The fact that both are quite experienced—8 years and 12 years with CBP—is yet more evidence that CBP should be abolished and all of its agents fired. There's no way to "reform" or "retrain" that, it's just a violent gang with badges.

This is an excellent point. It’s also misguided to compare democratic backsliding in America with other countries by starting at Trump’s second term and not including the previous 24 years of democratic erosion by Republicans in all branches and levels of government

Just staggered by the complete moral void of not even *pretending* to wait for more information before pivoting to “the opponent of the state deserved it.” It is so insanely depraved. Soulless.

Yes! The truth is the truth; it is not, in fact, sensitive to the positions people take on it.

The sort of people who support ICE and the Trump Administration are fine with this because she’s black, because she’s a woman, because she‘s Somali-American, and because THEY are shitty people with shitty values from a shitty culture.

Never let a single goddamned person on the Right ever claim again that they’re the party of law and order without laughing in their lying face.

This is the kind of thing that the Founders explicitly designed our constitution to prevent; a president who has seized wealth for his own benefit without any intervention from Congress, which in our system is supposed to be the holder of the power of the purse.

This is the kind of big thinking we need. The Democratic world should be going through Supreme Court precedents. Here the key date is the 2000 GWB election, which @raskin.house.gov called effectively stolen — and the Court’s work after that the fruit of a poison tree.

Another outrageous action. The Netanyahu govt is banning over 30 aid orgs — including CARE, Mercy Corps & Doctors Without Borders groups — from providing life-saving aid to people in Gaza.  Another betrayal of humanity. And, once again, the Trump Admin says and does nothing.

the “unitary executive” theory is incompatible with successful science. We get to choose: the current Supreme Court and its views on executive power, or America’s science superpower. We can’t have both

RFK Jr.’s hand-picked anti-vax panel has removed any doubt about their obvious bias and destroyed any shred of credibility for their decision-making process. CDC should reject this dangerous suggestion that will simply mean more babies die in the United States.

New in PN: CNN shows that when media orgs fight Trump, they win "Paying the blackmailer makes you look like a cowardly mark — both to your audience and to the guy grabbing you by the wallet. And with courts announcing they won’t be part of Trump's extortion racket, media outlets need to toughen up"

The Trump Administration killed over 383 active clinical trials and directly harmed more than 74,000 Americans with lasting future impacts for the public at large. Trump' s war on scientific research and public health is costing Americans lives and livelihoods.

Need something to do at 8AM on a Sunday morning? Come see these Cullen Lab members working on vestibular prosthesis projects at the Vestibular & Visual Prostheses Nanosymposium (Room 23A)!

"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

So much of "cancel culture" discourse is a re-description of the normal functioning of a democracy and public discourse by people who didn't like the results of one, or both, or how it made them feel.

In the long Republican tradition of harassing people, especially non-white-people, who might not vote for them. www.npr.org/2024/10/31/n...

It’s important to flood social media and news channels with news about how ICE lies, so that potential jurors see it.

Most of the power authoritarians have is freely given. We should not comply with them in advance. Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn. We have been sent here to fight for people.

In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it? If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say? Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.

A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.

Call me radical, but I think we *don't* need to have polite chats with racists who are spewing conspiracy theories that keep motivating white supremacists to massacre our fellow citizens, and we *don't* need to have bipartisan deals with fascists trying to destroy our democracy and our government.

It can't be said often enough: the contemporary US right simply does not accept the background presumption that "we all have to live here together." They want to eliminate liberals! They're very vocal about it!

"Private" schools are a fiction and menace, they are all frauds built upon the persistent theft of public funds and resources intended for the benefit of children. It is the duty of all good and moral people to work towards the complete destruction of private schools.

Minutes before the Israeli military killed him, Anas al-Sharif posted to X: "If this madness does not end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins... and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop."

You can never bend the knee enough to appease an authoritarian bully. This is a devastating blow to academic freedom & freedom of speech at Columbia. Never in the history of this nation has there been an administration so intent on the utter destruction of higher education as we know it.

