A follow-up to yesterday's email to Director Bhattacharya... 1/12

ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase. The President is building an army to attack his own country.

Here's a gift link to the New York Times' coverage of the initial Tea Party rallies in April 2009 which inspired the media to treat it like a massive movement. Check out how tiny the crowds were: Philly: 200 DC: "several hundred" Boston: 500 Austin: 1,000 Houston: 2,000

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That’s seven. @reuters.com www.reuters.com/world/us/uni...

Over 500,000 views before the Community Note fact check.

Full endorse this from @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social www.instagram.com/reel/DP718rs...

Very proud of Dr Tracy Bale’s @thebalelab.bsky.social induction into the National Academy of Medicine yesterday evening! A brilliant impactful scientist, a champion of women, and a tireless advocate for global neuroscience at @ibroorg.bsky.social! Congratulations!

This is funny but, it seems to me, also an appropriate and important comparison. He tried for a big show of strength and solidarity and it was embarrassing. We tried and it was awesome, even exceeding high expectation.

Loving these Grantifas who know what side of history they fought for! 😍

📽️ WATCH: This video on the rise of Russ Vought, Trump's “shadow president,” is based on scores of interviews, thousands of pages of emails and dozens of hours of videos and recordings of private briefings given by Vought, most of which have not been previously reported.

The world joined us and said, “No Kings.”

An astonishingly large crowd! Chicago

Kristi Noem is probably furious about this. Keep your dogs indoors today.

Beautiful afternoon. Glad to make it to Civic Ctr Park for the last bit of No Kings 2. Thanks to Naoko Liu - one of my greatest colleagues - for teaming up at 7 am on a Saturday! We had to Stand Up for Science first (well, we sat sometimes too).

“At some point it becomes embarrassing, in a craven way, to make a deal for yourself and abandon those institutions that are standing up for academic freedom...” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/u...

A university that signs the “compact” is one that acknowledges its own inability to compete and succeed based talent and merit. It would signal insecurity and mediocrity to current and future students and faculty. Say no. Recruit the best people, protect their freedom and support their hard work.

Ronald Reagan said it. #NoKings tomorrow 10/18

An ICE agent, who is being arrested for drunk driving and nearly killing his little kids & others, tries to stop the arrest by racially profiling the officers arresting him. Amazing to watch the courtesy given to him as he is belligerent and uncooperative

My very first thaought after seeing this... Trump Seeks to Build a Triumphal Arch in Washington for Nation’s 250th Birthday www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/u...

Make it make sense. [Cartoon by Adam Zyglis]

The University of Virginia has rejected the Trump Administration’s offer of federal funding in exchange for aligning with Trump’s agenda, joining other universities standing up for free speech. 👏💙👏💙👏💙👏

A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos." factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

Today, House Republicans will take their 70th day off with pay in the last 82 days.

Hazel's loving some cool fall weather in Denver.

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

Sad news. Such a profound human being.

🚨Warning🚨 We'd hate for someone to O.G. in the Oval.

Republicans would rather shut down the government than help millions of Americans afford health care. This article tells some of their stories, and is a good reminder of what’s at stake.

Show me your arms for #Caturday!

NEW: ICE agents violently arrested a man in a busy Hyattsville, MD intersection this week, at one point brandishing guns and pointing them at bystanders. I spoke to multiple witnesses—including a local priest whose church is a sanctuary for undocumented people: www.thehandbasket.co/p/ice-agents...

From LA Times www.latimes.com/california/s...

This seems so quaint now. www.nytimes.com/2019/09/04/u...

Posting without comment... www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/o...

Toxicology principle that needs to be mainstream: The dose makes the poison. That’s true of everything. Water. Oxygen. Vitamin A. Vitamin D. Aspartame. Formaldehyde. A single pear contains 120 times MORE formaldehyde than what might be in a vaccine. 1/

Allergen-induced airway matrix remodeling in mice can be prevented or reversed by targeting chitinase-like proteins | Science Immunology www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🎉🎉 @hetompkins.bsky.social @drtesutherland.bsky.social @mattoburgess.bsky.social @james-ep.bsky.social @profjudiallen.bsky.social

Great work!

Otter cuddles to start the day

those commies at cato will get it for this

Education is the enemy of fascism.

Truth

How petty humans are fighting over pieces of land killing each other over imaginary ideologies 🤔