you give us the strength and determination to keep going. Please, DON’T GIVE UP!"

It's been said a billion times already, and it still can't be said enough: I don't see how US democracy survives if blatant, intentional lying remains cost-free

Is it the strain on the CDC, or the policy Trump advocated in 2014, a possibility pointed out by @craigspencer.bsky.social?

CDC rule would make permanent the ability to bar US entry to anyone, including legal permanent residents, during outbreaks. This is not informed by science, human or viral behavior. It does acknowledge the strain on CDC. #IDsky #healthpolicy #Ebola #quarantine #virology #immunology #publichealth

US-Israel war on Iran driving historic levels of global hunger, UN says

“With these decisions to authorize fruit-flavored vaping products, and unlawfully allow for the sale of fruit-, candy-, and dessert-flavored e-cigarette products absent the legally required FDA review, Trump has willingly exposed an entire generation of children to Big Tobacco’s nicotine addiction.”

A “new” enemy… be serious!!

👏🏻 @casmudde.bsky.social: „Ich habe gezögert, Ihre Interviewanfrage anzunehmen. Ich finde, auch DIE ZEIT hat dazu beigetragen, diese Wahrnehmung zu verbreiten. (…) Ihr Medium bringt meiner Meinung nach immer wieder Artikel über Cancel-Culture und andere reaktionäre Thesen“ www.zeit.de/politik/2026...

“Five died in centers run by longtime ICE detention partners, CoreCivic and the GEO Group.” apnews.com/article/ice-...

I heard from several sources yesterday that NIH is planning to release a Request for Information (RFI) that apparently will include this: Scores and percentiles for NIH grant applications will not be shared with applicants although they will be provided to NIH program officers and staff. 1/3

One glimmer of hope in the Ebola response: Within hours of the outbreak in DRC being declared, researchers convened to prepare drug trials. A lot has changed on that front since the Ebola outbreak in West Africa a decade ago. But huge challenges remain 🧪 My story in @science.org (🧵 to come)

One of my favorite discussions on this topic.

The Trump administrations’s widespread and systematic attack upon civilians at sea continues. Killing for kicks and content.

What I'm concerned about isn't just the cancellation of international flights, but the fact that the Trump regime is effectively imposing an unconstitutional exit ban over its citizens, a common tactic seen in totalitarian regimes www.theguardian.com/world/2021/a...

So unbelievably angry. This is blatant child abus, a shocking escalation in the kind of everyday violence against trans kids that has already cost lives. Everyone involved in enacting this must resign, and every teacher, counselor, and social worker must be vociferous in our condemnation. Get loud.

Probably fine!

So glad to be a private practice doctor because I can say this guy sucks and I won't get a call from human resources. Imagine being a pediatrician in one of these systems and seeing this bullshit.

Huh. Imagine that.

This entire administration is an exercise in discovering why you need government and then scrambling to assemble an arm while cutting off another leg.

“The Trump administration plans to send to Kenya U.S. citizens exposed to the Ebola virus rather than bring them home for observation and treatment.”[..] “”Leaving Americans in Africa rather than bringing them home is “a dramatic abdication of what we owe our own.”” 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/05/26/u...

😔 I have thoughts but they’re not fully formed yet www.nytimes.com/2026/05/26/u...

This plan is actively *insane.* Airlines cannot divert large numbers of international flights from one city to another; they'd just have to cancel flights en masse, causing enormous economic damage that splashed waaaaay beyond a few big cities that were the target.

WIRED got a copy of a New York Intelligence and Counterterrorism Bureau report that has a curious term for opposition to AI development and data centers: "anti-tech violent extremist activity." Great reporting here on how law enforcement is tracking big tech opponents www.wired.com/story/us-law...

just one goddam cabinet meeting where childrens genitals arent a topic of conversation

How about ~26 points down with 53% in?

I have been quietly but implacably awaiting Cornyn’s downfall since the day he posted this - just as people were starting to die and frantic experts were begging everyone to take the virus seriously.

Here’s one little-h hypothesis: even for folks doing reasonably well in this strange economy, they can see the worst people in the world just raking in money in the ugliest of ways; they know they’ll never be able to compete with that & that whatever they have will be worth less & less over time.

remember that time Zelensky didn’t wear a tie

as always, the consent violations are part of the point

This is a truly astonishing story about how the incompetence of Trump's political hacks makes them unable do the most basic tasks.

A network of fake academic journals masquerading as legitimate publications has published more than a hundred AI-generated papers in recent months, in some cases using the names of real professors at top universities without their knowledge.

AI is bad and ruining human knowledge, sorry to those trying to convince us otherwise.

This is great. I quite like the refrain, "Do you all see it?" This is the key question of the Trump era: do you see what he's doing to our country? Do you see what he wants to do if we don't stop him?

I will say again: Our electeds need to be leaders/prominent participants in protest & civil disobedience for a variety of reasons.

➡️ The number of people killed by police has increased over time. Police killed more than 1,300 people in 2025. This is a slight decline from 2024, but still higher than pre-pandemic levels. mappingpoliceviolence.org

➡️ For starters, spending on policing has skyrocketed. Now, the U.S. spends at least $203 billion on policing each year. That's a 40% increase from 2017. Keep that in mind the next time somebody tries to use calls to "defund the police" as a scapegoat.

An NBC News investigation finds dozens of examples of criminals imitating ICE to rob and attack people www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

I blocked the political scientist w/ the anonymous account who said I'm tamping down the resistance telling people the hostage is dead. Words matter. We are not in business as usual. People need to know guardrails we relied on in the past have failed. It doesn't mean stop fighting.

We are in constitutional failure and past constitutional crisis

If I were a Senator who was tear-gassed by ICE, I would spend every hour of the rest of my time in office figuring out new ways to abolish ICE.

15/ Substantive takeaway: LLMs separate the message from the messenger. State-coordinated phrasing can circulate through the web, enter training data, and reappear as neutral-sounding LLM output— the source obscured.

13/ No single test can tell us the complete story. But when open-data analysis, memorization tests, pretraining experiments, and cross-language comparisons all point in the same direction, the best explanation is that media control is already shaping model behavior.

1/ New @Nature! We study how powerful institutions shape the information environment for LLMs. Commercial LLM training is opaque, so we trace a path from state-coordinated media -> training data -> model responses.

ICE agents pepper-sprayed Senator Andy Kim of New Jersey.

they’re shooting crowd control munitions at crowds that include multiple members of congress, the governor, and a sitting united states senator. they fired pepper balls at the senator. they cannot and will not be reigned in by democracy, whatever’s left of it.

Can’t believe that Andy Kim is in two of the most haunting pictures of the last few years.

This photo of Andy Kim in the moments before ICE gassed everyone at Delaney Hall is going into the history books. We need more of this from our electeds.