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ICE Stranded a 17-Year-Old on I-20 After Arresting His Father. The Mississippi Dad Now Faces Deportation.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 1d

This is insane. I feel like I’m going insane when I’m watching this. Not just the fact that it’s clearly their fault, but the way a heavily-armed squad of masked thugs immediately jumps into the street and brutalizes the woman they just hit, despite having no idea who she is.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

ICE GOONS crash into car and then point weapons to kidnap man.

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 1d

ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi.

David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.

Here's their story.

A 17-year-old watched as ICE arrested his immigrant father, Hector, on I-20 in June. The family faces mounting legal fees and the risk of deportation.

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Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

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Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

EL PASO — a family says ICE showed up at their house looking for migrants and shot and KILLED THEIR DOG, then didn’t help them as the agent ran away and was not identified.

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Alan Regenberg @aregenberg.bsky.social · 1d

Firing workers has always been part of the Vought/Trump Project 2025 plan. This has nothing to do with the shutdown. It's just an unpopular move and they are trying to shift the blame. | White House Signals Federal Layoffs Have Begun During Government Shutdown. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

White House Signals Federal Layoffs Have Begun During Government Shutdown

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Alan Regenberg @aregenberg.bsky.social · 1d

This HHS spokesperson can't keep the "because of the shutdown" story straight even over just a few sentences... www.npr.org/2025/10/10/n...

"HHS employees across multiple divisions have received reduction-in-force notices as a direct consequence of the Democrat-led government shutdown," Andrew Nixon, a spokesperson for the Department of Health and Human Services said shortly after Vought's post. "All HHS employees receiving reduction-in-force notices were designated non-essential by their respective divisions."

The spokesperson blamed the Biden administration for creating a "bloated bureaucracy," although HHS has already cut more workers — 20,000 workers through an earlier RIF and through voluntary resignations and retirements — than were added during the Biden administration.

HHS employees to be fired as White House enacts mass terminations it blames on shutdown

Alan Regenberg @aregenberg.bsky.social · 2d

HHS employees to be fired as White House enacts mass terminations it wants to blame on the shutdown. I guess Trump is saying that 'enhancing the health and well-being of all Americans' is a 'Democrat' program - sounds right. www.statnews.com/2025/10/10/h... via @statnews.com

Federal health employees are being fired as the White House makes good on a promise to terminate federal employees en masse because of the shutdown.

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Alan Regenberg @aregenberg.bsky.social · 2d

Smart move - it's a trap. | MIT Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment | New York Times www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment

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Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics @bermaninstitute.bsky.social · 2d

Global #FoodEthics and Policy Program Weekly Roundup - Defining 'Ultraprocessed', Food Label Fight, Farmer Aid, Government-Owned Groceries, Vertical Farming in Hospitals, Controversial Dietary Guidelines, AI in Food Processing, + More mailchi.mp/jhu/we3frp22...

Global Food Ethics and Policy Program: News Roundup

Surrogates’ perspectives on the communication and support processes that enable them as active decision-makers across chronic critical illness

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New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 2d

This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.

I am not fearful — I am fearless.

We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..

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Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics @bermaninstitute.bsky.social · 2d

Surrogates’ perspectives on the communication and support processes that enable them as active decision-makers across chronic critical illness - authors include our Renee Boss | CHEST Critical Care www.chestcc.org/article/S294...

Our findings suggest that future interventions should deliver decisional support in CCI through longitudinal, relationship-centered strategies integrating iterative care planning, compassionate and in...

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Ethics and Life Sciences Weekly Roundup

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Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics @bermaninstitute.bsky.social · 2d

Ethics and Life Sciences Weekly Roundup | Knowing Enough, Mini-Brains to Power Computers, Chatbots Don't Want to Say Goodbye, Faking Crowds, Editing to Fix Failures, Meaningful Public Participation, Stem Cells In Space, + More mailchi.mp/jhu/sciencee...

AI Ethics & Governance Roundup

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Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics @bermaninstitute.bsky.social · 3d

AI Ethics & Governance Weekly Roundup | Subway Ad Debate, Kids Shouldn't Be Friends with ChatGPT, Europe's Digital Sovereignty, VR/AI -> Kindness, AI in Education, Kiss Reality Goodbye, Hated Coalition, LLMs in Clinical Reasoning, Explainability, + More mailchi.mp/3a11e6241e72...

1 in 5 high schoolers has had a romantic AI relationship, or knows someone who has

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Johnson: "He has defunded our education system. He has defunded our transportation system. He's firing black women across this country. He's defunding our healthcare system. This president is absolutely out of control... Chicago is going to stand firm in protecting humanity."

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Alan Regenberg @aregenberg.bsky.social · 3d

As schools embrace AI, more students are using it as a friend : NPR www.npr.org/2025/10/08/n...

A national survey of students, teachers and parents shines a light on how the AI revolution is playing out in schools – including when it comes to bullying and a community's trust in schools.

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Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics @bermaninstitute.bsky.social · 4d

Berman Institute #Bioethics Bulletin - This Week - Cases in Bioethics, Duty to Warn, Hitting a Wall Seeking COVID Vaccines for Kids, Ethics Advisors No Longer Wanted, Gain-Of-Function, Busy ERs, Facing Vaccination Choices, Weaponizing Uncertainty, + More mailchi.mp/jhu/bioethic...

Berman Institute Bioethics Bulletin

Scientists Just Reversed Alzheimer’s in Mice. Could They Do It in Humans?

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Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics @bermaninstitute.bsky.social · 4d

Scientists Just Reversed Alzheimer’s in Mice. Could They Do It in Humans? gizmodo.com/scientists-j...

Instead of targeting neurons, the researchers specifically sought to repair a critical part of the brain that keeps disease-inducing toxins out.

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Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics @bermaninstitute.bsky.social · 4d

As Supreme Court weighs conversion therapy, conservative justices question medical authority: If the court strikes down Colorado ban, the effects on medical regulation could be wide-ranging. www.statnews.com/2025/10/07/c... via @statnews.com

As Supreme Court weighs conversion therapy, conservative justices question medical authority

At the Supreme Court, a majority of justices seemed poised to rule against a Colorado law banning so-called conversion therapy.

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Empirical research related to the ethics of pragmatic clinical trials: A scoping review

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Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics @bermaninstitute.bsky.social · 4d

Empirical research related to the ethics of pragmatic clinical trials: A scoping review - Kayla R. Mehl, Stephanie R. Morain, Jeremy Sugarman | Learning Health Systems onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Background Pragmatic clinical trials (PCTs) offer insights into real-world intervention effectiveness, but they may involve challenging ethical issues. Empirical ethics research may inform deliberat...

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Alan Regenberg @aregenberg.bsky.social · 4d

Trump’s Education Department Is Working to Erode the Public School System — ProPublica www.propublica.org/article/educ...

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

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Alan Regenberg @aregenberg.bsky.social · 4d

AI models that lie, cheat and plot murder: how dangerous are LLMs really? Tests of large language models reveal that they can behave in deceptive and potentially harmful ways. What does this mean for the future? www.nature.com/articles/d41...

AI models that lie, cheat and plot murder: how dangerous are LLMs really?

Tests of large language models reveal that they can behave in deceptive and potentially harmful ways. What does this mean for the future?

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Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

Alan Regenberg @aregenberg.bsky.social · 4d

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar | AP News apnews.com/article/myan...

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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