Ben
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NY's federal courts do not protect criminal defendants -- and a lot of people are in denial about what that means for the college students who are about to be indicted.
June 2, 2025 at 3:18 AM
NY's federal courts do not protect criminal defendants -- and a lot of people are in denial about what that means for the college students who are about to be indicted.
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If you are okay with this, with any of this, please do something for your future self:
Please write down, privately, the thing that would officially be Too Much for you. 🧵
Please write down, privately, the thing that would officially be Too Much for you. 🧵
April 17, 2025 at 3:09 AM
If you are okay with this, with any of this, please do something for your future self:
Please write down, privately, the thing that would officially be Too Much for you. 🧵
Please write down, privately, the thing that would officially be Too Much for you. 🧵
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Remember that this is where his discussions with El Salvador began. The migrant detentions there are the dry run. He wants to ship U.S. prisoners to El Salvador.We cannot sleepwalk through this.
March 21, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Remember that this is where his discussions with El Salvador began. The migrant detentions there are the dry run. He wants to ship U.S. prisoners to El Salvador.We cannot sleepwalk through this.
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This is heartbreaking and enraging.
This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH
March 16, 2025 at 2:24 AM
This is heartbreaking and enraging.
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I have warned about the rightwing attack on empathy. It is as dangerous as any attack on democracy. It is an attack on our humanity. Once you turn off empathy you can do anything.
It will accelerate in Musks’ hands. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
It will accelerate in Musks’ hands. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
March 5, 2025 at 2:04 PM
I have warned about the rightwing attack on empathy. It is as dangerous as any attack on democracy. It is an attack on our humanity. Once you turn off empathy you can do anything.
It will accelerate in Musks’ hands. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
It will accelerate in Musks’ hands. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...