I follow @emmanueljamir.bsky.social here on Bluesky but I see no recent posts & this video from TikTok is extremely well acted & produced! Well done Emmanuel! This is an important discussion for us all to have with our friends & families! Not being into politics IS a political stance!

Bari Weiss is a weird and worrisome choice as top editor for CBS News | Margaret Sullivan

A new Nature Medicine study analyzing health records from >100 million people in the US offers compelling evidence that reactivation of varicella-zoster virus (VZV) ,the same virus that causes chickenpox and shingles may contribute to dementia risk. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I wouldn’t normally endorse AI prompts but these are indeed essential for all academics.

An 84-year-old said she sustained a concussion and was hit with a projectile after she and her husband, a Vietnam vet, were knocked down by federal officers.

Memphis writer Dan Conaway, who helped found the @dailymemphian.bsky.social & comes from a century of local journalism, has just been censored by his own publication. Here’s the column they wouldn't run. Please consider writing: [email protected] [email protected] Stand with Dan.

I hope it's clear to everyone now that Trump really is going for it - he's trying to become a dictator. I don't know if he'll succeed, but he's working to install himself as an autocrat unaccountable to voters. And he's weaponizing the military against Americans who oppose him as part of that effort

Couldn’t Trump just use the $17 trillion he says he got from all these other countries to fund the government? That should cover us for a while. Where is that, by the way?

“Who do you think you are? Killing thousands and flattening neighborhoods, then wrapping yourself in Judaism like it’s some shield from criticism. You’re making life for Jews miserable.” Netanyahu makes a South Park appearance

Workers complained of a lack of transparency and a bewildering array of new faces in their offices—some much less friendly than others. www.wired.com/story/oral-h...

A one-time gene therapy can markedly slow the progression of Huntington’s disease, potentially paving the way for the first ever treatment to alter the course of this rare, inherited brain disorder. go.nature.com/4nu6YMs

Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered virtually all of the U.S. military’s top commanders worldwide to gather on short notice — and without a stated reason — at a Marine Corps base in Virginia next week. Here’s what we know:

just started watching Alien: Earth. Does the voice-over persist throughout the series? I hate it....

This is Trump’s America.

Leucovorin has not been tested for safety or effectiveness in a large trial go.nature.com/3KkL7Io

Nature research paper: Repeated head trauma causes neuron loss and inflammation in young athletes go.nature.com/46oZgeT

Dr. Oz is a large investor in and global advisor for iHerb, a company that sells supplements for folinic acid, which is the the non-prescription version of leucovorin, the medication which is being recommended for the treatment of autism by Dr. Oz.

#MorningVibe 🗣️ mrwilliamsprek (IG) Have you been locked out of heaven? Look in the mirror.

Holy shit scorched earth motherfucker

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

In 1983, 50 companies controlled 90% of the U.S. media market. That number is now down to 5.

“We have uniformed military asking their chain of command for letters that ensure that they don’t have personal liability for any illegal action in these operations." Senator Slotkin to Politico www.politico.com/newsletters/...

The Northern Pacific Ocean is currently smashing temperature records. And it is reaching these levels far earlier than the current generation of climate models had expected.

Lab-grown organoids reproduce some of a kidney’s internal structure and function. https://scim.ag/4n0YH26

GOLDMAN: How is that not legally allowed? PATEL: Do you know how court orders work? GOLDMAN: Actually, Mr Patel, I was a real prosecutor for 10 years

“Nearly every agent on Baltimore’s domestic terrorism squad was reassigned this year to work full time on immigration enforcement, forcing them to walk away from investigations of a network of violent predators that targets and exploits children online.” www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

Jews and Israel are not the same. Equating them is a propaganda technique | Norman Solomon

JD Vance: “Charlie Kirk never said Black women do not have brain processing power to be taken seriously. He never uttered those words.” Charlie Kirk: “Joy Reid, Michelle Obama, Ketanji Brown Jackson — you do not have the brain processing power to otherwise be taken seriously.”

'US military officers pay surprise visit to Belarus to observe war games with Russia' www.reuters.com/world/europe...

Musk (via video link) at Far Right Fascist London Rally "“I really think that there’s got to be a change of Government in Britain....if this continues, that violence is going to come to you, you will have no choice." boycott everything Musky

meanwhile in London, fascists are being violent www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

The mortgage fraud claim against Lisa Cook is false, per documents obtained by Reuters. Bill Pulte's accusation, the sole pretext Trump used to fire her from the Fed, was that she claimed two homes as primary residence. These docs show she did not. www.reuters.com/world/us/fed...

Look at US 😞

According to ADL's definitive study, over the past decade, right-wing extremists have committed most extremist-related killings. Of the 443 people killed at the hands of extremists over that 10-year period, 333 (or 75%) were killed by right-wing extremists.

Researchers tested 12 “magic mushroom” edibles. None contained psilocybin, but most contained undisclosed ingredients, including synthetic drugs whose safety hasn’t been tested in humans

Charlie Kirk was a private citizen Melissa Hortman was a seated lawmaker in MN No Flags were flown half staff at the WH for her death by gun violence

A rapidly growing body of research has consistently shown how pervasive and problematic #microplastics have become. A 2024 #ScienceReview provides an overview of this research and the progress made in understanding these pollutants. https://scim.ag/4nePO4G #ScienceMagArchives

I think I'm gonna start every class with a "current events" question. Today "what happened in Poland yesterday"?

Horrors of Trump detention centre: Lisburn man tells his story after arrest for 'looking like a Mexican' Lee Stinton was lifted by US immigration police on an American street — in an incident he compared to a kidnapping. Here, he tells us his story.

"The reassignments are huge numbers...It includes one in five US marshals (650 of 3,892), one in five FBI agents (2,840 of 13,700), half of DEA agents (2,181 of 4,620), over two-thirds of the ATF (1,778 of 2,572), and nearly 90 percent of Homeland Security Investigations (6,198 of 7,100).”

Well, well, well: in a court filing, Google finally admits 'the web is in rapid decline.' Sharply at odds' with executives' public comments this year www.theverge.com/news/773928/...

BREAKING: By an apparent 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court halts an injunction that had prevented immigration agents from racially profiling Latinos in central California. Sotomayor, dissenting, says the decision is "unconscionably irreconcilable with our nation's constitutional guarantees."

“Why the fuck are you talking to the president about me? Fuck you. I’m gonna punch you in your fucking face... I’m going to fucking beat your ass." -- Our Treasury Secretary, speaking to our Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency www.politico.com/news/magazin...

me, to the judge: “Well if THAT’s what they meant, they should have used punctuation.”

4 were granted immunity: Sarah Kellen: An assistant who allegedly scheduled "massages.” Lesley Groff: An employee who coordinated travel for girls. Nadia Marcinkova: A pilot and model who allegedly engaged in sex acts with young girls for him. Adriana Ross: A model who worked at his mansion.

the Vatican has a "Saint Making Department" (BBC6 Radio)

If not for the deployment of the military, this would be the biggest story right now. Or at least it should be... "In recent weeks, the Department of Justice (DOJ) has doubled down on its sweeping bid to wrangle private voter data from states — including by threatening legal action."

Mike Johnson says Trump was an FBI informant on the Epstein case. But Trump said it was a “Democrat hoax.” So Trump was an FBI informant for a Democrat hoax?