The "proper role of judges" includes acting swiftly and firmly to restrain an Executive who violates the Constitution in multiple ways by kidnapping citizens and dumping them abroad. No amount of hand-waving by you or SCOTUS can justify allowing it to happen to even one person, much less thousands.

A society is only as good as it treats the most vulnerable of our people. Nativity of birth makes you an American. Full stop.

No no no! These university leaders don’t get it. If you negotiate one on one you don’t buy peace; you just expose the whole sector and yourselves to more shakedowns. See law firms. The only response is to unite in collective action and fight the Admin’s illegality. www.cnn.com/2025/05/31/p...

All knowledge is a threat to power, and therefore all sources of knowledge are always under threat from power. We need resilient systems, and neither private nor public exclusive ownership of scientific outputs can guarantee that. That has to be shared across countries and institutions.

Public policy is meant to regulate the needs of the here and the now— not just the long run. But, for some in America, the infliction of pain is a public policy prescription itself and it is core to their political identity. The cruelty is an immediate payoff.

Tell me: if these dudes show up with guns in an unmarked van to grab someone, why don’t the Second Amendment fans think they should be shot?

I say without any irony or sarcasm: yes, thank you, we want parliamentary sabotage. Again, I'm 100% serious. It's one of the few things a minority party can do, and which Republicans themselves did. It's essential.

Break the law.

Willing to bet a very large amount that most of that 413% rise in “assaults” on ICE agents represent unarmed people attacking ICE fists with their faces and boots with their kidneys. Because these people are lying scum.

Also the public *should pay* for the science because then the information belongs to them, not to an institution or company. That’s the whole point!

It’s almost as if effective advocacy and leadership, whether for good or evil, can shape public opinion, and it’s possible to work to frame issues instead of passively responding to the way the opposition frames them and accepting their characterization of what is “moderate.”

One other point about this chart: Young women, you are right and everyone else is wrong. You deserve a better world than this one. Don't settle for it or the men who made it this way.

Ah, but that's just it: the oligarchs don't want more innovation. They want the current wealth & power structure to be frozen in place for as long as possible, and they think that removing a building's structural support is the best way to preserve your spot on the top floor.

Whether engaging with patients to better understand their needs & challenges, trying to optimize prosthetic stimulation, or probing fundamental genetic and neural mechanisms, I'm enormously proud of the Hopkins vestibular research community. It's work worth doing. It's work worth funding.

Our work on balance -critical for mobility, especially as we age- links basic neuroscience to real-world clinical needs & is only possible with sustained NIH support. Federal cuts threaten research like ours, with direct impacts on fall prevention, rehab, and support of aging populations. Read more:

Lab PSA! #NCMPan25 attendees should check out @omelbrown.bsky.social‘s poster on vestibular contributions to monkey posture during support surface tilts (Tues & Weds) and postdoc Ruihan Wei’s talk re: vestibular influence on head stabilization & neck muscle activity in walking monkeys (Tues 3:30)!

Every Senate Democrat voted to confirm Marco Rubio. Every single one. They should never live that down. Yes, that includes Warren and Sanders and Booker. www.huffpost.com/entry/marco-...

No kings. No billionaire lords.

Believing that America can or must be good does not require one to believe that America is or was good or that Americans are more important than anyone else in the world. I don't know who it serves to insist otherwise.

A government that uses force while defying the rule of law is not entitled to the protections of the rule of law, nor are its agents.

Here's the Bluesky post. This is incredible. Now the goal will be to get him home. And I want to hear what Senator Van Hollen learned from him. What this shows is that Bukele is very much susceptible to pressure. Now we can't forget about the other 237 people sent there on March 15.

It is essential for the rule of law that everyone involved in this end up in prison. Nothing else is a sufficient deterrent against the intentional, repeated abuse of government power to systematically deny fundamental rights.