A 28-year-old Mexican man was killed by a semi truck this morning after ICE and HSI agents caused him to flee for his life in St. Augustine, Florida. ICE is tearing parents from children, workers from job sites, neighbors from their homes, people from their cars, and neighbors from our streets. 1/

This is I believe the third incident where ICE has gone to arrest people, they flee, and someone is hit by a car or other vehicle and dies. In this case, ICE officers went to question some people at a gas station, they panicked, and one of them ran into the road and was hit by a truck.

If you get explosive diarrhea this summer, thank RFK Jr. and Donald Trump. In July 2025, they slashed the CDC program monitoring this exact parasite from 8 pathogens down to 2. Cyclospora was one they stopped tracking. It's now in 30+ states, with 7,000+ cases, and they can't find the source.

This is Joan Sebastian Guerrero, the 26-year-old Colombian father and husband murdered by ICE fascists in broad daylight in front of his 3-year-old daughter. He was NOT the target of the ICE warrant. He was documented. He did everything right. ICE murdered him anyway. And yet… 1/2

Russell Vought has a daughter who suffers from cystic fibrosis like me son. She is for a fact benefiting from a miracle breakthrough drug called Trikafta. My son and I have been advocating for 38 years for this breakthrough. It is no way a cure, but Vought is halting further research. EVIL

Doctors and human rights experts documented hundreds of incidents from June 2025 through May 2026 and estimate true number is ‘far greater’

You can reduce your risk of Cyclospora infection by: Avoiding pre-washed bagged salads Thoroughly washing produce Cutting away damaged areas Heating food to 158°F, which kills the parasite Washing hands and surfaces

The ICE murder of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo deserves the same fury as Renee Good and Alex Pretti

PIRC had its highest number of reports of ICE abductions in Oregon for 2026 last month

Mexican man shot dead by US immigration officer: The last day of Lorenzo Salgado's life began like most of his mornings for the past 35 years: he woke early, washed up, kissed his wife, pet his dog and left for work. An hour later, he was shot dead by an immigration agent u.afp.com/SKuN

Still working on my public comment but this @standupforscience.net tool made it really easy for me to contact my members of Congress about the Voght rule to destroy the scientific enterprise: fight2win.standupforscience.net?utm_source=o...

Every child deserves equal access to participating in organized sports. The joy, confidence-building, and resilience our kids gain is something I will relentlessly fight for in the halls of Congress.

While it's obvious the next Democratic president should pardon these individuals on day one, the judge who handed down the sentences should also be subjected to a federal investigation to determine if he abused his power and whether it warrants prosecution and potential imprisonment.

This is completely insane and it needs to be a priority to free these people!

the DOJ's counterterrorism messaging named "Antifa", "Anarchists" and "pro-trans extremists" as major threats. nearly a third of the 22 Prairieland defendants are trans. Autumn Hill and Meagan Morris, sentenced to 50 yrs each, have been held in men's prisons, even denied hormones in the last year.

One thing I don’t understand about this Moda Center thing: everyone says it needs renovation, but as a season ticket holder and Fire fan 🔥, I can’t see anything wrong. Maybe it’s only the luxury parts need updating? Regular fans probably won’t benefit at all? But they’re asking us to pay!

Scientists who study health disparities say a proposed grantmaking policy may affect future NIH funding decisions. www.statnews.com/2026/06/22/h...

Public health decisions will be a matter of politics, not saving lives. Clinical trials are heavily regulated. They test new treatments for safety & efficacy in humans. Currently, 5000 clinical trials (including 1000 NEW cancer treatments) face termination. Why? 🧵 🧪 archive.today/pSUAa

There's been a lot of attention on the OMB proposal, namely the changes to peer review, but I wanted to highlight another side of it: how health disparities research, already under a lot of political pressure, could be at risk www.statnews.com/2026/06/22/h...

Making matters worse: Before Trump 2.0, deported parents could decide whether they wanted their kids to join them abroad, and ICE was supposed to facilitate that choice. Now, ICE will do so only if “operationally feasible.” Parents are being separated from their infants and struggling to reunite 7/x

The face of family separation is changing. It's increasingly affecting US citizen kids—Americans who've lived their entire lives here, who want to go to college and pursue their dreams, but now have to choose between that and staying together. 6/x (all photos by the incredible Saul Martinez)

I’m not sure people realize how huge this problem is. During Trump 1.0, ~5,000 kids were separated from parents at the border. During Trump 2.0, the Brookings Institution estimates *145,000* US citizen kids have been separated, mostly in the country's interior www.brookings.edu/articles/how... 5/x

Around the country, ICE is arresting people and not asking if they have kids at home. While reporting, I heard about a dad who begged in vain for officers to let him call his babysitter; about parents stepping off deportation flights in tears because they didn’t know whether their kids were safe 4/x

If you are contacted by the FBI you can contact your local federal public defender and also call the NLGs federal anti repression hotline at 212-679-2811. Do not answer questions do not agree to further meetings.

