Mark Peifer (He, him)
@peiferlabunc.bsky.social
Cell adhesion, cytoskeletal regulation, Wnt signaling & wherever science leads us + wildflowers & my own idiosyncratic views. First gen college grad
Diversity, equity & Inclusion are core American Values
https://peiferlab.web.unc.edu
Diversity, equity & Inclusion are core American Values
https://peiferlab.web.unc.edu
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February 10, 2026 at 2:30 PM
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The rollback of Medicaid expansion and possible cuts to state funds to cover insurance for undocumented residents won't help either
February 10, 2026 at 4:11 PM
The rollback of Medicaid expansion and possible cuts to state funds to cover insurance for undocumented residents won't help either
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On the fallout from HR1 (2025):
"It’s an especially thorny challenge for states like California and New Mexico where counties are legally required to help their poorest residents through what are known as indigent care programs." kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
"It’s an especially thorny challenge for states like California and New Mexico where counties are legally required to help their poorest residents through what are known as indigent care programs." kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
On the Hook for Uninsured Residents, Counties Now Wonder How They’ll Pay - KFF Health News
Millions of people gained health coverage under the Affordable Care Act, reducing pressure on counties in states that fund care for the uninsured. With federal policies expected to reverse that trend,...
kffhealthnews.org
February 10, 2026 at 4:11 PM
On the fallout from HR1 (2025):
"It’s an especially thorny challenge for states like California and New Mexico where counties are legally required to help their poorest residents through what are known as indigent care programs." kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
"It’s an especially thorny challenge for states like California and New Mexico where counties are legally required to help their poorest residents through what are known as indigent care programs." kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
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If you're looking at this trajectory and think bodycams and stern warnings about following the rules are going to cut it, you just might be a Senate Democrat.
NEW: ICE is leasing offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.
ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going Next
ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.
www.wired.com
February 10, 2026 at 4:11 PM
If you're looking at this trajectory and think bodycams and stern warnings about following the rules are going to cut it, you just might be a Senate Democrat.
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Peter Navarro: "The jobs report comes out tomorrow. We have to revise our expectations down significantly for what a monthly job number should look like ... Wall Street has to adjust for the fact that we're deporting millions of illegals out of the job market."
February 10, 2026 at 2:19 PM
Peter Navarro: "The jobs report comes out tomorrow. We have to revise our expectations down significantly for what a monthly job number should look like ... Wall Street has to adjust for the fact that we're deporting millions of illegals out of the job market."
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i think this more than anything is what miller wants. vast detention camps with all of the suffering and death that means.
ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps.
If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
ICE to begin detaining immigrants inside Social Circle warehouse in April
Homeland Security plans to build warehouse detention facilities in other cities being met with opposition.
www.ajc.com
February 10, 2026 at 3:56 AM
i think this more than anything is what miller wants. vast detention camps with all of the suffering and death that means.
One thing I just learned from Bad Bunny is that very careful preparation and attention to every detail, moment by moment, in crafting a presentation can do wonders
February 10, 2026 at 4:19 PM
One thing I just learned from Bad Bunny is that very careful preparation and attention to every detail, moment by moment, in crafting a presentation can do wonders
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"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.
February 10, 2026 at 10:09 AM
"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.
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The last 6 undergrads who worked in my lab, all went to medical/nursing schools.
They were mostly women of color.
The funding mechanisms that we used to pay them no longer exist.
Where are all y’all’s healthcare going to come from if you are destroying the pipeline for healthcare workers?
They were mostly women of color.
The funding mechanisms that we used to pay them no longer exist.
Where are all y’all’s healthcare going to come from if you are destroying the pipeline for healthcare workers?
The most common age for a Black person in the USA, is ~27 years old.
The most common age for a white person in the USA, is ~58 years old.
Old people need more healthcare.
So you would think that white people in the US would prefer policies that lead to more nurses and providers?
But no.🤷🏿♂️
The most common age for a white person in the USA, is ~58 years old.
