ICE official testifies that DHS “prematurely” sent Abrego Garcia a notice that he would be removed to Ghana.

Just this morning, Ghana’s foreign minister wrote on X that the country had “directly and unambiguously conveyed to US authorities” that Abrego cannot be deported there.

Printing presses kept their letters in cases.

Capital letters went in the upper case.
Smaller letters went in the lower case.

This is why we say ‘UPPER CASE’ and ‘lower case.’

Ok, but what did we call them before the invention of the printing press?

MAJUSCULE and minuscule.

The Speaker of the House is telling the Fox News audience that a peaceful demonstration by Americans on the National Mall will actually be a gathering of organizations the administration has designated as violent terrorists.

Seems bad?

I'm at the scene where ICE abducted multiple people from Lincoln and Foster this morning.

A WGN producer was among the people taken, allegedly because she was among a group of bystanders who tried to intervene. ICE agents hit this car while making their getaway.

On today's Science Quickly, I interviewed a former White House doctor about the president's care, aging and more: "It is a fact of science, it's not a political attack, that humans past the age of 60... start to have cognitive decline."

"We have a gerontocracy."

Listen on @sciam.bsky.social 🎧

Jeffrey Kuhlman has been on the medical team of five different presidents, and in this great interview shares his experience with the White House: 🧪

Anyone want to describe a new moth species with me lol?

I just discovered that a super common holartic species are two different species between North America and Europe, but I don't have any experience with Lepidoptera taxonomy

Nevada state regulators have accused Elon Musk’s Boring Co. of digging without approval, releasing untreated water onto city streets and spilling muck from its trucks, according to a new document obtained by @citycastvegas.bsky.social and @propublica.org.

As a protest optics nerd love about the inflatables is how much they visually disrupt and pull focus from the fascist shock imagery Noem & Miller are trying to create.

So many of these photos now look like the world's silliest dance party, backgrounded by a bunch of guys in uniform looking awkward

Becky lists things you might like to know. I have a feeling the list comes from her personal experience. Based on my own personal experience, it's a good list. www.lastwordonnothing.com/2025/10/10/d...

Here's a snippet from the MIT president's letter to ED

Sum: mostly science-free, brand-building, manipulative, wellness woo. Ignore.

Jay Shetty & his health advice are everywhere www.statnews.com/2025/10/10/j... via @statnews.com

His content often "...stripped of context, designed to prop up his own interests, or downright unsubstantiated by science."

Male and female chalcids that emerged from redbud seedpods. Both are in the genus Eurytoma and are possibly the same species but further identification is beyond my skill set. I can't find any mention of them being recorded as parasitoids of redbud bruchids. 🌿 #wasps #hymenoptera #insects #bruchidae

MIT rejects "compact" proposed by the Trump administration.
MIT prez wrote: it "would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution" and "is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone."
orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...

ICE claims assaults on its officers are up sharply since June. There's no public evidence that number is true.

Today is Friday, Oct 10
Good morning ❤️

eat
take your meds
hydrate
tell your people you love them
let them love you back

We are here. This is real. Let's build a home for each other and fight like hell.

We saw "The Baltimorons" at The Charles last night. We loved it and predict it will become a classic, at least in Baltimore. The Avenue in Hampdon and the Harbour are primary settings. We laughed throughout and loved the characters and then ending.

Fuck offfffffff

fucking WOOF

A feature in Nature Medicine explains the repercussions for investigators and patients when clinical trials are suddenly halted by US funding cuts and how they do not stop at borders. #Academicsky 🧪

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June)

I’m sure this is fine. abcnews.go.com/US/dominion-...

We are getting at least a partial TRO in Illinois v. Trump, the military deployment challenge. @jonseidel.bsky.social is covering the ongoing ruling from the federal bench in Chicago.

Ukeleles being strummed en masse. Chickens openly addressing government officials. Line dancing in a public thoroughfare. Frogs, unicorns and dinosaurs getting their interspecies groove on.

Portland is lost. May God and Donald Trump save what's left of the United States of America.