"This could mean… Cancer clinical trials stopped because a university acknowledges discrimination Head Start programs canceled because a school provides a safe space for transgender kids A rural state’s broadband disrupted because the State AG sues the administration for unlawful activity."

9/ This is an enormous reminder that eradication isn't permanent without continued investment. We eliminated screwworm. I said it last week and I'll say it again- keeping threats at bay requires funding, surveillance, expertise, and long-term commitment. Prevention only works when we keep doing it.

5/ Experts point to several factors for why it came back: 1️⃣Cattle smuggling outside control zones 2️⃣In early 2025, roughly 15,000 USDA positions were eliminated, and a USAID-funded monitoring project was terminated 3️⃣ The loss of specialized expertise as generations of entomologists retire

We meet them right there in the kitchen. Call their bluff. They expect us to recoil, shrink, be quiet, and fall in line. We will do no such thing. Everyone at the ADA meeting—go to the morning session, agree on a time, stand up, take off your badge, drop it on the ground, and walk out.

Megathread resources now compiled in a Google doc. Send it to your friends. Share with your departments and trainees. And share with non-scientists! I also have a template for non-scientist comments, because this is an all-taxpayer, all medical service user issue. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

🧵The Health and Human Services department is vast, with about twice of the Department of Defense. It is incredibly important for our nation's health safety. Apart from pushing his personal agenda about vaccines and food, RFK Jr is largely a no show who frequently is away on personal travel.

ADA Conference Code of Conduct here. Clearly, disseminating an article from THEIR OWN JOURNAL is not a violation. professional.diabetes.org/scientific-s...

Remember the current NIH director going on about protecting researchers from government censorship? Today his people called the police in to forcibly remove my colleagues from their own society meeting for sharing an editorial published in their flagship journal that was critical of him. Gift link

Gosh it’d be a shame if more ppl than ever read the editorial that the American Diabetes Association doesn’t want Americans, diabetics, or anyone else to read

Incredibly disturbing story broken by @medpagetoday.com team. www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...

We commend Steven Kahn, MBChB, Aaron Kelly, PhD, Desmond Schatz, MD, Justin Ryder, PhD, and Irl Hirsch, MD for Standing Up for Science at the ADA meeting. They were forcibly removed by police for handing out the following editorial. diabetesjournals.org/care/article...

My summary of OMB's proposed Federal Financial Assistance rule was based on 22 years as an NIH Program Official and the damage I saw to science funding would be. I want to widen the lens now: scientists are not the only ones who should be alarmed. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/this-new-o...

Welp there’s no unseeing this

Look, I know I sound crazy, but WHY WOULD RUSSELL VOUGHT, mastermind behind Project 2025, WRITE THAT OMB CAN CANCEL ANY GRANT FOR ANY REASON IF THEY WEREN'T GOING TO DO EXACTLY THAT?! Mark my words: Agencies will send out blanket grant cancellation emails that will make 2025 look like child's play.

About 400,000 people have been detained by immigration agents since Trump returned to office. But it’s nearly impossible to know how many family separations the sweeps have caused since the administration does not track this information.

For "tighten" read "enforce" For "political oversight" read "political litmus tests" For "grantmaking" read "science & medical research funding" Put it all together: White House seeks to enforce political litmus tests for science & medical research funding.

Per @statuscoupnews.bsky.social, NJ state police are creating a human shield outside Delaney Hall to help an ICE vehicle leave.

In this newsletter I outline important actions to take. 1. Submit a comment opposing the rule change. 2. Contact state legislators to ensure states are engaged with the impact at the state and local level. 3. Contact members of Congress. 4. Spread awareness. This rundown is a great source:

You may not "do politics" as a scientist, but politics is doing you. Might as well start fighting now! events.standupforscience.net/stand-up-for...

Tell your Republican members of Congress, NOT ONE PENNY MORE FOR ICE: act.indivisible.org/sign/tell-yo...

Rep. Pallone reports a woman detained at Delaney Hall suffered a miscarriage before being transferred out.

What's happening at Delaney Hall should be major news with 24/7 coverage. People have been linking arms and protesting for 6 days straight. Don't let the regime bury this story. ALL EYES ON DELANEY.

The Regime is ending disability accommodations at the National Science Foundation. Wish I had something pithy to say, but this is simply ableism with a soupçon of eugenics. Get rid of workers with disabilities so they’re unemployed. Then deny them Medicaid. That’s how this goes.

"A vote for me is a vote to close the camps and to indict everyone involved in the abduction and abuse of our neighbors." "A vote for me is a vote for the survivors of Epstein's crimes to see justice." "A vote for me is a vote to force billionaires to pay what they owe so we can have what we need."