Old people need more healthcare.
So you would think that white people in the US would prefer policies that lead to more nurses and providers?
But no.🤷🏿♂️
More immigration into the US raises the number of health care workers and saves the lives of older Americans, from David C. Grabowski, Jonathan Gruber, and Brian E. McGarry www.nber.org/papers/w34791
February 10, 2026 at 2:56 PM
The last 6 undergrads who worked in my lab, all went to medical/nursing schools.
They were mostly women of color.
The funding mechanisms that we used to pay them no longer exist.
Where are all y’all’s healthcare going to come from if you are destroying the pipeline for healthcare workers?
They were mostly women of color.
The funding mechanisms that we used to pay them no longer exist.
Where are all y’all’s healthcare going to come from if you are destroying the pipeline for healthcare workers?
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The ruins of the gas chamber and crematorium II at the Auschwitz II-Birkenau site.
▶ A short video about gas chambers and crematoria of the Auschwitz camp: https://youtu.be/-A05i25j9Ck
It had a 210-square-meter gas chamber & five 3-muffle ovens.
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Video: instagram.com/elisaaa.pastore
▶ A short video about gas chambers and crematoria of the Auschwitz camp: https://youtu.be/-A05i25j9Ck
It had a 210-square-meter gas chamber & five 3-muffle ovens.
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Video: instagram.com/elisaaa.pastore
February 10, 2026 at 3:24 PM
The ruins of the gas chamber and crematorium II at the Auschwitz II-Birkenau site.
▶ A short video about gas chambers and crematoria of the Auschwitz camp: https://youtu.be/-A05i25j9Ck
It had a 210-square-meter gas chamber & five 3-muffle ovens.
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Video: instagram.com/elisaaa.pastore
▶ A short video about gas chambers and crematoria of the Auschwitz camp: https://youtu.be/-A05i25j9Ck
It had a 210-square-meter gas chamber & five 3-muffle ovens.
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Video: instagram.com/elisaaa.pastore
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We are murdering people and it is basically just background noise at this point. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/u...
U.S. Boat Strike Kills 2 in Pacific, With One Survivor
www.nytimes.com
February 10, 2026 at 6:14 AM
We are murdering people and it is basically just background noise at this point. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/u...
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New York City: The time has arrived. Finally, a chance to tell the city EXACTLY what your landlord’s been getting away with. NYC’s first Rental Ripoff Hearings are happening in all five boroughs, and we want to hear from you. Real New Yorkers. Real stories. Real policy changes.
February 10, 2026 at 2:31 PM
New York City: The time has arrived. Finally, a chance to tell the city EXACTLY what your landlord’s been getting away with. NYC’s first Rental Ripoff Hearings are happening in all five boroughs, and we want to hear from you. Real New Yorkers. Real stories. Real policy changes.
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Also, you will no longer be permitted to wear Roots sweatshirts. Tragically Hip CDs will become contraband. The maple syrup reserve will be transported to Beijing. And you will have to buy your milk *in cartons*
Trump, in the middle of his latest unhinged Truth Social screed, claims that if Canada makes a trade deal with China, "the first thing China will do is terminate ALL Ice Hockey being played in Canada, and permanently eliminate The Stanley Cup."
February 10, 2026 at 2:50 PM
Also, you will no longer be permitted to wear Roots sweatshirts. Tragically Hip CDs will become contraband. The maple syrup reserve will be transported to Beijing. And you will have to buy your milk *in cartons*
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Ring is a wildly dangerous company. Always has been. But it has sort of flown under the radar the last couple years as it tried to soften its image. Make no mistake that this is an extremely dangerous surveillance dragnet:
www.404media.co/with-ring-am...
www.404media.co/with-ring-am...
With Ring, American Consumers Built a Surveillance Dragnet
Ring's 'Search Party' is dystopian surveillance accelerationism.
www.404media.co
February 10, 2026 at 3:09 PM
Ring is a wildly dangerous company. Always has been. But it has sort of flown under the radar the last couple years as it tried to soften its image. Make no mistake that this is an extremely dangerous surveillance dragnet:
www.404media.co/with-ring-am...
www.404media.co/with-ring-am...
