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Jena Doom
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Developmental health psychologist
Associate professor at the University of Denver
Director of the DOOM Lab
Academic mama
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ICE is running a “conveyor belt” of illegally detained Minnesota families.

Agents are arresting entire families with legal status and immediately shipping them off to Texas to deny them legal representation and avoid the federal courts in Minnesota.

The cruelty is endless.
‘ICE conveyor belt’ illegally detaining, moving Minnesota children to Texas faster than courts can respond
ICE is pulling Minnesota immigrant families with legal status out of their driveways, homes and school commutes and send
www.mprnews.org
February 3, 2026 at 1:01 AM
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These judges are coming in hot—>
February 3, 2026 at 12:52 AM
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Big news, dorks: We're going NATIONAL! Join us for our National Day of Action on March 7th in Washington DC, or at one of our satellite rallies across the US. We're taking back our science, health, and democracy!

Find or host your local rally! standupforscience.net/march7
(Link in bio!)
February 2, 2026 at 6:54 PM
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A newborn in Minneapolis hadn’t eaten for a day and a half.

ICE agents took her mother when she went to work, trying to make money for diapers.

Her 16-year-old and Bri, a local mother of two, saved that baby's life. @chabeli.bsky.social tells their story
When one mother was taken by ICE, another stepped in to donate breastmilk
Moms in Minneapolis are donating diapers, food and time to help families who have been ripped apart by ICE.
19thnews.org
February 2, 2026 at 7:46 PM
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Court ordered that Congress personnel have the right to visit ICE facilities unannounced and can’t be stopped.

I expect every dem to be going to facilities in their states now and every day and reporting on conditions.
February 2, 2026 at 6:28 PM
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Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.

Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
February 1, 2026 at 3:49 PM
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Harvard professor Steven Levitsky, who studies democracy backsliding, on Don Lemon's arrest:

“This is a new dimension. In democracies, journalists don't get arrested. In authoritarian regimes, journalists get arrested."

More in @status.news: www.status.news/p/don-lemon-...
January 31, 2026 at 3:58 PM
A friend of mine from grad school and a pediatric anxiety and OCD expert in Minneapolis Dr. Kathryn Hecht gave a Ted Talk on raising kids who can handle hard things. Please check it out and share! www.ted.com/talks/kathry...
How to raise kids who can handle hard things
Could exposing kids to their fears help them thrive later on in life? Exploring the science of exposure therapy, pediatric psychologist Kathryn Hecht shows how encouraging children to handle discomfor...
www.ted.com
January 30, 2026 at 9:14 PM
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“We had to deliver them to a detention center,” principal Jason Kuhlman said about the second grader and fifth grader.
‘I don’t have words’: 2 more kids from Liam Ramos’ Columbia Heights school taken into ICE custody
The children were taken into ICE custody after their mother was detained at a court appointment. School leaders say the mother asked them to bring the kids to the detention center because there were n...
www.mprnews.org
January 30, 2026 at 2:39 AM
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One Minnesota journalist doing remarkable work right now is Elizabeth Shockman/@eshockmanwrites.bsky.social for @mprnews.org. This article posted yesterday on child detentions is an essential read. An essential read.
‘ICE conveyor belt’ illegally detaining, moving Minnesota children to Texas faster than courts can respond
ICE is pulling Minnesota immigrant families with legal status out of their driveways, homes and school commutes and sending them to Texas within hours — in at least two cases against a judge’s order. ...
www.mprnews.org
January 29, 2026 at 12:54 PM
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🚨Thrilled to share I am able to hire someone (PhD preferred) with coding expertise to work on our HAPPE software for EEG! Knowledge of Matlab, Python, and EEG signal processing required. Enthusiasm for teaching/mentoring, collaboration, and developmental science preferred!
January 29, 2026 at 2:00 AM
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It will take generations for the US to rectify this, if it ever does.

Scientific research is an ecosystem, made from connections created during study, collaborations, institutional memory.

You can't hollow it out like this and hope to repair it. The loss is more than the sum of its parts.
January 27, 2026 at 1:15 PM
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As a someone with a 33 year NIH-funded lab whose grant is supposed to be reviewed this week, shut NIH down if that is what's needed to end ICE terrorism. Innocent lives are more important 🧪
The Senate may choose to vote together on the DHS and LHHS bills. Thus, a filibuster on DHS may mean no funding for NIH. What my colleagues are saying:

“Shut it down, public health will understand. I’ll work without pay again.”
- anonymous NIHer
January 25, 2026 at 12:59 PM
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A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
January 25, 2026 at 12:28 PM
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“.. He cared about people deeply ..,” said Michael Pretti, Alex’s father. “He thought it was terrible, you know, kidnapping children, just grabbing people off the street. He cared about those people, and he knew it was wrong ..”

@washingtonpost.com
www.washingtonpost.com/national/202...
January 24, 2026 at 10:22 PM
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The Trump administration “seeks to reduce us all to a state of constant fear — a fear of violence from which some people may at a given moment be spared, but from which no one will ever be truly safe. That is our new national reality. State terror has arrived.” - @mashagessen.bsky.social
Opinion | State Terror Has Arrived
www.nytimes.com
January 25, 2026 at 12:43 PM
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Real talk from Minnesota: "I feel like we're performing CPR on what may already be a corpse: the Constitution"

Prove this wrong, fellow Americans, please. MN can stand up, protect each other, witness & alert you.

But we alone can't control the feds. This is a USA issue.
The whole interview is worth it
January 24, 2026 at 10:19 PM
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Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.

White. Hot. Rage.
January 24, 2026 at 7:31 PM
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ICE just shot another one of my neighbors. They had the person on the ground, being beaten by several agents, and then fired multiple shots. In front of the donut shop where we like to get donuts for our kids.
January 24, 2026 at 3:46 PM
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I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening.

The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.
January 24, 2026 at 4:04 PM
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in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today
January 24, 2026 at 12:38 AM
Minnesotans fucking rock. I did grad school at UMN. I remember my years there fondly and even married a Minnesotan by the end. 😊 These are some of the toughest people and best neighbors and friends. So many of us are standing with MN from afar. I’m so proud of their resistance.
From a friend in Minneapolis, just now:
January 23, 2026 at 9:52 PM
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We've made this Sinister Minnesotans shirt from our Stan Kelly comic this week.

Net proceeds from this shirt will be donated to local organizations doing their part to keep Minnesotans safe and send ICE agents home to ruin their own fucking communities.

Fuck ICE and stay strong, Minneapolis.
'Sinister Minnesotans' T-Shirt
Show your solidarity with the Sinister Minnesotans refusing to back down from the ICE agents currently polluting their great state with brutality, lawlessness, and an obvious dependence on testosteron...
store.theonion.com
January 23, 2026 at 9:30 PM
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Excited to share this Annual Review synthesizing 75+ yrs of research (150+ studies) on stress effects--from pregnancy through adolescence--on children’s mental, physical, social, and functional health. This review fills a critical gap & finds pervasive stress effects. www.ucsf.edu/news/2026/01...
Trauma or Toxic? A Deep Dive into the Impact of Stress on Kids’ Health
UCSF researchers found evidence that stress occurring as early as before birth or as late as adolescence can affect multiple conditions in kids, from asthma to mental health to cognitive functioning.
www.ucsf.edu
January 21, 2026 at 5:17 AM