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It's ME(Jaime)
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Scientific Director, #MEAction
Stanford Med
Université de Montréal
TIME100 Health
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It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · Mar 30
Hello, new followers! Past time I did an intro thread. 👋

I'm Jaime Seltzer, Scientific Director at #MEAction, a nonprofit for people with infection-associated chronic illnesses like #MECFS & #LongCOVID. I maintain research affiliations w/Stanford U & Université de Montréal. 🧵
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gregpak.net
Trash.
February 17, 2026 at 9:48 PM
exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social
Great summary of DHS's history and where things stand with ICE.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-KD...
ICE & DHS: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
YouTube video by LastWeekTonight
www.youtube.com
February 18, 2026 at 12:06 AM
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daisygardner.bsky.social
The SAVE Act would require all voter rolls to go to DHS so Kristi Noem would determine who can and can’t vote.
🧊🚨🧊🚨🧊🚨🧊🚨🧊🚨🧊🚨

Call your senators! #NoOnSAVE
(202) 224-3121
jennycohn.bsky.social Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 4h
BREAKING: I read the new version of the “Save America Act” (S. 1383) so u don’t have to. Here’s my summary. Point 1 is new. It requires that all 50 states send their voter rolls to the DHS to run thru DHS’s faulty “SAVE” voter purge program. Points 6 & 7 are new too. Tell ur Senators #NoOnSAVE 1/
February 17, 2026 at 11:46 PM
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ramiismail.com
The AI bubble RAM crisis is caused for non-existent problems by non-existent money for a non-existent infrastructure to meet non-existent demand to make non-existent business and will utterly destroy real business based on real demand and real infrastructure built with real money for real problems.
papapishu.bsky.social Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 1d
I understand framing the AI bubble RAM supply crisis in terms of stuff like video game consoles because nerds can conceptualize that but the framing does really undersell the sheer magnitude of how it's going to fuck up everything that even touches a computer.
February 16, 2026 at 9:54 PM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
Incredible story that is worth your time to read. It exposes the ways in which the Trump admin is turning the legal immigration system into yet another arm of the mass deportation machine, transforming a benefits agency into a trap for those seeking legal status.
Even as Donald Trump has turned the agencies of D.H.S. into something of a roving personal police force, his Administration has prosecuted a quieter but no less ambitious assault on legal immigration. Green cards and visas for people from dozens of countries have been frozen indefinitely, and the Administration has cancelled naturalization ceremonies. Immigrants and asylum seekers in the middle of the application process have been detained during routine interviews. Last April, Mohsen Mahdawi, a student at Columbia University who had a green card, was arrested during his citizenship interview, for which he’d waited a decade. “Is this a trap?” he recalled thinking, after U.S.C.I.S. called him in for an appointment; masked ICE agents took him away just after he’d signed the Pledge of Allegiance. The wife of a green-card applicant who was arrested in Salt Lake City said, “We’ve tried to do everything the right way. We have, and [now] he’s not here.”
February 17, 2026 at 9:52 PM
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leahgreenberg.bsky.social
Every story out of Dilley makes me think of Rep. McIver asking DHS officials:

"Do you think you're going to hell?"
nkalamb.bsky.social Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 6h
“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.

Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.

www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
Mia Valentina Paz Faria A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas Detained for 70 days “I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.” UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by @micarosenberg et al for ProPublica:
February 17, 2026 at 8:11 PM
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theliamnissan.bsky.social
Colbert usually gets around 2 million viewers but because Trump's FCC banned Talarico's interview the segment has been viewed online over 10.5 million times. Nice work, dipshits
February 17, 2026 at 9:23 PM
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mementomorty.bsky.social
Shut down the concentration camp for babies
joaquincastrotx.bsky.social Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 6h
We are all deeply concerned that Juan and his mom will be deported and that Juan’s health will continue to deteriorate. His life is in danger because of ICE’s monstrous cruelty. I will continue to provide updates and we will keep fighting to protect them.
February 17, 2026 at 9:46 PM
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lebassett.bsky.social
This may end up being a massive own goal for the Trump administration.
February 17, 2026 at 11:15 PM
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karlbode.com
I mean this obviously a lie, but it's also wild that a Variety reporter could write this whole story without once mentioning that CBS is seeking Trump's regulatory approval and assistance to acquire Warner Brothers/CNN/HBO
CBS Denies Forcing Stephen Colbert to Not Air Interview With Democratic Candidate, Says It Provided ‘Legal Guidance’ About FCC Equal-Time Rule
CBS said it did not force "The Late Show With Stephen Colbert" to pull an interview with Texas state Rep. James Talarico from its TV broadcast Monday, contrary to the way the late-night host had frame...
variety.com
February 17, 2026 at 9:50 PM
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rahaeli.bsky.social
First chick of the kākāpō breeding season has successfully hatched!!!! Look at this grumpy little puff of feathers!! www.doc.govt.nz/news/media-r...
First kākāpō chick in four years hatches on Valentine's Day
The first kākāpō chick of the breeding season has hatched on Pukenui Anchor Island.
www.doc.govt.nz
February 17, 2026 at 8:07 PM
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oliviamesser.bsky.social
I can’t help thinking there’s so much money changing hands wrt ICE detention that there aren’t even enough investigative reporters to track

www.michiganpublic.org/criminal-jus...
Michigan ICE detention center owner reports $254 million profit, record new business in 2025
The company that owns Michigan’s North Lake Processing Center, the largest immigration detention facility in the Midwest, reported $254 million in profit last year, up nearly 700 percent from $32 mill...
www.michiganpublic.org
February 17, 2026 at 7:08 PM
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josephpolitano.bsky.social
libs getting the chamber of commerce in the national divorce, sure, why not, welcome aboard
www.reuters.com/world/us-cou...
"We are reviewing the ruling and weighing our options," a spokesperson for the FTC said. "The Chamber of Commerce is a left-wing, open borders supporting activist group.” The Chamber is the largest business lobby group in the U.S., whose board includes executives from FedEx, Sempra, Abbott Laboratories, Fidelity Investments, Meta Platforms, Microsoft and Nasdaq.
February 17, 2026 at 8:38 PM
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junlper.beer
it’s insane that a decade ago we all agreed that giving mass shooters the attention they desired was a bad thing but now because rightwingers will quite literally lie about the shooter every single time we all have to be acutely aware of the shooters intentions and ideology
February 17, 2026 at 9:28 PM
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itmustbebunnies.bsky.social
London, that Black Death place? 💀

