I think about this post every day 🧪

NEWS — The Oregon Department of Human Services has issued 100% of November SNAP benefits, per an alert on their website. I've received reports that the funds have already hit recipients' EBT accounts. www.oregon.gov/odhs/news/Pa...

Hey, so SNAP still isn't funded, despite being ordered to by a judge, and we're one week past when folks needed to get their money. Our friends, neighbors and community members are in need, some may be literally starving and they may now have to choose between food and electricity.

There had better be trials. And not just for the low-level thugs carrying out these orders, but for everyone up the chain of command. If we get past this, the solution isn’t to pretend it never happened and invite Stephen Miller to Harvard’s Institute of Politics. It’s trials w real punishments.

A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

The man who ended USAID is the world's first trillionaire

The Trump administration is now literally *fighting* to deny food to 42 million people, more than a third of them children. Read that again. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...

📽️ WATCH: The U.S. government doesn’t track how often immigration agents detain citizens. So ProPublica did. We found more than 170 incidents since the start of Trump’s second term. Americans have been kicked, dragged and held for days without access to lawyers. ➡️ Full story: propub.li/3LjuAVS

Devastating— “I’m afraid for my parents to leave the house. They treat us like dogs because of the color of our skin. I shouldn’t be scared, I should be focusing on school.” A 16yo American living in fear of the Trump regime’s ICE goons terrorizing brown people pleads for help.

ICE is a domestic terrorist organization.

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

Advocates say ICE agents detain multiple people in Cottage Grove, Eugene lookouteugene-springfield.com/story/develo...

Heartbreaking: Under Trump's ICE terror, a 2-year-old Chicago girl was tear-gassed while walking with her mom-burning eyes, screams of 'Ouch! Mommy!' This isn't enforcement; it's state-sponsored child abuse.

I've seen this go by a few times on TikTok now and I have to say, I love this idea. We need a way to convince people to keep running even if they don't win, maybe building the loss into it as a troll move is the secret.

Getting new details on this now: As the arrest unfolded, teachers pleaded with the agents telling them the teacher had a work permit. The agents went into multiple rooms looking for teachers while children were present. One teacher hid with a child in her care while the agents stormed the facility.

Parks and Rec isn't a hill to die on, but one thing it gets right is this whole government thing rests on the shoulders of people you will never know, caring a lot about jobs you've never heard of, fighting challenges thrown at them from every angle just to make life a little better for everyone.

Today on Volts: sustainable transportation policy is under comprehensive attack by the federal government, but states can soften the blow. Specifically, governors have a little-understood authority to transfer existing federal funds to EV charging, bike lanes, & transit. But time is running out!

The blueprint for winning big on climate also came out last night. No more technocratic, policy wonk approaches. People showed they care about utility bills, free buses, affordable housing, etc. These are all climate issues. Talk about climate in terms people understand and experience.

Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."

“The people who feed us can’t afford to feed themselves,” Saru Jayaraman, President of One Fair Wage, said in a statement. “This isn’t just a story about food assistance. It’s a story about poverty wages.” people.com/one-fair-wag...

When you book a flight through major travel sites, a data broker owned by U.S. airlines will sell details about your flight—your name, credit card used, and where you’re flying to the government. We found out how to opt-out of ARC selling your travel data. A guide: www.404media.co/how-to-opt-o...

I don’t think “fears about readiness” quite captures the moment. We are not ready, and the U.S. population has been groomed to reject public health interventions.

AI was invented to aggressively regress to the mean. It is a metaphorical lawnmower of thought.

Some people waited in line up for 14 hours to receive a food box from a church giveaway. 500 people volunteered to help and they still ran out of food. Remember for every one person a food bank feeds, SNAP feeds 9. By turning off food assistance the regime is starving Americans.

Scoop: The EPA has reconsidered its plans to kill the popular Energy Star program in response to intense backlash. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/c...

