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Localizer, MD
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Diet soda-fueled neurologist/MS fellow here to defend your myelin and your human rights. I like dad jokes but my kids don't. he/him/his #NeuroSky #MedSky
Pinned
Alas, as an academic neuroimmunologist I will likely never be able to afford to buy my wife the fineries she deserves.
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The choice to frame this rhetorically as a negotiation *with ICE and DHS* rather than, you know, a decision about their future made by their rightful superiors in the popularly elected legislature is, to me, incredibly grating.
Our DHS reform demands are exceedingly reasonable.

We're asking ICE to do nothing more than follow the standards that the vast majority of law enforcement agencies already follow.

Republicans, the ball is in your court. The clock is ticking.
February 10, 2026 at 4:55 AM
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Schumer: ball’s in your court

Republicans: stab the ball, tear it apart, set it on fire, rip up the court and sell the turf to Bahrain

Schumer: hey you guys are out of balls

Republicans: we’re gonna kill your families

Schumer: ok we’ll pass funding for new balls but you’ve GOT to read the rules
February 10, 2026 at 1:34 PM
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They're building concentration camps with my tax money Chuck. They're torturing children. They're murdering innocent people on the street. What are you doing.
Our DHS reform demands are exceedingly reasonable.

We're asking ICE to do nothing more than follow the standards that the vast majority of law enforcement agencies already follow.

Republicans, the ball is in your court. The clock is ticking.
February 10, 2026 at 3:45 AM
I feel like I could do a whole ethnographic observation study on people who take lots of pictures of slides at conferences.
February 7, 2026 at 4:25 PM
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The public made noise for Liam Ramos and it got him released from Dilley.

Now we must make noise for 7 year old Diana Crespo.

Her parents were taking her for emergency medical care when ICE grabbed them, and she’s rotting in the camp sick and exposed to measles.

Get them out!
February 6, 2026 at 12:08 AM
Proposal:
Instead of saving the exciting clinical trial results for the last day of conferences to try and get people to stay for the whole meeting, they should present them at the beginning of the conference so we can talk about them while we’re together!!
February 5, 2026 at 5:22 PM
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my favorite color herring is red. or is it??
January 28, 2026 at 12:52 PM
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one obama era hire, one trump 1st term hire, both served thru biden's run. fully trained for years. kind of a massive flaw in the argument that dems can restrain and retrain the gestapo and reform it.
BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.
Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting
The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...
www.propublica.org
February 1, 2026 at 10:24 PM
Sigh. Kid 1’s motion sickness started much younger than mine did, and so I have feared that he would start having migraines at a similarly younger age. Very unhappy to say I was right.
January 31, 2026 at 9:57 PM
Your regularly scheduled reminder anti-myelin-associated glycoprotein neuropathy and myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibody associated disease are two very different things and you should not order MAG antibodies when you're worried about MOGAD/demyelinating disease.

Thank you.
January 30, 2026 at 5:48 PM
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Don't be a fan of politicians. Don't. Do. Not.

Be ready to turn on them if they even think of stepping out of line. You know how corporations aren't our friend? Well, voters aren't THEIR friends.

We are angry, feral, and tired.

Oh you "wrote" a book that's cute where's my fucking health care
January 29, 2026 at 2:50 PM
If it were to design a troop in a lab to make me cry with how much I wanted to support them, this is basically what you’d come up with. Please join me in ordering ALL THE COOKIES!!!
January 29, 2026 at 3:58 AM
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gee whiz it would be really great if the opposition party smelled blood in the water right now and went on a full offensive to harness this spark of momentum
January 27, 2026 at 1:06 AM
I would follow him to hell and back.
January 27, 2026 at 2:16 AM
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ICE & CBP have killed several people over the last year and the only names to enter the popular consciousness are the names of the white Americans they have killed. We need to attend to what structures that, both externally & internally.

And the same outraged cops? Defended the killers amongst them
January 26, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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This is free to use.

Abolish, dismantle, and prosecute ICE.
January 25, 2026 at 11:27 PM
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People are right to be incensed, but there are more names to uplift. ICE killed an immigrant man named Silverio Villegas González in Chicagoland. He had children. Victor Manuel Diaz was kidnapped in Minneapolis and died in ICE custody on January 14. Their names deserve to be repeated, too.
January 25, 2026 at 11:00 PM
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What I want to hear from Dems: condemnations of what's happening, vows to punish the perpetrators, clear steps for what they'll do to end this if they regain the majority in the House and/or Senate.
January 25, 2026 at 4:12 PM
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Immigrants are good, actually

Sincerely, an immigrant
January 25, 2026 at 2:52 PM
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I spent the most formative years of my political life reading headlines like this seemingly every week.
January 25, 2026 at 4:07 PM
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As we work to combat the Right-wing smear campaigns against Renee Good and Alex Pretti, I hope we'll also think of the countless others--disproportionately people marginalized by racism--who have been vilified to justify state violence and abuse, and who haven't had legions come to their defense.
January 25, 2026 at 2:35 PM
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The most important public health story right now in America is that the Trump administration is executing people in the streets, it is kidnapping people of all ages, including 2-year-olds, it is torturing them, & it is putting them in concentration camps where many have been killed or “disappeared”
January 25, 2026 at 12:14 PM
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It’s funny how the supposed “right to bear arms” suddenly has lots of caveats and restrictions. Maybe the only right it was really about was the right for people with a racist right wing ideology to intimidate others.
January 25, 2026 at 1:13 PM
Is banh mi the best sandwich?

I say yes.

Discuss.
January 24, 2026 at 3:08 AM
Kid 2 is currently demanding “both”

She either cannot or will not elaborate
January 18, 2026 at 3:01 AM