JFC
Pictured Roald Dahl’s daughter, Olivia Measles encephalitis caused the death of Roald Dahl's daughter Olivia in 1962. He became an ardent supporter of measles vaccination as a result of the tragic loss of his daughter. In 1986 he wrote a letter to parents encouraging them to get their children vaccinated [which is reproduced here]. Sept 7, 2022 "MEASLES: A dangerous illness. Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn't do anything. 'Are you feeling all right?' I asked her. "I feel all sleepy,' she said. In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead.
February 17, 2026 at 10:34 PM
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premthakker.bsky.social
BREAKING: An immigration judge has *terminated* the Trump-Vance administration's efforts to deport Columbia pro-Palestine student protestor Mohsen Mahdawi.

Mohsen was first detained 10 months ago, when agents ambushed him at a citizenship interview.
Mohsen Mahdawi gestures as he is escorted by immigration authorities in handcuffs during his arrest in Colchester, Vermont, on April 14, 2025. Photo by Christopher Helali via Reuters
February 17, 2026 at 9:14 PM
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starshine.bsky.social
eternally doomed to be the only person in the world who remembers trumps first term
February 17, 2026 at 6:51 PM
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audrelawdamercy.bsky.social
I wrote about the Evelyn Normielib ass judges out here ruling that the Trump administration must be cleansed with constitutional fire

ballsandstrikes.org/ethics-accou...
Federal Judges Can Barely Conceal Their Disgust For the Trump Administration’s Lawlessness
When federal judges are appending Bible verses to their signature blocks, that is generally a sign that democracy is not in a good place.
ballsandstrikes.org
February 17, 2026 at 5:55 PM
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gregpak.net
The difference between a judicial warrant and an administrative warrant is the difference between a $20 bill and a napkin that a fascist wrote "twenty dollars" on.
February 17, 2026 at 6:56 PM
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ajcousins.bsky.social
YES. I've been begging for this. They are running illegal detention facilities in office buildings. Municipalities shut down businesses all the time for health code or zoning violations far less severe than ICE's. Pressure your cities!
stevanzetti.bsky.social steven monacelli @stevanzetti.bsky.social · 7h
New in @dmagazine.bsky.social

"In June 2025, DHS waived the original 12-hour limit on holding people at field offices, increasing it to 72 hours...between July and October 15, at least 336 people were held at the Dallas ICE field office for more than 72 hours."

www.dmagazine.com/frontburner/...
Activists Want the City to Enforce Code Against the Dallas ICE Field Office. Can It Be Done?
Cities across the state and nation are finding ways to hold ICE accountable. Will Dallas?
www.dmagazine.com
February 17, 2026 at 6:36 PM
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leastactionhero.bsky.social
dem leaders getting absolutely dogwalked by random focus group participants at this point
If you could give Democrats some advice either about running for office or being in office right now, what would you tell them? Christian, 33, Mich., Black, Democrat, career coach. Think long-term with their strategy because it's clear that they haven't been. We're always playing catch-up. The Republicans played a long game. Donald Trump has never stopped running. He's either been president or been running for president for the last 10 years. The architects of Project 2025 have been working on this for years. They've been playing the long game, and they're willing to play dirty. When Michelle Obama said "when they go low, we go high" — that's not working now. You can't do that anymore.
February 17, 2026 at 5:58 PM
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rachelholliday.bsky.social
looks like Mamdani is gonna get his rent freeze this year after all. big news on the housing beat from @smaldo.bsky.social:
Rent Board Resignation Clears Path for Mamdani Rent Freeze Promise
The new mayor is now able to appoint a majority to the Rent Guidelines Board, giving him the numbers for a signature campaign promise.
www.thecity.nyc
February 17, 2026 at 5:56 PM
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thatsgoodweb.bsky.social
logging on
well done! the planet is disintegrating
February 17, 2026 at 2:12 PM
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coachfinstock.bsky.social
Anyone picking the centrist path is a Republican. Jig is up, baby. Clinton Wing of the Dem party is done. Go that way and die. If you want to win a seat, get on the side of the good guys. Or run as a Republican.
katzish.bsky.social Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 10h
And this was interestingly unanimous— and not being that well reflected yet in the offerings from actual Dem politicians. Word to the wise
Dem voters on a panel unanimously saying they want a progressive candidate, not a moderate
February 17, 2026 at 4:45 PM
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pnwlark.bsky.social
Lovaas was a monster
exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 10h
The 'conversion therapy' practiced on LGBTQ+ kids was adapted to force autistic kids to 'act normal'.

I rarely see the connection between the two made explicit.
caseyexplosion.bsky.social Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 11h
This is not a subject I'm able to broach without my blood boiling, Rekers did so much harm to generations of LGBTQ people, he was a founder member of NARTH, a member of the Family Research Council, whereas his co-fraud Ole Ivar Lovaas went on to applying this kind of abuse to autistic children.
February 17, 2026 at 5:25 PM