Oh good. 🏏

This is good.

Happy Rosh Hashanah y'all.

"Is that your daughter? Come here so I can see those IDs," an agent can be heard saying in the video. "Hey, I can give it through the door," a man is heard saying in response. "You can do it right here," the agent says, pointing to the ground in front of himself. on.nbcboston.com/3phHyWE

Just thinking about the Rosh Hashanah when I was 5 or 6 and my great grandmother called and asked if I know what day it was and I said "Labor Day!"

BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered Trump to restore $500 million in frozen UCLA NIH grants. The same judge, Rita F. Lin, previously ordered all UCLA NSF grants reinstated. Lin has now nearly entirely reversed Trump's July de-funding of UCLA research: www.latimes.com/california/s...

Welp here we are again, fresh out of Archaeologists for Skype a Scientist matches. This fall, we have matched 248 groups with Archaeologists for online Q&As. I have 38 more groups who need a match, but I'm out of Archaeologists! Archaeologists! Please volunteer www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html

NEW: Air Force jets are doing ICE flights to Africa with transponders turned off, making them nearly un-trackable. This includes the third-country removal to Ghana and another secret flight. We figured out where it landed. From me for @rollingstone.com: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Herman Melville knew how to wield a simile. 🐋

“Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are out in East Somerville, and the streets are noticeably silent. Multiple East Somerville residents have been detained by ICE in the past two weeks. No one has been charged with any crimes, and some even held a protected status.” 👇 from Clr. McLauglin

That's a moray!

Microsoft gave guidance on H1Bs to its employees last night

I love that there is a primate art symposium at today's meetings of the American Society of Primatologists to honor Michelle Bezanson and celebrate the primatologists and conservationists who integrate art into their work. ⚱️🐒🌍

A seagull and I caught sunrise this morning.

Whomever is in charge of the gym playlist is recapitulating my Songs Of Fieldwork. I'm suddenly back in Puerto Maldonado waiting in line for maracuya ice cream. youtu.be/Oe1fRwgGu5E?...

This looks like a very helpful resource.

MGH's blood donation t-shirts are much better than they need to be.

great news! you're not actually seeing karl rove, john yoo, and david frum criticize the administration's lawlessness more stridently than dem leadership. you, reader, were infected with rabies by a brown bat 36 hours ago and this is all just the virus working its way through your nervous system

Gotta read all the way to the last paragraph to find this: “In some cases, the government appeared to rely on unverified tabloid reports about Khalil. In others, its claims were factually incorrect due to inconsistent timelines and mischaracterizations of his work history.”

hm.

if you read one thing today, make it this absolutely devastating piece from a fact-checker who quit the New Yorker bidoun.org/articles/hou...

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The most important finding of our new study is: so far, scientists have traced back at least 30,000 excess deaths per year TODAY due to the impact of climate change on heat and other disasters, malaria and dengue, and wildfire-related air pollution - a global economic loss of up to $350B USD.

🚨 NEW: Climate change is already causing 30,000 deaths per year - a global annual economic loss of $100-350B USD - but the true damage is probably 10x higher. Out TODAY in Nature Climate Change: the first systematic look at the science of "health impact attribution" 🔓 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Fortune favors the bold!

Take it from someone who knows...

Things are very bad in the Boston area right now.

I continue to be deeply disappointed in NH state representatives @repchrispappas.bsky.social and Maggie Goodlander - today, for supporting Republican efforts to suppress self-governance in DC. What happened to "live free or die"?

The Women’s Refugee Commission Detention Pregnancy Tracker: A Critical Tool for Documenting the Treatment of Pregnant Women in Immigration Detention 🚨 Have you seen a pregnant woman in ICE custody? Submit a report today. -- Please share widely! austinkocher.substack.com/p/the-womens...

Oh, Ishmael.

It has been talked about lately as some kind of victory that the president decided against sending in the National Guard to Chicago... But ... it hasn't made a difference for the many people being brutalized or kidnapped or detained in the Chicago area the past week.

Another fun thing about watching Only Murders In The Building (only season 4) is that I keep having a new exist to make my boyfriend watch Broadway clips. Today, Daphne Rubin-Vega singing Take Me Out, during Rent workshops in 1996

American soybean farmers don’t have a single order from China as they head into harvest season. China usually buys 25% of the entire crop. Crisis looms for the farmers and there’s only one man responsible.

“It will take decades to recover from this, if we ever do.” America’s cancer research system, which has helped save millions of lives and is in one of its most productive moments, is under threat by the Trump administration.

One of my favorite things about academic reading outside my area of expertise for work or class is finding whole new niches I didn't know existed. Today: "Nesterov’s Accelerated Gradient has been the subject of much recent attention by the convex optimization community."

If you know anyone who might benefit, this is an app where folks can prepare emergency plans, send them immediately to emergency contacts, and send details to pro bono immigration lawyers in the event they are detained by ICE.

BREAKING: Today, the First Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the Trump administration in Svitlana Doe v. Noem, greenlighting the mass revocation of legal status and work authorization for half a million people who entered the country lawfully w/ CHNV humanitarian parole.

instructors! today is a good day to ask yourself this question again

Coffee with the girls

"Using faulty tech to generate questionable IDs compounds existing issues and makes it far more likely to get innocent people hurt."

BREAKING: A unanimous First Circuit panel holds that Sec. Noem likely had authority to mass-cancel immigration parole grants for people from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela — reversing a district court's order siding with the immigrants. SCOTUS previously stayed the district court order.

This cured me www.tiktok.com/@smuglyugly/...

Tues, 9/16, 7am - LUCE's Salem hub and Matahari are supporting Blanca, a longtime Salem community member and domestic worker, to prevent her detention and deportation at her upcoming ICE check-in in Burlington. Sign up to attend the action and bring your hub: bit.ly/BlancaUpdates

ooh a new reason other than my lingering twitter nazi trauma to ask people not to use pepe memes and emojis

I know everyone is consumed with other news, but this is a big fucking deal: The Trump administration says that IUDs and the Pill are actually abortions. Here's what USAID told the NYT about the $10m in birth control they plan to destroy. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...

Chinatown this morning.

UC Berkeley has given the Trump administration the names of 160 students, faculty, and staff as part of an investigation into antisemitism on campus. One of them is Judith Butler. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

I really like all the different caryatids that have lived at the Met.

Maybe I'll take a celebratory bike ride on 93 to honor Josh Kraft's ill-fated mayoral run.