Ahead of the 1st shutdown of US food aid to hungry Americans in 60 years, some of the 200,000 Little Free Library locations are converting into food pantries. Thanks @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social

The 22nd Amendment to the US Constitution says “No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice…” There is no loophole. Any lawyer who tells a court Trump is eligible for a third term should be disbarred. Any judge who rules he’s eligible should be off the bench.

We know what this is. We have seen this before.

“So even with the gov shutdown, we still have $ to run SNAP. Yay!” Trump: No, I want people to shut it down. I want to punish people. Everyone: 😲 … but…people will starve. KIDS will starve. Trump: Let them eat ballrooms.

Pritzker: "Imagine it. Children who woke up that morning, expectant with joy & excitement to put on their costumes & celebrate with their neighbors in what they thought was a safe place at their homes. Armed, masked agents, terrorizing innocent people, especially children, is unconscionable."

Welch: "This has nothing to do with the shutdown. The law requires and the funds are available to continue SNAP right now without any interruption. So that is a decision the president is making on his own to allow people to go hungry."

The people yearn for (democratic) socialism (this one will make you cry)

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

Portland dance group offers free Latin dance lessons at ICE facility 💃🏽

This is an especially worrying statement when facial recognition can be inaccurate, biased, and generally make mistakes. Basing whether someone should be in the US or not, and ignoring physical media like a birth certificate, is ripe for disaster bsky.app/profile/jose...

I deeply appreciate this new piece by two friends, Dougie Zubizarreta & @albeccia.bsky.social, on the potential impacts of attacks on LGBTQ+ health on research and ECRs. ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2...

🧵Remember the preprint claiming SARS-CoV-2 has a "synthetic fingerprint"? It said a restriction map was "extremely unlikely to have arisen by random evolution.” I took its claims seriously. The "synthetic fingerprint" hypothesis collapses. My new preprint explains why. arxiv.org/abs/2510.23833

The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies is hiring an Assistant/Associate Professor in Black Feminisms. Read more about the position and apply at https://go.umd.edu/WGSSBlackFeminisms🌈🎓 #AcademicSky #Blackademics #PhDSky

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

New story up on the non-existent banned words from NIH grants (based on my grant title, word cloud analysis) www.statnews.com/2025/10/29/n... 1/3

The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP. Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP. The people who need help are not the problem. It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.

For the first time ever, the USDA is refusing to tap emergency funds to keep SNAP benefits going. Millions of families already paying too much for food, healthcare & housing now face a crisis. www.usatoday.com/story/money/...

The theft of priceless French crown jewels from the Louvre turns out not to have been the most brazen, outrageous heist attempted this week. That honor goes instead to the president of the United States, who has confirmed he is considering instructing the Department of Justice to pay him $230 mn

Good morning. ☕ ICYMI: Trump is demolishing the *entire* East Wing of the White House -- after pledging in July not to touch it as he makes way for his massive, privately funded $250M ballroom -- and it's expected to be fully torn down by this weekend. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

More than 420 state bills attacking key public health protections have been introduced in 2025. Around 30 bills in 12 states have already been enacted or adopted. Please call your state's elected officials!

We’re excited to finally share this! I often get questions about MAIHDA’s limits, e.g., what’s too small a sample size for a group? This analytic & simulation study starts to get at clearer answers under a variety of situations. #StatsSky #SocialEpiSky #MedSocSky #MAIHDA #I-MAIHDA

Trump Lied and Will Now Demolish Entire East Wing www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Bird flu is back, big time Remember, back in March, 2025, RFK Jr unveiled his "unorthodox idea for tackling the bird flu bedeviling U.S. poultry farms. Let the virus rip." (www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/h...)

Pleased to see this out in print - detailing MAIHDA's desirable statistical properties. "MAIHDA is especially valuable when inequalities are subtle or data for marginalised intersections are sparse - conditions common in practice" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @clarerevans.bsky.social

It seems to need to be said today: controlling who can give birt is eugenics. Controlling who can live long enough to even think about reproducing is also eugenics. A bunch of stuff people don't think of as eugenics is in fact eugenics. We do A LOT of eugenics in the US.