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Updated: ICE and Border Patrol continue to kill people out of the public eye. There's no doubt that the Trump regime is working overtime to hide the full scope of the terror campaign spreading across our country.
Here's our updated list of deaths and injuries.
Here's our updated list of deaths and injuries.
A Running Count of How Many People ICE Has Killed and Injured - The American Prospect
ICE is not required to report any use-of-force incidents against the public. So The American Prospect created our own running tally.
buff.ly
February 10, 2026 at 3:30 PM
Updated: ICE and Border Patrol continue to kill people out of the public eye. There's no doubt that the Trump regime is working overtime to hide the full scope of the terror campaign spreading across our country.
Here's our updated list of deaths and injuries.
Here's our updated list of deaths and injuries.
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This is exactly why "the measure of success" cannot be "the extent to which funding was restored." @holdenthorp.bsky.social
Because this is how current NIH leadership chooses to expend those precious funds.
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
Because this is how current NIH leadership chooses to expend those precious funds.
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
US Cancer Institute Studying Ivermectin’s ‘Ability To Kill Cancer Cells’ - KFF Health News
At a January event organized by allies of health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., National Cancer Institute Director Anthony Letai said results may be released “in a few months.” Ivermectin, used to d...
kffhealthnews.org
February 10, 2026 at 3:35 PM
This is exactly why "the measure of success" cannot be "the extent to which funding was restored." @holdenthorp.bsky.social
Because this is how current NIH leadership chooses to expend those precious funds.
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
Because this is how current NIH leadership chooses to expend those precious funds.
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
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i urgently need a lawyer/group of lawyers who can write up a risk assessment for people of various citizenship/visa/asylum statuses to get on a plane home to minnesota from detention
February 10, 2026 at 3:33 PM
i urgently need a lawyer/group of lawyers who can write up a risk assessment for people of various citizenship/visa/asylum statuses to get on a plane home to minnesota from detention
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Relaunch of our London Fly Meeting - whole afternoon of amazing science @ucl @lmcb-ucl.bsky.social sponsored by @gensocuk.bsky.social
February 10, 2026 at 1:07 PM
Relaunch of our London Fly Meeting - whole afternoon of amazing science @ucl @lmcb-ucl.bsky.social sponsored by @gensocuk.bsky.social
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Our liberals have a strong aversion for the “theory” of the class struggle, and particularly insist on their view that the governments of modern states can stand outside classes or above classes. But what can you do…if the “theory” which is so distasteful to you corresponds exactly to reality?
February 10, 2026 at 2:30 PM
Our liberals have a strong aversion for the “theory” of the class struggle, and particularly insist on their view that the governments of modern states can stand outside classes or above classes. But what can you do…if the “theory” which is so distasteful to you corresponds exactly to reality?
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I think 10 years from now, the big story of this era will be North American completely shitting the bed on EVs, wind and solar.
It could very well be the defining factor Chinese geopolitical preeminence in the years to come.
It could very well be the defining factor Chinese geopolitical preeminence in the years to come.
More than half of the world’s new electric cars are now plugging into Chinese sockets instead of lining up at gas stations. By 2024, it is estimated that China’s EV sales were growing about 40% year on year, even as some Western markets stumbled.
www.ecoticias.com/en/china-sol...
www.ecoticias.com/en/china-sol...
China sold 11 million electric vehicles in one year, leaving less room for the oil it used to buy from Venezuela
But there is a basic question lurking behind the headlines. Who will actually need that oil in the years ahead? For years, China has been one of Venezuela’s
www.ecoticias.com
February 10, 2026 at 2:47 PM
I think 10 years from now, the big story of this era will be North American completely shitting the bed on EVs, wind and solar.
It could very well be the defining factor Chinese geopolitical preeminence in the years to come.
It could very well be the defining factor Chinese geopolitical preeminence in the years to come.
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Thank you to everyone who has contributed to the Powderhorn Rent Fund. Unfortunately, Governor Walz has refused to enact an eviction moratorium, so we need the help of our community.
gofund.me/335f2d840
gofund.me/335f2d840
Donate to Support Powderhorn Families with Urgent Rent Relief, organized by Powderhorn Neighbors
2.5.26 Update:
Saying “Your rent is covered,” has mattered … Powderhorn Neighbors needs your support for Support Powderhorn Families with Urgent Rent Relief
gofund.me
February 10, 2026 at 2:29 PM
Thank you to everyone who has contributed to the Powderhorn Rent Fund. Unfortunately, Governor Walz has refused to enact an eviction moratorium, so we need the help of our community.
gofund.me/335f2d840
gofund.me/335f2d840
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That "ivermectin has become a symbol of resistance against the medical establishment among conservatives" is insane.
Meanwhile "appalled...It’s absurd” isn't an NCI judgment one wants about a proposed study. Cancer folk, is there any justification for the study?
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
Meanwhile "appalled...It’s absurd” isn't an NCI judgment one wants about a proposed study. Cancer folk, is there any justification for the study?
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
US Cancer Institute Studying Ivermectin’s ‘Ability To Kill Cancer Cells’ - KFF Health News
At a January event organized by allies of health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., National Cancer Institute Director Anthony Letai said results may be released “in a few months.” Ivermectin, used to d...
kffhealthnews.org
February 10, 2026 at 2:17 PM
That "ivermectin has become a symbol of resistance against the medical establishment among conservatives" is insane.
Meanwhile "appalled...It’s absurd” isn't an NCI judgment one wants about a proposed study. Cancer folk, is there any justification for the study?
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
Meanwhile "appalled...It’s absurd” isn't an NCI judgment one wants about a proposed study. Cancer folk, is there any justification for the study?
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
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Yes, and some of those presidents are actively engaged in censoring….
There's a reality that the AAU is comprised of presidents of institutions, some of whom would rather pretend there is no censorship in 2026. At what point do they deal with the mockery this makes of all the other institutions in the org?
In her latest column, @bakerdphd.bsky.social looks at the history of AAU regarding campus free speech. If they took a stance on many key issues today, some status-obsessed public universities would face very difficult membership decisions.
February 10, 2026 at 3:04 PM
Yes, and some of those presidents are actively engaged in censoring….
"We left with all of my children".......
VAN HOLLEN: Did you in fact make the visit to Epstein's private island?
LUTNICK: I did have lunch w/ him as I was on a boat going across on a family vacation. My wife was with me as were my 4 children and nannies. We had lunch on the island. That's true. For an hour. We left with all of my children
LUTNICK: I did have lunch w/ him as I was on a boat going across on a family vacation. My wife was with me as were my 4 children and nannies. We had lunch on the island. That's true. For an hour. We left with all of my children
February 10, 2026 at 3:07 PM
"We left with all of my children".......
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My amazing colleagues from across the state have been all around Baltimore in the last few months (and we ain't stopping) because we're the last public sector workers in Maryland without the right to a union. Our neighbors are shocked and appalled. But @senbillferg.bsky.social can make things right
How hard are we willing to organize to get the collective bargaining rights we deserve?
We have been out in Maryland neighborhoods & markets even in the pen-freezing bitter cold of the last few weeks to show @senbillferg.bsky.social & @mddems.bsky.social how much our communities support us!
We have been out in Maryland neighborhoods & markets even in the pen-freezing bitter cold of the last few weeks to show @senbillferg.bsky.social & @mddems.bsky.social how much our communities support us!
February 10, 2026 at 2:38 PM
My amazing colleagues from across the state have been all around Baltimore in the last few months (and we ain't stopping) because we're the last public sector workers in Maryland without the right to a union. Our neighbors are shocked and appalled. But @senbillferg.bsky.social can make things right